Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-22
A STRING OF ANECDOTES.

AbOut Courts, Judges and Lawyers
The Judiciary Committee Of the Ohio
Legislature had Several years ago bill
under consideration which some men,
bers deemed unnecessary, the common
law affording ample reli0f in the prem
ises; whereupon Mr.. P arose, and
with great dignity remarked TINT, in his
opinion, the Legislature should reenact
the common law as part of our stat
utes, for the reason that he bad heard
much about it, but he'd never been able
to procure Che book that had it in.
Daniel Davis and George Thacber
were boys in BarnsLable. The day after
the battle of Bunker Hill, the militia
company of the town of Barnstable set
out for Boston. These boys went with
them, Davis marching in The napaeity Of
lifer. They hadn ntproceeded many miles
from the town when orders were re-
cejved for the company to return. These
boys trudged along, tired and footsore,
till discovering aR old horse by the side
of the road, they mounted and rode him
without saddle or bridle. After while
they turned him loose upon the highway,
and got back TO Barnstable as best they
could on foot. Years after, Davis, as
Solicitor General, was proseeqting .
horse.thief in Kennebeo county, Ne,
before .Thacher, who had distinguished
himself upon the bench. In the course
of the trial, Judge Thacher, leaning
over, whispered, "pavy, this reminds
me Of that horse you and I stole TO-
gether down at Barnstable,"
Mothers-in-la have never been popu-
lar. Tyrannical rulers cannot expect
to be. We have heard of instances
where a man with an unwonted bravery
has dared to speak disrespectfully oe his
mother.in-law, Of coarsr. dnrlpg the
lady's absence; but it has been LEFT for
New Jersey TO afford US an example OF
a Young man who, no doubt goaded on
by long continued oppression, actually
has thrown off the yoke so unmistakably
as to be complained Of for Sinking his
mother.in-law. When the case came to
be examined, it was found chat the young
man wanted to get rid Of her instantcr,
and represented, in a. very feeling man
ner, that it was simply impossible for
him to submit to be bOssed by mother
in-law. The case ia to be tried. and the
whole interesting subject Of mothers-in-
law win be ventilated. It is O very in
tricate question, and will involve num-
Der of nice points.
Sir William Scott (Lord Stowell) was
the enemy of every change, aud careless,
even distrustfal, of oil improvement.
Since he could imagine nothing better
than the existing state Of any given
thing he could see only peril and hazard
in the reach for anything new; and it
was quite enough for him to character
ize a measure as a mere novelty to
deter him at once from entertaining it
a phrase Of which Mr.. Speaker Abbott
once took advantage, with some hnmor,
and replied 20 bis friend, who asked him
what that mass Of papers might be-
pointing to the huge bundle of acts Of a
single session. Mere novelties, Sir
William, mere novelties. ;" He possessed,
however, much pungent wit. A oele-
brated physician having said, rather
more aippautly than beseemed the
gravity Of his cloths "Oh, you know,
Sir William, after forty = asg e either
a fool or a physician. hayn't he bs
both, doctor2" was the reioinder, with
an insinusting leer and half-drawling
voice. ~
Lord Brougham had g great horror Of
hearing the almostinterminabie speeches
which some Of the junior counsel vera IN
the habit Of making, after he cohceiveed
everything had been said which could
be said on the real merits Of the case By
the gentlemen Who preceded them. Hi
hints 70 them 70 be brief on speh oees