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Show Aiiu.si.Nci a family.. The New Orleans Picayune has this: An old man was arrested yesterday, charged with abusing his family. The complainant com-plainant was his daughter, a very pretty pret-ty girl of some fifteen years of age. She cried a good deal, and the unusual agitation enlisted warmly the sympathies sympa-thies of the court So, when the case came on for trial, ho inquired of her quite tenderly if she knew why her lather abused her. "He didn't abuse me," she answered, innocently; "It was John he struck." "And who is John?" asked the court. "He's an acquaintance." "A lover, perhaps?" "1 cs, sir that is, if he gets the place." "What place?" "Why, father's. John's trying to get it, and when the old man heard it, he got angry." "And this you call abusing (lie family?" inquired inquir-ed the court, indignantly. - "Well, it's almost the same. John will be one of the family." argued the pretty pleader. "But he ain't yet," "Well, it ain't my fault," and the fair complainat looked around with an air that evinced she had nothing more to say. |