Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — A Reasonable Request. [ARTICLE]

A Reasonable Request.

Magistrate—You are accused of stealing chickens, Uncle Rastus. Are you guilty or not guilty? Uncle liastus—i pleads not guilty, yo’ honah, an’ inquests de privlege of frowing myse’f on de mercy ob de cou’t in case de evidence goes agin me.— New York Sun. Mark Lane, in London, was originally called Mart Lane, from the privilege of fare accorded by Edward I. to Sir Thomas Ross, of Hamlake.