The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, October 01, 1891, Image 1

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voll. xxi PICKENS" S . THIURSD)AY,X(COE~I,19.N BALMACEA'S TRAGIC EN D CHILE'S EX-PRESIDENT COMMITS SUI CIDE AT SANTIAGO. The Doed Cosasitltc ill IthS A~at-toltio Legmtioa itoto tit taut.. vheor"I ill, 11111te 1es W a lota 1s.--A ilu isc P la&l.j tio. NE A YonK, Selil. 20.-The Iterald'i Valparaiso coespoiadent telegraphs as follows: Ex-Pret-ident Balmlaceda, of Chile, shot himself through the temple in his room at ty.e,Argentinie levation in Santi ago at 8:3tva. m. today (Saturday). The story bm camte known here this iahernoon. and created the greatest excitement. It now seems that Balmaceda left Santia go oi August 29, in the hope of making his escape trom Chile; but seeing that every avenue of escape was cut o'. he returned there oi September 2, and went direct to the A r-entine levation. After the disastrotus battle near Val paraiso and the surrender of Santiago. on August 29th, in company with tx Alcalde Victor Echauren, he took a carriage and drove to a point two niles outside the city. Here it tspechlil train of one car and is locomotive was in wait ing. Th'v train w%ent ti, hiuh speed as far as Linderos. furr.'-live miles south of Santiago. There more carriages were ill waiti. Hlurriedly alightimg from the train they tntered the carriages and were again driven r,apidly away. The route was toward San Antonio Bay. All trace of the fiuit;ves was, however, lost,. lls intentaon was to go on bo ird the C11ndel, which lie expeeted to find lying in San Antonio Bay. On arriving there, however, he discovered, to his chagiti, that the vessel had sailed. Smete his return to the Argentine te gation, in Santiago, Balmaceda has been n an exiemely nervous condition. No one, with the exception of the minister of the Argentine Republic and one other man, %who was devoted to the unlortun ate ex-president's cause was permitted to talk to or even see him. All the dit ferent schemes of Iight were considered by the hunted cx-president. Senor Ur riburria wetit to the theatre last muht. When lie returned to the legation, lie had Y long and earnest talk wit, I Balma ceda elative to the latter's ideas pre viouf,iy broached, about the advisability of giving himself up to the Junt. Bal maceda and Senor Urriburria went to bed at midnight. Senora Urruburria, about 8 a. mi. to day. heard a pistol shot in the bed-room that had been assigned to Balmaceda. She notilied her husband. Betre he went to Balmaaceda's room he ran around to the houseot Carlos Walker Martinez, and brought that gentleman back to the legation. Upon bicaking iml the door of Balmaceda's reom, it was fIund that he had shot hiimself. The body was still %arm. There was a vaping wound in the temple. The body was undressed and lay on the bed. The revolver was still held in his right hand. Senor Concho ran to Moeda and in formed the Junta of what had happened. A commission was promptly issued. It comprised Carlos Walker Martinez, Senor Melchor, Senor Concho and .Judge Aguerra. of the supreme court. They went direct to the legation from the of' lice of the Junta's representatives and viewud the body. They then drew up a proctss, certif) ing it) the facts already stated. Gradually the hews spiead all over tle city. and the excitement it created is in describable. Gient crowds of terribly excited people gathered tall around the Argientine legation. Thaey checered and they hooted, and went, into a frenzy' over the dleathi of their chaief encmy. A bove all the dliscord mt, shaot'ts were heard cries congratulating thae unt:itt nate Balmaceda that, in takmng his own life he lhad escaped a worse tate. ThaI maceda lelt a letter to hats mother. Also, a statement to the Herald. As almost t,he last, declarations of a dying man, they are of especial imptortanace. lie says: "I acted all duirmns ti e piast ei.ht months with t,he firmi conviction that I wats right. I had no one in the aarni. upon whaom I cotald Place anay trust.. M generals,were false to me. TIhey lia d all throngh the war. Had my1 (orders been obeyed, I believe that the battle of Concon wouald have resulted im a de cisive victory iagainst the eniemy. "M) heart all through t,i s trouble has beena with Chile. I sought to recvue may country fron foreign dIommlationi. I strove to make her the first. republic iii America. My enemies say that, I was cruel. Circnmstances comlled me( nto A suanctioa certain acts, but, many had (leeds that have beena at.trib)uted to iia olders were never knowna *y me until SJiE hadI b)een commattedt. "Until the fhrnl battle at Plsacill, I lmud stiong haopes of triumphling~ over n,' foes. Victory was assured b3 ay utI:er ala. Alcerecca and Barbosa and VTie. "Thaey all lied. I now knaow thaat thecy only paretended friendship teor mew because of money thast was to be csttten out of me. "All the money that I han. in naa possession is *2.5'00. My wile gavec it to meron the night of August 28. "Your ruilnister, Patrick Esian, nuings timaes offered me good advice. ~lIe urgewd me to make peace with those opposed t(o me and to retire from Chile. I did not heed lia wise adlvice, for I thought that hae was under the hifluenace of the ,Junta's ordlers, who were then refugees In the American legatiou. All throtulh the trouble my closest advisers web alway s opposed to any overtumes for peace.'' Anothaer lette r w as fotind, aaddresed to