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VOL ~ ~ ~ fI MA -NN I NG(4, S. C.,_WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBRAO 89._ ___ O 1 b AL01A C[9i I ..I _l.( ihidii NID CHILE'S EX-P:ED: COMMiT3 SUi siDE AT SANTiAGO. '2he I >C .nktt . a i u .Drtv-uiktuLi Leg~ationi at.N. N1 as Lert- the lltantati 31141 M".3 , t .: .-!eH rl' Valparai gorreg. iudenLt, t riphs as 1 bliows: Ex-Pres!idep: Biz.macetip., of Ch:le, shot himb If t roughi 4 me tniple in his room at the Argenit:ne legation in Santi a-o at 6:30 a. m. today (Saturday). The story b caie knowu here this anernoou. and created the greatest excitement. It now seems that Balmaceda left Santia %o on Augzust ::9. in the hope of making his escape treln Chile: b'ut seeia that I every avtuue u -ape n%- cut oif. he returned there on zSepmbaer 2. and went direct to the Argentine legation. After the disastrous battle tzear Val paraiso and the surrender of Santiago, on August 29tb in company with ex Al.alde Victor Echauren, he took a carriage :od drove to a point two miles outside the e::y. Here a special train of one car and a loconotive vas ;n wait ing. The. train went at hi--h speed as lar as Linder;s. fOrty-jive miles south oftSantia:o. I'c 'ore cair:acs were in waitiL;;. ilurr:iedlv aihting from the train they eutered the carriages and were agan driven rapidly away. The route wa toward San Antonio Day. All trace of the figitives was, however, lob!. His intention was to -,o on board the Conde1, which lie expected to find 15ing in San Antonio Bay. On arrivimg there, however, he aiscovered, to his chagrin, that the vessel had sailed. Lmce his return to the Arpintine le gatiou, in Santiago, Dalmaceda has been n an extremely nervous condition. No one, with the exception of the minister 01 the Argentine republic and one other man, who was devoted to the untfrtun ate ex-president's cause: vas permitted to taik to or even see him. All the dif ferent sebemes of flight were considered by the hunted ex-presIdent. Senor Ur riburria went to the theatre last m:zht. When he returned to the legation, he had a long- and earnest tatk witk. Bal ma etda relative to the latter's ideas pre viously broached, about the advisability of giving himself up to the Junta. Bal maceda and Senor Urriburria went to bed at midnight. Senora Urruburria, about 8 a. m. to day, heard a pistol shot in the bed-room that had been assizned to Balmaceda. She notified her huisband. Before he went to Balmaceda's room he ran around to the house of Carlos Walker Martinez, and brought that gentleman back to the legation. Upon bieaking in the door of Balmaceda's room, it was found that he had shot himself. The body was still warm. There was a --aping 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 A commission was promptly issued. it comprlsed Carlos Walker Martinez, Senor Melchor, Senor Concho and Judge Aguerra, of the supreme court. They went direct to the legation from the of fice of the Junta's representatives and viewed the body. They then drew up a process, certifying to the facts already stated. Gradually the news spread all over the city, and the excitement it created is in describable. Great crowds of terribly excited people gzathered 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 discordsnt shocts were heard cries conaratulating the unfortu nate Balmaceda that in taking his own life he had escaped a worse fate. B3a1 maceda left a letter to his mother. Also, a statement to the IHerald. As almost the last declarations of a dying man, they are of especial importance. He says: "I acted all durmng ti.e piast eight months with the firm conviction that I was right. 1 had no one in the army upon whom 1 could place any trust. My generals were false to mc. 'They lied all through the war. Had my orders been obeyed. I believe that the battle ot Concon would have resulted mn a de cisive victory aainst the enemy. ".My heart all threough tids trouble has been with Chile. I sou:;ht to rescue my country from foreign domination. I strove to make her the first republic in America. My enemies say that I was cruel. Circumstances compei'ed me to sanction certain acts, b~ut many had deeds that have been attributedi to my orders were never known by me until they had ben committed. "Until the final battle at Placill, I had strong hopes of triump~hiuig over my .s foes. Victory wasassured by my genrer als. Alcerecca and Barbosa and Viel. ."They all lied. I now knowv that they only pretendedl friend~stip for me because of money that was to be gotten out of me. 'All the money that I have in my possession is $250 Myw- aei to me on the night of August :2. "Your minister, Patrick Egaui , many times offered me good advice. Ue urged me to make Peace with those opposedl to me and to retire from Chile. I did not heed his wise advice, for 1 thought that he was under the Irfluence of the Junta's order's who were then refugees in the American legation. All through the trouble my closest advisers were always opposed to any overtuies ior peace." Another letter was found, addressed to Senor Urricurria. In it Dalmaceda says: "When I saw the persecution di rected agamnst me by persons who had supported my admnaistration, I came to the conclusion that the only way to put an end to this persecution was to take my life, as .1 was the responsible one. Adios, my good frind! Give my fure well to my wile and children." The Junta has thieArgentie ieaation auarded by troopS to prevent an attack on the part of the populace, but every thinig is quiet at tautiage tonight. Bal maceda's hndy has been removed to the general cemetery. It was accom paniedl by the members of the fatmily and Iriends. The widow of the (leadecx president was informed of his tragic end ing by her brother, Domingo Terro. There is a guard stationed at the cemne tery. An irtendemie is koeping order. 'ihe Okliahoma bogmers. GUTI1:IE, 0. T, Sept. 21.-To day had littile semblanice to Sundby.Al a the streets have been crowded with prairie schooners, carriages, horsemen, and foot passengers, all jammed into a shouting, struggi;ng, hurrying mass. At the negro settlement of Langston are 2,000, ne~groes, all armedt anld on thie road. All ot th ese negroes are aeter mined to have a claim or fight. On every side of the reservations the l1me is a continuous camp, and the number n~ eopleniin waiting is fully 30.000. PROY _T TH: PEOPL-.. The Verdict :U the unit%. Cae Repidat ed u Ma. )icetl1ag. ilAuirToN, Va., Sept. 1.