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foreman, " we, the jury, find that the prisoner is not guilty of hittin' with intent to kill, but sim ply to paralyze, and he done it." The verdict was received with applause, and the prisoner given an ovation.

РАСЕТ1Ж. NOTES. "No man," said a wealthy, but weak-headed barrister, " should be admitted to the Bar who MR. BODKIN, Q. C., tells the following anec had not an independent landed property." dote of the late Mr. Francis Macdonagh, Q. C., "May I ask, sir," said Mr. Curran, "how many who was for upwards of forty years the recog acres make a wiseacre?" nized leader of the Irish Bar : " I remember AN old farmer was on his deathbed. He re once in the early glory of my wig and gown I quested that two lawyers from a neighboring got a case for an opinion. The solicitor thought town be sent for. When they came he motioned it a very simple case or he would not have sent them to take seats, one on each side of the bed. it to me. I thought so, too. With the touching He looked from one to the other for a few mo confidence of the neophyte, I took my pen and ments, and then with his last breath exclaimed: began : ' I am clearly of opinion.' Now it so "I die content, like my Savior, between two happened that I sat in the law library beside the silver-haired silken Nestor of the Irish Bar, thieves." a leader of unfathomable astuteness. This Two Irishmen being about to be hanged, the elder chanced to glance over my shoulder as I gallows were erected over the margin of a river. wrote. ' My dear young friend,' he said softly When the first man was drawn up, the rope gave — we were all his dear young friends — ' Never way; he fell into the stream, and escaped by write that you are clearly of opinion on a law swimming. The remaining culprit, looking at point. The most you can hope to discover is the executioner, said with genuine native sim the preponderance of the doubt.'" plicity, and an earnestness that evinced his sin IN Colonial days in Virginia there was a cerity : " Do, good Mr. Ketch, if you please, tie famous lawyer, Gabriel Jones, known through me up tight, for if the rope breaks I am sure to out the Colony as " the great Valley lawyer." be drowned, for I can't swim a stroke." He was the King's attorney and drew the will THE most popular man in a western town of the eccentric Thomas, Lord Fairfax, which once got into a difficulty with a disreputable disposed of his immense landed estate that in tough, who was the terror of the place, and did cluded land now comprised in seventeen coun him up in a manner entirely satisfactory to the ties in Virginia and five in West Virginia, and entire community. It was necessary, however, his hunting lodge in the Virginia mountains, to vindicate the majesty of the law, and the of where George Washington stayed when a young fender was brought up for trial on a charge of surveyor, and which is famous in song and assault with intent to kill. The jury took the story. Mr. Jones was greatly beloved and re case and were out about two minutes, when they vered by the bench and the bar of Virginia. In his old age, it is said, he became very irrit returned. "Well," said the judge, in a familiar, off-hand able, and was one day so rude in Court, to a young lawyer who displeased him, that the pre way, "what have the jury to say?" "May it please the court," responded the siding Judge felt the dignity of the Court required