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VOL. XJLYI. WINNSBO'JRO, S. C, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 30. 1891. NO. 7. BALMACKDA'S TliAGIC KNI) j CHILE'S EX-PKESIDENT COMMITS SUl- | CIDE AT SANTIAGO. Tlie L>e?d a in the Argentine j ui NiiiitiMiiiii Wlivm tho Hunted | >I?u Who lu A ltyiug UcvIhintiuu. Nea* Yokk, $epl.20.?The Herald's j Valparai.M) i;'afc.-p'?uue:it telegraphs us i follows: Ex-1'residet t Jiahnaeeda, of (.'bile, shot hiuiM-l! Uircusih the temple in his room at the Argi autic legation in SautidiiO m bioOa. ui. UhIhj (Saturday). The storv btcaoifc know u here this aflernoou. ami cieau-d the ereaie&t exeitemeut. It now seems that Balmaeeda let't Santiago on August -9, iu the hope ol making his escape !rcm Chile; but steins that evtr> avtuue of escape was cut off. he returned there on September 2, aud weut direct to the Argeuiine legation. A.tter ti:e di>aMtuUb battle near Val- j paraiso and the suriwider ol' Santiago, ou August 2Vth, m companr with exAlcalde Victor Echauren, he took a carriage and drove to a point two miles ouuide the city. Ilere a special train ol one car and a locomotive was ;n waiting. Th-, traiu wtnt at hi?h speed as lar as Liuderos. iori^-iive miles south ol Santiago. There '^ore carnages were in waiting. liuniedly alighting I'rom the train thev entered the carriages aud wtre agam driveu rnpidly away. The route wa-> toward San Antonio Bay. All trace oi' the fugitives was, however, lust. His intention was to go on board the Condei, which be expected to 2nd hiuy in San Antonio Bay. On arriving theie, however, he discovered, to his eLaijim, that the vessel had sailed. Nnce hits return to the Argentine legation, in Santiago, Balmaceda has been n an extremely nervous condition. No one, with die exception of the minister ol u.e Argentine Republic and one other man. who was devoted to the unfortun ate ex-president's cause, was permitted lo talk to or even see him. All the dillertni schemes of flight were considered by the hunted ex-president. Senor Ur riburria went to the theatre last ni<rht. When be returned to the legation, he had a long and earnest talk wit 1 Balmaceda relative to the latter's ideas previously broached, about the advisability of giving himself up to the Junta. Balinaceda and Senor Urriburna went to bed at midnight. Senora Urruburna, about 8 a. in. today, heard a pistol shot iu the bed-room that had been assigned to Balmaceda. j She notified her husband. Before he J went to Balmaceda's r?om he ran arouDd , to the house of Carlos Walker Martinez, j and brought that gentleman back to the legation. Upon bieaking in tbe door of! Balmaceda's room, it was found that he i had shot himself. The body was still warm. There was a raping wound in the temple. The body was undressed and lay on the bed. The revolver was still held in his right hand. Senor Coucbo ran to Moeda and informed tbs Junta of what had happened. A commission was promptly issued. It comprised Carlos Walker JIartinez, Senor Melchor, Senor Coucho and Judge A^uerrw. of the supreme court. They ? < went direct to the legation from the ot- I hce of the Junta's representatives and | viewtd the bodv. They then drew up a process, certify ing to the facta already i i? _ j ! scateu. Gradually the news spread all over the city, and the excitement it created is indescribable. Gieat crowds of terribly excited people gathered all around the Argentine legation. They cheered and they hooted, and went into a frenzy over the death of their chief enemy. Above all the discord int shouts were heard cries congratulating the unfortunate Balmaceda that in taking his own life he had escaped a worse fate. Balmaceda leit a letter to his mother. Alho. a statement to the Herald. As almost the last declarations of a dying man, they are of especial importance, lie says: *1 acted all during ti e past eight mouths with the tirm conviction that I was right. 1 had no one in the army upon whom I could place any trust. My generals were false to me. Tiiey lii-d all through the war. Had my orders been obeyed, 1 believe that the battle ot Concon would have resulted i& a de! ' ?:?? ii.? ? ??\?. cjsivq victory against uic eucmj. mj heart all through this trouble has been villi Chile. 1 sought to rescue my couatry from toreigu domination. X strove to make her the first republic iu America. My enemies say that I was cruel. Circumstances compelled me to sanction certain acts, but many bad deeds that have been attributed to my orders were never known by me until Ihev haci baen committed. "Uutil 'he linal battle at Placill, I hud strong hopes of triumphing over my ioes. Victory was assured bv my generals. Alcerecca and Barbosa and Viel. "They all lied. I uow know tnut they only pretended friendship tor me l>ecause of money that was to l>e ;oiien out ot me. "All the money that 1 have in mj possession is ?2,500. My wile gave it to me ou the nigut of August 28. "Your minister, Patrick Es:au, many times offered me nood advice. He unred me to make peace with those opposed u> me and to rear- from Chile. 1 did not heed his wise advice, for 1 thought that he was under the influence of the .Junta's orders, who were then refugees in the American legation. All through the trouble my closest advisers were always opposed to any overtures lor peace." Another letter was found, addressed to Seuor Urriourria. In it Jialmaceda says: "When I saw the .persecution di reeled auamst me by i>er?ou? who Dad supported roj administration, I came to the conclusion that the only wav to put au end t<> this persecution was to lake my lift, as I was the responsible one. Adios, my good Iriend! Give my lurewell 10 my wire and children." The Junta has the Argentine legation guarded i?y troops 10 prevent an atucK on the part o: the topulace. hut everything is <juiet at sautiag*. touiiiiit. IJalrnaceda's body ha* been removed to the general cemetery. It wa3 accompanied by the members of the family and friends. The widow ot the deaderpresident was informed of his tragic ending by her brother. Domingo Terro. There is a guard stationed at the cemetery. An iiilendente is keepiug order. 