-The court houe at Ilazmpton was crowded tonight w ith representatives of hampton and i;:.zabeut city and county. who had inet to express tiair disapproval of the ver diet renider-d in the Ilans case T uesdaY. The lon.li. Leger,ex-coL~imouw ealth's atLourey, was choseu chairm;aaI and madde an address, Setting forth the pur pose of the meeting and appointed a committee on resolutions.Joseph Ilef fing, ). F. Cocke and W. J. Weymout were appointed. Namle these resoluticis were being prepared Marion Colbert, a prosperou3 busmness mnan, was called on and stattd his views with no uncertain voice. Tue comuittee taen reported the fol lowing resolutions: -We, the citizens of Elizabeth city, in mass meeting assembled, brought into solemn council by the startling verdict brought in the case of Thornton Rains, charged with the murder of Edward A. 1lanuegan in Hampton Roads on June 5th, 161.1, contrary to the hitherto good name of our peopie for loyalty and jus tice, resening that the saume sha-1 he Ilasheu to the world as representative of our community, do hereby proclaim w ith all the emphasis which moderate and temperate language can convey: "First, that while we do not assail the fidelity of any individual juror to his conscience, we believe saiu verdict was contrary to the law and evidence, and we do hereby condemn the same as tending to license muraer, subvert the peace of society and threaten our fire sides and the busness of our people. -2. We call on the otticers to enforce impartially the criminal laws of the commonwealth and to punish all offen ders without fear, lavor or affection and without distinction as to class, condi tion, race or color. "We emphatically declare hereby our grief at the ending of this trial; that we Lae people are thrown on our defense be fore all right thinking people; sorrow that the bulwarks of our peace and hap piness, 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 called for and made a stirring add ress in which he deuoune ed the jury in good round terms. The meeting then quietly adjourned. At least 1,000 people were present and hun were unable to get in the building. Revols of Chilean Troops. NEw YoRK, Sept. 23.-A special to the Herald trom Santiago ds Chile, via Galveston, says: The emeute among the troops of 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. In cluded in the larae numbes of soldiers stationed here are many volunteers from Tarapaca and other northern provinces of Chirle. They have been very restless under the law of order and restraint that h- followed the occupation of this city by the Junta. At noon yesterday, as beno-rmna - ,ealin.-lthrough one of the man;thoroughfares, he was m denly surrounded by an infuriated mob of soldiers. They made a great outcry against what they denounced as the in justice of keeping them any longer in Santiago, and demanded, with many threats, that measures should be at once taken~to return them to their homes. They also denoneed the food which has been rnrished them, and de clared they would no longer submit to it. As a consequence of the turbulence, Santiago, which has not yet recovered from the excitement caused by Balma ceda's suicide, was again thrown into a high fever. The news spread rapidly all over the city, and as it travelle d througzh one street alter another it was followed by closing up all the shops. Further trouble was happily averted, at least, for the time being, by the clear judgnment and cool bearing of the president o? the Junta, Jorge Montt and Col. Canto. Their firmness, coupled with promises to the soldiers that their grievances would be attended to, served to allay the spirit of rebellion. A Fiehy story. JACKSONVILLE, Fla,, Sept. 21.--A thrilling story ol the experience of two Coney island bathers, supposed to have been drowned, was told to-day by Sam uel W. Thornton of Brooklym, N. Y., to an Associated Press reporter. On the af ternoon of August 27, Thornton and his sister-in-law, Miss Ada Jewell, went into the surf near the iron pier. The undertow took them out to sea. They caught a floating log and drifted about nil nearly dark when a Spnnish bark boundl for South American ports pcked them up. Miss Jewell was unconscious and con tinued ia a high fever and delirious for live days. None o1 the crew could speak English. On September 9th the casta ways were transferred to another Span ish vessel bound for Yucatan. through the Straits of Florida, and ou the morn iag o1 Sunday, September 20th, they were set ashore on a barren beach twen ty miles from this oitv. They walked here and are at St. Johu's House await ing the arrival of mnoney from Brookly-n with which to take passage home. Thornton's brother ini Brooklyn sup posed ihim and his sister-in-law dead, and he now fears that some imposter is tryingr to extort money from him. Both castaways have been identified, how ever, and muooey is expected in the morning. B~oth have stood their hard ships remarkably well, but strange to say neither can rememiber the names of the vessels or those of their captains. neqnaa, crueitv. CniCAGO, Sept. 20.-W. A. Higgins, seretary and contracting agent for the Milwaukee and Wisconsin Rtailroad company, with headquarters in Milwau kee. was arrested here last night on a charge of murder. Sunday morning, sept. 13. liiggins and a man named Arnolai, a traveling freight agent of the Elkhrart Freiht liue, who also has his ofice in Miiwaukwe, were in Simon Gaorassa's saloon on Martin steet. 'The two had been on a spree all of Saturday nignt and were tinishing up their debauch when an old colored woman entered the place. The two men insisted on her aaacemg for them. The old woman linally oonsented and while sire was dancing some one touched a lighted match to her c-lothing and she was burned to death. Higgins at once :issappeared and the police sent out dispatches asking for his arrest for murder, as they claim he was the man wno applied the match. I1 Iggins was placed under arrest here esterday and taken to the central sta tion. The Milwaukee authorities were notlled and an oflicer arrived from there at 103:30 o'clock last night. Hig gins waived requisition and left for Milwaukee in charge of the oflicer. Higgins denies having applied the match which caused the old woman's dieth. FULLY T HREE THOUSAN PERISH. .pvaiskijn Los of LIte by The Floudi in Si'in. MSAA~ID>, Sept. 16.