Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-08-12
FOREIGN FLASHES.
End of the Newman Hall Case
A Divorce Granted.
Turkish Troops Soon TO ReOceu.
py the Balkans.
The New Protective Tariff Exciting
Conflicting Opinions in Ger
many.

Rev. Newman Hall against his wife
for adultery, the judge in summing up
the motives of the parties to
the suit, and commented at length |
upon the manner in which they had |
been manifested in action. The ten
dency Of his remarks was to exoner-
ate Hall from any impropriety in
desiring and bringing suit for a di-
vorce from his wife, who, as there was
evidence to show, had wronged him
with the view of entering upon a
second marriage. In commenting
upon the wife's reluctance to submit
to the conjugal embrace he charac
terized it as one of the first and
most pronounced symptoms of an
illicit attachment. 1t had moreover
been assigned ndsworn to bywitnesses,
that Hall had treated his wife with
tender consideration. The Judge passed
under review the law affecting adul-
terry and the legal evidence, showing
circumstantially its commission. He
said that the ofcnse was one rarely
susceptible of direct proof, and that
opportunities, of both place and time,
had generally been admitted as proper
circumstances to guide the verdict of
the jury. The jury must, however,
consider all that had been offered in
evidence as to any peculiar structural
formation of the defendant, but must
discard any unsupported insinuations
of counsel. The jury must also be-
ware of imperfect psychological argu-
ments as to the peculiar aversion of a
wife to the individuality of husband
and her prediction, under singular
influences, for the compaHionship of
another without at the same time for
feiting her honor. Richardson, the
stable keeper, was shown to have been
man unfit in more respects than one
for association upon intimate terms
with Mrs. Hall. The change was felt
to be strangely in favor of the plaintiff
and verdict was given in his favor.
! Mr.. Hall is therefore released and can
select another affinity to whom the
general opinion is that he has for
some time owed the reparation of
marriage. HIS influence is universally
believed to be at an end, and whether
his wife be guilty or not nobody be-
lieves that he is himself free from
sin. The comments of those newspa-
pers which support the verdict do not
fairly represent the general current of
opinion, and even Hall s friends blame
him for what they call extraordinary
leniency. Hall Is man of some in
fuenOe, and his wife, now divorced, of
course, has none.
LIVERPOOL, August 8.-A leading
grain circular says the continental de-
mand for cargOes off coast is undated.
Wheat markets have generally recov-
cred from last week Is depression. For
ward purchases of American continue
in considerable quantity. Flour slow
of sale, but prices fairly maintained.
| Corn sold fairly at I'D. to Id. over
Tuesdays quotations.
LONDON August 8.-The Times
says: According to Cote, the Euro
pean opponent Of the Panama Canal
scheme, only one hundred and sixty
thousand shares of the Panama Canal
stock has been subscribed in Paris up
to last night, when the subscription
closed.
VIENNA, August S.-There is every
reason to believe that Turkey will, in
accordance with the provisions of the
treaty of Berlin, send garrisons to oc-
cupy the Balkan passes early in Sep
tember. Some of the troops must pass
through Eastern Roumelia, and the
disposition of the inhabitants Is more
important consideration than ever.
There is no doubt that the Greek in
habitants are better disposed toward
Turkey than to the new government,
under whose immediate direction they
are placed.
LONDON, August 8.-The Times
correspondent at Constantinople re-
ports that Servia has presented to the
porte a note claiming 2,0O0,QQQ francs
damages for destruction OF property
caused by Albanian raids on Servian
frontiers The Times Vienna dispatch
says that the porte has rejected Ser
Was demands.
BERLIN, August s.-The new pro-
tectiVe tariff is still exciting conflict
ing opinions upon all sides. 1t is now
arranged that a congress of delegates
from the principal German towns is to
meet at Berlin in September to CON
slider the corn and meat duties.
LoNpoN, August 8.-Somc corre-
spondents in South Africa appear to
think it possible Cetewayo may defeat
the natives sent against him, in which
event all the prestige gained by the
success of the British forces at Uiundi
would be lost. A military council
will be held at Maritzburg, but it will
probably be little more than matter
of form, as Sir Garnet Wolseley, who
is accused by the QelOnists Of under
rating the enemy as much as Lord
Chelmsford overrated them, is evil
IDENTIFY bent on pursuing his own views
} as to the reduction of the British
forces in South Africa, Resides The
marines, tho naval brigade, six in
: tantry and two cavalry regiments will
be sent home. Some accounts state
| that Secocoeni in the north il moi
expected to submit without fighting.
! A column of 5000 men is preparing to
J march against him should he continue
recalcitrant. Fuller advices show
( that Sir Garnet Wolseley did moi
f inform the coast chiefs that they were
) to be governed by the English, but h,
told them their country would b,
= ruled by independent Zulu chiefs.
8 ST. PETERSBURG, August 8.-Th,
$ report of the Russian customs de
! partmentshows that the export of grail
!. during May was 1,223,5O0 chetwert