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Show Assault and Battery. A warning was given to people, yesterday, yes-terday, not to offer less than the price charged for an article by the seller. A fellow who claims to le the friend of the poor man, and who deals in second hand goods, o tiered a. watch lo a "green one" for ten dollars. The latter doesn't believe in paying tho first price asked by those second-hand people, so he made a lender of five dollars for the "ticker." This offer so e lira gal the old clothes man that ho commenced a vigorous assault and battery on the "young man from the country," who left the premises in great haste, but not until he had dodgal enough old clothes and empty oil cans to set a man up in that line of business. The insulted possessor of tho watch was final $10 for allowing his angry passions to rise. |