-News slowly comig in from the South of Spain re ;orts the damage by reason ot the ex traordinary floods in that section as be ing general. The loss o1 prol)erty is something enormous, and everywhere rail way trains have been derailed and the roads blocked. The meagre details thus far received from the Province of Toledo giye harrowing accounts of the extent and phenomena of the overwhelm iu catastrophe which has befallen the province. So sudden was the breaking lorth of the waters that in numberless mstan..es the uniortunate people were drowned before they could leave their beds. Strong bodies of laborers, assisted by troops, are working night and day to re cover the bodies of those drowned or crushed to death, but up to the present time only 400 o Lhe bocties of the miss ing thousands have been secured. The vintage and the corn crops of the dis tressed district have been totally de stroyed, so that poverty and hunger must follow in the wake of this frightful visitaLion. T wo-thirds ot the town of Consuegra, in Toledo, with a population of 7,000, has been aestrowed by the floods. Five hundred Louses have been destroyed at Almeria. It is certain that lully 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 many to engage in plunder, The government is striving to teed the des itute. The town of Consuegra is ruined and the police are preventing pillage. The burials of the victims are proceeding amid scenes or mourning and miserv. It is thought that 5,000 head of horses and cattle were drowned. The town of Almeria is in absolute darkness, the noods 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 of people destroyed there at 3,000. In many places limbs were found separated from bodies. The officers have telegraphed for lime to 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 ing the flood at Consuegra were awful. Pioeous cries came from the drowning, for whom there was no assistance. Sixty corpses were found in a public hall, where the victims, in the midst of a wedding ;feast had been overtaken by the flood. Famines Awfnl Face. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 24.-Reports received here from Tamboff and its ad jacent provinces announce that the Zemstvos hay provided for the resow ing of land and to furnish supplies of grain until January next. After that there will be the greatest difficulty to ensure food for the people. As the col lection of taxes is impossible, the salar ies of local administrative bodies have Det =a=erendd. Even if funds to sup ply grain are obtained the distribution, wnich will be over wide famine tracts, will be difficult, and the maintenance of hospitals, schools and asylums is doubtful. The scarcity of oats and hay is com pelling farmers to sell live stock at mock prices. For instance, a horse for 2 roubies, a cow for 5 roubles ana colts from 20 to 50 copecks. After a recent county fair in one district the skeletons of forty horses were found by the road side. The animals had been killed for their 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 frost set in. The masses of the people rely entirely on the Government to help them. This being the state of affairs in the psesent mild weather, the gloomy prospects held out by coming winter can be readily imagined. An analysis of the bread sold in many places by unscrupulous merchants re vealed the fact that absolutely poison us mixtures are sold. Several mer chants have been arrested at Morshauck, and will be summarily tried, Many specimans of such bread consist of 70 per cent of earth and sand and 30 per cent of refusefarinaceous 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 Pinsk resulted in flooding the Onieper1 In the spring and in the lowness of the water late in summer, thus causing a diminution In the rainfall in the east ern provinces. Almost all of the Gov ernent officials have voluntarily con tributed a portion of their salaries to the famine fund. The public talk of brmnging bread from America and Egypt _______ Mir. Polk's Dental. WAsrINGTox, 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 what foundation there was to the re port that he was threatened with tar and feathers by Kansas veterans, he said there was nothing whatever in the story as to the dispatches charging that he apologized in his speech for having gone into the Confederate ser vice and spoke approvingly of a strike among the cotton pickers of the South, Polk said: "It is absolutely and un gualiiedly false In every particular. I uttered no sentiment in Kacsas or else where, which by any forced construc tion could have been contorted into any such expression. It is a lie out of whole cloth. I have never uttered a senti ment in a Northern state I w ould not willingly repeat in any Southerni state. As to the strike of the cotton pickers I had heard nothing about it1 until my return to this ofice.-Augus a Chronicle. Am Innosent Man Oonvleted. SAN FRtAxcisco, Sept. 2.--Sidney Bell, recently convicted of the murder of Samuel Jacobson, a merchant of this ity, who was mysteriously shot on the1 night of August 16, 1890, is probably innocent. Charles Schmiat, one of the principal witnesses against Bell, has made a confession admitting that all his testimony at the trial was false. Bell's attorneys say they have a witness who will swear that the murder was committed by a gambler named Max Schwartz, who had been visiting Jacob son's sister. .Jacobson forbade him the, ouse. and finding him there on the night of the murder, tried to ejiect him and was shot by Schwartz Joaee Noe a Oandidate. A LBANT, N.Y. Sept. 21.-The Citizen's I allianew: a branch of the Farmers' ali ance, held a picnic and barbacue on the fair grounds today. Lieutenant Gov-< ernor Jones was not present, and State Lecturer Spaulding in anl address to the 4 gathering, said the lieutenant governor 1 had mnformed him that he was no long er in the 11eld for the gubernatorial AN INDISSOLUBLE Il!. i IL AN IMPORTANT DECISION BY JUDGE 0 JAS. F. IZLAR. Harriac*' Voutrauted Atiter a Divusce is V Granted In Anothor .slate are Iki.