The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-05-07


were thoroughly impressed with the
abuses liable to this traffic they desired
the management of man they could
trust.
Now, on that morning when the
young man and the young woman, ia
cob Murine and Sarah futile, passed
the ordinary at Hartford within the
taproom sat an Englishman who had
just made a forty days voyage from
London to America for the purpose OF
studying the manners and customs OF
the colonists with the intention OF
writing a book about them on his re
turn. He was sitting with the land
lord, who had just brewed a bowl OF
with sugar, molasses or dried pump
kin and rum. into which had been
thrust a redhot iron called the logger
head, causing it to seethe and foam
The landlord was giving his guest some
account of the said manners and Gus
toms in vogue in the colony of New
Haven.
do you see that girl walking with
that young man? Well, there's trou-
BILE brewing there. The girl is Old
Goodman Tuttle's daughter, and she's
keeping company with young Murine
without her fathers permission. He'll
get fined a dozen lashes at the whip
ping post if he doesn't mind"
1.-THE whipping post! Have parents
power here to whip those who pay at
tention to their daughters without their
consent?''
'Indeed they have, and a goodly Gus
tom it is. The laws of the colony say
that any tempting without the parents
sanction cannot be done by speech.
writing message. company keeping. un-
necessary familiarity. disorderly nigh;
meetings, sinful dalliance. gifts or in
any other way
'And if they disobey this law?"
Heavy fines may be imposed with a
plentiful supply Of lashes to the in
veigler of the girl
"And is she not punishedT
Not by the law. Her father can at
tend to her case as he likes"
as the punishment In public or in
priyate?''
''In public, of course. We have no
private punishment here in the colo
MES Heaven knows there are in this
desolate land few amusements. Our
punishments serve us in this respect in
or I IN,
last, drinking with others a cup of sack.
we were much diverted at seeing
man who had had too much of the
same mixture laid by the heels on the
ground, with a bar of iron fastened and
locked to his legs with sliding shackles
and bolt. There were salyages (sav-
ages) present who stared at him, not
understanding this method of torture"
While the two were talking Jacob
Murine, who had passed with his love
out of sight. repassed, going the other
way, and under very different condi-
tions A citizen held one arm, another
citizen held the other arm. while Good
man futile. the father of the girl he
had been walking with, led the way.
On Tuttle'S visage was a stern and re-
lentless look that BODIED the prisoner no
good.
Now" said the landlord of the Hart.
ford ordinary. 'you have an opportuni-
ty to witness one of our customs, show
ing how parents discharge the duties
the Lord has imposed upon them in the
case Of their offspring. They will take
the boy to the magistrate, where he
will be tried for inveigling the girl, and
later you may derive much pleasure at
seeing the cat O. nine tails laid on his
back. And mayhap If the judge has
not had sufficient sack this morning tC
steady his nerves and replenish his
temper after the five bowls he had here
last night the pleasure derived may be
heightened by the gashes on the SWANS
back being supplied with salt and vine
gar. Come. let us finish the bowl be.
fore us and be off,
The landlord and the author of a flu.
ture work entitled "A Voyage to New
England" with a highly diverting &C
count of the manners and customs OF
the colonists. published In London In
1862, drank the remains of the plutoniC
mixture before them-the author with
a grimace-and proceeded to the meet,
ing house. which was the only availa
BILE shelter for a court except the ordi
nary They arrived soon after the
prisoner, and the inhabitants of the
village were gathering for one of the
few diversions they were ever accord
ed. Everybody knew Jake Murine
and Sarah futile for pair Of innocent
young persons. who were passing that
delightful period when lovers may sit
intwined in each others arms while
the clock is striking the happy hours
away. And now Jacob was to pay the
penalty for their happiness, for every
one knew that there were witnesses
who had seen them hugging and kiss