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 Some Virginia Lawyers of the Past and Present. in the family that one day, in her last years, while discussing some subject with her sonin-law, Judge Carrington ventured to dis agree with her. Without another word she quietly rose from her chair, walked over to him, boxed his ears and as quietly took her seat again.

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Col. Carrington, " it is the only money of my poor country in this severe hour of her sufferings." " Then," said the shrewd but not over-scrupulous Scotchman, " here is the money I owe you, principal and interest." Col-. Carrington gave him a receipt with out another word. He was a man of abil-

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE.

Hugh Blair Grigsby says : " Paul Carring ton wrote a hand both neat and small, and, until he was over seventy, it retained its steadiness and its beauty." Mr. Grigsby also tells the following anecdote of him : A wealthy Scotchman, who had borrowed a large sum of money from Col. Carrington before the Revolution, came to him one day during the war with a large bundle of paper money in his hands, saying, " Colonel, I don't call this trash money; do you?" "Yes," answered

ity, of learning, and of great firmness and integrity. Chancellor George Wythe was born in 1726, and died, in his eightieth year, in 1806. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Virginia legislature of 1795 passed an Act directing that all laws relating to lands, tenements and heredita ments should be collected and a thousand copies published. The committee appointed to carry this out were George Wythe, John