The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-05-29
SUPREME COURT REPORTS.


We have received: (says the Fayetteville OBJ
server,) the last No. of the Reports of Law Cases,
Dee. Term 1859, making quite volume of 335
pages, and embracing 90 cases. 1t is printed at
the Waterman Office Salisbury.
Among the decisions, two or three strike us at
slight glance as possessing an interest outside of
the Profession. For instance, in Nixon o.. Bagby
it is decided, that an officer is guilty OF negligence
who delays for five months to take any step to COL
lect claim put into his hands, and that delay of
sixteen days is negligence if there apparent
necessity for prompt proceedings and he was in
structed to proceed Immediately. And in Hearne
u. Parker, it is held to be negligence to delay
for eight days to execute f. fd. where the officer
lived within ten miles of the debtor LIN London
q. Parcely it is decided that deed oftrust, made
for the purpose of gaining time at the expense of
creditors, in order to dispose of property to advan
tage, and prevent sacrifice by a sale for cash,
wnere the debtor had enough to pay all his debts,
is fraudulent and void as against creditors. To
Rountree .. Waddill, "where prisoner was brought
into open Court by his bail, and it announced
publicly, that he was surrendered, but was un-
known to the sheriff, to the plaintiffs counsel and
stranger TO all present. except to the bail and the
presiding Judge and upon being ordered into custo
dy, fled from the court room aud escaped, without
being in the custody Of the sheriff, it held
that these facts did not to valid surrender
although so ad jud ged by the Court, then present,
and record to that effect ordered by ii"
EARTHQUAKE IN Perjury the arrival of the
Aspinwall steamer Ariel, at New York we have
later dates from South and Central America:
On the 22d of April, Lima and Callao visit
ed with severe earthquake, which damaged more
or less two hundred and fifty buildings in the
former place, and I'M ured several persons severely
II hot chooE
some of which were of considerable duration-say
from a half minute to minute. The greatest
CONSERVATION prevailed throughout the city. Near
ly the whole population abandoned their houses
and fled to the public squares, where many of them
remained day or two. Some 1900 people were
encamped on one plaza alone.
The loss Of property in Lima is estimated at
81 100000. In Callao the loss is only about $780,,
O00 as the number of buildings damaged was not
very great But the greatest destruction of life
and property at place called Chorillo, cele-
brated watering place not great way from Lima.
Nearly the entire place destroyed, and great
many lives lost and a great number seriously in
iured. Al the time the steamer which brought
this intelligence to Panama left, the people were
parading the streets with their priests, offering up
petitions that further disasters might be averted.
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SICKNESS IN TExAs-The Texas correspondent
of the Mobile Mercury says, never in the absence
of an epidemic, has SO much disease been known
now. Different types of fever, pneumonia, ty-
phoid, congestive chills, and other diseases Incl
dent to our climate, are doing their work of des-
truction in almost every section of the State, and
especially in the Southern and Southeast sections.
A STAR DESTROYED BY FIRE. -The Russian
correspondence of the London Telegraph writes
thus:
At Moscow physical phenomenon has been
recently observed such would have given rise to
the creation of whole cycle Of fantastic myths
in the times OF the worlds infancy We learn
from paragraph in the leading paper of that city
that at quarter past ten, the nights of the LIST
and the I'd of March, star to the southwest Of
the Great Bear suddenly commenced to wax larger
at the same time, the color of iron at
red heat, but without the appearance of any sparks
or rays. In this condition the star appeared until
half past o'clock varying in the intensity of its
light, and attaining the size nearly of the half
moon. A little before midnight the dmness began
to increase, and at II o'clock the had entirely
disappeared In its stead sort of black speck
was to be noticed by the light of the stars which
were unusually brilliant that evening. 1t remains
for the astronomers to describe, and the poets to
sing, the destruction of the uminary, which for
aught We know may have been the abode of race
superior to our own.