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# ARE DIVORCES Obtained in Georgia Valid in South Carolina. an interesting case Tried and Decided in a Lexington Countvttyurt. William Westmoreland, Who Was Dfvorced in Georgia, Convicted of Adultery by * Petit .liirv A c*Rft of unusually Interest was triei and decided in the court of general session at Lexington on Thursday. The Columbia State says the tlnal decision of the supreme court In the ca.se may a IT ct the validity of several marriages In South Carolina, where one or the other par ies to it obtained a divorce in the State of Georgia. in 1875 William Westmoreland, a well to c 10 merchant, farmer and p >stmaster a't Samaria, in this county, married Miss MalHey Duffoy, also ol this county. Seven children were the result of the union. In 1890 ho applied to the superior court i f Augusta, Ga., for a d vorce on the ground that in 1892 his wife, Malsey Westmoreland, had deserted him and was still deserting him. A copy of his petition was tei rad upon his wife, who did not oppose the proceedings. On the litiding of the Jury in the divorce proceedings, Judge E. II. Calloway, judge of the superior court of Richmond county, Georgia, ordered and aecreea, tnat the said William Westmoreland and the said Malsey West moreland be, and they are here by, totally divorced from each other." And it wt>S ordered "that they each be privileged to marry again without aDy restraint Imposed by their said marriage to each other." Two years after this decree was granted William Westmoreland married again and went to housekeeping with his bride, nee Miss Adora Burgess, in the community of 1 is South Carolina home. Three children a:e the result of this second marriage. And now come the neighbors of that vicinity, in whlob Westmoreland has lived wit.h his second wife for six years, and indict him for adulterously living with beil His trial today resulted in a verdict of guilty, and Judge Gige imposed a sentence on West moreland of four months on the chain gang, or pay a tine of $400. The result of this verdict is far reaching, and not only afficts Westmoreland himself, and his second wife, but practically stigmatizes the children of this sec< V - J., uuu uiairiiVKO Li?ittru?. The supreme court will have several very interesting questions to settle In this case. This is the tirst time, on the crim i 1 *1 Hcc c t tl e c< uite, a case of th kind has arisen, and for that reason it will be well to give the main legal features of the proceedings, as the ti nal status of the case will establish a precedent, and the deolaratlon of the supreme court of South Carolina will lay down the law more clearly with reference to this matter of com ity between the States and Jurisdiction of the person. As a defense to the charge against him Westmoreland, through his coun eel, offered the decree of d.vjrce granted him by the superior court of Augusta, separating him from his first) v ife and also the marriage license he obtained {rom the ordinary court of Augusta and the marriage certlfl eate of the justice of peace who united him ia the holy bonds of u Htr mony to Miss Adora Burgess, his second wife. The State's position was that the ( dlvo:oj Westmoreland obtained in Gcoigia was no good for the reason, as ibe solicitor oontetdid, that the c< urts of Georgia bad no jurisdiction < v<>r Wti'tmoreland, an tie was nob a citizen of Georgia, but,of South Carolina. And to substantiate this contention evidence was Introduced to , show that W? stmotelaud's claim to Citizenship as a G orgsan only went to the extent of bis lenting a room in Augusta, which he only occasionally occupied, on^^r twice a month, j wh? n be wou^^bake a flying visit to AuKUHta, and that he had never a bat,nor,ed his South Carolina citizen ship; that a temporary absence from the Mate does not change the rosi dence or domicleof a perhon. The re was a good deal of evidence introduoed tending to prove that Westmoreland never permamently I abandoned or intended to abondon ills South Carolina residence and therefore, could not be said to have bteu n citizen of Augusta. The principal fignt in the case was on the point of jurisdiction and whether or not the judgment of a foreign court was binding upon the court of trial now sitting on the case. On these points Judge Gage charged the Jury In substance as follows; "Did the defendant Westmoreland go in Georgia with an honest purpose, ,i,ian honest heart, to make Georgia I 'J his home, to aropire a residence in ?1 Georgia, to be \ Georgian? If he I did. and while a resident there, Geor ' N gla gave him a divorce, then the dl!force binds and ought to protect him ' in this prosecution; tut the law is the 1 essence of common sense and justice, it is net a trick. For a man to acquire a residence in & place be must not only put his bv.dv 'here for a time, but he must bav> me purpose in his heart to have t-Vt place as his residence Did the d fondant go to Georgia with an houtst purpose to make his home in Georgia and having Georgia for his residence V if he did then the court had jurisdiction of his oause. But if he went to Georgia for a temporary purpose, for no purpose to acquire a residence there, but to get a divorce there and come back into South Carolina claiming a divorce, then the court of Georgia never had jurisdiction of the cause. If he acquired a residence in South Carolina a temporary change of it would in>t abandou the residence he once at quired." The jury, after deliberating about two h't urs,renden d a verdict of guilty. Coat lor iho l're?Cli?r. This lively account of a social function at Paw Paw. Mo., comes fr< m a 1< cal paper; "The ladles of theMeth odtst Episcopal Church held a tine time at Mrs. Sink's house, which was a nice thing in every way. It was an ice tcream scclable to buy the pastor au overcoat so that he mav plod along this winter will out frei z lng Ills weary bones. The ladies nerved the cream but Deacon Dalley was In charge. 