The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-07

will take it rs i. insult, and send him
to jail
I look upon this case as 4. warnip
to all folks who gamble in law, to
hold q good hand and play 1t well.
High jestice and patriotism are win
min trumps.
After this had difficulty with /,
man by the name of Kohen, and i
thought I wouldent go to law, but
would arbytrate. I had bought Tom
Swillins wheat at dollar bushel If
he couldem do any better, and if he
could do any better he was to cum
back and giue me The preference. The
skamp went off and sold the wheat to
Kohen for dollar and five cents,
and Koken knowd all about his con-
trackt with me. Me and him like to
have fit, and perhaps would if I
hadn't been puny; but we finally left
it all to Josh Billings to arbytrate
Old Josh deliberated on the thing for
three days and nights. and finally
brot in award that Kohen should
have the wheat, and 1 should haze The
preference. l haint submitted no
more cases to arbitration since, and
my advice to all peepul is TO arbytrate
nuthln X your case is honest, for
there amt no judge there to keep one
man from trikin the other. An
honest man don't stand no chance no.
where exseppin in court house with
good lawyer to back him. The
motto of this case is, never to arby-
trate nuthin but bad case, and take
q good lawyers advice and pay him
for it before you do that.
But [ got Fretman-I dident, but
my lawyer Marks did. Fretman was
a nutmeg schoolteacher who had gone
round my naborhood with his skool
artikles, and put down for Troup
and Calhoun to go, and intended to
send seven or eight more if he provd
himself right. [ soon found that the
little nullifier wasent belevin in any
thing, and on inquiry I found that
Nutmeg was givin powerful long re-
cesses, and was employin his time
chiefly in carryin on with tolerabul
sizd female gal that was goin to him.
Troup sed he heard the gal squeel
herself one day, and he knowd Fret
man was squeezin of her. don't
mind our boys squeezin of the Yam
kee gals, but I'll be blamed if the
Yankees shall be u squeezin ourn.
So I got mad and took the children
away. At the end of the term Fret
man sued me for eighteen dollars,
and hired cheap lawyer to collekt
it. Before this time I had Termed
some sense about a lawyer, so hired
a good one, and spred my pocket
book down before him, and told him
to take what would satisfy him. And
he TUX. Old Phil Davis was the jes-
tice: Marks made the openin speech
to the effek that every professional
man ought to be able to illustrate his
trade, and he therefore proposed to
put Mr.. Fretman on the stand and
smell him. The motion was fout
hard, but it agreed with old Phirs
notions of ''high jestice," and says
he, "Mr. Fretman you will have to
syell sur" Marks then swore him,
that he would give true evidence in
this case, and that he would spell
every word in Danl Webster's spell
ing book correkly to the hest of his
knowledge and belief so help him,
&c. saw then that he wer tremblin
all over like n cold wet dog. Says
Mark, "Mr. Fretman, spell 'stisik;;"
we'll he spelt it, putin in phi and til
and :, .gz< and sa, and I don't know
what all, and thought he was gone
up the first pop, but Marks said it
was right. He then spelt him right
strait along Oh all sorts of big words,
and little words, and long words, and
short words, and afterwords and he
knowd EN- all, till finely Marks ses,
Now sur, spell Ompompwauszh.
fretman drawd q long breth and sed
1t wasent in the book. Marks proved
it was by an old preacher who was
setting by and old Phil spoke up with
power, ses, ''Mr. Fretman you must
spell it, sur" Fretman was sweatin
like run down filly. He TUX one
pass at it and miSsd.
'You can come down. sur" saws
Marks, you've lost your case" And.
shore enuf, old Phil give a verdick
against him like darn.
Marks was a whale in his way. At
the same court, he was about to no
suit doktor because he dident have
his diplomy, and the doktor beg'd the
court for time to go home alter it,
tie rode seven miles and back as hard
as he could lick it, and when he
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