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Utailg Simes. VOL. 6.—NO. HO. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. LATEST EVENTS BY CABLE AND WIRE. Was General Longstreet a Traitor?—A Colored Tragedy in Texas-Terrible Disaster in Charlotte, North Caro lina—A Midnight Wedding—Race War Imminent in Alabama- General Items of Inti rest. Atlanta, May 14.—Dr. J. W. Jones, Secretary of the Southern Historical bo ciety, in a lecture here Tuesday night, made a statement that if Stonewall Jackson had been in command of the Confederates at Gettysburg, a certain leading General would have been shot on the field. “Do you refer to Longstreet?” he was asked afterward. “Yes,” replied Dr. Jones. A MASS OF RUINS. An Entire Buildicg Falls to the Ground and is Wrecked. Charlotte, N. C., May 14.—At 9 o’clock this morning a three-story brick structure occupied by Hammond & Justice, hardware merchants, on Trade street, two doors east of the Central Hotel, fell to the ground tn a mass of ruins. The catastrophe was caused by an excavation for the foundation of the new Shiff building recently destroyed by fire. It was excavated too close to the walls, when the earth suddenly gave way, and the . whole structure collapsed. Time'.y warning was given by cracking walls, and everybody fled in time to escape being caught in the wreck. The ruins took fire, but it is now extinguished. The building was owned by John H. McAden. Loss $7,000. Ham mond & Justice’s loss on stock $25,000. lusurancesll,ooo An adjoining building owned by W. J. Yates was damaged to the extent of SI,OOO, but is in imminent danger of collapsing. A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY. A Negro Fiend Kills His Wife with an Axe Marshall, Texas, May 14.—Between 12 and 1 o’clock Tuesday night a cabin in the western part of this city was the scene of a horrible tragedy. Sam Kenson, colored and his wife had a family quarrel during the day, and at night Kenson entered the cabin and found his wife praying. Stepping back he obtained an axe, and quickly returning, dealt the woman two blows on the head, and was about to strike again when Dora Lick, a colored women living in the house, interfer ed and after a struggle got the axe away from him. She screamed for help mean while, but before it came Kenson escaped. He was subsequently caught and lodged in jail. MARRIED AT MIDNIGHT. A Determined Bride Propped Up in Bed to Get Married. Cincinnati, 0., May 14—Last night a carriage containing Joseph Von Wahle and Miss Mamie Reedy, who were on their way to church to be married, was run away with and overturned, the bdy being very seri ously injured. At midnight, however, the marriage took place, though the bride had to be propped up by pillows in bed while the ceremony was performed. A RACE WAR. Threatened in Alabama. New Orleans, May 14.—Gov. O’Neill, of Alabama, has received advices from home indicating that his presence is needed there on account of an apprehended war of races in Bibb and Chaiton counties. The trouble grew out of a recent assault on a white woman by a negro, and the lynching of the negro’s father in consequence thereof. The Sheriff fearing an uprising, has called on the Gov ernor for troops. FROM ATLANTA, The Governor Gone Fishing—The Varna do© Trial, Etc. Special Dispatch to the Daily Times. Atlanta, May 14.—Governor McDaniel has gone to Albany to enjoy a week’s fishing with friends in that region. The executive office is in the hands of the Secretaries, Cal. Varnadoe, who was on trial three days of this week for the murder of Asbury Whitehead, was convicted of voluntary man slaughter. He will carry the case up. General Hancock is still here looking for a site for the proposed barracks. The Convention of the Y. M. C. A. is attended by about 500 delegates. Beil’s Rebellion Ended. Winnipeg, Miy 14.—1 tis believed here that the rebels have been so badly beaten that they will make no further stand. The Dynamiters’ Trial. London, May 14.—The trial of the al leged dynamiters, Cunningham and Burton, was resumed this morning. Probabilities. Washington, May 14.—For the South Atlantic States fair weather, variable winds, preoeded by Northerly winds in Northern portion, stationary temperature. Another Trial of the Dolphin. Washington, May 14.—The Secretary of the Navy has ordered another trial of the Dispatch boat Dolphin. Hunt’s Remedy cures speedily bilious head ache, costiveness, dyspepsia, strengthens the stomach and .purifies the blood. MACON MATTERS. The Southern Carriage Builders’ Associa tion—A Business Sensation—Minoi- Mention. Special Correspondence Daily Times. Macon, Ga., May 13.