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Show "Getting tub Worst or it."- Jack Bycr and W. J. Owens wore brought before tho Alderman's Court, yesterday, for their pugilistic encounter of tho previous evening. It appeared 1 from the evidence that Bycr and two other men had gone into Owens' and ordered dinner; that the two other men after eating tho dinner "sloped" and let) Bycr, who was in liquor, to pay for it; and that he had no fund? to meet the incumbrance. Whereat Owens waxed wratliy, and belligerency culminated in the game of fisticuffs. The Court wis bothered to know which had got the worst of it, and considering consider-ing the provocation Owens had received, receiv-ed, concluded it would he fair to line them each, the one for the dinner? being eaten without pay, and the other for mashing the eater's Jhco. Mr. I (wens should understand that exercising exer-cising his "bunehe of lives" is not a legitimate way of collecting dinner lulls, and that the proper course would have been to hand the impecunious individual over to an otiiecr until the legal demand was satisfied. The "poetor"was merciful, "worry merciful," merci-ful," to oue or both, |
