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"Once, (says an author, where I need not say,) Two trav'lers found an oyster in their way: Both fierce, both hungry, the dispute grew strong, While, scale in hand, Dame Justice passed along, Before her each with clamor pleads the laws, Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause. Dame Justice, weighing long the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife removed so rarely well,
'There, take,' says Justice, ' take you each a shell- We thrived at the old court house on fools like you : 'Twas a fat oyster-live in peace-adieu !'"
FINAL REFLECTIONS, AND SHAKESPERIAN FINALE.
These shall be but few. We have, then, given many notes and particulars of the funny side of the old court house, and ( by particular request?) a few of the shady and dark side, merely to give an inkling of what might be done in this regard if we had a mind, and space, and leisure, to pursue the path. But we prefer not, and we launch our narrative of incidents, events, and sayings and doings as they are upon the public stream, in the hope and with some trust that somebody will take interest in it,
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and somebody will be entertained and pleased with labors that have cost us no grievous pains, though some care and consideration. And as a fitting ending to our work, we will look through his great poetic pages, and gather and cite, here and there,-
WHAT SHAKESPEARE HAS TO SAY OF LAW AND LAWYERS, AND THE LIKE.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror .- Measure for Measure.
We have strict statutes and most biting laws, The needful bits and curbs to headstrong steeds .- Ibid.
Our decrees,
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead ; And liberty plucks justice by the nose .- Ibid.
Oh just, but severe law .- Ibid. The hideous law .- Ibid.
It is the law, not I, condemns .- Ibid.
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept : Those many had not dar'd to do that evil, If the first that did the edict infringe Had answer'd for his deed : now 'tis awake, Takes note of what is done, and like a prophet, Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils (Either now, or by remissness new conceived. And so in progress to be hatched and born,) Are now to have no successive degrees But where they live, to end .- Ibid.
The all-binding law .- Ibid.
Has he affections in him,
That thus can make him bite the law by th' nose, When he would force it? - Ibid.
Sir, I shall have law in Ephesus-Comedy of Errors.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? - Merchant of Venice.
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I'll answer him by law .- Taming of the Shrew.
And do as adversaries do in law,- Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends .- Ibid.
When law can do no right, Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong .- King John.
Resolution thus fobbed as it is, with the rusty curb of old father antic, the law .- Henry IV.
For pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly .- Timon of Athens.
For law is strict, and war is nothing more .- Ibid.
Who, in hot blood,
Hath stepped into the law, which is past depth To those, that, without heed, do plunge into it .- Ibid.
Civil laws are cruel .- Ibid.
Crack the lawyer's voice, That he may never more false title plead, Nor sound his quillets shrilly .- Ibid.
Each thing's a thief :
The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power, Have unchecked theft .- Ibid.
When every case in law, is right .- King Lear.
The bloody book of law You shall yourself read in the bitter letter After your own sense .- Othello.
There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established ; 'T will be recorded for a precedent ; And many an error, by the same example Will rush into the state .- Merchant of Venice.
Till thou cans't rail the seal from off my bond, Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud .- Ibid.
The lawyer's [melancholy,] which is politic .- As You Like It. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers .- Henry VI.
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I will make one of her women lawyer to me; for I yet not understand the case myself .- Cymbeline.
Lear. This is nothing, fool.
Fool. Then 't is like the breath of an un-feed lawyer: you gave me nothing for it .- King Lear.
-O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees. -Romeo and Juliet.
There's another. Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer ? Where be his quiddets now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks ? Why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery ? Humph ! This fellow might be in 's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the fine of fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more ? Ha?
NOT A JOT MORE, MY LORD !- Hamlet.
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A LIST OF THE PRESENT SURVIVING LAWYERS OF THE OLD COURT HOUSE.
" They live,-
But live to die."
And yet-
" What a world were this, How unendurable its weight, if they Whom Death hath sunder'd, did not meet again !"
