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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30
Nor witch Bulletin.


Judge Sanford loves good story,
of which his telling this to one Of the
jury at the recent term of the court is
proof.
Meeting man recently, while
walking IN the streets of Hartford, he
was somewhat abruptly but cordially
greeted, when the following CONVEX
sation occurred:
Don't you know me, Judge?'
''No, sir. [ am sorry to say that I
have not that honor"
"Why, Judge, was on the jury
in Litchtield when the-case was
tried, that made so much talk"
81 remember the trial very well,
and I remember this, that the decis-
ion was simply outrageous.
courageous, Judge! Outrageous?
What do you mean2 tell you this:
We did not care a continental for
what you said. We decided the case
as we ought, according to lawl"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30

he hoped to live with a young lady
then not moro than Is years old
When he had nearly completed his
house he proposed to her and she re-
fused his offer of marriage, In ais
anger and grief he stopped work on
the nearly finished house, boarded it
up as it is how, aad vowed that if the
girl would not occupy the house no
one else ever should. Mr.. Welch is
still respected bachelor, visiting in
different towns about Boston with his
friends, though staying but little
while in each place, and the lady, it
IL said, i. married and lives near Bos-
ton. One OF Mr.. Welch's peculiari-
ties is horror at being taxed, and it
is said that be has offered to loan the
city $4,000 if it will not tax his prop
erty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30
A Peculiar Case.
ert,y
Nashville Union.

A very peculiar case came up before
United States Commissioner E. l..
Gregory yesterday afternoon. About
3 o'clock young man named Law
renee, having package to mail, laid
it on the top of the maii-box at the
corner of Cherry and Union streets.
Shortly ofterward he was standing
Eear and saw a negro man, whose
name was subsequently, learned to be
Turner, take the package and start off.
He at once followed and stopped him,
and Detectives Hanifin and Price ap-
peared about that time, the negro WAS
arrested, and at 4 o'clock arra1gned
before the commissioner on the charge
of interfering with the United States
mail.
Capt. Winters, superintendent of
the free delivery department of the
postoffice, was summoned to give tes-
timoney in regard to the law, and
upon his testimony Turner was dis
charged.
According to the law and rulings
upon the subject, the package had not
been mailed, and la consequence
Turner was not amenable to the Unit
ed States law, although he was to the
state law, but the value of this pack
age being so small, he did not care to
push the matter.
A word IN regard to this practice OF
placing packages aaa papers on the
top of mail boxes will not be amiss,
and probably prove of service to the
general public not posted in the mat
ter. Letter carriers are positively in
structed not to take such papers OF
packages when it interferes with the
delivery of first class mail, and as they
are nearly loaded with as much mai
as they can carry, packages thas left
often remain there until the following
day. Their taking or leaving them il
discretionary. Letters, papers, orpack
ages are not mailed under the protec-
ton of the United States postal law:
unless they are placed within the mai
box or IN the postoffice. People otter
leave valuable packages in this man
ner, laooring under the impression
that the government is responsible
for them. Such, however, is not tn,
case, and if stolen, the person is only
liable under the state laws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30
A Rejected Lovers Whim.

Near Willow Bridge, Somerville,
Mass, is large brick house of good
design, bat with every window barred
with strong shutters, and with heavy
barricade against the front door,
braced by stout beam. Twenty five
years ago Samuel WEIGH, a laborer in
brick yard near there, was Jagged
aud sIovenIy. and lived like hermit
around the kilns, using his money to
crafty his mania for lottery tickets.
At last he drew $2S, 900, and at once
began the erection of a house In which
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30

young girls. And he did it. His heels
now adorn the albums Of several hun
dred ladies'"
You paint truly alarming outs
look"
And why should not2 You might
say that the rink is not more objec'
tionable than the waltz. This Is true
with very important difference.
No young lady of correct social circles
is allowed to attend dance where the
socisty is of mixed character. If the
same rules could be applied to skating
Kinks the danger would be largely
averted."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30
The Wrong Side.
Boston Courier.

"What is your occupationa" the
Judge asked the seedy, red-nosed man.
''I'm a bartender, your honor,
was the reply.
But the officer swears you're a
loafer and pass the greater part of
your tlrne in saloons. !"
Don't bartender pass most of
his time in saloons?"
"True," unused the judge. ''By the
way" he asked. (which side of the
bar do you tend?"
''The outside, your honor"
Il thought so,n said the judge,
"three months"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30
A Youthful Socialist.