—The Association of Southern have been in session here to-day—a good number was in attendance. Business for the year is re ported in fine condition. Every member is enthusiastic over the bright prospects Mr. W. W. Collins, of the Collins Manufac turing Company of this city, was elected President; J. W. Weitzel], of Atlanta, Sec retary, and J. M. Smith, of Atlanta, Treas urer. The Convention for next year will be held at Atlanta the second Wednesday in May. President Collins took the members out in carriages this afternoon and showed them through the immense shops ot his company, and afterwards drove over the city and up on the hills, where the beautiful residences of our fair city sit in majestic repose. A banquet was also tendered the association to-night at the Brown House. The sensation in the city to-day has been the sudden changing of hands of the large stock of the bankrupt firm of W. A. Juhan & Co. Messrs. H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, recently bought the stock, as they were large creditors of the firm, and to-day a tride was made between Claflin & Co. and J. W. Rice & Co., of Macon, who have been occupying for years the apex of Tiiangular Block, on Second street, and next to Juhan & Co. Messrs. Rice & Co. also bought the stores of Juhan & Co. The price paid for the stock was $17,000, and for the stores $27,000. Messrs. Rice & Co. will push the dry goods business with great energy and enthusiasm when they get things in shape. The Philomatheans, a literary society of the Wesleyan Female College, celebrated last night the sixtieth birthday of the phi lanthropist, George I. Seney, who gave in round numbers $125,000 to the Wesleyan. A letter was read from Mr. Seney expressing regrets that he could not be present. The Southern Cadets, the young military company of Macon, celebrated their third anniversary at the Park to-day by target practice and a basket picnic. All lovers of the popular base ball are greatly discouraged over the reports about our nine since leaving home. They have won oily one game out of seven played. The score with the Nashvilles to-day was lost by thirteen to three, Miller, the brag catcher for Macon, got his finger broke early in the game, and Morrisey being put in his pl ice the game was easily won by the Nashvilles. Macon’s nine will be great ly strengthened however, if mouey will se cure players. Harold Few York Stock Market. New York, May 14 —At 1:30 p. m. to day quotations were: Union Pacific Missouri Pacific—••• Western Union Telegraph Co 58 Pacific Mail o* Lake Shore Louisville and Nashville Texas Pacific W/s Denver and Rio Grande 5 Michigan Central4B Delaware, Lackawanna & West n Northwestern St/Paul Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Oregon Transcontinental J 4% Northern Pacific Rock Island Jersey Centralßs Memphis and Charleston* isast Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 20*4 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga. (pfd) 5 Philadelphia and Reading Omaha (com) 20 OmahaJipftD . <1 New York Central- Kansas and Texas}B Erie•• Hon. S. S. Cox Decided to Go to Turkey. Washington, May 14.—Mr. Cox has concluded to go to Turkey, notwithstanding the appeals of his constituents to the con trary. New York Produce Market. New York, May 14. —Flour fine $2 50 a3 65, superfine $3 50a3 85, common to fair e :tra choice $3 80. Wheat No. 2 red winter, June $1 04 1 8.. Corn No. 2 mixed May 55 38. Oats No. 2 mixed, May 39}. Rye and barley nominal and unchanged. Pork du’l, mess sl2 25. Lard, $7 59 for June, $7 18 for July. M lasses quiet. Chicago ’Change. Chicago, May 14.—Opened—Wheat, for June, 90jc; July, 92jc; August, 94.1 c. Corn, f>r June, 47fc; July, 48le; August, 48§c Oats—June and July, 34j. Pork —June $11; July, sll 07; August, sllls. Lard — June, 6.82; July, 6 90. Ribs—June, 5.57; July, 5.65; August, 5.75. Grant Growing Worse Again. New York, May 14. —The pain in Gen. Grant’s throat had increased to such an ex tent yesterday that he had to suspend work on his book. His physicians say throat trouble is again making marked progress. Bank of England’s Discount Rate Reduced London, May 14 —The Bank of Eng land’s rate of discount his been reduced from 3 to 2 1-2 per cent. “I have, sir, great faith in Dr. David Ken nedy’s “Favorite Remedy,” said H. S. Bene dict’ of Troy, N. Y. “I suffered all my life from dyspepsia and biliousness, and found no relief until J tried ‘Favorite Remedy.’ One bottle made’ me feel strong, and now I am well. I consider it the best blood remedy in the market? An Arkansas widow who has had thirteen husbands, married the fourteenth. She was unwilling to leave off with an odd’num ber. ‘‘ROUGH ON TOOTHACHE.” Instant r elief for Neuralgia, Toothache Faceache. Ask for "Bough on Toothache. 