The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-10-19
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lu iIf .emruul district 90 NJ mona. 81
iho Minnesota side ofibe Mississippi live,
lives among several people iolly good
fellow ola Justice 81 Tho peace whose
idea Of matters s very much Ike the
waters of a deep river once started It :,
bard Is thru them One fair day, ailct
the loby y law dispcusary had been
swept after chairs had been set 10 a row
again at tbe side oi The office, aud ,undry
whipped guilds 81 tobacco aud muiilaied
cigar stump. Lad been Kicked under the
stove. there was a vigorous rap al The
door
Come III. said The justice, as he settled
IN legal look 50 bodtting TO man Of law
A handsome, black eyed spanish look
ing woman entered It's clear case of q
senoyta Of the New Mexican grand. She
bad on short woolen dress, wooden soled
shoes, spoited red checks, black hair, aud
eyes that snapped Ike the lock offs shot
gun In Spanish accent, and in the
worst possible English, she said.
You make itsfjia apniy-You law
man?
Yes madam, be seated
Want paper Want paper to take man
just then stout French halfbrced en-
tered the room. Hc was unable TO speak
hall dozen words, and looked very
bashful. The Judge saw at once that
there was some marriage TO come and said
TO the woman, who stood with compress
cd lips watching the justice and the door.
Want paper to take this man?
Yes want paper. Me teach him, Nice
woman thought the Justice. lie no good
man; me no take him SO quick as | can.
All right my dovies said the justice, as
he turned TO the man and said:
You know this woman; can you take
her,
The man shook his head and muttered
unitelligible words.
All! see. Can't talk English. Well
never mind
He ran into the street and invited
"a few friends mp stairs, and returning
with them said to the woman:
You want to take this man for better or
worse?
Yes me want to take him, me pay
All right.
Then turning TO The man, who stood
trembling
Nou take this woman for better or for
worse, and promise TO keep her, etc.
Umph, and several mods of the head.
Then in the name of the law and by vir-
tue of the authority in me vested, pro-
nounce you man and wife. And he step
ped forward before the woman could say
a word and kissed her lips.
Slap came her hand in his face, and She
clutched his hair. The new husband
jumped in to take the woman away and
to protect her, us the man supposed,
when in self preservation the Justice
gave him rap on the nose.
The woman pitched into the new
husband who in turn pitched into her,
and for about five minutes there was a
display decidedly astonishing.
At last the parties were separated,
when he man and woman took another
turn at each other, the blood and hair
flying in all directions. Down came the
stove, over went the table, clattcr went
the chairs, and into the street went the
justice, with black eye and the bosom
of his shirt looking like warranty deed
covered with red seals.
a crowd rushed up stairs and found
the man and woman lying on the floor,
hugging each other like young bruins,
the woman on top, pummeling her newly
made husband with hearty will.
The newly married couple were sep
arated, when through the aid Of two in
terpretcrs it was discovered that the
parties occupied adjoining shanties in the
lower part of the town had got into dis
pute about some stove-pipe, which was
claimed by both, and from words they
came to blows. Each party had fastened
to the Justices Office in the morning for a
warrant for the other, with the results as
stated above.
The last news from there was that the
parties had gone in search of another jus-
tiee TO unmarry them, while the genial
cause Of their squabble was ''setting up
the boys and bathing his bunged eye in
camphor and whiskey. For an actual
fact, it is the richest within our knowl.
edge.