The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-09-07
Burling, The New York DIM.

gives but faint picture of him. will
give You one from real life
Ten years ago was seated in my office
at No. i2 Wall street, busily driving the
quill, when heard quiet step behind and
then mild voice inquiring if | had the
transcript of certain judgement against
J. q. O,-ihe protector of the great Peg
ghe.wah.wan Company for selling Indian
medicine looked up and saw a man
whose twisted foot and palsied arms were
quite familiar 10 me, but of whose name or
calling knew nothing.
eyes," replied, 81 have the transcript.
"Well, want it," he said Pm going 10
collect it for the creditor"
"Going 10 collec, it p exclaimed,
"why the judgement is perfectly worthless.
Executions, and proceedings after Judge.
meEt, and all ordinary means of grace,
have long ago been exhausted upon o. He
is hopeessly insolyent, and is besides, the
most adroil scamp Of o swindler ever en-.
countered."
"What's that 10 me 2" broke out the visi.
Tor, in gruf strong voice, quite different
from his first tones. "Perhaps you don't
know who | am. I'm Burling, the man
about town. You q lawyer and not know
mo !! Sheriffs are good for nothing con-
stables are good for nothing; executions
and creditors bills are good for nothing
Give me the transcript-here's the order for
it--l'll make the money out of him."
swiveed around my chair and stared
at the man. "And will you be so good,
MIR. Burling," asked, Gas to tell me what
is your patent plan for superseding officers
and wri:s, and for squeezing blood out of
turnips, and cash ont of the President of the
Pep-ghe-wah-wan Company ?"
"How do it, you mean ? Why dun
'em at their houses, dun 'em in the streets,
dun 'em al the theatre, dur 'em in the
mornings and stick 10 'em all day; follow
'em up wherever they go go to meals aud
eat with 'em; go 10 bed with 'em give
'em no peace night or day, Sunday nor
week day stick 10 them like death 10
dead nigger. man owes debt, he won't
pay it. ] follow him up all the week so
he can't do any business, nor so 10 see his
sweetheart, 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 do ?-
Very well. When he goes to church Sum
day, he finds the bill I've stuck there, and
gets so mad he can't say amen"
"Sheriffs and Consiables," !" continued he,
getting loud and fierce," won't go of Sun.
day morning TO parsons house and fol-
low him 10 church, and walk up the broad
aisle with him before all the congregation,
aud 60 up the pulpit stairs close to lis heels
and slip into the pulpit after him before he
can shut the door, and take a seat by his
side, and get up when he gets up. and
wheE he opens The Bible, opens John jones'
bill full length, and lays it down over the
chapter and verse, and tell him: There's
that bill of horse hire, pay it before you
preach But that's what did-and got
my money tDo."
! &'o "hot Sohihiosioii uiu you CldfSe!'
"Fifty per cent" "Ralher strong"
suggested, 'but still your mode of proceed
ure was strong Do you often get as much
as fifty per cent?"
/ When 1 earn it, get it. DR.. c. of
/ Broadway, sent me 10 dun a fellow who liv
ed back in yard, and kept two bulldogs
that he let loose when anybody came to col
lect honest debts. | went 10 him with a
! horse-pistol in each hand and Dr. C's bill
! in my teeth, and made him pay up. What
did DR.. c. offer me for getting his sixty dol
/ lars ?-he offered me one dollar. | won't
take it, says l. Pll pay no more; says he
! Pay ne thirty dollars says |. Get out of
my Office, or III kick you out says he, and
he kicked me out of his door and down the
steps into Broadway. goes across TO the
-hotel and hires great armchair out
OF the bar>room, ard takes it across the
street, and plants it on the curbstone right
| opposite DR. C's door and lays the bill
had made out on full sheet of foolscap
across my knees, hanging down SO every
body that went by could read in large black
sanded letters:
DocroR c.
To J. BuRLiNo, Or.
For collac,ino of R;ob, rd Doo