Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-13

and universal conviction of Dilkes guilt.
Justice Butts, in summing up. described
respondents statements as clear and dis
tinct, and said they compelled him to con-
cede that the adultery charged was actualjv
committed. If the woman had been mt
in the witness box. and had given the same
testlmonythere.i it would have been evidence
against Dixie. Dilke's position was further
damaged oy his refraining from giving tes-
tlmony The Attorney defense.
Were we to put Dixie in the witness box
the cross-examination would be on indis-
cretions IN life from which no man is free =
was taken as frank admission that Dixie
was unable TO give an explanation. That
part OF Mrs. Crawford's confession describ-
ing the depth of debauchery between Dixie
ana fer is unfit for publication. The trial
caused a painful sensation throughout the
country in regard to the state of society
morals
The Military Situation in the Balkan
States.
LONDON, February 12th.-The military
situation in the Balkan States has suddenlv
assumed serious aspect A dispatch from
Sofia to-day declares that decree has beep
prepared, lnobilizing the entire bulgarian
army tor renewed service. kilograms from
Belgrade confirm the alarming report
canied last night, that the Servian army is
called out, ostensibly for six weeks drill
To-day's dispatches state that the ARM is
brought up 10 the full war strength. and IS
mobilized for active work in the field.
The troops are already concentrating
reports from both sides indicate that prep
aratlons are being hastily made to throw
heavy relnforcements into the strategetical
positions held since the close of the last
campaign. The Greek reserves. reported
summoned for service yesterday. are re-
spending 10 the call to-day. The move
ment OF the Turkish troops towards the
Ureek frontier is reported from Athens
to-day to be developing rapidly into an
important operation in force, threatening
the Greek positions. Changes in the Min
lstry of Stamboul are declared 10 be i'm
pending. The war party is predominant at
the palace. Russia is authoritatively stated
tonight to have definitely rejected the pro-
posed agreement between Bulgaria and
Turkey, and the negotiations will have to
begin anew
Royal Family Quarrel in Portugal.
LONDON, February 12th.-The royal fam
lly OF Portugal are beginning legal pro-
ceedlngs against the Countess Edia the
second morganatic wife of the late King
ferdlnand, to compel her removal from her
present residence, the Necessidados Palace.
The Countess will contest the suit, and in
the event of her success King Ferdinands
portion OF the fortune of his first wife, the
mother of the present sovereign, will fall
to her. The Countess was in her youth
ballet-dancer in Boston museum, and
was known as Eliza Hensler.
Ex-Queen Isabella and Her Husband.
MADRID, February 12th-For the first
time IN eighteen years, ex-Queen Isabella
met her husband Fracois, at mass in the
Escurial, at the tomb of Alfonso. Fracois
will remain in Madrid until after the mar
riage of the Infanta Eualia.
The Queen of Spain to Abdicate.
MADRID, February 12th-The Progresso.
a Zorillist newspaper, says that when the
Cortes meets It will be to receive the an
nouncement of the abdication of the Queen.