Senor UrrlintraIa. In it Balmacedia says: "When I saw thae persecution di rected againast me by persons whao had1( supported my administration, I came to the conclusion that the only way' to put an end to this perseection waus to take my life, as I was thae responsible one. Adios, my good friend! Give my fste well to my wile andl children." Tfhe Junta has the Argentine legaiti guardled by troops to prevent ain attack on the paint of the populace. bait every thing ts quiet at !Wantlagt tonIght. Bial ma5ceda's body has been removed to the general cemetery. . It was accom~ panled by the members of thme family and fiends. The widow of the (lead eX Wreslent was hifortmed of his tragic end ing by her brother, Doninvo Terro. There is a guard stationed it, the cene tery. An intetndente is keeping order. PROTLsr OF THE PEOPLE. This Veliet lit the Haili . iat, Rupillat, i4 al tams M0-4ttilemg. IIAM'ON, Va., Sept. I8.-ihe court lhot-eal I altiptoln wtas cr wded tolight with represiitatives of It.iipton and E,lizab.-th city and county. who had met to express the-ir disapproval of the ver lict eindereft ill i he Ilainls ease l'lleslay. The 1on. 11. Leger,ex conmionwealtl's itthir.ey, was chosen chairman antl made anl address, setting forth ithe pur po(,se of' the meeting and appollnted a .-ommiitter on resolutions, .Joseph fie f. linr, 1). F. Cocke and W. J. Vvyinouth were appointf.d. A"hle these resoltitions were being prepared Marlion Colbv t, a prosperous bsmess man, was called on and stated tis views with no uncertain voice. T!io coinmittee then reported the fol on ing resol utions: "We, the citizens of Elizabeth city, in nasb inaetitg assembled, brought into ioltit comcil ov te startling verdict rought in t ca- (r i hirntoui liths h1irgul with the i tirder ilt Edward A. I lanosran in Ilaipton lRoads on .June Wh. 1891, contrary to the hitherto good aiae of our people for loyalty and jus ice, resenting that the same shall be lashet to the world as representative of )ur commtnity, do hereby proclaim w%i'.i all the emphasis which moderate tind temiperate language can convey: "First, that while we do not assail e idelty of any individual juror to his conscience, we believe said verdict was contrary to the law and evidence, id we do hereby coademin the same as tending to license inuruer, subvert the peace of society and threaten our fire iides and the business ot our people. "2. We call on the otlicers to enforce impartially the criminal laws of the ,otmnonwealth and to punish all offrn Aers without fear, favor or affection and without distinction as to class, condi lion, race or color. "We iiphatically declare hereby our Zritf at the ending ofrt his t rial; that we the people are thrown on our defense be lore all right thinking people; sorrow tLhvt the bulwarks of our peace and hap [)iness, the sanctity of life and law, have Ueen assailtd at their very foundation." Aft-r the resolutions were adopted Lipscomb, of Washington, who was present, was loudly called for aid made a stirring add ress in which he denounc ed the jury in good round terms. The meeting then quietly adjourned. At least I,x)0 people were present and hun were unable to get in thet building. Fileninh Oruelty, Cm ..ko, Sept. 2(.-WV. A. Higgins, secretary and contracting agent for the Milwaukee andN Wisconsin Railroad company, wit h headquarters in Milwau kee, was arrested lit re last night on a charge of mntuder. Sunday iorning, Sept. 13, Higgins and a maan named Arnold, a traveling freight agent of the Elkhait Freight line, who also has his ollice in Milwaukee, were in Simon Caorassa's saloon ot Martin steet. 'he two had been on a spree all of Saturday night and were linishing up their debauch when an old colored woman entered the place.. Tite two nmen insisted o her (tancing tor then. The old wonan finally consented and while she w.as dancing somie one touched a lighted niatch to h r clot hing and she was buried to death. II iggi ns at once Jissappeart d and the police sent out dn.patchis asking for his arrest for mirder, as they claim he was the maQ who applied. the match higgins was placed under arrest here yesterday and taken to the central sta tiona. T1he Milwaitkee authorIties were notifiedi and an etlicer arrived from there at 10:30 o'clock last night. Hig guns waivedl requisit ion anid left for Miilwaukee in enaurge of the officer. Iliggins dlenies having applied the matcht which (ausedl the old wornma's [iratha. A Democaorattic lioiam inm I,wa. Sl'ENcICn, 10w A, Sept. 18.--The I arg est. Demscratic demonastrationa ina the hist.ory of Northawes.tern Iowa was per senated in a 'm cet ing 1 Ore this afternoon, addfressed by Conag ressmnan Springer, of Illinois. Thel con tties of thais region, llharteei numltttb-rt, compn~risinag the 11th Congression;al uditr-et, haave,with two or trrc 4xcep)tiaons, taeretofore given hecavy liepuiblican maajoaritie's consm,tut ing the iuablian stronghold ot IOWa. Spaencer is in the heart of t his region, ad uan: lt he- visit ol Springer no Decm auratic orator of rat atal paromttinence haad addaesadei thme paeople 01 i,his strong hold. Theam heat w,as inatense, I-t Spr mager lhe hi the clos,- aand earnest atten 11on of his auidienace for an hour and a half whai.l h discussed issues oi nia tional 1,01htics. Ai ta meanocent Mau Con victeel. SA N n A Ncisco, Sept. '20 --Sidney lleil, re'cetntlv yconavictel of rite murdir of iinuel ,1acobsonI)l, itaitmerhat of thi s riy laho was miyst e-riouisly shot on the rigut, oI A ugust, 16. 