High Sheriff Juries and Lively Courtroom Jests of Old England
A humorousOld England tale recounts a High Sheriff who filled juries with fat men lean men barbers and even a squinting crew, provoking roars of laughter in court as wigs toppled and jurors struggled to fit the box. The piece ends with a note on Mrs. Adams Descriptions of Washington in 1801 and the unfinished East Room.
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Court of Common Pleas
Adams county
Gettysburg
Freedom township
James M'Mhenny
Daid Reth
Henry Heagy
Josesn Kenny
WILLIAM FICKES
Sherif
Mendilwat
Adams Caunty
Petersburg
Huntington township
Jane
York Springs
Carlisle and
Hanover
Presbyterian Church
Elizabeth Gardner
John Weaxter
Athens
Lacedemonians
A. F Journal of Commerce
Old
England
G— G
Maysrand
Washington city
Family cashes fortune after long separation in Saline county
A French settler long parted from his wife and daughter returns to claim kinship with the daughter after twenty years. He recognizes her by a scar and brings two bags of gold totaling 40,000 dollars, offering his daughter and her husband the best nearby farm. The fate of the wife remains undisclosed.
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FANE MacONNTsATy
Taneytown
Gettysburg
Baltimore city
York street
Michael Clapsaddle
Levi Buffington
Glasgow
Saline county
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Maryland
Jacob Newcomer
A. G. EGE
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Franklin township
Robert Sheckley
William Bailey
William Hamilton
Henry Trostle
GEORGE TROSTLE
Straban township
Jon L. Grass
Hunterstown
WM. FP. WALTER
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kregister
Orphans’ Court
Henry Wertz
Jesse Wertz
Peter Shanefelter
Ann Weaver
Jacob Weaver
Abraham Krise
Henry Snyder
Joseph R. Snyder
John Snyder
Henry A. Picking
Jacob Kimmel
Philip Beamer
Jacob Schlosser
Christian Batiley
John Deardorff
Jacob Sherry
Alexander Cobean
Jane Cobean
Rosannah
Earlston
D. MIDDLECOFF
Menullen
Franklin
LUvelack
A. D
Carlyle
Proles Mall
DAVID M. MYERS
NICHOLAS WELTZELL
JACOB DLELLONE
Gettyshire and Petersburg Turnpike Company
J. B. M PHERSON
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Wintrax C. Riewanps
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Southern Literary Messenger
ilissillancous
Eleaven
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Sosson Afu- SHIN
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Dickinson College
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Washington City Evening News
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Indian Affairs
United States
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Brown, Portage
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