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Baron Ton Oraignhfc-19BEA SCOTSMAN?BORN INBYDNKY.A »uPMClently interesting mm ha* just been derided in LondOQ, where, on January 13 Mr. Justice Chi tty was called to say whether or not Captain Ronald Macleay Oainplwll, Baron von Oraiguwh, of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, l»olt;l a domicile in Scotland, upon which condition Baron Craignish's claim to a moiety of his deceased’s wife’s fortune rested.Mr. Justice Chitty now said that the pluintiir claimed to be entitled beneficially to one-half of the property which patted under the will of his late wife, in addition to the annuity which she thereby appointed to him. She died on the I Oth of April, 1889, and her will had been duly proved in England. She was a person of considerable wealth, derived under the will of her father, Charles Mealcin. She had a life interest for her separata use in a sum of £63,000, and, under the special powers given to her by her father's will, she appointed to the5'laintitf an annuity of £200 during his ife, until his marriage, determinable in bankruptcy of alienation, and payable out of the income of part of the £65,000. Under another power contained in a codicil to her father's will, she appointed £20,000, part of the £65,000, in favor of persons other than the plaintiff, and she also disposed of the residue of her estate, consisting of savings and other personal property belonging to her, for her separate use, for the bene6t of pentons other than the plaintiff. He (the plaintiff) was bom at Sydney, Now South Wales, in 1836, his father being at that tiros on service os an officer of the 21st Regiment. His mother was a daughter of a Mr. Macleay, the Speaker of one of the Colonial Houses of Legislature. In 1839 the plaintiff's father sold out of the army and started to return with hia family to Great Britain, but they were shipwrecked, and went to the Caps. They arrived in England in 1841, and then the plaintiff’s father learned that money which he had in* ▼e-'odin a colonial bonk was lost. J' went to London to seek employ-tuoat, and was engaged lb at as private secretary to ^ord Dilbojshs afterwards as w rotary to the London aud Sou th-W«■* tern lie i 1 way Coro pan v The plaintiff, wh“ .m in his twelf.i year at the dote of hia father’s death, was educated partly in Germany, andEtly in England, and obtained an giish cadetship, and in 1854 re-oeived a commission in the East India Company's 7th Bombay Native Infantry. From 1854 to 1869, when he quitted the array, he wm constantly on aetive service, and from 1869 to 1883, when he married the Baroness, London appeared to be his headquarters. From London he generally started on his numerous expeditions, and to London he always returned. He noted as military correspondent for a leading London newspaper during the Franco-German war, and be afterwards performed the duties of a newspaper correspondent in 8pain and elsewhere, and gerved in q. military capacity in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Ser-via, ana In4 present at the siege of Batoom. * Iff 1879 hfc first wife obtained ”* 1889 here-4osived from the Duke of 8axe-Coburg* Gotha the dignity of Baron von Craig-nish. The selection of that title had apparently given off*nos to an elder branch of tbt Campbell family, the iff not being a Campbell of iloh, bat e Campbell of Iagaa The marriage with Mias took place at the British Em-end the plaintiff had ,47th year-** eg* i PffdUl night be expected to cttwaamd tteffs a bom foe Mm-ttpeoially whan he had married a riehfwik Itp.aMoliff bought a i at Cowes, which his wifeseparation from hia wile were conducted on the footing that the English Inw applied in the com. Upon the evidence before him, his Lordship found that though the plaintiff's domicile of origin was Scottish, he acquired by choice a domicile in England from the time he went to reside with his wife at Albert Gate, and that the domicile so acquired was not afterwards abandoned, but continued til) the death of his wife. The action must, therefore, Ihj dismissed.A Hedgehog’** Dinner.•Awe snake storie* in seasonf asked a man who returned recently from a fishing trip.‘ Always,’ replied the reporter.• Well, I have one which I think i« a little different from the usual run. While I was up in the woods I wit-mex*ed a moat remarkable light. It was nothing lees than a pitched battle lmtween a snake and a hedgehog. I had my gun in my hand, and wm shout to fire at the animal when something peculiar in his actions caused me to wait and see what he wm up to. He was crawling along the ground cautiously. Looking ahead of him a few feet I saw a big snake coiled up, evidently asleep. The hedgehog stole up noiselessly within three feet of the reptile, then suddenly sprang forward and caught the snake’s tail in his teeth. Then, quick as a flash, he rolled himself into a ball and seemed to be awaiting an attack.‘The snake, so rudely awakened from its slumber, came angrily toward ite enemy, and began striking at him with its fangs. At each bite the snake's mouth was lacernled by the hedgehog’s quills. This, of course, made the reptile furious, aud it darted back and forth, first to one side and then the other, of its assailant.• Hie latter, watching a favorable opportunity, sprang forward and again seized the snake’s tail in his teeth, then rolled himself up as before.‘ The snake struggled and bit, and twisted this way and that, but the hedgehog still held on. The reptile was b'eeding at the inouth, and began to show signs of exhaustion, but it kept up the struggle as long m it was able to move Finally, when it was completely played out, it became still. The hedgehog then unrolled himself, ripped the snake opnn, and proceeded leisurely to det our it I didn’t shoot the hedgehog, concluding that an animal which showed such intelligence and was so adept at snake-killing was worthy to lire.’ _Lynching Girls-Tint New York Sun publishes an account of an extraorainary lynching oaae. The Sim rites were a sect formed in Choctow County, Alabama, who professed to hold as their chief doctrine the supremacy of the conscience above human and divine laws. The se-cslled prophet wsa one Bob Sims, who presched on Sunday and published weekly a periodical eutitled the ‘True Way.' He was assisted by his daughters Laura and Beatrice, also by a farmer and an illicit distiller. At Christmas time Bob and two others were lynched for the murder of the M4Millan family as the result of a dispute about some land. The other members of the sect were pursued until Neil Sim and two others were caught and hanged. laura and Beatrice stoned the lynchers, who csdght and hanged both the girls from the same croc. Although they were neatly deemed, modeet lonkyiy, and intelligent enough to favorably imprms tbs Governor of Alabama whom they visited on behalf of their father, both girls carried firearms, and are said to have used them with fatal cffwt in promoting their peculiar propaganda..iTnrw on Baaata •k few dasps * the IMd **IMVae, ttakled eu a wet tooth-brvk n*xW a a Uaeaat lather, which thoroughl/deanem theteethfrom all fSndta or iwjmritfm.;i
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Cooma Manaro Mercury and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser
Cooma, New South Wales, AU
Tue, Mar 08, 1892
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