Year: 1874

divided into twelve equal parts;
how the clerk asked them if they had
agreed upon . verdict, when he knew
just as we'll as the foreman that they
had,' for there it was all folded
in the hands of the folio juryman
in brown binding; how the foreman
solemnly declared that they had,
though he knew that the clerk knew
it as we'll as he did, and that the clerk
knew that he knew that he knew it;
how Christian Zolicoffer, James Eben-
ezer Scranton, Henry H. Lardsboro,
and the other nine were called over in
loud voice by the clerk from
very dirty-looking foolscap book;
how the clerk then inquired,
"Gentlemen of the jury, what is
your verdict-for plaintiff or defend
ant p how finally the large juryman,
looking very hard at the clerk and
trembling little in his left leg, hand
ed an oblong document tied with red
tape to the clerk and said, "For the
plaintiff )" how the boatites smiled
roses and the bridgeites looked dag
gers; how the judge blew his nose
and had the court adjourned till next
term; how attorneys that had been
the bitterest of foes professionally and
had seemed to threaten death and
destruction to each other during the
course of the trial suddenly became
reconciled under the lubricating in


auence Of the verdict and walked off
srm-in-arm to q neighboring place of
bodily refreshment; and how the
jury returned to the bosoms of their
families, cheered with the approval
Of their consciences, as the plaintiffs
attorney had said they would, and al
se covered with the condemnation of
the same, as the attorneys for the
defendant had said they would, and
the great case was all over how, I
say, all these things took place in
due and legal form. and the majesty
Of the law had been upheld, and the
rights of the humblest citizen and all
that protected, and justice had had
her sovereign sway at the hands of
twelve true and lawful men and three
learned and ponderous judges,
need not relate any more fully than l
have just done in the foregoing syn
opsis.


Boat and bridge had appealed to
the Infallibility Of the Law and the
Course of Justice, and Boat had won.


Bridge was in the glumps for long
time thereafter, but Boat was not,
and so happily for the peace of socie-
ty and the safety of the nation, the
equilibrium was preserved. Bridge


is said to have refused to speak to


Boat for whole twelvemonth, but
as Bridge never failed to speak
against Boat, this balance of things


was also fortunately kept up.


How many Boat us. Bridge cases


are there in this naughty world


Who of US doesn't know Boat? Who


of us has not met Bridge?


! 10 resume now. Some time before


we reached K - the above verdict


had been rendered, and now the


bridge was to be partly removed


This great triumph Of the boat com


panies led them to be saucy and the


unnecessary lowering of the pipes O.


the Nanny Lake was in derision to the


offending structure overhead. It was


considered the best joke of the season
and the local reporter was furnished


with an item that l dare say he die
not fail to serve up in the most ortho


dox manner to his admiring reader
in the next issue.


/ mention this bridge case to en-


able those Of my readers who are ole


enough to locate the date Of my mi
grafton somewhat nearly.


Arrived at our destination, grea
horror seized me. Two of my trunk
were missing, and though they con
, tanned not either as numerous OF
doubtless as costly an array of article
Is nowadays is considered indispens
able to young woman's happines
when about to embark upon the Sc
of matrimonial life, they were by ia
too valuable to be lost and a stric
= search was at once instituted.


8 Unfortunately for my first acquaint
, snce with the honesty of the West
: and more than that my first relation
with the clergy of our church in tha
e section, both trunks were discovered i
e the possession of a gentleman of tn
= cloth, who was making off with ther
l in the direction of huge, muddy
;. white~covered scoop-shaped wagon.
e is needless to say hewas speedily ove1
hauled by my husband who, howeve
; timid and retiring generally in tn
' presence of that learning and dignit
1 which the clergy are usually suppose
q to represent in their august persons
t had no fear of the cloth when caugh
+ in the very act of spiriting away hi
e wife's indisputable property-aud sh
d wife whom he had, as it were, bu
d just vowed to protect.


e 1t seemed, upon investigation, tha
t the reverend gentleman had come
e the village to meet a friend, due b
r the same coach by which we ourselvt
q had arrived. 6upposing the trunk
o near which his friend was accidental
0 standing were his, he had, in gen,
e inc, independent Western fashion, O.