ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2004, 6 November 1886, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. THE BJUCICAULT DIVORCE CASE. GENERAL BOOTH. FEARFUL HURRICANE. A commission his been ordered to take testimony in the United S’ates in th* Bouuicault Divorce case. The ground for divorce is alleged infidelity with Miss Thorndyke, who Bouci ;ault siys is hi* Lwful wife, and whom he rtnrried in Australia. lie says lie was never married to Agnes Robertson, and never unde any contract with her, but had announced her as his wife m-r.dy fo- appearance. It ■* not claimed there was a ceremonial mar. riige, either religious or civil. Mr* Boucicau't claims there was a verbal contract.

Charleston, South Carolina, is still being visite 1 by ea thquakes ; the shock* however, are light, but they serve to discourage the people by the uncertainty of the siiu ition.

Gm nil William Booth, of the Salvation Army, has arrived in New York to inquire into thecondition cf the campaign, Th- principle portion of his time will bo spent in Canada. A terrific exp'osion oc urrel at the Ditmar Powder Works, Blycho.terpen the Harlem River branch of th: New York and New Haven Railwav, at 10 o’c ock on toe morning of the 30th, resisting iu the instantaneo ib de.th of four of the men employed in the factory.

Lord Lon-dale, treasurer for the actress Vi ole- Cameron, now in New York, has been before the Police Court with an application to have I)e Bensand •, tha worn in's husband, arrested, h : anise he threatened to shoot her un'esa L >r i Lcnjd.le gave him LloOO. a)(1 A tremendous hurricana has visite I the Is'and of .Jamaica, by which Kingston suffered greatly, as well as Morar,t B>y. The loss is estimated at LST.oM. •ne southern part of the island was Ivd entirely waste. Five persons were kt'M and 30 injured. Ne»riy IO.QnQ srrieft destitute.

The St. Domingo revohi'iooßts are being badly worste 1. Advice* ro th” I- th Sept-mber siy that, they were defeUel m every battle, an 1 their principal g-re-al, Labare* has been ki led.

CHINA AND JAPAN

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS

A despatch from Hong K mg, of 29-h September, says that the recent whol s» t massacre of Christians in the provin :<3 of See Chuen was fomented, by the Ra n,a Catholic Bishop, who insisted nn u-i'ig yellow tile* in the c ms'ruction of a ne *’ cathedral, yellow being a colour venerate aa Itaored by the Chinese*