Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1871-04-26
OUR COUNTY COURT ABROAD.

That formidable body of sovereigns,
known TO the good people of our commune
ty as our "Worshipful County Court, 4"
transcribe upon the records all of their de-
liberations that they deem of interest to
the people. But there are sometimes pro-
ceedings which, though not of sufficient
Importance to record, are still of interest
when properly described. We find the
following humorous passage, concerning
the aforesaid court and the proceedings of
one of our respected worshipful magis-
trates, " in a recent letter of the accomplish
ed Knoxville correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette "MyrOn," which we are sure
will be generally appreciated. In writing
of show day and the court, Myron says:
His Worship Judge Jones was on the bench,
but his thoughts were evidently not on legal
matters. His Worship was evidently fdgcty
Finally he remarked to the assembled Justices
that, while he did not propose to exactly initiate
the judge out West, who adjourned his court to
see the elephant swim the river yet he should
like to know whether itwere the pleasure of the
court to adjourn whenever this here cavalcado"
should come along. One antediluvan magis-
tratc, who evidently had no instrumental music
III his soul, proposed that if any justice absented
himself from the afternoon session for the pur-
pose of attending the circus, he should forfeit
his pay for the day, a proposal calculated to
strike mt the root of all intellectual progress.
Presently a hustle was heard out of doors, and
Jones hastily put motion to adjourn had q
strong negative vote, but not to be humbuggcd
by delay, did not wait to count, but decided
court adjourned, and hurried to the Court
House door with his grave colleagues in time
to see the band wagon go by, with the usual
crowd of vocifcrating small boys Ethiopian and
Caucasian. ... ..f
Nor did the performance itself fail TO elicit
some things not down in the bills, for one of our
yigilant Deputy Sheriff. who was going in on
free ticket. stopped long enough to gobble
couple of the satellites of the establishments an
unsophisticatcd Yankee from Massachusetts,,
and a verdant Buckeye, who had got too far
from his mother, in Cincinnati, who speedily
found themselves before Justice
of the Peace on the charge of
violating the laws of the State against gaming
The Down Easter rose to explain" He
didn't sell chances in his lottery oh, no. He
first sold man some article out of one case
and then care him, purely as a 9rdtuity, a
ticket emitting him to draw in the other
show case. The Justice listened very patient.
ly to his explanation and, when it was made
thought it precuded the necessity of examining
any witnesses. The Porkopolite, who had been
selling prize packages, discouraged at the bad
luck of his associate, attempted but little ex-
PLANTATION. Old Squire Joroulmon, with faith
erly blandness considering their ignorance of
the laws Of the State, and perhaps also thinking
that folks did mt know any better where they
were raised, assessed the lowest fine known to
the law, which, together with the costs, they
disburscd and departed wiser if not sadder
men