1 b? Oklahoma BociUltjrs. (.Jutiikie, 0. T., Sept. 21.?To day had little semblance to Sunday. All day the streets have been crowded with prairie schooners, carnages, horsemen, and tool pa^engers, all jammed into a shouting, struggling, hurrying mass. At the negro set'.iemeia of .Langston are 2,000 negroes, all armed and on the road. Ail ot these negroes are determined to have a claim or tight. On every side of the reservations the line is a continuous ca^op. and the number of people in waiting it fully 30,000. prottst v f the people. The Verdict iu the HnSii, C**t> Ueyndliitp(l in Mum Mvetiiiu. hampton, Ya., Sepf.. 18.?The court house at- Hampton was crowded tonight i with representatives of Hampton arid Elizabeth city and county, who had met to express their disapproval of the Ytr! diet rt-ndereu iu the Hains case l'uesdav. The Hon. II. Leger, ex-commonwealth's aUoi'je^, wat chosen chairman and mode au address, setting lorth trie pur; pose of the meeting and appomuu a ! committee on resolutions, Joseph He f- j ting, D. F. Cocke *nd W. j. Weymouth j were appointed. While these resolutions were being prepared ilaiion Colbeit, a prosperous business man, was called on ana stated, his views with do uncertain Voicr. The committee then reported the following resolution?: "We, the citizens of Elizabeth city, iu masfe meeting assembled, brought into solemn council bv tae startling verdict brought intne caee or Thornton Hams, charged with the murder of Edward A. Haunegan in Hampton Roads on June i Oth, l&yi, contrary to the hitherto good name of our people for loyalty and justice, resenting that the same sha 1 be fiaahen to the world as representative of our community, do hereby pioclaim vii h all the emphasis which moderate and temperate language cau cuuvej; "First, that while we do not assail the fidelity of any Individual juror 10 his conscience, we believe said verdict was contrary to the law and evidence, and we do hereby condemn the same as tending to license muruer, subvert the peace of society and threaten our firesides and the business ot our people. "2. We call on the officers to enforce impartially the criminal laws of the commonwealth and to punish ail offenders without fear, lavor or affection and without distinction as to class, condition, race or color. "We emphatically declare hereby our i grief at the ending of this trial; that we the people are thrown on our defense before all right thinking people; sorrow thut the bulwarks of our peace and happiness, the sanctity of life and law, have oeen assailed at their very foundation." After the resolutions were adopted Lipscomb, of Washington, who was present, was loudly call 1 fur and mad* a stirring address in which he deuonnced the jury in good round terms. The raeeuny men qu.iei.ij- aujuurneu. least 1,000 people were present and hunwere unable to get in the building. Koroll of ChilvitQ Troops, New York, Sept. 23.?A special to the Herald Irom Sautiago de Chile, via Galveston, says: The emeute among the troops ot the Junta in this city, which was caused by indulgence in liquor, was a trivial matter compared to the revolt that broke out at noon yesterday. Included in the lar^e numbes ot soldiers stationed here are many volunteers from Tarapaca and other northern provinces of Chile. They have bean very restless under the law of order and restrain; that, has followed the occupation of thin city by the Junta. At noon yesterday, as j Senor iloneda was walking through one I ot the matn^thoroughfares, he was lud- j dentr surrounded by an infuriated mob J of soldiers. They made a great outcry | against what they denounced as the injustice of keening them any longer in Santiago, anc demanded, with many threats, that measures should be at once '.aken.to return them to their homes. They alio denounced the tood which has been iurnished them, and declared they would no longer submit to < it. As a consequence ol the turbulence, Santiago, which has not yet recovered from the excitement caused by I3almasnicirfp w?r nt/nin t.hrown !ntn a hurh fever. The news spread rapidly nil over the city, and as it traveled through one street alter another it was followed bj closing up all the shops. Further trouble was happily averted, at least, lor the time being, by the clear judgment an-1 cool bearius? of the president of the Junta, Jor<;e Moutt and (Jul. Canto. Their firmness, coupled with promises to the soldiers tkat their grievances would be attended to, served to allay the spirit ot rebellion. A FUhj story. Jacksonville, Flu., Sept. 21.?A thrilling story ot the experience of two Coney Island bathers, supposed to have been drowned, was told to-day by Samutl VV. Thorntou of KrooklTm, N. Y., to an Associated Fress importer. On the alterooon of August 27, Thornton and hi* ?Uter-tu-lnw, Mis* Ada Jewtll, went into the >urf neur the iron pier. The undertow *ook them out to sea. They caught a floating log and drifted about nil nearly dark when a Spanish bark bouud fur South American ports picked ihern up. Mis* Jewell was uncouscious and con tinued a hiyh lever and delirious fur live dujs. None ol the crew could speak English. (Ju September 9ih the castaw:v?t* were trauslerrf-ri to another Spanish v*s>el bound I.?r Yucatau. through thv Straits of Florida, and on the morn- J inii or Suuday, September 20th, they j were set ashore ou a barren b?ach twen- J ty miles from thie city. They walked here and are at St. Jolm'i House await- J iu^ the arrival oi money from Brooklyn with which to lakr passage home. Thorniou*s brother iu Urooklyn sup- j posed him and hi* sister-in-law dead, aud he now rears ihat some imposter is J trying to extort mouer from him. Both | castaways have been identified, however. aud money is expected in the J morning. Both have stood their hard-1 ships rem&.kably weli. but strange V) j say neither cau rememter the names of I the vessels or those oi their captains, j Flcuduli Cruelty. Chicago, Sept. 20.?W. A. Iliggius, secretary and contracting agent for the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Railroad company, wi? h headquarters in Milwaukee. was arrested h*-re last nitfht on a charge of murder. Sunday morning, >ept. 13, Hijigins and a mau nameu Arnold, a tiavel'iu freight ageut of the Elkhait Freight Jine, v?no also has his office in Milwaukte. were in Simon Caorassa's saloon on Martiu steet. The two had been ou a sprt^ all of Saturday night and were finishing up their debauch when an old colored onturuH fhM nlurv Thft f.WO TTir-fl nuuj.au wi*v\ *^v? < " - * - ? ? insisted on her uancinjf for them. The old woman finally consent*! and while shy was dancing some one touched a lighted match to her clothing and she was burned to death. Higgins at once Jissappear?-d and the police sent out dispatches asking for his arrest for murder, as they claim he was the man who applied the match. Higgios was placed under arrest hero yesterday and taknn to the central station.^ The Milwaukee authorities were notified and an officer arrived from there at 10:30 o'clock last night. Higgms waived requisition and left for Muwaukee in cnarge of the officer, i Higgins denies having applied the imatch which caused *he old woman's death. I FULLY THREETHOUSANO PERISH. Aj>lj?lliuy Loi* of LUit J>y Th?* 1-'1<?oiIk in Si>ulu. | Sept. 10.?News slowly coming iu from the South uf Spam reports the damage by reason or t:ie extraordinary floods mi that section as !> m.