Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-11-12
Guilty.. BUT DRUNK Dan Marbles
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had the peasure ofan intimate cauaintanee with
Dan. Marie, viii recognise tbs lscsistable story
he used 70 & tell . Of the stolen sreons and the
Georgia JUICE. Col Bradbury, We believe, once.
dressed up a. joke and set it going, and PARTIAL
~ in that gnse We give itaplaee.
Many yers AGO, while the State Of Georgia
was yet in il infancy, an eccentric creature,
named Brown,was one of the Circuit Judges.
He was a man y considerable ability, ofinfexible
integrity, and inleh beloved and respected by all
the legal professon, but he had one fault His
social qualities vsuld lead him, despite his judg
ment, into frequet excuses. In travelling the
Circuit it was hsslmost inyariable habit, the.
night before opening the Court, to get g cOmfert-
ably eorned, I" by mans of appliances COMMON
upon such occasions If he couldn't succeed
while operating upon his own hook, the gentle
men of the law would GENERALLY turn and help
him.
cit was in the spring of the year, tatins his
wife-a model ola woman in her way-in the old
fashioned, but strong carry-all,' he jOurneyed
some forty miles, and reached the village where
the court was to be opened next day. 1t was
along in the evening Of Sunday that he arrived at
the place. and took up his quarters with relation
of his better-half, by whom the presence of the
official dignitary was considered singular honor.
After supper, Judge Brown stTolled over to the
only tavern in the town, where he found many
old friends, called to the place, like himself, on
important professional business, and who were
proper glad to meet him.
"sGentlemen,' said the Judge, tits quite a
long time since we have enjoyed glass together
let us take horn all round. OF course, Ster-
rift addressing the landlord,) you have better
liquor than you had the last time we were here
he stuff you had then was not At to give dog
"Sterritt, who had charge Of the house, pre-
tended that everything was right, and so they
went to work. 1t is unnecessary to enlarge upon
drinking bout in a country tavern-it viii quite
answer our purpose to state thatsomewhere in
the region of midnight the Judge wendell his
very devious way towards his temporary home.
About the time helEas leaving however, some
young barristers, fOnd-sfa practical joke, and
mot much afraid of the bench, transferred all the
silver spoons of Sterritt to the Judges pocket.
1t was eight o'clock on Monday morning that
the Judge rose. Having INDUCED in the pro-
cess of ablution and abstersion, and partaken of
a cheerful and refreshing breakfast, he went to
his room to prepare himself for the duties of the
day.
"'well, Polly, said he to his wife, 1 feel
frolc of last night
are getting too old-you ought to leave off that
business now.'
q All, Polly, what's the use of talking!'
g twas at this precise instant of time that the
Judge, having put on his overcoat, was pro-
his wife parting kiss, that he happened, in
hand lo,, 6o11 90
Sterritt's spoons. He pulled them out With an
expression of horror almost Undesirable, he OK
claimed
CSC My God Polly"
"' What on earths the matter, Judgcl
"' Just look at these spoons. >
I" Dear me, where d you get them =
I" Get them Don't you see the initials on
them ''-extending them towards her 1 stole
themr
Z" Stole them, Judge y
/" Yes, stole them =
"'My dear husband, it can't be possible-from
whom p
"' From Sterritt, over there-his name is on
them.
"' Good heavens how could it happenr
az know very we'll, Polly-I was very drunk
when came homo wasn't IL
"'Why, Judge, you know your old @-'''-'' az II
you get spQFEaRs Very Very drunk p
Yes, you was
was rcfndrka0ly so wneuI got Ii...D.,, ~.
Brown y
g. Yes, Judge, drunk as fool, and forty times
Is stupid
"' thought so, said the Judge, dropping in
% chair in extreme Aespondency-'I knew it
would come to that at last. 1 have ALWAYS
hought that something would happen to me
hat should do something very wrong-kin
omebody in moment Of passion, perhaps-but
never imagined that should be mean enough
o be guilty ofdelbernte larceny.
" But there may be some mistake, Judge y
" No mistake. Polly. know very well how
came about. That fellow, Sterritt, keeps the
leanest sort Of liquor, and always did-liquor
lean enough to make a man do any sort of n
lean thing. have always said it was mean
nough to make man steal and now have a
tactical illustration of the fact. And the old
ian burst into tears.
1" Don't be child, said his wife, wiping
way the tears, go like man. over to Steritt tell
i'm it was little bit of frolic-pass it off as
'ke-go and open court, and nobody will ever
link of again
" a little of the soothing system operated up /
the Judge, as such things usually do, his ex- (
eme modification was finally subdued, and !
yer to sterritt's he went, with tolerable face.
course he had but little difficulty in settling
it'll him for, aside from the fact that the Judges
tegrity was unquestiOnable, he had an ink O
ng of the joke that had been played. f
" Judge Brown proceeded to Court, and took Z
$ seat but spoons and bad Hquor-bad liquor |
Id sPoons-liquor, spoons, drunk, larceny, and -
'dge Brown, was 50 mixed up in his worship's /
wildered head, that he felt awful PALE, if he d
not look SO. In fact the Judge felt cut down, Il
ID his usual self-possessed manner of disposing o
business, his diction and decisions were not
hat Judge Brown had been noted for. 6