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T She Has no heart, but. she is fair,
Tib*rose, the lilly can't outvie* her:.
She smih s so sweetly, that the air
SeemS f ill of light and beauty nigh her.
She has no heart, hut vet her face
So man v hues of youth revealing,
With so much liveliness and grace,
That'i.n my soul ’:is ever stealing.
She has no heart, she cannot love,
Rot sh tan kindle’love in mine :
Strange; that the softness of a dove
Hound such a thing of air can twine.
She has no heart—her eye, though bright,
lias not the brightness of the soul j
! Tirs not the pure and lender light,
That love from seraph beauty stole.
’Ti« but a wild and witching flame, *
That leads us on a while through flowers,
Then leaves us, lost iu guilt and shame,
v To mourn our vain departed hou.s.
Go then from me—thou const not chain
A soul, whose flight is winged above,
Turn Snot on'me tlnne eve again.:
Thou hast no he&rt, ihou canst not love.
d. As three to sixteen him-;
proportion of an Englishman
to a frenchman. 7 With so much ease and
pleasantry could he talk of that pfddigious
lahoi^ jvhich he had undertaken to execute.”
'The Dictionary was, completed.in July
.1775, the author having beeivaKduloujjiy
engaged upon it seven yedrs.wirld
contemplated with wonder so jsftupcndoas a
work atchieved by one man, while other
countries had tlpnught such undertakings fit
only for whole academies.’ As the patience
of the proprietors was repeatedly tried, and
almost exhausted, by expecting that the
work would be completed within the time
which Johnson had sanguinely supposed
(three years,) the learned author was often
goaded to despatch, more especially*as he
had received all the copy money, by differ
ent draffs, a considerable time before he flad
finished his task. When the- messenger
who carried , tiie last sheet to Miller return
ed, Johnson asked him, ‘ Well, what did he
say V 4 Sir, (answered the messenger) he
said, thank God I have done with him.’ ‘ I
rr.oM tub (avocsta) constitutionalist.
* ELLEN'S GRAVE.
u ,/TW.A»%in on eve of ca.lv spring
Vfo saw thy form consign’d to caith,
vifuj fiocip the south wind’s gentle wing
Faqn’djwtiy flowers into birth—
y’pojt’th*: ye llow mound they grew,
| jjjia frees wore murmuring all around : ■
tt a beauteous scene to view—
So calm—s > fair—’I was holy ground.
The willow bow’d its branches there,
And seemed thy early doom to weep;
Beneath its shade the mourner’s tear
Fell silent o’er thy last long sleep!
The mourner—lie whose sorrowing heart
W as riven to its core for thee—
’T-vas meet when day’s sad hours deport,
That widowed spirit there should be!
Tis in an eve of early spring,
t sock the lone and sacred spot;
■ w changed! wild briars round it cling—
v all neglected and forgot!
lowors.scent the moonlight air—
:c coney burrow's an the ground,
willow’s ruined trunk is there,
• storms have strewed its branches round!
whrV Is la?, that mourning one,
• hose (fc?coleus heart-consuming grief,
vied to.implore from death alone
> hope and comfort and relief?—
•■'oon the gush of sorrow’s tide
'■<pt in joy's bright sparkling wave!
clasps another bride
asts one thought on Ellen’s Grave.
eiporated letter, of which the following
is- a copy.:— f ** . • .
“To the Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield.
-' .Jr “February 7, 1755. ,
“ My Lord—-I hare been lately informed,
by the proprietor of the World, that two pa
pers, in which my Dictionary is recommend
ed to the public, were written by your Lordt
ship. To be so distinguished, is an honour,
which, being very little accustomed to fa
vours ftoin the great, I know not well how
to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
“ When, upon some slight encourage
ment, I first visited your Lordship, 1 was
overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by
the enchantment of your address, and could
not forbear to wish that 1 might boast mvself
Le va-nqueur /iu vainqueur de la Ur re; that
I might obtain that regard for which 1 saw
the world contending; bat I found my at
tendance so little encouraged that neither
pride nor modesty would suffer me to con
tinue it. When I had once addressed your
t Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the
am glad (replied Johnson with a smile) that : art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly
'he thanks God for any thing.’ Miller and! scholar can possess. I had done‘all that I
his associates, however, entertained the could ;'and no man is well pleased tp have
HOPE.
