The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
! a 3aoene'In a Justices Court.

sigf hii1 BY AN ARKANSAS IAwAER ti''9 10 (
Pr In the county Of Dallas, and not a great
way from the, Court -house, lives one Robert
Ruminn, fathiliayly Known on account Of his
bombasiic deportmentas the .Chief Justice
Notwithstanding this individual has long
since, distinguished himself by his peculiar
tact of making pocketlchange, he managed
about two years ago to geta- commission as
justice of The peace. AT his third Or fourth
sitting was retained to defend a client in
one of the Chief Justices Courts. Upon ex-
amining the papers, and finding that they
had no sort of connection whatever with the
case, | conclu1ed tomake d Buncombe speech,
7 (being stranger in the disgins') dismiss
tfhe case, and be off. Accordingly, when
called, l rose with all the dignity that | Could
command, and made the motion. In doing
Fso, fspoke loud and long Of the chivaltous
days Of '76, retounted the scenes Of Bunker
Hill and Saratoga, / dwelt upon tie aber-
ties of the he speop,e and their sovereign will;
talked Of the bone and sinew' Of the coun-
try. and particularly the hardy sons Of iht
west. ri When Il thought that enough had
been said formyseH and the; crowd,I closed
as began, by asking the Court todismiss thf
case.i IN bs8 .iib36oS 4aiYBig gaSaid
m The Chief Justice, after pausing a few mo-
ments, began: well Squire, you make a bull
| Ilytspesch, by jingo; you talk like Bill lancy
kdid when he got me out of that. scrape fol
fir; but they don't know anything about
that hero; and you told the law, too, Squire,
| lust as itnads in Atkins law Book, what
| | brought with me from Alabama ten years
ago; I've got it i1 my chist at this, very time,
Ecoyered in deer skin, dressed with the hail
hohy by golly, think Of old Alabama, when
General Harrison was a Candidate, makes me
want to LIQUOR Sheriff, Calling to the
constable,) stop the court till we take d drink;
but, never mind, we'nsoon be1thf5ugh. '9a1
id.As Was goin' on 10 say, sqaire) you fairly
made me shiver when you talked about fight
in for liberty, and our forefathers, &C., and
tell you, you tole the law, too, right out
but they didn't send this court to the legisla.
ter when it wanted togo, and as this courl
didn't help make the laws, il be Of opinion
that it. t1aint bound to go By um; | talked
| litall over last night to the old woman, and
wrote. a Judgment this, morning while she
was maxim coffee and Tmilkin' the cows sfl
very WE'LL, said hi am bound BY tb'
opinion Of your honor, but seeing the cour
pause | had not thought your honor's opinion
made up.su.Ai' says the court, II was jus
studying whether to add in aitreat with tn
cost. Being satisfied, from what had beer
done, that Icould have no sortnof showing
ia that court j withdrew to one side TO SCI
how other matters would go ongo 5isod az.
sii The court soon called another case, but ha(
not progressed far in the investigatiohwhei
he stationed himself. in his seat and called
fout,, Colonel Roteh this courfis in session,
IsTknow,' replied the Colonel 'but' 4 have, NJ
business in Court, The infatuated bistic'
laeain called out, Colonel Rotch, this t'oil,-
lis in session. THE ichagtined Colonel iagail
replied, may 1t please your honor. | have ~
tblsine$ infCourt; butt, says the justice
YOU ashistlsdS this court don'twant its dig
nifty whisted at. , I fine you five dcllars.A
fColonel Rbtch is. an Old gentleman, wh'
felaims 10 be one Of the first families of l--1-
l Eand apfides himself upon what he has seen
Heard and done. " Atthe hnehtion of fiye'dol
lars the Colonel seemed to be much yhurt
kite was degrading and mortifying TO him t
ibe hneaa by an Arkansas Court. Feeling
however, ,hhst hswas caught in q tigghttiPlace
his next motive was to get Off, Placing blm
self ina IhetMicsl altitude before the Court
Ghea abeganai May 1t please your honor, thus J
aihig fine. When Iwas; in the Leeggls!sser 2
Virginia. !, heard Colonel sBedinger make
bspeechiabout justices Courts, and he neye
said that aman ought to befound for whist
ling,0nog how,sa The court Uninterrupted "
Colonel here by saying,na know Colonel tina
it is big fine, but Captain Pike never pu
any judgments in bis form book for anything
Under five dollars, and its the plainest book ]
eyer seed But never mind, Colonel, yot
can pay II easy, Just give me credit for tha
bear meat and half bushel potatoes ] go
sftom yotfs aGood III never getitno how
I'll do that II the Court will treat says tn
Colonel, n Agreed says the chief Justice
E.f the grocery keeper will take d Sco6n-skin
Five got no ueef-slsins now. The grocer be
ing present assented 'f.N7Ds''5lt 7
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fembf6ideted front. all Of lhuslih, With the ex
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