The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-06-04
THE MAN WITH A NOSE.

better illustrated than by asserting 'i'O
tbaro EXISTS q possible relation between
tho raising Of Lazarus from the dead
and the nursery rhyme whlch runs
something like
Little Joe Horner
Sat in q corner
Sucking his thumb
II all occurred in o lawsuit, very
small one in appearance, but great
enough to show once more how uncer-
tain is the law, and, above all, the coi
rectness Of Nosey's proposition.
A few days ago Mr.. Chas. L Howard.
President Of the Louisiana State Lou
terv Company, brought suit IN the ou
nerior District Court against Durant GA
Ponte. ESQ. on d promissory note lof
$3.50 and interest. This was answered
nv q general denial and the plea that
the Louisiana Lottery Company. having
no banking privileges, was not empoW-
cred to discount notes; and further,
that defendant had a much larger
claim against the plaintiff, then pending
or about to be entered in the United
States Circuit Court. With rapidity
that would be highly commendable IL
manifested generally, the case was fixed
and decided within ten days. ana de-
fendant was squelched, in the legal par
lance of the deputy clerks OF the Oourt' -
house Pending the proceeding, JOS
Hornor, Esq, representing the Plain nfERIOo
suit being SO insignificant the defnostoffiee
ant would be willing to abide by the i-weekis
cision Of Lynch's court, entered a,ar
mittiture of fifty dollars of the face eHEttP55p D
the note and the interest, thereby shay
ing the amount down to an unappeal-
Mr.
defendants attorney, whose nose
is as proverbial as our own,
began to think that that end OF himself
was either becoming less sensitive or
was 'drove in In vain did he search
the quickest recesses of his subtle brain
TO discover some plan by which he could
increase those five hundred doliare one
dollar more in order to enable him to
take an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Not even the financial ingenuity OF Eu-
gene Levy, the broker, could assist MN
in his legal difficulty. But 10! that
nose. sirs. that nose, the ferret of his
phiz, suddenly polied itselfin into the dusty
pigeon holes of the clerks Office OF the
Superior Court and, behold! there was
the Judges signature fixed in indelble
hirroglyphics to the Judgment, which,
+ in plain and uumistakable words, de-
! creed five hundred dollars and interest
/ in favor Of the plaintiff just the problem
! that Levy himself had been unable to
/ solve.
The clerk OF the court it seems. al,
though he had carefully eliminated
/ the RENTED fifty dollars, had forgotten
! to leave out the interest. And thus was
! Lazarus raised from the dead and little
Joe Hornor sat in corner, whilst De
metrius, the silversmith, raised an up
! roar.
Nosev finding such a formidable rival
| in a member of the legal fraternity, de-
termined at once to emulate him In MS
own field. He bethought himself OF
several plans, but only succeeded in
conceiving the dastardly project OF in
fringng on somebody's patent by con
verting his nose into pump handle.
After further and more mature reflec-
ton the project was abandoned, and
Nosey walked into the C9stomhouse.
a strong odor OF fGuayava jelly. the same
which probably prompted Dom Pedro to =.
ask one of the officials, on the occasion
Of His Majesty's visit to the granite
building, to show him 'some OF zem
Guayava CIGARS Certainly this odor
had some CONNECTION with law, but not
civil law, and the latter was what Nosey
was in search of. Presently, however.
he chanced TO run against an odd look
ing, little old man, whom he recognized
rs Tom Scandal with bag on his
shoulder and q hooked stick in his hand.
ment along the sombre corridors
of the editice. Nosey was prompt
ed to ask him what he was
doing. Tom replied, with the
utmost serenity, that it was none Of his
business, but recognizing Nosey he told
him that his occupation consisted in
picking up court decisions ia antieipa-
ton of their being rendered and by
hawking them about the streets he
made a fair living. Business had been
dull during the past week, but he
thought he had just picked up scrap
that might prove profitable. 1t was
part of u decision in the injunction
phase of the suit against the Lottery
Company, in which plaintiff was put out
of court because he had had the audacity
to prove that the stock on which he was
suing was his own, although it stood in
another mans name, and the man in
whose name the stock was entered in
the Lottery Company's books had had
the candor to swear that such was the
case. Nosey thanked Tom for the in
formation and withdrew, re marking that
he was not buying to-day.
few minutes later Nosey had en-
tered the Charity Hospital unseen, and
for few moments looked around for
Matt Hogan among the ordinary NOR
tails. Matt had, however, been removed
to "pay' ward, where he now lies
with excellent prospects OF recovering,
for the period within which peritonitis
may still be expected to declare itself
| has nearly. # not entirely passed. With
apparent nonchalance he scorns the
charge of being an accessory TO the
murder Of the unfortunate Laresche,
and yet when the indictment Of the
Grand Jury was communicated to him
Matt did not take it with his haDitual
GOODNESS. He acknowledges that he has
sometimes INDUCED in "nefarious
transactions, but he does not wish to be
classed with murderers.
No policeman is now In attendance