Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-07
"IN THE TOLLS"
ooh, Woman Thy Name is Frailty."
Tuesdays Proceedings in the Jus.
tice Court.

| hio SOuIt llOuSO 10 nOt . P0iuNC
smoking car, Jacob Fryschuister,"
said His Honor, as that good natur-
ed disciple of limburger and lager,
put in an appearance with three
inches OF clay pipe between his teeth
and a volume of tobacco smoke
rolling over his bullet head.
..Yah" said Jacob, ~ dond vas
nefer in dot balace cars, Shudge.
Mine dickets avays reats dot 1 don't
must got in dot front cars, off go:
puts oud nit dem tam prakemans.
You know how you vas mysaluf,
amt it,
"Silence!" whispered the Court,
sand throw away that pipe or you
will go up for contempt"
Jacob subsidized, and the Court
pulled out an old sleeping car ticket
labelled 81. Porter Gould, lower
berth No. q" proudly showed 1t to
the attorney for the prosecution, and
asked Constable Noble If that tall
female was the prisoner.
"Yes, your Honor, / am the lady
who is Improperly detained to an
swer trumpet up charge of break
ing the peace"
"1hat will do, now-that will do!
The Court will find out what is the
matter with you when 'the evidence
is all in" said the Judge, as he
licked fly off his left ear, and squirt
cd half pint of tobacco juice into
the Constable's hat II suppose you
will say that you didn't get up on the
hill and holler, and make the people
ali over town think that n wagon
load of tom cats were passing
through to the State Fair; an you
didn't kick tie Constable in the nose
and throw ton OF rock at the night
waIchm,.n when told them to go
up and ask you to behave. " o, you
didn't!' remarked his Honor sar-
casticaily.
"No!I didn't!' snapped out the
prisoner, as she gazed at Noble and
looked wishiully at the stone spit
tO0D.
81 hate 10 dispute with lady;'
said the Court, ''for George Wash
ington's mother was "A lady; but she
never made fog norm of her mouth
and cut up the way you did last
night. Another thing is, madam,
that / hain't got no time to talk with
you this afternoon. There's agoing
to be another case pretty soon If that
man don't take off his hat and quit
making kindling wood of the
benches. Somebody has said 'brev-
ity is the soul of wit and I'm agolng
to be very brief with you to day.
You will consider, madam, that you
have loaned the Lyon County school
fund twenty eight dollars and fifty
cents. If you we're man, l should
fine you about as much as you
would have to pay for a fare to the
Centennial; but "a man can't make
as much noise as you can, and they
don't stand around and make faces
at the Court and act as if they would
like to poison him with piece OF
bar soap" said the Court as it won
dered whether it was going to be
cash or commitment.
IL haven't got any money" said
the woman, "and l don't think you
have done the square thing, Judge.
1Me7, can get drunk aud fight and
holler around town for two months
OH stretch and You don't care; but
Just lei woman make little fuss,
xnd you git your old back up i'll a
mint. -
"Silence! madam! you amt going
to talk 20 me in that way more than
six weeks at a time. l am nothing
but poor Justice of the Peace, but l
have my rights, madam--I have my
rigbts''-said the Court, getting a
little hufiy and pulling off its specs.
"Rights-fidde sticks! l should
say you lUas "a 'poor Justice of the
Peace" retorted the lady, quoting
the Court. "You old"
'NttP lt-StpP Soiu NfVuies
or III plaster another fine on you that
yon can't pay in sixteen thousand
years. respect woman-l even lore
woman, but if you talk that way to
me, you will find nothing but a
howllng wilderness in my heart.
Be a good girl, now, and hand over
that SO so or under the statutes Of
Nevada, l will have to commit you
to JAIL" and the Court turned its
fiipper dipper side up for the coin.
she didn't spit in II, as we thought
she would, but put up the collateral
and departed, and it won't be any too
healthy for the Court il she ever
meets him near pile of loose bowl
ders. This ended the session, and the
boys went out behind the Court
House and commenced putting up
two or three "coid decks" to capture
their share of the fine.