Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-07-03

road, so that hereafter the water Will be
obliged to run down the middle, thus in
geniously, by the aid of nature, laying the
dust in the bed of the road. Mr. Blair
doubtless thought that as the capacious
orilice in his intellectual contenance was
intended to be filled by ''de hoe cake" so
this drain should be filled by dirt and
gravel hauled from above. After accomp-
fishing this mastery piece ofcivil engineer
ing and leaving a broken-d down cart as a
monument, to mark the scene of his
triumph, like the Arabs of the desert, ''he
silently folded his tent and stole away"
and we have lost scent of him.
Wife Whipping.
The warm gush of the Sabbath sun
light was made vocal with the piteous out
cries OF poor woman who was receiving,
at the hands of a brutal husband, casti-
cation which retributive justice ought to
administer to him with interest. This
occurred last Sunday in the creme de la
creme of the colored society of our town.
The liege lord and master is well
known politician, statesman and orator,
who for his valuable services in the polit-
zeal arena, has been elevated by the Coun-
ty Commissioners into an office, which
heretofore white man was thought
good enough to fill. The wife, who was
thus made the victim of cruelty, is well
known TO us and the whole community as
one of the most industrious, useful and
whether during 1.-The barbarous days of
slavery" she ever received at the hands
of her owners punishment of any sort
The outcries called some our citizens to
the spot, who speedily stopped the Sab
bath saturnalia. This interference was
resented by our Radical leader and office
holder, because he thought it an imperti-
ncnt intermeddling with his civil rights,
which was guaranteed him by "appropri-
ate legislation" We are glad to say for
common humanity's sake, that this is an
unusual thing in our quiet and peaceable
community, and will not be tolerated in
white or black. Such occurrences are al
ways very shocking to us, for we believe
that The who lays his hand ON woman in
aught save kindness, is one whom it were
gross flattery to term coward" We hope
not to be called on again to chronicle so
unciyil an exercise of civil rights. Our
English cousins have lately been much ex
ercised over the great brutality of the
lower classes as developed in the increased
frequency of similar cases. Much difficult
t. is found in Furnishing the lords Of ere
alton who think they have q right to
wallop their better halves whenever they
feel like ii, from the fact that the wives
obstinately refuse to testify against their
husbands An instance is related of a
wife who had her nose bitten off by her
husband. When called into the witness
box she testified she had bitten it off
herself" and of course the husband escap-
ed. These fellows ought to be tried be-
fore magistrate like Baltimore city once
had in the person of Judge Stump. When
he presided in the Criminal Court there
q man was put at the bar charged with
this same otfense-whipping his wife
His counsel professed to be ready for trial,
but the States witness-the wife-was not
present. The States Attorney asked for a
postponement, which the counsel on the
other side resisted; and after some squab-
bling the matter was left to the Court to
decide. That venerable functlonary sat
back and was seen to be muttering some
thing which was unintelligible to every
body else. At last he leaned over towards
the Clerk and said aloud. in his peculiar
jerky manner. "Guilty-six months and
costs" The counsel for defense jumped
up and asked the Court whom he was try
ing. Prisoner at the bar, OF course, who
else can l try" The counsel very earnest
ly demonstrated and reminded the Court
that the State had produced not particle
OF testimony on which the Court could
convict his client. But the Court was not
to be moved by any such special pleading,
and replied-"Court don't want no testl-
mony; Court tries this man on view
Court looks at him and sees he is just one
them-sort- what whips his wife and
then tells her if she comes here to swear
'gainst him he'll beat her again. Court
finds him guilty and sends him to Jail for
six months and to pay costs; and Court
don't want to hear no more bout it,
Now if few of these wife whipping men
were tried ION view" and convicted, as
doubtless this Baltimore chap properly
was, our word tor it the business would
soon be broken up, and there would be no
occasion for adopting the suggestion OF
Col. Egerton Leigh, as proposed by him to
the English Parliament-thati in cases OF
this sort the cat-o'-nine- tails should be
used and the beater beat.
From Beantown Station.
CAPT. WELLS Il have thought that
perhaps you would like to know what is
going on at this place, Well, we had
quite an interesting law suit here on Mon
day week before Judge Wilkerson; the
case was against some parties for taking
and carrying off goat belonging to Geo.
F. Bealle. The Judge held the parties to
bail for their appearance at Court. So
suppose you will have chance to hear all
about it. To make the occasion more in
teresting, some of the sporting boys got
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