Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, Apr. 21, 1883 Geo. RUDLOFF was brought before 'Squire ROY, Tuesday, on a charge of assualt and battery committed upon the person of Bern. STEVENS. It appears by the evidence that RUDLOFF went up on the gallery of St. Philip & Jacoby church, River aux Vases, during service and was ordered down by the organist, Mr. STEVENS, which order he resisted. After service the twto met in the yard when the assualt was committed by young RUDLOFF. The defendant was acquitted. Mr. ----------, the keeper of a livery stable on the Illinois side was in town Wednesday in pursuit of a swindler who had hired a team and buggy but had failed to bring back the property at the stipulated time. The owner, becoming alarmed, had followed the man up until he found his team which had been pawned for $22 and a pistol, the thief representing himself as being himself in pursuit of a horsethief. The fellow had crossed the river in a skiff, passed through town on Sunday and proceeded to St. Mary. The owner of the property was willing to spend $100 sooner than let the thief escape. The costs of the ROY case, we understand, will amount to about $400, all of which the people will have to pay. It is all very well to be a zealous prosecutor of offenders against the majesty of the law without regard to "age, sex, or previous condition of servitude," but it would have been decidely cheaper to have a little discretion mingled with zeal. ROY was tried once, before one of the oldest justices of the peace in the county, and acquitted on the same charge, and wisdon and sescretion would have suggested to the Prosecuting Attorney that there was very little chance of a jury convicting a man on the same evidence on which a justice of the peace refused to bind him over. (NOTE: Checking back in my files, I found that ROY was being tried for perjury. -- sjr) A GOOD VOICE WORTH KEEPING Our friend Emile LELIE lost his voice on his way home from Perryville last week and we were ready to offer a reward for the recovery of the same, but, well trained voice as it was, it came back of its own accord as it ought to have done. The engineer of the train whose fireman was killed at Pilot Knob last week has become a raving manic. He was in no way to blame, but he and his fireman were close friends. "Who was the meekest man, my son?" said the superintendent of a boys' Bible class in this State. "Moses, sir." "Very well, my boy, and who was the weakest woman?" "Please, sir, there never was no weakest woman."