The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-01

/ is fine fishing, too, in the beautiful
waters of the Vulnerable brooks and
creeks of his district teeming with
red bellies" the finest pan fish that
swims. if any dependence is to be put
in what southwest Georgia says about
it. and that is no little. Well. what
Joe Blackburn is TO a Kentucky bur-
goo. or Theodore Roosevelt to Louisi-
ana bear hunt. or John Sharp Williams
to Mississippi possum supper, that,
and more. too, Jim Griggs is to a
Georgia fish fry.
Imagine party of a dozen or more
fine fellows encamped on the velvet
banks of a ripping creek with nu-
merous placid pools of considerable
depths Astounding with a game fish
about the size and shape of the aver
age mans hand and red on the belly.
Be sure there is a Georgia fish fry
there and then, and if the chief spirit
of it is a six-footer. with fine. open
face, hearty laugh and overlooking
with the spirit of fellowship
that is Jim Griggs, master of the feast
and head cook. To complete the thing.
Lon Livingston is there with a bushel
of Georgia meal which he turns into
such hoecakes as Lees army fed on
though the corn pone a la Livingston
is even better.
At Griggs was elected solicitor
general of his judicial circuit. There
came a Kentuckian horse trader thai
way, while Griggs was prosecuting at
| tOrney, and he soon grew up to be q
very popular fellow Two strangers
arrived in town and they kept close
| watch on the horseman. and after q
| time they made an attempt to kidna[
him. They were arrested for it, and
| Griggs appeared to prosecute, but
when he found that their motive was
| to take the man back home and force
| him TO marry a girl-the sister of one
| of them and the sisterin-law of the
other-whom he was alleged to have
| seduced, Griggs dismissed the charge
| on their promise to make no further
| attempt to modest the man.
/ Not a great while after that Griggs
was appointed judge of the circuit
| court, and was twice elected to that
| office Of his career in that station
| Evan Howell said he was less like q
judge eff the bench and more like d
| judge on the bench than any other
/ man who ever wore the ermine in
| Georgia. Stephen A. Douglas, when q
judge in Illinois, TO protect a Mormon
that was accused in his court. dis
| charged the sheriff for timidity and ap-
| pointed a resOlute fellow in his stead
and the current of justice flowed with
out further obstacle. Griggs did the
same thing in Georgia on one occa-
sion under very similar circumstances
when. he made d coroner on the spur OF
| the moment.
! On another occasion he had a young
fellow before him charged with seduc-
ton. The prosecuting witness was {
! good-lookinng young woman of good
family. 1t was not in Griggs' district
as he was holding court in another cir
| cult at the time, and he was a tota
stranger to both parties. Griggs at thu
noon recess called the accused aside
and asked him if he was guilty. and
| the man said he was. Then why dc
you not right the wrong you have
done this girl, who was innocent til
| she fell in your hands," The answer
| was that he was ready to do so, bu
his family objected. Tt is none o.
your familys business, retorted tn,
judge. 1T is for you TO determine
Are you willing to marry her now?'
The man replied that he was. Grigg
then sent for the girl and, in reply t
his question, she said she loved tn,
| accused and wished to be his wife
! stand up, then, both of you, and join
right hands" They did so. and Griggl
married them, and neither ever haC
cause to regret it. It was a iudgmen
of Solomon.
| Copyright, 1908. by E. W. Newman