Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-01-01

put IN this case he was considerably puzzled !; Ii
robbery vas proved uPon poor Harriet, and there
no middle road open for Dickey. He screwed up hi
peculiar fronilspiece- wiped his nose thricc-aduste
and displaced his spectacles thrice as often-hemme,
and hawed- coughed and called out:
Harriet, why dad you take these thingsf'
/ She sobbed, but said nothing.
necorder-fou'r young woman, and very
Pre1ty one; and you must know it's sin to steal
now come you to do il
Pns.-Ive been seduced, Sir
hec-WeIl, thalsa sad thing; a very sad thing |!
ana IL 9 SIN, very great sin to seduce any young
gli! but you shouldn't commit one sin set off
against another. on know that two wroncs never
| suffer some '''''
| Prs.-lsobbing Utterly Ihave suffered severely
suffered the loss of all hold DEAR and shall shortly
mother
Here Dickey optned his benevolent mouth, and
pushed bis specacts to the top of his Intelligent
loreneau-he saw loop hole OF retreat" He dash
Rec-How's thst, Harriet 2 are you in the family
way?
Prs.-I am.
Ree-ln mosi commissioning tone) Are you
eh-that ls-HarEt-are you-very far gone?
Some one noddef assent
Rec.-Dear me very sad state. You was very
far gone too on ysur road TO prison but we suspend
the judgment provided any benevolent ladies' Will
take care of you and see you put 10 bed properly.
and that every thing goes right hereafter.
And having managed this delicate affair in his
own imagination 80 admirably, Dickey turned round
TO his associate Judges, lngraham and Waterbury.
and exclaimed, peculiar require peculiar treat
ment!'
Edward B. Blannyan was then put to the bar for
beating his wife, breaking the china, and kicking the
lap dog.
Rsc.-Mrs. Blannyan, did he beat you?
Mrs B.-He did when was IN bed, and he hTeke
my best bowl, and kicked my dear dog, and that was
the worst of all.
Rec.-Bannyan, you beat your wife, and beat her
IN bed too No man ought to beat his wife, and par
tcularly in bed-why that's the place man should
love his wife, and not beat her. We tend you to beat
stone for six months.
John Francis was charged with beating Miss Lydia
Amelia Julana Livingstone, lady of a yellow cast
Of countenance.
Rec-Francis, why did you beat this girl
Prs.-Beeause she's false-she said she'd marry
me, and then let another fellow take her 10 de balls
and to de church.
Rec.-That is no exuse, whatever. There is no
law to punish women for being tickle and fathess
false in spite Of the law They will go to balls and
churches with different men and sometimes on the
same day, and we can't prevent it; for black and
white are both alike on this subject They tickle
1t is their naturetheir misfortune, not their fault.
But will not sit here and allew any body TO strike
woman. don't care what color she u.s. she shan't be
struck by any body. We send you to beat stone for
six months.
ed to the Superior Court Here two or three lawyers
were arguing about the balance of bill due to some
body, which balance each side was anxious to get
hold Of, IN order TO pay the costs and tees. Hum
ming the air OF "rogues ALL !" we went into the
CoURT OF COMMON PLEAs.-Here there was bare
faced case going on The plaintiff had leased house
20 defendant for a year under written contract
The defendant, after he had signed the contract I'M
derstood that the house had formerly been occupied
by abandoned women; also, that the plaintiff had
leased house on either side of il rai females
be used as sink Of lnlquity.
He very properly refused TO occupy it and the
plaintiff sued HIM for the years rent. The Court d.
recied the Jury to find verdict for the defendant,
Circuit ascso. walked into Ss ).
for two dull lawyers were arguing motion or new
trial. in ordcs to waste alike the public time and their
clients stock of cash. As we left. some half dozen
seamen brought into the District Attorneys
Office, and committed 10 prison on a charge Of max
ing nnutiny or revolt on board an American shin
Giving last look IN at the police, we found Zero.
cions looking leafer named Bill Lend, who never had
any thing to lend but who has been begging, borrow
ing and stealing all his life. bill had boarded the
sloop "Snap Dragon IN the night and stolen 700
oysters, worth ID cents per 100, and was caught with
some Of the oysters on bis back ans some in his bel
ly:.
Mag.-What did you steal those oysters for7
Prs.-P Please your honor didn't steal 'em.
Mag.-How came you by EN-?
Pris.-I took 'em
Mag.-What for7
Pris.-To eat, il il please your honor.
Mae.-We, il doesn't please my honor, for you
couldn't want TO eat 700 oysters-ne man could eat
80 oysters at one meal.
Pris.-Pleasc your honor believe ! could cot 1000
il j was sharp set.
Mag.-Yours sharp enough, Bill. never could
eat 10.
Pris-You never know'd vat twas TO 60 hungry TO
bed There's no law agin man stealing to supply
the wants of his belly.
Wtness.-Pease your honor he stole 700 from
another boat last night
Hag.-What did you do with them7
Pns.-I cat EN-.
Mag.-Then you couldn't be so hungry as TO want
seven hundred more 10 eat today, unless you had a
perpetual appetite, and that you know is az mpossI.
bic as perpetual motion, animal magnetism. So
you stand committed.
And committed he was, fully as Bsoby Brooks
is 10 his newly found locofoco iriesds.
stances for the LIST January. 1885.
Departed departed
The old year Is gosei
Its joys and Its sogrows
For flown
n has passed TO the tomb
or the years that have beeni
But the records OF tise
Keep lis memory green
Ohsppy IL were
Covd the deeds that dssraced