Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1869 — Driving on The Sidewalls. [ARTICLE]

Driving on The Sidewalls.

Week before last we published tlie Statute whuTiJo'oThThCs dri\ ing tearns or riding animals upon the sidewalks, and warned the- public that seine of our citizens would see. that the law was enforced. Tuesday Mr. A. S. Tharp w.is brought before J ns]ice E. T. !|arding clmrged with i in'uuing this Law bv -driving iirLeam-along the sidewaik in front of the residence of C. W. llenkle, on I'icnt street. — Justice Handing assessed a line in his case of $1 and costs of the suit, amounting altogether to nearly $5. We are informed his honor remarked this was the first lie's, lion of the law yet brought to his notice officially and that in consequence he would assess the line as lbw as possible, but gave winning that a repetition of the offence would meet with no leniency. ,