18910, Is probably iain.ocenit.. Charles Schti lt, one of the p1 I etipal witneisses agatist Bell, has anade a con ft ssion a aiitting that all ais test imn a10*3 t thle Itud was false. liell's ai trna-) s saay they) have a wItness whio will swear thiamt the iirder was iuommnitted b y a gambl. r namred Max a wart z, wa oa hada beeni visit ing Jacob) sona' sister. . acobsoni forbade him the ho use, andilil daug haun there on the highlt oi th.- norilder, tried to 'ject him inad was shaot. by Mehiwart z. T hae 4). ta1tomaia ltoea,ara. (G'iurnt-:, (1. 'T , Se.pt. 21.-To day had little- c si bance t o Si 'aday. All day lho siteetc have beent c:row~ded with praih iC schiooners, carrIages, hiorsemnat, tad loot pa&tsenlgers, all jammited Into a shouttig, struigghnag, humrrying aas. At the necur o seta itmnt of Langstont are 2,000 in- a ur s, ali tar maed antd en thme road. All o,r these tnegroes are deter minred toa haave a clantra or lIght. On ~ever) side of tIhe rteervatmons the line is a continumous cam iip. and1( the numtmber at peopleIin wait ing is (tally 30,000. (ina.mx (ir*.uaet'. nta.. Oi ntE iN vI I , Se-l p- ,8...-Sg.cial The 'White Manm's Har," of which M.Sher nan Is thme proipriet or, was closed to day umnder uita nchmiat, l.v t lae sherIff In fav L>r of J. B. Brown & Co, of Baltimore, for $419; There is also a inortgage on the saloon whitch l,asa a gorgeously fit ted-up atfair, and the fixture, are said to have cost more than) any saloon~ jn the State. The a sloon Is the third one6 elosed by the sherifv In a ..ek FULLY THREE THOUSAND PERISH. Aspoaliug Loss of Life by The Floods In Spain. MAnaID, Sept. 16.-News slowly coming in from the South of Spain re ports the damage by reason of the ex traordinary floods In that, section as be in! general. The loss of property is something enormous, and everywhere railway trans have been derailed and the roads blocked. The meagre detaiNa thus I'ir received from the Province of Toledo give harrowing accounts of the extent and phenomena ofthe overwhelm 'g catastrophe which has befallen the province. So sudden was the breaking forth of the waters that, I numberless instai;es the unfortutnate people were drowned befoie t,hey could leave their beds. Strong bodies or laborers, aslated by troops, are working night and day to re cover the bodies ot those drowned or crubhed to death, but up w t,he present time only 400 of tle bodies of the miss ing thousands have been secured. The vintage and the corn crops of the dis tressed district have been totally do stroyed. ti) that poverty and hiunrer nusL fillow in the wake of this frightfiul visitation. Two-thirds oi the town of Consuegra, in Toledo, with a population of 7,000, has been destrowed by the floods. Five hundred houses have been destroyed at Almeria. I, is certain that fully 2,000 people have lost their lives by the floods. Hosts of corpses remain unburied, and, because of the great heat, an epidemic is feared. Famine Is caus ing nainy to engage in plunder, The government is striving to feed the des titute. The town of Consuegra is ruined and the police are prevebthug pillage. The burials of the victims are proceeding amid scenes or mourning and misery. It is thought, that 5,000 head of horses and cattle were drowned. The town of Alineria is in absolute darkness, the floods having covered the electric light and gas works. Throughout the whole flooded region there are reports of in creasing misery, destitution and waste. The mayor of Consuegra estimates the number o' people destroyed there at 3,000. In many pluces limbs were found separated from bodies. The officers have telegraphed for lime ,o prevent disease. The Queen Regent has started a sub scription on a large scale for the benefit of the sufferers, and many subscribers, including the Bank of Spain, have joined her in large donations. The scenes dur in- the flood at Consuegra were awful. Pieous cries came ironi the drowning, 'or Nhoin there wis no assistance. Sixty corpses were 'ound in a public hall, where the victims, in the midst of a wedding .feast had been overtaken by the flood. Fanklues Awful Faeo. ST. PTENItSBURG, Sept. 24.-Ieports received here from 'Tamboff and its ad jacent provinces announce that the Zemstvos have provided for the resow ing of land and to furnish supplies of grain until January next. After that there will bo the greatest difficulty to ensure food for the people. As t,he col lection of taxes is iwpossible, the salar ies of local administrative bodies have been suspended. Even if funds to sup ply grain are obtaintd the distribution, which will be over wide fismine tracts, will be difficult, and the maintenance of hospitals, schools and asylums is doubttul. The scarcity of outs and hay is com pelling farmers to sell live stock at mock prices. For instance, a horse for 2 roubles, a cow for 5 roubies anti colta from 20 to 50 copecks. After a recent county fair in one district the skelet,ons of forty horses were found by the roadl side. The animals had been killed for t,heir skins. Destitution Is also staring in the face a large number of people who have been employed on the public works, as the work on the latter must stop when fross set in. The masses of the people rely entirely on the Government to help them. This being the state of affairs in the paesent mild weather, the gloomy prospectsa held out by coming w int er can be readily imagined. An analysis of