The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-11-29

humorous disposition.
He told me that before leaving
Maryland be was desperately on
amored with beautiful and lovely
girl, seventeen or eighteen yeare
old. he moved to South Carolins
end got married had been FORUM
ate in his profession, and was elect
ed judge. He thonght, after an
absence Of twenty years. he would
revisit old Maryland, and see all
OF his friends and family, who still
lived there. He did 80, and
shougbt no would go and see
amongst Others, this old fame OF
his, who was married and settled
in the country. He still had the
most vivid remembrance, Of her
youth, beauty and loveliness.-
Her pictare was still in his mind
and heart just as he had last seen
her. Twenty years. and the wear
and tear of time badmade no change
in thatl He called, and sent mp
his name. In n few minutes he
saw a little old woman, with a cap
on, several teeth ont in front, a
pale and wrinkled face, coming
down the stair. case, who rushed
towards him and said: "How do
yon 10, Mr.. Gantt2 1 am so glad
to see yon once more" The charm
was broken! The spell was gone
And he left the house in ten min.
ntes
When the separate appeal court
was first established i'm South Car
olina, it consisted of three judges,
Mott, Johnson and Colcock. They
reversed good many of the
judges circuit decisione, and he
was indignant at their audacity.-
He said that Mott would always
try to wipe out his tracks when he
came to any legal difficulty; that
johnson would cut away, like fel.
low with a broadaxe, to try and re.
move it; but that Colcock would
run up against the difficulty with
out seeing it.
In the latter part of Lis life,
Judge Gantt's eccentricities and
oddities became grievous to the
bar, and resolutions were intro
duced in the Legislature to remove
him from the bench, when he resign
ed by the advice of his friends. He
carried into his retirement the re.
spect and affectionate regard of all
who knew him. In the resolutions
of the bar, on his resignation,
drawn by Judge Wardlaw, he is
compsred to that most eminent
and pious of all the English judges,
Sir Matthew Hale.
He used to tell a great many an
ecdotes of himself whilst at the bar
and on the bench. He said that
he was once employed by an old
Dutchman, who chaffered about
the fee. He asked fifty dollars,
and the old man proposed twenty.
The Judge told him he would ac-
cept his fee and give him an argu.
ment accordingly. He commenced
his speech and pleased his client
very much; but he stopped short,
and told him the fee was exhaust.
ed. The old Dutchman handed
him twenty dollars more, and lie
went on bravely in the argument
for some time longer, when he put
his hands behind him and opened
them for another doalceur. The
took the hint, and put
ten silver dollars into his hands,
and he concluded his argument. -
On the bench, lie wss trying an
old miser for compromising q felo.
ny. lie had had a COW stolen, and
dropped the prosecution for a
large sum of money, paid by the
defendant. The old miser re-
fused to employ counsel to de-
fend hiir, and said "he would re-
ly on the judge for justice and
mercy" The judge sentenced
him TO pay a fine of q thousand
dollars, and be imprisoned twelve
month";! This opened the eyes of
the old miser TO the propriety of
having counsel to represent him,
and he Immediately employed
Judge Martin, then Of the bar, to
intercede for him, and paid him q
fee Of five hundred dollars
In Basil Halls book of travel,
through the United States, he
mentions an inter view which he
witnessed in Columbia, South Car
Olina, between two brothers. illus
trativc of the disposition of the
Americans to move from one
State to another which was Just
being settled. Judge CAN'T told
me that the scene did occur be-
tween him and his brother, pretty
much as described by Hall. lie
was starting from Columbia ono
morning for his home in Green
vile, and met the cavalcade of 6
gentleman moving. lie inquired
of one of the servants where they