Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-07-16

a quarter AZ the end OF the week, his board
ing price. and | began to doubt whether
the profession OF law was what had sup.
posed, the road to wealth and fame, when
loud knock at the door aroused my at.
tention, and in stepped man of a most
herculean frame, apparently much excited
and asked IT the esquire" was within;
said yes; says he 81 have very important
case, Squire, and have come to fec you.'
! This was indeed music to my ears, the first
Of the kind | had ever heard. The case
was Stated:a nei.hbor had without ask
ing bored one of his sugar trees. "lf he
had asked it, F" said my client, 'hc might
! have bored Il dozen of them and welcome. u
/ Here was Il plain case of Hcsp0ss guort
cionSan .frega, as my Blackstone told me
The advice was given. the action brought,
and warmy contcrted by Merritt :. Craig.
my worthy competitor for wealth and fame
at Versailles. | had left the office of the
justice after my first speech and was eating
dinner at my boarding house when in rush
ell my client and announced the result in
his Stcntorian voice, esquire, we have beat
him, verdict l2l cents, good; but, Squire,
| want you to stick to him, MS he now
swelrs he will plunge it into cckitv, here is
your fee of -, 80. This was my first eli
ent, my first case and my first fec
In the spring Of 1890 left Versailles,
settled in Connersvillc, in the beautiful
White Water valley. John Conner, the
proprietor lived there at that time, and as
he had been many years in his youth among
the Indians at their homes, Connersyille
was daily filled with hi, forest friends
The only hotel was kept 10y my distinguish
cl friend. Newton Claypool the only at
toiney in the place was MY friend William
w. Wick, who was soon after elected Judge
of tho "ncw purchase circuit" including
the seat Of government Court was in sos.
sion when | arrived The great case of
Isaac Jones against T. lward Harper was
on trial. The facts of the ease were SIM
ply these: Jones sold Harper twenty five
cents worth Of beef in the market. lIar.
per had no change to pay for it. Jones,
some days after, called on Harper for his
pay. Harper refused to pay alleging that
the beef made his family sick. Jones
brought Nult before Edmund Harrison, n
Justice of the peace. laying his damages at
$3.50. Several hung jurics followed each
other before the justice At length Il yer.
diet of twenty-five cents was hal, from
which Harper appcalelto the Circuit Court,
where jury after jury, at successive terms.
had disagreed; aud now came on the final
trial. The people of the country in mass
were in the Court house, the jury in the
box, and the lawyers in their seats when
entered the room; the young Judge, Egglcs.
ton, sitting between William Helm and
Edward Webb. his porlly associatcs..-
General James Noble, John Test, Amos
Lane. AMI james Il. Ray, the counsel for
Jones. occupied one end OF the long table
before the jury. AMI William W. Wick,
Daniel j. Caswcll. and William G.. Drew
the other Jones and Harper sat at the
ends of the table. deeply anxious as to
the result. aad ready To give any required
10 their counsel The cyi.
dcnec was heard, the case argued some two
lays with great energy by the able coun.
sci, the court charged the jury with the usll.
NJ ability ofJudge Egglcston; the outsiders
seemed To doubt OF the verdict ~ they
took sides with the lawyers. The jury wa
Dut all night. and ut the opening of the
,ourt next morning rcturncla verdict for
he defendant. Jonc' lost his beef; his
al G,,,,. o,.t ,,.e, roll l~ tho sheriff
10 pay the costs--ovcr = 100; and tho last
lime saw him he was poorly dressed,
riding little pony, carrying a few pccks
IF torn to ncighhoring horse mill IIur-
per was broken up IN paying his lawyers
ices.
One morning ! was introduced by my
landlord 10 u small, black.cycd man, wear.
ns plain Goa, md speaking the plain Ian.
suagc of "thcc anil thou" n Or. Burr,
from New Philadelphia, Ohio, who was n.
bou, to settle in ConnorSvillc, rs a root
Doctor Some days after, there was nailed
up to III, weather boarding of the hotel nn
enormous swamplilly root almost u, large
as man, with heat, eyes, nose, ears and
mouth nice Y carved, arms and legs with
feet stuck on and Just above the sign on
board, marked with chalk. Joseph s.
Burr, Root Doctor: No Calomcl." The
!, ws of the arrival of the root doctor
spread over the country like wild fire. and
hundreds came from all parts Of the county
t. zee the doctor and the biz root. We
had in town at the time first rate Allo.
pathir physician, by the name of DR.. Jo-
,eph Moiitt. who looked upon the strange
root doetoras a quack intending to gull
the people, and spoke ofhim freely with the
utmost contempt, while on the other hand
the root doctor openly charged Dr. Moiitt
with killing his patients with "calomel."
The people soon began to take sides some
for roots and some for calomcl 1t was
Sickly season and u good many Of DR.. Moi
itt's patients died; each ease OF death was
referred to by the root doctor a. evidence
that the calomcl doctor was killing the
people and many believed the SANDER. DR..
Moititt was at length almost driven to dcs-
pair, and callel upon me to bring an ac-
ton of SANDER against DIR. Burr; ! objected
at first, but ultimately yielded to the ur-
gent request of the doctor. The action
vas brought; some five Of the attorneys OF
the circuit We're engaged on each side
The trial Taste more than week: tn, law
yers distinguished themselves, the proof
pro and con lift the case in douht in the
minds of the jury AMI by-standcrs whether
tn people "diel with til, fever" or
were kiIlcl by the calomel Doctors" The
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