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98 LEGAL ANTIQUITIES.

IN 1643 Roger Scott, for repeated sleeping in meeting on the Lord's Day, and for striking the person who waked him, was, at Salem, Mass., sen tenced to be severely whipped. THE " Columbian Centinel " for December, 1789, contains the following interesting informa tion concerning the " Father of his Country," who appears in the rôle of a " Sabbath-breaker " : — "The President, on his return to New York from his late tour through Connecticut, having missed his way on Saturday, was obliged to ride a few miles one Sunday morning, in order to gain the town at which he had previously proposed to have attended divine service. — Before he arrived, however, he was met by a Tythingman, who, commanding him to stop, demanded the occasion of his riding; and it was not until the President had informed him of every cir cumstance and promised to go no further than the town intended, that the Tythingman would permit him to proceed on his journey."

РАСЕТ1Ж. THE following true incident occurred in Marshall County, Indiana : — A portly and pompous justice of the peace of Marshall County, erstwhile village blacksmith, un dertook to reconcile the domestic difficulties be tween a man and his wife who had separated, gone together, and again separated. To do this he wrote a ponderous document setting forth that they had quarrelled and abused each other, but now they were " to forgive and forget " the past, and strive to live in peace. In conclusion this descendant of Vulcan said : " And the parties hereto do solemnly pledge themselves to keep this agreement in the presence of Almighty God and David Hull." AN amusing incident occurred recently at the trial of a breach of promise case, in which a police constable was the defendant. During the impanel ling of the jury, defendant's counsel examined each of the jurymen on his voir dire, to ascertain if he had any prejudice against policemen as such. He pressed his examination a little more closely than

is usual in the examination of jurymen, and brought forth a protest and objection from the plaintiff's counsel. "Many people look upon policemen as Ishmaelites," explained the defendant's counsel. '•' Have you not made a mistake in the tribe?" quickly interposed the plaintiff's counsel. " You probably mean Hittites." This took place in New York City; and although Gothamites habitually call their police force " the finest," the retort lost none of its pungency on that account. WHEN Judge Bond of the U. S. Circuit Court was holding a term once at Raleigh, N. C., he was invited to meet several members of the bar at a dinner, — among them the late Hon. Henry A. Gilliam, with whom the judge was very sociable, but who was just then rather out of humor at some rulings his honor had made against him. In a sportive humor the judge placed a hog's head which happened to be in front of him, and of which Gilliam was known to be very fond, on a plate and sent it to Gilliam with his compliments. Gilliam received it with great complacency, and taking it by one ear while he went to work on it with his knife, remarked with a bow, " I am glad that I have at last got the ear of the court."

MR. P. H. WINSTON and Hon. H. A. Gilliam were for years leaders at the Bertie County (N. C.) Bar, and had each a full appreciation, from ex perience, of the skill of the other. At one term Mr. Winston was suddenly called away, and placed his business in the hands of his nephew Duncan Winston, a recent acquisition to the bar. " Now," said he, " Duncan, if Gilliam makes you any offer of a compromise, decline it. If you make him one, and you find he is about to accept it, with draw it immediately."'

THERE was a suit tried in the U. S. Circuit Court at Raleigh, N. C., some years ago, in which a Baltimore commission house was plaintiff, and Gen. Bryan Grimes, who led the last charge at Appomattox, was defendant. Judge Bond, who presided, was strongly anti-Southern during the war, and a citizen of Baltimore. The late Governor Fowle, who was a very eloquent lawyer, represented