\> genera!. The lows ot property :s I something enormous, and everywhere j railway trains have been derailed and ' the roaus blocked. The meanre details | thus tar received from the Province oi J Toledo give harrowing aceouuU ot the J extent and phenomena oi the overwhelmj 'ng catastrophe whicii has i>et:illen the I province. So suddeu was tin*, breaking (forth iif the \rale>rs that in numb: rier>? [mstan.es the uniortunate people were j !drowned beioie they could leave their] ! beds. j Strom: bodies of laborers, assisted by | troops, are workiu^ night aud day to re- j j cover ilie bodies oi those urowneu or cruuhed to death, but up U# the present Lime only 400 or the bodies oi Lhc Jtiiasing thousands hare bo en secured. The j [ vintage aud the curu crops oi' the di?- j tressed district hare been totally destroyed. so that poverty aud lmuuer must follow in the wake of this frightful visitauou. Two-thirds ot the town of Lousuegra, in Toledo, with a population of 7,000, has been destroyed by the Hoods. Five hundred houses have been destroyed at Almeria. It is certain that lully 2,000 people have lost their lives by the rloods. Hosts of corpses remain uubuned, and, because oi the great heat, an epidemic is feared. Famine is caus1 ing many to engage in plunder. The government is striving to ;eed the destitute. The town of Consuegra is ruiueu and : the police are prevet ting pillage. The burials ot the victims are proceeding amid scenes or mourning and miserv. r. ix thought that 5.000 head of horses ; and cattle were drowned. The town ol Almeria is iu absolute darkness, the lioods having covered the electric liglit and gas works. Throughout the whole flooded region there are reports of increasing misery, destitution and waste. ! The mayor ol'C'onsueyra estimates the number of people destroyed thereat 13,000. In man> places limbs were found ' separated from bodies. The officers have telegraphed for lime to prevent disease, i The (^ueen ltegent has started a subscription on a large scale for the benefit of the sufferers, and many subscribers, including the Bank of Spain, hava joined her in lar^e donations. The scenes during the tiood at Consuegra were awful. L'li^ous cries came from the drowning, for whom there was no assistance. Sixty corpses were found iu a public hall, where the victims, in the midst of a weddiui: .least had been overtaken by the rloud. t'amiitn Awful Knee. St. Petersbuim*, Sept. 2-1.?Reports received here from Tamboft' f*nd its adjacent provinces announce that the Zemstvoa have provided for the resowlug of land ana to furnish supplies of grain until January next. After that there will be the greatest difficulty to ensure f*od for the people. As the colIration of taxed is ituDossluIe. the salar ies of loc?l administrative bodies have j been suspended. Even if funds to supply ^rain are obtained the distribution, which will be over wide famine tracts, will be dillicult. and the maintenance of hospitals, scnools ami asylums is doubtlul. The scarcity of oats and hay is com* [ pelling farmers to sell live stock at | mock prices. For instance, a horse for 2 roubles, a row for 3 roubles ana colts from 20 to 50 copecks. Alter a recent county fair in one district the skeletons of lony horses were found by the roadside. The animals had been killed for their skins. Destitution is also staring in the face a largo number of people who have ' been employed on the public works, as the work on the latter must stop when | frost set In. The masses of the people I rely entirely on the Government to help 1 them. This being the state of affairs in the psesent miid weather, the gloomy prospecs held out by coming winter eau be readily imagined. An analysis of the bread sold in many ! places by unscrupulous merchants revealed the tact that absolutely poisonus mixtures are sold. Several mer chants have been arrested at Morshanck, and will be summarily tried, Many ! specimens of such bread consist ot TO per cent of earth and sand aed 80 per i cent of refuse farinaceous products. Among many conjectures regarding the causes of the failure of the c raps it is suggested that thf drainage of hundreds of vi-rsc of the vast swamp ot iPinsk resulted in flooding the Dnieper ; in the spring and in the iowuess of the water late in summer, thus causing a j diminution in the rainiall in the eastr [ ern provinces. Almost nil of the Goti eminent ofiicials have voluntarily contributed a portion ot their salaries to the famine fund. The public talk of bringing bread from America and I Egypt. Mr. folk'* DeaSul. Washington. Sept. 22.?Col. L. L. Polk, the high priest ot the Alliance order, is back in Washington from his Western trip. To the inquiry as to Mihat toundation there was to the report that he was threatened with tar -- ^ Vxw L''..?-?o v?it"t4r'jTiu hu ttliU. i Crttliri d UJ Avauoao iwViMug, ??v said there whs nothing whatever in the story as to the dispatches charging that lie apologized in lus speech for haviug k'oue iuto tn? Confederate service and spoke approvingly of a strike among the cotton pickers of the Souih, Polk said: "It is absolutely and unqualifiedly false 111 every particular. I uttered no sentiment iu Kansas or elsewhere, which by any forced construction could have been contorted luto any such expression. It is a lit-out of whole cloth. 1 have never uttered a seutimeiit in a Northern state I -rould not willingly repeat in any Southern state. As to the strike of the cotton pickers I had heard nothing about it until my return to this office.?Augusta Chronicle. An lanoeeut ."VI?n Convicted. San Francisco, Sept. 20.?Sidney Bell, recently convicted of the murder of Samuel Jacobson.a merchant of this city, who was mysteriously shot on the nignt of August 1(5. 181*0. is probably innocent. Charles Schmidt, one of the principal witnesses against l>ell, has made a confession admitting that all his testimony at the trial was false. Bell's attorneys say th^y have a witness who will swrar t'hut the murder vras committed by a gambler named Max Schwartz, who had been visiting Jacobson's sister. .Jacobson forbade him trie house, and lindiug him there on the night of the murder, tried to <-ject him and was shot by Schwartz June* Not n Albany, X. Y.Sept. 21.-The Citizen's alliance.* branch of tlin Famieis* alliance, held a picnic and barbacue on the fair grounds today. Lieutenant Governor Jones was nut present, ami Slate Lecturer Spaulding in an address to the gathering, said the lieutenant governor had informed bim that h? was no longer in the field for the gubernatorial nomination this vear. I AN IXDISSOLUBLK i'IK. j AN IMPORTANT DECISION BY JUDGE j JAS. F. IZLAR. CuutniCtud After it IMvurcv I.* j liritntt'ii la Aiiotli?