The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-29

sort Of satisfactory. that he laid down.
and curled up. and steysd with It. 6uch
va the end q Sir JOHN BALDWIN,
sWas that the name Of the cata'' &
IL sane. TheFe's cats around
huEo Nh names fhaf would surprise
you- MAris'' TO hie wife), "what
Wne thnk cat's name that eat key of
ratsbane by mistake over It Hooper's
and started home and got struck by
lightning and took the blind staggers
and fell In the well and was most
drowned before they could fish him
out2''
That was that colored Deacon
Jackson's cat. I only remember the
last end of its name, which was To-
Be Or-Not- To- Be- That Is The Question
jackson"
"Sho! that amt the one. That's the
one that eat up an entire box of seid-
litz powders, and then hadn't any
more judgment than to 60 and take .
drink. He was considered to be .
great loss, but ! never could see it.
Well, no matter about the names. Mrs.
Brown wanted to be reasonable, but
Mrs. Jones wouldn't let her. She put
her up to going to law for damages.
So to law she went, and had the face to
claim seven shillings and sixpence. 1t
made great stir. All the neighbors
went to court. Everybody took sides.
1t got hotter and hotter, and broke up
all the friendships for 800 yards around
friendships that had lasted for gener-
atoms and generations.
Well, proved by eleven witnesses
that the cat was of a low character and
very ornery, and warn't worth cam
celed postage-stamp, any way, taking
the average Of cats here; but / lost the
case. What could ! expect? The sys-
tenn is all wrong here, and is bound to
make revolution and bloodshed some
day. You see, they give the Magistrate
poor little starvation salary, and then
turn him loose on the public to gouge
for fees and costs to live on. What is
the natural result? Why, he never
looks into the justice of case-never
once. All he looks at is which client
has got the money. So this one piled
the fees and costs and everything ON to
me. ] could pay specie. don't you sect
and he knew mighty well that Il he put
the verdict on to Mrs. Brown, where il
belonged, he'd have to take his swae
in currency"
"Currencys Why. has Bermuda a
currency?"
"Yes-onions. And they were 4C
per cent. discount, too, then, because
the season had been over as much as
three months. So lost my case.
had to pay for that cat. But the gen.
eral trouble the case made was the
worst thing about it. Broke up SC
much good feeling. The neighbors
don't speak to each other now. Mrs.
Brown had named child after me.
But she changed its name right away.
She is a Baptist Well, in the course
of baptizing it over again, it got
drowned. Twas hoping we might get
to be friendly again, some time or 9TH
er, but of course this drowning the
child knocked that all out of the ques.
ton. 1t would have saved world OF
heart-break and ill-blood if she had
named it dly.''
Iknew by the sigh that this was hon.
co., AL tufo dOuOlC anu I'LL VDlS uc-
-struction of confidence in the purity OF
the bench on account of seven-shill-
ing lawsuit about cat! Somehow, il
seemed to g size' the country.
At this point we observed that an En-.
glish flag had just been placed at half.
mast on building a hundred yards
away. and my friends were busy in
an instant trying to imagine whose
death, among the Island dignitaries,
could command such a mark of re-
spect as this. Then shudder shook
them and me at the same moment, and
knew that we had jumped to one and
the same conclusion: 1.-THE Governor
has gone to England; it is for the Brit.
ish Admiralr'
At this moment Mr.. Smith noticed
the flag. He said with emotion:
"That's on boarding house. Judge
there's boarder dead.n
A dozen other flags within view went
to half-mast.
:" It's boarder, sure" said Smith.
"But would they half-mast the flags
here for boarder, Mr.. Smith?'
"Why, certainly they would, if he
was dead y
That seemed to size the country
again.-MdrE IUain, tn Atlantic for De.
Gender.