The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-20

BRIDEGROOM poIfcn CouRr.--aWhn.
is your nameT asked Squire Howell y
about two hundred pounds Of Irish mus.
Gle, who had been arrested the night DO,
fore 60 thoroughly drunk that II took thC
officers and 4 part Of the Town Council
10 show him where the Jail was.
"Peter Mahoney, yer honor. l used
@wsll, Peter, you are charged with
being about the drunkest man that has
been seen in Bridgeport for many day;
and that Is saying great deal. What
have you 10 say, guilty or not guiltyT
"PlaEe yer honor, used 10 make me
forty'fVe dollars a wake on the levee,
and-"
lyon had better have husbanded some
Of that wealth to pay The fins I am liable
to levy; but never mind your past glory,
were you drunk or we're you not, that's
the question:"
"oh, guilty, yer honor; indade I must
have been terrible drunk 10 be caught BY
a Bridgeport Councilman or police OF.
Ger, but | was about Ill give yeis bit Of
history and axe ye II ia any wonder a
man gifts drunk under some circum.
stances. Here Is a bit Of paper, yer
honor; II Is the hand write Of mo eontfac.
Ter and is my last months liabilities and
earnings. threads thus, PLACE yer honor,
Peter Mahoney, credit by twenty.one
days on the Tuscarawas Railroad thard
diggen, yer honor) at one dollar per day,
sci; debit 10 mending boots, 81 Is; tobac.
co, % cents; four weeks board at 81 per
week, SIG; meals for friend, 60 cents;
total 1885, This Il taken from the sci
leaving me So II for me months hard
work. These other four men we're not so
economical as myself and we're in debt
I'll the contractor. So when I NIT them
in Whaling dead broke / spint all me
money for a jug full Seein as they looked
so bad, and we all started home thinkin
we mid have good quiet drunk out the
pike and disturb no one; but It come on
us wild in the corporation, and we were
nabbed, and here l an. Guilty, yer
honor"
1.-TWO dollars and costs, Peter, and
hereafter save your money and buy a
farm. And your name, sir; you man
with the sWelled mouth and by the way
what hurt your mouth 2"
"Michael o'Brien, and I got lop in the
mug wild q Jug, sir; and as Il IL my irSt Of.
Tense, Judge, be azy and il will be my
last. I've got four cents, Judge, and am
in debt six dollars on my last months
Work-hard work, too, il you PLACE. I'm
no tramp, II l do look little hard. Des.
plse not man because he wears ragged
coat Judge. Let me 60 and In thirty days
III be back, and maybe I'll chuck a two.
dollar bill at yes. I'm 10 be promoted 10
work in the tunnel and then I'll get q dol.
lar and half day.
swell, Michael, il will Just take one
and q third days tunnel work to pay
your fine, and hereafter try and invest ii
more profitable manner"
"You one.eyed little man, with a big
head, what have youto say? Be brief"
II got hit on the head wild the boom Of
q derrick last September, and this ia the
first drop since. l was drunk wild the
balance Of the byeS, but | lntinded no
harm. feel awful bad and am afraid I'll
lose me job, for Im not q very good
hand. anyhow. Fllnot drink emmy more
That's ALL"
"You forgot to inform us what your
name is?"
@snre, and you forgot to axe me-"
u will ask you noW!r
"And will tell YOU now.n
"Well, what ia it?'
"Thom If Brlnnen-Br.i.n.n.e.n-Brin.
men, Thomas Brinnen, yer honor"
"rwo dollars and costs, Thomas, and
don't doubt in the future"
LAST but not least lin dirt, what is
your namet"
"Ferguson-John."
"Well, John, guilty or mt guilty."
ut i not necessary for me to say,
Judge"
ut Is nevertheless necessary for me to
say two dollars and costs, GIr. Ferguson"
And right here our reporters hat blew
of, and as he was coming back with it,
brushing the mud from It, he met four
sick looking Irishmen walking fast to-
wards the Tuscarawas Valley railroad.