The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-06-15
ANECDoTEs OF, JUDGE UNDER
tN4'N' WOOD.

"reminiscences OF an Old Georgia Lawyer.
Judge Underwood, like Judge
Dooley, bad his controversies With
his landlords at the taverns, but, Tn.
like Dooley, all in a good>humored
way. At a court, thinking his land.
lord was remiss, he asked john Ma
bry II be had taken the oath Of the
Special BaiIiff. % 'ao eae@ ,saaa'A
because you have keep. us with>
out meat, drink or fire-candlelight
and water, only excepted : and that
is the oath which is administered to
the Bailiff before he takes charge of
the jury, John Mabry, and from the
way you have kept up this court, |
thought you must have taken it. IF
you have, John Mabry, | can certify
you have scrupulously observed it,"
He never forsook horseback and
saddle>bags, while I knew him, for
buggies or railroads, and always rode
fine animal, about which he felt
great anxiety. Stopping all night
With Charter Campbell, of Madison,
when his bill was presented next
morning, he said
well Mr.. Campbell, do you reals
iy think owe you three dollars for
the entertainment of me and my
grey>horse, Cherokee =
oh! yes, Judge! it is fair and
usual charge
well Mr.. Campbell, if the poet
had stopped with you, instead of say>
ing, imam wants but little here be-
low nor wants that little long, he
might have said, if man has but lit
tie here below, and stops with you,
he will not have that little long,
During the Know-Nothing cam
paign, a drummer recommending his
tavern, said, lit was Know,Nothing
house, when Judge U. replied
well if the landlord knows less
than Jim Toney-his old landlord Of
the tavern--I shall not risk myself
with him.
Having been asked the politics of
a friend, whom be accused of tickle.
ness, he said: i can'tsay, for | have
not seen him since dinner
Judge Thomas, Of Elbert-in
which county Underwood once lived
meeting him, said the people Of
that county would like TO see him
there, and be (Thomas) thought be
could make pleasant visit to the
old place.
'Yes,' said Judge u, there is an
honest stupidity about the people of
Ebert which is amusing, and which
/ rather like
Some citizen of the county, who
took the remark of Underwood as
offensive, meeting him afterwards,
rebukingly said, he ought to take it
back. well, said the Judge, will
take part of it back, and since the
county voted for Buchanan l will
withdraw the word honest.
For long time he was accused of
being an old Federalist, of the John
Adams school-whish, 10 Georgia,
then was little short Of a charge of
theft, and having been tainted with
it by politician. who said, "there
has always been but two parties in
the country, and we class you with
the Federalists, for all know that is
your place." eyes, said Under
wood, there have always been two
parties, Federalists and fools, and |
have never heard you accused of
belonging to the Federalists.''
On being importuned to move to
the town of Marietta, he said he
would not like to live there, but
thought it the best place to die in that
he knew of, and gave as the reason
that he could leave it with fewer re-
grets than any other place in the
world. And what may seem a
strange coincidence, he died in Ma
rietta.