St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-14
ST. PAUL NEWS.
A FRAGRANT CUP.
Because She Wouldn't Steep 1t They
Had a Row.

Hau q now.
For many ages, even into the remote and
misty past when Tadmore and Persopolis
and the scarlet city of Babylon were in their
glory, poets have Gsung, moralists have
preached and philosophers have wasted, that
is the word, their choicest gems Of speech
on the subtle and oftentimes damning
spirit of evil that turks in alcohol. But who
on the same hand, as Billy Rice would say,
has ever heard of any evil influence lurking
in the bowl of exhilerating and fragrant
Mocho or Java coffee. The idea seems al
most preposterous and might be banished
forever had not a simple cup of coffee been
responsible for the domestic breach that ex-
lists between Nv. and Mrs. Schneider. This
little, simple mild, innocent, and be it said
blameless cup of coffee is what caused the
thermometer to strike the freezing point in
the Schneider household one hot day last
week. 1t happened this way: Coming in
from his days labor, Schneider called upon
his wife for cup of coffee which the little
woman, having a will of her own, a char
acteristic as is well known not singular with
her sex, refused to make. Then Schneider
rose upon his ear and there was music like
unto a full band in the household and
the lady got the best of it.
Schneider swore out warrant for the ar
rest of his fraulien, and the femme de'Ama-
zon was rushed into the police court yester-
day, where they had it all over again. The
court asked her why she didn't make the
coffee for her liege, when she replied that he
had locked the fragrant beans up
and that she had to go to
a neighbours for her own cup of
cheer. The court said he would put
her under 500 bonds and he advised
the woman that so long as her husband
wanted to stick to coffee she ought to try and
help him along, especially as the want of a
cup Of that which cheers and does not ineb-
riate might lead him toindulge in something
more harmful.
The case of Pat Murphy was about as ag-
gravating as anything that has been before
the court in long time Pat was on his
way to the woods, place where he should
have never come from, but on reaching St.
Paul he loaded himself to the guards on
tanglefoot. Then he conducted himself in a
most brutal and disgraceful fashion at the
depot, making an indecent assault upon a
lady Officer Malloy caught him in the act
and he gave him a sound and richly deserved
drubbing. He was fined $50 or sixty days,
and he went out.
John Slattery, the burly bully and duffer
who raised such a racket in the Sixth ward
Tuesday night, was arraigned on the charge
OF drunkenness and disorderly conduct He
went into O'Connor's saloon and after
guzzling some beer he told the lad in charge
to put it on ice and followed it up with the
vilest kind Of abuse. Tie lad seized a club
and padded him out of the saloon when
row took place and Slattery commenced to
shoot. The shots did not take effect and
they were all run in. He went up for thirty
days, the other two men being discharged.
Mark Smell, a pug-nosed. sawed off and
hammered down little fellow, was given
sixty days on the charge of vagrancy, and a
couple Of buns we're given the rush.
In the afternoon big, burly duffer
named Rudolph Smith was up on the charge
of assault and battery preferred by his
brother. He is charged with whipping his
aged mother and dragging his poor old
parayzed father out of bed. He pleaded not
guilty andAthe hearing was continued to
Saturday.