St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-21
KEEP SHADY,
Or the Sunday Law Will Reach You.

Or the Sunday Law Will Reach You.
In the poetic words of the ditty Chas. John
son was requested to pull down his blinds,
and his refusal to comply cost him just
twenty-five dollars. Charles runs a saloon,
and oblivious to the mandate of the police,
that Sunday tipping must be done on the sly,
he tried to run his joint wide open. Officer
Ives ordered him to pull down his blinds.
but he shut one eye on the copper and told
him to take a>walk around Lis beat When
arraigned yesterday the accused was given
some good advice by the court and fined the
sum named.
Mike Flaherty also runs saloon and he
was up for keeping open on Sunday. The
complaint was made by one Tracy, and, as
the assistant city attorney remarked yester-
day, this, like majority of similar cases, was
the result of spite work. An officer Of the
court, apropos to this, also remarked that it
was pity that the Sunday saloon ordinance
could not be either enforced or else abro-
gated altogether AS at present existing the
ordinance is too frequently employed by
malicious persons to crafty spite orrevenge,
as anyone can bring saloon keeper into
court for keeping open on Sunday whether
the door and blinks are closed or not. Flah-
erty kicked against the injustice of fning
him when all other saloon keepers were al
lowed to keep open, but the court had no
option and he was fined $25.
His name was Grimes, and although not
dead in the literal sense he looked as if he
would like to die, or crawl into bung hole
and draw the hole in after him. He had been
on a toot, and when found by Officer McMa-
hon he was making holy show of himself
on the street, posing as it were for an anat-
omical exhibition. He was a sad-eyed man
and he went to the bastile for thirty days.
1t is very evident that when the gods
equipped Justice with her sword, scales and
bandage very important weapon was omit
ted from the repertoire of this most respected
divinity. In addition to the instruments
named the good dame ought to have been
given a bunch of switches, or better
yet, a good raw cowhide, to be laid
on the backs of wife heaters.
These fellows ought to be paid back in
their own coin, and it is about the only
good way to reach them. There were two
in court yesterday, and dose of this medi-
cine would do them good Pat Murphy in
augurated domestic whipping post for his
wife, eighteen years ago, and he has kept up
the amusement from time to time ever since.
He beat his boy shamefully the other night
and abused his wife. Yesterday he was sent
up for thirty days, and put under bonds of
5000. The other wife beater is Chas. San
der. He is a German and probably imbibed
his idea of discipline in the old country,
along with the other institutions. He has
very thin, little old woman for wife, and
whenever he gets mad he gives her thump-
ing. She complained about the last beating,
and yesterday he was in court. He went up
for thirty days and will give 5000 bonds.
Sam Stadfeld owned dog which had
stomach for pants and calves and coat tails
and things and this made it bad for the
stranger that happened to 60 near the dogs
den. He bit a man the other day and the
man got mad and swore out warrant for
Sam. The latter is all right and he promised
to have the pup shot, when the case was dis
missed