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Rh an hour-glass, that while with the one he cuts down the evidence which might protect innocence, with the other he metes out the period when innocence can no longer be assailed. And perhaps the ob servation of the Michigan judge in Farmers and Mechanics' Bank v. Kingley, 2 Doug. (Mich.) 379, is worthy to rank with these, where he says : "It would be as difficult for me to conceive of a surety's liability continuing after the principal's ob ligation was discharged, as of a shadow remaining after the substance was removed." Of all textwriters, Mr. Joshua Williams is, perhaps, pre-emi nent in his liking for the use of metaphors. There is one which is especially amusing, and which, as perhaps a little too pointed, he omits altogether in subsequent editions of the work in which it occurs. In a former edition of his work on Real Property he remarked, with reference to the act to render the assignment of satisfied terms unnecessary, that it was like saying that every one should leave his umbrella at home, except that such umbrella, which shall be so left at home as aforesaid, shall afford to every person, if it should come on to rain, the same protection as it would have afforded to him if he had it with him. And, again (Real. Prop., ed. 11, p. 460), he speaks of the present fashion of tinkering the laws of real property, preserving un touched the ancient rules, but " annually plucking off, by parliamentary enactments, the fruits which such rules must, until eradicated, necessarily pro duce." In the Court of Appeal, at Lincoln's Inn, in the course of a case involving the doctrine of a wife's equity to a settlement. Lord Justice Bramwell said: "There's no such thing as an equity since the Judicature Acts came into operation, — is there?" Counsel ventured to suggest that it was rather law than equity which had been abol ished. " It 's like shot silk," observed Lord Jus tice James; " both colors are there, and it depends upon the light in which you look at it which color you see." — Central Law Journal. A meeting of attorneys was held recently at Fargo to organize a Cass County Bar Association. Thirty-six attorneys were present. Judge Hudson was elected temporary chairman, and Walter Smith, secretary. A committee of five was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, and report at an adjourned meeting. In view of the near approach of statehood similar associations will soon be formed in all the organized counties of North Dakota.

Recent Deaths.

Stanley Matthews, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died at Wash ington, March 22. Judge Matthews was born in Cincinnati in 1824. He was a man of unusual ability, and before his elevation to the bench was one of the foremost advocates of the West. In our May number we shall publish an admira ble portrait of the late Justice, with a sketch of his life.

Cyrus Woodman, of Cambridge, died suddenly on March 30. Mr. Woodman was born in Buxton, Me., in 1814. In 1836 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, and afterward studied law. He entered the Harvard Law School in 1838, and was admitted to the bar in the following year. Shortly afterward he went West as agent for the Boston and Western Land Company, and re mained with this concern till 1843. He formed a partnership with Gov. C. C. Washburn, of Mineral Point, Wis., and they continued together for eleven years. He remained in the West till 1863, when he removed to Cambridge, where he had since resided. The deceased was for many years one of the Overseers of Bowdoin College, and was a prominent member of the New England HistoricGenealogical Society. He leaves a widow and four children.

William J. Morris, one of the oldest members of the Merrimack County Bar, died at his home in Danbury, N. H., on March 30, aged sixty-eight. Mr. Morris was leading counsel for the respondent at the several trials of Joseph La Page for the mur der of Josie A. Langmaid at Pembroke.

Sir William Foster Stawell, K. CM. G., who for nearly forty years has occupied various posi tions of the highest eminence in the colony of Victoria, is dead. He was born in 18 15. From 1 85 1 to 1857 he held the post of Attorney General in Victoria, and was also a member of the Execu tive Council. In 1857 he was promoted to be Chief-Justice of Victoria, and this high office he held for nearly twenty years.