&a. Othe:r states canuut Coutrovert Our d V Lawn. t Au important decisiont was l4tely o rendered by Judge iWlar in a case ecn ng before him on appeal irom a Pro- Is )ate Coukt, as it fixes the status of par- b ;ies married in South Carolina and a securing a divorce in another State.1V rhe case arose thus: Thomas M. Peo-t pies marriet in t1nis btate, afterward went to Florida, where he securrd a J livorce and re-married, and afterward t rturued to this State. .On his death a etters of adniinistration were granted b o Row lanu W. Peoptes, his son by the a Florida marriage, and petition was P ade to the Probate Court of Colleton II Uounty to .ave the letLers of adminis- 14 ratiou revoked and grantea to the I etitiouer, Georgianna White. I As matter of law the Judge of Pro- L ate found that there was no ground b ,or revoking the letters of adminilstra- a ;ion previously granted to Rowland W. L Leoples, that under the facts before 8 im liowland W. Peoples is the legiti- a mate son of Thomas M. Peoples, de :eased, "for, in the first place, there is io evidence to show that the first mar- E iage of Thomas M. Peoples was cele F )rated in this State, and hence the dicta 0 >f the South Carolina Judges, tiolding 6 ;hat a marriage celebrated in this State a sannot be dissolved save by the laws of 11 ;his State, have no application to the I :ase at bar; that even if the proof had c hown that the first marriage was con- Ii racied in this State, yet tne decree of livorce in Florida diasolved that mar- b tiage, and hence the second marriage in I ;he State of Florida was valid, anac the " ssue thereof, Rowland W. Peoples, o was legitimate," and thus finding the 3 Judge of Probate dismissed the peti. I don. 1 After considering questions relating ' o the first marriage in this State, the securing of a domicile in Florida. and l he purpose thereof, and the subsequent a econd marriage, Judge Izar says: 5 It now becomes necessary to consider It he force and effect of said judgment of e ivorce. The American doctrine of F livorce is cloacly stated by Stewart in 0 the 5th vol. of the Am. and Eug. Ency. t )f Law, 746 et seq. From Mr. Stewart lI it appears that -every State has the a right to regulate its own domestic 6 policy; to determine the status of its t )wn citizens, and to choose for itself a the terms and conditions under which ts own Courts shall grant divorces, V nd a divorce granted in accordance C with its laws must be valid within its e own territory. But no State has pri marily the right to push its domestic policy beyond its boundaries and into ther States, or to dissolve tne marriage G or ch ange the domestic status of per ons belonging to other States; and the Acts of one State have iorce aid au thority in other States only by consent of such States, that is to say by the n :omiLy of nations or lnternational law or by virtue of some paramount law. d such as the United States Constitution, C r a treaty between nations." The s principles enunciated by Mr. Stewart on this subject will doubtless be ae- c epted in all States where divorces are allowed by law, but in South Carolina 1 ivorce a rinciulo is not allowed by law. 1 Here the marriage contract is regarded i as indissoluble by any luman means, and it has always been considered as a contrary to public policy, and as op- ~ posed to the goodl order and well being of society, to dissolve by divorce the ~ sacred bonds of m~atrimnony. This policy has never at any time in he history of the State failed to have the support and approval of the bench nd bar, and to receive the hearty en-a lorsemnent of all the citizens of intelli- ' tence and culture in the State. it is rue that at one time in the history of ~ he State, when it was ruled by the alien md the stranger, and when the Gleneral ssemnbly was composed principally of ~orrupt freebooters and ignorant ne- C ~roes, the "stern policy" whicn bad pre-d riously prevailed was relaxed. rhe ew piolicy which was thus forced upon ~he State did not meet with favor. As on, therefore, as intelligence arid vir- j ue again took the place of ignorance c ud vice, the "stern policy" was resum- h :d, and has ever since been firmly ad- v ered to and jealously guarded. t I aim inclined to think that the dIvorce ti mer consideration, even If tested by to he American rules, wiould be held iu alid to affect. the matrimonial status b > Caroline Peoples. Under the cir- C :umstances of this catse 1 am persuaded I hat the decree of divorce could do nio b nore than affect the miatrimonaial status ti >f Thomas M. Peoples. It could not, in c ny opinion. fix, regulate and control lh he status of Carclin'i Peoples, who at c LII times had been an inhabitant and ti ltizen of South Carolina. 1'< Had Thomas Md. Peoples continued b s residence In the State of Florida, ti nd had the operation of the judgment A >f divorce been contined to that State, a outh Carolina would have been coim T elled to acquit sce in the status tixed a pon him by that decree, but when he b ~uit his domicile of' choice and returned a' o his domicile of origin, the judgment f divorce ceased to shIeld tim. it :uld not push its effects out inato South . 'arolina to the defeat of Its settled pol- La ev. The status of Thomas M. Peoplea 13 iquired by that judgment in Florida i :anot be rfrc(oguized in him as a citizen h >r South Carolina. TI.ere is no princi- tl le of comity which dema~nds this of E~ outhi Carolina. It he would enjoy the " iberty given by the decree of divorce S hen he must remain in the State of b' 'lorida. L..t the rule contended for in n his case be once established, then sure - y will the peace oft society be jeopar- u lzed, the marriage bonds he weakened, ad the door wnich has bee-n so longr Ld so faithfully guardled by the baneb, U e bar and the Leislature of the State Ii e thrown wide open "to fraud, imposi- 13 ion and othe~r immorality." lIn this C tate where the common law prevails b e courts will scrutinize with jealousy si livorces granted by other States where JC laxer system prevails. Here it. is I olemnly beiieven that "thie principle of b; he indissolubility and exclusiveness of he marriage bond is essential to the ealth of the body politic." But I go tl urther. I am in harmony with what b4 s termed the dicta of the South Caio- ~ ia Judges. These dicta of our Judges !j est upon the doctrine laid down ini .lley a case. I Russ and Rly, 236, de-cid i In 1812 by the twelve Judges of Eng- ca an, and wnich was axterwards recog- e auzeo and f,>llowe'din a n umber of casee- it Judge Izler here quotes a number ofi uthoities in support of his position. d The Court is asked in this case to de- a ire the decree of divorce obtained by si [he mas M. Peoples in Florida valid, his cod marriage with Sarah Ann Caller awful and the issue thereof legitimate i South Carolina. The questIon pre- t1 ented is, shall the lez domnicila prevail re ir the lex logi contractus.J This is aT ~rave question. I am of opinion, how- ti Yer. that this State will not consent W o recognize the proceedings of any HI ther State which are so contrary to its ci rews of public policy and morality, ai Aduilitting that iL iit:Ver h.s bee 3rmallv duirled that the doctrine olley's CaSe is the law of the CoLr" f South