the bread sold in many places by unscrupulotas merchants re vealed the fact that absolutely poison us mixtures are sold. Several mer chants have been arrested at Morshau, andl( will be summarily tried, Many specimens of such breud consist of 70 per cent of eart,h aud sand and 30 per cent of' refuse farinaceous products. Among many conjectures regarding the causes of the failure of the crops it is suggested that the drainage of hun dreds of verst of the vast swamp of l'insk resulted in ilooding the O)nieper in the spring and in the lowness of the waler late i n summer, thus causing a diiiinution in the rainfall in the east ern provinces. Almost all of the Gov einun nt offcials have volunitarily con tributed a portion of their salaries to the famine fund. Tne public talk of bringIng bread from Ametica and Egypt. Me-. Poik's Demlal. WAsllINUToN, Sept. 22.-Col. L. L, l'olk, the high priest of the Alliance ordler, is back in Washington from his Western trip. To the Inquiry as to whatz foundation thiere was to the re port that he was threatened with tar and feathers by Kansas veterans, he said there was nothing whatever an the story as to the dispatches charging that lie apologized in his speech for having gone into the Confederate ser vice and spoke approviingly of a strike among the cotton pickers of the South, P'olk said: "it is ubsolutely and un tiualitledly false in every part Icular. I uttered no sentiment In KaL.sas or else where, which by any forced$ construe nion could have been contorted into any such expression. It is a lie out of whole cloth. I have never uittered a sentiment in a Northern state I would 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 oflce.-Auguu ta Chronicle. Jenes Net a Candidate. ALIBANY, N. Y.8ept. 21.-The Citizen's alliance, a branch of the Farmers' alli ance, held a picnic and barbacue on the fair grounds today. LIeutenant (oy ernor Jonee was riot present, and State Lecturer Spaulding in an address to the gathering, said the lieutenant governor had informed him that he was no long er in the fild for the gnbernatorial nominntion this ar. AN INDISSOLUBLE RIE AN IMPORTANT DECISION BY JUDGE JAS. F. IZLAR. Marriages Contracted After a imvo,ce in Granted In Another tate ar" Illegal. Other States Cansot Controvert 4)ur Laws. An important decision was lately rendered by .Judge.Izlar in a case com Ing before him on appeal fromt a Pro bate Court, as it fixes the status of par ties married in South Carolina and securing a divorce in another State. rhe case arose thus: Thomas M. Peo plea married in this State, afterward went to Florida, where he secured a livorce and re-married, and afterward returned to this State. On his death letters of administration were granted Lo Rowlants W. Peoples, his son by the Florida marriage, andi petition was made to the Probate Court of Colleton County to have the letters of adminis tration revoked and granted to the petitioner. Georglanna White. As matter of law the Judge of Pro tate found that there was no ground ror revoking the letters of admiinistrd tion nreviously granted to Rowland W. Peoples, that under the facts before him Howland W. Peoples is the legiti nate son of Thomas M. Peopits, do leased, "for, in the first place, there is rko evidence to show that the first mar riage of Thomas M. Peoples was cele hrated in this State, and hence the dicta Af the South Carolina Judges, holding that a marriage celebrated in this State oannot be dissolved save by the laws of this State. have no application to the 3ase at bar; that even if the proof had 3hown that the first marriage was con Lracted in this State, yet the decree of livorce in Florida dissolved that mar riage, and hence the second marriage in the State of Florida was valid, and the issue thereof, Howland W. Peoples, was legitimate," and thus finding the Judie of Probate dismissed the peti Lion. After considering questions relating to the first marriage In this State, the securing of a domicile in Florida. and the purpose thereof, an( the subsequent second marriage, Judge Izlar says: It now becomes necessary to consider the force and effect of said judgment of divorce. The American doctrine of divorce is cleaely stated by Stewart in the 5th vol. of the Am. and Eng. Eicy. of Law, 746 et seq. 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 shall grant divorces, and a divorce granted in accordance with its laws must be valid within its own territory. But no State has pri marily the right to push its domestic policy beyond its boundaries and into other States, or to dissolve the marriage or change the domestic status of per sons belonging to other States; and the Acts of one State have force and au thority in other States only by consent of such States, that is to say by the comity of nations or international law, or by virtue of some paramount law, such as the United States Constitution, or a treaty between nations." The principles enunciated by Mr. Stewart on this subject will doubtless be ac cepted In all States where divorces are allowed by law, but in South Carolina divorce a vineulo is not allowed by law. Here the marriage contract is regarded as indissoluble by any human means, and it has always been considered as contrary to public policy, and as op posed to the goodi order and well being or society, to dissolve by divorce~ the sacred bonds of matrimnoajy. rThis policy has never at any time ini the history of the State failed to have the support and