The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-07-27
A Lively Law Suit.

An amusing scene occurred IN the trial
OF the case Of Ellie Tharpv VS. Joel Haines
before his honor Esq Dunlevy, Of Bath
township, on last Monday. t. E Gun
ningham was present on behalf Of Joel
Haines and Jasper N. Gutridge on behalf
of the other party. The trial began in
the house, but il was so intolerably hot
that they adjourned to the front yard
near the apiary. Having closed the tes-
timony, Jasper arose. addressed the
Court, and as he warmed in the argu-
ment, began to gesticulate with great
freedom, his long lean arms cleaving the
air, when zip, bee took him in the rear
just below the suspender buttons, and
then another and another, until to main
tain the floor" under such embarrassing
circumstances was not only unpleasant
but positively painful and nnindurable
and he incontinently fed, and disap-
peared below the hill Shortly, however,
he came near enough to inform the Court
that he would waive the further opening
of the case and permit Bro. Cunningham
to follow. "Doan," little dreaming of
the cause of the abrupt conclusion of
Jasper's argument, addressed the Court
with great composure, and proceeded
with an elaborate argument. Having oc-
casion to quote from a venerable volume
of the law, and to fasten the point on the
mind of the Court with becoming en-
phasis, he proceeded to belabor the vol
ume with due spirit and vehemence
He was soon interrupted by bee taking
him under the left ear, another on the
back of the neck, and then they came
thick and fast and swarmed around him
This was too much for-poor human ma
ture, and he fed up the hill and was
soon lost to sight though to memory
dear. The bees were not so easily to be
baffied, they followed his fleeting form as
the sweat rolled off in pearly drops ito
lard the lean earth" Some of the bees
attacked the team and it ran away,
breaking things generally.
That case was submitted without fur
ther argument. Moral: Never try a
lawsuit in the garden in bee time. If
you do make your arguments with great
calmness, using few or no jestures-
fallen County Democrat
In its own sneaking way the Gazette
comments on some remarks the Times
had the honor to make. yesterday, in re-
spect to recent Cabinet changes. Wesaid
nothing derogatory to the personal char
acter Of Mr.. Jewell. The jesuitical par
aphrasing of the Gazette is not going to
So far as we had opportunities of judg-
ing Mr.. Jewell made good Postmaster
General. But he was guilty of a very
gross violation of propriety and of official
courtesy, when he fell to denouncing
what he opprobriously called "Grantism. I"
It was impossible that Grant could have
retained his own respect or the respect
of any honorable man, il he had kept in
his Cabinet the man who was stabbing
him in the back. We are not only sur.
prised that Mr.. Jewell did not perceive
the eincompatibility of his course as pol
itician and his place as Cabinet officer.
He should have resigned when he be-
came convinced that he could not con-
scientiously endure the administration
of which he had been selected as a trust
ed counselor. Had Grant continued to
retain him, the Gazette would have said,
with its usual hair-splitting logic: Grant
keeps in his Cabinet the man who regards
him as corrupt; this is proof that he is
corrupt; else why doesn't he remove this
mani"
The wounds of the Gazette rankle and
tester. 1t is a poor, disappointed thing.
It's advice has been rejected over and
over again by the party. 1t fought Hayes
last year, and he was nominated. 1t
fought him this year, and he was NOM
mated 1t has insulted nearly every
prominent man in the party, and has
made no friends anywhere. 1t made
enemies of all the Hayes men in Ohio, OF
all the Morton men in Indiana, Of all the
men in New York, and of all
the Blaine men everywhere. Meanwhile
the Times has been growing in influence
and business. This excites the fercest
anger of the aged relic, and it pays us
the involuntary tribute that disappoint-
ment always renders to success. Our
pity is moved by its distress almost as
much as our contempt by its hypocrisy
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Times.