The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-14
JUSTICE JOHNS COURT.
JEFFERSON'S BIRTHDdf RECALLS
STORY ms LOTTERY SCHEME.
A PitIable Case of the sufferings of WIG
and Mother at the Hands of an inh"ni""
uusband-skirt Dance of Rob't fayne'


ment League are his friends the vi p1'
brigade is MS reserve force, ana ne =
the all-round general standard o''''e
., ,be democratic advance guard, pu' "'
g M respecter of persons, ana "he" II
v,as suggested yesterday that as II was
tina anniversary Of Jemersons blrthday'
and he was asked II the court "0,'''
adjourn over. he was very POSITIVE III
deed. 49,,
This court may adjourn over. II liVihs
mn, "a determined TO celebrate, anu
.ho taet game of the baseball season was
to be played in the morning pu. 49,
orc no men on the dead list whose ahh''
yersarv * observed, except the Z'1h oil
December. and then Justice Jonn wants
10 STAY al home and see what's IN MS
81 am a great believer in Jefferson ana
In oil ba said and did," said Justice John
"but IT'S a good thing he did not get INTO
this court. for I'd have sent MN DOWN
for sixty days"
you soe." said Justice John, TO
sclect coteriel Of his staff, who in season
and out. keep on his right mana ana on l's
left and advise and counsel and annoy ana
interrupt him until patience ceases to pe
a virtue.
ITO YOU fellows. IT IS not given TO know
all ~ these things about the private ailalrs
of our great men, but you see, being it -
me. why I know some Things on the inside
and If you keep quiet. I'll give yon
tip on jefferson that will show you what
a snap ! would have had If he had ever
come my way.
"You know i'm the early days that lot
oh
are now. IN fact n great many churches
and public buildings in this country were
built by lotteries Ia was legal and every
body went I'm just 90 help along q good
purpose. However. them New Enc
Fellows got n little skoptical on the sub
iect and n law was passed regulating the
lottery favors on pormissions 10 the va.
rious States. that Is you see. the Lcgis-
lature thought it had the right 20 grant
a man chance to run a lottery game fl
he wanted to. and this was the case in
Virginia.
THE MONTICELLO LOTTERY.
you Sec" continued Justice John, this
is all history but you fellows were too
young 10 remember IT, but Captain John
Bell Bigger may have the record OF it
yet, for it's dead straight I'm telling
you.
you see. Jefferson was a smart man
| and all that, but he was just like us, he
was liable TO get IN the hole any time, and
1t was one of them times when he was
broke that no was i'm for making silver
money or any old thing that would pay
of hands and settle cheap with. But one
cold day luck was dead against this great
and good man; he had fine place, the
same what Leayy's got now, plenty OF
niggers and land, but he was bad broke
10 money at all. lie was ashamed TO go
10 Charlottesville. because he couldn't
set EN- up for the gang, and then he
wanted TO 20 10 Washington.."
You fellows know how il is; whenever
a fellow gifts brake he is dead certain 10
want 10 80 somewhere and in those
days there were no railroad boys around
10 strike for a pass. SO you see jefferson
was In a bad hole"
Those fellows from Washington kent
writing him. Come up. Tom. there is a
Darrel OF fun going on; the French min
isters got a new cask of old Madeira
ana the English Minister is a dead easy
mark-plays two pair like he had a fun.
ana always chips light on a bob-tail. and
invariably stays in raise even with
duces."
so you fellows see that there was
terrible hankering going on under JEFF
iefsons irilled bosom for a touch Of that
sport but he had no cash. and I'll tell
You right now that jefferson was hot
stum; he wasn't going to be no poor boy
at the frOlic; he was going TO get money.
good, cool dollars, so he looked the situa-
ton over.
He walked down to the lot; the shoates
were too young for sale, two spotted
heifers died i'm a night. a yearing broke
his leg by getting caught in the fence.
and De just whistled. cussed his luck.
naf D.
Grover and them ducks he hasn't killed
yet are sitting this morning.
'Thcn he saddled his horse and went TO
Charlottesville. lie struck all his old
chums for a stake, and tod them what an
easy thing he had waiting in Washington.
| but they was all broke. too, and lhe case
was growing mighty gloomy.
THE DEAL COMPLETED.
'You fellows know how sharp jefferson
was. but be was in a tight place then.
and il took heroic measures 10 fix up his
finances. So one day he went TO the Vir-
gtnia Legislature and asked them TO
grant him the permission TO get rid OF his
farm Monticello by lottery.
THE Legislature was all right; there
was no kckers and knockers in those
days, so they fixed the old man up IN
minute, ana some of them even shook
him by the hand and promised TO take Il
few tickets when the game was opened
for outsiders.
80 jefferson took his permit, and after
doing the right thing for the boys who
had stood by his bill, he rode home TO
Monticello.
up 10 this time all looked rosy, and
Jefferson dreamed Of the old Madeira
and chuckled i'm his sleep as visions of
that English guy with a bob-tail flush
stole DER his slumbers, but alas for his
hopes,
Printing tickets in those days was not
like il is now. you see. so after he got the
proofs ready and sent them out TO be
printed, he worried q good deal about
the job. He waited and waited. and
finally fell sick ana as true as / tell you,
he died before the tickets ever got out"
Some Of the boys seemed a little
dubious about the story, but Justice John
was right, and there is no question about
the fact that such Il permission was
granted to Jefferson.
\ SMOOTHTONGUED THIEF.
one Of tile most pItiable cases was tried
yesterday morning that has come up for
many months before Justice john.
\ man named w. Ii. Arnold was
charged with stealing $50 and a number
of Bibles, curtains, ana other articles
from the Richmond Instalment Company.
Arnold looks like everybody fancles
that Judas Iscariot appeared. and II halt
that was said by his employ er and his
wife be true. It wound certainly be better
for him that ne had not been born.
lie admitted stealing from the com
pany. and was found TO have pawn tickets
for some OF the articles In his pockets