15 and 25c. L. Freid never advertises to sell at or belew cost, but guarantees good value for the moneyl SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 14 1885. SAVANNAH ARTESIAN WATER. Analysis by Prof. White, State Chemist— A Water of Remarkable Purity. Capt. D. G. Purse recently forwarded to Prof. 11. C. White at Athens, State Chem ist, a specimen of the artesian water from his well, corner of New Houston and Cuyler streets. The Professor made a careful an alysis of the water, and his report thereon will be read with great interest by every citizen of Savannah, as he gives it one of the best and strongest indorsements ever given to any water in the United States. Prof. White writes as follows: University of Georgia, Chemical Laboratory, Athens, Ga., May 12,1885. /). G, Purse, Esq,, Savannah, Ga,: Dear Sir—l have examined, carefully and with much interest, the sample of water from your artesian well at Savannah, for warded by you several days since. The water is perfectly clear and transpar- 1 ent, entirely free from suspended matter, • without odor, is slightly sparkling frem ■ slow escape, on standing, of dissolved car bonic acid gas, and has a fresh, pleasant : taste. Ou exposure for five days to summer temperature no odor is perceptible, and no 1 “muddinesa” or growth of vegetable mould ■ is observed 1 On repeated testing only the faintest traces of free and albumenoid am- i monia could be detected. Even for an ar- : tesian water this is remarkably free from these indications of possible pollution. On evaporation the water yields, per United States gallon, 21 0245 grains of solid matter, as follows: Solid Matters Grains per Dissolved. U.S. Gallon. Carbonate of 50da11.3312 Chloride of sodium3.l62l Sulphate of soda 3.2130 Sulphate of lime, 2.1014 Sulphate of magnesia 0.1157 Carbonate of Irou 0.0208 Nitrate of soda 0.1214 Silii-late o’ 50da0.6013 Silica, 0.12i'5 Organic matter and combined water.. .. 0.2201 T0ta121.0245 The total quantity of dissolved solid mat ter is about the same as that found in the other artesian walers of this State and is very much less than that yielded by many otters elsewhere. The composition of the dissolved matter is that usually found for artesian waters. This is a pure, healthful water, of most excellent quality and admi rably suited for drinking and other domes tic purpe ss. I congratulate you upon your success in obtaining such excellent water, the supply of which, I trust, may be equal to your wishes and demands. In your note of the 7th you state the well to be 700 feet deep and the water to be within thirteen inches of the surface. I hope you will not be content until you get a flowing well. This you can certainly get, 1 believe, probably with a few feet more of depth. Your supply through a two-inch pipe must be comparatively small. The grand fact is demonstrated, however, that artesian water can be had at Savannah. If you have preserved any records of the borings, strata penetrated, &c., could you put me in the way to get access to them to study them ? lam very much interested in your enterprise. Sincerely yours, H. C. White. Georgia State Dental Society. The third days meeting of the Georgia State Dental Society was held tc-day in rooms Nos. 13 and 14 of the Pulaski House. Dr. A. G. Bouton presided. The first busi ness was the reading of a paper on “The Nervous Forces,” by Dr. E. A. Parsons, and one by Dr. Coyle. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: J. H. Coyle, President. J. 11. Holmes, Vice President. C. F. Osborne, Second Vice President. L. D. Carpenter, Corresponding Secretary. W. L. Smith, Recording Secretary. H. A. Lawrence, Treasurer. Executive Committee—George W. Whit aker, Sandersville; L. D. Carpenter, At lanta; S. P. Barfield, Macon; R. P. Adams, Gainesville; N. A. Williams, Valdosta. The following resolutions were offered by Dr. W. L. Smith: “Resclyed Ist, That the heartiest thanks of the Georgia State Dental Society be tendered the Savannah dentists for their great courtesies and lavish hospitality. Also to the ladies who aided so mubh to our great enjoyment while in their bsautiful City by the Sea. 21. That to the proprietor of the Pulaski House, Mr. Jas M. Case, for the royal man ner in which he cared for us, and for the beautiful parlors in which our session was held. We tender our thanks; also to the rail roads and press for courtesies extended and accepted bv us.” The society adjourned to meat in Macon the third Tuesday in May, 1886, at 10 o’clock. Electric Light Company. The annual meeting of the Electric Light Company was held last evening at Metro politan Hall. Mr. Malcolm Mac lean was called to the chair, and the president, 8. P. Ham ilton, Esq.; submitted his report showing the condition of the company to be satisfac tory. He stated that arrangements were being made looking to the introduction