-r .Nt:itc Krc IlleSHl. | | Oilifr Slttit'h ('minor C'ihiI rovcil Our j l.ltWH. Au important decision was lately j rendered by Judge Jflar in a case t-o?u-1 ing before hiui on appeal from a Pro- j baie Court, as it fixes the status of par* j ties married in Soutli Carolina and j securing a divorce in another State.' The case arose thus: Thomas M. Peo-' pies married in this State, afurwardj went to Florida, where he secured ai divorce and re-married, and afterward ! returned to this State. On his death! letters of administration were graoted j to Rou lanu \V. Peoples, his son i>y the j Fiorida inarriaae, aim petition was made. to i lie rruoaie louti 01 ^:o:ieion i County 10 I ave the It-tiers of adminis-j trillion 1 evoked and grai'ten to rhe petitioner. Georgianna White. As matter of law the Judge of l'ro-; bale found that there was no ground fur revoking the letters of administration previously granted to Rowland W. i Peoples, that under the facts before1 him Rowland VS. Peoples is the legiti-1 mate son of Thomas M. Peoples, deceased, ''for. in the lirst place, there is no evidence to show that the lirst mar-1 riage of Thomas M. Peoples w;us ceie brated in this State, and hence the dicta ' of the South Carolina Judges, holding that a marriage celebrated in this State cannot be dissolved save by the laws of this State, have no application to the case at bar; that even if the proof had shown that the lirst marriage was contracted in this State, yet the decree of divorce in Florida dissolved that marriage, and hence the second marriage in I the State of Florida was valid, and the j issue thereof, Rowland W. Peoples, | was legitimate," and thus iinding the Judge of I'robate dismissed the peti-1 tiou. After considering: questions relating to the first marriage in this State, the securing of a domicile in Florida, and the purpose thereof, and the subsequent second marriage, Judge Izlar says: It now becomes necessary to consider i the force and effect of said judgment of divorce. The American doctrine of divorce is cleadv stated by Stewart in the 5th vol. of the Am. and Eng. Ency. of Law, 74tietseq. From Mr. Stewart it appears that "every State has the right to regulate its own domestic policy; to determine the status of its own citizens, and to choose for itself the terms and conditions under which its own Courts shali grant divorces, and a divorce granted in accordance with its laws must be valid within its own territory. But no State has primarily the right to pusn its domestic! policy beyond its boundaries and into | other States, or to dissolve marriage | or change the domestic status of per j sons belonging to other States: and the Acts of one State have force and authority in other States only by consent "f Ih-jf in r<! hV 1 lit-> I V/I OMV/U """j l&JUtU itj V* * "'J ? ?% | comity of nations or international law, or by virtue of some paramount law. j sucn as the United States Constitution, j or a treaty between nations." The] principles enunciated bv Mr. Stewart i on this subject will doubtless be accepted in all States where divorces are allowed by law, but in South Carolina divorce a vinculo is not allowed by law. j Here the marriage contract is regarded I as indissoluble by any human melius, and it, has always be^n considered as contrary to public policy, and as opposed to the goo I order and well beiu^ of society, to dissolve l>y divorce the j sacred bonds of matrimony. This policy has never at any time in | the history of the State railed to have j the support and approval of the bench and bar, and to receive the hearty en-1 dorsement 01 an tne citizens 01 intelligence and culture in the State. It is true that at one time in the history of j the State, when it was ruled by the alien aDd the stranger, and when the Ceiier.d ! Assembly was composed principally of corrupt freebooters and ignorant ne- j groes, tne "stern policy" which had previously prevailed was relaxed. 1'he j new policy which was thus forced upon j the State did not meet with favor. As i soon, therefore as intelligence and vir-1 tut; ajfain took the place of ignorance and vice, the "stern policy' was iv.sum-! ed, and has ever since been lirtnly ad- j hered to and jealously guarded. I am inclined to think that the divorce i under consideration, even it' tested by the American rules, would be held in-1 valid to all'ect. the uiatrimobi.il status i ot Caroline IVoplt-s. Under t he circumstances of tins case I am persuaded fh.it the decree of divorce could do no moiv than affect the matrimonial status of Thomas M. Peoples. It could not. iu my opinion, lix, regulate and control the status of Carolina Peoples, who at all times had been an inhabitant and ; citizen of South Carolina. iia.il J nomas .\i. reopies cmiuuueui his residence in the State of Florida, and hud the* operation of il.'e ju?.li<ment of divorce been confined to that State. South Carolina would have been compelled to acquiesce in the status fixed upon him by that decree, but when he quit his domicile of choice and returned to his domicile of origin, the judgment of divorce ceased to shield Mm. It Could not push its effects out into South Carolina to the defeat of its settled policy. The status of Thomas M. Peoples acquired by that judgment m Florida cannot he recognized in him as a citizen of South Carolina. There is 110 principle of comity which demands this of South Carolina. If he would enjoy the liberty given by the decree of divorce then he must remain in the State or Florida. Let the rule contended for n this case be once established, then suie-1 ly will the peace 01 society be jeopardized, the marriage bonds be weakened. I and t.he door which ha-^ been so long and so faithfully guarded by the l^ncl),! the l>ar and the Legislature of the State : be thrown wide open "to fraud, impost-1 tion and otner immorality." In this State where the com-ion law prevails] the courts will scrut. jize with jealousy divorces granted by other States where a laxer system prevails. Her* it is solemnly believed that ''the principle ot tbe indissolubility and exclusivenes-s ot the marriage bond is essential to the health of the body politic." But I go further. I am in harmony with what is termed the dicta of the .South Caiolina Judges. These dicta of our Judges rest upon the doctrine laid down in Lollev s case, I Muss ami Ky, decided in 181 *3 by the twelve Judges of England, aud which was aiterwards recognize'! and followed in a number of cases. Judge Izitr here quotes a number of authorities in suonort of his position. The Court is asked in this case to declare the decree of divorce obtained by Thomas M. Peoples in Florida valid, his second inarri;u?e with Sarah Ann Cailer lawrul aud the issue thereof legitimate 111 South Carolina. The question presented is. shall the lex doniirilu prevail or tin* hx l<j'd i;nntructu.s: This is a grave question. I am of opinion, however, that this Slate will not consent .to recognize the proceedings of any other State which are so contrary to its fviews of public policy and morality, and that it is imt bound to do so. Admitting that if. n*-v?