The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-01-27
His Honor. and Biiah.
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rom the Detroit Free Press.

swcretl the prisoner.
s'Do yon want work?"
swell, I suppose I'd work if there was
| work.
Can you leave town ~
s'Wrll. | suppose | can.
| 'Will you leave town p
| II will il anybody wants me to.'s
| sDnes it make any difference to you whether
| send you up or let you go?' continued the
| court.
| Not a great deal, though like to be around
| when there's ANYTHING going on"
Il guess I'll send you up for sixty days. |
believe you are lazy and shiftless. You don't
talk like Il man of enterprise. Go back in
there and sit down.2
'sIIadnt you just as lief I'd stand up p in
quired the prisoner.
I He went i'll and stood.
| a QUESTION OF vERAcITY.
SIS this the way to serve hard-wo king
man 20 asked Joseph Frost, as Biiah placed
him in position.
| His Honor didn't say.
ssDo you hear what [ say ?'' demanded the
prisoner.
.sYon'd better quit that. " remarked the court,
! as he opened the warrant. ''The nicer you
can appear while you stand here the better i'm
preston yo' will make on the people Of the
State of Michigan"
"Why did they lock me up?' asked the pris
oner in a soft voice. ''Wny did they come up
on the roof of a building where | was earn
| ing eight dollars a day and arrest me and drag
| me lerc?''
els that the case?''
'.'i'l at is the case, and want So, $40 DANA
ges!''
Three officers swore to finding him fighting
drunk on the wharf and one of them knew
that the prisoner lived in Saginaw.
Ls3 Ia.
Honor
The officers!'' shouted Joseph 'tand as soon
as get out of here I'll ~
you'll what?''
II known
$50 do |, Joseph. The programme is as fol-
lows Get out Of here into the Maria get out
of the Maria into the House o. Correct on );
stay there foor months get cut and go home
and tell the hoys you've been down in Texas
lieriing cattle. It's as plain as missing three
cellar stairs"
SAD AND IREARY WORLD.
E+nice Casgfove wvpt as She. toe,i the mark.
and in very weak voice she remark d:
II wish hadn't never been hornI'
"All fe.htlman or animal. has its sad hours"
said his Honor, As he Mnved a hunk OF mel;,Sses
candy ont of the wa, of his elbow. II presume
the oyster AMI the alligator and the hummng-
bird and the giraffe have lloilrS in which they
fee as if tlseY hl,l been kicked by y landlord
#th new If of boots on"
eyes. | Spose 500 she sobbed
And am free to say, he continued, s'that
there are occasions in my own life when |
wouldn't yell 'fIurrah for Gen. Jackson 4 il
was offered million dollars yell.'s
Nor I, either" she replied.
But we must leave the dim past and the
uncertain future for tie present, and inquire
ii You mean to keep on getting intoxicated ev-
cry three or four weeks p
Everybody seems to be down on me,'' she
sobbed.
You were here last month about this time,
Mrs. Cosgrove, and what did say to you ~
he asked.
II agreed not to tell" she replied.
''Speak right out, Mrs. Casgrove, and Bijah,
if you don't stop grinuing, HI report YOU to
the COMMISSIONER
''Oh. | don't want to tell p she whispered.
''Di'ln't tell you that if you came again I'd
have to send yon up? ''
mo. sir. You said could get drunk every
day in tie week if wanted to-
1t was an awful lie, and for a minute every
body held his breath. Bjah reached over for
the croWbar and toyed with it, and the hunk
of moasses candy fell from the desk to the
floor with great hnd.
BY and by his Honor quietly observed /:
lyon won't return here for six months to
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SOME CURIOUS SENSATIONS.
NV,
nc i.eA' p''So''ei si'i nc was "s,e'i' III d
docs it run by steam?'' asked his Honor.
"Did you ever see windmill ran by steam?'
inquired the agent.
.sYcs. sir.,'
81 never did ,,
..rrbnr. arc , ooo6 many thinos Won never
| e,u ;, ao,ti,,oi h;s unno even .r. a vrn,,
| ns3} .at .a,,1 s. van loan On onrtinu flrn, (
vuusl hn tno hind tn soc anythinu when Won
ar u' fnr or 700 o''''u 70 sce any '' WIKI ~
~ was meyer drank in NV life. replied The
| nrisnnnr
s.Rut tho no1ice found YOU last night in a
st.;r.av d,nnl, az basst and when Won were
hanlaa low, hero Won couldn't have told Il
oool stovo f,on . iacl knife,
,,o " Of man beno drnooe,l?'
on;etly asked the prisoner.
IT lid hear Of one replied the court. '.He
ibid he tell yous his sensations - inquired
the Windmill man.
Vie did. He sad ne f'it coia a'u !lot stIe;.ns'