The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-01-25

! KIssING-A NEW YEARS CUSTOM
| Mick Mahony, Mrs. Biddy Mallory and
Nancy Donahoe were individually and col
lectively charged yesterday before the Re-
corder, by the Waterman, with disturbing
the peace.
| Miss Donahoe was a good-lookino. round.
red-faced, blue eyed girl. Mrs. Ma6ony was
hard-featured, sharp-nosed lady, with a
tongue which seemed to operate on the prin-
ciples of perpetal motion; and Mr.. Mahony
was humorous-looking character, with
leer in his eye and laugh playing about
the corners of his mouth, which were well
calculated to excite the jealousy of Mrs N.
when so comely a colleen as Nancy Dona-
hoe was in The case.
The Waterman was proceeding 70 state
| the charge with loquacious verbosty, but Mrs
Mahony claimed of the court the right tore
late the matter herself, alleging that she was
the injured individual. As she would not
be silent, the Recorder assented, and she
went on, her lord and master, Mick, looking
limploringly into her eyes in the meantime,
and making an appeal to her pity in the fol-
lowing words:-
"Biddy, Biddy, jewel, be aisy, and if ye
can't be aisy, be as aisy as you CAM
Biddy needed not the voice of the char.
mer but proceeded.
swell, We see on New Years night, yer
amer, had nice little tay party at me place,
and of coorse, whin the kimmeenS[tea equip
age were removed, we had dhrop of
punch in amer of the night, though sarah a
dhrop oft did | lake meself, on account of
the pledge.'
"There's good onet p said Mick, in soto
voce, turning to Nancy ID.
"Mrs. Mahony," said The Recorder, syou
are too discursive-too prolix. Ionly wish
you to state the cause of the riot or disturb
ance''
ssI'm comm to the point,yer amer, nreturn-
ed Biddy.
80, Biddy, acushla,' p said Mick, aye know
twas all a bit of ajoke--a New Years night
frolic.''
"a purity joke IT was, ye desayin' williams
exclaimed Biddy. "That's the father ofIne
four children-to be kissin' that brazen-faced
hussey there the instant ye got me back
turned-and you purtindn' TO be so iea-
lous of Tim Doolin all the time, that was
me Mothers cousin be his Fathers side,
and"
ssMrs Mahony,' said the Recorder,ssI can
not sit here and listen % the genealogy Of
your family or the degree of aonsanguinity
that exists between you and Tim Dooln.-
Fl again call on youto come to the cause of
the disturbance for which you were arrest
ed /"
'sWell, thin" resumed Mrs Mahony,swhin
we were all stated round the table,as happy
as we phase, chatiin' and talkin' about old
times, Mick sis TO Harry Whelan, sis he
Harry avick, Its have a song. always
contint,' sis Harry. sWhat'll We have Mrs.
Mahony?' sis he TO me. Please yerself, Mis-
ther Whelan,' sis I, and We please me;;' so
with that he comminced 'Hurrah for O'Con-
nell, who'll get us Repale!' Well, he hadn't
well begun it whin me bowld Mick ss-sI
beg yer pardin, ginteels, '-jist that away,
quite purlitely like-and up he gifts and walks
out, and out he stays, and sarah sign OF
him there was comm in whin the song,
which has twinty-one varses in it, was incor-
ed. Well, yer amer, begins to smill a rat,
and ups and goes to the dure, and there |
hears Miss Donahoe, the forward MINK
though she looks now as if butther wouldn't
milt in her mouth-singin' in great glee
sRory O'AIore.' Well, stales to the windy
she lives mkt dure--and sure enough,
whin she cum to the chorus of Its eight
times to-day that the ye kissed me afore,'
the vagabone does shute the action to the
word, and gives her snackin' thorumpogue! !
Well, twas too much for flesh and blud to.
stand. so of coorse gev both OF thin what
they desarved-I gey thin sugar in their
| taym
ssThat's sufficient" said the Recorder
.sWhat have you to say Mr.. Mahony?,'
Mick smiled amorously, drew his hand
over bis face, and looked archly between his
extended fingers at Nancy Donahoe and Mrs.
Mahony. He acknowledged the soft inn
parchment of kissing Nancy, but pleaded
in extenuation the privilege of doing so on
New Years night: and further that Biddy
kissed Tim Dooln right forninst his facei
The Recorder viewed the affair in the
same hilarious light that Mick Mahony did,
and discharged the parties on paying Jail
fees.
ssHannibal," said a certain waggish gentle
man someuhaf discussed in LIQUOR. to the