Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-07-31
Virginia Items.

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IsiPoRTANr DEeIsIoN The Richmond
Why gives the following report of the case
ofGunnell's Administrators against Farmers
Bank of Virginia In this cause bin Was
fled some time ago in the Hastings Court tor
the city of Richmond, alleging deposit of
IS 600 and upwards 10 Virginia Bank NODES
In the tall of 1861. and praying an iniunc
ton against the officers of the bank to restrain
them from disbarsing its assets to note-hold-
ers, to the exclusion of tho depositors.
1t appears that this bank claimed. in COM
mon with other banks of the States that went
into liquidation pursuant to act of the last
General Assembly, passed February II. 1866.
the right to prefer the note holding class of
its creditors, and to distribute its assets 10
them, to the exclusion of the depositor: where.
as the complainant contended that the bank
was IN equity bound, and by operation of said
act required to distribute its funds, other than
specific lieas and priori:ies existing at the
time OF It's passage, equally among both class
es OF Creditors and that its officers as trustees,
were Preclnded from the exercise Of the dis
elimination sought to be applied,
The legalqnestions involved were discussed
IN written arguments submitted by the re-
spectiye coRnsel-NIessrs. Neeson and Dan.
ner for the complainant and Messrs McFar-
land and Howard representing the bank
Hon. Vim. II. Lyons rendered his decision
IN favor of the complainant, and made an orr
der awarding an Injunction to restrain the
bank from dlsbursing its assets otherwise than
In pro rata payment of all Just demands
not constituting liens, which in effect grants
the prayer of the plaintiff. The court, how>
ever, with cid its opinion on the claim upon
deposits made in Confederate States currency,
which question did not arise on the bill.
WAsH1NGroN CoLLEGE.-The Trustees
of this College elected j. L. kirkpatrick, d.
D., to the chair of Moral Philosophy He is
highly spoken of. 1t was also determined to
build q handsome residence for General Lee,
aud Chapel for the College, chaplain to be
elected annually from among the various res
hgious denominations. The contributions to
I the Lee Endowment Fund" reaches nearly
S2g0S000. -Four hundred applications from
students have been received.
The Richmond Wsig says We have
fecently heard, from several sources, that
Northern men have approached late holders
Of. slaves with the offer of FIVE dollars for each
siave-lost by emancipation. What does this
mean
= Negro labor, says the Alexandria Gu
zette, which, before the war, in this section
OF country, during the months of June and
July, commanded from $3.50 to So per day,
can now be obtained in any quantity at fifty
cents per day.-ALer Ga.
The Rockingham and Shenandoah papers
continue to speak of the excellent wheat and
oat. crops made in those counties.
MIR. VIM. D. Drish, for many years mer-
chant in Leesburg, highly esteemed and re-
spected by the community, died ON the 23d
inst, in the I'D year of his age
Fourteen head of cattle belonging to
Mr.. Joshua Pusey, of Loudoun county, were
stolen from his pasture field, last Friday night,
and sold in Alexandria. The purchaser sus-
Pectlng the party who offered them for sales
refused to pay him until he would give re-
liable reference, which the party failed to do.
and left under the pretext of going back IN
search OF some of the cattle he had left on
the road. He has not since been heard Of
MIR. Pusey has recovered his CATTLE
Movements are on foot for reorganization Of
The Loudoun Agricultural Society, the sae of its
property and settlement of It's affairs The NEE
mortal services, By the ladies, the graves of
the Confederate soldiers buried IN LeesSnrp took
place Monday last; the graves were {. rewed
with flowers. Two men confined in jail at Lees.
burg made ther escape last week. The Mirror
says, the two negro men who stole horse and
hIkln OF butter from Mr.. B. =. Taylor, of Londoun
a week or two ago, were arrested in Alexandria,
the stolen property recovered, and the thieves
brought back, and lodged 10 the Leesburg Jail.
The negroes have held q great pcwwow in
Richmond, where groans were given for the Presi-
dent and cheers for Terry. They came to the
determination to depose TIE Mayor aud elect n
negro in his place. II seems they are formed into
military organizations aud parade tie streets night
and DAY, armed, and with drums beating. Rich.
mond /" an odorous place.
1T appears from a tabular statement in the
wheeling Register that, n sixteen counties of West
Virginia, not more than Onesthird of the legal
voters were allowed to on The Amendment 10
the Constitution OF that so+caIled State.
De a. N Faun,leroy, OF stauuton, assisted by
Drs. Churchman Watson and Berkeley, removed
from the throat Of little daughter OF Deputysher>
III Tow herman, Of Augusta, grain of corn which
had lodged in her windppr, and remained several
days, nearly causeing sufocation. The difficult
operation of opening the windpipe, Technically
termed trarheotomy, was successfully performed
The hog cholera is prevailing to some extent in
the neighborhood of Shepherdst0wn.
About seventys6ve convicts have been dischare.
ed from the Virginia peuitentary under the recent
order from the War department, direetiag the
release of prisoners convicted by military triDus
e