Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-26

POLICE CoURT-The appearance of a
goodly number of galoots at the diurnal
levee of his HonoI the Mayor, gave us the
assurance,on Saturday, that though all other
sources of items fail, these will not go back
on us. What accommodating critters they
are: Willingly they suffer nights incar-
ceration in the calaboose, willingly endure
the next days headache, willingly hear
the Mayor announce an amount of fine
they kcow they cannot pay, merely to fur
nish us with an item. We are obliged to
them. We acknowledge our indebtedness
to them, and would advise them to give
others chance and not make their ap-
pearance quite so often. Some of them
completely monopolize the galoot business
James Quinn is young man from the
country, and every time he comes to the
city he gets his keg full and pays the May
or visit. Quinn was formerly a soldier in
the United States army, was prisoner at
Andersonville, made his escape thence,
came home, served his enlistment and was
discharged. Not dollar of pay or for COM
mutation of rations has he received for the
time he was prisoner, now some three
years since-and we suppose his repeated
failure to collect his money from the Gov
ernment makes him feel melancholy, and
melancholy, first class melancholy, can
only be drowned in benzine. His has WIS.,
ions of the past when tight. He sees again
the glorious .banner of the free" waving
over the line of battle, hears the artillery's
roar as it belches forth smoke and death;
again hears the command to charge;
again examines his haveasack, which in
the morning contained, in military fiction,
five days. rations, and finds one hardtsck !;
again sees the plain covered with the dead
and dying
"0n Fame's eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And memorv guards with solemn round
The bivoLac of the dead" 7t
All these memories come to James after
he has histed sufficiently. But memory
has nothing to do with city ordinances.
The ordinances say that If man be on the
streets drunk he shall be punished there
for, consequently James was fined S5 and
camp at the chateau.
Neil Down was drunk. Neil Down was
very drunk. And as Neil Down did not
kneel down on the sidewalk for devotional
purposes, but rather that he might go to
sleep, lacking the wherewithal to pay for a
bed. AS he came before the Mayor, lie
said:
have no money, so you see,
Old friends have all forsaken me.
own 1t to my SORROW
IL had money, and they should be
All reduced to poverty,
What sweet revenge 'twould be for me
To loan them some to- morrow.
| Now Pm poor. they're rich and gay,
Yet if they were all to say 1s
w i'll you change with me to- day
sssa No. not until to morrow. .-..-r
The Mayor assured Neil that it was
pretty evident that he was down, but that
this is a sad, wicked world, and although
all men were brothers, they had a nasty
habit of turning their backs on their poor
kin. He was fined $5 and costs, and in de-
! fault went over.
Emmett Crystal is lover of the beautiful
In art, and being a stranger here he went
into the State House Square to examine
the beauties of the Capitol. As he gazed
he admired, admiration brought thought
thought induced sleep, and when the off
Ger went through it was clear as chrysta
Crystal was drunk. He lay with his heels
on the grass and his head in the gutter, 6
transposition of ends no one but drunken
man would think of. He was fined $5 and
costs, which he paid.
John Griffin had, on Friday enlisted il
the army. Johnny had gone for soldier
tn celebrate tho event John histed in cOn
siderable benzine, for the first time in hi
life, he said, sand, oh, Mr.. Mayor" was hi
prayer, s'if you let me off this time II
swear never to get drunk again, tor 1 mus
do something to rid myself of this terrible
headache" The Mayor fined John $5 ant
costs, and, as he had no money, DR.. Wake
man received him, headache and all.
John Adams, not the old John Adams
second President of the United States, he'
dead, but John Adams ofthe United State
Army, was fearfully drunk on Frida!
! night. Campaigning had made him dis
gusted with beds and bedsteads, so findini
: soft plank near the United States Hotel
he went to rest right there
"Wrapping the mantle of his couch about him
Like one who lays him down to pleasant dreams.
He was captured by one of the guardian
of the night, and when the Mayor finet
him So and costs, he said he didn't care
it was $4,000. He belonged to the Unite
States and he'd just as leave put in his tim
in the chateau as in the field. -
D The COUNTY FAIR-BAsE BALL ToURNA
j MENT.-The Board of Managers of tn