Philanthropist-Here, here. Stop
that. What are you doing to your
little brother2
Boy-Ain't doing nothin'-
''Why does he cry so then?'
"Cause I took his candy away from
him"
'But didn't you have some candy,
too?"
Eyes, but I eat it all up"
'That gives you no right to rob
your little brother"
eyes it do. I am a socialist, I
am"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-30

Governor Ross is the seventy-ffth
Governor of New Mexico in an un-
broken line extending back 200 years.
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ECZEMA ON A CHILD.

Your most valuable CuTIcuRA REMEDIES have
done my child so much good that feel like say.
ing this for the benefit OF those vino are troubled
with Eczema, and ( tried several doctors and
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used the CUTIcURA RgMRDIEs, which speedily
cured her tor which oyc you many thanks
and many nights Of rest.
ANION EnsshIER EnIesR1-n1.rr LIN
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Remarkahle irscnnn

John Kuhn, of Lafayette. Ind. had 2
very narrow escape from death. This is
his own story Zone year ago / was in
the last stages of consumption. Our best
physicians gave my case up. l finally got
so low that our doctor said | could not live
tWenty-tour hours; Ny friend then pur-
chased bottle Of Dr. Wm. Halls Balsam
for the Lungs, which benefited me. | cor
tinued until l am now in perfect health.
having used no other medicine"
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IDAHo's New GovrnvoR.-The San Fran.

Colonel Stevenson, who has just been ap-
pointed Governor OF Idaho, is native Of
New York and an old Californian. Ho
was citizen Of Ei Dorado county when
1t was the banner county Of the State.
and in 1858 represented Tehama in the
Legislature. When living near Red Bluff
occurred the tragedy Of his life. A treacber-
Gus Indian boy whom he was caring
for fired his house, and all of his family
were burned to death in the building
he moved to Idaho many years ago. and
made fortune mining in the Bodie Basin.
He is about IS years old. and is in many
respects remarkable man, and in all re-
spects gentleman.
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now THE COURT SAW IT.

In deciding adversely to this position
taken by Mrs Colton's attorneys, Judge
Temple takes the ground that The trust re-
lationship did not exist, that Mrs. Cotton
was dealing at arms length with the de-
PENDANTS, and as they acted honestly aud
committed no fraud, the settlement being
the deliberate act of sane woman. well
advised as to her position and its advan
tages, II must stand, no matter if the stocks
did Increase in value afterwards, but if the
Supreme Court should view the trust reia-
ton with the eyes of Mrs. Cotton. she
would probably get verdict, US in the set
tlement, which they admit, defendants did.
not act as trustees to q cesfM que trust, but
dealt as with a stranger.
Judge Temples decision covers some 300
pages OF manuscript. The attorneys of
record for Mrs. Cotton have already bee,1n
preparations for an appeal to the Supreme
Court
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THE COLTON CASE.
JUDGE TEMPLE DECIDES FOR
TAE DEFENDANTS.
Points of the Decision-Review OF
the Case-An Appeal
Probable.
SPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE ErconD-uNaoS-l

SANTA Rosa, October 6th.-Judge Temple
filed his opinion in the case Of Cotton VS..
Stanford ct al at 9.30 o'clock this morning.
1t is in favor of defendants, and is 40
folios in length. The Judge quietly walked
into the County Clerks office, and gave the
paper to Clerk Mulgrew for filing. The
opinion commences: This action is
brought to rescind contract made by the
plaintiff, cxecutrix and general legatee of
David D. Cotton, with the individual de-
PENDANTS, August 27, 1879. This was
settlement made by such defend
ants acting for the various corpo-
rations in which Cotton had been a
stockholder, and had held various official
positions. With the estate OF Cotton it was
also an agreement by which such defend
ants acquired from the plaintiff certain
stocks and bonds. It is here charged that
this contract was obtained from her by
fraud, both actual and constructive, through
misrepresentation, cOncealment, undue In
fluence and under q mistake, both of law
and fact" The Court indicates that the
allegations of plaintiff in reference 10
fraud, etc, We're not sustained by the eyi-
dence. In accordance with the views |
have reached in this case says the Judge,
Of the relations of the parties to
each other at the time of the impeached
transaction, and OF the law applica-
bic to that relation, judgment must be
entered for the defendants; though if the
plaintiff be found correct in regard to the
law of trust, Judgment on the findings may
probably be entered for her without further
trial in the appellate Court. There are still
great many points in the case or which I
have not touched. The conclusion to
which have come render it unnecessary
to inquire whether the parties could not be
placed in the position they could have oc-
cupied had the compromise not been made,
or whether, for other reasons, it would now
be inequitable to cancel the compromise
agreement. Much that has been said, how
ever, has a bearing upon the question, and
| end as ] commenced, by expressing my
satisfaction III the conviction that all the
questions involved, both Of law and fact,
can be fully considered in the Supreme
Court -
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A COMPLETE yrNnrcAr1oN.