1 'Ba hoggish folks " he called now and tneu. "Eat all you can so's the preacher can be warm this winter." Many young fellows brought their giris, and one did even wor*e than that by fetching a complete j ig to the festival. Ills name shall not be mentioned as he spmt cents for ice cream, eating It all lervenily; and we bet it didn't go well with that boi ze. But what matter? Seven dollars and V0 cents was realized from the s ITray, enough to buy Preacher Hicks a tine overcoat and leave $1 90 for socks and other thicks. l-:tc*|hnu Um I<!x|)ohd(1 Theiu. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga , to the Augusta Chronicle,!says Colonel Cnas. W. Seals, of Lyons, Ga., and a young woman, afterwards said to be Miss Daisy Dolfy, of the same place, were found In an unconscious condition from the tT-jcts of gas In a room In a private house here Wednes day morning. The couple came here Tuesday and the man in engaging the room introduced the young worn an as his wife. Seals had been drinking when he went to the room Tuesday night and Is supposed to have turned on the gas through mistake. The odor of the gas in the house led to their being found. Both were taken to the Savannah hot-.pilal and are now out of dinger. At the very time they were found, they were supposed to be husband and wife, but a telegram from Lyons brought the Information that Mrs. Seals was tnerc. Cotton (itmioci. The census bureau issued a bulletin Wednesday showing that up to .Nov. 1, 6,483,646 bales jof cotton had been ginned in this county. Round bales are counted as half bales. The figures are the result of telegraphic reports made by agents of the census bureau from all the cotton growing states. Owing to the fact that no report was made on Nov. I, 1904, comparative statistics are not avail able. The last pn vlous report for tilie present year, showing results to October, 18, last gave 4,940,728 bales The figures, according to today's bulletin, for the various States areas frilnws: Alabama 8)5,457, Arkansas 211,113, Fiorida 48 218 Georgia 1,302 390, Indian Terntoiy 135,782, Kentucky 306, Louisiana 231,249, Mississippi 610,077, Missouri 14 181, North Carolina 438,821, Oklahoma 144,839, South Carolina 822,140 Tennessee 100,247, Texas 1,692.243 and Virginia 7,479. LiijClit ft Murilor. At New York further light on the recent mysterious murder of Jacob H. Thompson, exchange editor of the Times, was obtained by the police Wednesday when Mamie Gibson, the negress who knew the colored bell boy, Richard Hannibal, who died Tuesday night while under suspicion of committing the murder, was arraigned in court Wednesday stie said that Hannibal told her that if she was ever questioned about the murder she must say that Hannibal spent the night (f Thompson's death at her house. He waH not there that night, the girl tes titled. She said that the bell boy told her that he did not murder Th mp son but that he ought to have been murdered becau?e of the small tips he gave. The colored girl was arraigned in c mneotlon with Hannibal's death, as the bell boy wis found with his throat cut after he bad quarreled with her and wounded her recently. His A motion h Mart, At Buffalo, N. Y., K Ina Wallace Hopper is the defendant in a Ruit for breach of promise, brought by James Q. Morton, who says be is an actor. He asserts that Mrs. Hopper asked him to marry ber and be accepted. He then called her to fulfil her proposal, but that she refused. The papers in the case were filed Wednesday and asked for 110,000 to satisfy Morton's mental and fin&noial injury. The actress denies all his assertions except that she did frequently asked him why be did not get married. His invariable reply was that no one would have him, Killed Jbooping the Gap. At Oolumbus, Onto, on Wednesday Luke Howard was probably fatally Injured while "looping tbo gap" in an automobile. The maobiue had gone safely through its evolutions, but bounded up after landing and turned over, falling on Howard and break ng bis back. FIST IN JURIS Trance Leads the World With The Number in its Navy. SAILORS RUN MANY RISKS Extra Rewards and Pensions Are Necessary to Secure Crews?Recruiting in the Beginning Easy, as Rules Were Not as Rigid as for the Ordinary Seamen. The recent catastrophe of the Farfadel, while it has profoundly touched the world, has had tho effect of even strengthening the new French school of submarine enthusiasts. Ever since Admiral Auhe, when minister of the navy, began the transformation of tho marine by investing with importance its submarine units, the hostility of the old school has been constant and unconquerable. During 15 years of experimental work no accident occurred to justify their apprehensions, and even the disaster in tho recent ltizerta lake has not given them tho moral force which they reckoned on. The action of M. Thomson, the