The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-01
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SATURDAY, :::: JANUARY 1st, 1859
ASEcDOrEs OF THE ARKANSAS BAR.

ASECUOIES VI THE AHAANSAS Ban.
Speaking Of courts reminds me of some
Of our specimens of forensic eloquence,
pathetic in tho highest degree. A limb Of
the law, who had been a circuit Judge and
Senator, once defended client for assault
and battery before two justices, and open
ing his case thus: "May it please your
honors, appear before you this day, an
humble advocate Of the peoples rights, to
redress the peoples wrongs. Justice, may
il please your honors, justice is all we ask,
and Justice is due from the tallest and high
est arch angel that sits upon the throne OF
heaven to the mcancst and most insignih-
cant demon that broils upon the Goals Of
hell. If my client, may it please your hon
ors, has been guilty of any offence at all,
unknown to the catalogue Of the law, he
has been guilty Of the leastest and most in
significant offensc that has ever been com.
mitted from the time when the morning
stars sung together withjoy, shouting hea'
yenly music 70
Another eminent member of the bar, who
has made fortune by his practice, once in
a murder case, IN which was engaged with
him, the prisoner having committed the act
while intoxicated, said to the jury in course
Of his speech: .''Gcntlcmen Of the jury, 1t
is a principle congenial with the creation OF
the world, and handed down to posterity,
that drunkenness always goes in commisera-
ton Of damages"
At an other time he told the jury that n
person indicted for assault and battery,
s'beat und bruised the boy, and ANAL CANA
ted his head" And finally, in an action
for SANDER, brought by a female client
ass'1s: one Thomas Williams, who had Ut
tered some injurious imputations aginst her
virgin purity, he thus said. '.Who is this
Tom Williams, gentlemen of the jury, that
comes riding out of the Cherokee nation,
on the suburbs Of posterity2 He knocked
at my clients door at the dead hour OF the
night, and she refused to get up and let him
in. Wasn't this a proof of her virginity?
rw Knickerbocker Magazine picks up
good many good things. In the December
number we find story which runs thus -
"Judge B., of New Haven, il talented
lawyer and great wag. lie had a son,
Sam, graceless wight, witty, and, like his
father, fond of mint ju.eps and other pala-
table "fuids." The father and son were
on n visit t, Niagara Falls. Each wa, an1-
to stake a nip but Zone for example and
the other in dread of hurting the old mans
feclings) equally unwilling to drink in pres
ence Of the other. SAM said the Judge,
'I'll take n short walk-be back shortly"
CAN ri h." replied Sam, and after seeing
the 0, d gentleman safely around the corner,
he walked out quickly and ordered q julep
nt the bar-ro While in conrocto, the
Judge entered, and (Sam just then being
back of newspaper, and consequently view
ing, though viewless,) ordered a julep.-
Tho second was compounded, and the Judge
was just adjusting his tube for cool
draught, when Sam stepped up, and taking
up his glass, requested the bartender to take
the pay for beth juleps from the bill the
old gentleman Lad handed out to him The
surprise of the Judge was equalled by his
admiration for his sons GOODNESS and he
exclaimed, "Sam Sam you need no iule,
to cool you ~ Sam "allowed" that he
didn't"
SV gave her rose and gave her
ring, and asked her to marry me then
hut she sent them back, tho insensiable
thing, and sh,'d no notion Of mon. I oil her
I'd oceans Of money and goods, and tried to
fright her with growl, but she answered,
she wasn't brought up in the woods, to be
scared by the screcch of an owl. ! called
herr" baggage and cv,ry thing bad: slight
ed her features and form, till at length
succeeded in getting her mad, and she rag
cd like the SEQ III storm. And then in
moment turned and smiled, aud called her
nm angel, and she fell in my arms like a
wearisome child, and exclaimed, awe will