The decision is not only substantial
victory for the railroad company, but a
complete vindication against the charges of
fraud in their dealings with Mrs Cotton,
which have been so freely made in certain
newspapers, and by some politicians>on the
stump. When the case was originally
brought, it was sought TO set aside the set
tlemcnt between Mrs. Cotton and the rail
road company, made some time after her
husbands death, on the ground of fraud,
duress and intimidation, and unconscion-
able advantage. When the law firm Of
Stoney, Stanly & Hayes came into the case
they practically abandoned the fraud claim,
and sought judgment on the plea that rela-
ton of trustee and cesttd que trust existed
between the parties, and that the trustees
having made good borgain-that is, made
profit out Of their dealings with their
cestisi qae fr,ast-must refund their money
Now it appears that Judge Temple, in his
decision, has found that the charge of fraud
was entirely unfounded, and has decided
that the parties did not occupy the relation
Of trustee and cestlj que trust or. if occupy
ing such position, the duties of the trustee
were not of the all-embracing character
claimed by Mrs. Colton's attorneys.
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1ON Bos3alIER, EDINprnau. Isn.
TETTER or r8E scAIP

vas almost perfectly bald. caused by letter
Of the top OF The scalp. / used your CJ-TlcIrRs
REMEDIES about six weeks, and thew cared nv
scalp perfectly, and now my hair is coming back
as tbick IS It ever was.
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COVERED WITH BLOrCHEs.

want TO tell yOu that your CuTIcuRA Rysof.
my lace was covered with Blotehes. and affer
using three bottles of REScLyENr was "
cured- FREDERICK MAITkE
. ST CHARLES ST., NEW ORLEANs Ia
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indigestion Cured.

l suffered for more than five years with indi-
gesion, scarcely able to retainthe simplest food
ON my stomach The burning sensation was al
most intolerable, and my whole system was de-
ranged was wakeful and could not sleep, and
consequently more or less nervous all the time
declined in flesh, and suffered all the usual
depression attendant upon this terrible disease
lu word, was miserable. At last, failing to
lind relief in anything else. commenced the
use OF swift Specific L began to improve at
once. The medicine toned up the stomach
strengthened The digestive organs and soon all
that burning ceased and l could retain food
without difficulty. Now my health is good, and
can eat anything in the shape of food, and di-
gest 1t without the slightest difficulty ! most
cheerfully bear this testimony, because there
are hundreds suffering as | was, and | am sure
they can he as readily healed. Take the pre-.
scrioed desc after eating, instead of before.
JAMES MANN, No. II Wy street
Atlanta Ga, May ., 1855.
For sale by all druggists
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
rec. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co.
n. Y, l51 W. sd St. Drawer ) tlauts, Ga.
fe5.lv&wIv
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As one Of them testified We had
made up our minds that she should not 20
ahead and 1t was not advisable for her to
90 ahead, and she did not have the money
to go ahead, and therefore it was not a sub
ject that called for any particular reflection
from my mind or analysis or determiua-
ton. We had already determined that she
should not 90 ahead, and would get out if
she should get certain sum of money"
Governor Stanford still demurred to any
purchase, and said 4" We don't want to
buy Mrs. Cotton out We are short of
money anyhow, and if we should purchase
her interests and profit should come Of il,
people would say we had taken advantage
OF q woman. Let her 20 ahead with us
We will take care of her and help her, and
let her hold her interests and benefit from
them" But Mrs Cotton insisted Mr..
Swift one of her advisers, told her to sell.
Mr. Wilson said This is risky business.
sell" Mr.. Jarboe and other friends ad-
vised her 10 sell, and at last Stanford and
Crocker consented to make valuation ana
buy her shares. Ia making that account
Coltons frauds were brought to light
Naturally, Mrs. Cotton denied that her
husband had taken any money not his.
Mr.. Wilson strenuously urged that his
dead friend was an honest man. Crocker
cried when he heard of his old friends i'll
doing and said 81 hope it is not so. /
would give thousands to have his innocence
shown But therecord was there and spoke
for itself. Cotton was dead, and no ex-
planation was forthcoming. Crocker said
" Get experts to examine the books, and
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RECEIYER'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

