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The Supreme Court of Vermont. the examination of the opinion in State v. Augustine Freeman, 63 Vermont, for pro fanely swearing at a woman, heard at the May term, 1889, of the Orange County Supreme Court. The opinion was sent him for examination after his resignation, and he writes to the judge sending it : " Your letter weighted down with an opinion, which I approve before reading, lest I could not

conscientiously after wards, was a welcome visitor. It brought to mind the court as it was, and the fact of the rapid changes since we began play ing judge . . . After reading your opinion, I shall never ' pro fanely ' swear. I think it is dangerous, espe cially to a woman. Augustine will know more if he doesn't look so well. Had you not better remit his fine and submit a reading of your opinion? The only criticism I could pass upon it would be, that there is too JOHN W. much learning for so small a ' swear,' but Augustine ought to be grateful because he thereby becomes immortal."

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year or two, w-hen he was absent in Chicago. He was elected reporter of decisions in 1872, and held the position until he declined it in 1880. Upon the death of Chief Judge Pierpoint, in January, 1882, he was ap pointed judge by Gov. Farnham.

William Harris Walker, of Ludlow, was educated at the Black River Academy, in that town, and Middlebury College, from which he grad uated at the age of twenty-six. He prac ticed his profession in Ludlow, represented that town and his county in the Legis lature, was State's attorney for Windsor County, and for sev eral years judge of probate in the district of Windsor. He was elected assistant judge at the session in 1884, and re-elect ed in 1886. In the autumn of the latter year he resigned the position, his health having become im ROWELL. paired, and since that time he has remained quietly at home, unable to perform any serious labor. He was an excellent judge in both the county and Supreme Courts, and RUSSELL S. Taft, a native of that part gave great promise of usefulness. of Williston originally in Burlington, was elected in 1880. After an academical edu James M. Tvler, of Brattleboro, a na cation he read law at Burlington, and was tive of Wilmington, studied law in Brattle admitted to the Bar in 1856. boro and at the Albany Law School, where he graduated in June, 1860. He was a JOHN W. ROWELL pursued his legal stud member of the 46th and 47th Congress, ies in the law offices at West Randolph, and and was appointed Judge by Gov. Ormsbee for a time at a law school in Ohio; he prac upon the resignation of Judge Walker, in ticed law at West Randolph, except for a September, 1887.