present minister of marine, in descending in the tvorrigan, three days after the Farfadet accident, accompanied by various French naval dignitaries, has wonderfully restored public confidence and has given an implied rebuke to the "old navy" party. Moreover, the naval events of the Russo-Japanese war have shown the utility of various forms of the mosquito fleet, even If the war has also demonstrated the indispensability of the batlesliip of many thousands of tons. France possesses 49 of these vessels in active service or in process of construction, with a united crew of about GOO officers, engineers and seamen. Great Britain has live submarines of 120 tons, thirteen of from 180 to 200 tons, anil one of 300 tons. Twenty-one more, each of 300 tons, are being constructed. Russia owns about 27, not all of which are completed. Germany, although professing to take no interest in submersible craft, Is known to bo experimenting in secret with three different types. The United States has eight submarines, Japan six; Spain, In the projected reconstruction of her navy, expects to have several. it will thus be seen that France Is at the head of the world with respect to her submarine power, and she proposes to retain this prestige. Nevertheless a serious danger has for some time past threatened this positton. This has been caused of the lack of sufliclent crews, the seamen, with good reason, having shown an unwillingness to enter that kind of service unless practically forced to do so. Recruiting was at first a comparatively easy task, because advantages were offered that made it worth while to take on the difficulties and dangers of the work. But toward the end of his term of office M. Pelletan, late minister of the navy, issued a decreo practically suppressing all these advantages. Prior to the decree crews on submarines enjoyed special privileges as regards pay and promotion. In the United States, each man receives $1 extra pay for each descent. In Great Britain such crews receive regularly double pay. In France supplementary pay varying from 25 to 75 per cent was accorded. As a detail, it may be added that a ration of milk of the value of 4 cents a day had been prescribed by naval doctors for all men engaged upon the electric accumulators In order to counteract the effects of lead colic. In general, food was of better quality on submarines and vacations longer; and the men were treated not like ordinary seamen, but with the consideration duo to pioneers in a new country. M. Pelletan, finding something wrong with this system of things, and believing that it tended to hinder rather than develop tne new style of craft, brusquely did away with it in a sl^hlo fortnight; and therefore there wf)fc no longer any attraction to seamen/to take up the service. One can scarcely blame them, for, besides tho danj^er in incomplete understanding of thj} novel form of craft, there was the Inconvenience of being often shut up for hours in a limited space, breathing destructive acids. Admiral Fournier and Admiral Gervais, two of the most distinguished and trusted officers of the navy, believe not only that, an Ivord Goschen said in 1900, tho submarine is "the arm of the poor power," but that it can save the big powers millions a year. Moreover, If the small powers place orders in the dockyards of the world, the big powers must do likewise in proper proportion. I A Cityiof Cretins. Almost the eut^re population of Khokand, in TurkeBthn, suffers from goitre or cretinism. W^xen the Russians occupied the city in 1878, goitre immediately appeared among the troops, and in a few months a tenth of the garrison had developed well-marked tumors, liecause of this the headquarters were eventually removed to Marghillau. Khokand Is the only place In Turkestan where syich a remarkable state of things exlsta. According to Dr. O. Capus, author }of a French work on medicine in Central Asia, there appears to be nothing in the surroundings of the town to account for goitre helng endemle. lis sanitary condition Is not bad, the pltitude but 1,300 feet, and an abundant and pure water supply is obtained from a mountain river. Goitre is due to an abnormal growth of a gland in the neck known as the thyroid, situated just below the so-called Adam's apple. Cretinism Is an arrest of mev tal as well as physical development duo to disease of the thyroid. It usually begins from the second to the fifth year of infanoy. Some of the dwarfs exhibited as curiosities are the product of this curious disease. WHY THEY WEBB KILLED. The MlHBioiifcrtcu Trtf <1 to Stop the Worship of Idols. The massacre at the American Presbyterian mission at Llerohau on October 28, when live persons were killed and twosiverly wounded by & m>b of Chlnatnen was caused by the i action of two members of the mission 1 the daughter of I)r. Machle and a! deaconess, In endeavoring to dissuade a number of Chinese worshippers * from (llarlng prayers to an Idol. The ; two women art! said to have seized the image which the Chinamen were t worshipping and refused to return It. The mob destroved all the American missionary establishments and sub j cted the missionaries to many outrages. The bodies of live persons j who were killed were thrown into the I river. S'x French pries's living 1l , the vicinity were not harmed. There! is ro fear of further trouble In Lienchftu. A Chinese mandarin dispatched soldiers to the