THS RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
“ Every Man is presumed to know the Law. 
Nine-tenths of all Litigation arises from 
Ignorance of Law.” 
NEW HAMPSHIRE LAW OF DESCENT OF A 
DECEASED INTESTATE’S ESTATE. 
L. T. S , Rumney, N. H. —What is the law 
in this State regarding the distribution of 
real and personal property where the owner 
dies intestate, leaving a wife but no children? 
The property consists of two good, well- 
stocked farms with buildings, in different 
parts of the State, and considerable money in 
various investments. 
Ans. —The New Hampshire law for the dis¬ 
tribution of the estate of a deceased intestate 
provides that the judge of the Probate Court 
may make to the widow a reasonable allow¬ 
ance out of the personal estate for her present 
support. She is also to be endowed of so 
much of her husband’s real estate as will pro¬ 
duce a yearly income equal to one-third of 
the yearly income of the whole. She is en¬ 
titled to so much of the homestead occupied 
by the family as shall not exceed $500. 
Where the deceased husband has left no 
children or issue of any, the widow is entitled 
to receive, in addition to this dower and 
homestead, one-half of the personal property 
left after the payment of debts. By releas¬ 
ing her rights of dower and homestead, she 
becomes entitled to receive, instead of these, 
one-half of the real estate in fee, of which 
her husband died seized. The real estat», sub¬ 
ject to these rights of the widow, goes, in 
the absence of issue, to the father of the de¬ 
ceased, if he is living. If the father is dead, 
it goes in equal shares to the mother, broth¬ 
ers and sisters of the deceased and their repre¬ 
sentatives. In the absence of any such rela¬ 
tives, it goes, in equal shares, to the next of 
kin. The residue of the personalty, after the 
widow’s rights are satisfied, goes in equal 
shares to the same persons who take the resi¬ 
due of the real estate. 
PENALTY FOR SELLING INTOXICANTS AT 
AGRICULTURAL FAIRS IN OHIO. 
L M., Newark, Ohio.— To settle a aispute t 
what is the law with regard to the sale of in¬ 
toxicants at or near a farmers’ fair in this 
State? 
Ans.—I n Ohio a judge of any court, sheriff, 
coroner, justice of the proper county, ora con¬ 
stable of the proper township especially ap¬ 
pointed, shall, upon view or information, with¬ 
out warrant, appiehend any person selling in¬ 
toxicating liquors in violation of law' at or with¬ 
in two miles of the place where an agricultural 
fair is being held, and seize the booth, tent or 
■wagon, carriage, stand, vessel or boat at or 
from which such liquors are being sold, and 
convey the same to a place of safe-keeping 
and take the person so offending before some 
officer having jurisdiction, together with an 
inven ory o tne tnmgs so seized, ana tne of¬ 
ficer before whom such an offender is brought 
shall proceed forthwith to inquire into the 
truth of the accusation. The articles so seized 
shall be bound for the payment of all fines 
and costs assessed against the accused in the 
proceeding, including the necessary expenses 
of seizing and detaining the same, and shall 
remain in possession of the officer who has 
made the seizure until the determination of 
the prosecution, and may be sold on process 
issued against the accused. 
RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEFECTS IN A HIGHWAY. 
L. T. M., Kingston, N. Y. —A short time 
ago, while driving along a public road at night 
my horse stumbled and fell into an excavation 
made in the road. There was no lighted lamp 
or other visible warning for travelers. My 
light wagon was damaged and I was thrown 
out and injured rather seriously. Who is re¬ 
sponsible for damages? 
Ans. —Every city, town or township is lia¬ 
ble for damages for injuries caused by its neg¬ 
lect to keep the streets, roads and bridges in 
proper repair, or for making repairs in such 
a careless manner as to subject others to in¬ 
jury. Thus, as in the present case, if there is 
a dangerous hole in the highway, and a per¬ 
son or his horse, using ordinary care, steps 
iato it and is injured, the town is liable for 
such injuries. In the present case there is no 
doubt on this point. The person suffering 
the injury should not contribute towards it 
by his own act. Thus, if he knew the road to 
be dangerous, he should advance with great 
caution, or if there is another road that will 
serve his purpose, convenient, he must use it 
to avoid danger. 
WATER PRIVILEGES ON ANOTHER’S LAND. 
“Subscriber ,” Michigan. —A owns a farm 
in this State on which a pond is sit¬ 
uated. Its outlet or raceway for about 2#0 
feet runs across A’s land and then down to 
the mill through B’s land. B, the owner of 
the mill, holds a deed couched in the following 
language: “ and a dam and mill pond to be 
used as a water privilege for a mill.” Has A 
the right to enter upon the pond and cut and 
carry off the ice or allow others to do so? In 
fact who owns the ice? 
Ans —Here are a dam and mill pond on A’s 
land from which a race-course runs into land 
owned by B,which has been purchased with the 
privilege of using the dam and water as a 
water privilege for a mill. A is entitled to 
make any use of the pond not inconsistent 
wi h B’s water privileges. Unless cutting the 
ice would injure the water power, by di¬ 
minishing the flow through the race-way, A 
may cut for himself or lease the right to 
others. B has no such right, and it can be de¬ 
rived only from A who owns the fee. 
DESCENT OF A WIFE’S PROPERTY. 
S. M. L., Watertown, N Y. —1. Can a mar¬ 
ried woman will her entire personal property 
as she chooses, giving no part of it to her hus¬ 
band? If not how is her will limited? 2. If 
she should die without having made a will, 
and after having had living children, what 
disposition does the law make of her real and 
personal property? 3 Can a married man will 
his entire personal property away from his 
wife? 
