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Show A correspondent of the Boston Journal says: "Justice J. P. Bradley's father was a charcoal burner in Schoharie county, New York. Joseph carted charcoal. He employed his leisure in study, and while the cattle were resting and the men enjoying their recreation Joseph was digging away at the law. When a young practitioner he made a digest of the New Jersey laws, which isBtill authority." author-ity." It waa doubtless this early habit of digesting laws that made it possible lor him to swallow justice and the constitution at one gulp, without making a wry face. |