•light wastoming on,
%i yilig’it trembling •.
.*hng.
on;
ted, *
. oner*
ea Hope glew >7^
As down the stream 0<
The waves of grief are lullfLvi/rest,
And perfume fills the gentle gale. .• I
But jib! when Hope’s beam fades away,
(The fairest light the soul e’er woke in,)
• The heart that glows with life to-day,
Is seen to-morrow, cold and broken.
Sorrow, with withered hand, spreads o’er .
The sea of joy its maptle dark,;
The sun of gladness shines no more,
And wild blasts wreck our little barque.
The breast’s wild throb o’er broken faith,
The blasted smiles of early promise;
The tears from those we lose in death,
The grief for those who wander from us.
Ail, all that can be scon or felt,
WiliFthroiigb the mist of penury dart:
Hope flies the breast where once, it dwelt,
And leaves behind—a broken heart!
FROM THE ALBANY ARGUS.
DR. JOHNSON, AND HI9 DICTIONARY.
The notices which we have recently seen
published pfthe progress of Mr. Noah Web
ster’s Dictionary, have recalled some of the
circumstances, of which we remember to
have read, connected with the compiling
and publication of the great original work by
Dr. Johnson.
Roswell. in his Life of Johnson, states
that the plan or prospectus was published to
the world in the year 1747. when the author
w»s 38 years of age; though Roswell believes
that he had bestowed much previous thought
upon the subject, from the enlarged, clear and
accurate views wlueh the plan exhibited, and
from other circumstances. The booksellers
v/hor ontracted with Johnson for the execu
tion of the work, were seven in number, at the
head of which was Mr. Robert Dodsley,
author of the Preceptor, a highly meritori
ous work, and the.origin of that valuable
class of books for the improvement of young
minds. The principal charge of conduct
ing the publication, however, devolved on
another of the company, Mr. Andrew Mil
ler! The price stipulated to be paid for the
copy-right was fifteen hundred and seventy-
five pounds. For the mechanical part of
the preparation. Johnson employed six
amanuenses. To those humble assist-
arts, he showed great kindness, both filing
their painful labours, and afterwards when
some of them fell into poverty.
“ Dr. Adams, says Boswell, found John
son one day busy at his dictionary, when the
following dialogue ensued : ‘ Adams—This
Va great v> ork, sir. How are you to get all
a etymologies ? Johnson—Why, sir, here
shelf w th JunitiB, and Skinner, and
:: and there is a Welch gentleman who
’^hrtd a collection ofWelch proverbs,
Ip me.with the Welch. Adams—
'■v can you do this in three years ?
r , I have no doubt that Lean do
.ears. Adams■—But the French
highest respect for Johnson, and were great
ly his debtors in literary labour ; and he
ever spoke of them with kindness and re
gard, as having*!^ (heir liberal undertakings,
raised the price and value of literature.
The magnitude of this work is at this day
understood by most persons /who reflect
upon the subject, though it can not be as
obvious to persons of this age as it must
have been to those of thht in which the ab
sence of such a classification of our language
was felt. ‘ When I took the first survey of
my,undertaking (says Johnson in his incom
parable Preface,) I found our speech copious
without order, and energetic without rules ;
wherever I turned my view, there was per
plexity to be disentangled, and confusion to
be regulated ; choice was to be made out of
boundless variety, without any established
principle of selection; adulterations were to
he detected, without a settled test of purity ;'
and modes of expression to be rejected or
received, without the suffrages of any writer
of established classical reputation or ac
knowledged authority.* Notwithstanding
Air.. Webster may avail himself of the learn
ed labours of Johnson and Walked, and not
withstanding our language has been‘brought
to a comparative state of per^^tion, yet with
his twenty thousand additional words, and
his proposed additional deficiencies, and im
provements relative to anomalous and uu-
:seitled words, liis labour will beardous. and
his work when finished, a desideratum.
Dean Swiff allows that new words must
sometimes be introduced into a language,
but proposes that none should be suffered to
become obsolete. This latter idea Johnson
combats
ral agreement to forbear a word, or with the
propriety of reviving it, when it conveys an
offensive idea, and has become unfamiliar
and unpleasant. It is a singular fact, that
the only aid which Johnson is said to have
received, was a paper containing twenty,
etymologies, sent to him by a person then
unknown, but who afterwards proved to be
Dr. Pearce, bishop of Rochester.
