DUPUIS v. SHEAHAN.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 902, 19 December 1871, Page 2

DUPUIS v. SHEAHAN.

(To the Editor oj the Westport Times and Charleston Argus.) Sib, —As I believe it is possible that some portion of the general public may be under a misapprehension on the subject of the recent case of Dupuis v. Sheahan, I beg to be allowed through the medium of your columns to state one or two facts in connection with the case. It would appear according to the newspaper report that I for some reason or other objected to the lights of the hotel being kept burning after a certain hour, whereas it would not matter to me if they were kept alight all night. Previous to the laying of the information I had more than once remonstrated with Mr Sheahan on the subject of the nuisance of being disturbed and kept awake after the prescribed hours of business, night after night, but without producing the effect of stopping it, and instead of the grievance being redressed, it not only went on the same as ever, but I was told in a provoking tone that " it I did not like it I could do my best," inferring by the manner in which it was said that he defied me to prevent its continuance. Now, I certainly think, Mr Editor, that there should be some limit to the hours of business of such institutions, at all events where they interfere with the necessary rest which people require who have to attend to their daily occupations from morn till night. On the night respecting which the information was laid there was' a great deal of noise up to one o'clock, when the police sergeant came during his rounds and stopped it. However, it was resumed after he had left, and continued until three o'clock. I had intended the case should have been much more fully explained in Court than it was, and in order that it should be I retained Mr Horne to appear for and with me. When the case waa called on, however, my learned friend was non est, and the case had to proceed without him. I felt disappointed and annoyed at his absence, and when the case was over I went and asked him in a polite way why he had misled me by absenting himself after having been retained, and not only that, but he had himself accompanied me to lodge this complaint in order, as he said, that it might be properly or effectually done. In reply to my question he asked me another, viz: " Who the h— was I that I should presume to catchecise him ? He supposed he could do as he liked about going." I mention this circumstance for one reasou, because I feel that had the thing been fully explaiued as it ought to have been and would, if Mr Ilovne had been there to perform the duty for which he was engnged, I should have been spared the annoyance of hearing from my personal

friends that undue motives were attributed to hip in making the complaint, and, fondly, because Mr Home had never yet condescended to explaiu on what ground he absented himself after being retained, without giving me, as . he had a right to, at least some notice of his intention of withdrawing from his engagement. In conclusion I beg to say that the annoyance was very provoking, and all I sought was that it should be put a stop to. A. DtrPtris. Under the heading of "a most mysterious affair," the " Manning Times" relates the what is certainly a most remarkable story. It appears %'iat on Oxloy Island, at the Manning Kivcr, a farmer named Brown resides with his family. For some time past his daughter, a girl of twelve or thirteen years of age, has been accompanied by a curious whistling noise, which can be heard by persons at some distance from her, and which terrifies her so much that she frequently faints. Strange noises have been heard in the house, and it is related that tepon a persota (who went there to discover the cause) reading a port£on •of scripture and calling upon the spirit to appear, the apparition of a "man On Ms hands and knees, with two 'stabs en his chests, from which the blood Was flowing freely, presented itself. The same apparition is said to bave been seen by several persons-—one person having swooned away, and not being in his xasual health Bince. The affair is causing quite a sensation in the district, and numbers of people go to the house to stay for a night to ascertain the faccti of the case. One •of these fainted twice during a night. The whistling was heard four times—comme&cing at first in a low tone, and increasing in force until it became almost unhealing. Boatman: 'Ax yer parding, ladies, but I'm right out o baccy $ ye aint none on yer got e'er a screw o' baccy about yer r'—Damsels ; 'Tobacco ! •No, -of course we have not! "Whatever uhould make you think so?'— Boatman: 'Well, I didn't know but what yer might have some about yer (a pause), leastways the price of a screw o' baccy.