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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 1: the Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire. (search)
os and strangeness about them, which in its way has, perhaps, never been equalled. It was the sternness of the Scotch Covenanter, softened by a century's residence abroad, amid persecution and trial, wedded to the comic humor and pathos of the Irish, and then grown wild in the woods among their own New England mountains. There never existed a people at once so jovial and so religious. This volume could be filled with a collection of their religious repartees and pious jokes. It was Pat. Larkin, a Scotch-Irishman, near Londonderry, who, when he was accused of being a Catholic, because his parents were Catholics, replied: If a man happened to be born in a stable, would that make him a horse? and he won his bride by that timely spark. Quaint, bold, and witty were the old Scotch-Irish clergymen, the men of the siege, as mighty with carnal weapons as with spiritual. There was no taint of the sanctimonious In their rough, honest, and healthy natures. During the old French war,
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
t have been, No one could have passed in before I shut the door. I shoved a whole lot men out as I was about to shut my door. I looked it. Don't know one of them. Mrs. Driscoll (recalled).--I saw a man with Clancey and Murphy at my house last night, and I warned Clancey to have nothing to do with him. I have seen this man with a soldier's Cap. &c., on, but I have heard he is no soldier, and that he was in jail last week. I heard him say that no one in Richmond knew his name. Patrick Larkin, sworn I know the man Mrs. Driscoll speaks of. He calls himself Burns. He often calls himself "the old man's son," and he is best known by that title, I saw him last night about the time of the murder, in Mrs. Driscoll's yard. He tried to get into her house, but couldn't Then he tried at another house, and finally escaped through the back part of the yard, but whither he went I don't know, nor just where he got out. Upon this evidence, as the reader will have inferred, the jury re
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
t., 5.00; John W. Carrol, Corp., 5.00; John Boyle, Corp., 5.00; James M. Brown, 1500. John H. Bizer, 5.00; Stephen Burke, 5.00; Robert Bristol, 5.00; Robert J. Qumming, 5.00; James Currien, 5.00; Edward Carr, 5.00; Wm. Clyne, 5.00; Peter Coriners, 5.00, Edward Daily, No. 1, 5.00; Edward Daily, No. 2, 5.00; Patrick Deary, 5.00; John Evans, 5.00;John Fossie, 5.00; Stephen Foley, 5,00; James T. Hays, 5.00; Thomas Harris, 5.00; Peter. J. Hackett, 5,00; Henry Kelly, 5.00; Michael Kane, 5,00; Patrick Larkin, 5.00; Leonard Miller, 5.00; John McCarty, No. 1, 5,00; John McCarty, No. 3,5.00; Robt. Morgan, 5.00; Stephen Mulcachie, 5.00; Chas. Murray, 5.00; James O'Conner, 5.00; John O'Donnel, 5.00; Joseph Perkins, 5.00; John C. Johnson, 5.00; James Kiley, 5.00; Michael Sullivan, 5.00; Samuel Wayts, 5.00; Thomas Williams, 10.00; Daniel Whitney, 6.00; Joseph Nichols, 5.00; Henry Fraeling, 5.00 Archie Scott, 5.00; James Shaughnessay, 5.00; John Devlin, 5.00; Benjamin White, 5.00; James C. Hamilton,
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern and Southern news. (search)
y important character, and served to occupy his attention only for a short time.--The following cases were brought up and disposed of: John, the slave of Bently Wicker, was arraigned upon the charge of having an improper pass and supposed to be a runaway.--Case continued. Ragh Dougherty, was presented upon the charge of keeping his bar-room open on Sunday, the 26th inst., in violation of an ordinance prohibiting such a proceeding. The penalty in the case was a fine of $6. Patrick Larkin appeared before his Honor to answer the charge of selling ardent spirits, or a mixture thereof, to be drunk at his house, the place where sold, without a license. For the want of proper evidence to convict the accused, the case was dismissed. John H. Schoup, charged with keeping his bar-room open on Sunday, the 26th inst., contrary to an ordinance interdicting such trade on the Sabbath, was fined the sum of $5. Edward Warring was made to pay the sum of $2 for permitting his se
The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
Charge of robbery. --On Saturday last, Patrick Larkin and his wife, well known residents of Cary and 17th streets, wer down 17th street about 3 o'clock. As he was about to pass Larkin's door, L. invited him in and treated him. He remained theout his money to pay, and laid his specie on the counter. Larkin offered to buy the silver, but witness declined to sell. Mrs. Larkin then took one of the half dollars, and witness asked her to return it. She declined to do so, but told her husband that witness accused her of having it. Witness says Larkin then knocked him down, told his wife to fasten the front door, which she did, Larkin continuing to hold him down. Mrs. L. then went to the aid of her husband, Jumped on the witness, and ockets of their contents, including money and papers. Larkin proved by two old ladies who were present that Kene was dr then said he had been robbed of $350. They testified that Larkin did not touch the accuser. Owing to the peaceable cha