Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-12-25

lii the. Virginia Supreme Coprt of
iyestafday, Mr.. TAYLOR, ,.thes1
Attorney sesessshs, tltea, retiring from
his ,js:sittos' es,esias occasion to thank the
members Of the court for thei,, uniform {
cour;es9 and kindness To him during I
his attm;f,istva, ION OF the office Of At |
torney General for the past. four years.
Judge M.'neure responded fselingly and !
earnestly oh be!aalteof the. court, thank |
ing MIR. iay Tor FOL the esteem, courtesy
and kindness that h. had alwlys SKI
tended to each member Of the court,
alluded to the kindly feeling always ex-
listing between them, and said be DIES.
ired to express, on behalf of the court, |
their appreciation of the zeal, fidelity |
and ability with which be mad dis
charged Ill the duties Of his response
bic position.
THE FiRsr RArkszs. The first pat
ent issued by the. United States was
granted to Samuel Hopkins on July. 81,
1893, for the manufacture Of pot. and
pearl ashes. The third. was to Oliver
Evans. Of PHILADELPHIA; 30 famous for
his inventions in'high pressure engines,
OF which invention President. Jefferson
remarkedthat sit was too valuable to
be covered by a patent, and there
should be no patent for thing no one
could afford to do. without after it was
known" This was in December Of the
same year in which Hopkins obtained
his patent. For many years after this
date the patent Office was but clerk
ship in the State. Department.
1t has TRANSFERRED that the Count de
Chambord, who still claims to be King
of France by divine right, was in
France the guest of the Duke de Luy
mes, near Paris, fortnight before the
Assembly at Versailles gave the final
vote making MacMahon President, for
seven years. lie also spent several
days in Paris, After positively refus
ing to abdicate his pretensions, and
finding that few if any sympathized
with him, the last of the Bourbons de-
parted from France, which had de
throned and exiled him in 1880, before
he was ten years old, and was last
heard of as having reached Munich,
probably en- route to his country resi-
dence in Austria.
A BALLOON .ForNp-Recently i
waS announced that the wreck # d
| balloon was found where it had landed
III South Africa, near Natal, and from
package 81 letters found close a,
and, it was evident that it had been
s.nt out from Paris at the time of the
siege, and had journeyed some five
thousand miles. NJ. De Fonvlelle, a
! well-known Paris. savan who has Civ
en- much attention to ballooning, in a
letter to the hondon Times, demon
strates that the wrecked balloon was
the ...tichard Wallace" which left
Paris in charge OF NJ Lacaze, on the
9th OF anuaiy 1871, three days be,
| fore tie c,ip't,,lation When last seen
IL. Lsvaze was passing southwark over
| Roche4orf: Beyond any question he
found q current blowing from the
northward which carried him-proba
| bly, in the night time-out over the
Mediterranean,
IMPORTANT DEc1sIoN.-The Supreme
Court of Appeals yesterday delivered
the following decision in several cases
i'll relation to the further funding of the
State debt in coupon bends with cou-
pons receivable tor t.xes:
Maur, r. r., ...,,+,
Second Auditor. Wise Bros Agents, VS..
same. Opinion of the court by Judge
Christian. e.
These eases involving precisely the
same question, were heard together
They were before this court on ap2lica-
tons made BY the parties respectively
tor writes Of mandamus to compel the
Second Auditor to fund certain bonds
and interest thereon accrued of the
State of Virginia, according to the pro
visions Of the act of the General As
senbly, approved March 3oth, 1871,
in coupon bonds. payable to bearer
with coupons receivable at and after
maturity, for all taxes, debts dues and
demands due the State as to two thirds
OF the princi pal and interest, &c.
The court is OF opinion that the Sec
ond Auditor was right i'll the opinion
that ''he had no authority under exist
ing laws, to fund the stock referred to,
In the manner proposed, to wit: into
coupon bonds, with coupons attached
recet0a6ie,. for tu.res, SC, aud that the
rules awarded against him having been
fully answered, must be dismissed.
State Jo1r,sdl
Col Frederick Dent, father of Mrs.
Grant died at the White House, in
Washington. last night. Col Dent
was born at Cumberland, Md, October
6, 1876, and was theref: are in his eigh
ty eighth year. In 1872 he emigrated
to St. Louis and entered into business,
where heremained until 1865, when he
retired, and has liyed with Mrs. Grant
eyer'since.. Col. Dent arose at his re
gular hour yesterday morning. He
complained Of being nnwefl during the
day, but no alarming symptoms mani
tested themselves until late hour last !
evening, when he grew worse, and |
died at twenty minutes before II
0 'eloek. 49,,
KANSAS; Clrr, Dec. IS. 1t is re-
ported here that the Blenders, the no ,
lorious Kansas murderers have been
tracked 10 Northern Mexico, but in |
conscquenee>of their being no extradi- i
ton treaty. between the United States
aud Mexico they cannot be arrested ex
sept by kidnapping, and the present
'eward offered is not sufficient to war
ant such an undertaking. 1t is said
,frnrfo x.-ii1 lo ,,,a1a IN tho Kansas mr.. |