Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-04-27
For the Register.
LETTER FROM CHARLESTOWN.
APRIL %, 1872,

County Is sui III SESSION. AS !iltIil'atV"
in NV last business has been pressed a
little during the past week and quite
number Of cases were disposed OF. l
don't suppose it was very difficult tor
Judge. lawyers or iuries to manage them
as they were small affairs, disputes OF
settlements involving moderate sums OF
money. The case of the week, was
Baylor against the Is. 4 .. Railroad iol
damages for loss of stock. 1t was Bay
lor's bull this time that m2de fight with
the locomotive, bat ike his prcde cessor
of old came out the worst for 1t. The
jury gave verdict for the weaker party
as is generally the case. | sometimes
think that our sympathetical natures
which prompt Us 10 feel for the weak
and oppressed help materially in the
rendering Of yerdicts in our Courts OF
Justice. Any how, Mr.. Blackburn the
counsel for the Company was not salts
fed with the result and wants new
trial. concluding ! suppose that the yer
diet was not in accordance with the ey-
dcmcc
The jefferson bar, | mean as to court
affairs Of course, is increasing IN NUM-
bcrs, perhaps in strength too. II.
Brooke, Esq, late Of Richmond and a
son.in-law ] believe of the late Judge
Tucker of the old Court Of Appeals OF
the State of Virginia has taken up his
residence in Charlestown and been adj
mitted to practice lie is i gentleman
Of advanced years in sixty, | suppose,
and doubtless brings legal wisdom and
talent. George Baylor, Esq, son OF
Colonel Baylor, who went to Kansas
City after the war to practice law, has
returned to his native county to contend
in the legal arena, and it he fights as
yalliantlv in this more peaceful field as
he did in the bloody clash Of arms, dis
tnction awaits him in bis profession.
The bar here presents somewhat an
anomalous feature from any other of my
knowledge in the number of law-part-
nerships that exist, no less than five
such firms being on hand ] take it for
granted that such combination works
adyantageonsy. Fol instance. 1t is
possible that gentleman whilst he
may have a thorough knowledge of the
law, NAV not have that fuency otsPecch
that makes success doubly sure before 4
Jury, may Join his legal acumcn to a
brother who has the gift Of the silvery
tongue. can readily imagine that in
such a union there would be strength
and success. whilst single handed 1t
would be otherwise. | would not pos
itivelv assert that in each OF the law
firms there is necessarily silver trum-
pet.
Like most other bars where the glo-
rious uncertainties of the law arc dis
penscd, ours is susceptible of the ordl-
nary division into the greater and less
lights. Whilst we have the brilliant
lminarics of the law whose broad disks
all ablazc with legal light attract and
command attention, there are some who
give out only faint ray. Nevertheless
we are admoniShed by the Scripture
mot to deSpiSc the day Of small things.
Nature will have her freaks despite al
of our aspirations and ambitious aims,
and if we don't scale the stars it is no
harm to look that way Society is
made up of varieties.
Whilst devoting so much Of this let
ter to the bar in legal sense, might
with propriety give YOU a chapter on
another kind of Il bar or bars, Of which
we are strongly represented. which
would be pertinent too, for the business
of the one helps the business Of the
other. or in other words the work Of the
one makes work for the other as the
criminal docket all over the land shows.
But of this forbear with merely Civ
ing YOU case in point. One OF our
bar-men has come to grief, a true bill
having been found against him by the
grand inquest of the County for prnc-
iicing at his tar on election day, con
trary to law. Also for keeping Baga-
telle which | presume is something on
the order Of gambling. Whether he
will stand trial or confess guilt and
plead for mercy at the hands of the
Court is vet to be seen. Verify 'the
way of the trnsgrcs>or is hard.
There are some strange things in this
di>iointcd world of ours and one of the
Strangest to me is that our lawmakers
license and protect or authorize and
make lawful that which contributes
more TO break law than any thing else.
They exhibit the manifest incongruity of
building mp and pulling down their own
building with their own hands. But
this is only sequence following an i'm
perfect state. made so by mans origi-
nal departure from the line of conduct
and duty marked out by his all-wise
Creator and lawmakcr Jostlcd as he
WAS from his primeval state otpurity and
perfection by his first transgresSion. his
subsequent course has been marked by
Inconsistencies and impcrlectionS, and so
it will be TO the end.
The transition is easy from the bit of
theology just given to the doings of the
Church. Last Sunday was the Com
munion occasion in the Presbyterian
congregation OF this town, preparatory
services beginning on the Friday pre-
yious. Rev. Mr. Grayham of Winches-
ter was with Mr.. Hopkins until Satur-
day night The latter gentleman filled
his own pulpit on the Sabbath. Several
were received into the Church. One of
them lady on certificate from the VI.
f. Church South. of Winchester. The
Presbyterian Church here has received
since the war number who are among