The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-12
LOCAL MATTERS.

CHURCH NoTICEs.-Thc following appoint
meutS nave been made for tomorrow
There will be preaching at the United
| Presbyterian church at II O'Clock by Rev.
| DR.. II. G. Jones.
Rev. William E. Hill will preach at II A.
NJ. at the Third Presbyterian church.
| There will be a Sunday-school meeting in
| the afternoon.
The reg ular monthly meeting Of the Ne
| thodist Slnday-school Society will be held
at Union Station church Sunday afternoon
at 3H o'clock.
There will be Sunday-school services at
| Christ church EpiscopaD, on Grace street
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth, John
5. Lindsay officiating, at 3H i. NJ. evening
| service at ) Z. NJ.
There Will also be preaching in the Epis-
copal church (colored) corner of Foushee
and Leigh streets al o'clock p. NJ.
Rev. Or. A. +. Dickinson VII preach at
Fulton Baptist church at 10 A. NJ. and p.
NJ. There will be meetings held at this
church every night next week.
Rev. t. n. Arnold will preach at Syca-
| more church at II \. NJ. and 81 P. NJ.
IMPORTANT DECIsIoS.-The following de-
cision, bearing both on the value of Con-
federate currency aS money, and the action
of the courts during the war in ordering its
payment in liquidation of Indebtedness in
CURED before 1861, will be read with inte-
| rest by many:
In Chdrce; q (SeuenM Circuit Before C..
H. BramhdH, Circuit Judge. Clark ct al.
rs. Gdrk'S ELecu,ors ct d.: In May 1856
the circuit court of the city of Richmond
by decree directed its commissioner to loan
certain moneys in court belonging to the
estate in controversy in this suit such loan
to be secured by bond and trust deed on
real estate in Richmond, and payable in
sixty days after the same should be called
for by decree of court. Pursuant to that
decree. s, 900 were loaned to L. {. Stanard.
On the Goth of June, 1868, one Macfar-
land having become the purchaser of the
property covered by the trust deed given by
Stanard to secure the payment cf thc2 1000
50 loaned, obtained from the said circuit
court. on motion, but without notice TO
the parties interested in the fund, decree
authorizing him to pay into the Farmers
Bank Of Virginia. to the credit Of the cause,
the said sum Of s. 900, and interest in satis-
faction Of the bond and trust deed of said
Stanard, and directing that on such pay
mcnt being made, the said bond should he
given up and the deed released.
Soon afterwards the said sum of $1,000
and interest was pad into said bank by Mae
flrland. IN Confederate mCncy, and the
nond was delivered up to him, but the trust
deed has never been released OF cancelled,
The court held that the decree of 20th of
June, 1868, was improperly obtained, and 4
| fraud upon the parties interested i'll the
! fund; that the payment in Confederate mo-
nry. then worth but one doiidr 10 nine,
when no one representing the court or the
parties interested III the fund was present to
object to such payment, was not even Il COM
! piiance with the terms Of that decree, and
was null and void. And the court directed
Il decree to be entered ordering sale of the
property covered by said trust deed, unless
the legal representative Of K. {. Stanard, or
some one for him, should, within SiXIy days,
pay into court the said sum OF $1,000, and
the interest thereon from the 18th of May,
! 1876