Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-10-12

On a Bash'-Tho reJoutablc Hon
ora Burden, who has before figured
largely with the police, was arraigned
again on Thursday a. NJ, before Justice
! Mcclure, on q charge of smashing in
! the window Of Mr.. kcnniston the
night before, near her own house on
/ Water street. Mistress Honora WAS her
own lawyer, and had evidently seen
whisky in her day. Calling a witness,
she asked him to testify what she had
said to him in his cigar shop after the
alleged row. lou told me,n said he,
"that you was on bust" "Yes, I"
she responded, to the Court, " l ,"as on
bust" And you would have thought
so, dear readers, had you seen the fair
dame, (as We did-and big crowd did,
that gathered to the noisy trial.
Honora, she opened her pleading in
the case and the way she spattcrcd the
frothy eloquencc was caution to law.
ycrs. With loud, squcalng voice,
with fiery countenaEce and distended
| nostrils, together with violent gesticu-
lation, she poured forth her yolley of
, scathing anathemas, until all the men
and boys for whole square came rush
ing to sec who was crazy or mad. With
particular vim did she dilate on the re-
suits of TIE war, and demand to know
whether these sojers had fought, bled
and died in vain" And with terrific
gtisto, she announced that she should
have the large hall presently, and hold
forth to yet greater crowds. Her breath
gave out at last, and-shc WAS bound
over for trial in the sum OF $780, At
latest accounts she was Illuminating
whether to give her shanty for bail, or
to visit Waterloo in care of the Sheriff
DUcks and Geese. -Immotliatcly after
the Waterloo Mass Meeting of the Cops
on the 2Sth, the Dubuque Herald re-
porter gave his bogus hi-fa-Iu-tin ac-
count of that sham AFFAIR, in which he
said:
IT vas noticed that tho radicals m. ious to
hear tut fearing to get near were gathered in
nervous knots III the outer circle OF the large
auftlcnc". Melendy and Henderson and 9TH
ers, balanced themselves ON one foot like
geese Ia n SLOvSt OrH. and no doubt like the
same classic Bird Missed their disapproyal.
In return for this sally, we last week,
lin describing the "large audience"
referred to, aud mentioning the fact
that the platforms cn that august occa-
sioa was occupied by but one man (the
Ystp tor
fully said: 'The only crowd backing
up the speaker on the platform, was
lame duck Of aiaNycr with two gap
ing goslings." The copperhead talk |
about geese made US think Of
'ducks,' and Of that dead duck" i'm.
mostalized by Andy. We did not wis.,,
TO be SO hard as that upon the Waterloo |
and so instead OF ''dead |
duck" we made him only n sIamc
duck, lame in principles, and pros
poets, metapllorically lame. We have
since heard that the said duck claims
to be literally lame, in the feet, and /
complains of US as mockipg ut his in
tirnities. We protest, that we had no /
such intention, that we only meant to
designate loosely the parsonage pre-
siding over opposite tie ''geese on one
FOOT" and we beg pardon, If it looked
like cruel or personal reflection. 1t
looks to us as though the goose joke
and the duck joke might pass together;
and we geese will agree not to squawk,
if only you ducks whether dead or on.
~ lainc1 will consent not to quaek.