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

that IN our sAetch last week We ulu injustice,
but we are convinced that we failed to do
justiee-either to the performers or our nu-
meruns readers who take such lively inter
est our big show. We were not conversaut
with the facts which have since been placed
at our disposal, or we might have furnished
much more interesting report than that pub
fshed 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 " no are unfamiliar
with the fact, that what IS now the county
seat of Jefferson county, was formerly quiet
and unprctending village away over on the
blue POtomac's placid waters; and if it were
our purpose to write history, we might give
au 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 our duty to adhere.
Some time ago, and by some means or other,
an individual-whom we have already desig-
mated as the grand observation-disclosures the
any qualifications for that honorable position
or any other, but that radicalism delights in
descending, upon the oil bOrer's principle, we
-Prosurae-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.
and on their return they succeeded in bring
ing up subject suited to their wants, and
him they installed mayor Of the county seat !;
that he might aflict for while on earth those
with whom he can never have intercourse in
the unending hereafter. That these affiic-
tons might lie made the more intoierabIe,
Massachusetts, locality little less objec-
tionable than the birthstone region itself
furnished him an abide, 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 thathe Ellis under the radical
regime, the important positions Of constable,
town-sergeant, and generalissimo to the grand
giastacutis, and as Mephistopheles was to
Faust, SO is Warner to our bully Joe. So
much by way Of introduction-now 10 the
facts, and thence to the grand finale
Professor RockweIl-a horse-tamer and
trainer by profession-yisited the county seat
about two weeks ago, and announced his pur-
pose to give an exhibition of his skill in
sweeteninS the dispositions OF refractory
horses, which was accompanied with request
that the spectators conine themselves to the
sidewalks With this request there was
very general compliance, but not with that
promptness required by the oficious town
sergeant who felt that it was necessary to in
troducc 4 sort Of side show to Prof Rock
wells performances. Accordingly he seized
gentleman in the rudest manner and at,
tempted to force him of the street. This
insult was at once resented, in style that
soon cncircled one Of the officials peppers
with a,fringe Of dark purple hue, and caused
the claret t. flow from his Proboscis.
y son Of the gentleman standing near by,
seeing his father in danger from this over
grown ruGian, Immediately went to his assist
ance, and catching Warner by the throat, very
soon curtailed his supply of air to an extent
'
color of the negro, for whom he has evinccd
a great Partially. Some gentlemen now
stepped in and separated the belligcreuts, 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 aCoremcu-
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
othcer summonng 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 JefTer-
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,