Bloomington Progress, Volume 15, Number 42, Bloomington, Monroe County, 1 February 1882 — Page 4

H8 EAST.

Jx the inqxwst on the Spayten Duyvil

aisaster tne ooixluctor of die unfortunate Wasr-

cr coach testified that lid believfcl some isa-

ul:"wpi s.muuoumen uu a Mermen won raiug around twttks of whisky Md anviahrng

Ax Hampton, Fa., while William Cork waa dying of auaali-ixw, his wife placed a righted candle in hi.1 hands and knelt beside thobed

in prayer. She iustantl;- anwrumbsd to exIntwtioa. tho beddine was set on nra. and she

and her chili were overcame hy smoke. The

neignnors saw me situation, mix only one aarea to outer the bouse. Tne 3eah was burned from Cork's bone, ani his wife and daughter will not recover. Harvard University has been preeated with a pome of 90000 to endow a new professorship and Ohver Wendell Holmes, Jr., will probably be selected for the position. . .. Scatkv prominent ritarens of Albany are moving to secure the pardon of Tom Ballard, the famou counterfeiter, now serving a thirty-year term in the penitentiary, who offers to give the Government secret method of preparing transparent fibrosa paper from which figures cannot bo obliterated, Tttksdai, the 24th day of January, I8SQ. wHlfoagbatemembsreA as one of the coldest days ever felt in Sew lark and New England. At many points the thermometer was as low as 46 degrees below i:ero. . . .In the Graves murder case at Jfe'vark, N. J., toe JnUg.j ehannd the jury that it waa settled law in New Jersey that if the accused man had sufficient mind to distingthah between right end wrong and could control his conduct noaot ordinary cucomstanoes, he eonld not acquit himself on the plea of irresistible ifapnlae; thereupon tbe Jury brought in a vtriict of murder in Has nrst degree ... .Simply from lack of remunerative business, jaix fire iut oivice companies of Sew York have within the px bt iivs weeks retired from the field. : CrcQBflot Ladd, of Elmore, Ohio, sued Got. K. K. Soott tat $10, 000 damages 'to his wife, whose son, .Wanan4h Dnirj, was killed by Got. Scott at-Nitpolem, Ohio, on Christmas, XSSO. lhe car,eha4 ju?t been ccmyromued by Scott paying costs and 135,000. . ..Tm oM editor of riie Okoiona States tew tattled in Sanborn, Iowa, and has baaed the acst number of the Ctyck,...MiohaelMoottey vras executed at Franklin, Idaho, for the anortler of Hayefcley, an agent of the Union Jfaeitto. railroad detective Williams, of Fink-erton-'s Agency, Chicago, discovered that XL fire at the Columbus (Ouio) Asylum for Feebloseinded Youth,, on Nov. IS last, was the work of vwo of the youthful inmates. The fire coat tl. State about $MO:C60....A mob at boatoon, Ohio, lynched John Wagoner for the snnnler of l)r. Job aph Begs. Another of tho suspected ones, named William Zeck, was mad ready for execution, when he confessed that Begtrs was hilled for a silver dollar, and gave the names of those ooncerned. He .was. then. Ukeu back to jail. At a Joliet (HL) stone quarry a blast failed ta explode, so that the hole had to be temped, at thich John and (Hun-lea Zossenand WiUiasa Henline were put to work. They had been at it bnt a short tune when their drill stinck fire, iunilinr tbe powder, and an explo-. sion fallowed, blowing the ttree mot into the air and off the ledge. One of the men died almost 'immediately. ToA- other two are belM.ved Io hi fatally injured. ...In the United States Court at Keokuk, in the snit brought by the Onisago, MUwankeeand St. Paul road against the Sioux City and St tsoi, involving land valued at 41,000,000, Judges Love and MoCrary decided, .that it waa the mtctiOn of t'nj,reia to divale the tract in controversy between the rival enterprises.... A Mornoe eon My (IU.) school-teacher was stabbed and killed by a pupil, named McBride, whom he e-sayed to chat Use, At Nlmmon's stare fectory, in Celina, Ohio, the sindpie in the boiler broke, canaing stesm' and boinr.; water to escape, fatally eca'.diug Bertie Eiafer, Hike Waltera and Willi Smith, aged 12, IS and 14. " Tin? sevnx. Riilboad otlicisJa in Texas report a very heavy irauHgration from the Pacific slope. California capitalists are purchasing large tracts of land between the Bio tjrnnde and the Staked Plains, for wheat-rsising and grapiculare. . . . A fttenbarg (Ta.) roerenant was aenteneed to receivo twenty stripes for receiving stolen manufactured tobacco. Asdebson Josxs, eoloiel mam ot Augusta, Ca., was banged in tea jail-yard for tbe Braider of John I. Harralaoa. He made a full confession. Thb thriving eity of Atlanta, Ga, was visited by a connagration thai destroyed the huge places ot business and manufacture. She loss is estimated at f 500,000, upon which there was insurance amounting to43W),000 uocii,Pratt, a bask- Pieaident cf .BaltnBore, offers to establish a free circulating library, at a oost of 81,01,000, provided the dry wiU create a perpetjal annuity of 650,000 for its Taejuiy in tbe ease of Seal, tbe first one of the murditrers of tbe Gibbons family, at Ashland, Kr., who was placed on trial, brought iu a verdict of guilty after seventeen minutes' os&beeation.

Senator I! lair and 'S. 1. 'Randal, it was an.

aonneed that a snfilcient awn had been mJ

teruiaa to erect a atttue to tba ltaasaefansetts

an.

A WASanNOTCs telegram says the treasury mvestigatfon baa practically reached an and. The majority report will not reflect opon Bseretary Sherman, bnt wiU recontnond that all purchasea mads from the contingent fund of the treasury shall be itemized. Bom of fte best lawyere in GoatTess, says a Washington dispatch, claim thai the charters of the national banks can nut to extended by legislation without the cone sit of every stockholder, aa each person earn emed ean insist upon tho retain of his snare (t tbs capital on the expiration of the concwt ' Tae. Huose Judiciary Ccetnuittee haa voted snanimoiisly against the propoaiionto lacognbje the claims the insnraneii eompanieato a portion of the Geneva award anrplna,andhaao!cid9dto recommend th creation of a soart or commission to have ex Jnatra jurisdietkn over ail pending eJajsaa, Lsadswo stalwart of New York avow tlwir intention to nominate ex-Senator Oonkteig fcr Tiovernar next falL A. A. Whubto, PnatTRaatfT at Dallas, Tex., telegraphs home front Washington that the admiaiitrat ion will give a hearty support to the axfepsnaVr t mtrremant fed by WaaLington Jones. , t A WasHDKmnr telegram aays that the President 'a views on the pending proposition to create a TariS OoramiSBion appear to have been misstated. He is net oppoeed te the creation of saeaLa exxmuasioa, bnt is of opinion that the let.y to secure a revision of the tariff is to hfave I'ne subject jointly considered by the House Commiti.ee on Ways and Means and the proposed Tariff Camttusaon. 2EMBRAai Thw steamship CHy of London, with a trow of forty-two men, which sailed from London for Sew York Nov. 13, is believed to bavo been wried, att is also tbe Henry Edye, which sailed from Antwerp for Boston Nov. 21, with a crew of thirty-five men. The cargo in each ship was worth 9300,000... .Gov. Terraisas. of Chihuahua, caoved the releaao of lieat. McDonald, of the Poorth Cnited States cavalry, who was arrested for invading Mexican territory. Tbx. Secretary of the Panama Canal Company saysOOOmenareat present employed on thework and ffght CEcavatorw are in use.