approval of the bench and bar, and to receive the hearty en dorsement of all the citizens of fintelli genice and culture in the State. It is true that at one time in the history of the State, when it was ruled by the alien and the stranger, and when the General Assembly was composed principally of corrupt freebooters and ignorant nie groes. the "stern policy" which hadl pre viously prevailed was relaxed. Thle new policy which was thus forced uipon the Stat e did not meet wit.h favor. As soon, therefore, as lntelligenee and1( vir tue airain took the place of ignorance and vice, the "it-erat policy" was resunm ed, and has ever since been firmly aid hered to and( jealously guarded. I ami inclined to thimk that, t.he divorce unde r consideration, eveni if tested b)y the American rules, wouldl be he!d in valid to affect, the mnatrimonial st,atui of Caroline P'eople-s. Under the cir cumat ances of tius case I am p'ersuiadted that the dlecrce of divorce could do no more than affect the imatriimonial statius of Thomas M. Peoples. it could not, in liy opinion, fix, regulate anid control the status of Caroline Peoples, who at all times had been an inhabitant anud citizen of South Carolina. ilad T1homas M. Peoples continued his residence in the State of Florida, and had the operation or the judgment of divorce been confined to that State, South Carolina would have been comn pelled to acquiesce In the st.tus fixed upon him by that decree, but when lie quit his dtomicile of choice andl returned to his domicile of origin, the judgmenit of divorce ceased to shield himn. It could not push its elfects out into Souath Carolina to the defeat of its settled pol icy. T'he status of Tihomas M. lPeophes acquiredl by that judgment in Florida cainnot be recogmized in him as a citize-n of South Carol nia. T l.ere is iio princi ple of comity which demands this of South Carolina. If hie would enjoy the liberty given by the decree of dlivorce then he must remain In the State or Florida. Let the rule contended for in this case be once established, ihen sur ywllthe peace of society be jeopar. de, the marriage bonds he weakened, and the (door which has beeni so long and so faithfully guarded by the b'*nch, the bar and the Legislature of the St atti be thrown wide open "to fraud, imposi tion and other Imunnorality." In this 8tate where the common law prevails the courts will scrutinize with jealouisy divorces granted by other States where a laxer system prevails. Ilere It is solemnly believee that "'lie principle of the indissolubility and! exclusiveness of the mtarr'iage bond is essential to the healt.h of the body politic." But I go further. I am ini harmony with what is termed the dicta of the South Ca, o lna Judges. These dicta of our Judges rest upon the doctrine laid down In Lolleysacase, I Iluss and lRy, 2341, decid ed In 1812 by the twev.T undes of Eng lanl", and h Iieh was alterwar d.s r4. cogz IIized ainl t.lIo wed i nitn t IIIIb or of caetis. ,Judge 1zIer here quotes a nuiwmbr of authoities inl Support, of his posit iol. The Court is asked in this case to de elare the decree of divorce obtained by Thom1s M. l'eoIes inl Florida valid, his second marriage with Sarah A nn Cller lawful and the issue t.iereof legittmitte li South Carolina. 'ihe question pre sented is, shall the /C.X (h/im- i/N prI vail or the /.c lovi rontrimtits/ This ;s a grave question. I ait of opiniou, how ever. that this State will not con.jent, to recognize the proceediings of any other State which are so contrary to its views of public policy ,and inoridity, and that it is.o ontt ! o .Adiitting that it lever liA been formally decided that, the doctrint of Lolley'r case is the law of the Colir's of Soith Carolii, the qluestion is Ires ented, shall our Courts loll')%w the comn mon law as declared ili the case, or shall they follow the dicta of L,rds Westbliry, InzaIRe 111d others / I have Io iesitationi m0 s tying that. the pubeli policy or thestate denmiins tihat the Courts should be mn1tiemnced by the views of our own Judges to adopt as to the settled law of this State t he dioi-t rine of Lolley's case, as declared hy tihe twelve Jd ttlges (I l:iiglaud. I n Ditke vs Fulmec. (lbi52. ( ,hiancellor Ward ILw said: 'lhe conlimon la w as deelaired by the Judges o I.:nfF1j;i( is en-ar agalnst the recoglitioll (0, fole in Ili vorces as dissolving iirriages oi . tr acted in Ing)aid. I therefore hold, ill tile laulguiage of lJilge O'N eall in lyCe vs. ( I I ens, that, "'le m111arriage coltract )Ii 1thiS State is regarlel as iIdi)soluble by Ily hiuman ieans. Nothiig shiort of the aetital or prestiied deati h of oe of tile parties canl have the tffect of discliar ing its obligations or preventing its legal eifects." The drcree of div -ree pronouceed by the ('irciit Court of Florida does nol, inl 1:3' opinion, elfl. the status of Caroline, w io, at all tiies, had been an inhabit of South Cato:Ilna, and when Thomas 31 1'eopes retlo1 lit.d to this State permnant litly to resi(h. telt. shield which the decree of (livorce th rew around him in the State of I"Iorida ;was withdrawn, and he becaIe stubjec(.t to the laws of South Carolina, by which neither his matriionial status in Florida nor his subsequent mnIII lage can be recognize,t. UlIder the law s of South Carolina the Florida divore did not operate to dissulve tle Souit h 'aro lina marriage; therefore, tie sucond marriage must be held invalid ,f)n6 the children of said marriage illegitimiiate in South Carolina. The law of this Court is, a. i l:IVte beei, that no foreign tribiual is om petent to pronoiice a leeree of'div iree a vinlcIulo of a Soulti C:irolina iiiarrI:e or pronounce any other dverte Ii an such-. as wouil I he allowel by thlie ll- x loci cont ractis. it tnis coi-et ionI I would call special at i4- i 1ion to n -nt ich 1,o lie ft1,ui in the Carolina Law .lo.il al etit led " Foreign I)lvorct s (if 'aro lilla Marriages,'" pa!re 377. 