NCTICR Is HEREBY GIVEN TIA UNDER
IN and IN pursuance of judgment of the
Superior Court in ano for the county of Sacra-
mento, iu an action wherein ALICE SCOTT is
plaintiff. and 5. d. WEYANT, JOHN DOE w
A. MURPHY, RICHARD ROE and GEORGE W
CHkSI-EY, Administrator of the estate of S. B.
SkGUR. deceased. are defendants viii. as Re
celver in said action, sell at the front door of the
Courthouse, in Sacramento, Cal. on WEDNES-
DAY, the 7ih day of OCTOBER, 1855, at 10
O'Clock A; NJ a public auction for cash in gold
coin, e the highest bidder, the following de-
scrioed real estate situated in the county OF Sac
rdmento, in said State of California viz: The
northwest quarter of the northwest Quarter of
Section Twenty-nine; the south half of the
northwest quarter; all of Lot Three; and the
west half of Lot Two OF the southwest quarter:
and the southwest quarter of the southwest
quarter OF Section Twenty; and all of section
Nineteen lying north of the lands formerly
owned aud occupied by l. II. Van Trees, now
deceased, all in Township Eight Nerth, Range
Eight East, OF Mount Diablo Base and Meridian.
Dated Sacramento Cal, September II. 1855
ALBERT n. JOHNSON, Receiver
FREEMAN. JOHNSON 4 BATES, Attorneys for
Plaintiff, Alice Scott. sl4-td
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The interests in the Cotton case are so
vast, and the matter has been so covered up
with extraneous issues, that a recapitula-
ton is necessary in order to make the point
in the decision clear to the lay mind Col
ton was engaged as a financial director of
the Central Pacific, and also owned much
stock in companies in common with the
other railroad people. To facilitate their
dealings with the roads and with each 9TH
er, they had organized company known
as the Western Development Company
This company built railroads and paid cash
for the work, receiving i'll return the stock
and bonds of the roads. Stanford Hunt
lngton, Hopkins ct al. put their money into
lhe Western Development Company and
in order to make things equal drew interest
thereon in accordance with the amounts
deposited the surplus going as a dividend
to be divided in proportion as to the
amount of w. D. Co stock that each
owned. Some time before Colten's death.
while Stanford was East, Crocker and Hop
klns in England and Huntington in New
York, Cotton called together the clerks
who were Directors in the W. d. Co. and
ordered them TO declare 4 dividend, which
divided up the stocks and bonds owned by
the w. ID. Co. among the shareholders. He
took his share and ordered three shares
given to the others. When this came to
their knowledge they said " the w. D. Co.
IS not solvent; no dividend should have
been declared the transaction must be re-
scinded." Cotton had pawned his share of
the dividend and pleaded that they let il
stand, and after time they agreed that
each should keep the stocks and bonds he
had subject 10 call, and knowing that Col
ton had disposed OF his in the meantime.
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ITCHING
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hv Gnticnra

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Cotton died with affairs in this shape
and his widow, in accordance with the
wish of her dead husband, expressed in
the will, took Mr.. :. NJ Wilson as her
legal adviser and friend, and he conducted
her business to the end without anv fee
but friendship. AS soon as he had gone
through her affairs, Mr.. Wilson decided
that Mrs. Cotton must sell out her stocks
and bonds and leave the railroad business
When Cotton first became an employe of
the railroad they sold him stock to give
him an interest and took his note for
100000 in payment, with the condition
that all dividends on the stocks should 90
to the payment of the note. Al his death
there was S750,000 due on the note, and
the payment of this was a serious item for
Mrs. Cotton to consider In making up
the accounts for a settlement the book
keepers of the railroad found that Cotton
had taken large sums from the company
he had no right 10 take, and these sums
We're charged up against his account. Mrs.
Cotton offered her stocks and bonds TO
nearly every large capitalist in the country,
and finding they would not purchase. went
to Stanford and Crocker and said Gentle
men, you must buy me out" They de-
INJURED and her advisers insisted.
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THE DEBArABLE GROUND.

In dealing thereafter with his trustee,
after losing confidence, and after becoming
hostile, he may, he must, he does, and
rightfully does. rely not upon the personal
integrity Of the trustee, but upon the pro
lection equity affords him, by imperatiyely,
unqualihedly, unconditionally imposing
upon the trustee the duty of making a fair.
a full, complete disclosure of everything,
within his knowledge or means OF knowl-
edge which may affect the mind of the
ce5tui que trust III the transaction. From
this duty the trustee can be discharged only
IN one, way, by its full performance. No
state Of mind of a cest'ei qise trust or himself
can relieve the trustee from it. By such
performance, and only thereby can 4 trus-
tee place himself at arms length as 4
Court of Equity uses that expression, with
such cetSU5 que s7.st. Failing: that per-
iormance, any transaction between bimself
and the cestWi qlts tr.ls5 where their interests
are adyerte, as TO The purchase from the
latter of the whole or part OF his interest
III the trust estate, is, regardless of the state
OF their personal feelings toward each
other. d legal fraud.
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a RARGATNs
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