Carolina, the question is pre: Aed, shall our Courts iollow the con ion law as declared in the ca)se, C iall they ollow the dicta ot Lord restbury, Pcnzance and otnlersy ave no hesitation in saying that th ublic policy ot the State dewands the ie Courts should be iniuencea ay tb iews of our own Judges to adopt as t 1e settled law of this btate tile uoutrin f Lolley's case, as declared by tW selve J udges or England. In Duk a. FulmeL. (1852,) Chancellor War( 6w said: "The common law as declare y the Judges ot England is cle ,ainst the reconitioi of foreign d urces as dissolving uiarriages coi :ated in England. I therefore hold, in the language c udge O'.eall in Boyce vs. Owen mat "the marriage coutract in th: taLe is regaruedl as indissoluble by all ttan means. Nothing short, of th oLual or presumed deatn of one of tb arties can nave the eiect of dischari ig its obligations or preventing i1 gal effects.' The decree of divort ronou.iced by the Circuit Court t Iolida does not, in my opinion, effe status of Caroline. who, at all time been an innabit of South Cai olin ad when Thomas M. Peopes retirnt this sLate permanently to reside tb ield whica ti aecree o divorce thre, ound him in the ztate of Floriaa we ithdrawn, and he became subject t ie laws of south Carolina, by whic either' his matrimonial status i 'lrida nor his subsequent marriag in be recognizel. Under the laws ( autn Carolina the Florida divorce di ot operate to dissolve the South Cart na mnarriage; therelore, the secon Larriage mubt be held invalid aid ti ilaren of said marriage illegitlinal i South Carolina. The law of this Court is, as we hav en, that no foreign tribunal is con eLent to pronounce a aecree of divort vinculo of a South Carolina marriax r pronounce any other decree tha ch as would be ahowed by the 11 ci contractus. In this connection iould call special attention to an artic] > be found in the Carolina Law J ouri entitled "Foreign Divorces 01 Car na Marriages," page 377. 1 ami full ware that in the United States, on de of Sontn Carolina, the Courts 1 atters of divorce are governed get rally by the lex domocilii, and not b x loci contractus, but South Carolm ecupies a unique position in respe< ) marriage and divorce. Rei the le ci contractus governs. Here tU iarriage contract is regarded as indi: ylIble, either by consent of the pa es or by the judgment or statute L y foreign triounal or Legislature. It is therefore ordered aujudged th! e decree of the Pro.at% Court in th: mse be, and the same is hereby, rever buicide of an F%-Governor. MARYSVILLE, Mo., Sept. 23.-E) o. Albert P. Morehouse committt uicide at his residence at 9 o'clock tO iorning. Several weeks ago the Goi mor was violently overheate I whij riving cattle and has been in a ver ervous condrtion evet since. At time e has been delirious and very muc epressed. Ile was taken out for rive by a friend last night and bcecai o much excitd that he was brougl .ome and a physician called. le bi ane qmieter and this morning wl eeping quietly. Two watchmen wer i another room. They heard a noih the Governor's room and on ente ig found him lying on the floor, bloo purting from his throat. He had ct gash in the left side of his ihro but four Inches long. The weapo sas a common pocket knife, which h till held in his right hand. He ha 3ldd up his coat and vest and place hem under his head. Governor Morehouse was borni teleware County, Ohio, July 10, 1838 nd-came to Missouri in 1856. He w& lawyer by profession and had al way iken a prominent part in Missou. olitics. He was elected Lieutenan1 ~overnor on the Democratic ticket i E84 with J. 8. Marmaduke as Governo: od upon the death of the latter si redea him and took the oath as Go' rnor in 1887. His wife and two chi ren are in St. Joseph. The Allhance In Congreue. WASHINGTON, Sept: 17.-AG tt armiers' Alliance headquarters in thi ty it is stated that the Alliance wil sve fifty-five men in the next Hous ho will vote with it on all measur iat it may see fit to bring forward. J: e Senate the party claims four Seni rs- Peffer, Kyle, Irby and Vance. At the next session the sub-treasur ii, as it was introduced in the las ongress, will not make its appearanc< hat me&asure has been repudiated i >th houses of Congress, arid will, Ic it reason, not be reuurrected. A bij >nstructed, however, upon lines simj r to it, and embodying the same prii pe, will be introduced inlto bon >uses and pushed to a vote. The StAm; ird land loan bill will not be touchet i the Alliance, but a bill bearing upon e same subject will be introduced .nontr measure which the Alliauc ill demand is a free coinage bil Iese three measures are ithe ones il hih the party take the most interes1 t other measures will be in trokduce< id efforts to pass them will be mnad A Naughty Noted Kievlvaiet. LEXINGTON, N. C., Sept. 19l.- On toi ith ot last December Rev. Zacharia ll, onSeof the most noted revivaiist North Carolina, living here, kis.er s wife and five children. good-bve. A e same time he look ?eave of MIs. atie Washburn, a visitor at his house ho left the next day for her homei nee that time the preacher has no en heard from and his wife ha; ourned him as dead. She has jus arned that on the dlay after his depart e Bell was joined at Salisbury by >ung woman, whom he passed off a: s wife. The pair leit on the train, fo, ro gia, in '*hicuh State Bell said lie hat aportant revival enigagemeints. Mrs ti thereupon wrote to lhondolpi .unty and learned that Miss Wash irn had never returned homes. It i: ipposed she was the young lndy a hu ined Bell at Salisbury. and that tre ur are passing themselves oli as .hus rd and wife in Gleorgia. Sirange and F'atai Cattle D iuwua. HI:NTINODos, Pa..Se4pt. 20.- l'he cat Siin this and adjoinmng coniities an og attacked with a peculiar, ait us far unid~enltitled, disease, which, it arly every instance, proves fatal be disease first appearedi about twi eks ago, and already hunidreds n. ,ttle have perished. When atta~cked *e anlmal's head falls helplessly ant Slegs seelus unable to bear the weight the body. It Is believed that the sease is a forim of Texas splenic fever id was brought here by Souithern cat Killed by thce "vestibnile."' GREEN vrLLE, Sept. 21.-Th3 vt:stibuht an on the Richmond and Danvihll llway is getting In its work rapidly esterday at a crossing near Liberty 8 north bound train struck a wago! ith three or four persons in it, and an and a woman were killed and dd fatally injured. The coroner held i nquest to-day, but no report of thu iing hna been recived. -World. ijCLOSING UP THE COOSAW CASE. S The0 comIp4Uy Foreveor Emjoine-4i r em M3ining in Couaw River. r CHIAnLESTON, S. C.. Sept. IS.