Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — Good Pay. [ARTICLE]

Good Pay.

Some one has been guessing at and gossiping about the moneyed reward of well-known professional men. Charles O’Conor, It is said, has a larger income from his practice than any lawyer in America, the Jumel case alone bringing him a million and a quarter in money. Sir Roundell Palmer, who was opposed to Evarts at Geneva, makes $150,000 a year, which is more than Evarts’ average receipts for his New York practice. For defending Johnson Evarts received $lO,000, and it is not"thought he will be paid a greater sum for worrying Tilton. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, of the London bar, who has gone to India to defend the Guicowar of Bardora in a prosecution lor murder, gets $50,000 for this case alone. Beach, of Tilton’s counsel, is thought to be working for a contingent fee. Jeremiah Black is said to trouble himself more about his case than his fee, preferring to win and get nothing than lose and be paid liberally. Great actors are as well remunerated as great lawyers. Booth has made his $12,000 a mouth. Jefferson has even passed this sum in the same time. It is thought that in a season of forty weeks Clara Morris will make $70,000, while CharlottejDushman’s lingering farewells are a kind of dramatic bonanza. Boucicaulr, between his royalty as playwright and his skill as play-actor, is pocketing $2,000 every week at Wallat k’s. Great physicians find millions in their healing art, Mott, Parker, and Clarke making as much as SIOO,OOO each in a year’s practice. Top can get a barrel of flour in California for two dollars. But the fare there and back more Uian makes up the difference. •” v - —V*