-r h.i?. Iih u j lurmally d'-e'd<-d that th'* doctrrM- of | Lollcv's case is the Uw of tin.- Coin's j of South Carolina, tin* question i> j>reseDiet!. shall our Courts follow tJn* com* { moil law as declared in the ea-e, or| shall :iiey lollow the dicta oi fiords ^Wesilmrv, i Vnzaucc and othe: s ? 1 have no hesitation iu saying that the public policy of tli<? Siaie demand.: that ihe Courts should be influenced by the views of our own Judges to adopt as to j Uie XZllJtTU ill W fJL UUd Uptime I of Lolley's case, as declared by the | twelve .7udges oi England. lu Duktr j vs Fuimei. (Ibu'ij Chancellor Wardlaw said: "The common law as declared by the Judges <>i England is clear against the recognition of foreign divorces as dissolving marriages contracted in England. i therefore hold, in the language of .Judge O'^eall in Jioyce vs. Owens, that "the marriage contract m this State is regarded as indissoluble by any human means. Nothing short of the actual or presumed death of one of the parties can have the effect oi discharging its obligations or preventing its legal ellects." The decree of divorce proiiouii'-ed by the- Circuit Court of Florida does not, in my opiniou, effect the status of Caroliue. who, at all times, had been an inhabit of South Carolina, and when Thomas M Peopes returned to this State permanently to reside the shield which the decree ot divorce1 hrew MTnnnrt hint in the Stut^ of Fioridu V.'US ! withdrawn, and he became subject to the laws of South Carolina, by winch neither his matrimonial status in Florida nor his subsequent marriage can be recognize ). I'nder the laws ot Soutri Carolina the Florida divorce did not operate to dissolve the South Carolina marriage: there! ore, the second marriage must be held invalid * ad the children of said marriage illegitimate | in South Carolina. The law of this Court is, ;us we have been, that no foreign tribunal is competent to pronounce a decree of d.vorce a vinculo of a South Carolina marriage or pronounce any other decree than such as would be allowed by ti e lex loci contractus. In this connection 1 would call special attention to an .-.rticle ,o be found iri the Carolina Law Journal entitled "Foreign Divorces ol Carolina Marriages," page 377. 1 am fully aware that in tile United States, outside of Soutn Carolina, the Courts in matters of divorce are governed generally by the lex domocilii, and not by lex loci contractus, but 'South Carolina occupies a unique position in respect to marriage and divorce. Here Use lex loci contractus governs. Here the marriage contract is regarded as indissoluble, either by consent of trie parties or by me judgment or statute of any foreign tribunal or Legislature. It. is therefore onlered adjudgc-d that the decree of the Pro >ate Court hi this case be, and the tame is hereby, reversed. J?iilci<le of an Ex-Governor. Mauys-ville, Mo., Sept. 23 ?Lx(iov. Albert 1'. Morehouse committed suicide at his residence at o'clo. K tnis j morning. Several weeks ago the Governor was violently overheate I while driving cattle and has been in i very nervous condition e\er since. At times he has been delirious and very much depressed. He was taken out lor a drive by a friend last night and b-came j so much excited that hn was brought home and a physician called, Ke became quieter and this morning was sleeping quietly. Two watchmen were in another room. They heard a noise in the Governor's room and on emrring found him lymjr on the lloor, blood spurting from his tfiroat. He had cut a gash ;n the Irft side of his -iiroa* j about four inches long. The weapon | w?s a common pocket knife. which .he still held in hi* right hau?i. He hud ! folded up his coat and vest and placed | them under Ins head. Governor Morehouse was born i:i ! Dele ware County, Ohio. .July 10,1835. I and came to Missouri in ISoU. II * was I a lawyer by profession and had a!wa>s I faken a prominent part in Missouri I politics, lie was elected LieuJenantI Governor on the Democratic ticket in j 1884 with J. Marmaduke as Governor, | and upon the death of the latter succeeded hiin ami took the. oath a:* GovI f-rnor in 1887. llis wife and two ch'.lj dren are in .St. Joseph. The Alllanco In Coiixtms. Washington, >epi. 17.?At the Farmers' Alliance headquarters in this leitv it Unit, thf- A Ilinni-H will have lifty-live men in the n^xt House who will rote with it on all measure that it may see lit tu bring: forward. In the Senate" the party claims four Senators?Teller, K\le. irby and Vance. At the next session the* sub-treasury ! bill, as it was i'ntro<luce'l in the last Congress w ill not make its appearance, j l'iiac in-asure has been repudiated by ibothhousts of Congress, and w;U.lor | that reason, nor be resurrected. A bill | constructed, however. noon lines simi; lar to it, and embodying the sam-: prinI ciple. will tit*, introduced iiit> ho-h houses aud pushed To a vote. i'h?- >tanI t'ord land loan bill v.ill not lie touched by the Alliarue, but a bill bearing upon the same subject v.'iil be iTitro luced. Another measure which the Alliance | will d -maud is a free cmnago bill. Thv.se Ihren measures are the* ones in , which the party tak?i th?- n.os: i;t-r?-;>t, but other measures wili be introduced I and efforts to miss tfu-m will be made A Naughty Noted Revival)*;. Lknington, X. C., Sept. ID ? om the I loth of hist I>ecember Kev. Zaenari ?s ! JJell. one of the most noted revivalists in North Carolina, living here, risked lus wife ami tivechildrei; good-bw. At : the same time he look ieavv o: Miss Katie Washburn, a visitor at 'us bouse, who h-ft the next day tor ner bo*ue. Since that time the preacher h is not been lizard from and his wile has mourned him as dead. She ha; just learned that on the day aft^r his departme lieli was joined at Salisbury by a young woman, wnom he passeii oft a* j his wife. The pair left on the train i'<>r i (ieoigia, in which State Del! said ?i:? had I important revival engagements. Mrs. 1 itril thereupon wrote to lUndolph 1'onnty and learned that Miss Washburti had never returned home. It is supposed sue was the young lady who joined i5ell at Salisbury, and that trie pair are parsing themselves o!T a-5 band and uil'e in Georgia. St rar<K* and l'afal Gat t tfr Kisisno. I Huntingdon, Pa.,S*pt.20.?Thecat tie in tliis and adjoining ro'sntfc-s arej being attacked with a peculiar, and thus far unidentified, disease, which, in jearly every instance, prove.