When Dr. Johnson commenced his Dic
tionary, although lie had written much that
had procured distinction for. him among the
friends and patrons of literature, particular
ly Ins ‘ London,’ and his contributions to the
Gentlemen’s Magazine, ho >vas nevertheless
comparatively unknown* lie had the friend
ship & association of Pope, Garrick, Mr. (af
terwards Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Hawkes-
worth, the Earl-of Orrery, Lord South-
well, &c. but he had scarcely, begun that ca
reer of renown v which was afterwards opened
to him. His Rambler, Dictionary, Rasselas,
Idler, Lives of the ,Poets, ana a brilliant
succession of works, had not then associated
his name with, or placed it first, arr.ong the
great and learned of the' world. He was
poor, and more than embarrassed in his pe
cuniary affairs. He had disdained to court,
and had not then received the patronage of
the nobility. When the ‘ Plan ’ of the 'Dic
tionary-was about to be published, Dodsley
suggested a desire to have it addressed to
Lord Chesterfield, who wai ’then one of the
principal secretaries of state, and ambitious
of literary distinction, and who, having ac
cidently met with the MS., had expressed
himself in terms very favourable to the suc
cess of the design. Johnson adopted the
suggestion, and the Plan wgp addressed to
his lordship, as Boswell observes, in a
strain of compliment never more dignified-
But for several years.. Lord Chesterfield
treated Johnson vrilh the coldest neglect;
so much so, that it raised in the latter the
greatest’contempt and indignation. Seven
years afterwards, however, when the Dic
tionary was on the eve of completion, his
lordship, who had ‘ flattered himself with
expectations that Johnson would dedicate
the work to him, attemeted, in a courtly
manner, to soothe and insinuate himself
with the Sage, conscious, as it should seem,
of the indifference with which he had treat
ed its learned author; and further attempted
to conciliate him, by writing two papers in
‘The World,’ in recommendation of the
work; and it must be confessed, that they
contain some studied compliments, so fine
ly turned, that if there had been no previous
offence, it is probable that Johnson would
have been highly delighted. Praise, says
B. in general, was pleasing to him ; but by
praise from a man of rank and elegant ac
complishments, he was peculiarly gratified.*
But the courtly device failed of its effect.
Johnson, who thought that “ all was false
and hollow,” despised the honeyed words,
and ,was even indignant that Lord Chcster-
his all neglected, be it ever so little.
“ Seven years, my Lord, have now past,
since I waited in your outward rooms, or
was repulsed from your door; during which
time I have been pushing my work through
difficulties of which it is useless to complain,
and have brought it, at last to the verge of
publication, without one act of assistance,
one word of enc ouragement, or one smile .of
favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for
I never had a Patron before.
“ The shepherd in Virgil grew at last ac
quainted with Love, and found him a native
of the rocks.
“ Is a Patron, my Lord, one who looks
with unconcern on a man struggling for life
in the water, and, when he has reached
ground, encumbers him with help? The
notice which you have been pleased to take
of my labours, had it been early, had been
kind; but it has been delayed till l am indif
ferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary,
and cannot itnpurt it; till I am known, and
do not want it. TTiqpe it is no very cynical
asperity riot to confess obligations where no
benefit has been received, or to he unwill ng
that the Public should consider me as owing
that to a Patron, which Providence has
enabled me to do for inyself.
“•Having carried on my work thus far
with so little’ obligation to any favourer of
learning, I shall not be disappointed though
I should conclude it, if less be possible, with
less ; for I' have been long wakened from
that dream* of hope, in whichJ once boasted
myself with so much exultation.
“ My Lord, your Lordship’s most humble
servant, * , SAM. JOHNSON.”
your ,ears on the enormity of a fractured
gloved—who will be struck speechless at
the slight of a pm instead of a string ; or set
a whole house in an uproar, on'finding'll
book on the table instead of in the book
case! Those who have had the misfortune
to meet with such a person, will know how
to - sympathise ^vith rife. Gentle leader! I
have passed two whole months with a par
ticular lady. I had often received very press
ing invitations to visit au old school-fellow,
who is settled in a snug parsonage about
fifty miles front town; hut- something or
other was continually occurring to prevent
me from availing mvself of them. “ Man
ncvci-is, but always to be ‘ cursed.’ ” Ac
cordingly, on the 17th of June, IS25* (I
shall 'never forget it, if I live to the age of
old P it,), having a few spare weeks-at my!
disposal, I set out for iny chum’s residence.!