1 am ,1ill aware that in he Ou lnit ed Stt ivs, out, Sidte of Soulil Carolina, the( Colurb if inatters of divorce are govirned en erally by the lx domocilii, and nit b lex loci contractuis, bmt. South Cardin: occupies it uiiqle position in resp(e to marriage and divorce. livre it 1-. loci contractius goverils. If(ire fit marriage cont,ract is regarded as iii,lis Solble, eithier by Co n0S(ntL Of the Ipar ties or by I he j,idgment. or statit ot any foreign trinual or Legislactir.-. It is therefore ordert-d adiiitiged i hat the decjee of the Pro a:te Court, in thii case be, and t ie sami is hiereby, reN ers. 4(d. .4u1cede of Isis (ovrmr IAHLaNvlVmLA:, \to., -Sept. 23 -- .x Gov. Allbert, 1'. .\orehouse coim ted suiicidet at, his re'sidlentce at. Ii o'clocl, t4o is inloriiii. Steveral weeks ago the ( ov ('rior wats violt lItlv overhea'~tri I whtile dlriv'ing ('at tIe and has been ini a '1ery hie has bee-n de(lirjius andi lery iiuif-h (depressed. lie was take'n ouit for1 a driv e by a triendl last iigh t an be<Is a ine so) inu ich exci ted that he was brou4 IIgh t hiome anid a phlysltlan calledt . 114' be can1ie <ipietr andi 1( tis itioring w as de piltg <luiie'ty. 'I'w w) at('Il ~-n ;r. iln anlothier roomi. T['i:-y hea:rd a is( iii the (Governiot 's r0e11n and1 oni enteir. inig foundti huiii hyingz 4n thi' floor, bhood spoirtinag frain his thrl'te't. 11l hd ciit at gue-h in th lef h't SuId' of his thromat about fouir inlches' lng. 'l1i . neopoii was a (OilJt on )nonpocke kife. which lhe still hitl ini 'i, right lt;itit. 114' haul foiled(ly illiA I i:t, ;id i' r ; I I a p1 lpp'( tht'iu utller Ilis headf. ( overnlor \lorol'hi isi wa:s h in , ini I)elewa:re Countit,y, OhIio, . luly lit, 193o, a1111 Cattne t.O .\Vissoiuri iln 185. l It was a hiawyer' by pri!oin :nS Oli h a'lI alIw als politie.s. lie was elec' iie,l 'i La .ilat Giovero 101'nI the lletiwerat i' t icket ini 1881 w ith ,1. 5. .\ar imtul;ik e as Go ;i' erI 10r and up jon the (dutih I of the littfer soi; c4'ed.ed hiit and (ook ih' :mtht as Gov 4irnori ini 18s7. llii wife' 11,d 1 nol , hni. cireni are iln St. Jo)sieph. II t'iN4inIN, l'at., Sept. 2. Th1e ('at Ite ini thits and1 adjonun'lg (count its area bieinig at,tacke4d withI a Pecltiar, and tits far uinidet-tiil, dhisease, n I hit, ina wtarIly (every instance1'4, pro41ves I fatid TIhe dlisease hirst appea';redi : bot t A weieks ago, and1( dreadyt hando-41 , r.l ' cattle have per1ishted. \\'el nitarkt, I he animal's head falls hel'plsily ani its le'gs Seelits unabtle to, be.ir thei w4.t, of1 the bodIy. It. is behiered4 thI a th dI seasAe Is a for in (Il Tens .5 spIhie ftvr ami was brought he.re bty . 'ii he4rli (at - thle. ATLA NTA,Gabi., Sept,.23. Thf~is Imorni lng the' Georgia Le'gishit 11ue. tI' to much Iioted Oceala re'SOi iiiins as 4'rihlrs- (d by the AlIiaincei a11d de'linaind, 41 by Iininl by I 'arret.t of l'i ke CountIIIy, hor' thte a p piroval and( endo(1rseent of that bo:dy. i'hie resohlutionis 'A &Tre de1fe ited by a vote of 81 t,o 43:. Thi;s is somen'' htat of ac t ri utmph over the thirdl party mrovc imen't ini t his S'ate, ats it cleairhy indi-i catls Lithat any Allan inenhtl of the~ I,egj( islaturie wvho are int a ii;:jori' 1 i t,hut bodIy are not inl sylit,bLhy with any iteasure that Is dlirectlhy opposite to their views as I)emocratie, inemlrberl. itl lb ito "vrttibsate.'' t rain on the R1mihmlond nd I )anivillIt railway ls getting in its work raplidly Y esterday at a crossing near' Libei Ly the nlortihtboond tratin struck a wagoi with three or four persouns In it, anlda man and a woman were kll dI mand child fatally inju red. 'The coronetr bel an inquest. to-day, but no4 Fep~ort of thei find(infg has be-n rccelve-.ohdr. CLOSING UP THE COOSAW CASE. The Coup,nuy Forever Enjoined eroin Mining In Cootaw Itiver. C HAIMUL STO N, 8. C., Sept. I8.-Thie following order in the Coosaw litiga. tion was filed in the United States court to-day by .Judge Simonton: "That the grant or privilege of dig ging, inining and removing phosphate rocks and phosphatic deposits from the navigable strea.ms of the State of South Carolina, given to the defendant under t fie act of assembly of 1870, mentioned in the pleadings. for the period of twenty-one years from the passage of the s id act, at a royalty of 81 per ton, became, and was, under the provisions of the act of 1876, an exclusive grant of privilege of digging, mining and re mw)ving such deposits from the bed of the Coosaw ltiver, at the royalty afore said, upon the condition,; and within the liinis inetitioned in said last named aet, f'or the remainder of said period of twenty-one years, and no longer. hat said gratit or privilege in said defend ants has now ceased an-i determined. "That the defendants, the Coosaw .M ining Coipany,and all persons claini ing tuinder them, and the servatits, agents and einployes of them, be, and each of them are, forever restranined and en jined f rom, in any way, claimning, or attempting to claim, any right. title, interest., esta