-The 3 follo. ing oider in the Coosaw litiga e Lion was filedin tae United Statescourt I t to-day by Judge Simouton: e "fihat the grant or privilege of dig- a U ging, iniuing and removing phosphaite b e rocks and phosphatic deposits Irom the li e navigable streams of the State of South U 1- Carolina, given to the delendant under U the act of assembly of 187U, mentioned r in the pieadiugs, for the period of c i- twenty-one years from the passage of r L- the saiti act, at a royalty of $1 per ton Oecale, and was, under the provisions b ,f Of Le act of 1876, an exclusve grant S of privilege of digging, iiining aLd re- d m:>ving suctt deposits from te Oed of I Le CouSaw River, at the royalty aiore e said, upon the conditions and within e the limiLs men ioned in said last named act, fur the remainuer or :aid period ot twenty-one )ears, and no longer. That e said grant or privilege in said defend ants nas now ceased ani determined. . l 'fhat the detendants, the Coosaw t i Mining Coupany,ana all persons claim ing under them, and the servants, agents j and ermployes of them, be, and e4.cu of e them are, lorever restranined and en , joined irom, in any way, claiming, or .s atLempting to claim, any right. title, Sinterest, esta..e or grant under or byc virtue of said act or acts in or to the n phosphate rock ot phosphatic deposits in the beds of Coosaw liiver, in the , State of south CarolLna, and tioni dig d ging, maing or removing, or attempt - mug to dig. mine or retvo% e the sane,or d any part thereof. U 1 --Tnat nothing in this decree contain e ed shall be construed to enjoin tne said 0 defendauts, tue Coosaw Miinng Com e pany, from nereafter miniug .n tne bed L- o said Coosaw River, when thereunto e duly authorized under any law of the 0 t state of South Carolina. a -'I'hat U. It. Brooks, the receiver, here- 1 x tofore appointed unaer the order of the U : State court, be discharged from his re e ceiversnip, and that the plaintifis pay hin the sum of $125, hereby adjudged . . to be a reasonable compenziation to him as such receiver. 1 hat the defendants pay the costs or 6 n the narshal and clerk, and, with this L- excepion, each party pay their own y costs." a condiion ot tue vrupg . WAsUHNGTON, Sept. 19.-The weekly e %eather crop bulletin, issued this even - ing, says: - South Carolina-The high tempera- t ture and excessive sunshine scaldea t and rusted cotton, and caused immature o bolls to open. The damage is believed b to be more than formerly reported. Alabama-The rains of last week I greatly benefited all crops. There is no 1 material change in the condition of v cotton since last reported. d Mississippi-Growing crops are suf fering fr:u> the dry, hot weather. Cot 3pton iarvesting is in progress. The staple is good, but the sunshine is open- ri e 'ng immature bolls. Rain could riot a y materially benefit cotton. S Louislanna--The weather was gener- 0 h ally favorable, and there is a slight imi a provemzent in prospects, though all especially cane, need rain. Excellent harvest weather prevails. Cotton is p opening iapidly, and picking is well 0 un itder way. e neXas-The weather was favorable for cotton picking, which has pro- 1 , gressed rapidly, the staple is unusually f t long and clean. Showers have im proved late cotton, and the top crop in t] Central and Eastern Texas. The pros- g pects continue fair over North Texas. s d* Tennessee-Late crops are sutiering , d from drought, and plowing has been i suspended. IRay mnaking and foddera uhave progressed finely. Cotton picking -is under way. The crop is short. * Wamt and sunshine are required to s auelat e corn. i *i "Didn't Know it Was Loadedi." SWIANTIC, Conn.. Sept. 18.-A fa- jb u tal accident occurred here yesterday at r, the practice shoot of Company G, of -Putnam, and Company E, of Wiliman -tic. Third Regiment S. N. (G. John ' IPeterson, or Company G, picked up a e rifle and pointedl at different members t' of both companies. lie was told to put ~ it down, but tel usedl, saying it was not s eloaded. Ilue pointed it at Richard Blab- a: Siungton, aged twety-five, private in fr his company, and pulled the trigger. 13 e A report follo wed and the next Instant be Company E fell to the ground. Bl.ib- b: bington was instantly kilied, while Ma lone was fatally wounded. The bullet, a 8 albrhad passed through Bb btruck Malone. who stood ten paces in Sthe rear of himt. Malone was also shot ~ troug uad through, the bullet being II found in a boatrd fence thirty paces to ei the rear. P'ete.rson was immediately di atrrested. lie claims that he did not L< know the gun wals loaded. I they Didtn't Lick Lipaconrab. II1AM PTON, Va., sept. 18.-Immedi Lately after the adjournment ot' the H.[a-ns-Hlannegan ind:gna'ion meeting P -he- last nicht, -nother mtcing was feld. It was calle d ry the jury who Li had bern so severely denounced. They i~ Ideclaied that Prosecuting Attorne~y V -Lipscomnb was the instigator oft the miee-tinig. and should be~ punished; so th~ev s' art, d at once for Old Point to give hin i. a ound thrasing. Lipscomub r~ was found at the IIygeifa flouse, but he la had prepared a warum re-ception for L them. Just a.' the imcn walked mn the w corridor Mrs. Lipc-onab' called for and m obtained a gunt, saying she was a better la sh~ot than her husband. Hecr action ic, w as loudly appla'ided, and she f'orce-d the crowd of jurors to retire to the u street. More trouble is expected. t Incenouiiary Miiller. a Unwixcuo, Sept. 22.-Ema ncipathin w: day was en brated today by the ~ol ored ar people with a mass tmeeting and picnic Ml at Osgood grove. Thoumas E. Miller, of ne - Beautort county, South Cai-olina, was a the orator of the day. Hie eulogized to -A braham Lincoln. and speaking of the to Soutih raid: "fThe new Souith is a fact. li Then- chiid. is however, 1ill-for med. It's blood is tainted: it !s :,trong, but lacks endurance. It is as mtuch your dluty to dayv to assist the nation in training anid y developimg this itiartly spoiled youth, in as it was youir duty late in the filties toy educat- througn your parron saint, the ru nation up to thme p siL of the etuanci pation of the slave anud the preserva tion~ of the Union. Omit it, and the b work will have to be (lone over again ro in the same way as it was ti:shed at t Appomattox." mn I No Thirmi Party lan Georgia. thc A TLANTA, Ga., Sept. 23.