A vast qsan&ty of sntterial and machinery is on the way -from France ; damp and platform eatx costing f 40,000 were recently shipped

iroiu massaommetnr, ana two steam ore enaines have bean seat from Sew York.....

B. G. Dun A Lk.' Mercantile Agency, in reporting failures among a more important class

oi iraaersinine tsoatn ana west uianosuai, asa ibc it to lhnnseasonable weather which

has so far prevailed thai winter. . . .The Atlantic

and Pae-fic Railroad Company is about to issue a call upon Us stockholders for $16,300,000, with which to complete the line.

Oviit!j;009,00O of the capital of the Kstional JM jMuk& have been pan in.

jsicmeea WMiasn anstes amneat unome, 13.000 in Imw lark and 40,000 in PariSL

THBX9Mlwai Parliamen, wffl etefte off the daaloa tea and coffee, and thePresg

AsHocialicawi large the- abohtion of postage

on nowHCanaja, .

A xmoieseoir of" impovtBBee nnder the

new Land aefc-in Ireland was rendered In Bel-

faet by tliree ommfsgioners of the Land Court

tuna a a Court of appeal. The case was that of an apfial from a decision of tho Land

Court tv.doCUig a tenant' rent from 30 10

fted landlord being that he was entitled to rent for hnprc vemouts made prior to tbe expiration oftheiesse. Another point was that the landlord was entitled to rent for all improvements prior to tlie lease, and to some rent for improve'

mentsnuaeanntguie lease, mi an cue points the decisi on of tho court was against the appealing landlord and in favor of the tonant. . . . JFItmia brsaw ut in the Cirons Eremsierat Bucharest, and inread with nuoh rapidity that manv men and 'horses were burned to death.

Some wild beastrm a menagerie opposite the

inclosure made a-wperate etrorts to ssoape, and were terribly (oorched by the beat.... A eonspirsoy to rise and massnore the British residents ot Nipaul, East Indies, has been discovered .tt Katmandu, thecnpital, and twentv-otie offioe.-s concerned therein have been

executed. . . .Vienna dispatches repor; the insur

rection gracmaii' spreaamg in Bouuiorn Herzegovina. Tbe movement u ntbributed to foreign agitators Schlagiutweit, the Bavarian traveler and naturalist, is dead. . Impootast tidings relative to the craw of the Jeannette are given in a dispatch from Engineer Sfelville, at Irkuisk, to the United States 8 oretary of the Navy. It seemi that Melville han Murned'to the Arctic oocan, and that his eeaich has been reward 3d by the discovery of the log-hooks, instruments and four records left by Lieut. Da Long. He bad obtained no tidings of the fate of font portion of the Jeanuette's crew which left the wreck inf the second cutter, in command cs' ."Lieut. Chi pp. The Coisack commaalant at Irkutsk, by direction of Gsn. TschimkinV wfll continaa the search during the win'er. Melville requests orders to imain with' two mop and renew the search i:i March. - The HeraegoYmi&ns alangliteied a quad of ten Austrian, soldiers, near Dollar, and burned their qnartraa. Telagraphio eommnnicat.on witli the disturbed districts is prohibited." The Austrian commander has his headquarters at Bagusa. . . .Parnell, O'Kellcy and O'Brien, Kilniainham prisoners, havo beeu

nmand(4 for a further period of thiea month.

Two thousand delegates attended the Diereuce of binant -farmers at Belfast Iles-

oratkms were adopted protesting agninst laiwllords asserting class interest in regard to the equal interest ot tenants, declaring the reductions of rest nuidoby tho surxjommwsioiiers inadequate, and deprecating compensation to landlords Tie insurrection iu Herzegovina grows mora formidable. Insurgent corps are faraaina m the mnimtaina and the orthotic

Hohamncdan population is in fuli sympathy with the revolt;

Thb European powers contiuno to ex

press themselves very forcibly relative to the

Anglo-Froneh rtote to the Khedivo of Egjpt, and the Indbat ons are of u throaming clia.racter. - Italyi has instructed her Ambassador in London to ignore tho note. Bitnnarck has directed the Sa tan of Turkey to avrait a reply from Qm two powers before be takes farther action, '

Is the German. Parliament, the other

day, in a. debate on the budget, Bi&marck said the imperial rewript remained unsliaken by iae attacks upon it : it was to tho sov;reirni, and

not to Parliament, that Germany oared the

position sne enjoyed. J. no uiionoetior taon twice asked if anvone nretent cou.d reoroach

him witia tpwanlico.

F0BTT-SETE5TH COSGBESB.

The till to retire from the United States Su

preme Banob Jmitice Hunt, who ha!i for a long time been totally incapable discharging Uie duties of the position, passed the Senate, on the 19th, by a vote of 41 to 14. Tae President pro ten, submitted the response of the Secretary of the Interior to the resolution of raquiry as to the lapsing of

u PortBera cino - rsna grant, win.on was mferred to the Judiciarv Committee.

Besolntions from the LegisUtnre of West Virginia were presented, asking that prodacers of leaf tobacco be not required to take out a license. After prolonged debate on theS-per-ccnt 5minng bill, Mr Ingalls moved to lay the nuasnre on the table. Almost tbe entire day in the House was spent in discussing tbe report of tbe Committee on Bales contemplat

ing additions to numerous standing commit

tees, a:ia tee ena oi it was mat tne report, along with tho amendments that had been offered, was recommitted to the same comm.ttue. A bdl to approiinate 45,000 for transporting agricultural irwl mineral specimens from the

Atlanta exposition was passeo. .iionaay aitcrnoua vas set apart for euloeiea upon Sonalor

Burnside. The Speaker announce d that two additional volumes of the speeches of President Theirs had been contributed to the library. Mr. Boy no reported a bill for a home for indigent Bokhara and sailors at Erie. Pa.

The House of' Represents tivea went into

oommittee of the whole on the private calen

dar, on the 20th, and considered els. bills. The

Fortification Appropriation hill vm reported) and an adjournment taken to Monday, 2!ldTn" Senate was not in session.

Ko businem was transacted in liao Sentto on

Jan. 23, the time of that body being occupied in the delivery of eulogies upon the late

Senator Burrwide. The tpotkein were Senators Edmunds, Anthony, Haxry, H-'vloy, Harrison, Jones, Hale, A ldrich, Hampton ud

Binsoat 13 the House, after tee transaction of seme business, euloeiea were delivered

by Messrs. Chase, Spooner (B. I,), Bswino

lino.), iuco tM&as.j ana iionc.crson !M.). Mr. Pucbeoo, ot California, introduced a bill to repeal the land grant of the Ath ntio and Pacific road. Mr. Willis introduced t.n act to regulate Chirk ise immigration, and Mr. Shtg ono to stori three crov&sset in the Muwissippi fevee. Mr. B'isa nandad in a bill to peuFion soldiers of the l&te war conlined in Confederata prisons. Dir. n"anigr introduced in act to rediico the salaries of tli President And h&iil i of depirtments. No lata than 805 bills w:xe preaented daring the day.

The bin jriving Mrs. Lincoln 110,000 arrears

of pension and increasing her allowance to 95,000 was passed by the Sanate Jan. 24. Mr.