Charles Anderson, Samuel Yorke Atlee, Jas. Boyle, Joshua H. Bates, Jacob Burnet, Jr., Flamen Ball, Sam'l F. Black, Calhoun Benham, Oliver Brown, Robert W. Carroll, Samuel F. Cary, Samuel S. Carpenter, A. G. W. Carter, Samuel S. Cox, John W. Caldwell, William M. Corry,* Edward P. Cranch, Jacob T. Crapsey, Jacob H. Clemmer, Frederick Colton, Nelson Cross, Joseph Cox, Robert W. Carroll, Aaron R. Dutton, William Den- nison, James J. Faran, William T. Forrest, John Frazer, E. Alex. Ferguson, Charles Fox, William S. Groesbeck, Joseph G. Gibbons, John M. Guitteau, Stephen Gano, W. E. Gilmore, C. W. Gilmore, John W. Herron, Robert D. Handy, John F. Hoy, George Hoadly, George H. Hilton, Robert S. Hamilton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chas. Hilts, Geo. B. Hollister, Sam'l W. Irwin, Charles P. James, William Johnson, Rufus King, John Kebler, Timothy D. Lincoln, Frederick D. Lincoln, Oliver S. Lovell, J. Bloomfield Leake, Thomas Longworth, Nathaniel C. McLean, Alexander H. McGuffey, Edward D. Mansfield, Patrick McGroarty, Patrick Mallon, Charles C. Mur-
* Deceased, September 10th, 1880.
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dock, Andrew McMicken, John B. McClymon, William McMaster, Stanley Matthews, M. W. Oliver, Geo. H. Pendleton, William Phillips, Jr., Donn Piatt, John L. Pendery, Andrew J. Pruden, Alexander Paddack, James W. Ryland, Thomas C. H. Smith, Richard H. Stone, Peter J. Sullivan, John B. Stallo, W. S. Scarborough, Henry E. Spencer, Alphonso Taft, James W. Taylor, William C. Thorpe, Samuel J. Thompson, John B. War- ren, James S. White, Crafts J. Wright, Robert B. War- den, Edward Woodruff, D. Thew. Wright, Peter Zinn.
Just ninety survivors all told, out of about two hundred and eighty who belonged, off and on, to the old days of the old court house. But when we just think of it, it is a goodly number after all, and in the language of old Rip, " Here's to them and their families, and may they all live long and prosper !"
A LIST OF THE PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE BAR OF CINCINNATI.
By way of comparison and contrast, this long list of the present members of the bar of Cincinnati is herewith presented. It will do, perhaps, to lay away for future reference as to who constituted the bar in the days of another old court house in times then long agone, when some future author may consider it his duty and privilege to write about them. He will certainly have his author- hands in numbers if in nothing else, much fuller than mine, and he may find, too, as I have found in the past, each present and future lawyer-
"A man of law, a man of peace. To frame a contract or a lease."
First, however, we will, as a matter of precedence,
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present the present judges and officers of the three higher courts of Cincinnati, and others-as follows :
District Court of Hamilton County-Judges-Wil- liam L. Avery, Joseph Cox, Robert A. Johnston.
Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County -- Judges -Jacob Burnet, William L. Avery, Joseph Cox, Nicholas Longworth, Robert A. Johnston, Fayette Smith, Fred. W. Moore.
Superior Court of Cincinnati-Judges-Manning F. Force, Judson Harmon, Joseph B. Foraker.
Clerk of the Courts-Samuel W. Ramp.
Sheriff-George Weber.
Prosecuting Attorney-Samuel H. Drew.
Assistant-Miller Outcalt.
Probate Court of Hamilton County-Fudge-Isaac B. Matson.
Chief Deputy-Dan Herider.
County Solicitor-Asa W. Waters.'
Police Court, Cincinnati-fudge-Moses F. Wilson.
City Prosecuting Attorney-John P. Murphy.
City Solicitor-P. H. Kumler.
THE LAWYERS.
Jos. Abraham, Victor Abraham, Edward Adleta, Howard M. Adae, Isaac J. Allen, John Allen, Wm. M. Ampt, Chas. Anderson, Jr., Frank V. Andrews, Chapman Archer, John A. Ast, Sr., Chas. H. Avery, L'Hommedieu Avery.
Lloyd P. Baen, Henry Baer, Jr., Chas. W. Baker,
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Edward H. Baker, L. E. Baker, J. F. Baldwin, Wm. H. Baldwin, Flamen Ball, Flamen Ball, Jr., Leonard R. Banks, H. B. Banning, Warner M. Bateman, Clement Bates, Joshua H. Bates, Wm. M. Bennett, Constantine W. Bente, Albert Bettinger, Bernard Bettman, Jr., John Bevan, Jr., F. J. Biddle, W. P. Biddle, Nicholas ยท Bird, L. C. Black, Samuel F. Black, C. H. Blackburn, Theo. A. Blinn, John Paul Bocock, John L. Bogardus, Louis H. Bond, Wm. A. Boone, Chas. H. Bosworth, John B. Boutet, Geo. W. Boyce, Edward Boyd, Wm. F. Boyd, E. P. Bradstreet, J. D. Brannan, H. F. Brashear, J. L. Bretz, Horatio S. Brewster, Samuel J. Broadwell, Wm. E. Brooks, Abram Brower, J. W. Brower, Adolph, L. Brown, Chas. E. Brown, G. W. Brown, I. J. Brown, Oliver Brown, Clarence K. Browne, F. W. Browne, John E. Bruce, Frank Bruner, W. C. Buchanan, Morris L. Buchwalter, Alex. Buckingham, R. N. Bulla, H. J. Buntin, Wallace Burch, Chas. L. Burgoyne, John Bur- goyne, Jr., Jacob S. Burnet, Thos. C. Burns, Benj. But- terworth, Cornelius Byl.
