The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-22
Good Stories of Georgia Judges.
Savannah Ne~s,i

Judge William H. Underwood was at Ogtethorpe Court when the solicitor and his immediate predecessor were disputing over that old bone ot contention, the costs made by the latter and collected by the former 'ron 6nes imposed during his tesm. The incumbent, after long and heated argument closed by saying 1: " He was not very fasudious about 1t, mo- how" Judge Underwood promptly re- piled "l now understood the de6nition of that misunderstood word, fas. .tid-i -ous, which l now learn means to hold fast and for long tedious time"
 On one occasion Judge Doosy stopped with Charter Campbell, of Madison When his bill was presented next morn- ing he said We'll, Mir. Campbell, do you really think owe you s for tAe en- tertainment ot me and my horse Chero- kee?" "Oa, yes, judge it is fair and usual charge" Well, Mir. Campbell, if the poet had stopped with you, instead of saying: Man wants but little here be- low, nor wants that little long, he might have said: If man has but little here be- low, and stops with you, ks will not have that little long."
 JuA6O hotAnSs Ot EtoCtk, in WHICH county Judge Underwood once lived, meeting Judge Underwood, said the peo. pie of that county would like to sec him there, and thought he could make a pleasant visit to the old place. Yes" said the judge, there Is an honest stu pidity about the people of Elbsrt which IS amusing, and which rather like !" Some cities of tho county who took the remark of the judge as offensive, meeting him aferward, rebukingly said he ought to take 1t back We'll" said the judge, " will take back part of it, and since the county voted for Buchanan l will with draw the word honest "
 Judge Underwood was for a long time accused of being an old Federalist of the John Adams school, which was a term of reproach in Georgia. Having been taunted by politician for being a Fed eralist, who said to him There have always been but two parties in the country, and we class you with the Fed eralists, for all know that is your place" Yes" said the judge. there have always been two parties, Federalists and fools. and have never heard you ac- cused of belonging to the Federalists. |"
 h the long ago, in the 3oi, there was judge who presided in the western circuit whose birthplace was in one of the New England states. He was a decided Union man, and when the Nullifers be- came so violent that some northern men shrank from acknowledging their nativity, meeting one too firm to deny 1t, Judge Tracy greeted him heartily because he was not ashamed of his birthplace, and said: That is bold and honest II you come from h-l bring a pocketful of birthstone with yo1."
 A Georgia judge said "that the maxim that innocence was to be presumed until guilt was proved had one exception, an that was when an lrishmAn was accused of an assault and battery, for then guilt was to be presumed" Alawyer address ing jury on case proved by strong cir cumstantial evidence, repeated often that ninety-nine guilty men should escape rather than that one innocen, man should suffer" The judge, ia charging the jury, told them "the niney-nine guilty had long since escaped