* fatal The disease lirst appeared about two weeks aito, and already hundpdn of ! cattle have perished. W'hen attacked, 11 he animal's head fails helplessly and j its legs seems unable to bear the weight of the body. If is believed that the ! disease is i form ot Texas splenic fever, j and was brought here nv .Southern eatj tie. Kll>d l>v the "Vf.?tJl?nIe." i (iiiKKNviLi.K.Sept.21. -The vestibule j train 0:1 the "ichmond and Danville railway is getting in its work r.-.pidiy. Yesterday at a crossing near l iberty trie north b;?ond train struck a wagon witn three or f'o;:r persons 111 it. and a man and a woman were killed and a cnilt! fatally injured. The eoron- r held an inquest to-day, but no report of the lindirg has been received?World. \ - * CLOSING UP THE COOSAW CASE. Tlio CmiipHiiy l'orfcver Enjoined rYoiu Mining in C'oonsiw Klver. Ciiaulk-stox, S. C.. .Sept. 18.?The following older in the Coosaw litigation was lilt-din the United States court to-day by .Judge Siuiontou: 4-That the grant or privilege of digging, mining and removing phosphate rocks and phosphatic deposits from the navigable streams of the State of South Carolina, given to the defendant under the act of assembly of 1S70, mentioned iu the pieadngs, for the p?riod of twenty-one years from the passage of the said act, at a royalty of SI per ton, became, and was, under the provisions of the act of 16715, an exclusive grant of privilege of digging, mining and removing such deposits from the otd of the Coosaw Jtiver, at the royalty aforesaid. upon the conditions and within tbei.mits mentioned in said last named act, for the remainder of said period of twenty-one \ ears, and ao longer. That said grant or privilege iirsaia defend <?juls LUia iiuw (jucticu ami uecmmiueu. "That the defendants, the Coosaw Mining Company,and all persons claiming unaer them, and the servants, agents and employes of them, be, and each of them arc, forever restranined and enjoined irom. in any way, claiming, or attempting to claim, any right, title, interest, estate or grant under or by virtue of said act or acts in or to the phosphate rock of phcsphatic deposits in the Ut-ds of Coosavv River, in the i*Uite ot South Carolina, and fiom digging, mining or removing, or attempting to dig. mine or reui-ive the same, or any part thereof. "That nothing in this decree contained shall be construed to enjoin the said defendants, tne (Joosaw Mining Company, from hereafter mining yi the bed ol said. Coosaw Kiver, when thereunto duly authorized under any law of the State ol' South Carolina. That U. 11. Brooks, the receiver, heretofore appointed under the order of the State court, be discharged from his receivership, and that the plaintiffs pay lum the sum of 8125" hereby adjudged to be a reasonable compensation to nim as such receiver. " That the defendants pay the costs of the marshal and clerk, and, with this exception, each party pay their own COtftS." Conization ot thw Crops. Washington, Sept. 19.?The weekly weather crop bulletin, issued this evening, snys: South Carolina?The high temperature and excessive sunshine scalded and rusted cotton, and caused immature bolis to open. The damage is believed to be more than formerly reported. Alabama?The rains of last week greatly benelited all crops. There is no material change in the condition of cotton since last reported. Mississippi?Growing crops are suffering from the dry, hot weather. Cotton harvesting is in progress. The staple is good, but the sunshiDe is opening immature bolls, liain could not materially beuefit cotton. Louisianna?The w eather was generally fav'orabie, and there is a slight improvement in prospects, though all especially cane, need rain. Excellent harvest weather prevails. Cotton i3 opening iapidly. and picking is well under way. Texas?'The weather was favorable for cottcn picking, which has progressed rapidly, the staple is unusually long and clean. Showers have improved late cotton, and the top crop in Central and Eastern Texas. The prospects continue fair over Xorth Texas. Tennessee?Late crops are suffering from drought, and plowing Las been suspended. Hay making and fodder have progressed finely. Cotton picking is und?T way. The crop is short. Warmth and sunshine are required to mature late corn. "iiidn't Know It \Va* Ix>aded." Wilim antic. Conn.. Sept. 18.?A fa tal accident occurred here yesterday at the practice shoot of Company G, of Putnam, and Company E, of AVilimantic. Third Regiment $. X. G. John Peterson, of Company G, picked up a riileand pointed at different members of both companies. lie was told to put it down, but refused, saying it was not loaded. II?- pointed it at Richard l)abbmgton, a?ed twenty-live, private in his company, and pulled the trigger. A report, folio wed and the next instant Rabbington and William Malone of Company E fell to the ground. R-ibbington was instantly killed, while Malone was fatally wounded. The bullet, a 4$ calibre, had passed through Rabbington's heart and outat his back, and ."Iruck Malone, i\ho stood ten paces in tlie rear of him. Malone was also shot through arn! through, the bullet being found in a board fence thirty paces to t.ne rear. Peterson was Immediately arrested. lie claims that he did not know the gun was loaded. Ih?*y Uiiln't Lick I,lpscoiaib. IIami'TOX, Va., Sept. IS.?Immediately after the adjournment of the Hains-Uanmgan ind.gna'ion meeting h?-r? last. uiijiit. .nother meeting was i.eld. It was called *?y the jury who had be- n >o severely denmiuced. They declared i hit Prosecuting Attorney r ii.wmm.li u ;ic i h > instigator nf t.he meeting, and should be punished; so ttioy started at once fur Old Point to give him a .sound thrashing. Lipscomb was found at the lly^fla IIouse, but he had prepared a warm reception for them. Just a* t!>e men walked in the corridor Mrs. Lipscomb called for and obtained a gun, saying she was abetter shot than her husband. Iler action was loudly appla-idtd. and she forced the crowd of jurors to retire to the street. More trouble is expected. Ino^U'ilarr Miller. Ciiicaco, Sept. 22.?Emancipation day was ren brated today by the colored people witn a mass meeting and picnic ar Osgood grove. Thomas E. Miller, of Ueaufort county, South Carolina, was the orator of the day. He eulogized Abraham Lincoln, aud speakingof the South said: " The new South is a fact. The child, is however, Jill-formed. It's bloo'i is tainted; it is strong, but lacks endurance. It is as much your duty today to assist the nation in training and developing this partly spoiled youth, as It, was your duty late in the iitties to t-ducat- through your patron saint, the nation up to the pjint of the emancipation of the slave and the preservation of the L'uioo. Omit it, and the work will hare to be done over agam in the same way as it was finished at Appomattox/* .No Thtnl Party In Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 23.? This morning the Georgia Legislature the