The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1852-12-29
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Legal Sketches.

Legal Sketches.
The bar must occasionally allow tllat they
know how to make the best of a bargain. as
well as the sharpest. A Eat suit isMptEto
move move rather sluggisEly through lhe court.
Many solicitor is aptto keep a Chan6ery
case on Its legs through two or three geIler-
atoms OF lltigants, when in fact the original
Pa'ues TO the suit have died aud become
forgotten. The following illustration is not
bad. ~. = = "a -
An attorney on the marriage Of hisxen
gave him $500, and handed him owe "a o0s-
mon Chancery suit with some common lEw
actions, About two years after, tlle son
asked his father for more business. Qs
why gave you that capital chancery
suit, and then you have got a great many
new clients; what more do you want?Ha
"fes sir, replied the son; ''but have
wound up that suit, and given my client
I great satisfaction" f" - ~ - ,sr
What! you improyident fool, 2 leioined
he father Indignantly, ''that suit was insnny
family twenty five years, and would have
continued as many years longer, if / had
kept It. shall rot encourage such fel-
! low"
A Catholic prelate once pertinently. asked
a legal gentleman whether he had soul,
supro ing doubtless that his 'tquiddit, his
cases, his tenures, and his tricks, had pnr
ged it out of reality. Notwithstanding this
doubt, think we may safely admit that
the lawyer had a soul. In this world il is
usually IN his fee, And the following story,
told by Foote, will determine pretty aceu-
rately where its abode is in the next:
a gentleman in the country who had inst
Uufled relative, an attorney, eomplaiaed
to loote OF the great expense Of - oonnfy
funeral 80. ~ .,j. .asa,s ks.s -
/ "Why, do you bury attorneys hsEe?"
graye!y asked Foote. Eaa .as ID A,sas
Eyes, to be sure; how else?' ssxs8
"Oh, We neger do that in Loadon.Y IL
"NoH exclaimed TIE other much aston
lshed. "Why, how do you manage that?'
"Why, when the patient happens toS a,
we lay him out in room over nightby him
self, lock the door, throw open the sash, aud
in the morning he is entirely OF, b, sgs
'Indeed, said the gentleman amazed
"And what becomes of him?" ~
"Why, that we cannot exactly tel not
being acquainted with supernatural causes
All that we k7aog of the matter is. thatthere
is u strong smell Of 6rimstone in the room
the next morning" R gAs
| Posr OFFICE DErARrNENr.-We abstract
from the Report Of the Post Master General,
as follows:
The receipts for the year ending July. /,
1852, were 81, $50, ga, which includes 81,
024, ,972 of balance on hand in July LAST
The expenditures were, for all services, 81,
007, ,549. The excess Of expenditures fail
kinds over revenue, for the year 1852, excIu-
siye of balance existing on July Ist,, 1851,
and amount drawn from Treasury, was. 3D.
922,980 60 -.
The letters paid and unpaid during 10
fiscal year, were very large, Unpaid Do
mestic, 80, 672, 1855; paid in money, l8,44B,-
$40; by stamps, 1897 free letters,
t3,148,0oo drop letters, 973, 1874, conyeved
by European steamers, 4, 1921, 547; number
conveyed to Havana, IS, ,392 number con
veyed to California, l. 495, 537; Of dead let
tcrs unpaid, 1855, 900. Total, 95, 79o, ,5s4
No less than 1910, 400 newspapers passed
through the mail; 1913, 548 were exehanre
papers, Between4 and 5000, 600 Of lettIs
were conveyed by the following lines
I Cunard, 2,753, ,296; Collins, 963, ,672;; BE
men, 354, 470; Havre,. 345, ,989; and by Gle
Cunard, 942,95o newspapers; BY Collins,
2G0, ,974 do. .ss...
I How TO KEEP PooR BUY two glasses Of
ale every day, at cents each, aniountingin
one year to $50, so; smoke three cigars, ,,ne
after each meal, counting up in the coufss
ofthe year, to SS5l, rs; keep a big dog, which
vii! consume in year at least u 8 tWartlfof
provisions, and acat SIS more. Altogether
this amounts tothe snug little s,lnI of $li0,-
254-suflicient to by six barrel Of four, ohs
hundred bushels of focal, one barrel of sillsar,
one sack of coffee, good coat, 4 ryspccE.,-
bic dress, besides d ffock for tie baby, aid
half a dozen pairs Of shoes more 1r.leSs.
just think ofit A assf#a9 KF7 49,
! s5 IE. ). I.-az z1.4.-a-1. LIS ~ haa@sssa
ANCIENT AGRrcu1FtBtsr -A'phe Gssptasee
men in the eiworld, were Wgardsne 4; ii psok
man and grazier: and ii any malf5s}es
that the second OF these three proved aniVf
derer, he.will please remember that as 4st,sssl
as he was 81, he quit our profession and b.
gan to bl.ild q town. fa8Ssa aHla8E'3 j ~
t.l ss,ta.-------- --l-esa,ilsa gSss
sHuMAS 1NGENuITY,r-ln. the formationaof
single locomotive engine, there aremo
fewer lhan. 5,4lG pieces tobepat ttdgefher.
and these require to be as accurate al
justed as the works Oft watohssslAery
watch, consists Of at leaste02s pieces. es.-
.plo,ing probably 2l5 persons, tlistFhited
.anong 40 trades. to say nothiugof tile topi-
makers for4au these. n slaF e'
7 EE-A An elderly man III Wheeling twice
married, to the first wife fifteen wears audsto
his second, ten, assured. the editor of .(he
Times that he never had received "a cFlss
word from either. e'' a4sA
j tDANaRRs or SIEEprNo IN CHuRcH me
.Cincianatil 0ommeycial is Responsible hr
the following RATHER tough stofyN arrest
Sunday, in onesofUut chafcheg, an Old geh
tleman, a worthy member Ut the Chf4stien
persuasion, Rllasleep and began dreaming
he was onas hunting excursion All UIsa
sudden, and tta the sstOnh liEnesit sof sexefy
body ,Hhe holhOwed out, s.Fetchhitn Dasgi.a
glorious shoteAAthfee woodcceks with one
barrel; hurrahf fdf me; and he rose ytt5 fFUin
his seatand ehpefed Justify He woke hin-
splf by his hallooihg, and Immediately seized
his hat and walkedaout blushing like Afgd