Beck introduced a bill for the punishment of

national-biink officers who illegally issue certified checks, suiting that the practice is going on at the fate of $100,000,000 per day. Mr.

riomu proposea an amenument to tne constitution prohibiting tho manufacture, importation, cr sale of liquors as a bev

erage. Mr. Toller submittad a joint resolution forfeiting land gf.mts to twenty-two railroads. Mr Voorhoes introdruwd a bill to compel railroads to heat mail oars by steam

irom me locomotive, alio President traneraitted drafts, of tills" to increase the salai-v of tho Commissioner of the General Ltnd Otlice and Croat the office of Astant Commissioner ; also to make the umo changes in tho office of tho Indian Commissioner. James W. McDiIl, of bws, was sworn in for the nnoxplred term. In theVbuse, Mr. Heed asked i ho immediate consideration of the Senate bill to retire Also-

eiate Justice Hunt, but Mr. Hohoan objooted. A bill waf passed to remit the duties on some clothing tent from Europe to colored settlers in Kansas. A resolution was adopl.ed oaltic- on

mo oecreuiry oi nr lor a statement or tne accounts of Oapt H. W. Howgate. Tho forHncatioc appropriation of $373,000 was psMcd.

Patrons of Husbandry. Illinois. The annual meetinz of tha TIH-

nois State Grawre was held' at Mattoon. flol,

county. A large number of delegates and

visuorH were present. The full number of delegates is 106, ninety-three of whom were vnaUinf em ra nmviluiw Uawm a

ator Haraoe H. Clark delivered the address or

wsKXHiw on oenauoi tne citizens of llattoon;

me response was siven Dy fliai, Ji. JUUter, of RkWI. DfUlnlv llrMlmttn l&fl. .11 .1 Tl . ..1

Master of the New Jersey State Grange, xoiuie an elicenMnt and tonatliv atrlrom

tbe "Aims and Objects of the Order."" Too IWft. nwMSnir will ml 1.14 in IWum laa.t

BeltovaieT "wv,

Wmcoksts. The yearly meeting of tho State Oranga of Wisconsin convened at Milw.mW.

Tho annual report of the Treasurer showed the

kw loceiDis uunng me year were ; disbtUHOmenta, $4,002.87 ; leaving a bailing of

port chows that 121 granges are ia cx-

"ww w um amvj, uaviug a meuux'rehip of 3,960. Poor subordinate Rinnges were organized daring the year, and 393 members ooqured by initiating. The following officer were elected-. Mastei, C. F. Carr, Boit; Stewai'd, A. Hprague; ChaplaiI L. Ilrainerd: Treasroer, J. Cochrane; Secretary, i L. Iluxtoy; Gatekeeper, E. Wood: CorMapondont, Mrs. C. Sh.jwin; Executive Committee, 0. V. Carr, B. D. Forrest; Trustee, J. E. Williams; State Purchasing Agent, K. .Niflia.

Horrible Fata of s Missouri Family.

A dispatch from Clinton, Mo., says the bouse of George a Smith, at Lewis, live mile north

of there, burned at 3 o'clock hi the morning, and five of the inmates perished, via.; Elizabeth Smith, aged 17 ; Bach el, aged 13 ; Ellen, aged 6 ; Theodore, aged 16, end tho mother, aged 43. The flre is supposed to havo started from clothing hanging by the l.itchon store, or from a coal-oil explosion. Mrs. Hnuth was first to awaken, when she aroused her buHbantS, who made his escape with tho little girl of a neighbor wto was staying there for the night, and one of bis own daughters, aged about 8. fcmith and hm daughter were rterionsly burned. The house wa a story and a half, and the family were all sleeping in th second story. A Mr. White, who wan tho suitor of Elisabeth Smith, was at the house unl:l utter 1 o'clock, aod think the fire caught in i!ie kitchen from clothing by tho stove. Miss Smith was to have been married in a few weeks. An imroest was held, and a verdict rendered in accordance with the facts. Mr. Smith was employed by the Osage Coal and Mining Chmj.any.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

roBTT-aioHTn das". Guitoau opened prooeedinga by thanking the KewTork Court of Appeals for its timely decision on tho law of insanity. "Hitherto," said the ass iesin, " tho law has been that the burden of proof was on the (lefelidant, but the Court of Apiieals, "Tith grand magnanimity, says that tho burden of proof is on this prosecution, to prove that the man not only committed the act, but also that he was sane at the time he committed it." After the prisoner had delivered himself of this litsle speech, SooviUs resumed his argument, reading from the avidenco of several witnesses who wore at tho depot and taw the shooting and subsequent arrest of Gulteau, his object being to show that tbe prisoner was perfectly calm and cool, and in a condition of nerves and intellect at variance with tho hypothesis of sanity under such circumstances. As Scoville proceeded, Corkhlll made frequent and, as the speaker ovidently thought, slighting comments, until, finally becoming irritated, lie turned to the District Attorney and denounced in scathing terms his unfair conduct, and instanced his presentation as evidenoein' this en so of a letter written by the prisonor,and which ho (Onrkhill) had interru pted and mutilated by outting off tbe signature and such portion as he thought might benefit the prisoner, " a thing," said Scoville, "which was novor before permitted in a court of justice, not oven upon the trial of s civil suit." CorkhiU (sneoriiigly) "That's your opinion morolr, Sir. Scovillo. It amounts to nothing as a fact". Scoville " Well, let it bo my opinion. I presume I nut entitled to one, and so is the jury." " Guiteau (vita energy) "It was a friendly allusion to i?rcsident Arthur that he cut out

the irKan, dirty whelp."

uommenting upon, as ne Claims, tne aosonce of motive on Guitoau's part, Scovillo road: " Ton cannot find a case in history von cannot

suppose a case where a man 40 years jf ago, who has neyjr committed crime, who has never for an hour associated with criminals or bad people; who, on the contrary, haa always 1. .M1AW nnA nnl. n I.n. .1. .

BUU),m UUI UUIj V UIO WWW WON of people, bnt of Christian people ; you cannot conceive of such man's committing such a

crime witnont motive. Mounng iut tne theory of insanity can possibly account for such an act as Guiteau'a."

Scoville then discussed the assumption that

Guittan might have boon actuate! bv desire for

revenge, and argnod the improbability of such assumption, from tho fact if say ground for ill will existed on Guitoau's part It was against Secretary Blaine, and "according io the inexorable laws of mind it would havo been executed agaii st him. There cannot possibly be shown, said ttcoville, any ill-will on his part toward President Garfield.

Sccvilla nott took up tho bvpothesls that the

orimo was committed from an overpowering desire for notoriety, and claimed history failed

to point out a case whero such a crime was committed purely snd simply from such motive, and that it was incompatible with reason

and impossible tor tne unman mine to conceive such motive as sufEoicnt to induce any sane

man to ocnimit such crime.

