Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-30
MORE ABOUT BURLING.

Our readers will remember the spicy letter
of Nor 'wester' to the Boston Post referring
tosBurling. the New York collector, which
went the rounds Of the papers a few weeks ago
The following account Of his moHRs operaHdt
seems to corrObOrate Nor wester's statements
Ten wears ago | was seated in my Office at
No. l2 Wall street busily driving the quill.
when heard quiet step behind, and then a
mild voice inquiring if had the transcript of
4 certain Judgment against one j. q. 0.-the
protector of the great Peg ghe-wah- -wah Com
asny for selling Indian medicines / looked
up, and saW man whose twisted foot and pal
sled arms were quite familiar to me, but of
whose name or calling knew nothing
"Yes' replied, II have the transcript. g"
We'll, want it, he said; I'm going to
collect IL for the creditor"
Going to collect Il 80 exclaimed. ".hf
the Judgment is perfectly worthless Execu-
lions, and proceedings after Judgment, and all
ordinary means Of grace, have long ago been
exhausted upon u. He is helplessly insolyent
and is besides the most adroit scamp of q
sEindler ever encountered
What's that to me? ?'' broke out the visitor,
in gruf, strong voice, quite different from
his fret tones Perhaps you don't know who
am. I'm Burling, the man about town. You
lawyer, and not know me! Sheriffs are
good for nothing; constables are good for moth
Iny: executions and creditors bills are good
for nothing. Give me the transcript-here's
the order for it'll make the money out of
him"
wiveled around my chair and stared at the
man ''And will you be so good, Mr. Bur
Ing" asked, ''as to tell me what is your
patent plan for superseding officers and writs.
ard for squeezing blood out of turnips, and
cash out OF the President of the Peg -ghe-w wah-
Hah Company ?" 1880. - p.
. How | do it, you mean. Why dun 'em
at their houses, dun 'em in the street, I dun
L. 4
catch EN- early In the morning and stick to
en- all day; follow 'em up wherever they 60:
20 TO meals and eat with 'em; go to bed and
sleep with EN-; give 'em no peace night or dsy
sunday nor week day: stick to 'em like death
20 a dead niger. A man owes debt He
won't pay it. 1 follow him all the week 80 he
can do any business, nor go to see his sweet
hesr,, nor walk in Broadway nor eat with any
appetite, nor sleep without dreaming. I'm
after him, with the devil to help run him
down. All this won't do1 Very well When
he goes to church Sunday he finds me in his
pew. Your sheriff can't work Sundays-I do
my best business then.) The congregation rise,
aid he rises, takes out his book, opens at the
place, and there he finds the bill I've stuck
there, and gets so mad he can't say amen
''Sherifs and cOnsta blesl" continued he get
ring loud and fierce. twill sheriff go of a Sun
day morning to a parsons house and follow him
to ochurch, and walk up the broad aisle with him
before all the congregation, and 90 up the pull
p! stairs close to his heels, and slip in the pull
ri. after him before he can shut the door, and
take seat By his side. and get up when he
gets up, anil when he opens the bible open
John Jones 5 bill full length, and lay it down
over the chapter and verse;, and tell him I;
There's that Bill Of horse hire-paU ft before
y0H PTsaca' But that's what did-and got
my money, too"
And what commission do you eharge2''
Y ne
Rather strong I suggested, '.but still your
mode OF procedure was strong Do you often
get as much as fifty per cent?
When | earn il get it. DIR. c., of Broad
way. sent me to dun fellow who lived back
in yard, and kept two dull dogs that he let
loose when anybody came to collect honest
debts / went to him with a horse pistol in
each hand and DIR. C.'s bill in my teeth. and
made him pay up. What did Dr. c. offer me
COZ getting his sixty dollars1 He offered me
one dollar | won't take it, says /. Get out
Of my office, or I'll kick you out, says he, and
be kicked me out Of his door and down the
step. into Broadway. / goes across to the -
ho;el and hires great armchair out of the
oar-room, and takes il across the street and
plants IL on the curbstone right opposite to DR.
u Othce door, and L lays the bill had made
out on full sheet of foolseap acrpss my knees
hanging down, so everybody that went by
could read in large, black, sanded letters:
Doctor C
To j. Burling, DR..
For collecting of Richard Roe
OOnlnlsion. $50 90
and all the crowd kept stopping to read.
% that there all the while two or three
hundred people standing on the doctor's pave
Hent, and reading first my bill and then his
si5n and making their jokes had hired the
chslT Tor the whole afternoon but be hadn't
s'''d THIS more than fifteen minutes before he
comes TO the door and says, Come here, you
rascal; and | went in and took thirty dollars
VI ms money, and left the bill receipted''
but my friend, don't your impudent ways
often get you into scrapes; are you not afraid
ZONE one will some day break your head -
break whose head ~ he thundered
Tih Col. ), Of New Orleans. a man tn ats
AHIed seven men in duels, wnen went to dun
nllh al the Astor House, didn't he grab me by
sf sFI sack oil my breeches and hold me out the
n.'h s'ory window, and shake me there above
Ho pavement, and say, Shall let you fall and
oIeSH your neck on the stones, or take you in
and Kick you down stairs - ~.
Wen said L, anxiously "whst did you
What did do? said. Pay me that
nnoney Y; and didn't he pull me in and pay every
The intensity of his manner "a he thus re-
Iated his exploits cannp; be rendered on paper.
especially when he exclaimed with closed
teeth, and the fingers Of his round hand
c!enched, " Pay me Htaf Hioaey -
lie took the transcript and Iimped out In
smother day the hapless debtor, and Oyer-match
for all the regular thumb-screws Of the law.
came in to beg piteousIy would call of the
blood hound. L told him il was the creditor
aHalr, not mine Next day L met Burlng at
the corner of Cortlandt street, looking mild
and happy, and asked him how he succeeded,
Il haven't got it yet, was the reply. lie
hasn found me out. but he has JUST paid me
I've dollars TO let him dine at the hotel down
there, without my company. We've taken all
""F meals together for the past two days. and
lie began 10 ind his appetite fail - .-
2 The Milwaukee News contains IN sccount
Oi sailor who. after five years cruise re-
turned 10 that city. We let the News tell the
balance of the story:
lie left n wife and two children when he
went away, and the first thing on his return
VS. to seek out his family. lie found them in
tlrd ward. and after kissing his wife, saw with
a>'ohlshment that his children, like sheep in
tle Last, had doubled in five years, as in the
pace of two there were now four, and one
4Iite smrE. He looked at his wife lie then
.o0hed at his babies. Then at his wife who