| Show A GOOD AND HONEST JUDGE I 1 1 I s john dudley of raymond new hampshire who was a judge in that state from 1785 to and for the last twelve years of its superior court was a remarkable man he had not only no legal education but little learning of any kind yet he possessed a diser discriminating mi mind a retentive memory a patience which no labor could tire an integrity proof alike against threats and flattery and a free elocution rude indeed and often uncouth but bold clear and expressive with a warmth of honest feeling which it was not easy to re bist aist quick to feel and prompt to act he was a resolute strong minded man intent on doing substantial justice in every case though often indifferent to the forms and requirements of law he did not always speak good english this ere plaintiff and that ere defendant fen dant them lawyers and these pere ere witnesses were expressions that often fell from his lips but it was remarked by arthur livermore who had practiced practised for many years before judge dudley that justice justlee was never better administered in new hampshire than when the judges knew very little of what the lawyers call law noumay you may laugh said the late judge bas pas parsons ons at his law and ridicule bis his language but dudley is after all the best judged ever knew in new hampshire 11 to have received such praise he must have been on the whole not nor ign ignorant orant eraut of law nor inattentive to its substantial requirements and his ideas of it may inky be infer inferred infera ned zed sd from the conclusion of one of his ch charge aradi s to the jury as once repeated by the late govern Gover nop 01 plumer it was somewhat lu in this style with grammatical corrections you have heard gentlemen of the jury what chathas wh athas has hns been sali said in this case by the lawyers the rascals but no I 1 will not abuse them it is their business to make a good case ewe for their clients they are paid for it and they tiley have done in this case well enough but you and 1 I gentlemen have so else elso to consider they talk of law why gentlemen it is not law that we want but justice they would govern us by the common law of england arru t me gentlemen gent lomen common sense is a much better guide guido for us the sense of raymond epping lipping exeter land irid the other towns which have seyit sent lizi ilal u here bere to try this case between two oi of our neighbours A clear lead head and an honet honest heart are worth more thair than all tike tire lawyers Ther there was ewas one rood good 01 thing ng said sald at the bar it was from froin an english player I 1 believe noi Nor no mutter nutter itis it is good enough almost almos tto to be ii ig the he bible it is this neju Beju sf aid ald fe tr not lot 1 that gentlemen is the law jaw in this case and law enoh in aw any case be just and fear boft it is oia oil our r business to do justice between the parties not by tiny any quirks of the law out of coke or blackstone books that that I 1 never read and never will but by common sense seme and common honesty as between man and man that chat ia Is our bu business bushless and the curse of god is upon us if we negi ket tet ct or evade or turn aside from it and now Mr bli Sli sheriff crill erill take out the jury and you mr foreman do to not keep heep us waiting with idle talk of which there has bas been too much already about matters which have nothing to do with the merits of the case give us an honest verdict of which as plain common sense bense men you need not bo be as ashamed named 11 tim THE lobby on the tariff is large and very importunate impert senators are beset in their bedrooms bed rooms and at their dinner tables lious paragraphs are telegraphed to distant new newspapers rs and to use a familiar word herx herz here D at the e w whip h i p ls is is 19 cracked over the heads of all who hesitate about voting for the highest proposed rates of duties As for mr wells he is denounced as a bribed free trade took too by men who have never themselves 1 known how to act honorably or to be impartial wash mash corres P PNEUMATIC EXPRESS from recen recent t experiment experiments a conducted by the london bondon pneumatic company it appears that tons of goods can be sent through eighteen miles of tubes every hour by means of atmospheric pressure at a cost of not more than one penny a ton per mile A part of the economy of this mode of conveyance is due to the fact that the partial vacuum in the tube is produced by means of large stationary steam engines in i n which steam is generated most cheaply an d applied with witti the least was waste t e |
