The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-08-10
From he Yankes Blade.1
FUN ON THE CIRCUIT.-No. 8.
BY AN ALABAMA SOLICITOR,

'hem as Is IN time IN penitentlary-acc according
to my notion''
ANY body been beating you!'
'The widow expressed dsdain with her eyes
and gave several emphatic, short sucks at her
pipe, thereby giving the most contemptuous
negative to my question.
what is it, then4 Anything happened to
the gal?' asked, smiling.
MY gals can take aare o. themseIVes,' she
said, surlily.
'What is it, theng shall have to go in to
the grand jury, directly, and you must max
haste'
The grand jury7' she asked STOPPING to
put more ashes in her pipe.
Yes, the grand jury.'
The grand ury-weIl, Jeemes Whites on
the grand jury, amt he! know him mighty
wells
You must hurry, Mrs. Johnson; am very
busy to day. What is your case?'
Well, Well! You know my Patsyl'
'Yes, believe so'
Her as married William segroves; over in
Georgy. Well; you see, she was ailin' smartly
last month; and she knowed in reason I'D like
ID hear from her, so she gifts Segroves to write
me aletter. Segroves is powerful good scribe;
and thar's mighty few better larnt men any
whar. She gifts SegrOves, sure enough, to
write me letter, tein' all about her all
, ment, which the doctors said was the milk
leg" ..
THE grand jury wants the s'lc'tur!'
said an officer, putting his head in at the
! doot.
a Hurry, Mrs. Johnson, what is your case y
ITO be sure! Well, Segroves he writ the
8 letter, and put it in the post Office at Cave
4 Creek.' ~
swell, well!'
y 'And now. squire, let me tell yod. My
i t'other daughter, Betsy, that married Cullum
Il and went to Texas, she writ letter to me,
J. and put it in Apple Orchard post office, In
d Houston county, on the very week aTter Sc
n groves drapt hisn-er rather Patsy's-at Cave
e Creek and you see'-
a Go on Mrs. Johnson; | can't stay much
h longer"
g SIN a minit> replied Mrs Johnson, as she
l. replenished her pipe. 'And sure enough,
l. Cullum's letter come as straight as could be,
y and 90, it at Poplar Valley, last Wednesday
d was week, end Segrove's ain't come yet
8 T-leastways Tue never seed it!' Now har'
n Yapr case, il you please, my dear mad
! Isdm >
e My case!'
II 'Yes.'
10 Amt I ItoH my caSe?"
m Great heavens! woman, is this your case?
ID and snatchtng up my hat hurried out OF th'
Y room, excIaiming as | did so, Go to JacOl
Il Collamer with your post Office complaints"
le tJacob who did he say? querried the ol'
al lady Of man that entered at the moment
~ .Jacob---Jacob-wha does this Jacob Cum
II berland live? May be he's the JeStice Of tn
n Peace for The TOwn BeGH I'll go across to TIL
y store and ax.'
S'
~ There is an Alabama statute cumulative g
the seventh section Of the decalogue. 1t doe
!, not 90 to tho same extent that the command
=. ment does, but only inhibits the dung i
a that offence which ths scripture enactmen
~ interdicts entirely. Indictments Tor this mis-
% demeanOr are not unfrequent in any OF m
40 circuit, and in one or two they consutnt'
- the leading feature of the State Docket. Tn
- male and female offenders are paired OF gen
ri ealy in the bill and the cases are lnvar'abI
~ well defended. Here is fair specimen
an entry Of one of these cases on the trla
of docketi
ke The State ! Solicitor for the State.
A' vs. IA &F, Grimes for def't Smith, VIII
eh Joh6 Smith Bright, Bingham VerSy, j
ng and Pip & Snip, and Pipes IL
he Fanny Jones. de't F. Jones'
n The youngsters of the bar are always entht
ed siastically IN for the lady in the case. And'
mt their services are never otherwise than give
he in pure charity, the generous fellows deseF'
ed immense credit for their disinterestedness'
he almost always happens, however. that "
Mt; defence does not go 10 the merits OF y
]u- case. 1t the Indictment ID noI ue""''"N
IN the entire energies Of lady defendants hume
'or GUS and magnanimous counsel are directt
to begging, quizzing, blarneying or bamOo
Did ceiling the Solicitor into entering noAe pros
aa- mi as to their client, This, though, has be-
Use tried on so often, that it has become som
re. wha. dificultto succeed in it. Extra ingen
Ind ity has been brought into requsition to rO
lor in the States representative. The latest
md tempt of that sort occasiOned scene SOmewh
70, as follows;
AID Esquire Wheat told me to como and
you 'bout my cass,' said rather pretty girl
f me, as she took seat in tho office, one d
aIs. during court