Alexandria Gazette

MISCELLANEOUS.

TURNING THE TABLES.—An incident
occurred a short time since at Amesbury which
has furnished no little excitement in that goodly
quiet place, the particulars of which are these:
It appears, that a short time since, among the
other effects of a person who had applied for the
benefit of the bankrupt act, and which were sold
at public auction, was a note of hand against an
ex-deputy sheriff of Amesbury, the amount of
which was $14. This note brought the amusingly
large sum of fourteen whole cents, and, as it
would appear, found its way into the hands of a
certain noted son of Esculapius in the village of
Amesbury, who, on learning that the ex-officer
was about going out of the place on a short visit
to his friends, went to a learned counsellor, who
had recently come into the place from New
Hampshire, and having then and there made
solemn oath that he was afraid the ex-sheriff was
going beyond the jurisdiction of the court, procured
a writ, and despatched the counsellor post haste
to Newburyport, when, after hunting up two or
three other sheriffs and constables, the ex was
found and safely locked up in jail, a prisoner of
the worthy doctor! Having thus secured the
prize, funds to the amount of seven shillings and
sixpence were forwarded for a week's board of
the incarcerated ex, and the final result waited
for with great anxiety. In less than one week
from the time when the writ was made out against
the ex, an error was discovered which illegalized
the whole proceedings, committal and all. The
ex came out of jail, procured writs against the
doctor and his lawyer for false imprisonment, and
laid his damages at $500.