Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1859 — The Obtuse Judge. [ARTICLE]

The Obtuse Judge.

A certain California Judge was noted for his obtuseness in a case where the District Attorney desired to have a case continued, in which one Surah Mony was a witness, and she was absent—he remarked: ’•“Your Honor 1 cannot try this case without Sarah Mony” (coremoney;) there was some laughing, but his Honor couldn’t see the point. A few days after as lie was riding home alone, the revelation of the Attorney’s remark flushed suddenly on his mind—he laughed immoderately, and continued laughing loudly as he rode up to his own door. His wife attracted by the unusual phenomenon or the Judge’s merriment came out and inquired. “Why, my dear, what are you laughing at!” “I’m laughing at one of the District Attorney’s jokes,” and straightway the Judge collapsed again into a convulsive fit of laughter. “Well,” what was the joke! said his wife. “Why,” replied the Judge, “the Attorney said when I urged him to proceed with the trial of a case.” “Sir I cannot try it without Mary Mony! “But,” said the wife, “I don’t see the point of that joke.” ‘*Nor 1 neither, just now,” said the Judge musingly, “but I did a few minutes ago!” Thomas K. Beecher, brother of Ileary Ward Beecher, has been elected Captain of a military company in Elmira N. Y.