e or grant under or by virtue of said act or acts in or to the phosplhte rock of phosphatic deposits in the beds of Coosaw Itiver, in the State of Sotith Carolina, and from dig ging, mining or removtig. or attempt ing to (Jig. iimie or remove the saine, or it v part thereof. "I'Tiat nothing in this decree contain ud shall be construed to enjoin the said dt-felidait.4, tke Coosaw Mining CoM pany, 1rotn hereafter miningin the bed ot s lid Coosaw River, when therounto duly authorized uider any law of the State of South Carolina. "Tiat U. I. Brooks, the receiver, here tofore appointed under the order of the State court, be discharged from his re ceivership, and that the plaintills pay lin the sum of $125, hereby adjudged to be a reasonable compensation to him as such receiver. "That the defendants pay the costs of the narshal and clerk, and, with this exception, each party pay t.heir own costs." Costittlon of the Cro)*. VeAMeN(;'lON, Sept. W9.-The weekly weather crop bulletin, issued this even iIg, says: ,South Carolina-The high tempera ture and excessive sunshine scaldeu and rusted cotton, and caused inmnaturt hulls to open. The damage is believel to be more than forterly reported. A labana-The rains of lasI woel g reat ly benelited all crops. There is n4 iilaterial change in the condition 0 cot oi si nce List reported. Mississippl-Growing crops are sul ftriig fr:ii the dry, hot weather. Cot ton harvt-sling is in progress. Th tu ple is good, but the sinshine is opern Sing jinmature bolls. Ratin could no materially benefit cotton. Louisianna--'Tho weather was gener ally fw vorable, and there is a slight im provetnent in prospects, though aE especially eane, need rain. ExcellenI hiarvist weather prevails. Cotton if openiiig rapidly, lind picking is wel under way. Texas- -'he( weather was favorabl for cotton picking, which has pro gressed rapidly, the staple is unusually ong and clean. Showers have m prov(d late cottoln, and the top crop tir 'eitral and Eastern Texas. The pros rects continue fair ovi North 'Rexas. . Ten nessee - -Late crops are' suffering~ I roin drougt,t, aind pilowinig has beei ~isupended. I lay nnaking~ and foddei inive progressed tiniely. Cotton p)ickinR is under way. T1hie crop~ is short WarinithI and sunshine are retilsired tt miut lire late corni. "latin't, K(now it was I.,uated." I I I45ANTi'., Conni.. ft 18.---A Ia tal auccmtenit occurred hiere yesterday at t,he puract ice shoot of Company (G, ol l'sitnamj, andi Company is, of Wilirnan. tic. Third Ilugi snent S. N. 4 . ,J(hli l'.-tersoni, or Coinipany (1, picked up ii rifle arnd poin'ed iat dtifferent mnenberi of 1)4) hi cunipaniss. I le was told to put it. do win, butt ret used, saying it was not louatl. II e pos ittd it at ILichmard Biab-. binlgt.on, aged tweit,y-five, private iri hSis coinplaliy, andi( pulled the (rigger, A re*iltrt, 1411 ollowe antii t,hu next inistant liuig (on an filWNIllisin Malone 01 Com111patny 10 tell Lto the gr'ouInd.i lt ab bingtons was insanthy killed, while Ma lone was titallty wounded(. The b)ullet, a '18 cal i brt, hatd passed L,brough liab huingtuin's heart and ouitat his back, and strutck M aloise, w ho( stoodI tenI paces igj ths rs ar of hims. Malone was also shot thlrouigh arid through, the busllet beinig lisu rd in ai; bot rd I dice thirty paces tt t lie rear. 14'tersoni was ifimediiatel) .irreste<t. lie chaimis that,l lie did not know thle gun was loadedl. I lwty 1)it in's L,ck Li,~ssecsb. I I Ab II I TN, \'a., Ss'pt. 18.--- 1mmledhi at ely aller thle adjoufin ent of thu II at us-Il annt gain inditgniat ion meeting her,- t,gst igmt, 'iot her meets~ing wva: field. It was c-all-d I-y the jury wvh< huad lbeeni so severely denouinced. 'The3 slechaied I hat i'ronevn,t aug Atto''nej I ,ipscomb was the instigator of thu meecstinig, alad should be punished ; si traey al art d ast once for Old Point t< give' hi in a sounid t hrashin g. Lipscoml was toundi at ttt th flia 11 ouse, but hi had p)replared a warns reception fo ' he"s. .1list as the men wahke d in thi cur:idlor Mrs. Li1pseonh called fo)r alm sobu.onied a gunu, sayinsg she was a bette shot. thlans her hiusbland. lier actio1 was loudly ilppla'i(ted, and she f'orceu the crow d of juIrors to retire to th strest. More trouble is expected. lincen5tiary Mtiller. CHIAno Set.22.--Emaisncipatio daiy w as elbrte today by thet colore ieolel with a mass meeting and pieni at Osgood grove. Thomas E. Miller, c licautort county, South Carolina, wve the orator or t,he day. iIe eulogize A braha mn Lincoln, and speaking of th Sou h1 said: "lhe new South is a fac 'hlie child, is however, 111-for med. It blou-1 is tainted; it is af,trong, bult lacke endurance. It is as much your duty th day to assist the nation in traantiig an (developing this partly spoiled youth as8 it wals your (duty late in the ilitLies t educate through youir patrons saint, th cation upj to the painit of the emanci pation of tile slave and the preservi tior, of .the Union. Omit it, and th' work will have to be (lone over agal in t,he same way as It was (hnlashed a A pnrimarome" STIANGEAt TIIAN FICTION. PATHETIC CASE OF AN ILLINOIS UNION SOLDIER. teport,d Killed in isame. n(i Mourned as Dead for Twenty-talue Yearti. lie Now Turns Up and Claimt a Puniont. WASIHINUTON, Sept. 20.