--This morn- cr ing the Georgia Legislature the much- ne mooted Oc-ala resoltions as endorsed by the Allianice and demanded by them of the next Congress were introduced by Parrett of Pike County, for the ap- PD proval and endorsement of that body. M The resolutions were defeated by a vote nt of 81 to 43. ThIs is somewhat of ao triumph over the thiird party move- w ment in this S*ate, as it clearly indi. cc cates that any Alliancenmen of the Leg- }' islattue who are in a majority in that ca body are not in sympathy with any tb measure that is directly opposite to w teir viewsas Democratic mnembers. we FOREST FIRES. .trlort~s of 'rownsp aml Campb Dcstroyto Contim., to come In. Sr. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 24.-A grea ooi wave swept over the state this at -rnoon from tLhe west, bringing reie row tMe terrible heat of the past tel ays; but it has no eltecL onL the fores nic. prairie lires near here. The fores C Vermillou and across the Wisconsil order towards Astdiand are still ragini res, without hope of change untIL reaching rain shall come. ILon. J. A. Westby, who has contract ;r government surveying, has jus otae from the upper Mississippi an eports terrible devastation along Lh n4e. He says hundreds of cattle ar urned and many homesteads de troyed. The traiu on which he cam owni on stopped and took in seventeej en, women and chilaren, settlers wh arey escaped with their lives. Unles eavy rains fall at. once, all the littL illages and homesteads along the bi 'aul and Duluth for sixty miles wil ertainly be burned. There is no apparent diminution ii be terrible beat; rain still holds oil an tie iorest Ares in Northern Minnesot nd Northwestern Wisconsin contino o rage with unabated fury. Lammer' imber camps, near linckley, hav emn destroyed, and Louis Mo t an( ife, living in the camp. were force( L lie in the river all night to escap remation, while Daniel Sallivan an 'homas Johnson fell prey to the tirt Lil along the Eastern Minnesota road lacaentd rumis mark spots wht-re set Lers have lost their all. The town of Finiayson escaped de truction by heroic itaor or citizen ninterruptedly for thirty-six hour 'row DuIuth to Ashland vast stretche f pine forests are a continuous sea 0 ames. .wo school houses near Pin ity were burned yesterday, the pupil scaping with ditliculty. The village f ierry and Couatock have beei urned. Luibermen are the heavies Jsers. out the amount is as yet. incal ulable, reacning far into the hunared f thousands. PINE CIT', Mnn , Sept. 24.-At las he fierce forest lires have resultea in atality. This morning live farm hand ngaged in Lighting the flames severa ities from here were surrounded b; re and before they could escape, wer urned to death. CUMBERLAND. W is., Sept. 24.-Foret rei have been raging throughou ;arron, Polk, Washburn and Burnet ounties for the past seven days, er angering all kinds of property, and 1i everal cases endangering lives. Th illages of Comstock ana Perley hav een burned; also the saw mill. shop. arns, lumber, etc., of 0. A. Ritan & 0o f this city, located in Burnett county >ss 8150,000. St. PETER, MinL., Sept. 24.-Th ;nion depot, hotel, the American El ress office and three small building ;ere burned this arternoon. Los 75,(00. Horrible Railroad Butchery. NEWCASTLE, Pa.. Sept. 24.-A tei Me wreck occurred on the Pittsbur; ud Western Railroad at McKim's sid ig, a station a short distance on th ther side of Zelienople, Butler County Lt this point a work train with a fore f Ofty men was engaged at the time i: utting down a new track. About 'clock this morning the work train -,o ut of the way of a freight train goin rest. but the crew did not know that econd secuon of the same number wa >llowing live minutes later. The work train again pulled out oi ie main track, and the men were en aged in throwing off dirt when th econd section struck the work trail !ith great force. Cars were piled ui i a shapeless mass. The engines werl mass of broken iron and wood, an< ie hot steam and the boiling wate oured over the unfortunate ones caugh ithe jam. For a moment after thme collision thier< -as silence. Then the air was broke1 y the shrieks of the dying, making~ th< ;cne so terrible that one of the train ien who had escaped injury faintei 'ith horror. The trainmen and labor rs who were not injured begran at once >assist those imprisoned in the debris everal arms and legs were found ii ~veral different places, and the head o a Italian was found twenty feet awa: 'om the body. The engineer, Johi [ough ton, who had bravely done his est to stop his engine attached to thb eight triin, was found wedged in the roken and shapeless Iron. By 11 o'clock the bodies of eight Ital .n laborers had been taken from the reek, and, with the killinir of Engineel :oughton, this swells the~ number t< ine. There were at least twenty met ijured, several of whom cannot recov -.All the bodies were terribly man ed and .disfigured. Engineer Hough ai was the only American killed. Assistance was telegraphed for t< elienople. and in a short time physi ans and citizens~ were at the scene indering all the assistance in theil t~ver. The exact cause of the disaster can. >t be learned as vet, but, as usual, i said a mistake was made by trainmer ho'did not correctly interpret a signal. A Romantic Marriage. CYPRESS, S. C., Sept. 23.-A Yer3 kmantic marriage took place here oia st Monday. About one year ago Mrs, ydia E. Witherspoon, a diashiing youni idow of this place, received a matri onial paper and sa e an advertisement it fromi Dr. Windthrop. of New Mex r>, and answered the adver'isement, nce that time they have kept up a rec ar correspondence. On last Friday, e 11th inst., the young widow received telegram sayingc the doctor was on hi1 ay from New Mexico to Cypress. Hi rived here Sunday morniug and on onday they were married. They had. ver met before Sunday. Mrs. Wither oon has a tine plantation. a gzood cot -a crop, and is clear of debt. The doc r wants her to sell out and return with in to New Mexico.-The State. she Thet tier Death. I'LAINFIELD. N. J., Sept. 23.-Peter anarsdale, of Plainlield, was out rid. g with his wire last night near somner lIe, when his teami of ponies began to n away. He told his wife to jump, 3ich she did. In a moment he re .ied control of the horses andl drove ck to where his wife was lying in the adl. Lifting her up he was horrified tii that she~ was dying, and in live inutesa she was dead. As she struck e earth Mrs. Vanarsdale's head was ished in by a stone, breaking her ek. She leaves a family or little ones. A Pecuiilarly sati Funeral. L'nICAGo, Sept. 21 .