of incandescent lights for private buildings. The annual election for directors took place, which resulted as follows: S. P. Hamilton, D. G, Purse, George Walter, J. C. Rowland, C. H. Wilcox, L. Kayton, S. S. Guckenheimer, Leeßoy Myers, M. Mo clean. The board will meet this afternoon at the office of Capt. D. G. Purse, for the pur pose of electing a president and other officers 1 . —The wires being down between Savan nah and Tybee we are without our usual Tybee report to day. pretyt women Ladies who would retain freshness and viyacity. Don’t fail to try “Wells’ Health Benewer.” AN UPRIGHT JUDGE. RECEPTION OF THE PORTRAIT OF HON. JOHN ERSKINE. General Jackson's Remarks on the Pre" sentatlon Judge Speer’s Response— Remarks of Messrs. Mercer, Gar rard, Lawton and Erwin—Tri butes to a Man who Stead ily Refused to Soil the Judicial Ermine, At 9:30 o’clock to-day the following mem bers of the Savacnah bar assembled in the United States Court room: Gen. Henry R- Jackson, Col. Wm. Garrard, Capt. Robert G’ Falligant, Hon. J. R. Saussy, Capt. Geo. A Mercer, C. N. West, Maj. A. B.Smith, William M.Hey ward,P. J. O’Connor,Col.James Atkins, A. R. Lawton, Jr., Judge D. A. O’Byrne, Capt. H. C. Cunningham, M. A. O’Byrne, Col. J. L. Whatley, Hon. Wm. D. Harden, Judge of City Court, Hon. A. Pratt Adams, Judge of the Superior Court, Geo. W. Owens, R. G. Erwin, W. R. Leaken, Isaac Beckett and Henry McAlpin. Col. E. C. Wade, United States Marshal, opened the court in due form of law, and Hon» Emory Speer, the Judge thereof, who had invited Hon. A. Pratt Adams to a seat on the bench, said that inasmuch as the bar had assem! led fora particular purpose, court would take a recess until the business was transacted. Colonel Garrard then moved that Gen. Henry R. Jackson take the chair. On motion, M. A. O’Byrne, Esq., was appointed secretary. Colonel Garrard then moved that committee of three or five, as h> chair thought feasible, be appointed to draft proper resobUions in the presentat..on of the I portrait of Hon. John Erskine to the court The chair appointed the following members of the bar lor that purpose: Col. William I Garrard, Capt. George A. Mercer, Cap', i Robert Falligant, Judge D. A. O’Byrne j aud Col. James Atkins. The committee retired and shortly after wards, through its chairman, reported reso lutions, which were submitted by General Jackson, in presenting the portrait, in the following eloquent language: May it please Your Honor: It has been made my grateful duty to present to the Court this, the portrait of the Honorable John Erskine, and to pray that an order be granted which shall fix it per manently in this hall. lam further in structed to submit the following preamble and resolutions to your honor and to pray that they be placed upon the minutes of the court: The Honoraole John Erskine, having at tained the age of seventy years, resigned the office of United States District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia in Decem ber, 1883, having performed the duties thereof since January, 1866. The services of Judge Erskine were in valuable. He took his place on the bench just as the smoke of the late civil war was clearing away, and when society was in a chaotic state. A new order of things was about to be established; peculiar Consti 'iiional amend ments and statutes incident to the times had been and were being enacted; the people of Georgia were bleeding from their wounds, and this State, ravaged by war, was practi cally bankrupt. The position of the presiding Federal Judge in Georgia was necessarily a most trying and delicate one. Firm as a rock and entirely fearless, Judge Erskine so dis charged the functions of his trust that, while the law was administered, the people were not oppressed, and the prosperity of Georgia was advanced. We are not here to praise him, nor to delineate his entire career. Enough that he was a Judge, able, learned and impartial, who did his full duty, under all circum stances. What more can be said ? His intercourse with the Bar was marked by uniform courtesy, affability and friend liness.. We are not forgetful of his worth, and and desire to attest our regard for him as a jurist and a man. To this end we have caused this portrait of him to be painted, and we now present.it to the Federal Courts for the Southern Dis trict of Georgia, to be hung on the walls of the court room in Savannah, there to re main for all time, as a memorial of our personal esteem and of the profound respect entertained for him by us, in common with the peo, le of Georgia. Be it resolved, Ist, That His Honor Judge Speer is requested to receive this portrait, of Judge Erskine, for the Courts of the United States for this district, and to cause the same to be placed upon the walls cf the court room, there to remain forever. 