MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1091, 24 June 1882, Page 4

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

A New York man tells in an evening paper how he was cured of interfering with other people’s business. He lives near a police station, and upon one occasion saw a crowd moving towards the station house, and saw a poor look ing woman struggling between two officers. He knew nothing about the reason of the arrest, but became at once interested on noticing that the prisoner was a middle-aged, decentjooking woman, apparently not intoxicated, entreating to be let go. He followed the crowd to the station house, succeeded in getting in, determined to see fair play, and took a position in front of the sergeant’s desk, before which she was placed and at once charged by the officer with disorderly conduct. They found her in the middle of the street, talking loudly and wildly at several men and boys and offering to fight. As she did not obey their directions to go home, they resolved to “ take her in.” She struggled with them all the way to the station house, making night hideous by her shrieks, &c. The woman all this while remained calm and quiet, and the sergeant asked her what she had to say to the charge. She at once commenced a tirade against those who had caused her arrest. She said that she was quietly sitting on the step when several loafers came along and insulted her, one of them slapping her in the face ; that she “ went for them straight,” and a skirmish ensued ; that the police came up, and instead of arresting them, they arrested her. At this moment she turned her eyes on the good-natured citizen, or bystander, who was there to see that she had fair play, and exclaimed—“ There’s one of the d d loafers now.” With that she planked her shut bony fist the full force right in her champion’s left eye. His championship ended in an instant, and her case was settled by the sergeant ordering the officers to “ take her down ”; and they had their hands full. The champion’s eye was badly blackened, and when he told his wife about the case she reminded him of the well worn story of the man in Tennessee, who was huug for not minding his own business.