He received me with bis wonted cordiality.; I
but I fancied he looked n'little more care-{
worn than a man of thirty jnight have been i
expected t > look, marked as he is to the
woman of his choice, and m Che possession
of an easy fortune. Poor fellow ! I did not
know .that his wife was a precision—I do
not employ the term in a religious sense.
The first Tunt I received of the fact was from
Mr. S. who, removing my hat from the first
peg in the hall to the fourth, observed, 4 My
wife is a little particular in these matters ;
the first peg is for mif hat, the second is for
V/ifliamV, the third for Torn’s and you can
reserve the fourth if you please for your own;
ladies, you know, do not like to have their
arrangements interfered with.’ I promised
to do my best to recollect the order of pre
cedence with respect to the hats, and walk
ed, iip stairs impressed with an awful venera
tion'for a lady who had contrived to impose
so.rigid a discipline on a man, formerly the
most disorderly of mortals, mentally resolv
ing to obtain her favor by the most studious
observance ofher wishes. I Alight as well
have determined to be Emperor of China!
Before the week was at an end, I was a lost
I always reckoned myself tolerably
Presentiment.—The power of present!
ment is extraordinary.—during the reign of
terror in France, the Baron Marivgt was
continually tormented by the apprehension
that he should die upon a scaffold. All the
cares of his wife were employed unsuccess
fully to cairn'his fears. He sometimes in
dulged himself with the hope, that -if his
birth-day passed without' his being arrested,
he should fie delivered from the weight
which pressed his heart, and might perhaps
be saved. Upon one occasion, he gazed,
in a fit of deep^ydelapchdly, upon hi^ son
who was then twp years old, and ex
who hammers away in his rear from' mc
ing till night. The worst of it is, that v
Mrs. S. never allows a moment’s peace
her husband, children, or servants,
thihks herself a jewel of a wife; but sue!
jewels are too costly for everv-day wear. I
am sure poor S. thinks so in his heart, and,
would be content to exchange half-a-dozen
of liis wife’s tormenting good qualities for
the sake of hping allowed a little cdnimonw.
place repose. \ . - >
1 never shall forget the delight I felt on ,
entering my own-house, after enduring her
thraldom for two months. I absolutely
revelled in disorder, and gloried in nr" V*
tors. I tossed my hat bne way, my gv ,/'
another ; pushed all the chairs into the nil, -4
die of the room, and narrowly escaped kiclc-
I ing my faithful Clnistoper, for offering ffr
put it 4 in order ’ again. That cursed ‘spirit
[of order!’ lam sure it is a spirit of evil
omen to S. For my own piut, I Jo so exe
crate the phra-e, that if I, were a-Member
of the House t f Commons and the order of
the day were called for, I should make it a
rule to walk out. Since my return home, I
have positively prohibited the usq of the
word . in my house ; raid nearly quarrelled
with an honest poulterer, who has Served
me for the last ten years, because he has a
rascally shopman, who will persist in snuf
fling at my door (I hear him now from mylT
parlour window,) 4 Any order this morning!*"
Confound fhe fellow! that 13 his knock.
I will go out; and offer him half a-crown to
change his phrase! When at school,
Order is Heaven’s first law,
used to be our standing round-text copy;
but were I doomed to transcribe the senti?
ment in these my days of adolescence, £
should take the liberty of suggesting the
new reading of—
Order is hell’s first law—-
for I feel satisfied that Satan himself is a
1 particular gentleman.’
