The Rhode Island Republican

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.

From the Augusta Chronicle.

A GEORGIA SHREW.

" Why, sirs, I trust I may have leave to speak,
And speak I will, I am no child, no babe:
Your betters have endur'd me say my mind;
And, if you cannot, best you stop your ears."

The Grand Jury of Burke have presented
Mary Carmeli as a common scold, and disturber
of the peaceable inhabitants of that
country. We do not know the penalty, or
if there be any attached to the offence of
scolding: but for the information of our
Burke neighbours, we would inform them
that the lamented and distinguished Judge
Early, decided, some years since, when a
modern Xantippe was brought before him,
that she should undergo the punishment of
immersion three several times
in the Oconee. Accordingly she was confined
to the tail of a cart, and accompanied by
the jeering of the mob, conducted to the
river, where she was publicly ducked, in
conformity with the sentence of the court.
Should this punishment be awarded Mary
Carmeli, we hope, however, it may be attended
with a more salutary effect, than in
the case we have just alluded to—the unruly
subject of which, each time as she arose
from the watery element impiously exclaimed,
with a judicious gravity of countenance,
"glo'y to God."

She must have been an extraordinary scold to
have disturbed a large county where the houses
are perhaps a half mile apart.