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Communications in regard to the contents of the Magazine should be addressed to the Editor, Horace W. Fuller, 15^ Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. The Editor will be glad to receive contributions of articles of moderate length upon subjects of interest to the profession; also anything in the way of legal antiquities or curiosities, facetia, anecdotes, etc. THE GREEN BAG. OUR December number will contain an article on " The Supreme Court of Rhode Island," written by Stephen O. Edwards, Esq., of Providence. The illustrations will include por traits of Judges Greene, Ames, Bradley, Brayton, Staples, Durfee, Stiness, Wilbur, Tillinghast, and Matteson. The December number will also contain an exceedingly interesting sketch of William A. Beach, by Horace Russell, Esq., of New York. A full-page portrait of Mr. Beach will accompany the sketch. After the portrait drawn of himself by himself in a recent number of the " Albany Law Journal," we cannot conceive how the "flirtatious" editor of that paper could have committed the oversight to which he pleads guilty below. Editor of the " Green Bag " : A New York lawyer writes me : " How could you miss the ' Seven Sutherland Sisters ' in your metrical report of Rex v. Carlile? " 1 I move to add to the report as follows : — And then the Seven Sisters Sutherland, Who at an upper window took their stand By turns, and combed their hair from morn till night, While people gazed and wondered at the sight. As " beauty draws us by a single hair," Much more these seven heads with locks so rare Soon clogged the narrow way to overflow, And spoiled a statuary's trade below. T was done to advertise their " hair restorer;" And so the judge, who was no blind adorer Of beauty, would not have the plea allowed That 't was the statuary drew the crowd, And said this mermaid toiletting must stop, Or be conducted further in the shop.'2 Irving Browne. 1 See " Green Bag " for June, p. 238. - Ellis v. Sutherland, 18 Abbott N. C. 126 66

A prosecuting attorney in one of the counties of a Western State sends the following : — Editor of the " Green Bag " : I am prosecuting attorney of this county, and what follows actually took place. I give the facts just as they are, except, of course, I do not give the names of the parties, but only their initials. Assault and battery had been committed in the county. The party " battered " went to see the prosecuting attorney about having the party who "battered " him arrested and tried in the name of the State for the offence. The guilty party and an uncle of his, getting wind of the fact that an in formation was about to be filed, and knowing that one could be convicted only once for the same of fence, went before a justice of the peace in their own township, before whom the following proceed ings were had, as shown by the transcript of said justice, spelling and all, as follows : — Before S. L. C, J. P., etc. G. F. C, Plaintiff, v. G. H., Defendant. Be it remembered that on this day of , 1889, G. F. C, said Plaintiff, filed herein as his claim and cause of action against the Defendant, G. H., Chargeing him with strikeing one A. Thereupon, I issued an original notice to said Defendant G. H. returnable before me in my office in said Township on the day of, 1889, at ten o'clock, a. m., and delivered the same to , Constable, for service. Now, to-wit, on this day of, a. n. 1889, this cause coming on for hearing, the Defendant G. H. appeared and confessed to the charge made against him therefore I Fined him one Dalar and the costs which is two Dallars and fifty cents and the two Dallars & 50 cts Being Paid By the De fendant, 1 therefore Set the Prisner free. S. L. C, Justice of the Peace. It is needless to say that when the case came to trial, with the State as plaintiff, on the information filed by the prosecuting attorney, said transcript of the former conviction wherein the uncle was plaintiff and prosecuting witness, did not aid the defendant any, but he had to pay another fine and costs. Probably his experience did not elevate his ideas of the law.