Liverpool Races.—Wo congratulate our
sporting friends on a novel kind of racing,
which has just been established in the vicini-
iiws. that f
e, during/ V;
itidy; never leaving more than half my
clothes on the floor of my dressing-room, nor j ty of Liverpool: AH the town kriowi
more ftmn a dozen books about an apart-I a number of choice spirits assemble, d -
ment t may happen to occupy for an hour. 1 the summer evenings, on the green contigu-
I do not. lose more than a dozen handker- ous to St. George’s hotel, Everton, for the
chiefs in a iponth; nor have more than a purpose of enjoying the delightful exercises
quarter of an hour’s hunt tor my hat or; oi bowling. .Among the group may be seen
gloves whenever l go out in a hurry. I the portly lawyer, the bulky physician, and
found all this was but as dust in the balance. ! the wealthy merchant, who there reinvigo-
I might as well have expected to be admit-! rate themselves after the, toils of the dayby
ted a.contributor to the Literary Magnet, j impellin g the bowl across the smooth green
because I could write ‘joining hand.? , The
first time l sat down to dinner I made a
horrible blunder; for, in my haste to help
my friend trf some asparagus. I pulled the
dish a little out of its place, thereby derang
ing the hexagonal order in which the said rejected,
dishes were arranged—I discovered my mis- posed by
hap on hearing Mr. S. sharply rebuked for
ja similar offence; secondly, I sat half the
evening with the cushion a full finger’s
breadth beyond the cane-work of my chair
—and what is worse, I do not know that
I should have been aware of my de
linquency, if the agony of the lady’s feel
ings lqid not, at length, overpowered e\ r ery
Other consideration, and at last burst forth
with, ‘ Excuse me, Mr.
isyjard. A few evenings ago the party met as
usual; but the green, unfortunately, was out
of order, and the bowlers eould not follow
that usual pastime. What was to be done ?
Vari ous plans were proposed, and succesively
At length a foot-race was pro-
a disciple of JEsculapius, who
challenged a foreign gentleman to run
him a race around the gravelled walk. Tho
challenge was that the former would rim
with the heaviest man in the company on h\s
back, in a shorter time than the latter would
run one hundred yards unincumbered. The
challenge was accepted, And the wager was
glasses round ; but a difficulty now' arose to
determine which of the gentlemen present
xcuse me, Mr. ————, but do pray possessed the greatest gravity. We have
put your cushion straight; it annoys me be- | already said there was a portly lawyer?/! the
y°fid measure to see it otherwise.’ My j company. All eyes were instantly fixed on
third .offence was displacing the snuffer-[him; and he was requested, with one con-
stand bom its central position between the i sen t, to act the party of jockey on the occa-
, l[r . v qi —r v. ,,, my fourth, leaving a pamphlet sion. Our friend loves a good joke almost
cla mpJ 1 HHU/ ne.V.qr live to see this child j 1 mad been perusing on the piano-forte, its | as well as Ire loves a <r 00 d dinner • and he
in male clothing?” ari observation which his j proper place being a table in the fiddle of j withbut 'hesitation, accepted the situation*
lady carefully treasured up in her memory, j the room, on which all books in present use 1 The man of physic stood to receive his
The horrors of the revolution appeared at;! were ordered to repose; my fifth—but in short I learned rider, who mounted, as quickly as
,, ,• , -. • via ' ci • i * a* j - ; withstanding he carried the lawor, like Cohe
presentiments, Madame de Manyet, I danger of having your legs snapt off, and in j upon Littleton, soon outstripped his bm Jen-
about eleven o’clock, when they were just «««♦»•«* <"••■» ~ . rr
serving the desert; left the table, and return
ing in a few moments after with her son i {table knew its duty; the very chimney or-
her arms dressed like a sailor, she gpve him’naments had been ‘trained up in the way
to her bqsband, whom she tenderly em- j they should go,’ and wo to the unlucky
another your nose. There never was a j Jess competitor, apd scampered away with
house so atrociously neat; ever, c/iair^nd ’his Kaihof law with as much ease, as if lie
had’ a mere boy upon his shoulders. His
rival and the re.st of the company struggled
I . , 4 . ' after him in vain. But how shall we S de-
braced, and exclaimed—“ You now see your I wight who should make them 4 depart from scribe the catastrophe which befel him when
son
my dear, in man’s clfithing, and your!it.’ Even those 4 chartered libertines,’ the
birth-day has already passed!” “ Not yet,”! children and dogs, were taught to be. as
was his reply, “midnight has not struck;”|demure and hypocritical as the matronly
His friends shuddered at the words, and j tabby cat herself; who sat with her fore feet
-Sir thus it is. T
Let me see: forty time
1
#7 **
which consists of forty members, ... f ..
