Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1876 — A Costly Slang Expression. [ARTICLE]

A Costly Slang Expression.

Some time ago Mrs. Thomas I. Wilcox and her sister, Miss Cochran, were out promenading, when they met Mrs. Frances A. Douglas. The head of Mrs. Douglas, was decked with a love of a bonnet, or more properly speaking a bat. The hat being rather conspicuous, by reason of its decorations, attracted the eye of Mrs. Wilcox and her sister, one of whom exclaimed, “Oh, shoot that hat!" Mrs. Douglas became indignant, and the result was she had the other two ladies arrested for insulting her. They were taken before a magistrate and bound over to keep the pace. Mrs. Wilcox then had Mrs. Douglas arrested on the charge ot perjury, but at the hearing Mrs. Douglas then brought suit against Mrs. Wilcox for false arrest and malicious prosecution, laying damages at $20,000. The trial in the Court of Common Pleas ended yesterday with a Verdict in favor of plaintiff for $450. Two of the Jurors, It was learned, were in favor of awarding plaintiff $1,500, while several of them went as low as SIOO. Mrs. Douglas is a lady of very prepossessing appearance and was dressed with much taste. — Baltimore Gazette. “A BKCJtNT census in India, prepared bj the Government with great care records 225,000 Protestant Christians. The-e is an increase of sixty-one jper cent, during the last ten years, while the natural growth of the population has been but five per cent, v