Pierce J. Cadwallader, Orin Cady, John A. Cald- well, John W. Caldwell, Samuel Caldwell, William Caldwell, Chas. E. Callahan, Geo. W. Campbell, Thos. C. Campbell, Samuel S. Carpenter, A. E. Carr, M. H. Carr, Alfred G. W. Carter, S. B. Carter, J. E. Cartwright, Samuel F. Cary, Samuel F. Cary, Jr., Jas. R. Challen, Edward F. Chambers, Aaron B. Champion, Walter L. Church, Henry M. Cist, Albert G. Clark, Milton Clark, R. A. Cleary, Jacob H. Clemmer, James A. Clemmer, Alfred A. Clerke, Orris P. Cobb, Wm. C. Cochran, John Coffey, Thos. J. Cogan, Alfred M. Cohen, Charles W. Cole, Henry Cole, Stephen Coles, A. G. Collins, Edward Colston, Fred. Colton, Ralph L. R. Colvin,
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Chas. G. Comegys, Chas. S. Conner, John S. Conner, Marinus W. Conway, Thos. M. Conway, Wm. C. Cooder, H. L. Cooper, Frank M. Coppock, Wm. J. Coppock, John A. Corbin, P. J. Corcoran, M. W. Cordell, George W. Cormany, Wm. Cornell, Otway J. Cosgrove, W. A. Cotter, Lyman S. Cotton, C. W. Cowan, Benj. H. Cox, Jacob D. Cox, Jos. Cox, Jr., Frank M. Cozad, A. E. Cramer, Edw. P. Cranch, J. T. Crapsey, S. T. Crawford, Jerome D. Creed, Jacob Creutz, Eugene P. M. Creutz, Albert J. Cunningham, Jos. R. Cutter.
W. A. Davidson, C. C. Davis, J. Davis, J. M. Dawson, M. J. Day, D. P. Dean, E. L. DeCamp, J. T. DeMar, E. J. Dempsey, C. L. Dengler, John J. Desmond, John Dewald, W. H. Dicks, Chas. T. Dickson, Wm. L. Dickson, Wm. M. Dickson, Jacob Diehl, Jr., Albert D. Diserens, William Disney, Ozro J. Dodds, Philip Dolle, P. J. Donham, Howard Douglass, John G. Douglass, R. T. Durrell, E. Potter Dustin, Richard Dyer.
C. W. Earnist, C. S. Eaton, C. M. Edwards, Edwin Edwards, Benj. F. Ehrman, Edward A. Ellsworth, H.C. Emery, Chas. Evans, Jas. J. Evans, Jr.
James J. Faran, Jr., E. A. Ferguson, E. C. Ferguson, Aaron A. Ferris, Howard Ferris, W. C. Fiedeldey, Henry H. Finch, Charles C. Fisher, Charles S. Fisher, Wm. H. Fisher, Jas. W. Fitzgerald, John M. Fitzgerald, John F. Follett, James R. Foraker, M. F. Force, W. T. Forrest. E. H. Foster, John M. Foster, Charles Fox, P. W. Francis, O. I. Frank, Jacob Franzreb, Lewis French, Robert S. Fulton.
J. W. Gaff, J. D. Gallagher, Stephen Gano, Jeptha Garrard, Emory M. Garrison, John J. Gasser, Carter Gazlay, Theodore Gazlay, C. W. Gerard, E. J. Gerity, Florien Giauque, Jos. G. Gibbons, Peter Gibson, Jr.,
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John J. Glidden, Herman P. Goebel, John Goetz, Jr., Jas. Goldrick, Aaron W. Goldsmith, Frank D. Goodhue, W. A. Goodman, P. S. Goodwin, Leonard W. Goss, John W. Grace, Walter L. Granger, Wm. F. Gray, George L. Green, Ellis B. Gregg, Andrew W. Griffith, Telford Groesbeck, A. C. Grube, Edward Gurney, Erastus A. Guthrie.
