Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-10-14
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THE r0LUNTRER COUNSEL.
a TALE OF JOHN TAYLOR.

I'VE copy the following from the New
York Sunday Times The subject of it,
John TAYLOR, was licensed when youth
of twenty one, to practice at the bar of
this city He was poor, but well educat-
ed, and possessed extraordinary genius
The graces OF his person, com bined with
the superiority of his intellect, enabled
him to win the hand of a fashionable
beauty Twelve months afterward the
husband was employed by a wealthy firm
of the CITY to 20 on mission as land a
gent to the West AS a heavy salary
was offered Taylor bade farewell to his
wife and infant son He wrote back eve
r. week. but received not a line IN answer
Six months elapsed. when the husband re-
ceived letter from his employers that
explained all. Shortly after his depar-
ture for the West, the wife and father re
moved to Mississippi There she imme-
diately obtained divorce by an act of the
Legislature. married again forthwith, and
to complete the climax of cruelty and
wrong, had the name of Taylor's son
changed To Marks-that of her second
matrimonial partner This per6dy near
" drove TAYLOR insane. His career. from
that period. became eccentric in the last
degree uusil, at last, fever carried him
off at a comparatively early age.--PhlI
Bulletin
Atan early hour on the 9th of April,
1910, the Court House in CIarksville,
Texas. was crowded to oyerhowing. Save
in the war times past, there had never
been witnessed such gathering in Red
River County. while the strong feeling
apparent or every flushed face through
out the assembly, betokened some great
occasion \ concise narrative of facts
will sufficiently explain the matter.
About the close Of 1889, George Hop
kins. one Of the wealthiest planters and
most influential men of Northern Texas,
offered a great insult to Mary Ellison, the
Young and beautiful wife of his chief over
seer. The husband threatened to chas-
tise him for the outrage, whereupon Hop
kins loaded his gun, went to Ellison
house and shol him In his own door. The
murderer was arrested, and bailed to an
swer the charge This occurrence pro
duced intense excitement; and Hopkins,
in order TO turn the tide of popular opin-
ion, or at least to mitigate the general
wrath which az first was violent against
him. circulated reports infamously preju-
dicial to the character of the woman who
had already suffered such wrong at his
hands She brought her suit for slander.
And thus tFo causes, one criminal and
the other civil and both out of the same
tragedy, we're pending in the April Cir
cult Court for l64O
The interest naturally felt by the com
J
er when 1t was known that Ashley
and Pike, Of Arkansas, and the ceiebrat-
ed s. S Prcntlss, of New Orleans, each
with enormous fees, had been retained by
Hopkirs for his defence
The trial on the indictment for murder
ended on the sih of April, with the &C
auittal Of Hopkins. Such result might
well have been foreseen, BY comparing the
talents of the counsel engaged on either
side The Texan lawyers were utterly
overwhelmed by the argument and elo
ouence Of their opponents. 1t was hght
F Of dwarfs against giants
The slander suit was set for the oth
and the throng Of spectators grew IN mum
/ bers as well as excitement; and what ma
seem strange, the current of public sentl
ment now ran decidedly for Hopkins. Hi
money had procured pointed witnesses
who served most effeetually his powerful
advocates Indeed, so triumphant ha'
been the success of the previous day, tina
when the SANDER case was called, Mar.
Ellison was left without an attorney
they had all Withdrawn. The pigmy pet
tifogcers dared not brave again the sharI
wit Of Pike, and the scathlng thunder o
Prentiss.
Have YOU 10 counsel2 e. inquired ludg
/ Mills. looking kindly at the plaintiff
mo, SIR; they have all deserted NE
and l am too POOR to employ any mor'
replied the beautiful Mary, bursting INT
tears.