years to complete thekriietionary. field should, for a moment imagine that he
1 • n/tuLl Lrt 4kn /ltinn Af cuon on artirino 1 A nH
could be the dupe of such an artifice.—-And
it was on this occasion that he wrote to him
anxiously forged their eyes upon a time
piece, the fingers,of which they silently re
garded, as they moved towards the wished-
for hour. It was just on the point of twelve,
when, a thundering knock was heard at the
door. M. de Marivet turned pale; all who
Surrounded -him were struck dumb - wiih.ter
ror; the door opened, and gave admission
to the emissaries of the revolutionary com
mittee, who were come to seize him. M.
de la C., whom, in a letter, he had advised
to emigrate, had not taken the precaution to
destroy his papers. After his departure,
they had been transported, amongst; his
otheF effects, to the house of M. de RiepapeV
his grandfather. The latter had been im
prisoned on suspicion, and seals had been
placed upon the property at his house. He
died in prison, and the agents of the com
mittee, who were present when the seals
were removed, found, in an earthen vessel,
amongst some torn papers which were de
stined to be burnt, the letter in which M. de
Marivet advised M. de la C. to emigrate.
This letter was his sentence of condemna
tion. Mi de Marivet was summoned before
the revoltitibsary tribunal, condemned to
death, and lo^t his head upon the scaffold,
just before Thermidor.
. Particular People.—Reader! did’st .ever
live with" a particular lady ? one possessed,
not simply with the spirit, but the demon of
tidiness 1 who will give you a good two
hours* lecture upon the sin of an untied
shoe-string, and raise a hurricane about
' ' ll
together and her tail curled round her as ex
actly as if she had been worked in au urn-
rug, instead of being a living mouser. It
was the utmost stretch of my friend’s marital
authority to get his favorite spaniel admitted
to the honours of the parlor ; and eveu this
privilege is only granted in his master’s
presence. If Carlo happens to pop his un-
hicky brown nose into the room when S. is
from home, he sets off directly with as much
consciousness in his ears and tail as if he
had been convicted of a larceny in the
kitchen, and anticipated the application of
the broomstick. As to the children, Heaven
help them! 1 believe that they look forward
to their evening visit to the tlrawing-room
with much the same sort of feeling. Not
that Mrs. S. is an unkind mother, or, I should
rather say, not that she means to be so; but
she has taken it into her head, that 4 preachee
and floggee too’ is the way to bring up
children; and that as young people have
sometimes short memories, it is necessary
to put them verbally in mind of their duties,
From night till mom, from mom till dewy eve.
So it is with her servants ; if one of them
leaves a broom or a duster out of its place
for a second, she hears of it for a month af
terwards. I wonder how they endure it ! 1
have sometimes thought that from long
practice, they Jo no* fieed it—as a frieud of
mine who lives in a bustling street in the
City, tells me he does notfoear the infernal
noise of the coaches and carts in the front
of his house, nor of a confounded brazier,
he was within a few yards within the win
ning post? The course is not one of the
most even in the world, and it is thickly
strewed with .sharp stones. Well, when
iEsculapius was in the height of his career
and when the goal was full in view, his foot
struck against something. * He stumbled, he
tottered, and down came Law and Rbysick
with a concussion which shook to its vety
foundation the tower of Everton church.
Alas, Alas ! ’
“T. foil down and broke liis crown,
And P. came tumbling after.”
The blood flowed in copious streams,
from the nostrils of iEsculapius; hut he
sprang, like Antaeus, from the earth, with
Herculean strength, he threw the lawyer
behind his back, and pressing on with quick
ened speed, reached the goal before his rival l
completed two-thirds of his task; he was de
clared the victor amidst the plaudits of the
spectators, who congratulated him on the
prodigious strength which he had displayed
in winning the race with “ The Statutes at
large ” upon his shoulders.
Bathos.—Not long since, an eminent
lawyer, of Ohio, closed a pathetic harangue .
to a jury in the following strains.
/ “ And now the shades of night had
shrouded the earth in dkrkness. All nature
lay wrapped in solertm thought, when these
defendant ruffians Came - rushing like a
mighty torrent from the hills down upon the
abodes of peace—broke open the plaintiff’s
door—separated the weeping mother from
her screeching infant—arid took away my
client’s rifle, gentlemen of lhe jury, for
which we charge 15 dollars.