The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-09
nature are neither personal property

nature are neither personal property
nor real estate, but upon becoming do
mesticated and put to bed, as may say,
they are ruled by the New Jersey court
of chancery to be real estate, and sub
Ject to the laws regulating the taxation
and alienation of real estate.
Judge Pierce, of Ellsworth, Pierce
county, Wis. and Judge Hough. of
New Richmond, st. Croix county. have
coth held that tho oyster itself may be
ana often is real estate, but that the oyster
pea Is personal property and may pass
without regard to the statute of hmita-
lions or tho laws regarding the aliena-
ton of realty.
The statutes under Justinian held that
the oyster plant while growing was real
estate, but when detached from tho
realty it became personal property,
while the oyster bed in this case. or the
oyster plant bed. becomes real estate.
Then comes the question of taxation
or the oyster bed. Shall we regard it
as furniture or farm: These questions
have puzzled greater legal minds than
mine, and john Randolph and Daniel
Webster went down to their graves not
knowing whether tho oyster bed should
face the north or he made MP with the
oysters head toward tho engine.
Another correspondent asks to know
If cholera is known to exist in North
Carolina. and also whether the great
hand 10 hand combat between Miss Lot
tie Collins and the soft shell crabbers of
Fire island will be renewed in the future.
In reply would say that there is no
cholera Ill North Carolina ut this writ
ing. Western North Carolina is the
point TO which many thousands come To
be absolutely FREQ from all fear of chol-
era Our air is perfectly pure, and pco-
pic who do not have too large Il living
surface arc cordially invited tocomc and
help themselves. Friends with means
ana short ono lung arc cordially re-
quested to come and cough with us with
out charge.
The sporadic caso of cholera reported
from near my house ut Buck Shoals, n.
G., turns out to have been brought on
by tho use of n medic ted Watermelon
with chemicals i'll it which had been
administered by these fair hands 1t
grew i'll my patch, and 50 felt free to
manipulate ii as I saw fit.
The man is now out of danger, but
has been quarantined till l can yet my
bulldog to give up his pants-not the
bulldogs pants, but the mans pants.
The tronblo ut Fire island OH the
18th and 18th of September was rather
disgraceful, but resulted from tho fact
that our government is not quite dcs-
potic enough in case of emergency.
The popular clamor OF Islip. which
turned ont to be the unpopular clammer
OF Constable's Hook, would have gone
to Siberia for life If he had acted in Il
cholera country as ho did here
Freedom, | have always said, is a
good thing for those who have been
brought UP Oil it. and who have had it
on the table with their meals ever since
they were children, but for those who
are not used to it it becomes too exhila-
rating, and ono Whit of it seems TO call
for another till they fetch up in new
made grave.
This is tho reason THAI the torch Of
Liberty shone down upon picture of
perverted frecdoin-a pathetic and pitt
frl exhibition Of the way ignorance and
seliishness may still abuse the rights so
dearly bought and SO i'll bestowed.