Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-11-07
RnIIginq Wituess.

Bullying WINGS.
There is an attorney practising in our
courts who has attained great notoTiety
fer bullying witnesses on the opposing
sides ef cases when he is concerned. AS
itswouId not be polite to give his full
name right out to the crowd, we will
merely call him 'tWyke." for short.
There was horse case,a very common
case upon our magistrate dockets, trying
before Sqire Snellbaker one day in which
Wyke happened to be ''fernens;" the
horse. "A Glow and easy witness, had
been called to the stand by the plaintiff,
who in a plain straight forward manner,
made. the other side fthe case look ra.
Their blue. The plaintiff attorney being
through, Wyke commenced a regular
roSs.examination which was cut short in
the following manner:
''Wsll, what do you konw about horse
you horse doctor?" said the BARBARIAN
IN his pscu lar contemp;ous and over
bearing manner.
mo, don't pretend to be q horse
doctor, but know good deal about the
mater Of the beast"
"1hat means to say that you know a
horse from ajackass, when you see them, -
said Wyke, in the same style, looking
knowingly at the court, and CHANGING tri
umphantly around the crowd of spectators,
with a telegaphic expression, which said
SHOW I've got him on the hip"
ihe intended victim, gazing intently
At his legal tormentor, drawled out
ooh, ye.as-jes-so-Td nerer take
you for a horseI"
The Supreme Court of the United
States could not have preserved it's gray
lily through the scene that followed
Everybody was convinced, that, what.
ever the attorney might be, the witness
was hoss'-Cin. Despatch.
GooD.-Gen. Allison, mot the Capt.
Allison who has been so servicsablo to
Gen. Taylor in this contest, (somewhere
10 South Carolina, in a stump speech,
remarked that the company ia which Gen.
Taylor was found, reminded him of a sto
~ Of an old farmer in one Of the wire
grass counties of Georgia. The old man
was wOol-raiser, and had a flock of a
thousand sheep. He had TIVE sons-one
shrew active fellow-the other kind
and simple, hearted boy, rather light in
the upper story. The old man was taken
sick, and as he vas about to die, he be
queathed his property equally between
the two boys. aad sujoined it upon the
elder to deal justly by his brother. Now.
in the flock. the younger boy had favor.
ite ram, and the youth always had hand
tul of corn or salt for Billy, and Billy
could select his master from thousand
When the elder brother came to divide
the sheep, he did it equally, as TO mum.
bers, in two pens. But ell the old barren
ewes, and all the indiffele nt old rams. and
sickly sheep, he placed in one pen with
the lavorite ram Of his Understanding
he would be simple enough to prefer
Billy, with bis bad company, to all the
good sheep which wore placed in the
other pen. The boy was called upon to
choose, and, after glanoing az the first
pen, he passed to the other pen, when
Billy came up to meet him. 'AhP said
the simple boy--'ah! Billy, you are a
very poorly sheep, and l love you, Billy;
but am afraid you'll have to go--for you
are in mighty nasty crowd!' So 1t is
with Gen. Taylor. When zee him
frateTnizipg with such AboIitionIsts as
Fillmore and Corwin, say, 'Ah! Billy,
you will have to go-for you are in a
mighty nasty crOwd!'