2d. That His Honor is requested to di rect that this preamble and these resolu tions be spread upon the minutes of the Court, and to cause the clerk to send a cer tified copy of these proceeedings to Judge Erskine. By these proceedings the members of the bar, whose willing representative I am, de sire to pay honor to whom they feel that honor is justly due; to the judge who as cended the bench in the darkest of days, when the results of a disastrous war had thickly populated the dockets of the court with questions of the "gravest import, and who brought to their solution a head so clear, a learning so large, and a labor so pa tient, that few judges have so rarely erred. To him the opportunity was given, by a harsh —nay ! by an inconsiderate —exer- cise of official power, to make the ad ministration even of justice itself painfully oppressive in a court-room whose very air was electric with voiceless, because it might be regarded as lawless, emotion. He soothed the perturbed elements by the emanations of a kindly heart, and by a bearing always gen tle, always patient; the hearing inspired by a generous nature, and, therefore, the bearing of a courteous gentleman. A distrustful com munity was loth to receive him when he came; I venture to say that the same com munity did not hold a solitary man who knew him at all, who was not loth to part with him, when he left. And, to-day, no spectacle can be more welcome to its people than his venerable form revisiting our streets and our homes. So, by being true, at one and the same time, to the inexorable dictates of official duty, and the warm impulses of a brave, generous and affectionate nature, he has won for himself a triumph, and for his name a memory, of which any man might be justly proud. REMARKS OF CAPT. GEO. A. MERCER, May it please Your Honor: It affords me very great gratification to be able to participate personally in rendering this tribute from the Bar of Savannah to the ability, integrity and popularity of your im mediate predecessor. Fending the period of Judge Erskine’s appointment to the position occupied by your Honor, there existed in this section of our country a critical condi tion of anxiety and unrest. Amidst the recent clash of arms, legal in stitutions had been silent. The courts of the State in many localities were either barred or imp tent. The great central power had not yet begun to exert its authority through the regular operation of its laws in its organ ized courts of justice. Military tribunals un lied every gordian knot with the sword, and donbtful questions were resolved in accord ance with the crude notions, prejudices or passions of the presiding provost. Disquiet ude and alarm as to the outcome of the future pervaded all classes; and to the members of our profession, who, after gallantly serving their section, had doffed their military harness and returned to re sume, if possible, their legal labors, it did, indeed, seem that like Othello, their occu pation was gone. Judge Erskine received his appointment in January, 1866, and held his first term of this Court in the ensuing May. He was a stranger in our midst. It was well understood that he differed with us in political sentiment, and that he earnestly opposed the movement which most of us had so ardently embraced. We had been in structed in the liberty loving methods of the common law, and we yearned for a return to its established principles and its safe prece dents. Our professional knowledge and sense of propriety had been shocked by the law less administration of military tribunals and the travesties of justice witnessed in the Provost Courts. How would this stran ger, imbued, as we supposed, with the views of our late enemies, wield the rod of justice entrusted to his hands. Would the scales maintain their even equipoise? Would this dread arbiter of an angry nation’s law behold with faultless vison the truth and right, and remain blind only to the passions and prejudices of the day? Would this august figure, lifted into the lofty seat of Federal justice—pre-emi nently the embodiment to bar and people of the might as well as mercy of the gen eral government—so administer his high and delicate prerogative as not only to dis pense justice, but to quiet apprehension, to repel passion, to win confidence, and, in his own personality, to smooth the yet wrinkled front of war. These were the anxious que ries which suggested themselves to us. One of the earliest and most important questions which came before Judge Erskine for decision involved the right of lawyers to practice theii profession without first tak ing an oath which those of us who had been faithful to our State, and the dictates of our