The Newtown bee., 1879-05-27


 trusted friends" If this communication is genuine, it would indicate that the Nihilists have m organization in this country.
 Western and Southern States.
 An interesting and important decision affect ing the right of white and colored persons tc intermarry has just been given in the United States Circuit Court ut Richmond, Va. In the cnse of the colored man, Edmund Kinney, and the white woman, Mary Hall, confined in tho penitentiary for a violation of the State stat. ute prohibiting the intermarriage ot races Judge Hughes refused to grant a writ o hnbeas corpus on the ground that the United States courts have no jurisdiction ques- tions of marriage. The opinion holds that the laws of marriage are at the sovereign control and will of each State unaffected by any pro. vision of any article of the Constitution of the United States; that absolute and entire power over these laws is necessarily left all over the world and in this Union of States to the gov ernment of local society; that the law under which the parties were convicted was with the unrestrained legislative power to enact it, and that it is not prohibited by any provision of the national Constitution As to making contracts the opinion holds that section ,977 of the Re. yised Statutes, which secures to all persons within the United States the right in every State to make and enforce contracts can only refer to contracts lawful under the law of tho States wherein it is proposed to enforce them Admitting that marriage is contract, m, thf extends only to lawful marriages, and that if 2 umbia or to the Territory of Utah and was there married in accordance with the local law he could not return with his consort or con. sorts to Virginia and expect to subordinate her laws of marriage 10 the laws of the other jur- l idiction. The caso will probably be taken to Inc Supreme Court of the United States.
 A wonderful game of billiards has just been played in Chicago, where Jacob Schaefer de- ieated George F. Slosson in three-ball game, 1000 points up, for the championship. Schaefer ran the game out in three innings, making s, 690and 305 points successvely, while Slos- son made If, and 2l points.
 Louisville, Ky, has been visited by a water spout, following m extraordinarily heavy rain. Part of the city was inundated to the extent of three feet, and considerable damage was done.
 At Terre Haute, Ind, eight persons-four colored men and four white women-have been arrested, charged with intermarrying in defiance of the State law. The grand jury aleo indicted two colored ministers for performing tho marriages.
 The Greenbackers and workingmen of Washington celebrated the adoption of the new constitution in California by serenading the Greenback members of Congress. Representa- tives Murch, Wright, Ford, Weaver and Gil- lette responded in brief speeches.
 Alphonso Davis and Henry Andrews, white, and Lewis Carlton, colored, were hanged for burglary on the town common at IIillsboro N. O., in the presence of eight thousand spec tators. All three men proclaimed their inno- cence on the scaifold While the execution was going on terrific thunderstorm ragged making the scene wild and terrible. On the same day John J. West was hanged at Boon- vile, Mo, tor murdering tramp last October; at Plaquemine, La, Robert Cheney, colored, suffered like punishment for assahlting a woman in June last, and at Provo City, Utah, Wallace Wikerson, who shot a man named Baxter, two years ago, himself shot to death in the jail yard, the law of the Territory giving murderer, after conviction, the choice of being hanged or shot. Wilkersons execu- tioners werc three concealed marksmen, who were about thirty feet distant from the chair in which he sat.
 The business part of the town of Farmers vile, La, has been destroyed by fire, and an estimated loss of $l00, ,000 incurred.
 While Mir. and Mrs. Price were riding near Brooklyn, Mich., the horse became frightened and threw the carriage over an embankment Mrs. Price received injuries from which she died the next night and her husbands skull was fractured.
 Samuel Durroll and Josiah Manning. two young men, who had taken refuge under a large sycamore tree, during 6 thunderstorm, at Fredericksburg, Ind, were struck by light ming and instantly killed.
 l.. Longbehm German, living on a vege- table ranche, about five miles from Antioch Cal, took his little boy and girl, aged respec- lively six and four years, into the fields, beat them to death with club, cut their throats and then went back to the house and blew his own brains out with shotgun. The family had always lived happily together, and it is supposed that Longbehm was suffering from an attack of insanity.
 Reports from the Northwest state that the prospects for large crops in that region nre very fiattering.
 William Morgan, cashier of tho St. Nicholas Hotel, Cincinnati and his brother, John Mor- gan, while rowing skih on Licking river were upset and drowned in endeavoring to avoid passing steamer.
 William Nelson, q colored man, was fined S5, GOO at Terre Haute Ind, md sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for marrying white woman.
 Orlando Cnssler, who, in July last, mur- dcrcd and robbed George L. Monroe, was hanged at Seward, Neb About halt m hour before the execution, which took placc at 80 r. M., a mob suddenly tore down the inclosure around the scaffold and quietly witnessed the proceedings to the end. Cassler asserted on tho scaffold that he was innocent, and that his life had been sworn away. He WAS cool and resigned throughout.
 From Washington.
 The Senate Committee on Elections decided to take up the charges of bribery against Sena- tor Inealis, in connection with his election to the Senate from Kansas.
 In response to a letter from the Secretary of tho Interior, inquiring what amount of funds can be made available monthly for the pay- ment ot arrears of pensions, the Secretary of tho Treasury states that including the amount already paid, S2,5oo, 900 will be available prior