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Ctje <§reen Bag. elusions as to tf unions in the r Published Monthly, at S3.00 per annum. Single numbers, 50 cents. The laws if 20, and 21 of Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, -26;; also / Horace W. Fuller, 15^ Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. of. m cmtat The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of ated upon me; is this a threat or not " / think elstan (a, articles of moderate length upon subjects of it is." The below are a part of the names of the rioters is iefeii interest to the profession; also anything in the or mobers that was on the ground : and a part or all way of legal antiquities or curiosities, facetia, note, tt of them help to injur me. anecdotes, etc. a ram [Here follows a long list of names ] in sv I sent a petition to the County Court about Sep THE GREEN BAG. Ac tember 18th, 1883, and I sent another petition to the cas T~*HE following petition was presented some Ohio State Circuit or Destrict Court about April 7th, years since to the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1884. Please answer within Thirty days so that I might and has been kindly forwarded to us by an Ohio know what to depend upon. correspondent : — Yours in truth, Windsor, Ohio, May 12th, 1884. Ohio State Court, Gentlemen Sirs, — I have been injured, by being Another Ohio subscriber favors us with the rode on a rail or pole, in this said Township, in the following amusing production : — year of 1874 -. and I have been in pain ever since Kenton, Ohio, June 3, 1892. that time, and not able to earn my own living by Editor " Green Bag " : — survile labor. I! Petition for you Ohio State Court to have the Dear Sir, — The following copy of a legal notice rioters or mobers be brought to justice : and I am that I obtained in an adjoining county may interest looking for the said Township : County (Ashtabula,) some of your readers. or State, to pay the injury, damages & etc., their Offi The notice reads as follows : — cers and company did to me; as the Officers got them Notic. together. There were over thirty in number; in the Notic is Hereby given thad the undersinder has taken riot or mob and the trusteese were . Two of them wear on the ground and the other might have up 5 hogs. I soug & 4 picks. Sought waigh is about 200 lbs and the picks abought 100 to 125 lbs. Sad Hogs is been there for any thing I know off. nearly altogether Black and kebt on expense of the I believe that the Officers are /widen for what their owner. D. B , Road Sup. privates do. And the Nations are holden for what Respt. yours, their Officers do. I want for you, Ohio State Court, to proceede and pay me for the injurys & etc., and bring them to justice. I have been call a British stag and my brothers - was call mofodites on the 22d day of June, 1882, by LEGAL ANTIQUITIES. one of the mob that in:,,.r;d r..e. From the Old Act Books of the Archdeacon's Do._vo»"4toTTTt?, this is not any account, with Great .Brtton, and others sivilize and inlightened nations? Courts, to which offenders were cited for ecclesi "Do you think that the above mention nations are astical trial and discipline, the Rev. John Brown going to sit down and alow their subjects be slan (the author of a new life of John Bunyan) has dered like this? selected some curious instances of clerical fallibil As I am a freeborn and consider myself subject to ity. One clergyman acted at Christmas as the the same said nations; and I look to them for my protection. How much more they will look to the act lord of misrule; another neglected his duties to be of crippleing; brutalizeing or mangleing the humon present at an execution; a third baited a bear in being : besides the rumour out through the County his church; while a fourth encouraged cock-fight that mask men came to my Fathers house; and oper- ing in the chancel. 50