1'OorkbiUii an

FOBTY-KINTH DAT. Scoville resumed his argument, and produced

a diagram showing a section of the prisoner's

head. Taking np tho diagram ot the assas

sin's head, offered in evidence by Dr. Hamilton, Scoville said: "I propose to show yon that Dr. Eompster lied when he told you that this diagram wts a correct representation of the shape of Guitoau's head. He attempted to convince you tb at Gniteau had an unusually sj metrical Lead, und I propose to show you that his evidence in this respect was absolutely false." ScoviHo contended that Dr. Gray's tables of homicides by insane persons were prepared for this case and do not correspond with tables for the samo vears in Grav's offidnl reports. In

reading the account of one case of homicido Scoville said : " Had tho District Attorney been

there jib would nave saia, proaawr, pat mm on

truu lormirraerana nang.nun.1 xusi

oi auyiusu depravity." Gnitean shouted OTnltinclv

antbority on the devil. Dr. Gray is a man with

ii uig iuuuul j iiai, n uie way a luara nun. Scoviile discussed at some lergth the demoializing intluonro of the scaffold, and expressed tho opinion that crime would be diminished try the alx-ilition of capital jmnishment He then porceedod to anticipate tho argument of Judge Porter, and to point out to tho jury the fallacy

of the arguments which he predicted Judge

t'ortor wouia advance to support tne tneory or i he prosecution and to secure the hanging of

Guitetu. In conclusion he said :

" It has often been said that our Jury trials are. a farce, and I have in my practice frequently heard it said that tbe jury system ought to

oe aoousnea, oecauso juries maae a mistaue, because they are influenced bv the eloqnenoe

of advocates, because they arc influenced, not bv justice, uot bv evidence, but bv the last ad

dress, . But, gentlemen, I thank God that thore was a time when my English ancestors stood up against wrong arid injustice, and wrested

irom a aoapot tne ngiit oi trial by jury, ami 1 have never yet seen the time when I would wish to see that right abolished. I feel more secure and more safe, in this mode

of administering justice than in any other. So

long as juries are nonest it does not require that yon should have read Kent or Blackstone. It requires that you should have honest hearts and clear heads, and, abovo all, that you should be fearless to find for the right, regardless of

wnat may come, regardless of whether your fellow-men may approve it or not. This is what I shall expect of yon, gentlemen, and I believe you wili do it, I leave the case with you. gentlemen ,t hanking yon for your kind attention." As Guiteau was being taken out of the courtroom be stopped to speak to Scoville, when Biiliff Tall attempted to move him along. Guiteau turned angrily, acd said to Tall: " Behave yourself."

come, come," said 'tan, impatiently, trying to pui'h tho prisoner. " Lot ma alone ! shouted Quitean. Hind

your own imniueBH," Tall haling applied some " pressure" to Guiteau, tho latter, with his manacled bands, atruok the officer in the breast, when-he was at once itcizcd by the officers and turned out of Uie court-room.

ITFnETH DAf. The assassin was given the fiftieth day of his

trial to address the jury. He said :

" Tho prosecution pretend that lama wicked man : Mr. Scoville and tho rest think I am a

lunatic; and I presume you think lam. 1 oartainly was a lunatic July S, when I fired on the President and the American people generally, and I presume you think I was. Can you imagine any tiling more insane than my going to that depot and shooting the President of the United States V You are here to say whether I was

sane or insane at the moment I fired that shot You have nothing to do with my condition before or since that shot vow fired. You must say. by your verdict sane or insano at the moment the shot was fired. If you have any doubt of

my snnity at the moment yo .i must give me the 1 .1 J l.A .t :l .1 . .

ijvuuui vi uie uuuui ami bu iui uxm in, u yuu havo any doubt whether I ttod that shot aa the agent of tho Deify. If I fired it on my own account I was sane ; if I fired it, supposing myself to be the agent of tho Deity. I was insane.

and you must acquit."

With this introduction tho prisoner took up a newspaper and proceeded to read to the jury his published speech. His manner to the casual

observer seemed completely self-possessed aa

usual, imi Dejima uie ostentatious auoetation of composure was intense feeling, which was only held in control through his undoubted strength of will. His exeitanent was betrayed by a slight heotio jpot, high upon each cheek, of his ustally colorless lace, and by the unusual deliberation with which he began and for acme time continued to speak, whether this excitement was from merely superficial effect upon his emotions, naturally incident to the Occasion, or whether it proceeded from a deeper mid more overpowering influence, the true realization of his position, an almost-convicted murderer pleading for his life, it were difficult to divine. Whatever the original character of feeling, it finally gained the ascendency over his powers of control, and as be reached that point in his speech "I have always served the Lord, aid whether I live or dio" he broke down completely, stopped, tried to choke down tho rising lump in his throat, bnt found it impossible to keep back a genuine sob. Taking out his handkerchief, he buried his face in it for a few seconds, wiped Ids eyes, and with a determined effort started on again. He seomed to recover his composure so quickly that some believed the whole effort was manufactured. His sister, Mrs. aooville, however, apparently thought otherwise. She was deeply affected, and wept and sobbed bitterly for somo minutes. After this incident UuiUuu continued to read, occasionally lidding brief comments upon the text. As bo proceeded with bis reading all appearance of nervousueiis gradually wore off, and, with the iitniobt.cojiipojuit and au unction that bordered upon the ludicrous, the prisoner read on with an attempt at every conceivable form of oratcr.cal and drauiatio effect. His description of Dm taking off of tho President was given with striking effect. At this timo be closed his uyea or turned them hoavenward, waved his body back and forth, sank his voice to a whisper cr raised it to a high treble. At times the uitvitsity of his utterances seemed to react upoi. himself, but tho effrxjt was but transitory, and with the exception of one instance thore was no indication of breaking down. At frequent interval ho paused to emphasize somo sontenoe or sentiment by repeating it or commenting upon it. At one umo, pausing, he leai.ed toward the jury and,' emphasizing with his head and hands, said, with an attempt at great solemnity of utterance: "X tell you, gentlemen, jnst as sure as there is a God in heaven, if yon barm a hair of my head this nation will go down in blood. You can put my body in the grave, but there will be a day of reckoning." " The jury may put my body in the ground, but my soul will go manihtag on. The slaveholders put John Brown a body in the ground, but his sonl goes mnrchiig on. Here be chanted mosi, weirdly one stanza of -JohnBrowu'aBody" oiosing with "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah I"