-T wo thousand rsons crowed into the great St. icha~'s Catholic Church tnis after on to hear the sol'emn burial service er the remains of Gottleib Shalk, his fe and four children, who were suffo ted in their home on Sedwick street iday night. The assembly was indi ive of the deep bereavement which e whole community feels, and there re few dry eyes while the ceremony is beingeralebrateci STRANGER THAN FICTION, PATHETIC CASE OF AN ILLINOIS t UNION SOLDIER. I Reported Killed in Battle. and Mourned as Dead for Twenty-nine Years. He Now 1 Turns Up and Claima a Pension. a WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.--One of the most remarkable and pathetic cases that has ever been Urought to the Bureau of i Pensions, is that of Wifliami Newby, a a private of Company D. Fourth Regi meat, Illinois Volunteers. Taus regl Snment was commanded by the heroic Col. Stephen G. Hicks, or Illinois, and was conspicuous for its gallantry at the battle of Shiloh. Newby was in this battle, on the ith ui April, 1862, and was reported killed in action. Itseems, I however, that instead of being killed, 1 he receivod a severe wound on the head and was captured and sent to the s rear by the Confederate forces, was im 5 prisoned at Belle Isle and was afterwards transferred to Andersouville. It seems s that Newby was released in course of time and was In poorhouses in various parts of the South. He was inally taken to Key West, Fia., by a gentleman who recognized - New by as a kinsman. Here he remaimed s unti! some time in 1869, when his uncle . died. Newby wandered from place to s p.ace, and finally turned up at Sbrevt f port, La., and while there the colored e people made up a purse and he was 6 given passage on a steamboat to Cincin 5 nati. On the way up the river the I steambort landed at Shawineetown, Ill. Newby, hearing this name called out, seemed to recognize somethina that was familiar and got off the boat. .From t here he wandered to Kaukakee, ill. : where he was in the poorhouse for a s time. Leaving this place, he struck out I Southward, and at last reached McLean Y borough, in Hamilton County, Ill., and L was sent to the poothouse. During these years he was in a de t mented state, bordering upon insanity, t as the supposed result of the wound in t the head. In wandering about he finally went over into White county, and when he got near his old home was seen and recognized by two oif his comrades who had served iL the regiment with him. His wife w as sent for, and she identified him, as did his relatives and many of his friends and comrades. e After Newby was reported as killed m action, his wife applied for a pension, 5 and it was granted, and she has been s drawing a widow's pension from the date of his reported death to the pres ent time. This soldier has filed a claim for a pension, and it is now receiving the considerat:on of the office, 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 e poned until such time as the Secretary I of War shall urant the man a discharge. S This soldier has 1,een separated from t his family for a period of twenty-ine years, they believing all the while that he was dead and now he turns up a for s lorn. demented old lan. His case has attracted great attention in the southern part of Illinois, and has excited the universal sym pathy 01 all who have become acquainted with it. 2 He recently attended a large reunion of old veierans of his county, where the subject was universally discussed. The pension will no doubt soon be granteai, and hewill receive a sufficient sum to tsmooth his way to the end of his life. I A Diabolical Deed. 1 PROsPERtITY, S. C., Sept. 17.- This a morning a negro named Sam Young, -belonging to the construction train on 1 the C. & G. Railroad, 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 and was committed with murderous intent. Young was partially conscious, but coula or would only teli that he was struck by a yellow negro. lie was robbed of hat, shoes and whatever was in his left pocket, it being cut open. in the other pocket was found $3 in silver and a set of dice, one being a false one, having four Lives on it. The instrument with which he was struck was a new pick handle. He was struck three different times, and then he was placed on the railroad at a point in which there was a sharpecurve, 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 cared for by Drs. Langford and sent home. The doctors do not think -that he will die. Holding Up a Train. ST. Lotrs Sept.19.-A dispatch from Muskogee, 1. T., says: The Missouri, Kansas and Texas south-bound passen ger train was held up and the express car robbed at 9 30 last night four miles north of Wagoner. The robbers coy ered the train officials with pistols, aind two of them entered the express car. 'hey ordered the expressman to open the large steel saife, which he was una ble to do, arid it took considerable ar guing before he could convince the rob bers of his utter inability to comply. They, therefore, dumped the small iron chest, which contained $2,500, out of the car door and, breaking it open, took the entire amount. They made no attempt to rob the passengers and there was but one shot fired. The robbers wore masks of red flannel, arid after completing the ob took to the woods with their booty. Oticers have left Muskogee in pursuit of the robbers. Further Ontbreaks in China SAtN Fn~txcIsco, Sept. 23.-The steamer Empress of China, has arrived at Vancouver, 13.C., with the news that J. A. Leonard, United States consul gen vral at Shanghai, telegraphed Admiral elknap on September 3 as follows: "A Shanghai morning paper has a telegram received last night, of a riot at Tehang at noon on Septemiber 2. The mission and all the property of foreigners was rurnedi. No lives lost. Admiral lielknap Iimmediatelv sent the Alliance and the Palos to Tehang. Another riot occur red at Tehang on September 3. All the foreign property at the port was foreign residents were under arms att the ltest accounts. Announces HIS ConversIOn. LERLIN. Sept. 23.-Professor Win schied, of Leipsie, who belongs to. one of the mrost noted Catholic familhes of that city, has announced his conversiorn to Protestantisma, coupled with the~ statenent that the professor attributes the change in his religious views to his disbelief in the authenticity of the gar ment known as the Holy Coat, which is now on exhibition in the cathedral at Treves, and his conscientious scru ples against supporting a church that would lend its sanction to such an er haiin.a