The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-07-18
LEGAL and Miscellaneous.
A Family Jar.


rms anything but smooth when made out
of y mixture Of Teutonic and Milesian blood
Katherine Ludor, the Irish wife of n Dutch
husband, came before the Recorder, anu
made complaint upon affidavit that Daniel
Ludor, the husband aforesaid, who "niver
1be divil a bit ov sober breath had draw n
fur the matter Of siven wakes, had beaten,
bruised, and abused her until she could
stand il no longer, and she wanted thu" ven
seance of the law on bin, TO make him go
TO work and quit drinking and abusing her,
q "poor, wake, defenceless woman" The
terrible Daniel was therefore arrested by
due process, and brought up to face the ter
rors of the Law, but was found too drunk to
be susceptible Of either legal correction or
moral reform, and so was consigned to the
Lookup to be sobered of The next morn
ing he was brought out and made 10 con-
front his cara spouse in the presence OF his
Honor Justice Mcbride He was a meek,
timid, and ford looking specimen Of that
and Sausages that flourish over the Rhine,
while his injured wife was a large, stout
and pug-nosed sample of the pugnaeions
daughters Of the Emerald Isle. No Sooner
was the case opened, than she began 10 an
ticipate TIE slow approach nj jnetice by let
ting fall shower Of hard names, abusive
epithets, AMI rri r,iRinati"n upon the pri'
oner, who was To answer E.r assault and
battery.
Her tongue was finally restrained sufi-
ciently 10 allow the Justice 20 command her
10 stand up ami besSGrn " To tell the truth,
the.whole truth, aud nothing Int the truth;
and upon this she raised both hands and
commenced a series at pesticulatiors aud
CALCULATIONS, swearing in a manner after her
own sort; "shure, and that indade, will
swsre. your Honor, be all the Saints. and
Mary, the muther % the howly Jasa-, that
she dirthy blaggard struck - Hold OH,
said his Honor but before he could adnliu-,
ister the legal oath, she bad sworn at least
dozen profane ones, of her own Being
asked to state her case she spit forth Il VOL
ume OF wrongs. the substance of " ich VIC.
the goOd-for-nothibe spalpeen COON home
dthrunk, an he axed me for the sugar bowl
10 sweeten his whisky wild, and wouldn't
ht him have il, an he thried to get il from
me, and clapped il under me an sat on it,
and wild this he tuck me be the bair an
pulled me over on the floor an tul the howl
and struck me on the head viii il All came
near murtherin me, the dirthy brute ov the
wourli'
The meek, biae-eySd, beer loyin. Teuton
oeing questioned il he had anything TO say
ior himself replied that she provoked him
20 quarrel; That he ''vas Elm peaceabIe man,
ant dat dees Gott-ferlosen Irish frau first
iriye him 10 trihk unf den fight nit him all
de time NIT her tam tongue; nut ven he
shust schlacht her on lie kept nit de sugar
bowl, she hit him 80 feel as twenty times nit
de stick broom all over by tam Upon this
defense, Katharine raised upon her feet, and
shaking her clenched fist over the quiet
head of the calm, ph!egmatic German, this
roused-up Milete poured forth such tor
rent of abuse, aud with sach voluhility Of
tongue, as seldom ever echoes through the
temples of justice. She said he had called
her a black Irish nagur {; not lacent when
he marriG her, and worse nor the diyil ever
married me | was Twin with man that
was a legislator, an I'm daycent woman,
en- good enough fur any man an est Nv
all, I'm good enough for Dutchman. -
Herr Ludor sweat and quailed under these
terrible words, ss Il he believed her good
enough Tor half dozen Dutcnmen-in n
free Irish fght-and as it was plain TO be
seen that be was not the aggressoT, and very
evidently the worst abused of the two, Ills
Honor was about to discharge him, when he
confessed to the charge OF assault and bat
terry, whereupon fine OF one dollar and
coats was imposed upon him, and lecture
administered TO the pair upon domestic hap
pines. katharine swore she would moi
stand Al any longer nohow.
His Justiceship then advised her To get a
divorce She declared she would mol hay,
divorce, ''divil bit ov il, hut she vowed
she would have clearance from the dirty
bisggard, that she would What the iras-
chile virago meant by the term of "clear
sncs }" Is not yet precisely understood per
haps she was speaking nautically, and wish.
Ell, after the manner OF a steamboat. to ge
clearance, and round out of port, fire.,
from further attachment, mortgage, lien
Tx, or duty. AS for the now sober Daniel
ne declared he would get "the stronges
kind OF divorce from lie tam woman vat h,
had never bad Won days peace init since tn,
LAY he took heI Ior hotter OF worse, an,
by tam he dinks she was always vorse.''-
Mr. Ludor then asked his wife for his none,
10 pay the fine; she told him '.divil bi
Ov it would he get, so now, but he, think
,ng size had left il at the house, seized hi