Richland beacon., 1873-08-30
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HuyrIyG FOR NEws.-Our readers expect
us 10 give them the news whether We have
any to give them or not. They pay us for it
and have a right &c expect it. Therefore
when we 90 ont TO hunt up local items there
! is no use of our returning 10 report that we
cant find any. If we do, they will simply
throw the paper aside, with dgnified air
and knowing look, remarking to some by
s,ander that we chad better quit the business
and sell on, to somebody who can run the
shebang." In this verdict will be found
about all the consolation that an editor re-
ceives when he can't find any news Cor his
readers. So we are always on the look out
for something to put in the BEACON, knowing
that our readers will not excuse us, whether
that something ever happened or not Parish
Court sat in Judgment on the conduct Of our
people last week, and found all behaving
themse so well as 10 leave us withou,
any news of interest from that garter. One
day had been fixed for the trial of a divorce
suit, and we concluded that something might
be learned by being present on that day
We had stood about the hymeneal altar often
times and seen men and women fastened TO-
ge,her in divers ways, but had never seen
the legal process in operation by which they
are torn asunder. Hence, when it was stated
tina, nuptial knot was TO be united by the
Hon'l. Judge of the Parish Court, we repaired
TO the judicial mansion and took our seat in
side the bar, feeling as big as the Judge him.
self, because we were about TO get some news
for the BEACON Something rich, rare and
racy: Something that would tickle our read
bic, felt funny-just in the humor to act Secre-
| tary Of that Tribunal and tell the world what
was going on. The Court announced ready
for business, and we fixed ourself to witness
the catastrophe that was to make shipwreck
Of Cupids jail-house and set his victims free
But, MAY it please the Court" said an ex-
FOUNDER Of the law, who rose to explain, and
stated that he didn't have witnesses enough
TO pull his side loose without too great a
strain, and asked for further time that he
might reinforce. 1t seemed to "please the
Court so to do, and the trial was postponed
until the third day Of next term,-leaving us
still in the dark as TO how conjugal knot
can be legally unfastened. This is the kind
Of success we met with last week in our hunt
| for news. But, when baffled in our efforts
beset with Disappointment, and attended
with failure at every step, Hope, like beau
tful rainbow spanning the sky,of Promise,
throws the shadow of its golden wings across
our pathway just ahead and beckons us on
ward to 'try, try again" So we went back
next day to see if the Parish Cour, Court was
going to adjourn without giving us any news
for the BEACON. This time the case Of Rob-
ERIC Macs was called for preliminary trial.
RoDERIc had killed another darkey who was
or had been trying to kill him. ROBERTO had
a lawyer and the State ditto. Both lawyers
were well supplied with witnesses and con-
sumed the time in taking testimony on either
side until Tuesday morning last, when ROD.
ERIc's lawyer opened the argument He
soon proved the Justification of his Glen, in
killing his adversary, and threw cloud Of
doubt over all opposing testimony that render
ed comparatively worthless when placed be-
side the correct unwavering, and HARMONIC
ing statements made by witnesses in favor Of
the accused. With words breathed in tones
of eloquence, he swept all guilt from around
RoDERICs brow, who smole smile of inno-
cence as the lawyer took his seat. Where.
upon the States attorney took the floor, and
gathering up the 'cloud OF doubt that had
been heaped upon his own witnesses, threw
it back upon the opposite testimony, showing
how RoDERIcs last and best witness, the
partner of his joys and sorrows, had given in
her evidence with her head hung down SINH
lar to a certain animal Of the canine species
rendered famous from midnight raid upon
some shepherds flock. These lawyers got
things terribly mixed and made Us feel glad
that we were not Judge for fear We might
hang somebody accidentally. They may be
great men, but how their minds can ever get
back into the asame channel in which it is
said 'the minds of great men run together is
problem that we are unable to solve. We
couldn't tell awhether the snake tha, made the
track was going on or coming back" The
Judge sen, RoDERIC to Jail to board until the
fall term Of the District Court, and we left the
Court House convinced that it was a poor
place to visit in search of news during the
present dull term.