Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-11-21
A Tough Witness.

Prosecuting Attorney-'Mr. Parks, state if yo,
please, whether you have known the defendan
to follow any profession. ,....ssf- -..s-s- ,.
Hes been professor ever since I've knowr
him. s. E%sf F1
Professor of what?' ss tr@ 1s
| I'D of Religion e., -- F..s a--....,.... z.
You don't understand me, Mr.. Parks Wha
does he do
Generally, what he pleases'
Tell the jury, Mr.. Parks, what the defendant
follows aass 81 es... r..
Gentlemen of the jury, the defendant follows
the crowd when they go in TO drink
Mr.. Parks, this kind OF prevarication will not
do here. Now state how this defendant supports
himself
4 saw him last night support himself against a
lamp-post. s.-
| May it please your honor, this witness has
shown disposition to trihe with the Court
Judge-'Mr. Parks, state ifyou know anything
about it, what the defendants occupation is
Occupation, did you sav?'
| Courlsel-'Yes, what is his occupation
IF j amt mistaken, he occupies garnet some
where in town. ass| #4;
THAI s all Mr.. Parks
Cross eXamined-Mr. Parks, l understand YOU
say that the defendant is professor of religion
Does his practices correspond with his profes-
SION
i never heard Of any correspondence or let
tiers passing between them
'Yousaid nothing about his propensity for
drinking. Does he drink hard!'
NO, think he drinks as easy anv man ever
saw @
"One more question: Mr.. Parks. You have
known the defendant a long time; what are his
habits, loose or otherwise"
"The one he's got on now, l think is rather
tight under the arms, aud too short waisited for
the fashion"
''fou can take your seat, Mr.. Parks"
Goop.-Rev. Thomas Hill, of Waltham, in an
article on church music, in the last Christian Ex-
aminer, says:
Sometimes an attempt is made to alter Sec
ular air by changing the cadence to religions
FORM We recently heard tunes of this charac-
ter from some new collection of sacred e) mu-
sic; popular Irish and negro melodies being cut
off in the last measure, and chord of the SUBJ
dominant introduced, a. it we're to sanctify them
The result is, that the tunes are spoiled for
whistling on week day, without being rendered
tit TO sing on SUNDAY. They neither express
the wild mingling of pathos and humor of the
Irish tunes, the dreamy wailing hidden under the
oasside gayety Of the negro songs nor vet any
properly religious emotions They are senseless.
mutila'ed fragments, iilpieeed together
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SwELLEp DREssEs.-0mnbusse and common
carriages are terribly trying on this new and
hifalutin style of feminine bailoonery, and the
narrow passageways in some OF the theatres, one
would think would block them cut altogether
A few nights since. saw lady whose ampli-
tRde was so great that you would swear She
would stick fast in barn door, squ;rm and
twist herself through passage, along which
child of six years would hardly find elbow room:
they fatten down xhen it comes to pinch;
there's nothing of them when YOU get down |
through to TO the real flesh and blood; it's all
sham-a eounserfeit.-I Kendall's Paris Letter in
Picayune.
A<PLAIN-SPoKEs WITsEss-sFacts are stub
born things, said LAWYER to a female witness |
under examination
The lady replied
Yes. iy-e,;. and 50 are women, and if yoa get |
ANYTHING oas of me, just ies me know IL
ouI be committed for contempt
Very well, I'd suffer justly, for feel the ut
most contempt for every lawyer present
The ladies of kewanee. Henry county, have |
'rsanized Tree Association for planting trees
n all the streets.