The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-12
MLSCELLANRors LTEMS.


iust delivered an able opinion in one OF the
most important cases that ever came before
our county, the property in controversy being
estimated at 500, 000, in value. The facts
briefly are these;-In January, 1868, Mr..
Robert Boiling contracted with Nj q. Lersner
for the sale of the magnificent estate Boiling
brooke, on which he resides, situated in Upper
Fauquer; the consideration was to be Con-
tederate Treasury notes. Lersner did not
punctually fulfil his engagement to pay the
money in cash; the war terminated while Lers-
ner was still in default. Boiling then claimed
that the default of Lersner had relieved him
from his legal obligations to perform the con-
tract. Lersner filed his bill VS. Boiling in the
Circuit Coart of Fauquier, praying decree
for specific execution of the contract The
points of the defense were-the default of
the plaintiff, Lersner, in failing to pay all the
purchase money, associated with the gross in
adequacy of the price, making it inequitable
TO decree specific performance of so hard and
uncomfortable a bargain. Judge Thomas
sustained the position of the defendant, Boil
ing, and rendered decree refusing execution
of the contract and ordering it to be annulled.
1t may be proper to add, that the principles
upon which the decree was rendered do rot
rest on any political considerations, but are as
old and well established as the Court of Chan
Gerry itself. The decision, so far as we are in
formed gives general satisfaction. The case
was very ably and at great length argued by
Colonel j. S. Moseby and General w. H.
Payne for the defendant and by Hon. J. r.
Tucker for the plaintiff. Warreaton (Va.)
Sentinel.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL ON DUTY.-A foreign
paper says "On Sunday the visitors to the
camp at ChalOns beheld curious and interest
ing scene. Two sentinels, wearing the uni
forms of Grenadiers of the Guard, with their
guns perpendicular and knapsacks on their
backs, were walking gravely up and down be-
fha nm niad of
ror. A few moments before, a captain of the
Thirty-ffth of line, who was in command Of
the post of honor at the Imperial quarters
had taken these two soldiers, put them
through their exercise, inspected their arms
and accoutrements, and then placed them as
sentries before the Emperors door, at the same
time giving them the password. Their names
were Eugene Louis Napoleon and Louis Con-
neau, both enfanS de troupe of the first Grena-
diers of the Guard. The Prince, wishing TO
gain an exact idea of the duties of sentinel,
had himself desired to put them into practice,
and for the time mentioned both he and his
youthful comrade carried and presented arms
according to the rank of the superior officers
and others who passed before their post, ac-
quitting themselves of their duty with admir-
able self-possession and gravity"
ANEcDoTE OF HAzLITT.-Charles Lamb tells
this characteristic story of Hazitt:-'T took
him to see very pretty girl, where there
were two young girls; the head and sum of the
girlery was two young girls, they neither
laughed nor sneered, nor giggled, nor whis-
pered, but they were young girls and he sat
and frowned blacker and blacker, indignant
that there should be such things as youth and
beauty, till he tore me away before supper in
perfect misery, and owned he could not bear
young girls, they drove him mad"
FREIGHT RAILROADS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
"A large and enthusiastic meeting of the citi-
-
Houston on the 10th of August, for the pur-
pose of founding an "Anti-Monopoly Cheap
Freight Railway League Mr.. Peter B. Gray
addressed the meeting at considerable length.
He ADVOCATED the construction of a double
track freight railway from Galveston, Texas,
to Fort Riley, Kansas, distance of four hun
dred miles, the road to be open to everybody
who may wish to use his rolling stock on it,
at a reasonable compensation.
THE GOLDEN FLERcB.-The MImorial Diplo-
mdtigue says Senior Gonzales Bravo, Spanish
Minister of the Interior, has just received the
insignia of the Golden Fleece. There exist
only ffty-seven decorations of this class, the
greater number Of which have been conferred
upon foreign sovereigns and princes. Marsha
Narvaez Duke de Valentia, has possessed thii
order since 1S47. In Spain, in addition to thu
royal family, thirteen grandees have received
the distinction.
BURNED TO DEATH. = Mrs. Pendleton, O
Windham, Pa, married about one year ago
returned from church on last Sunday week
started fire, and was in the act of removing
lid from the top of the stove when the fam
burst up, setting fire to her clothes, and burn
ing her flesh to crisp before her husband
attracted by her screams reached the room
and succeeded in extinguishing the fire. Sh
lived in great agony some twenty-four hours
when death put an end to her sufferings.
MORE GOLD DISCOVERIES IN NORTH CARO-
ImA.-Two more gold mines have been dis
covered in Rowan county, North Carolina
Several specimens of quartz ore, exhibited
the editor of the Salisbury Banner, wer
speckled with the yellow ore, many OF tn
little particles being half as large as grain {
wheat. These specimens are from the surfac
of the two recently discovered mines, which
it is said, are likely to prove very valuable.
An AMERICAN QUERN.-Mrs. Bishop, the wi
of an American banker at Honolulu, has
good prospect of becoming Queen of the Sane
wich Islands. Kamehameha, the presel
king, is slowly dying from the effects of d.
bauched life. He has no heirs. Mrs. BishC
is an accomplished lady, and the lineal repr
sentative of a powerful chief who was owe
thrown by the ancestor of the present roy
house.
FOSSIL IvORY.--About forty thousand pound
of fossil ivory, that is to say, the tusks of
least one hundred mammoths, are bartered f
every year in New Siberia. AS many as te
tusks have been found lying together in IL
Tundra" weighing from one hundred az
fifty to three hundred pounds each. Notwit
standing the enormous amount already ca