The Hillsborough Recorder

A singular case is stated to have lately come before the legislature of Maryland. It was a bill reported on a petition of John J. Moore, of Harrison county, Ohio, now in confinement in Baltimore jail, at the suit of Thomas Emory, also of Harrison county, Ohio. The circumstances of the case are said to be as follows:-

"Some time past, Mr. Moore purchased goods of Mr. Emory, to the amount of eight thousand dollars, for which he gave eight notes of one thousand dollars each—of this amount five thousand dollars were paid. Mr. Emory was indebted to merchants in Baltimore for these very goods: and four months ago employed Mr. Moore to go to Baltimore to make arrangements there, so that he might have longer time to pay for them, and he was to pay Mr. Moore's expenses to and from Baltimore. In a few days after Mr. Moore's departure, Mr. Emory went and made oath that Moore had gone off with intent to defraud his creditors, and attached all his property in Moorefield, store, goods, lands and lots, a new frame house, beds, and every thing he had. Emory then sent on one of Moore's notes to a merchant in Baltimore, by post, for which he was arrested: and being a stranger, and not able to give security, he was put in jail at the request of Emory." It was proved that the petitioner had always supported an excellent character, and that he has a wife and family in Ohio. The bill for his relief was immediately passed by special orders, through all its stages, in both houses of the legislature.

N. I. Com. Adv.