The New York herald., 1879-01-07
GENERAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. 1879.
JUSTICE HUNT DYING.
1t is learned tonight that Justice Hunt. OF the
United States Supreme Court, was stricken with
paralysis at his residence in this city last
Saturday, and is now in such condition
that his recovery is despaired Of. One
side is entirely paralyzed and he is tonight
unable to talk. 1t is feared that he cannot live more
than few days longer. and apprehensons are
expressed by OF his intimate friends who
saw him to-day that fatal change in his
condition may within comparatively
few hours The fact of his very serious illness
has been kept very quiet, and not known
oven 70 his associates tho Bench until this after
noon. The stroke OF paralysis is attributed to a
long continued enfcebleness of his system in the
matter of assimilating nutrment from which he has
suffered for more than year past, and which seems
to have dehed medical skill in its treatment
THE C. C. AND I. c. RAILROAD CASE.
The attention Of Mr.. Justice Harlan called to-
day to the published statement that he had rendered
. decision in the c. c. and I. c. Railroad case, which
argued before him at Newport last summer Judge
Harlan replied that the statement was wholly without
foundation; that the briefs Of counsel were not oil
handed him until about the beginning of the
ent term of the Supreme Court, and that his abors
have been such here as to prevent him from giving
attention to Circuit business to but limited extent
He says he has not completed his examination and
study of the case and that when he is ready to decide
it he will notify counsel.
DECISION IN FAVOR OF A. T. STEWART h CO.
decision was rendered to-day in the United
States Supreme Court in the case Of A. T. Stewart
Co.. appellants. against Meyer Sonneborn. Son.
ncborn instituted civil suit for damages in the
United States Circuit Court for the district Of
Alabama on the ground that Stewart Co.
had maciously forced him into bankruptcy without
probable cause. judgment was rendered in his
favor for $2OO0O This Court now reverses that
judgment the ground Of error in the charge to the
Jury in the court below, and remands the for a
new trial.
THE CREDIT MoBHIER CASE
The United States Supreme Court this afternoon
rendered decision in the of the United States
VS.. The Union Pacific Railroad Company and Others
commonly known as the Credit Mobilicr case. The
decision of the lower Court sustaining the demurrer
to tho bill in equity is affirmed and the governments
suit is therefore ordered to be dismissed.
REDEMPTION OF BONDS.
The Secretary Of the Treasury this afternoon issued
the seventy eighth call for the redemption of fve-
twenty bonds of ls65-consols OF 1867. The call is
for $4,000, ,ooo of which s6.OoooOo coupon and
s4Oo0ooo registered bonds. The principal aud in
terest will be paid at the Treasury and after the
9th day of April next, and the interest will cease
that day. The following the descriptions Of the
bonds:---
Coupon bonds. dated July /, 1867. namely $50,
No. 1i0O1 to No. 1900 both inclusve; 800. No.
00l to No. $4,000, both inclusivc $500. No. 1100
to No. 10000 both inclusive $1,000. No. 1901 to
No 2oO0O both inclusive. Total coupons. $4,000 900.
Registered bonds redeemable at the pleasure Of the
United States after the Ist day of July, 1872, fol-
lows $50, No. 401 to No. $50. both inclusive; $780,
No. 2aO1 to No. 400, both inclusive: $780, No. 200
to No. 1850. both inclusive 900. No. 740l to No
II 600 both incusive 5000, No. 2GO1 to No. $3.50,
both inclusive; $4,000. No. 2OOl TO No. $500. both
inclusive Total registered. $40O0.0o0. Aggregate.
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