Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-05-28
ORR BIG SHOW.

that in our sketch last week We did injustice,
but we are convinced that we failed to do
justiee-either to the performers or our nu-
meruas readers who take such lively inter-
est our big show. We were not conversant
with the facts which have since been placed
at our disposal, or We might have furnished
much moro interesting report than that pub
Eshed by US, but we shalt now attempt to
make amends for the insipidity and iuaccu~
racy of our former sketch. :
BE it known then to all who are unfamiliar
with the fact, that what is now the county
seat of Jefferson county, was formerly quiet
and unpretending village away over On the
blue Potomac's placid waters; and if were
our purpose to write history, we might give
an entertaining chapter on its first settlement,
and its subsequent rise and fall (which latter
has been very great. This, however, would
be entirely foreign to the object in view, and
would require too great departure from the
text, to which we feel it cur duty to adhere.
Some time ago, and By some means or other,
an Naturalization we have already desig-
mated as the grand observation-disclosures the
mayor Of this peaceful town, not that he had
any qualifications for that honorable position
or any ether, but that radieasnr delights in
descending. upon the oil borer's principle, we
<Presulae-the greater the, depth the richer
the specimen. We'll, this descending pro.
pensity led them to such Unreasonable depths
that the fumes of birthstone drove them back,
aud on their return they succeeded in bring
ing up q subject suited to heir wants, and
him they installed mayor the county. seat
that he might alllict for 4 nile on earth those
with whom he can never have intercourse in
the unending hereafter. That these aflic-
tons might lie made the more intolerabIe,
Massachusetts-a locality little less objec-
tionab!e than the birthstone region itself
furnished him an aid>de,camp. In our whole
geological catalogue we have not the name or
habits of an animal that would not suffer By
comparison with this Massachusetts, of shoot
Suffice it to say thath fills under the radical
regime, the important positions Of constable,
town-sergeant, and generalissimo to the grand
giastacutis, and as MephistopheIes was to
Faust, 50 is Warner to our bully Joe. So
much by way Of introduction-now to the
facts, and thence to the grand finale
Professor RockwelI-a horse-tamer and
trainer by profession-visited the couaty-scat
about two weeks ago, and announced his pur.
pose to give an exhibition of his skill in
sweeteniDG the dispositions OF refractory
horses, which was accompanied with request
that the spectators confne themselves to the
sidewalks With this request there was a
very general compliance, but not with that
promptness required by the offciops town
sergeant who felt that it was necessary to in
troducc 4 sort Of side show to Prof. Rock
wells performances. Accordingly he seized
n gentleman in the rudcst manner and at
tempted to force him OF the street This
insult was at once resented, in n style that
soon cncircled one Of the officials peppers
with a-fringe Of dark purple hue, and caused
the claret u flow from his Proboscis.
y son Of the gentleman standing near by,
seeing his father in danger from this over
grown ruEian, Immediately went to his assist
ance, and catching Warner BY the throat, very
soon curtailed his supply of air to an extent
that caused his face to assume very nearly the
color Of the negro, for whom he has evinced
a great Partially. Some gentlemen now
stepped in and separated the beligcrents, and
nothing more was thought of the affair, until
Thursday, when the gentlemen first assaulted
and friend were summoned to appear before
his Honor, the Mayor, Joseph y Chapline,
to answer the charge of resisting an officer in
the discharge Of his duties, and for an assault
and battery Of the person of the aGorcmcu-
toned Charles Warner.
In this trial, which was brought in the
name of West Virginia, Warner who was the
principal witness for the State, was by his
Honor, bully Joe, permitted at once to act the
part Of prosecuting attorney, witness, and
officer summonjng witnesses for the prosecu>
ton, &c. His Honor would frequently ask.
" Have yOu any more witnesses, Mr.. Warner?
Mr.. Warner, 90 you wish to ask any more
questions of the witness, &c ?" After hear
ing the evidence, the mayor so.caEed, in his
peculiarly Pompous style informed the friend
Of the gentleman assaulted that he must mend
his ways for the future, but as there was no
evidence against him, he would discharge him
for the present; and announced further, that
the gentleman himself, whom Warner had
rudely assaulted, would be required to give
bail in the sum of 5000 for his appearance at
the next term of the Circuit Court for JcfTer
son county, to answer any indictment that may
found against him. This decision was pro-
tested against by the gentleman in question,
who justly thought it very hard that he,