conscience found it impotsi sible to take. Judge Erskine, in a well considered, learned and able opinion, held that the profession of a lawyer was his property, and that no man in this free country could be deprived of his property without due process of law. Had Judge Erskine made no other decision, the bar of Georgia became his lasting debtor for this. If his determination of this, and other quest lions involving the issues and passions of the late conflict, served to quiet the appre hensions of the bar, and to assure them that a just and fearless judge, and not anermined partisan, sat upon the bench, hip, uniform courtesy and grace of manner, and evident kindness of heart, soon drew our members into closer personal contact, and revealed to them the fine and attractive qualities of the incumbent. Judge Erskine in no instance failed to exact the just dues of the central authority, and in those troubled times its plain justice often pressed sorely upon the suitors; but with the fortiter in re was the suaviter in mode which extracted the sting, and com mended to Bar and people the power he so fitly represented, as well in the strength and firmness of his judicial attitude as in the bending aud attractive qualities of his nature. Suffice it to say that, after presiding in this Court for a period of nearly two de cades, he has retired full of years and hon ors, having achieved the reputation of a learned, just and upright judge, having performed his full measure of duty to the Government, which he honored in his char acter and person, and leaving behind him in the ranks of the profession which knew him best and among their clients not a single enemy and very many warmly attached and abiding friends. The picture which is to be hung in the court room is a truthful and beautiful delineation of the respected original, and, his fine qualities of head and heart glow legibly upon the canvass. By this generation of lawyers it can never be regarded with careless eye, or with pulseless heart; and to other generations it will be transmitted with the tradition of our profession, as the “counterfeit pre sentment” of a cultured gentleman, of a good man, and of a Judge wise, learned, upright and just. REMARKS 'OF COL. WM, GARRARD. This occasion, may it please your honor, is to me one of intense pleasure. The bar of Savannah tender to the keep ing of the Federal Courts this portrait, to be suspended on these walls, for all time; a tribute by an appreciative profession to an able and an upright judge. But a short time since, the Honorable John Erskine occupied with great dignity and to the satisfaction cf the government, the people and the bar, the judicial chair, which your honor now so acceptably fills. For nearly a score of years he dispensed justice here. We knew ; him, honored him, and loved him, and now that he has resigned his high trust and has retired to the shades of pri vate life, with, “Well done, good and faith ful servant,” sounding in his ears from the people at large, there can be no impro priety in this slight attempt on our part to express our regard for him and our appreciation of his judicial services. When he took bis seat upon the bench a great civil war had torn this country almost asunder, aud the gravest of questions pre- S6OO A YE AR sented themselves at once for his decision. He was equal to the emergency and to the delicate requirements of the crisis, and not only displayed in the solution of these issues Wisdom, J us'.ice and Moderation, but also unshaken nerve and consummate tact. To the end, sir, that the law was respected and vindicated, rights triumphed, the Gov ernment lost nothing, and the people of Georgia became his everlasting debtors. When passions calmed, when the hot blood of war cooled, when once more gentle peace prevailed, this impartial aud learned Judge, who had met bold issues boldly settled down to the calm routine of hia duties, and the dockets of these courts— criminal, equity, common law, bankruptcy and admiralty—testify to the immense vol ume of business disposed of by him. In the court he was “every inch” a judge; out of it, he was our social friend; always urbane and genial whether he looked down on us from lhe bench, or broke bread with us, around “the mahogany.” He loved the Common Law, and always insisted on going up to its sources; he was at home in the broad fields of Commercial Law; in the Admiralty he delighted, and in this branch, he especially excelled. But, sir, why apply the dissecting knife? Judge Erskine is not dead, thank God! This is no funeral occasion, nor a time far panegyrics. He is in fair health; his merits and his virtues are his still, and we trust, in the dispensation of Providence, that many more years of life will be .accorded him, that he may be among us, may come and go among these familiar scenes and often look upon his own portrait, in this room where his judicial voice was once heard. The electric wires stretch between him and us, and to-day his good heart shall thrill with pleasure as the result of these proceed ings is flashed to him. Sir, I conclude as I began—this event is most delightful to me. Almost since the day when Judge Erskine signed the order admitting me to this bar, he has been, and still is, my firm and fast, personal friend. In the future, when amid the busy scenes of these courts my eyes fall upon this portrait, I will not only recall the Judge, but also the charming companionship, my friends, he has permitted me to enjoy with him. Mr. A. R. Lawton, Jr., followed with the 0 pertinent remarks: .Maj/ it please Your Honor : I regret exceedingly the unavoidable ab sence of a member of this Bar with whom my personal and professional relations are of the closest. lam sure that he would be glad to add his testimony as to Judge Ers kine’s character to that which has already been given. I will not undertake to speak for him, but I cannot omit so favorable an opportunity to speak of Judge Erskine’s kind consideration of younger members of the Bar. He was always ready and anxious to assist them in their awkward stumbling up the steep path to success, to correct their errors, to encourage their efforts, to make suggestions to them when in doubt, and alwavs being ready to lend them a helping hand. Experience teaches that they are often sorely in need of encouragement and wise suggestion, and I can never forget how much of both they received at his hands. I will not speak of his other virtues, which have been so eloquently presented by my seniors; but I feel that the junior bar can not be silent on this occasion. They join heartily in the sentiments expressed by the resolutions, and in the prayer that they will be adopted bythe court. Mr. R. G. Erwin arose and stated his re gret at the absence of his partner, but that he could not omit the oportunity to pay tribute to the kindness and consideration always shown the junior members of the Bar by Judge Erskine. At the close of Mr. Erwin’s remarks Hoa, Emory Speer then addressed the bar. REMARKS OF JUDGE SPEE’I. The Court has listened with unaffected gratification to the resolutions of the bar and to the graceful and ass ecting observations from the gentlemen who have spoken in furtherance of their scope of purpose. Surely no occasion could so appropriately enkindle the enthusiasm or suggest the elo quent utterance of the members of a pro fession whose generous admiration for dis tinguished ability and public services, is one of its best known and most valuable tradi tions. Nor could that admiration, possibly find so adequate and felicitous expression as in this speaking canvass. Nor has it been more richly merited than by the distin guished jurist, the memory of whose judi cial excellence and charming social virtues you have assembled to perpet uate. The court accepts and will take proper order that this noble work of art shall be carefully preserved to adorn this Chamber, and that the faithful portraiture of the benignant and lofty fea tures and highly bred bearing of the Honor able John Erskine shall remain a perpetual reminder how an honorable and gifted Bar have loved and admired a just and emi nent Judge; a monument of honor both to the Court and to the Bar. Happy must be that venerable man in the possession of the unstinted meed of the approbation and affection from the gifted and the great which this day and these proceedings have so amply testified. Well do we know that his sensitive and refined nature will de lightedly and with exquisite accordance re spond to the sentiments, the congratula tions, the animating impulses of this hour. He is indeed fortunate in that he may adopt the noble consolation for the presence of these lengthening shadows, which attend the declining pathway of life to be found in the simple, and yet majestic thoughts of the great jurist of the English Revolution, Sir Mathew Hale. “ Doth not thy conscience bear thee witness that even in the worst of times thy have been ‘good’ and for the service of the unquestionable interest of the nation, not withstanding they be prejudiced or misinter preted? Content thyself with the serenity of thine own conscience and the testimony it gives to thy integrity; good actions, happen ing in a time when there were many evil, may, in the tumult and hurry of change, undergo the same, or very little better, .inter pretation than the worst actions. The indig nation against the latter, or the times wherein they were acted, may cover the best actions [continued on eighth page.]