Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1878 — A Crab and a Lawsuit. [ARTICLE]

A Crab and a Lawsuit.

A curious case came up before a Baltimore Police Court the other day. A naughty boy named John Wilson, it appears, delights to tease his companions, and, the other day, possessing himself of a live crab, he gave into its grasp the nose of a boy named Eagan. Despite his utmost exertions Eagan could not rid himself of the crustacean, and it was only when the bystanders rent the crab piecemeal that the boy was released. To avenge this insult to her offspring Eagan : s mother soundly whipped young Wilson, who thereupon had her brought before a court for assault and battery. The Judge, however, apparently considering honors easy, dismissed the suit. It has been calculated that about 100,000 boatmen are employed on the canals of England and Wales ; that 70,000 women live in the oanal-boats, and the children found afloat make up a total population of nearly 600,000. No women or children are allowed to live in canal-boats in either Scotland or Ireland.