scene as soon as he beard of the trouble, but they arrived to late to save the missionaries. It is also stated that the mob was anger ed at a request by l)r. Machle that a j temporary theatre which had been ] erected near the American mis-don ^ hospital, should be removed. The mob found a skeleton in the mission instruction room and carried it in the i procession through the town, t xhibit- 'J log it as an instance of the foreigner's t treatment, of the Chinese. The ro ) auest of I>r. Machle for t he ramnvAl of the theatre was on sccc.unt of the noise that was made during ?ho performances. The missionaries took refuse from the mob In a cavern, but wf>re pursued a> d all killed excepting Dr. Maohle and Miss Patterson, who escaped to the yamen. Wtini lioyn (JoHt. Some one has loured out that the average boy who Is dependent upon his parents for a livelihood until In reaches the aye of 21 veurs, c sts them $4,000. Upon this basis of calculation a brood for instance, six ho\s, will represent an outlay of #2 l,coo by the time they leave the homo roost The question naturally arises, do is it pay to raise hoys, aud are there no orher en ps that would be more profitable! If a boy turns out to be cigar I ette tiend with a laugh that would make the wild untuioDed donkey feel perfectly at home in his society, and with an untrammelcd and uncorquerable desire to avoid work It Is sare to ^ay the parents might have Invested to better advantages. Hut If the 1 o> grows up with the lesson well learned that wealth and success grow or ly on * ushes by the sweat of the brow, the parents need not begrudge whatever they have spent on him, for he will be a source of Increasing joy and pride to their hearts when they grow old and their hands tremble and tneirlegs wabble and their ateds are k1 jw and faltering. They will then have iwu strong arms to lean upon Hall Weevil 1* >8t Spreading The L mlslana blate crop peat com mission reports that the Mexican bo 1 weevil has jnstbeeu reported at Bayou Chloot, St. Landry, nearly the c m tre of the state, showing that It has mov td forty miles eastward in Lou In ana this summer. The light against the weevil In Louisiana has so lar ac compllshed little, although the most strenuous policy Is pursued and no goods likely to carry boll wervll i<re admlttid from an Infected to an uninfected portion of the state. The commission also reports against the Marston process of getting rid of the weevils by the u?e of parls green, which claimed the 850,000 prize offered by Texas f r a means of checking the boll weevils, and declaring that the remedy notonly did no k ood, hut actually tended to Increase the number of weevils. A H?nl A dispatch from Fort Mill to The State says: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hammonds are prostrated with grief over the death Wednesday afternoon " of their 2-vear old daughter, who died J fr( rn the affects of on ounce of carfcol lo acid. Mr. Hammonds was preparing to move and in packing up his household goods came across a bottle of carbolic acid, which he thre v throrgh an open window into the yard. His little daughter, playing in the ; yard, saw the bottle fall and picking it up, drank it. Her parents soon dhcovered that something was wroi g t with her and summ >ned phynicians. 1 Inspiteof all the iffjrts of friends t and physicians the little girl died In ? 1( ss than an hour. t Si'.wor iilowu Up. An explosion of gas In the sewer ? running uador Pennsylvania avenue, \ Allegheny, Pa., between Sedgwick x ariH MinhaOon ct.rautu tV<>ririaarl.>.. 141IV* +J+ Wtilll?VUI?M DVlVUUd If Vl'l l' V?J' I Or J ( broke hundreds of windows and tore , up pavements on Pennsylvania avenue H fur a distance of two squaies No one t was injured. The explosion caused H much excitement in tne vicinity, and s the report was plainly heard a mile r away. All the windows in an electric .. car on Fulton street, some distance a away, were broken, and the passen- j gers were in a panic, several being making a hasty exit from the car. IJow the gas was ignited Is not known. 1 Fatal Accident. James H. A. Brooks, a well known < manufacturer of Pniladelphla was ' killed; Mlonael G. Price, a business ( associate was seriously Injured, arid i their wives were painfully hurt in an < automobile accident Thursday near i Absecon, N. J., about 50 miles from I Philadelphia. 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Hoita to St. Petersburg have topped running arid telephone nod telegraph comrounlc vtions hav? t een -ever d. A force of uhlan calvary ent to Oronstadt from Psterhof Is eported to have Join d the insurfensts. It is also reported that the artillerymen of the fortress have olned the Insurgents. The Davit* Monument. Ground broken at ttiohmood, Va., Wed^ sd*v for the monument /> Jefferson Davis, to be erected by ihe U aeu Daugnters of the Confederacy and to cost $50,000. Mrs. S. r. McCullowgh, of S'auton, Va., chairmen of the monument committee presided at tne ceremonies, woich were simple in the extreme, and witnessed pr> ctlc&lly by the member* of the building committee only. The unveiling ceremonies are tixed for L007 and are expected to be very el&b urate, the whole south participating through prominent representatives. CONWAY' \Y, 3. C. SFURPLFS FUND, $20,000. \s, $180,000.00. DKRS: I). A. SPTVRY, Cashier. M. W. COLLINS, Asst. 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