Important Legal Decision

[From the Boston Herald, öct. 20.] The Supreme Court has sent down a rescript iii the case of the Citizene' Na tional Bank vs. Richmond. This was a auit to recover on a note for $500, made by Lucius W. Pond, of Worcester. It appears that in August, 1875, Pond applied to the defendant to indorse the note, being a note for $500, and the defendant indorsed it for Pond's accommodation. Pond thereupon, by the use of chemicals, renderfid invisible tht: worda " five hundred '' and the figures. "500," and wrote over them the words " two tliousand" and the figuren i "2,000." Pond then procured the i plaintiff bank, in the ordinary course of business, to discount the note, and the bank did so, being entirely innocent of the fraud. Before this note became due, Pond was arrested and imprisoued for a large number of similar ; tions. The plaintiff bauk, after the I maturity of the note, applied to the j writing, which set forth the amount for which the note was given, a solution of nutgalls, and thia application reveiled that the chango had been made from $500 to $2,000. The dofendant was' present and did not object when the nutgall was applied. The nte was demanded aud protested as a noto for I 8500 and $2,000, and the defendaut was j diüy notified as an indorser by two notises, one treating the note as $500 and another as a note for $2,000. The case was tried in the Superior Court for Worcester couuty, and the court ruled that the plaintiff could not recover, and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. The Snpreme Court has giveu judgment for the defendant, holding" that " the defendant never made the note for $2,000, which was the only one that the plaintiff accepted." lífuiarkiihlc Escape from Oeatli. The genius which is supposed to preside over the livea of dranken men, saya tho Los Angelen (C.il.) Herald, interposed to prevent a shocking accident at the depot last Saturday. Por some time bcfore the departure of the San Bernardino train, J. North was disportiiig himself about the depot in a maudlin state of iutoxication. "yhen the traiu stai ted, lie attemptcd to get aboard, bnt niisseil Lis hold and feil between tlie car and tno depot platform. Tho space here interveuing is only about eighteon inches wide, and North, being extremely obeee, failsd to go through to terra firma, where in all probability he wonld have fallen beneath the wheels and met a terrible death. The car boing in motion on ono side and tha ilatfonn stationary on the othor, tho ïuau went roliing along in obediouco to the principies of friction, much af ter the fashion of a flour barrel or a rolling-pin. Stransro as it may seem, when estricated he was sound of wind, limb and body, and alnaost sober. A gun which he held ia his hand was broken. It was a close pinch for a fat man, and we would not idvise anybody clee, drunk or sober, to try it. A Tlirilling Incident on the Railroari. The Pottsville Minors' Journal prints ihe folio wing: A tbrilling incident oocuitccI on the Nortli PeiiDsylvaniu raüroad, near Ambier etitiou, one night recently. The western ex ress clown, crowded with 000 passengers, was dashing along at a rapid rato, while an excursión train, at equal speed, and about the same nurnber of passengers, was flying np to meet it. The curvo above Aiabler station preven ted the eugineorf) from sceing each other'8 trains until they were almot together. Oue train was providod with air-brakes, whioh wore instantly applieil, while the brakos of the other ;miu were a!so frantioally jerked to tho ast noteh. Fire Uow in streamu from ;he air-bntkea by the terrible frietion, )ut they stopped the train when tho ocomotives wore but a eav's leugth apait. Veryfew of ihe pasaengers know :tiat thoy bad so n&rrowly f-scaped a most itarful disasfer. It i said that the upvrard train was in faalt, not having topped the required time at Fort Washugtou. "The blessed air-brakes" saved ruauy lives. A NEOBOslniübíiiing on the sunny side )f a haystack, in Whitcfiold coiinty, Ga., lie other u'ay, wis mistak' u for a beai y a etiuple 'of oolpred, rooii, nd fllled wil!) bHcksbot, '