--0.1e ol the most remarkable and patheice cases that has ever been brought to the Bureau of Pensions, is that of William Newby, a private o' Company D. Fourth legt ment, Illinois Volmteers. Tais re ment was commanded hv the heroic GA. Stephen G. flicks, of Illinois, ail wai cotispicis for Its gallantry at ti battle of' Shiloh. Newby was in t'us battle, on the Gth of April, 1862, and was reported killed in action. Itseomi, however, that instead of bein., killed. lie receivol a severe woun-Iol on t! head and wias captured aid sEnt tI th rear by the Confederate forces. was i:ii prisoned at Belle Isle and was aitd r wr,l I transierred to Audrsonville. I.t :ieem i that Newby was releaied inl c )mti. o, time and was In i>orliouses hi vari u< parts ol the South. Ile was finally t.1kel t,o K ty W Fla., by a L'eitlemianhr Will) >.miz -. Newby as a kiisman. llere he remamed until some Ltime in 186J, when his uncle died. Newby wandered from place to p ace, and finally turned up at, Shreve stort, La., and while there the colored people made up i ptre and he was given passiage on a steaibUioat to Uincilm nati. (On the way up the river the steambort lintded atL Shawneetowtn, 111. Newby, hearing this imme called out, seemed to recognize something that was familiar and got oif the boat,. From here lie wandered to Kankakee, Ill. where he was in the poorhouse for a time. Leavi.g this place, lie struck out Southward, and at last, tlached Mem.us borough, Ia llamiltou Couniv, Ill., and was sent to the poorhouse. During these years he was in a de mented state, bordering upoI insanity, as the supposed result ol' the wound in the head. In wandering about lie linally went over into White count,y, and when lie got near lia old hiome was Been and recognized by two o lit comrades who had served in the regiment with hii. Ilis wife was sent for, and she identilied him, as (idl his relatives and many ot his friends and coirades. Alter Newby was reported as killed in action, his wife applied for I pension, f and It was granted, and she has beeln drawing a widow's pension froi the - date of his reported death to the pres - ent time. This soldier has liled a cluim 0 lor a pension, and it is now receivin, -, - the considerat:on of the ollice, the claim of the widow being suspended in the meantime. No discharge has ever been granted to the soldier, and the considera tion of the pension claim is bein. post ponled until such t,ime as the Secretairy of War shall grant the mani a discharge. This soldier has 1een separated from his family for a period of twent,y-niie years, they blieving all the while tat lie was dead, and now lie turns up a for lorn. demented old man. His case has attracted great attent,ion in the southern part ol illinois, and has excited the universal sympat,by of all who have become acqluaintedl wit,h it,. IIe recently attended a large reunioni 01 old1 ve..erans of his count,y, where the subject, was universally discussed. Th'e pension will no doubt, soon lbe graintedi, and lie will receive a suthicient, stmi to smiooth his way t,o the cnd ol' his lif'e. A D)iabolicai i)eed. PRiOSER~itY, S. C., Sept. 17 -Ti morming a negro named Sam Young, belonging to the construction train on the C. & G. Rtailroad, was found on the railroad track about one mile and1( a halt from here, wIth hits head badly beaten. T1he deed was evidently the result of a gamblIng spree and wvas 'oiiamitted with m)urdlerous intent. Young was partially conIscious, brit coulu or would only tell that lie was si rick b)y a yello,v netgro. lie was robbed or liat, shoes andl whatever was' in his leftt pockeit it being cut ope)0n. lIn the other p)ocket was found $3 in silver and a set of dice, one being a false one, having foutr Iives' on it. The inscrutment with whlich he was struck was a new pick handle. lIe[ was struck three different times, anid then he was plaed( on the railroad at a p)oinit ini which there was a sharp curve, where hue could not have been seen by the engIneer of a train approachIng from either direction ini time to stop before crushing his~ headi. L'he negro) was cared for by D)rs. Langford and sent home. The doctors do niot thinik that lie will die. Furt,her Out breaks in Ultina. SAN FltANUI.sUO, Sept. 23.-- Flhe steaua,er Empress of China, has arrived at Vancouver, 11.C., with the news that .J. A. Leonard, United St aes consul geii eral at Shanghai, telegraphued Admiral lielknuap on Septeiiber .3 as follows: "A Shanghai mnorning paper hasw a telegrami received last night, of a riot at Tehang at noon on September 2. TIhe mission and all the property of foreigners was urned. No hives lost. Admiral Helknaup immlrediately sen[t the Alliance andl the PalIos to Tehang. Another riot occur rred1 at TIehiang on Septemnber 3. AIH the foreign property at the pornt wats burned, but no lives were host. T1he Sforeign residents wvere under arms ait the latest acecants. A Peculiiarly Sad Funeral. CIIIcAoo, Sept. 21.-Two thoiusa itd Personis crowedl into the great St. 6 Michael's Catholic Church this after fnoon to bear the solenmn burial service a over the remains of GIottleib Shaulk, his ~i wife auid four children, who were su ITo e cated in their hjome 0on Sed wick street t- Friday night. The assembly was indi a cative of the deep bereavemenit which 5 the whole community feels, and there -' were few dry eyes wvhile the ceremony was being celeb rated. Roiled Over a P'reipice. 3 BERuNE, Sept. 18.-The Engadaine -ma'l coach overturned in ai mnountain pass between Lenz and Albaha and rolled over a precipice to thie bottom of a deep ravine. TI'wo ladies who were Spassengers were killed and three others were injured.