The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1882-05-13

Pen Pictures of ihe Hen Who. Fiii the
gwDrpfrte Bench,

supreme sseEch.
The Supreme Court OF the United
States that great harbinger. sheet
anchor, saiety-valve. etc, OF our liber-
ties-has during the week sat with a
full bench for the first time in three
years. dropped in Oh the court day
or two ago. What q jolly old set.
There was the Chief Justice, with iron
gray hair, thick and stiff, aud wh'skers
just the same. a big nose and a big
mouth, wrapped in bis black silk gown,
but looking very little like Chief JUS
tice. But he attends to his business,
leaves politics to the dogs. and is re-
spected by his associates. On his right,
oldest in commission OF any one On the
bench, is Justice Miller, round and fat
and sixty.four, little bald, arri closely
shaven face On the bench he is as
cross as hatchet, for he hates circum-
locution and shams sand half the bar is
made OF them) but of the bench he is
as Jolly, kind and gentle as any man
you ever saw. He has been regarded
FOR ten years as the ablest man on the
bench. The three last appointments on
the bench may change this. but | doubt
it.
On the Chief Justices left is Justice
Field, appointed as a Republican, but
now pesky old Democrat. He is tall,
bald-headed, spectacled, full-bearded,
with Jewish cast of countenance.
Smart he is, too, as all the Fields are.
He writes strong opinions, and is popu-
lar. He is most entertaining COM
panion and a great traveller and scholar.
Drink! yes, once in a while. Miller
and Field are respectively the two
Oldest judges in commission on the
bench. Justice Bradley is the next in
point OF rank-a thin.. refined, closely
shaven, gray-haired, scholarly, judicial
looking old gentleman, who doesn't
seem to have much to say TO any one.
Justice Harlan. fourth in rank Except
ing, of conr@e. the Chief Jasticsl. is a
specimen kentr1kian~7-a giant in his
way. Big body, big head, big hands,
big feet. long legs, long arms, and long
headed without doubt He is at least
six feet six inches in height. He rents
furnished house from friend Of mine
and my friend had to have. made,
especially Tor the great Kentuckian, a
nine.foot bedstead, with mattresses,
blankets. sheets, ETC., to correspond.
and also one for the sou OF the Judge,
who is as tall. Judge Harlan was a
strong acquisition to the bench, and is
popular on the bench aud Oft. Chew
tobacco, did you says well, | should
think so, and he knows a glass of Bour-
bon when he tastes IT, There is not
much known of Justice Woods. He is
grizzly, sloaching mau, whose personal
bearing and appearance are not at all
striking He is a Judge by appoint
ment, but he doesn't look like one
Justice Stanley Matthews is built on a
oig model, physically and mentally.
he IS self-poised, digni6ed and fine
looking. AS an intellectual force he
scarcely has a superior on the bench
lie Is quiet in his'intercourss sud does
not seem to care to extend his acquaint-
ance. Justice Gray is tall, white
haired, peppery old bachelor, who snaps
up everybody aud had rather quarrel
than win cause. When he FIRST came
on the bench here he was nearly killed
with heavy eating and drinking, but
that time is over. AS the old Judges
are very tenacious of the rights of sen.
iors he is not likely to be popular.
Justice Blatchford. the last appoint.
ment, looks like George w.
ehilds, and is. therefore, clean, genial,
atfable, well dressed and kindly affable