muchmooted Ocala resolutions as endorsed by the Alliance and demanded by them of the next Congress were introduced by Pnrrett of i'ike County, for the approval and endorsement of that body. The resolutions were defeated by a vote of 81 to This is somewhat of a triumph over the third party movemeat m this S'ate, a* it clearly indicates that any Alliancemen or the Legislature who are in a majority In that body are not in s^rupathy "with any measure that is directly opposite to their views as Democratic members. forest fires. [ Imports of Towns and Camps Destroyed j i Continue to Come In. st. Paul, Minn, Sept. 24?A tfreat cool wave swept over the state this afttrnoou from the west, bringing relief from the terrible htat of the past ten days; but it has no effect on the forest and prairie iires near here. The forest at Vermilion ana across the Wisconsin border towards Ashland are still raging lires, without hope of change until a drenching rain shall come. Hon. J. A. Westby, who has contracts lor government surveying, has just come from the upper Mississippi and reports terrible devastation along the line. He says hundreds of cattle are burned and many homesteads de stroyed. Tbe tram on wnicn ne came down on stopped, and took in seventeen men, women and children, settlers who barejy escaped with their lives. L'nless heavy rains fall at once, all the little villages and homesteads along the St. Paul and Duluth for sixty miles will certainly be burned. .There is no apparent diminution in the terrible heat; rain still holds off and the forest fires in Northern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin continue to rage with unabated fury. Lammer's lumber camps, near Hinckley, have been destroyed, and Louis Mo t and wife, living in the camp, were forced to lie in the river all night to escape cremation, while Daniel Sallivau and Thomas Johnson fell prey to the tire. All along the Eastern Minnesota roads blackentd ruins mark spots where settlers have lost their all. The town of Finlayson escaped destruction by heroic labor of citizens uninterruptedly for thirty-six hours. From Duluth to Ashlaad vast stretches of pine forests are a continuous sea of llatnes. Two school houses near Fine City were burned yesterday, the pupils escaping with difficulty. The villages of Ferry and Comstock have been burned." Lumbermen are the heaviest losers, but the amount is as yet incalculable, reaching far into the'hundrtds of thousands. Fine Citx', Minn, Sept. 24.?At last the fierce forest fires have resulted in a fatality. Tnis morning five farm hands engaged in lighting the flames several nnies from here were surrounded by fire and before they could escape, were burned to death. Cumberland. Wis., Sept. 24.?Forest fires have been raging throughout liarron, Folk, Washburn and Burnett counties for the past seven days, endangering all kinds of property, and in several cases endangering lives. The tti 11 t\f i -j n H rl I lliog w VI WLUQVVV/U UUU X VilVJ uui v been ourned; also the saw mill, shops, barns, lumber, etc., of 0. A. Rltan & Co., of this city, located in Burnett county; loss 8150,000. St. Peter, Minn., Sept. 24.?The Union depot, hotel, the American Ex press office and three small buildings wer?i burned this alternoon. Loss S io,000. Horrible Kail road Butchery. Newcastle, Pa.. Sept. 21.?A terrible wreck occurred on the Pittsburg and Western Kailroad at McKim's siding, a station a short distance on the other side of Zelienople, Butler County. At this point a work train with a force of tifty men was engaged at the time in putting down a new track. About 8 o'clock this morning the work train cot out of the way of a freight train going west, but the crew did not know that a second section of the same number was following five minutes later. The work train again pulled out on the main track, and the men were engaged in throwing off dirt when the second section struck the work train with great force. Cars were piled up in a shapeless mass. The engines were a mass of broken iron and wood, and the hot steam and -he boiling water poured over the unfortunate onts caught iu the jam. For a moment after the collision there j was silence. Then the air was broken by the shrieks of the dying, making the scene so terrible that one or trie trainmen who had escaped injury fainted with horror. The trainmen and laborers who were not injured beiran at once to assist those imprisoned in the debris. Several arms and legs were found in several different places, and the head of an Italian was found twenty feet away from the body. The engineer, John Houghton, who had bravely done his best to stop his engine attached to the Jreight train, was lound wedged in the broken and shapeless iron. Br 11 o'clock the bodies of eight Italian laborers had been taken from the wreck, and, with lhe killing of Engineer Houghton, this swells the number to nine. There were at least twenty men injured, several of whom cannot recover. All the bodies were terribly manirled and .disfigured. Engineer Houghton was the only American killed. Assistance was telegraphed for to Zelieuople. and in a short time physicians and citizens were at the scene, rendering all the assistance in their power. The exact cause of the disaster cannot be learned as vet, but. as usual, it is said a ruisiake was made by trainmen who did not correctly interpret a signal. A Komstntlc ,">Xarrl?2?. Cvi'kess. S. C., Sen'. 23.?A very romantic marriage took place here on last Monday. About one year ago Mrs. Lydia E. Witherspoon, a dashing young widow of this place, received a matrimonial paper and aa v an advertisement in it from Dr. Windtnrop. of Xew Mexico, and answered the adverisement. Since that time they have kept up a regular correspondence. On last Friday, the 11th inst., the young widow received a telegram saying the doctor was on his way from New Mexico to Cypress. lie arrived here Suuday morning and on Monday they were married. Thev had never met before Sunday. Mrs. Witherspoon has a liut plantation, a good cotton crop, and is clear of debt. The doctor wants her to sell out and return with bin. to New Mexico.?The State. .She Met Her Death. Plainfield, X. J., Sept. 23.?Peter Yanarsdale, of Plainlield. was out riding with bis wife last night near bomerville, when bis team of ponies began to run away. lie told his wife to jump, which she did. In a moment he regained control of the horses and drove Dack to where his wife was lying in the road. Lifting her up he was norrinea to find that she was (lying:, and in live minutes she was dead. As she struck the earth Mrs. Yanarsdale's head was crushed In by a stone, breaking her neck, .she leaves a family of little ones. A Pecalilarly Sad Fuaoral. Chicago, .Sip'. 