nm-rtatrf DAT. The assassin began proceedings by announcing the receipt of several hundred letters, many of them tender missives from ladies. Ho then informed the audience that he did not think it proper that ho should accept a Cabinet ofiioe from President Arthur, and that he would stop Judge Porter should he attempt to mislead the jury. Judge Porter then commenced "the' oiosing argument to the jury for the prosecution. He opened with the remark that thus far the trial had practically been conducted by the prisoner and Mr. Scoville, and every ono had been denounced at their will. He proceeded to sketch the career of tne assassin as a beggar, a hypo orite and a scoundrel, and to depict the horrors of his crime. As Judge Porter proceeded with a resistless torrent of denunciation aud invective, the prisoner occasionally called out: "That's a he!" "That'sabsolntolyfalso;"or, "That ain't so." .Passing in review the principal events of the prisoner's life, Judgo Porter showed up in all its hideous deformity the infamous bent of his naturo. Alluding to his dispute wi th his brother, John W. Guiteau, in Boston, wuere ho struck the latter in the face, Judge Porter aid this was tho first and last time this toward ever struck any one a blow in Uie face. His coward hand always struck from liebind. After showing who and what was the murderer, Judge Porter next described his victim, paying a glowing tribute to the character and icrviecs of the lamented President, and pronouncing a most touching eulogy, as it were, on hU memory. Tho damn of tho prisoner to be a praying man were considered, and tho hollo v mockery of the claim shown. Guiteau angrily shouted : "I pray every night and morning and before every mcu. If you did the same you would be a better man. You wouldn't be here looking for blood-money." " Tho prisoner says he prayed for six weeks. Why, if he had made up his mind unalterably to murder the President on the 1st of June," said Judge Porter, "did ha still continue io pray down to the very aot of murder? " Guitoau "I prayed to see if the Lord wouldn't let me off from killing him." "What was he praying tot'C continued Judge Porter. " The man who claimed to havo received divine inspiration himself prepares his defense in advanoo for an act to do which he was divinely inspired. The believer iu inspiration, ho would himself alter the inspired book and substitute for it a book of his own. That he did not shoot the President on tbe first oocasio,,' said Judge Porter, "was duo to his coward heart Had he done it on that occasion ho would huvo been torn to pieces, and he knew it On this occasion the President was surrounded by his Cabinet and hia friends. His sou, not yet strong, but who would havo been urged st such a timo with a God-given strength to defend lii father, was also by hii sido, sad the assassin's craven heart failed iiim and he said, 'Not yet; at some other ttoiA " With grapbio picturing Judge Porter related tbe dogging of tho President's footsteps to thi little cuurdh, the incidents or accidents on each occasion which bafilod liira. Prosideut Garfield's visit to Secretary Blaiue's house, dogged by the assassin, nas vividly portrayed. In tho course of his speech Judge Porter adverted to tho constant interruptions of tho prisoner, his false claims of sympathy, and that the press was with him, and said in con

tradiction: -

"I have yet to see a suiglo American newspaper that has one word to say in his defense," clcoville vainly strove to get the car of the

court, protesting that Judge Porter was exceeding tho rales or the court by such statements. At length Judgo Porter paused, and Scoville

demanded tnat ne be auowea to maxo similar

statements in reply.

Judge Porter attempted to go on, but Sco

ville, reinforced by the clamor of tbe prisoner, succeeded in getting tho floor, when, with much excitement, he demanded that bis rights, aud he claimed that he had rights, should bo respected. He insisted that Judge Porter had no right to state what tho newspapers said or what they didn't say, and he desired an exception 'duly noied. CoL Corkhill insisted that counsel had no right to object The prisoner had been allowed to state what he bad received iu tbe way of letters. He had been permitted to read them, to read extracts from pa tiers and to make all sorts of statements as to what the American pooi-le and press were saying of him. Judge Porter was simply contradicting those etatementa. , , ......

juage tJOX mumnieu isini. mo pn.-uiroi mm not allowed to do as charged, but could not be

restrained from doing so.

Scoville" Well, can't 4Uuge A'orier oe ro-

itrainedT'

The Judge ruled that the speaker might contradict assertions of the kind mads by tha piisoner. Judge Porter then read from minted evi

dence several of the mora noted examples of this effort on the part of tha prisoner to deceive the jury.

FIFTY-SECONl) OAT. As Judgo Porter rose to resume his address,

ho assassin shouted out that two cracks bad sen hanging around the court-room, and if they undertake to barm him the; wil' bo shot

down. Judgo Porter opened by the assertion

mat tno wuojo aeieuse nas uveu an impuguuv. Wnen he spoke of the destrucuou of Uie notes

of Stenographer Bailey, Mr. Scoville demanded

CO oe nearo, ana sir. jueea expressea tiie opin

ion tnat the court snouiu arrest J uago rorter tor .-outempt Allusion having been nuido to i'reaiutait Arthur, Guiteau interrupted nun the uousl that ins uiHiiirauou placed ATliiur in tut) Wtnte Mouse, adding, "And don't you iorget it, Jiue Puner." ileplyuig to Uus tauiitlruju lue piwun.r, Judge i'oitcr descriixa nun as slippery as au orange peel, as venomous as a ruiueunke, and, speaking of Uio act of tuo niuroer, said una was a rattlesnake without a rattle, out not without faugti. Juugo Porter pointed out the cunning, the aupjcuy, tiio aouug ot the prisoner since the igiun-wg of tho lr.nl. ltuloirmg to the oft-re-pjaiou asttirliuu that uo hud scut thu'tivui pretKU'vd to meet his Uod, and ho (iu tutu), loo, ins rc-t.dy to die if God willed it, Judge Porter, with dtiuoerate euipliasis, euid: "1 uo not believe, ui all mis oH.-oiiinlagu, Ultra la one soul tuat contemplates witli auuiia .jiCt terror Uio possibility ot I icuig nis Maker aa duos tins oihZuu uiui'deier." Uuubku wunled around with the ferocity oia wild beast '.ud fairly yelled: "Tnat'sa misiravlo no a id yuu know it, Porter, and yuu are au imorual wouudrol! I liooe Ooa Aiuiiglity uiliseud lor jou soon, oom you uud. tarsniU. liuou a lniserabie, sneaking wuuw aa Unit is !' 'Abe law," said Judge Porter, "as it bears upon una case, is Uie buyieuto Court, una lou mo bin muipiy Uod-iuado mt n, under Uio oouguUoii ot a hoicnil). oaiti to bruits m yuui Vermel under Uii.-. law aud tacts.' buuumug up the question pcvaeiileci Oy Uistcaso upon. wuii U Uiuy i:re soon to be calutd upon to puss, Juuu Porter said: "The first lueuliou tor you to consider is: Was tho pusuuor insulii) on uw id"W July? If no was not, the case is nt an end, and your sworn duty is ondtd. Second, if you reach tnat, if he wua insano ou that day, was ne insane to that degreu tnat on Uiu 3d o. July he did not know that murder was morally and legally wrong? If he was not insauu to that degree, you are Douud under yum' oatus to convict hull, Thud, if in utter disregard ot iua ooutcssion undrr owli youshali iiud unit uo actually and honestly beUeved tt.al Uod had commanded hun to kid President Garfield, and that ho was under tnat delusion, unless you find the iurtner lact that Uio delua.ou disabled him fiom knowing sncn Jt was morally aud legally wrong, you arc bound by your oaths to convict, hun. Fourth, if you find such delusion did not exist : that God conuuauded nun to do tbe act, and that the delusion was the sole product of msauity, tnen, and then only, you cau acquit hun wnen you linu he was unable to control his own win and jou must romamber that under oath ho baa swoin lie was able to control it, tor ho said had Mis. Garfield been with him at the depot on the ai of July I would not havo shot bun. Fiitn, if yon hud that even though he was partially insane it. resulted from his own malignity, his own depravity ; yet still you are bound, under the uislructioiu of tbe court, to convict him. Sixth, ii upon the whole case you have no reasonable doubt whether he was partiaLy or wholly msane, if you believe that he knew his aot was legally and morally wrong, you are, under your oaths, bound to convict hun. 1 he law is founded upon reason, and it must not be said that an American jury shall override law and establish a principle which will let murder and rape and arson run not through tbe land. Anti-Polygamy. A large mats meeting, to express abhorrence of the great crime of polygamy, and protest against its further tolerance under the laws of the United '.States Government, was held at Farwetl Hall, Chicago. Hon. Thomas Hoyne presided, and the Hon. Schuyler Colfax was the chief speaker. He urgnd the meeting to resolve that the national law shall be obeyed, and stated that polygamy has grown even stronger since tho death ot Brig him Young. John Wtintworth and William Bross also addressed the meeting, llosolullons were adopted expressive of the sense of the meeting that Congress has tha power, and should exercise it to wipe out this fool slain upon our national fame ; telegrams and letUrt were read from persons and places, and an executive committee was appointed to further the objects of tbe meeting. Gov. Hubbud presided at the anti-polygamy meeting at St Paul, at which resolutions were passed asking Congress to disfranchise, offenders in Utah. Pfior. Dkpatjt.1 relates that, he was once called to see a woman in a French hosgital who had apparently succumbed to emorrhaffe. Ho said to Uie attendants :

"This woman is dead," when lo 1 a feeble voice from the body replied: "pat aneore" (not yet), and in tliree weeks

I ne was well again.

FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

One grain of silver will make a wire 400 foot long. Thbbb are 20,00ft seeds of oats in a pound, and 680,400 seeds of white closer. Grbat Britain has 89,750,000 cotton apindles, the United States about 12,OOOjOOO. In perceiving the tints of scarlet, onr eyes are affected by undulations recurring 482,000,000 times a second. Thb zoospores (raiorosoopio animals) swarm about in the moisture on the surface of a leaf or stout. Film though it may be, it is an ocean to such fish. Thb amount of work a man can do in a day has been estimated to be equal to a force which, if properly applied, would raise the weight of his own body- one mile. A sinoib heteromita (monad) gives rise to 1,000 like itself in an hour, about 1,000,000 iu two hours, and to a number greater than tho generally-assumed number cf human beings now living in the world in three hours. It is a peculiarity of the ostrich that father and mother take it in turn to sit on the eggs, and when the ostrich takes his female companions out for their evening promenade in the desert, one of them always remains by the nest The various tribes of ants go to war with each other, plunder each other systematically and have altogether a great deal of excitement in their way. Some tribes of ants keep cows, and

others slaves ; others have blind beetles

resiuent with them blind bards, perhnpf? , to sing to them. Ox the 1,000,000,000 acres of otdtivabla land in the United Statet., only eleven and a half per centum are used. The 2,584-108,320 bushels of wheat, corn,

oats, barley, rye, buckwheat and pota

toes raised lost year were produced on 105,083,605 acres, and tha cultivation is in most cases careless. Irra o(o(io('ina tt wara fa miffain Intrant

j,nr aviiixBiij m wt Nuwa nut isvv Atao.ca. ponds, bays and rivers in the several States and Territories present the ex

treme aridity of New Mexico and Arizona, with only 120 and 100 square miles of water, reajieetively, and the marked contrary characteristics of Florida, with 4,440; Minnesota, 4,160; North Carolina, 8,670; Texas, 8,490; Louisiana, 3,200, mid Maino, 8, 145 miles of river, lake and inlet area. The total water surface of the country is given at 55,600 square miles, aud the gross area, land and water, 3,025,600 square miles, inhabited by 16 persons, and a fraction to each mile. . Nyk country, Nevada, is the largest comity in the United States, covering

24,000 square miles. San Bernardino,

Uiililcuia, witli 'H,(iw square mites, is the ne-t largest. California has four other counties, each of them as large as Massachusetts, three that ore each latger than Connecticut, and fifteen that are each larger than Delaware. Sioux county, Nebraska, contains 21,070 square miles. Oregon, also, has several large counties Grant, Umatilla and Lake containing respectively 17,500, 14,260 and 12, OOOsqmire miles. Presidio, with 12,500 miles, is the largest, county in Texas. The smidlest county in the United States is New York, Stato of New York, and it has the largest population. The liu-Rest of the Territories in Dakota, with 147,600 square miles, and the largest couuty in. any of the Territories is Custer county, Montana, wid 86,500 square miles. The causes of disease in tbe various trades were classified as follows by Dr. Arlidge in an address before tho British Medical Association: First, the evolution of dust; second, the evolution of unwholesome vapors and gases; third, materials of an irritant or poisonous nature acting through the system or only locally; fourth, overheated air, whether dry or laden with moisture; fifth, compressed air and rarefied air; sixth, external conditions acting upon the organs of special sense; seventh, over-exertion of particular parts of the body; eighth, mechanical appliances productive of bodily injury. Thi most prolific cause of disease, the doctor said, was from the evolution of dust, its presence and action being particularly noticeable in all textile factories, in mining for coal or metallic ores, in cutlery manufactures, in cutting and polishing stone and ivory, and in the process of grinding flour. The Blood Atonement. A Salt Lake City correspondent in the

Si Louis Jiepuijlican tells a horrible story of the suffering endured by Mor

mon wives. Alter nuxraung ni greai lensrth the brntal treatment of flie wife

of William Hunt, a Mormon, he adds

the following : With rvgard to blood atonement, I am assured that it is practiced to-day as fre

quently as it was twenty-five years ago,

tnougn not so openly, xners are no coroners in Utah, and when a body is iu

death it is simply buried. Poison does

the work, and there are no inquiries. When a man gets tired of his wife he prisons her. Oue crime, which was committed here only a short time ago, 1 must describe, Mrs. Max well came to Sal t Lake City with hor hu-btiud in 1869. Two years afterward her husband took another wife, and one year subsequently ho was sealed to a third. Mrs. Maxwell had two sons, aged respectively fourteen and sixteen yt are. Their father urged thera to go through the Endownment House and become Mormons, bound by nil the oaths of the church. Mrs. Maxwell, having led a life like that of Mrs. Hunt, objected, and in order to prevail over her

sons she told them the secrets of the Endownment House. The penalty for revealing these secrets is dismemberment of the body, the throat out, and tongue

torn out. Air. maxwell overhetira uis wife, being in an adjoining room, and forthwith he informed the Elders whq sent for the unfortunate woman and her two sons. They were taken into what is called the " dark pit," a, blood atoning room under Brigham Young's house. The woman was then stripped of her slothing, and then tied on her bsk to a large table. Six members of the priesthood then performed their damnable crime; they first cut off their victim's tongue, they then cut her throat, after which her legs and arms were severed. The sons were compelled to stand by and witness this dreadful slaughter of their mother. They were then releafied and given twenty-four hours to get ou t of the Territory, which was then tin impossibility. The sons went directly to the house of a friend, to whom they related the butchery of their mother, and ob' tainiug a package of provisions they started; but on the following morning they were both dead they had met the Danites. One other case almost similar to the above occurred about five years ago in the City Hall. These nre truths, and the lady to whom the sons told the story is willing to make affidavit to the facts if she can be guaranteed iirmunity from Mormon vengeance. Ancient Engineering. The ancients, when all is said and done that can be in favor of modern prowess and progress, knew a few things Unit we moderns have no sort of conception of. In a late celebrated work on architecture, the author savs that it is not only iinposHible- to duplicate the greit temples of Athens, but it is inconoeivable how they wero constructed. The same may be "said f tho temples ftn l pyramids of Egypt. Tho lionuti) roods were superior to ny constructed in modern times. Their very remains ivre stupendous. The ancient omials of India, and her immense water reservoirs, iiioluding their sites, tiro incapable of being imroved upon In fact, the very ruins of the ancients are "tremendous." One of the latest dhcoveries c f the wonderful engineering ability of these ancients is

