DIVORCE LAWS.-Continued. zona; one year, California, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming; two years, Indiana; three years, Delaware and New-Hampshire; five years, Missouri; time not specified, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New-Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington (in discretion of court.) Disappearance, absence without being heard from, Connecticut and Vermont, seven years; New-Hampshire, three years; Rhode Island. Other causes are as follows: Voluntary separation, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Having former wife or husband living, Arkansas, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New-Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Joining a religious sect which believes marriage unlawful, Kentucky, Massachusetts and NewHampshire. Indicted for felony and is a fugitive from justice, Louisiana and Virginia. Husband indicted for felony and flees the State, North Carolina. Refusal of wife to "remove with her husband to this State," Tennessee. Indignities rendering condition intolerable or life burdensome, Arkansas. Missouri, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming. Conduct rendering it unsafe for wife to live with husband, Missouri and Tennessee. Turning wife out of doors, Tennessee. Attempt by either party upon life of other, Illinois, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Gross neglect of duty, Kansas and Ohio. Wife "given to intoxication," Wisconsin. Husband a vagrant under the statutes, Missouri and Wyoming. Insanity or mental incapacity at time of marriage, District of Columbia, Georgia and Mississippi. Insanity, permanent and incurable, occurring subsequent to marriage, Arkansas. Incurable chronic mania or dementia, having existed ten years or more, Washington. Any cause rendering the marriage originally void, Maryland and Rhode Island; or voldable, Rhode Island. Marriage Within prohibited degrees, Georgia, Mississippl, New-Jersey and Pennsylvania. Marriage by force, duress or fraud, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. Marriage solemnized while either party was under the age of consent, Delaware. When one of the parties has obtained a divorce in another State, Michigan and Ohio. Pregnancy before marriage, Arkansas, Wyoming. Public defamation, Louisiana. Any other cause deemed by the court sufficient and when the court shall be satisfied that the parties can no longer live together, Washington. LIMITED DIVORCE.-Limited divorce exists in the following States: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, in favor of wife only, Nebraska, New-Jersey, New-York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, in favor of wife only, Rhode Island, Tennessee, in favor of wife only, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin. OC PREVIOUS RESIDENCE REQUIRED. -Five years, Massachusetts, (If when married both parties were residents, three years.) Three years, Connecticut, NewJersey. Two years, District of Columbia, Florida, Indiana. Maryland, Michigan (when the cause for divorce occurred out of the State, otherwise one year.) North Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont. One year, Alabama (abandonment, three years), Arkansas. (If cause occurred out of the State, plaintiff must have been a resident of the State at time of occurrence), Colorado (unless cause for divorce curred within the State, or while one or both of the parties resided in the State), Illinois (same as Colorado), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (if cause occurred out of the State, plaintiff must have been a resident of the State at time of occurrence), Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi (in case of desertion, two years), Missouri (same as Colorado), Montana, New-Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin. Six months, Arizona, California, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, New-Mexico, Texas, Wyoming, Ninety days, North Dakota. DIVORCE STATISTICS. The total number of divorces in the United States and Territories from 1867 to 1886, inclusive, was 328,716. From 9,937 in 1867 the number rose to 25,535 in 1886, an increase of nearly 157 per cent in twenty years. The population of the United States increased about 60 per cent in the same period. From 1870 to 1880 the population increased 30.1 per cent, and the divorces 79.4 per cent. The only States and Territories in which the percentage of increase in population between 1870 and 1880 was greater than the increase in divorces were Connecticut, New-York, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. The number of absolute divorces in 1886 in Great Britain was 475; in France, 6,211; in Germany, 6,078. The average duration of married life in the United States before divorce during the twenty years from 1887 to 1886 was 8.97 years for the husband and 9.27 for the wife, or considering both together, 9.17; 15,622 couples were divorced one year after marriage, 21,525 after two years, 27,270 after three years, 27,909 after four years, and 25,371 after twentyone years or more. WORLD'S FAIR SOUVENIR COINS. The amount of Columbian Souvenir coins turned out at the United States Mint In 1893 was as follows: Half dollars, 5,002,105 pieces, valued at $2,501,052.50; quarter dollars, 40,023 pieces, valued at $10,005.75. WOMAN SUFFRAGE. * AMERICA-Twenty-eight States, a large majority of the Union, have given women some form of suffrage. The Judiciary Committee of the Federal House of Representatives reported in the spring of 1890 a constitutional amendment securing sufrage to the women of the whole country. In Canada women have municipal suffrage in every Province and Territory; in Ontario, for all elective offices but members of the Legislature and Parliament. In Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New-Hampshire, New-Jersey, New-York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin women have various degrees of school suffrage. In Arkansas and Missouri women vote, by signing or refusing to sign petitions, on liquor license in many cases. In Louisiana they vote on allowing railroads to run through their parishes. In Mississippi, in 1892, they were admitted to vote on fence questions by the stock law. In Delaware suffrage is exercised by women in several municipalities. In Kansas they have equal suffrage with men at all municipal elections. About 60,000 voted in 1891. In Montana they vote on local taxation. In New-York they vote at school elections; 3,000 voted at Binghamton in 1890. They vote also in various cities and villages on local improvements, such as gas and electric street lighting, paving, sewerage and municipal bonds. In Pennsylvania women vote, by signing or refusing to sign petitions, on paving and other local improvements. In Utah women voted from 1870, until disfranchised by Congress in the "Edmunds law." They are now actively demanding the repeal of this law. In 1884 the people formed a State constitution securing suffrage to women, but Congress did not admit the State. In Washington women voted generally for five years, and then were excluded by decision of the Territorial Supreme Court. were mostly debarred from voting on the State Constitution, and the men, mostly newcomers, voted down a constitutional provision guaranteeing suffrage to women. The women assert that they were shut out unlawfully, and are at work to undue their disfranchisement; 14,000 voted in the Territory in one year. Wyoming women have had the same vote with men since 1869. They requested the Constitutional Convention to guarantee suffrage to them in 1889. with practical unanimity in convention and at the polls. Congress declared that it "accepted, ratified and confirmed" this constitution, and admitted the State, July 10, 1890. The women have generally voted the Republican ticket, as that party was mainly instrumental in enfranchising them. They women In in 1880 and since urged by Hamilton Wilcox, enabling all women citizens to vote at all elections. A majority of the Senate favored it; but no vote was taken. Both Houses, however, passed in 1891 a law enabling women outside of cities to vote for a School Commissioner in each Assembly district once in three years, at State elections. The Vermont Lower House passed in 1891 a bill securing municipal suffrage, by 149 to 83; but the bill failed in the Senate. AFRICA-Cape Colony has municipal woman suffrage. The colony rules a millión square miles. ASIA-All Russian colonies in Siberia have municipal woman suffrage for heads of households. So have the women taxpayers of India in the rural districts of British Burmah and the municipalities in the presidencies of Bombay and Madras. AUSTRALIA-Every province has municipal and school woman suffrage. The country is about as large as the United States, not including Alaska. AUSTRALASIA-New-Zealand and Tasmania have municipal and school woman suffrage. Both Houses of the NewZealand Legislature passed in 1891 a bill admitting women to vote for members of Parliament, but it failed to become a law owing to a disagreement as to details. EUROPE-In England, Scotland and Wales women vote for all elective officers but members of Parliament. In France the women teachers elect women members of all boards of education. In Sweden women vote for all elective officers but Representatives; also, indirectly, for mem bers of the House of Lords. In Norway they have school suffrage. In Ireland they vote for harbor boards, poor-law guardians, and in Belfast for municipal officers. In Russia women householders vote for all elective officers and on all local matters. In Finland for all elective officers. In Austria-Hungary they vote, by proxy, for all elective officers. In Croatia and Damatia they do so at local elections in person. In Italy widows vote for members of Parliament. In Prussia women vote, mainly by proxy, at local elections In and for members of provincial Diets. Belgium women taxpayers have municipal suffrage by proxy, and in Luxemburg for members In of the Legislature also. Switzerland women real estate owners have local suffrage in the canton of Berne. In Rumania women taxpayers have municipal suffrage by proxy. This was done The New-York Assembly passed in April, 1891, by 71 votes to 34, the bill proposed ISLANDS-Iceland, the Isle of Man and Pitcairn Island have full woman suffrage. Nearly 2,000 islands have it in sɔme degree. Guernsey, in the English Channel, enacted it in 1891. The area of countries where women have some suffrage is about 20,000,000 square miles, larger than all Asia, and their population is about 385,000,000, more than that of all Europe. Prepared by Hamilton Willcox, of New-York, Chairman State Executive Committee Woman Suffrage Party. Office. Governor Secretary of State. Treasurer Attorney-General ALABAMA-CAPITAL, MONTGOMERY. Name. Term. Term began. Term ends. Salary. Dec. 1, 1894.. 