Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-06-01
JENKINS FIRST CASE.

tIenan VINO mas Just boosted his shngle IN
Pinevi!le as "AItorney and Counsellor at
Law.o After waiting sometime in vain for
the tide, be resolves upon desperate expe-
dient to bring his legal talent into requisi-
,ion We make our extract at that poin, in
the story where he puts his article to the
test:
Thomas Jefferson Jenkins finances were
getting alarmingiy low,--lhe fare at his
landlords liable began TO taste as if it wasn't
paid lor-hIs best coat was becoming thread
bare at the elbows; and every day bnt set
tied the conviction deeper and deeper in his
mind, that some means must speedily be a
dopled 20 bring him into more lucrative
practice. Long hours he sa. cross-legged
in his arm chair, and with his chin in rest,
unused over the cherries prospect, and yet
no rag Of promise dawned upon his despon-
ding hopes. He would have suffered mo-
dcrale battery of his own person, for the
privilege OF making out The case in court,
and was soreIy tempted to commit some
breach Of the law himself, in the hope that,
by his defence, he might create diversion
in his favor.
In this painful perplexily of mind, as was
natural enough for a young man of his tenn
permanent, Thomas Jefferson Jenkins, Esq,
contracted habit of-whil,Iing (which
led him to F-equenl the large while-pine box
which Mr.. Harley, in accordance with the
universal custom Of country merchants, had
placed in front Of his store door, for the &C.
commoda'ion of the whiting loafers of the
village. One afternoon, while sitting On the
aforesaid box, all the faculties of his mind
engaged in serious delibera,on as a COM
miltee Of ways and means, aud his knife
running freely into the soft pine, his at,en-
ton was arrested by the whckering and res
tive movements of little hal(-starved, sway
backed, blind pony, that stood by the hay
rack, attached TO small cart, in which were
Il few small paper colored bundles and a
large stone Jug, stopped with corn-cob.-
The establishment belonged to one Josiah
Perkins, of Ticklegizzard settlement, who,
IN company with his neighbors, had visited
town that day, on ,radicking expedition
Their stock in trade, consisting Of few
dozen eggs, as many pounds of butter, and a
posed of, and their proceeds expended in the
pufchas1: OF sundry articles of prime neces-
sl'y3zsal as !omespun, rum and tobacco,
and The pas gre now mastering for the
purpose Of tas1a 8 +, Mir departure for home.
But 81 Perkins, as he was Familiarity called,
was missing, and while his wife was in anx-
ous search of him, Boss Ankles and Bill
Sweeny, who comprised the balance of the
party, were busIy engaged in talking poll
tics, over haIl-pint in the measure, which
Mr.. Harley had jndiciously thrown out as a
bait for their future trade.
Desperate cases prompt desperate RENE
dies-and though it was not easy to surmlse
in what way advantage could possibly &C
crue from such an expedient, our hero con-
ceived mischievons design upon the inno-
cent and unsuspec'lng pony, which he re-
solved at once to put INTO execution, trust
ing to chance and his own ingenuity to turn
the consequences to the advancement Of bis
own special interests. Accordingly, he
seized the first favorable opportunity, when
the confusion of voices within was loudesl,
to conduct ST Perkins equipage, unobserv-
ed, TO the rear of the store-lhen opening
the large oId-Iashoned cellar door, he pack
ed horse and car, into the cellar. and has,i-
ly throwing into the cart few of the frs,
articles upon which he could Law his hands
re-ascende ed. closed and fastened the doc,
after him, and quickly resumed his seat up
on the box.
! He had not been long re-sea,ed when 6
Perkins. who had been discovered h, Ii.
wife q, The grocery q, the on,os,,e side q
The souare. whlp !, the act Of reco,;s1;,o
The ,reIinina,;es Of fgb1 ab,nt the T,ronr5
I,rsa,v. made his a,,ea7anca and nasssd ~.
to ,be store 70 Take na,,;no lsave Of N,
Harley Pm, Mr. uarlev hal s,en,ed on,
and il WAS while wa;,iny that cenIIeman,,
return. ,ha, the observed Airs. PERKINS mad,
The aslorishinI, discovery ,ha, the ..cre'nr7