the fact that, in preparing to cut a tunnel through the Isthmus of Corinth, it was brought to light that the Roman, Nero, as notorious for his cruelty as for his love of tho arts, sciences and literature, bad employed engteoers upon tbe same spot; and, more, that the route elected by them hits been selected by the engineers now having charge of the modern undertaking. But Nero was proceded by Alexander the Great in the attempt to carry out the colossal undertaking, and, in both instances, the engineers showod themselves to have thoroughly mastered the conditions required for the inception of the work, Chicago News How aa Infant Prodigy Has Dropped Into Poetry at Twelve. St Irfiuis Post-SUpatch. "I want to sea the editor," said a bright-looking, wee little fellow of twelve years, peering into the dim, religious light of the Post-Dhspatch office. "And for what do you want to see the editor?" "Well, I've been writing some poetry, ana I want to see if he w-5n' t print it for me." "Poetry, eh What is it about?" "Well, it is about poor Johnny." And ho handed over the following effusion, which ha had copied .in ink from a rough draft in pencil; POOR JOHNNY". I. In a lonely cottage Out upon a bill. Lies poor little Johnny, Hungry and very HI. His father & his mother Are working hard all days His sister and brother With poor Johnny stay. II. The cot, though dark dreary. Is always watched with cats, For Uod who la above us. Is always watching there; I hope poor iittle Johnny Will soon be up .fc well. And then I'll ask my mamma If I can with him dwell. Composed by Sig. Abelea. "Is that your name at the bottom?" "Yes, sir." 'And when did you begin to write poetry? "Oh, some time ago. The teacher was telling us one time about great poets, and I just thought Td take a shy at it myself." "And you wrote this all by yourself?" His brother, a boy perhaps a year or two older, beameel on the young one with pride and reverence ineffable, and said: "I saw him do it myself; he did it in lean than an hour ," and then he turned to see what effect this wouldhave on the party at the desk. "Who ia your favorite poet, Sigmund?" "Milton." "Mil ton? You don't mean to say you have read Milton?" "Oh, yes and Shakespeare; I guess I like Shakespeare best, but his words are too long for me and he doesn't rhyme enough. I am going to soa one of his plays next time they come." "You haven't written a play yet, have you?" "No, sir." "Or a novel?" "No, sir. I began a novel, but papa made me burn it up. He don't like me to writs novels only just poetry." "He likes you to write poeuy then, does her "Oh, yes, sir." "Well, Sigmnnd, you're ,a regular infant prodigy, ain't you?" He smiled, "Well, I ain't one yet, but I'm heading that way fast. Well, good-bye. Will yon print that poetry?" "Why, certainly." Scenery and Bumps. In Nevada, recently, two rival coaches started out on parallel roads, each fourteam on the gallop. A New Yorker, being the only passenger in one coach, took a seat with the driver. He endured the first five miles very well, as the road was pretty smooth, but he finally carelessly observed: "This pace is rather hard oa the horses, isn't it?" "O, no! They are used to it. I have not began to swing 'em yet!" was the we were going a little slower, I could enjoy the scenery much better." "Yes, Is'poseso; but this lino isn't run on the scenery principle." That ended the conversation until the horses turned a corner, and the stage rode around it on two wheels. Then the New Yorker remarked: "I suppose yon aomuthnea meet with aatidente?" "Almost every day," was the briaf "Isn't there danger of something giving way?" "Of course; but we've got to take our chances. G'lang there I" At the end of another mile the passenger controlled his voice sufficiently to inquire: "What if we shouldn't reach Bed HOI at exactly two o'clock! I am in no hurry." "No, I spose not: but I've got to do it, or lose ten dollars." "How?" "I've got an even ten bet that I ean beat the other stage into Bed Hill by fifteen minutes, and I'm going to win that money if it kills a horse!" "Say! hold on!" excliomed the other, as he felt for his wallet; "I like to ride fast, and I'm not a bit nervous; but I do hate to see horses get worried. Here's twenty dollars for youl Now let's sort o' jog along the rest of the way, and get a chance to smoke and talk about the Indians." "Whoa, there! Come down with you gentle, now! take it easy, and don't fret!" called the driver, as he pulled in and reached for the greenbacks with one hand and for his pipe with the other. Thereafter the New Yorker had more cenery and less bumps. Gold Feet and SlMpleiaaes. The association between cold feet and sleeplessness is much closer than is eom monly imagined. Persons with cold feet rarely Bleep well, especially woman ; yet the number of parson 'a troubled ii very considerable. This is the plan tc adopt with cold feet : They should be dipped into cold water for a brief period. Often just to immerse them and no mow is sufficient; and then they should be rubbed with a pair of hair flesh gloves, or a rough Turkish towel, till they glow, immediately after getting into bed. Aftei thiii a hot water bottle will be successful enough in mamtaining the temperatort of the feet, though without this preliminary it is impotent to attempt, to d so, Disagreeable as the plan at firs) sight may appear it is sufficient ; ana those who have oneo fairly tried it continue it, and find that they have put as end to bad nights and cold feet. Pills, potions, lozenges, "night caps," and si natrootics fail to enable the sufferer ta woo sleep sucoessf ully ; get rid of sold feet and sleep will ootoe of itself, Obituary. Hon. Olarkson N. Potter died at New York on the 33d of January. Ha was bora in Schenectady, N. Y., in lfOU, and graduated at Union College (of which his grandfather, Bev. Elipbalet Nott, waa Prenldent, and his father, BiiiliC'p Alomto Potter, Vice President) in 1813, and a year later graduated as a civil engineer from Itenssellaer Institute, going to Wisconsin to begin his profession, and while a resident of that State studied law, and was admitted to tho liar. In 1847 he started his career as a lawyer in New York city, Identified with a number af prominent canes. In 1808 he was elected to the Forty-first Congress, He waa re-oleotod to the Forty-nocond, Forty-third and Forty-fifth Congresses. Thb an is, in all this old and hollow world, no fount of deep, sttong, deathless love, save that within a mother's heart. Afr. Hrnnmt.

k YANKEE LAD. Raw aw as4onUfeTiJici Tvutsale Weatlt In si SJHm lain SMlKial. When I was a little fellow, in Stuttgart, with yellow hair at d woodensboes. there carA'e one' day to he school which I attended an American boy named Jim Saunders, whose father was au American broker. He was . a quiet, simple lookdni child, with great soulful brown eyes, ana an innocent loot: in his face that made us all think he ooul dn't know much. We used to make fun ot his peaked face and thin legs, bect.use in Germany; yon know, tile children are all round-faced and fat. Little Jimmy never seemed tc notice that we were enjoying ourselvee at his expense, and this made u.i think he was toe simne for any use. But atte?

he had "been in the sohool about six.

