The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26

just after the investigation
saw General Belknap about two days
before he died. He was attending an auc-
ton sale of some valuable lots which he
owned on x street and Mcpherson square.
The sale was a forced one and the lots did
not bring as much as he expected. His
financial affairs were very much involved,
and his estate will be small. General
Belknap was one of the finest looking men
in public life. About six feet high he had
great head of classic shape fastened to
pair of strong, broad shoulders. His COM
pleXion was as fair as that OF a milkmaid.
His eyes were blue and he had long beard
Of golden hue into which the silver
strands had begun to creep. He was a
popular man here and he leaves many
friends.
JUDGE MILLER WENT OFF.
in much the same way that Belknap did.
Both seemed in perfect health few days
before their deaths and Miller looked as if
he might live an hundred. AS it is he died
at seventy four, by no means an old age for
Justice of the supreme conrt. There
have been during the hundred years of its
organization only forty-three justices on
the supreme bench of the United States
and twenty of these have lived to be over
seventy. Judge Bradley is now seventy
seven and he is as tough as pine knot
Blatchford is seventy aud the prospects are
that he will dry up and drop to pieces all
at once, like the old deecons shay, at some
time during his eighties. OuHarlan is only
tfty-seveu, but he don't look to be fifty
and he has enough iron in his blood to
make horse shoe.
Justice Gray has a skin as fair as a
baby's and at sixty two he is as spry and
healthy as young chicken Judge
Brewer is in his prime, Chief Justice Full
Ter is sound from in to out, and the only
shackley men on the supreme bench are
Lamar and Field. Field is by all odds the
healthier of the two though he is nine
years the older. Lamar looks much broken
and his hair is fast turning gray.
THE JUSTICES OF THE UNITED STATES
are the most long lived men in the coun-
try. They have the softest snap in Uncle
Sans establishment and they stick to 1t
like grim death. There is no telling how
long man will live if he is once appointed
to the supreme bench, and a curious in
stance of this was that of Chief Justice
fancy who died at eighty-seven. He
seemed to be all his life upon the edge of
the grave. He was one of the leading
lawyers of Maryland before Andrew
Jackson appointed him secretary of
the treasury and got him to re-
move the deposits from the United
States bank. Luther Martin and William
Pinkney were at thisltime his chief competi-
tors, but they died leaving him at the head
of the bar. Both of these men had been en-
ployed on chancery suit which had been
for time In the courts and which babe fair
to become second Jarndyce VS.. Jarndyce.
The client who had employed them had
taken one after the other and they had both
died on his hands leaving his case I'M
settled He was then advised to engage
fancy and with this view he called upon
him. He entered the Office, took look at
the emaciated form and graveyard air of
the great lawyer, and then turning on his
heel left the Office without word. "Give
that man my case,' he said to the first
friend he met, II would as soon think of
giving it to corpse. He will die within
two months" But fancy did not die.
Jackson made him chief justice of the
United States and he sat on the bench for
twenty eight years.
AMONG THE OTHER ocToGENARIANs
of the supreme court was Chief Justice
Jay, who had the good sense to retire after
he had presided over the court for siS
pears and lived to be eighty four. Chief
Justice Marshall lived to be eighty, and
Judge Swayne, of Ohio, died at four score
and sat on the bench for twenty years
Judge Duval, of Maryland, died at eighty
six and he was on the bench twenty five
years. heard funny story about hin
the other night from one of the old stagers
of Washington. Said this man: ''Gabrie
Duval was one of the best fellows, as wei
as one Of the most noted men of his time
He had to leave the supreme court on &C
count of deafness. He was a member Of
Congress when it was sitting in Philadel
phia and while there boarded at the hous,
of an old lady named Gibbons, who had
daughter who was neither young no.
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Congressman at the house and among then
member from Virginia named Giles
, Giles and Duval became great friends, blu
, they lost sight of each other after they lief
Philadelphia, and it was several years late
that they met at tie races at Washington
By this time Giles had been elected Sena
tor of the United States, and Duval wa
comptroller of the treasury. They wer
enjoying themselves and chatting about oil
times and had discussed number of thei
friends, when Senator Giles suddenl,
asked: "By the way, Duval, what has be
, come of the damned cackling old maid
Jennie Gibbons?" "She is Mrs. Duva]
SIR; was the reply. Giles shut up like
clam, and it was several minutes before b
could recover himself enough to go on wit
the conversation.
Justice Miller was the oldest Judge on tn
supreme bench in point of service H
served twenty eight years, and there hav
been only eight justices N the past VIII
have served as long.
CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL LEADS
, The list at thirty four and Judge Story, G
Massachusetts, was also on the bench fo
thirty four years. One OF the younges
judges that the Supreme court ever had wa
| Bushrod Washington, who was appointe
? when he was thirty-six, while Geners
Washington. was still alive. He was th
favorite nephew of General Washington
, and he inherited the estate c
/ Mount Vernon. He sat on the Suprem
+, bench for thirty-one years an
> died in 1929. Justice Mclean, of Ohio, an
t Justice Wayne, of Georgia, served as jus
3 tees of the supreme court for thirty-tw
: years, and Johnson, of South Caroline
0 served for thirty years. The man VIII
s served the shortest erm on the suprem
/ bench was John Rutledge, who had teri
! of two years just after Chief Justice ia
Y opened the supreme court. He was al
: pointed by General Washington and Wasl
iington thought good deal of him, for whe
Jay resigned he nominated him as Chic
Justice, but the senate refused to confirl
him, and Oliver Ellsworth, graduate
n Princeton, and one of the signers of Ii
e Declaration of independence, got the plac
l. Rutledge became insane after his appoin
G ment. and it was on this account that tt
5 senate refused to confirm him.
Justice Miller was tho only suprem
r Judge ever appointed from Iowa, and b
b with the exception of Field and Brewe
L the only ones appointed west of the Missi
J sippi.
u NEW YORK HAS HAD SIX JUSTICES
d on the supreme bench, and the first chit
v justice, John Jay, was New York ma
r Ohio and Virginia have each had five in.
). tees, and each has mad the honor of ha'