21.?Two thousand persons crowed into the great St. Michael's Catholic Church this afternoon to hear the solemn burial service over the remains of Gottleib Shalk, his wife ami four children, who were suffocated in their home on Sedwick street Friday night. The assembly was indicative of the deep bereavement which the whole community feels, ana there I were few dry eyes while the ceremony was being ce'lebrateu. STRANGER TllAiN JUUim PATHETIC CASE OF AN ILLINOIS UNION SOLDIER. Kvport?d Killed lu Kattle, and Mourutd Dead lor Tweul>-uine Yeurn, U? Now Turua Up and Claliutt a feualou. Washington, Sept. 20.?One of the most remarkable acid pathetic cases that has ever beeu brought to Lite Bureau of Pensions, is that ot William Newby, a private of Company D. Fourth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers. This regiment was commanded bv the heroic Uoi. Stephen G. Hicks, of Illinois, and was conspicuous for its gallantry at the battle of Shiloh. New by was in this battle, on the 0th of April, 1862, and i was reported killed in action. It seems, however, that instead of being killed, ro^fonn q Qpvflpa wound on the head and was captured and sent to the rear by the Confederate fore s, was impri soned at Belle Isle and was afterwards transferred to Andersonville. It seems that Xewby was released in course ot time and was in poorhouses in various parts of the South. He was finally taken to Key West, Fla., by a gentleman who recognized Xewby as a kinsman. Here he remained until some time in 18G9, when his uncle died. Xewby wandered from place to p^ace, and finally turned up at Shrevev>ort, La., and while there the colored people made up a purse and he was aiven passage on a steamboat to Cincinnati. On the way up the river the steambort limited at Shawneetown, 111. Xewby, hearing this name called out, seemed to recognize something ihat was familiar and got off the bout. From here he wandered to Kankakee, 111. where he was in the poorhouse for a time. Leaving this place, he struck out Southward, and at last reached McLeansborough, in Hamilton County, 111., and was sent to the poorhouse. During these years lie was in a demented state, bordering upon insanity, as the supposed result of the wound in the head. In wandering about he finally went over into White county, and when he got near his old home was seen and recognised by two of his comrades who had served in the regimeut with him. His wife v\ as sent for, and she identified him, as did his relatives and many of his friends and comrades. Alter Xewby was reported as killed in action, his wife applied for a pension, and It was granted, and she has been drawing a widow's pension from the a " 1 ? J a 4-V\ / * r* uucu ui xiis rcpuricu uca.tu. w cut yiwcut time. This soldier has tiled a claim lor a pension, and it is now receiving the consideration of the office, the claim of the widow being suspended in the meantime. ^S'o discharge has ever been granted to the soldier, and the consideration of the pension cla'm is bein*. postponed until such time as the Secretary of War shall grant the man a discharge. This soldier has ^een separated from his family for a period of twenty-nine years, they believing all the while that he was dead, and now he turns up a forlorn. demented old man. His case has attracted great attention in the southern part of Illinois, and has excited the universal sympathy of all who have become acquainted with it. , lie recently attended a large reunion of -o s old veieraus of his county, where the subject was universally discussed. The pension will no doubt ?oon be granted,. and .he will receive a sufficient sum to smooth his way to the end of his life. A Diabolical Deed. Prosperity, S. C., Sept. 17?This morning a negro named Sam Young, belonging to the construction train on the C. & G. liallroad, was found on the railroad track about one mile and a half from here, with his head badly beaten. The deed was evidently the result of a gambling spree aad was committed with murderous intent. Young was rsarHnllv f>nnsr>lnns_ hilt nOtlld Of WOllld. only tell that he was struck by a yellow negro. He was robbed of hat, shoes and whatever was in his left pocket, it being cut open. In the other pocket was found 63 In silver and a set of dice, one being a false one, having four tires on it. The instrument with which he was struck was anew pick handle. He * was struck three different times, and then he was placed on the railroad at a * point in which there was a sharpcurve, where he could not have been seen by the engineer of a train approaching from either direction in time to stop before crushing his head. The negro was oared for by Drs. Langford and sent home. The doctors do not think that he will die. Holding Up a Train. St. Louis, Sept. 19.?A dispatch from Muskogee, I. T., says: The Missouri, Kansas and Texas south-bound passenger train was held up and the express car robbed at 9 30 last night four miles north of Wagoner. The robbers cov ered the train officials with pistols, and two of them entered the express car. Thev ordered the expressman to open --v the large steel safe, which he was unable to ao, and it took considerable ar guing before he could convince the roobers of bis utter inability to comply. ? They, therefore, dumped the small iron chest, which contained 82,500, out of the car door and, breaking it open, took the entire amount. They made no attempt to rob the passengers and there wm but one shot iked. The robbers wore masks of red llannel, and after completing the job took to the woods with their booty. \_^ Officers have left Muskogee in pursuit of the robbers. Farther Outbreaks In China. San Francisco, Sept. 23.?Tfce steamer Empress of China, has arrived at Vancouver, B. C., with the news that J. A. Leonard, United States consul general at Shanghai, telegraphed Admiral Belknap on September 3 as follows: "A Shanghai morning paper has a telegram received last night, of a riot at Teuang at noon on September 2. The mission and all the property of foreigners was Durned.Xo lives lost. Admiral Belknap immediately sent the Alliance vnd the I'alos to Tehang. Another riot occurred at Tehang on September 3. All i the foreign property at the port was burned, but no llTes were lost. The I foreign residents were under arms at I the latest accounts. J Announces HI* Conversion. Berlin, Sspt. 23.?Professor Wii>schitd, <A Leipsic, who belongs to oneof tht: most noted Catholic families of that city, has announced his conversion to 1'rotestantism, coupled with the statement that the professor attributes the chaDge in his religious views to his disbelief in the authenticity of the garment known as the Holy Coat, which is now on exhibition in the cathedral at Treves, and his conscientious scru- ? pies against supporting a church that would lend its sanction to such an exhibition. ^