Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-31

Some y es,e s fpr long days ride through q
piue-wood country IN an easter" ecu'S, f.ar
Ne s.nbbs. its Sheriff. By the middle OF e a.:e
NON yCe had exhausted, subjects OF 90, ~
~ - .+;c,Iar attachment case which Droueut "' =
,ne the political condition of the country ho
nrosnects of the growing crop, and severa ters of
por.onaI history In fact, we had run Quito use a
rite but expressive metaphor-when suddenly Mr.
Stubbs eve flashed and strange smile huttcred
ac,oss his lips, as he remarked:
81 havn't told you, Squire, | believe, how got
ruined servin the first process (the Sheriff was not
learned man, and occasionally did misplace the ac-
cent? that eber came into my hands -
No; let's have it, replied. turning half round
in the saddle; it cost you some money, did t-your
mistake :"
"Ah," he calculated with sigh, " it cost heap
a he0pr
This was said with the air of much suffering, and
told him if it awakened painful emotions, he must
not think of opening the old wound, merely for my
entertainment.
s.Its all over now," said he land | don't mind
tcllin' it,
don't know how it was, Just It this moment
caught sight Of shabby fold of Grape around his
hat and could not hep associatiug it with the sigh,
the lugubrious expression, and the sarvin' of the
first process Anent that, shall discover some
thing presently
Mr. Stubbs proceeded
"I was 'lected first Sheriff of the county, and at
that time there wern't MORN three or four hundred
such an honor, like"
"This is your second term, then 2"
Yes, had to miss term of service on account
OF the law; but then | was deputy deputy under
Stokes, and when his time run out last, two years
ago. was elected again. But that amt tellin' how
got ruinated by that writ. Now it's reasonable to
suppose that the first of thing amt so easy 10 know
the middle or the last. So when the lawyer down
al town made out the paper and put ii in my hands
was us as bad nonplussed ever you see.''
hat sort OF Il Will ,"
"NothIn' but the common sort (capdis RESI-
know em now, like book. Eff had only knowed
em then ~
Here another deep drawn sigh supplied the place
of words
Il took the plaguy thing home, ami called in
Bill Stokes (Which was sheriff himself, after that)
and old Squire Lumpkin TO counsel me on it, We
read it three four times 1t ordered me 10
take the body of Hannah Westbrook eff to be found
in my county, and her safely to keep SC that should
have her to answer before the judges at the next Cir
cult, for debt she owed and moren't that it said
was to do ii without delay-and it was nigh on to
five months till Court What was I to do with her
all that time, and no sign of Jail in that county ~
We'll, il was hard looking case, but that was
simply form, and the writ might have been served
by leaving copy with the lady"
Oh, know that mighty we'll now but didn't
know it then Besides, at the bottom of the paper
was writ No ball. and know now that them words
means bail required but thought, then it meant
that if she to offer the best security in the State
wdrn't to take It, And ii the construction that
Stokes and Lumpkin both put upon it ; and the old
Squire went so far as 10 say, eff he was Sheriff he'd
take that woman and carry her home and lock her
! up IN the small room with himself and his wife
every night, ontel Court came around"
" That would have made it pretty safe
= 4es," said Stubs; g but knowed that wouldn't
suit me, for my wife Chat was them was high tenn
pered and never could bear strange people in the
room. But, however, after counsellin | got Stokes
to go with me, and went up to the wilder and told
my business. She was mighty bad scared at first
but when she got over that, she rared and pitched
should llst a gin out and gone home and resigned,
but Stokes Quoted her, sayin' we could nut her in
Jail, but eff she behaved herself we'd only take her
down to my house and let her stay tell Court Then
she turned into cryln' and Begin me 10 take her
nlggar woman and keep her for security for the debt
which only something over hundred dollars
and the niger was likely. But | looked in my pa,
per and read it out to herto take the body of Ham,
nah Westbrookn
" She said she'd go. and she had the old roam horse
saddIed up, and while Stokes and me were takn'
and not notcln, she mounted him and started eff in
a lively canter on the Georgia end of the trail We
mounted and gaoped after her, and she hadn't got a
half mile before we had her. Then she cried and
begged again, but we put plough line round her
waist and held the end, and after letting her give
some directions 10 her Niger took her down to nv
house. My wife treated her very civil, and every
day or two we'd let her 90 up home and look after
her consarns. so time rolled on till about month
oe1ore Court, and one day Stokes rid up to the gate
in powerful hurry, and called me out
you've played thunder" said he
''How 2" said I.
, ''Why think of Mrs Westhrook It's all wrong
and she's sent word to the very lawyer that put out
that writ against her; ands got two against YOU :
one TO make you turn her loose and t'Other to make
you pay twenty thousand dollars for tskn' her!'
i g | shant serve en- says I.
/ &C Makes odds. They've done appointed kur-
riner (corriner and he'll be up Tomorrow soon as
Mrs. WestbrOok has chance to swear TO somethin ,
You'd better look out !"
SWELL" said |, g | reckon they've GOT YOU. You
was along, and helpt to do it."
ooh, yes; says he but MeVre got me for lrit.
p
&C said no more, but walked right into the house.
and there found the wilder lookin' mighty pleased
ana told her she was free 10 80, and asked her par
don, and shouldn't charge her any board and hon.
ed she'd come and see my old woman, and so on and
so FORTH " W GNU
''S She went suppose"
! $ She did, and the kurriner come: and he showed
me nc" 10 servea writ by copy shall never forget
IT, She took me into Court and there wernt notbin:
uohe the ilrst time Before the next Court my old
woman died, and that upserged everv ,bins What
win hef gym and the suit, | thought would 90
crazy, to be sure" a.
/ But you didn't z"
No, bore it as we'll as could, and lust before
Court came along the lawyer-Jenkins-a said to
me, y think you and my client, Mrs Westbrook,
coulu compromise that case, eff you to talk to-
geiher about It,. hardly waited for him to leave,
before jumped my horse and rode up 10 the wild.
ders."
" She sorter laughed and said may be-"
I'd give you hundred dollars TO drop itn said [.
! = She toWned nightly, and said that warn't the
way she wanted 10 settle it,"
/ "Pd give you two,n said l.