1,800 1,800 2,100 2,250 None 3,600 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 Fees 2,250 Thos. G. Jones.... 2 years Dec. 1, 1892. Dec. 1, 1894..] $3,000 Jos. D. Barron.. 2 years Dec. 1, 1892. Dec. 1, 1804.. John Purifoy. 2 years Dec. 1, 1892. J. Craig Smith... 2 years Dec. 1, 1892. Wm. L. Martin... 2 years Dec. 1, 1892. Chas. P. Jones... Geo. W. Stone.... 6 years Nov. 12, 1892. Nov. 12, 1898. Thos. Cobbs.. 6 years Nov. 12, 1892. Nov. 12, 1898. S. K. McSpadden.. 6 years Nov. 12, 1892. Nov. 12, 1898. Jno. A. Foster.... 6 years Nov. 12, 1892. Nov. 12, 1898. W. H. Tayloe.. 6 years Nov. 12, 1892. Nov. 12, 1898. Clerk Supreme Court. Sterling A. Wood.. Pleasure of Court. Supt. Public Inst'n.. John G. Harris... 2 years Dec. 1, 1892. Dec. 1, 1894. Com'r of Agriculture. Hector D. Lane... 2 years Aug. 1, 1892. Aug. 1, 1894..] Railroad Commissioners, H. R. Shorter, W. C. Tunstall (vacancy); 2, 4 and 6 years; president, $3,500; associates, $3,000. Chancellor .. ... Office. Governor ALASKA-CAPITAL, SITKA. Name. James Sheakley... 4 years Jan. 10, 1890. U. S. Dist. Attorney. Chs. S. Johnson.. 4 years Jan. 27, 1890. U. S. District Judge. Warren Truitt. 4 years Jan. 27, 1892. U. S. Marshal... Orville T. Porter.. 4 years Feb. 27, 1890. Clerk U. S. Dis. Court and ex-officio Secre 2,000 Term ends. Salary. Jan 10, 1894. $3,000 Jan. 27, 1894. ja 2,500 Jan. 27, 1896. 3,000 Feb. 11, 1894. (a 2,500 tary of the Territory N. R. Peckinpaugh 4 years June 23, 1890. June 23, 1894. 2.500 a And fees. ARKANSAS-CAPITAL, LITTLE ROCK. Secretary of State... Clerk Supreme Court. W. P. Campbell.. 2,250 2,250 1,500 3,000 Office. H. H. Markham.. 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, 1895.| $6,000 Lieutenant-Governor. John B. Reddick.. 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, 1895. Secretary of State.. Edwin G. Waite.. 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, 1895. Controller E. R. Colgan.. 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6. 1895. Treasurer J. B. McDonald.. 4 years Jan. 6. 1891.. Jan. 6, 1895. Wm. H. H. Hart. 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, 1895. C. C. Allen.. 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, Supt. Public Inst'n..J. W. Anderson.. 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, Surveyor-General Theo. Reichert... 4 years Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, Insurance Comm'er.. J. N. E. Wilson.. Pleasure of Labor Commissioner.. Geo. W. Walts... Governor. Chief Justice.. W. H. Beatty. Clerk Supreme Court.L. B. Brown... Term. Term began. Term ends. Salary. 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 1895. 3,000 1895. 3,000 1895. 3.000 3,000 2,400 12 y'rs Jan. 6, 1891.. Jan. 6, 1903. 6.000 3,000 Office. Governor Lieut.-Governor. COLORADO-CAPITAL, DENVER. Name. Term. Term began. Term ends. Salary. 1,000 3,500 3,500 6,000 Davis H. Waite.. 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895. $5,000 D. H. Nichols.... 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895. N. O. McClees.. 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895. Aud. and Ins. Com'r. F. M. Goodykoontz 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895. Treasurer .. Albert Nance..... 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895. Attorney-General Eugene Engley... 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895. Clerk Supreme Court. Jas. A. Millen... 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895. Supt. Public Inst'n.. J. F. Murray.... 2 years Jan. 11, 1893. Jan. 11, 1895.| CONNECTICUT-CAPITAL, HARTFORD. 3,500 3,500 Railroad Commissioners, Wm. O. Seymour, Wm. H. Hayward and George M. Woodruff; salary, $3,000. a And fees. b And expenses. Pleasure of Board. b3,000 3,500 Pleasure of Hy. L. Mitchell.. 4 years Jan. 3, 1893. Jan. 3, 1897.| $3,500 1,500 1897. 2,000 1897. 2,000 1897. 1,500 Supt. Public Inst'n.. Wm. N. Sheats.. 4 years Jan. 3, 1893. Jan. 3, 1897. 1,500 1,500 Wm. J. Northen.. 2 years Nov. 1, 1892. Adjutant-General S. D. Bradwell.. 2 years Jan. 1, 1893. Jan. 1, 1895. 2,000 2,000 2,000 2,000 1,800 3,000 3,000 3,000 4,000 2,000 2,000 6 years Oct. 15, 1893. Oct. 15, 1899. 2,500 2,500 2,500 Office. Governor Auditor... Office. Governor Treasurer Attorney-General Office. Governor IDAHO-CAPITAL, BOISE CITY. Name. Term. Term began. Term ends. Salary. W. J. McConnell.. 2 years Jan. 2, 1893.. Jan. 2, 1895..] $3,000 F. B. Willis.. J. F. Curtis... 2 years Jan. 2, 1893.. Jan. 2, 1895..[ $5 day Jan. 11, 1891. 2 years Jan. 2, 1893.. During good 2 years Jan. 2, 1893.. Jan. 2, 1895.. 1,800 Jan. 2, 1895.. 1,000 Jan. 2, 1895.. 2,000 ILLINOIS-CAPITAL, SPRINGFIELD. Name. Term. Term began. Term ends. Secretary of State... Treasurer Attorney-General Clerk Supreme Court. G. B. Pray. a No regular salary allowed by Legislature. b And $5 a day Governor Lieut-Governor. KANSAS-CAPITAL, TOPEKA. Name. Term. Term began. L. D. Lewelling.. 2 years Jan. 9, 1893.. Jan. 9, 1895.. $3,000 Percy Daniels... 2 years Jan. 9, 1893.. Jan. 9, 1895..$6 day. 2 years Jan. 9, 1893.. Jan. 9, 1895.. 2,500 Office. Railroad Commiss'r.. W. M. Mitchell... |