| Show JUDGE HUNTS predecessors the nomination of E Es x senator conklin conkling to bo A associate justice odthe of the 17 S which tile illustrious statesman from utica deigned to decline revives reminiscences odthe of the eminent new who have been dollied clothed with the ermine odthe chief judicial dignity in the united state states had mr conkling accepted the gracious offer made him by president arthur lie would have become the sixth son of the empire state who filled a place on the bench of tribunal odthe of the american nation and there is little doubt that t he be would not have been eclipsed by the record of his immediate predecessor de cessor mr ward hunt the first four new yorkers however low who occupied seats among the leading judiciary authorities of the country always stood in the foremost ranks of their associates in that august tribunal the empire state suite can even boast ol 01 having given the country its first chief justice in the person of the incorruptible and indefatigable patriot john jay who adorned the bench and administered justice for six years after which he lie was sent on a special mission to great britain bt Bli tain on bs return the citizens of his na tivo tive state lio honored nored him by electing him to the governorship and john adams PS president proposed to areiti reinstall stall him on the supreme court bench but ho be declined from 1806 to 1823 new york was represented in tile supreme court by Brock holst living livingston as an associate justice in which ell situation lie won the appreciation and esteem of marshall and story on his death smith thompson who had been chief justice ofner of new york was elevated to the federal judiciary dignity and it is said of him that he maintained his reputation dionas as a learned acute and logical expounder of law f for or the tv twenty renty two years ho lie occupied the belleb his successor in 1845 was samuel nelson who graced the judicial robe on oil the TJ SSu premo court for over a quarter of a century enjoying universal zal respect as one of tho tile ablest and safest of V S judges s after these giants came a comparative Z para tive mediocrity in the person of odward iniard hunt who had honorably filled minor judicial positions in new york state but could by no means riso rise or aspire to the distinction of his predecessors since mr hunts retirement the state ofner of new york lias has been ous of securing the successor in roscoe don conkling kling they would have had a representative of national reputation equal to that of any of his predecessors it seems that he lie prefers the din of tho the political arena to the comparative quietude of the tile bench alic lie only man mail now available is judge Blate liford A N Y sim stin correspondent from el paso ark while writing on the cc tells the following in good faith and evidently relying on equally good faith on oil the part of his readers s R 11 II F freeling reeling a justice of peace of el paso ark and one of our best citizens has told told rne me that there is a gristle in the under part of a dogs tongue about an inell or an inch and one half long shaped very much like a worm he calls it the distemper worm ho ile says that with a sharp knife he lie has often taken the worm put out without any apparent pain to he the do he says that it etisa is a complete safeguard elluard in every instance a against th the e do doga as taking hydrophobia ia 11 he relates an instance where two likely young pups were bitten by a rabid dog ina in a short while after they were bitten he be took the distemper worm out of their tori tongues gues and hydrophobia never touched tou clied them while another do dog bitten at the same time went mad tho the worm not having been taken out of his tongue mississippi LAW requires require sa license from a county clerk for every marriage miss Stray horns name appeared in two licenses issued on the same came day at longtown Long town and the question of the legality odthe of the second paper brought the case into notice being asked had bad authorized any persons person sto to apply for licenses she said yes and explained that being undecided which of two admirers to choose she had taken the refusal of both agreeing to decide between them on the day set for th the wedding this is a pure case of weighing the evidence we chope SY hope miss liss strayhorn did not go astray but grasped the right horn of the tho dilemma A up resident of Leesburg fia fla laughed as licar heartily tily as the boys who tied a blazing sponge full of kerosene to the tail of a dog until the bruto brute ran under his house and set refit it afire which dei destroyed troyed it ar a te |
