Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-03-12

imous for the defendant, an said he'd
be drot eff he didn't eat his boots afore
he'd cave.
eve tried to argy the case with
him insisted that it was a clear case
of fraud; and called attention to the
strong pints in the Jedge's charge"
"But Bile he'd his own views. He
said Bill'd only said the hoss he'd a
good eye, which couldn't be oonstrooed
as meanin' two good eyes; while in
regards to the tail, nothin'd been said
nary way; and where there was no
warrantee, a mans eyes was his mar
ket. He said thas was good hoss law,
and he knowed il, and didn't care a
continental what the Jedge said"
$50 We lowered over it till we was
tired, but it was no use; Bic still
hung out"
"When the Court let out, the Jedge
ordered us to be took to supper, and
then to be locked up till the next
mornin'."
81 don't want to dwell onto the
miseries o that night We worried
through somehow till the Court took
up next mornin' when the Jedge
he'd us brung out, lookin' al the
world like so many pennytent TOM
cats after nights mutual misunder-
standin'."
"Hev you agreed on verdict, gen
tlemen ?" says he.
"No, we hevn't," says the foreman,
sulkin' up.
"There's no hurry" says the Jedge
snilin'; "the term lasts for Il couple
of weeks yet. The Sheriff'll take you
to your breakfast now, and then you
may resoom your deliberations"
"Arter breakfast, we felt a little
perter, an some ON us picked up heart |
to take another set at Bile; but he
was headstronger than ever and said
we ought to be ashamed on ourselves,
so we ought, to take advantage of
numbers to bully an honest mans
conscience"
"While we was at breakfast, the
foreman had managed to get hold Of
the county paper, which had jest come
out that mornin,' and to while away
the time, he began to read it."
"Hollo!" he says, "what's this"
"What's WHAT" says we.
"Listen here" says he. proceedin'
to read:
STARTLING RUMoR.-The towns
greatly excited this morning by the
rumored elopement of Mrs. b., the
wife of a prominent citizen. She
took advantage, it is said, of her hus-
bands absence on,public duty to carry
out her plan. A marked feature in
the affair is that the lady has scarcely
been married a month"
whats that" scrceches Bic Bope
in al outburst of terror.
"The foreman read it over again,
slow and solemn.
"Now Bile was as jealous rs that
ere dark Completed chap in the play.
Besides, there want no other Mrs. b.
in the place lately married, and then
there was the circumstances of the
husbands absence on public dooty.-
Bic had no doubt that the Mrs b.
alluded to was his wife"
LET me out" he yelled, runnin'
full butt at the door.
Not till you have agreed on ver-
dict" says the bailifi, through the
key-hole.
"I-I'll agree to anything" splut-
ters Bic. For goodness sake, hurry {
genlemen-a thousand dollars DANA
ges, if YOU like" :
eve said we thought that was ,
rather high"
Anything, so its done quick" he
gasped, i'll agny.
1--WE could hardly keep HIM from
iuml il out of the winder, while some ;
Of us pretended to dicker about the t
amount we should bring in, jest to {
torment him."
"At last everything was fixed, and
we went into Court, give 10 our YER {
dict, and was dooly discharged" h
"Bije was rushin' out on the double /
ouick with murder i'm his eve. when :
the foreman stopped him" t
II think you are laboring under a I
Mr.. Bope," said he, that
there piece | read you see, was took
from a California paper, and must be
at least month Old" L
"Bije went off lookin' cheap an
sheepish. He sent in an excoose next
day, and got off for the balanC c of the
term, and precious glad we all was to
get rid of him"