Marcellus B. Hagans, Irving Halsey, Benton Hal- stead, Rob't S. Hamilton, Augustus S. Hamlin, Charles B. Hancock, Miles W. Handy, Thomas Hanna, Judson Harmon, J. C. Harper, George H. Harries, Simeon Harris, George T. Harrison, J. T. Harrison, Henry J. Harrop, John C. Hart, Walker Hartwell, Peter H. Hastings, John E. Hatch, John M. Hayes, John C. Healy, Thomas T. Heath, David Heinsheimer, Jr., Geo. W. Hendricks, James D. Henry, John W. Herron, E. G, Hewitt, Louis Hicks, Wm. A. Hicks, Wm. C. Hicks, Warren Higley, A. F. Hildebrant, T. Q. Hildebrant, Geo. H. Hilton, Thornton M. Hinkle, Geo. Hoadly; A. J. Hodder, Geo. B. Hollister, Howard C. Hollister, James W. Hollister, D. H. J. Holmes, S. Pearce Holton, Henry Hooper, Charles F. Hornberger, Theo. Horts- mann, Lewis M. Hosea, Edwin J. Howard, Chas. A. Hoyt, David Humphries, Sam'1 F. Hunt, John R. Hunter, Dwight W. Huntington, A. B. Huston, David M. Hyman.
Lewis W. Irwin, Richard A. Jackson, Herbert Jenny, A. J. Jessup, Edgar M. Johnson, J. Wm. Johnson, Simeon M. Johnson, John Johnston, Miles Johnston, Charles H. Jones, Frank J. Jones, Price J. Jones, Rankin D. Jones, Walter St. I. Jones, Wm. E. Jones, J. M. Jordan, Jackson A. Jordan, N. E. Jordan, W. Tyson Judkins.
Chas. W. Karr, Michael Kary, Peter Keam, Chas.
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A. Kebler, John Kebler, Chas. C. Keeler, Thos. H. Kelley, Frank H. Kemper, Theo. Kemper, Willis M. Kemper, Rufus King, J. F. Kinney, Byron Kirby, Clinton Kirby, Edmund W. Kittredge, E. H. Kleinschmidt, Max Kohn, Geo. H. Kolker, Adam A. Kramer, Louis Kramer, P. H. Kumler.
Chas. E. LaMotte, Francis Lampe, F. A. Lamping, T. A. Lane, Chas. Lehmer, C. H. L'Hommedieu, W. M. Lemon, Lipman Levy, F. D. Lincoln, T. D. Lincoln, George Lindemann, Henry T. Lipperd, H. P. Lloyd, Jos. L. Logan, Thos. A. Logan, Walter T. Logan, Alex. Long, Victor H. Long, Albert S. Longley, H. T. Loomis, Christian M. Lotze, John K. Love, A. S. Ludlow, Geo. H. Lundy, Staughton Lynd.
Francis J. McCabe, Anthony J. McCaffery, John J. McCarthy, William T. McClintick, J. B. McClymon, Andrew W. McCormick, Frank R. McCormick, Joseph McDougal,* Thos. McDougall, W. H. McDowell, Jacob R. McGarry, John McGrath, Alex. H. McGuffey, Nat. C. McLean, Clarence E. McMakin, John H. McMakin, William McMaster, Andrew McMicken, Jr., Wm. H. McMillen, A. McNeill, Wm. H. Mackoy, J. D. Macneale, Patrick Mallon, John B. Mannix, Herman Marckworth, A. J. Marsh, Edwin C. Martin, Wm. H. Mathews, J. B. Matson, C. Bentley Matthews, Samuel R. Matthews, Stanley Matthews, Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., S. N. Max- well, Wm. G. Mayer, Wm. C. Mellen, H. Howard Meriam, Herman Merrell, Murray E. Merrihew, David W. Miller, Francis W. Miller, Isaac J. Miller, Samuel A. Miller, Willard Milligan, W. Gholson Miner, Chas. L. Mitchell, John J. Molloy, D. Barry Mollony, E. B. Mollony, James Mollony, Clark B. Montgomery, Herman M. Moos, F. W. Moore, Henry A. Morrill, Clarence Morris, W. B.
*Since deceased.
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Morrow, Edw. Morse, John H. Morton, Charles W. Moulton, James J. Muir, James R. Murdoch, John P. Murphy, George J. Murray, John H. Myers.
William Norwood, William O'Brien, Timothy A. O'Connor, F. H. Oehlmann, M. W. Oliver, Miller Outcalt.
