The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-08
EDGECOMBE COUNTY
Judge Geo, H. Brown a
Model JuriSt
Sketch Of the Labors Of JI6ge and SoIiciio'
Who Were Greatly Favored at
Iarboro,
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Tarboro, N. c., March Court has
been in session throughout ,ne week. The
weather has been beautiful hence the at
tendance has not been large. Farm work
is not so far advanced as is usually the
case this late in the year, hence our
farmers have neither the disposition nor
time for hanging on at court. The
county of Edgecombe is noted as an ag-
ricultural county and justly so for her
lands are as productive as are the fertile
fields bordering the Nile and her people
as energetic as those of any cline.
The town of Tarboro. always attractive,
becomes more so with the flight of
years and the hand of enterprise not
withheld. Cozy homes and commodious
store houses of modern architectural de-
sign, that would be a credit to the Queen
City of the State, have recently beer
erected, taking the place of old, dilapidat-
ed structures that had become an eye
sore to citizen and visitor, giving an air
of progress at once wholesome and in
MIGRATING, But it was my purpose to
speak of the court, its presiding officer
and it's District Attorney. The term was
for criminal cases only, at which there
were about 100 on the docket. These
were dispatched with at the rate of an,
average of % ped day. Judge George II.
Brown, Jr., is a model jurist. Learned
in the law, a magnificent judge of hui
man nature, of keen perception; he wears
the judicial ermine with an ease and
dignity at once attractive. With the
writer the man and Judge has been a
study for a long while. OF commanding
figure and courtly bearing he grows in
interest as the student progresses. He
impresses one of passing acquaintance as
proud, naughty, stern but a closer con-
tact with the man reveals his true nature
and the man of kindly affection and of
noble heart steps to the front an object
of admiration OF his abilities all speak
well. His opinions on points of law are
sought by many of the legal fraternity
as if ne were a Nestor in legal lore. His
rulings are rarely in error and his juds
ments seldom reversed by the higher
courts. He is 50 yeas of age was born
in Washington, N. c., his present home.
In the days of youthhood he was press
telegraph operator in New York city,
having begun as a messenger boy, He
studied law there and afterwards under
Judge Shepherd, himself familiar with
dots and dashes and the click, click of the
relay and bounder. Before going on the
bench he was a very active and ardent
party worker in Eastern North Carolina.
Very few men at that time did more po-
litical work than Judge Brown. He was
Democratic Presidential Elector in 1855
and rendered appointment as Superior
Court Judge by Governor Scales January
1, 1889 He has served constantly since.
In 1895 he was nominated for Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, but went
down with his confreres in the memoir
able Fusion landslide whose nastiness
yet emits an odor at least unwholesome.
In 1902 he only missed the nomination Of
his party for Associate Justice by Az
votes with Mitchell county instructed for
him but not represented. .
His nomination to succeed Justice
Montgomery on the Supreme Court bench
in 1904 is evidently foregone concl,.-
sion, and is conceded by all as a proper
recognition of his long and useful ser
vice.
Solicitor, or District Attorney Ca bet
ter term), Daniels, is winning laurels for
himself. While painstakng he is ag-
He is now serving his second term an!
has bright future before him. Of ro-
bust build ambitious and tireless en-
ergy there is reason to expect to hear
of him in even wider field of useful
ness.
c. j. RIVENBARK.