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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], A fine old English jury. (search)
wo months. A brief paragraph suffices to dispose of an important case, and it is fortunate, considering that economy of space is desirable in these last times, that all the fashions of old England have not been transmitted to this day and generation. During the time of the "Long Parliament," under Cromwell, it was common among the most fanatical of the fathers of New England Puritanism to adopt scriptural names, some of them consisting of several words of a favorite text. We subjoin the names of a jury said to have been empaneled in Sussex, England, which presents a fair sample of the names of that period, and may serve to amuse the reader: Accepted Trevor, Redeemed Compton, God Reward Smart, Earth Adams, Kill Sin Pimple, Be Faithful Joiner, Fight the Good Fight of Faith White, Hope for Bending, Meek Brewer, Faint Not Hewitt, Make Peace Heaton, Stand Fast on High Stringer, Called Lower, Return Spelman, Fly Debate Roberts, More Fruit Fowler, Weep Not Billing, Graceful Hurding.
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], An American Captain's "Correction" of his crew. (search)
found the man drunk, reprimanded him, and ordered him below. Instead of going, the Mate threatened to "whip" the Master, whereupon the latter seized a barrel stave and knocked Smith down by a smart blow on the head, repeating the stroke two or three times. The Mate appeared in Court without bearing any marks of blows. The Master's defence was that he struck the man in self-defence, and that he had a right to administer "correction" to his men to maintain discipline. The case was found proved, and the magistrate remarked that if any man in this country had struck a horse severely with such a weapon as he had used to his Mate, he would have been punished for cruelty to animals. Captain Colson was fined five guineas. The Amos M. Roberts is the first ship under the "stars and stripes" that ever entered this harbor, and the system of discipline this case indicates has not favorably prepossessed seamen in this quarter towards the American Merchant service.--North British Daily Mail.