Alex. Paddack, Otto Palm, Jr., Walter R. H. Palm, Eugene Pannenberg, W. W. Pardee, Jos. G. Parkinson, Robert Parkinson, John M. Pattison, Alfred N. Paxton, Thos. B. Paxton, H. P. K. Peck, Hiram B. Peck, Geo. H. Pendleton, Jas. H. Perkins, Aaron F. Perry, Charles Phares, Wm. Phillips, Morris Pohlmann, John Q. Porter, W. T. Porter, David H. Pottenger, Harry R. Probasco, A. J. Pruden, Robert C. Pugh, Wm. H. Pugh, William Hartley Pugh, L. H. Pummill, J. W. Punshon.
S. N. Quinn, William T. Quinn.
Charles L. Raison, William M. Ramsey, Harvey E. Randell, D. Gano Ray, Patterson A. Reece, Edward C. Reemelin, Louis Reemelin, Thos. B. Reynolds, Chan- ning Richards, Adolph Richter, J. Edwards Ritchie, Wm. G. Roberts, C. D. Robertson, Benj. Robinson, Jr., N. Rockhold, Jr., Fred. G. Roelker, Philip Roettinger, Jr., Benno C. Rothe, Emil Rothe, Jos. Ruffner, Rob't F. Ryman.
Morris B. Sachs, George R. Sage, John S. Sanborn, Milton Sater, John R. Sayler, Milton Sayler, Nelson Sayler, Jos. Schultz, Edward Schwab, Vincent Schwab, John C. Schwartz, Charles F. Seybold, John A. Shank, Alberto C. Shattuck, Thos. F. Shay, Wm. B. Sheppard, Chas. B. Shillin, G. W. Shinn, Murray C. Shoemaker, Charles W. Short, Jacob Shroder, C. K. Shunk, Eugene W. S. Seibert, Isaac Simon, Israel M. Simon, Chas. B. Simrall, John A. Slattery, A. J. Smith, J. C. Smith,
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J. H. Chas. Smith, O. M. Smith, Rufus B. Smith, M. Snyder, Ed. M. Spangenberg, Joshua M. Spencer, F. S. Spiegel, Chas. S. Spritz, John B. Stallo, Henry Stan- berry, Percival W. Steinbrecher, Werner Steinbrecher, Arthur Stem, Charles H. Stephens, J. E. Stevenson, Job E. Stevenson, Smith Stimmel, George W. Stone, R. H. Stone, R. H. Stone, Jr., Bellamy Storer, Luther M. Strafer, W. F. Straub, Dudley W. Strickland, William Strunk, Peter J. Sullivan, Robert J. Sullivan, L. H. Swormstedt, C. S. Symmes, W. W. Symmes.
Gustav Tafel, Alphonso Taft, Chas. P. Taft, William H. Taft. Wilson S. Taylor, Ambrose Temple, Oliver H. Temple, Jordan H. Thomas, Geo. H. Thompson, Samuel J. Thompson, J. C. Thoms, Ferd. A. Thomson, Everett S. Throop, Howard Tilden, Myron H. Tilden, Fred. Tischbein, Geo. R. Topp, Wm. Travis, John A. Trimble, Benj. C. True, Wm. M. Tugman, A. J. Tullis, Wm. S. Turner, H. B. Turrill, Reuben Tyler.
Henry Van Matre, Frederick Vogeler, August R, Von Martels, John R. Von Seggern, Chris. Von Seggern. G. VonSteinwehr, August Vos.
Gustavus H. Wald, Jos. N. Walker, Julius Walter, Andrew P. Ward, Durbin Ward, A. M. Warner, Fred. E. Warren, C. B. Warrington, J. W. Warrington, Asa W. Waters, Charles A. Watson, James Watson, Wm. F. Webb, Chas. Weber, Benj. S. White, James S. White, Henry C. Whitman, W. H. Whittaker, W. H. Wiggins, Charles B. Wilby, Joseph Wilby, E. N. Wild, E. Cort Williams, W. G. Williams, Wm. H. Williamson, Dillon B. Wilson, Edw. N. Wilson, Gideon C. Wilson, Manly D. Wilson, Moses F. Wilson, R. B. Wilson, Wm. J. T. Wilson, John Flack Winslow, Jacob Wolf, Edward E. Wood, John H. Woodward, Chas. W. Wooley, Geo. W.
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Worthington, William Worthington, D. Thew Wright, Harry L. Wright, Irvin B. Wright, Drausin Wulsin. Alfred Yaple, Walker M. Yeatman, Thomas L. Young.
Robert Zahner, Peter Zinn.
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