Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1891 — NEW ASSOCIATE JUSTICE. [ARTICLE]

NEW ASSOCIATE JUSTICE.

Judge Henry Billings Brown Scceeedi Justice Miller, The President, Tuesday, sent to theSen* ate the following nomination: HENRY B. BROWN, of Michigan, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, vice Samuel F. i Miller, deceased. I Henry Billings Brown was born at Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, March 2, 1836; he graduated from Yale College in 1856, and traveled in Europe for a year. Upon returning to the United States he studied law .at Yale and Harvard law schools, and was admitted to the bar at Detroit, Mich., 1860. For several years Mr. Brown was Assistant United States Attorney, and was then circuit judge of Wayne county, Michigan, by appointment. In 1876 President Grant appointed Mr. Brown United States District Judge for the eastern distrlot of Michigan. Judge Brown has traveled abroad many times. He is the compiler of a volume of Admiralty Reports (New York, 1875.) Geo. Simpson, a young fanner, was re* turning home from Anderson in a buggy Wednesday night and went to sleep. Two miles distant, at Bell’s Crossing a Big Four freight train struck the buggy, res ducing vehicle to splinters. The train ran nearly a half mile before It could be stopped. When the fireman went forward he found Simpson curled up in the buggy top on the pilot of the locomotive, still asleep and unharmed. He had a marriage license in his pocket, and, upon being awakened, went home afoot. The wedding came off at the appointed time. N. P, Applecate, a .farmer living near Alaska, Morgan county, oexibited a flue ripe watermelon at Martinsville, Tuesday. He planted the seed near an old straw* stack May 14,1890, and August 15 had ripe melons, and still has enough left to last until New Years. Eating ripe melons from the vine in Morgan county’ on Da eember 25 is an unusual occurrence for tbit latitude.