The Press., 1890-03-06
(The Journalist.i WHERE COCKFIGHTS TOOK PLACE.


 Speaking of keeping things quiet, of the time when in the city where lived there was furore for cockfghts. We had fights every night, and every day the newspapers gave long accounts. Every body went crazy on the subject. One evening an agent for the Society for Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals discovered where fight was to take place. The bat tie was most interesting one when the agent appeared and arrested the princi- pals. The roosters were put into bag and taken along as evidence. The princi- pals were locked up in cells, 1t being late at night; the society's agent stood about the place for a few minutes. Finally he admitted that he had watched the fight for few minutes before he made the rad. "sWhich of the two birds do you think would have licked ? he inquired.
 sThere is an easy way to find out, 1 suggested. =, "'You'll never give me away, will you ?" asked the agent.
 "'Never,' replied.
 s'The sergeant in charge at the desk, the society's agent and myself took the birds into another part of the police station and we had the fight out. The arrested cock
 
 the next morning, but they could never explain how one of the birds had died from the insignificant wounds he had re. ceived when the fight was broken up. But l am wandering away from the story I was going b tell. The mayor of the city finally thought it time to interfere and he insisted on an investigation. The board of aldermen appointed committed to do the investigating, and a number oi evenings were spent in the vain endeavol to ascertain where the fights took place The chaifman of the committee was par ticularly zealous. He had secured long list of nanaes, anH his cross examination o witnesses was very severe. Finally the committed had to report that it could no throw any light on the matter and the subject was dropped the boar2never as certained where we had all our fun.'
 ''I do rot suppose you would objec now to telling us where the fights tool place ?" inquired the novice.
 "They took place in the cellar of thu residence of the chairman of the commit tee on invest gation.
 How I COFFEE WILI.-sI remember { somewhat similar character" " replied thu court reporte1a. t'He was surrogate ove in Jersey. zwill had been offered fol probate, and asit was known to contain some rather cuious bequests was anxiou to get it. The surrogate had, however promised the reatives of the deceased tha 1 he would not let the newspapers get holt of it.. In vain cid plead that it was public document and that had a right t. see it |; in vain did offer to pay for cer tifed copy of # /; the surrogate was inex orable. Other reporters were in simila predicament,&nd were talking about get ting mandamus from some court. The. might have obtained the will in this wa in the course of month or two, but wanted that will that day. I accordingl.. induced lawyer, friend of mine, to as sist me. We knew that another citizen o the same plaee had died just before tn man died wholleft the peculiar will. Tn lawyer went to the surrogate's office ant asked to look at the copy of the will of tn man who had died first. The surrogas handed him the book. Sure enough, tn next will on record was the will wanted The lawyer made such extracts as l want ed, and published the will. There wa big storm in the surrogate's office on tn following ldssA and the surrogate spen several days ih vainly endeavoring to as certain whick of his assistants had give me the will. - The Joa1rssalist.
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