The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-05-28
Western and Southern States.

An interesting and important decision affect
ing the right of white and coloted persons to
intermarry has just been given in the United
States Circuit Court at Richmond Va. In the
case of The colored man, Edmund Kinney, and
the white woman, Mary Hall, confined in the
penitentiary for II violation of the State stat
ute prohibiting the intermarIiage of races,
Judge Hughes refused to grant writ OF
habeas corpus on the ground that the United
States courts have no jurisdiction over ques-
tons 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 tnat absolute and entire power
over these laws is necessarily lett all over the
world and in this Union on States to the gov
eminent of local society; that the law under
which the parties were convicted was with the
unrestrained legislative power OF Virginia to
enact it, and that it is not prohibited by any
provision of the national Constitution. AS to
making contracts the opinion holds TINT sec
ton ,977 OF the Revised Statutes which Sc
cures 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 the States wherein it is pro-
posed to enforce them. Admitting that mar
riage is a contract, the opinion holds that the
privilege of enforcing it extends only to lawful
marriages, and that il a citizen of Virginia
went to the District Of Columbia or to the
Territory of Utah and was there married in
accordance with the local law he could not re-
turn with his consort or consorts to Virginia
and expect to subordinate her laws OF marriage
to the laws OF the other jurisdiction. The case
| will probably be taken to the Supreme Court
| Of the United States
A wonderful game of billiards has Just been
| MIA in xuh do
| feated George f. Slosson in three-ball game,
| 1000 points up, for the championship. Schaeter
ran the game out in three innings, making
| 5, $50 and 905 points successfully, while Slos-
son made IA, and 81 points.
| Louisvi le Ky, has been visited water
| spout, following an 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-lou
colored men and four white women-have
been arrested, charged with intermarrying in
defiance OF the State law. The grand jury also
| indicted two colored ministers for performing
the marriages.
The business part of the town OF Farmers.
| vile, La, has been destroyed by fire, and an
estimated loss of 100000 incurred
While Mr.. and Mrs. Price were riding neal
Brooklyn, Mich, the horse became frightened
| and threw the carriage over an embankment
Mrs. Price received injuries from which she
lied the next night, and her husbands skull
was fractured.
Alphonso Davis and Henry Andrews, white
and Lewis Carlton, colored, were hanged foi
burglary on the town common Mt Hillsboro
Gin s.sS,f ln4 Innocence on the
scafiold While the execution was going on
terrific thunderstorm ragged, making the scene
wild and teTTielsi uSo b ot5he if Mo, for muir
derng tramp last October; at Plaquemine
La, Robert Cheney, colored, suffered a lik,
punishment for assaulting woman in Jun,
last, and at Provo City, Utah, Wallace Wilker
son, who shot man named Baxter, two years
ago, was himself shot to death in the jail yard
the law OF the Territory giving murderer
after conviction, the choice OF being hanged OF
shot. Wilkerson's executioners were three
concealed marksmen, who were about thirty
feet distant from the chair in which he sat.
Samuel Durrell and Josiah Manning, two
young men, who had taken refuge under {
large sycamore tree, during q thunderstorm
at Fredericksburg, Ind, were struck by light
ming and instantly killed
i. Longbehm, a German living on q vege
table rancho, about five miles from Antioch
CAL, took his little boy and girl, aged respec
lively SIX and four years, into the fields, bea
them to death with a club, cut their throat
and then went back to the house and blew hi
own brains out with shotgun. The tamil,
had always lived happily together and it i
supposed that Longbehm WINS suffering iron
an attack of insanity.
Reports from the Northwest state that tn
prospects for large crops in that region ar
very tlattering.
William Morgan, cashier of the st. Nichola
Hotel, Cincinnati, and his brother, John Nor
gan, while rowing q slziff on Licking river wer
upset and drowned in endeavoring to avoid
passing steamer
William Nelson, colored man, was fine
$4,000 at Terre Haute Ind, and sentenced t
the penitentiary for one year for marrying
white woman.
Orlando Cassler who, III July last, nun
! dered and robbed George L. Monroe, wa
hanged at Seward, Neb. About half an hou
before the execution, which took place at l.3
p. NJ, mob suddenly tore down the inciosur
around the scaffold, and quietly witnessed tn
proceedings to the end. Cassler asserted o
the scaifold that he was innocent, and that hi