Ans.—1. 3. In this State a married woman 
may dispose of her personal property, in whole 
or part, by will as she chooses, giving her hus¬ 
band no share therein. A married man has 
the same privilege with regard to his wife. 2. 
If a married woman die intestate leaving a 
husband and children by him, the husband 
has a life interest in the real estate, the fee 
going to the children in equal parts: that is, 
the property goes to them equally alter their 
father’s death. One-third of the personal 
property goes to the husband, and two-thirds 
to the children in eq,ual parts. 
A WIDOW’S RIGHTS OF INHERITANCE FROM 
AN INTESTATE HUSBAND. 
R. H. T., North River, N. Y.—lt a man dies 
without having made a will, can the wife 
hold one-third of the property tnat she helped 
to get; or can the other heirs take all leaving 
her penniless* 
Ans. —If a man dies intestate in this State 
his widow is entitled to a life interest in one- 
third of his real estate whether any children 
were ever born to them or not. Of the per¬ 
sonal property one half goes to the widow and 
one half to next of kin; but if there is no 
parent, brother or sister, nephew or niece, 
the widow takes the whole of the personal 
property. If there be a brother or sister 
nephew or niece, and no parent, the widow is 
entitled to one-half the personality and to the 
whole of the residue if it does not excerd 
$2,000; if the residue does exceed $2,000, she 
is entitled, in addition to her half, to $2,000, 
and the remainder is to go to the brother or 
sister, nephew or niece. 
S. M., Geneva, N. Y.—l left three farm 
wagons in a shop for repairs together with 
some harness. The shop and my goods were 
burnt. There was a policy of insurance on 
the former; but in it no reference was made 
to goods held in trust or for repairs. Can I 
col ect the value of my property? 
Ans. —Uni ss there was insurance directly 
or by implication on property other than that 
owned by the shop-keeper, there can be no 
claim for the lo3s described and it falls on our 
inquirer. 
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THE INTERESTING VIEWS OF THE LATE DR. 
J. G HOLLAND. 
The columns of the newspapers appear to 
be flooded with proprietary medicine adver¬ 
tisements. As we cast our eye over them, it 
brings to mind an article that was published 
by the late Dr. Holland in Scribner’s Monthly. 
He says: “Nevertheless, it is a fact that many 
of the best proprietary medicines of the day 
were more successful than many physicians, 
and most of them, it should be remembered, 
were at first discovered or used in actual 
medical practice. When, however, any 
shrewd person, knowing their virtue, and 
foreseeing their popularity, secures and ad¬ 
vertises them; then, in the opinion of the 
bigoted, all virtue went out of them.” 
Is not this absurd? 
This great man appreciated the real merits 
of popular remedies, and the absurdity of 
those that derided them because public at¬ 
tention was called to the article and the evi¬ 
dence of their cures. If the most noted 
physician should announce that he had made 
a study of auy certain organ or disease of the 
body, or made his sign larger than the code 
size, though he may have practiced medicine 
and been a leader in all medical counsels, 
notwithstanding all this, if he should presume 
to advertise and decline to give his discovery 
to the public, he would be pronou ced a 
quack and a humbug, although he may -have 
spent his entire life and all his availab'e funds 
in perfecting his investigations. 
Again we say, “absurd.” 
If an ulcer is found upon one’s arm, and is 
cured by some dear old grandmother, outside 
of the code, it will be pronounced by the 
medical profession an ulcer of little im¬ 
portance. But if treated under tie code, 
causing sleepless nights for a month, with the 
scientific treatment, viz., plasters, washes, 
dosing with morphine, arsenic and other vile 
substances, given to prevent blood poisoning 
or deaden pain, and yet the ulcer becomes 
malignant, and amputation is made neces¬ 
sary at last, to save life, yet all done accord¬ 
ing to the “isms” of the medical code, this is 
much more gratifying to the medical profes¬ 
sion, and adds more dignity to that distin¬ 
guished order than to be cured by the dear 
old grandmother’s remedy. 
This appears like a severe arraignment, yet 
we believe that it expresses the true standing 
of the medical profession in regard to rem¬ 
edies discovered outside of their special 
“isms.” Oue of the most perplexing things of 
the day is the popularity of certain remediesi 
especially Warner’s Safe Cure, which we find 
for sale everywnere. The physician of the 
highest standing is ready to concede its 
merits and sustain the theories the proprie¬ 
tors have made—that is, that it benefits in 
most of the ailments of the human system be¬ 
cause it assists in putting the kidneys in prop¬ 
er condition, tbereoy aiding in throwing off 
the impurities of the blood, while others with 
less honesty and experience deride, and are 
willing to see their patient die scientifically, 
and according: to the code, rather than have 
him cured by this great remedy. 
Yet we notice that the popularity of the 
medicine continues to grow year by year. 
The discoverer comes boldly before the people 
with its merits, and proclaims them from 
door to door in our opinion much more 
honorably than the physician who, perchance, 
may secure a patient from some catastrophe, 
and is permitted to set a bone of an arm or a 
finger, which he does with great dignity, yet 
very soon after takes the liberty to climb the 
editor’s back stairs at 2 o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing to have it announced in the morning 
paper that “Dr. So-and-so was in attend¬ 
ance,” thus securing for his benefit a beauti¬ 
ful and free advertisement. 
We shall leave it to our readers to say 
which is the wiser and more honorable. 
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