Shreveport daily news., 1861-07-11
Selected Expressly for tile Ne,os
LOVES LABOR LOST.

out Of a complaint made by Mr.
William Harding, of Leeson street
an amorous clerk, against Miss Susa,
Mowlds, OF Miltown, for having, witt
force Of arms, sought to obtain lille
gal possession of the heart, hand
and other etceteras, appertaining tc
this modern Adonis.
Miss Mowlds-a being whose fra.
gile frame, sparkling eyes and raven
tresses would have made a valuable
stock in trade for a sonnet-writer-
approached the bar in all the aban-
donment Of i'll requited love, and
casting IL look more in sorrow than
in anger upon her ungallant accuser
who stood knawing the end Of a pen
ny cane, awaited to hear his com
plant.
Mr.. Gabbett: Well, Mr.. Harding,
what charge have you got to make
against this young lady!
Mr.. Harding: | live with my Par
III l-eeson street, Sir, and whenever |
walked out, this lady used to follow
me like q shadow; she knocked at
P0w's door, and put me into such a
state of agitation that | became very
Mr.. Gabbett: Did the defendant
assault you!
Mr.. Harding: Dear me yes; she
seized my hand when 1 was walking
with Par. and nearly made me faint;
l II quite nervous from her conduct.
Here the creature applied bottle of
sal volatile to his nosc.)
Mr.. Gabhett: Have you no other
act OF violence to complain Of?
Nr. Harding: Many more. She
put her arm around my waist, and
threatened to carry me off.
Mr.. Gahbett: What defence have
YOU to make against this charge, Miss
VI owlds?
The weeping damsel waved her
land towards her counsel, Mr.. Dillon,
who gracefully famed the air with
lis pertumed ca,nbric, commenced
hus -
Your worship, am confident, has,
With the penetration that distinguish
IS your magesterial optics, already !
observed that my interesting client is |
female possessed, in a supcseninent
iegree, of that bewitching pulchri-
ude which adorns and sublimates
Ter ethereal sex. She, my client,
our worship, is young, beautiful and
'nsophistieated-the pride and glory
# that delightful suburban hamlet,
vhe,e, like I, fair but fragile blossom,
he sprung up from beneath the eye
f all indul gent papa, who had, in the
curse of a long life, reached to the
ltitude Of four feet six inches in his
hoes. This young and interesting
ady, my client, passed the calm
lorning Of her days in delightful Sc
entity, until, in an evil hour, the
iaintif came like a vampire, to sap
er vitals--
Mr.. Gabbett: As l am not here to
y a case of seduction, pray confne
orrseif to the charge Of assault.
AIR. Dillon: Well; your worship,
stand. thus: My young and inter
sting client was, in the cool and
almy hour Of twilight, ambulating
trough Leeson street-meditating, 5
0 doubt, upon the evanescence of $
er early dreams of felicity, and de- |
|oring the adumbrations which fate {
'st upon her path--when the corpo- i
al identity of the complainant pre- G
'nted itself to her weeping eyes I
, was in company with an individ- a
ii OF moro mature age, who, / am
structed to say, stands to the plain t.
# in that close degree of consan- S
Unity termed father. At first my v
'ung and Interesting client was Il
ute, through surprise; but, rapidly "
covering the use of her vocal pow n
s, she gently murmured forth her b
ver's name. And, what was the re- a
1t of this tender salutation? The II