Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-01-06
PHoNTx AND RECORD AND FRIDAY JANUARY g. 1882

| logues, these form part OF the contract and
will be binding upon the parties II between
the publication Of these terms and the sale
any accident occurs 10 the animal, or II 2
COW aborts or calves, notice should be given
/ cf tho fact or the purchaser may, on dscov-
oring the change, repudiate the bargain aud
recover the price he paid or damages and
in certain cases both. In taking warranty
II is safer to have everything expressed, such
as The pedigree, age, freedom from vice. and
sou dness, which the buyer desires TO be a.,
sured Of and let tho affrmatons be posi-
tive. bill Of sale Of "a horse four years
old, constantly driven and used in n pillow ;
irdTrggtcd" was held TO be o warranty of
soundnoss only, and a bill OF sale Of horse
in which ne was stated az considered sound Z"
was held to be not a warranty Of soundness
SO soon az the purchaser discovers that
there has been a breach of warranty he
should give notice, offer 10 return the animal,
and demand his money back, II he desires TO
be roinstated in the position he occupied be-
fore tine sale.
IN sAles at auction the secret employment
OF buffers" or fictitious bidders 10 enhance
the price unduly, Is a fraud on the purchaser,
who may avoid such n sale. The cwuer Of
an animal sold at auction has no right under
the usual conditions Of sala-that the high
est bidder shall be the purchassv--to employ
any person 10 bid on him for ths purpose Of
enhancing the price. II Is just as true in
horse and cattle dealing as IN other business,
that constant and permanent success depends
on character as well for honesty as for judg.
ment. A man may sell a bad ami cql TO adj
vantage, but he knows that IL chargeable
with an Intention TO deceive he Is at once
olassed with the knaves in the business
The bert way to sell horse, bull or COW
which you want to get rid Of is to tell the
truth about it. frank aokLowledg cement of
f'a,ts will often obtain credit for counter
statement Of good qualities. Mr.. Bonner,
Who year since advertised his house and
farm near New York, and laid stress upon the
prevalence Of fever and ague in the vicinity,
probably sold them to a purchaser who con-
sidered himself and family proof against the
shakes" Let the fault of an animal be
what it may, it will silt some purpose, and
will find purchaser at its fair value Many
persons will buy an imperfect animal at a
reasonable price, taking the risk of curing
and getting good bargain
In Granville Murray's novel, 1.-THE Mem
Der for Paris, certain prince who had ad-
vised persons in his employment in all good
faith to invest their savings in a "Oredit Par
isien" felt that he was morally bound on the
failure of that concern not only to guarantee
these people from loss, but also to prevent
knew to be worthless, and he purchased
them at the price they had paid and bore the
loss himself. This would be considered
Quixotic conduct in Wall street or in horse
or cattle mart, but cases have occurred in
our midst where artists aud others who had
invested in stock of certain railroad at the
urgent advice of an officer of the corpora
ton were paid their interest regularly dur
ing the depressed season when dividends
were not earned, and thus tided over calami-
tous years.
If such high sense of honor and even
strict veracity is not considered by those who
deal in horses and cattle, and even stock Of
another kind always polite, there are some
cases in which the truth is Indispensable
A man who sells horse, bull or COW that
he knows to be vicious incurs personal re-
sponsibility for all consequences II such an
animal should occasion loss of life or limb,
the seller who concealed the vice would he
responsible in damages or might be adjudged
guilty of mansaughter.
Men," it is said, make one great mis-
take With regard to women; they fancy they
can deceive them, which they seldom can.
For all the good that discrimination does a
man he might just as well write out his Sc
cret at full length and pin it to his breast
that is of course, when his secret concerns a
woman, and the person who wishes to dis
cover it is another woman"
1t is just about as difficult to deceive the
community long in selling live stock. Sus-
picion attaches to any departure from frank
and fair dealing as readily as the character
OF fast woman or declining mining stock,
and the reputation once blemished never can
be entirely recovered in either case. r. g.,
IN 4. j. @. Bulletin.