The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-06
FINCASTl.E.
COURT MATTERs--A PATENT cAsE--RAIN--
CROPS. ETC.

CROPS, ETC.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.l
JUNE 4, 1883.
Judge Blair Saturday evening shut down
the nood-gates upon the tide OF pleas.
answers, demurrers, reioinders, surrejoin-
ders, DEGREES, and the volume OF gas that
had been pouring in upon him for the past
week. Suitors who all this time have been
urging upon their attorneys TO have their
cases tried-witnesscs who have been
dancing daily attendance TO the detriment
OF their business-have gone home; the
one to nurse their wrongs, real and imagi-
nary: the latter TO enjoy n season OF liberty
until they are summoned again to appear at
the temple OF justice under penalty OF
500.
Judge Blair signs his orders this MORN
ing. and then leaves for his Giles appoint
ment.
The farmers have scored another vic
tory in the fertilizer cases. The counsel
for the Eiwan Company have despaired OF
getting justice C) from Boetourt jury
presided over by Judge Blair, and have
made efforts to have the cases removed TO
another judicial circuit. But really unless
the witnesses for the farmers have greatly
miSrcpresented facts, justice is about the
last thing this company ought to pray for.
The best talent OF our bar has been en-
ployed in these suits, the plaintiff being
represented by Captain J. II. II. Figeatt
and Colonel G. w. Hansborough. and the
defendants 10y Colonel Edmund Pendleton
and f. T, Glasgow, Esq. Colonel Pendle-
tons speech was particularly fine. His
humorous description OF the humbuggcry
Of the present age put the jury and the
audience in high good humor at the start,
and The interest never tagged.
The case OF Barnett Us. Williams and
others, decided on Saturday, may be Of in
terest TO owners Of patent rights. Barnett
sold to Williams & Scott the right to Use
in the Buchanan township patent process
for curing tobacco, for which they exc
cuted their bond, with Brewbakcr as Sc
curitv in a certain sum. Williams plead
drunkenness and false representations. On
this plea the jury found for all three OF the
defendants. The verdict was set aside on
the ground that as to Scott it was contrary
TO evidence.
4 meeting OF the bar was called on FRI
day TO pass resolutions with reference to
the death OF b. NJ. Allen, late clerk OF our
courts, over which Judge Blair presided,
George II. Swami acting as secretary. A
committee, consisting OF Walter n. John
ston, f. T. Glasgow. and X. Haden Penn,
presented the resolutions, and appropriate
remarks on the life of the deceased were
made by Messrs. Johnston and Glasgow.
| understand Judge Mays has directed
his clerk not to allow the rules he prepared
against the two editors TO go into the hands
OF the sheriff. Certain il is, they have not
been served on the editors.
The rain Of Saturday night and Sunday,
it is TO be hoped, has broken the long dry
spell. Certain il is that the rain has moist
ened the surface OF the earth, aud no
longer, as in The past month or so, do we
live and move in continuous dust-bath.
DuSt-baths may be essential TO the health OF
poultry, as the ianciers tell us, but for my
part prefer another element.
1t is so customary to complain of the sea-
sons that don't like to mention it. But
they do say that the gardens are wcilnigh
ruined, the grass very much injured, and
the wheat crop cut short by the drought.
Others, again, say the wheat is not serious
ly injured. ACTON.