Year: 1874

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THE VALUE OF A LAWYERS JAVA
French court having lately decided the value
of lawyers jaw, the public will, no doubt,
be curious.to know how such an estimate was
brought about. The St. Louis Republican
condenses long story, explanatory OF this
celebrated and peculiar case, into the following
neat paragraph:


A young lawyer was paying his addresses
to a young lady much above his station IN
life, and she favored his suit against the posi-.
tive commands of her family and her friends:
She had clandestine meetings with him and
wrote him loving letters, and seemed in good,
solid earnest. At least she made him believe
so, and he went to her grandfather's chateau
one day in desperation, got an interview with
his lady-love and tried to persuade her to
elope with him then and there. She shrank
from this rash step and pleaded her minority,
and he became so importunate as to offend
her. She demanded the return of her letters,
and her lover refused to make such restitution.
At this point, her grandfather surprised the
meeting, and mixed in the controversy. tie
had been out shooting, and had his double
barrel gun in his hands. He demanded the
letters to which he had overheard reference
between the two, and the lawyer gave the old
man some of his jaw. The infuriated French
man fired both barrels of his fowling piece in
the lawyers face and carried away the whole
lower jaw. That closed the argument tor the
time, but it came up again in court. The law.
yer's Jaw was brought into court and placed
on table before the judge as witness. The
Young lady was there in a position to gaze
upon the ruin she had made, and she did it
without Ainching. The other lawyers ;awed
as usual and the young lover, minus the lower
part of his face, was not an object to be ad-
mired. The jury acquitted the irate grand
father of felonious intent, but thought his
large estates owed something to the support OF
a speechless lawyer, who had to express his
ideas by means of slate and pencil. The
old man had to pay 10000 francs down and
an annuity of 24O0 francs for taking the jaw
out of lawyer Quite an expensive expert
ment, but it proves that the thing can be
done.


An HONEST CHIEF JUsTIcE.-In Schuck-
er's "Life of Chase" appears the following ex-
tract from letter written by the late chief
1uSClCe, June " 1CUo, W oaJ OoonS'


"You informed me two or three weeks ago
that you had purchased 300 shares of Phila-
delphia and Erie railroad stock for me. At
that time was expecting means Of payment
from the sale of farm in Ohio, and would
have been glad to hold the stock for income.
The sale, however, has not yet been effected,
and have, therefore, not been able to make
payment"


"This morning have yours of yesterday,
notifying me that you have sold the stock at
an advance, which gives a profit of $4,000 on
the transaction, and you enclose me check
for that amount.


GAS had not paid for the stock, and did
not contemplate purchasing with any view to
resale, 1 cannot regard the profit as mine, and,
therefore, return the check for $4,000. 1t is
herewith enclosed.


Il am much obliged to you for your wiling
ness to regard the money paid for the stock
as temporary loan from you to me, but l
cannot accept the favor.


"When Congress, at the last session, saw
fit to clothe me with very large powers over
currency and financial movements, | deter
mined to avoid every act which could give
occasion to any suspicion that | would use
the powers conferred on me to affect markets
unnecessarily, or at all, with reference to the
private advantage of anybody. To carry out
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