Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-02-23
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FRIDAY MORNING. FEB. %. 1877.
Local.
Preferred the Whipping.

1C1SiIS C1N AACPNnS
Mr.. Gearheart gets his elixir of life in
a jug and that is the main reason that Mr..
John johnson a colored gentleman OF the
county consented 20 receive ten lasheS on
his bare back Monday afternoon at the
earnest suggestion of Mr.. Justice Cease.
The Jug which enclosed within it's stone
embrace a half gallon of ''heavens last,
best gift TO man" (by several centuries la
ter than woman,) had been placed at Mr..
Lewis Bumgardner's for safe keeping till
Nj. Gearheart should call. MI. johnson
called first, and in getting up two bags
which he had left there, gathered up the
jug with them and put it in his wagon.
Mr.. johnson asserted, when officer Pritch-
ard handed him his card, that he had not
even felt the ug among the bags and that
he had taken it without knowing it.
"Ah! Johnson" said the officer regard
i g him reproachfully, "that won't wash.
You had as well tell me that a man can
dance the german with a ten penny nailin
his boot without knowing it, as that a man
can lift a jug with a half gallon of whisky
Ill IL WlOllOuU OCllS await u LllG pI6SGuCC
of the precious beverage. You will lave
to 90 before Squire Cease"
When they got to the Squire's John
proved a hitherto fair character.
you didn't" said the Squire, adj listing
his spectacles so as to convey a great moral
truth in a direct line to MI. Johnson's
mind; you didn't have one of Mr.. Moi
fet's b%ell-puuches about you, did you?"
The prisoner humbly admitted that he
didn't.
'That would have saved you, John, that
woull have saved you AS it is you will
nave to take ten lashes, or thirty days in
the changing And, John. try and say
your prayers after this. That is the great
bell-punch cf a moral life. The man that
says his pray ers regularly will meyer lift d
| half gallon of whisky by mistake. And,
now, how will you take it-straight, or
mixed with the ch~ain-gang?"
'Ill take de lickin', boss, [ reckon, land
the prisoner walked off with Officer Pitch
ard, to take it.
THE laws Of our beloved country are
llupdItldl, LoWlS, ItuldIkeu JuSUlct OtdSc
to Mr.. Lewis Dawson, colored, arraigned
for stealing a pair of gloves from Mr.. J.
H. Campbell, agent for the Lexington line
of stages, land the fact that a man is a
| stage agent, though it may subject him to
the profanity Of The passengers, does not
put him out of the pale Of protection. l
havn't got time to see Mr.. Ably, who sells
gloves, so I'll just fix the price of that
pair at twenty lashes or thirty days in the
chain-gang, and at that figure We'll just
lump the gloves, moral %obliquity, indiffer-
ence to the rights of property, and all
Cheap enough, too! How'll you take it
Lewis-straight?:"
The prisoner said he would take it
straight, and officer Kurtz fell in on the
extreme rear with his coWhide.
We tende: the thanks Of the taxpayers to
Justice Cease, for his good sense in adopt
ilg a mode OF punishment that relieves the
common treasury of a large depletion in
the support Of triiing petty criminals in
the city jail. If all our magistrates would
follow his example it would be money
made to the city.