Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-10-23

questions end YVES sony 70 hear him answer %
he did. might have atked bin Il he didn't XIII
my oatandit be didh'tslons by chickens because
they tIeespasled In h6 WOOil1 pheyo actually The
rocks ere % thick that tho brakes can't find their
way through lhemj but then knew he would
deny Il, and Il would glieveme 70 heor him. tie
| admits that tie wac UIivlug my thl6e cows up the
road and that be struck az one OF 'em, but says u
Wns with small switch, ! have proved that THIS
switch was a pole about ten feet long aud about
three inches across tue butt, end, and have also
proved that when he struck the coy fell, IL IS
true my witness couldn't swear that the SICK h'I
her, no was 90 Tor off but take the blow and the
fall together and we san guess the rest, II you,
gentlemen, should see me point gun 81 mao
and DULL the Trigger see the dRsi aud hear the
fel,oit, and al Inc same tiue see The man drop,
think YOU would say that shot hlm, although you
might not see the UalIsirlke him.
Now, the fact y, geallemen, that on Sunday
was lying on my lounge 10 my house, when my
wife saitlto me that DOddet was chdsihg my COWS,
| 1 iumRed up and pulled on my bootS aud wentouI
OF doors and saw DoddeI and the COWS coming up
the toad II Is true, he says be was not driving
them, but he says he end the COWS were going up
the road in one Direction, aud this Wbs as near as
could get him 10 Tie COWS OF The truths but i Is
proved that the COWS were gong ahead Of him,
ond be WIS following alleT them Striking OF them
with this little switch ten feet long, thee inches
aorOss me butt aud guess you'll tunk he Whs
tdiiying' them, sung out 10 him, tiDoldeS
slopw but he didn'l obey lnY order and Just
tuIeW slonsin that direction, which went about
ten feet above bis head and al the same time gong
toward himi while no was coming toward me. lie
paid no attention., aud sung out again, "Dodder,
slopW Still be ddnt mind 1e, aud then Just
threw OnolheT stone but on he came aud on
weni, and threw tue Third sioue, which he snys
hI MIN Ia the lack OF ilis neck, bUtwhich lhink
is rather strange, as we were going toward eaoh
other as fast % we could. But ne never Stacked
up, OnJ BY this time we wete wihin nbouIS ieel
Of each other. uHlIed aud holsled 81 The Top OF
my voice, "DOddel, why 10 ----- dou't you Glonf"
About iuen nB did stop, and raised hrs len foot
switch RsiG 10 sttlke ME. SaHg out, "Ah Dod.
der loo ouIl You may wCllup my COWS, but II
YOU Wollup ,ue with that switch you'll wOllupun
animal lhapl hookW Here tue orator made an
appropriate gesluIe Of tue head, as Ia The uct Of
hooking, winch was followed VITA uuconuoabls
laughter for several minules.l
Now, gentlemen, II you convict me, llls court
can zoe me $3.50 aud Jug me for elk Won.isi aud,
II you really think ought 10 be convicted lthis
ASIA alt, say so, for am IN favor Ol lYingUp 10
the laws os long o. they are laws whether 1t is tile
Fugitive Slave Law, The Nebraska Bill, or The BIZ
else Laws. will read you little law, however,
which have Just seen In a book found litEe;
flhe speaker here picked up q law btiok aud read
as follows: "BVeTy man las q rlghl 10 dvlend him
sell from personal violence" Nov don't know
whether that 10 law OF moi, but l fnd Tin law
uOok. A nelsTan menIsT oil the oar, who was
sitting neoI The speaker TemaIkeI 10 Mmthalllwas
good law.l Well gentlemen, here IS an OLD man
who lOoksas II he might KNOW something, ana ue
says this is good law Now, II you viii iutn TO
Barbour something, pnGe 500, you Il hnd tne same
doctrine Is applied 10 cattle. lGTeal luUgnteE.I- +
Therefore lake It lnat had right TO delend my
COWS oBahsI DoLdeFs ten foot swIlon. Mhygen'
temen, neuTly all my wealth Is invested ~ i"e'n
three cows, and you can't wonder that became