months, ho could apeak Uettnan pretty well. A circus come to towrv and, of course, was the sole topic of converjation among the loys. One day we were discussing the matter, when Saunders, who had been si tting quietly in a corner of the room, sail lie should think a little boy might croud in under the circus tent and see the show that way. We all laughed heartily at this exhibition oi ignorance, because we all knew how closely the tent was watched, and more than one of us had. been made temporarily delirious by having the boss canvassman'a boot lean suddenly against the seat of our partts. So when little Jimmy said thiii, we laughed heartily, and Jacob Laud jnheimer, who was the biggest boy in sohcol, said that nobody but a Yankee- would talk so foolishly. But Jimmy seemed to think he was right, and finally Jacob offered to bet him two marks that he couldn't get into the circus under the tent. Jimmy always had plenty of money, and he at once took the bok Then several more of the boys begun betting the little fellow until I felt sorry for him, and finally concluded: 'to let him six groshens myself, so that i could give the money back to him whtrn i til the others had won theirs, and do a noble act. Little James took the bet, and after all the money had been put np with Mr. Niersteiner, one of the teachers, the whole crowd went over to the circus ground to see James lone. Hi) went right up to the ticket-wagon an it ought a ticket Then he said to the man : " I reckon there if no objection to my going under the canvass, as long aa I have paid my way ? " The man said cerliinly not; if anybody wanted to take that much trouble he had no objection. So Jimmy -crawled under the tent i,nd name out of the main entrance in a :niiiute, looking just at solemn and innocent as ever. Of course Mr. Nierstoineir had to give him the money, because he had won itfairly, ami after he had out it in his pocket ha winked at us and said! If you littli tow-headed Dutchmen think I knockel around New York for eight years fci nothing, you will get left." This sad incident came net blighting my otherwise happy boyhood. " Pitfalls of Youth, ' ftv Carl Schurs. Saved f Elephant. An "old showman'' tells the following exciting etory of his experience when connected with a well-known menagerie during an engagement at Smithland, Kentucky. "After the exhibition was over," he says, "I passed into the menagisru. to talk to the wstohman. From seme cause he was absent from his poet, and I walked across the amphitheatre to wa rd the elephant, to give him an apple, for we were the best of friends. He was one of the largest elephants 1 ever saw, and waa aa goodnatured as he van large. I was about half across tho ting when I heard a growl, anu looking around,' saw to my horror one of tiio lions out of his cage and approaching me in a crouching manner, ready for s. spring. I thought of a thousand things in a moment, and among them I must have regretted perpetrating so mitny old, worn-oat jokes at the perform! ince that night. I had. sufficient "preaea.ee of mind to realize my dangerous situation, and to know that if; required the utmost caution to extricate myself from ii ' One hasty motion "u my part and I would be in the jaws -A the monster. I felt that my only hop was the elephant, if I could reach him, but he was chained by the toot, ami could not reach ma, "Nearer ami nearer came the lion, waving his tail in a manner that meant business. If I turned my back, be would spring; if I took my eyes from him, I was losk It was a terrible moment. I glidol backwards awiftly as I dared. I had another fear. I feared stumbling backwards, and I knew if I did fall I would never rise, but where I fell X would make a meal for that lion. "As I nenref'l the elephant X saw that the lion understood my movements, and fearing be woidd be balked of his prey, he prepared to bring the matter to a crisis. I then saw that I had bnt one hope, and that was to rush with all my speed to the elephant. I think I must have jumped twenty feet when I turned, and I know the lion jumped thirty, but he just missed me. How I completod the race I do ttot know. I only knew that the elephant's trunk was around my waist, and he 'vts lifting me upon his. head. X only knew that I was saved." Bird Telegraphy. On a number of occasions, sajs a correspondent of -the Chicago Tribune, J have closely observed Uie woodcock's system of telegraphy. The bird's mandibles are furnished with extremely sensitive nerves, to arranged that when the points of the bill rest upon the ground tha slightest sounds re conveyed to its brain. Standing upon the water-saturated earth of a spo tty log, our bird utters faint, keen cry, scarcely audible at two rods' distance, then immediately lets fall his head till line tip of bis bill touches the ground, and listens attentively. If his mate hears him ahe replies, puts her bill on the ground, and listens nt turn. So the love messages go back and forth as long as the birds have anthing to Bay. This sort of thing usually happens in the soft twilights, From May to the middle of August, though occasionally I have seen and heard it in the brood light of a sammer day. In June, 1868, I mado the tollewing note : "To-day sketohed a woodcock in the listening attitude. Shall try to get further studies." live yea rs Inter I succeeded in getting three more sketches, and iu 1880 1 got four more. Many of these and kindred sketches have beec obtained at the oad of indescribable care and labor. The wotidoook is so shy, so attentive, so Bonsiti're, that the least Bound will eauss it to skulk and hide a thing it does with even greater Banning and success than the quail. The only way in which I have ever been able to got near enough to the bird to sketch its natural attitudes, hat. been to crawl on the wet ground, through tangled weeds and ahruba, until it reached a hiding place on the border of its feeding range,, and there patiently and silently watch lor its corning, Thiii X have done over and over again for days together betonj getting eight of the bird. Reformation Through KindneHii. All tho femide convicts in the Indiant. penitentiary were turned over to Sarah Smith, e. philanthropic Quakeress, seven years ago, for tho purpose of testing kindneg as a means cf reformation. Success is claimed for the experiment. Two hu ndred women and girls ant now under Mrs. Smith'a care. They are required to perform certain work, from which they earn their own support, and tl.ey are kept within an iuohisv.ro, but there are no high titone walls, dark cells, barred windows nor armed guards. Eight women assistants are all that she inquires to control these prisoners, and severe punish moats and deprivations are

unknown. It has been proved, says an official report, that 80 per cent, of these convicts are so far reformed that on release they begin to lead refutable lives. Keu Fork Hun. ' mas OF THOUGHT. ArPREHKNstos of vj la often worse than evil itaolf. DwrATca is the soul of basines" and method the soul of dispatch. ThAjT wliie.h is bitter to be endured may be i-weet to be remembered. Evsmr one is weary ; the poor in seeking, the rich in -keeping, the good In learning. Ws ake led on, liketiie little children, by a way that 'we know not. deary glial, -..' "! We Tjrnnr very few people sensibli, except those who are of our opinion. Mochefmir.autd, 1 niMi.Y gufwi from blessings known O-f grcaUr oat of sight. Men are never killed by the adversities they have, bat by .the impatience which they suffer. I anybody reports yon not to be an honest man, let your practice give him the .'lie. Antonuuis. Oua doubts are traitors, and make Us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare. It many timea falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others, because we first deceived ourselves. A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mold and rust upon his soul. If tbe past is not to bind us, when -Qin dnty lie? We should have no law rnt the inclination of the moment,George Eliot. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new information from age and experience I'n rathvk Isagh a bright-haired boy Than reign a greybeard Una ! O. W. Behnm. A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better especially richer or more fashions bio than they are, Thackeray. It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything ; bet to undertake,- or pretend to do, what you are not made for it not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. Trror hast a stout heart and strong hands, Thou canst supply thy wants: what would thou mom f - If. Zengttrr. Airr is long, life abort, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. No one knows what he is doing wltHo the act's aright ; but of what is wrong we are always consciousl The height charms us, the steps to it do not ; witli the summit in our eye we fbve to walk along the plain.' A TBTfB scholar learns from the known to unfold tho unknown, and approaches more and more to being a'mnster. Nothing ii more charming than to see a mother with a child npon her arm ; nothing is more reverend than a mother

among many children. As he alone is a good father, who at table serves his children first; so is be slone a good citizen, who, before all other outlay a, discharges what he owes the State. True art is like good company ; iteonstrains us in the most delightful v?uy to recognize the measure by which, and np to which, our inward nature has been shaped by culture. . Dead Stars. Like the sand of the seo, the stars of heaven, says Sir John Lubbock, have ever been used as effective symbols of number, and the improvements in cur method of observation have added fresh force to our original impressions. We now know that onr earth is but a fraction of one out of at least 75,000,000 worlds. But this is not all. In adttttien to the luminous heavenly bodies, we cannot doubt that there are countless others, invisible to us from their greater distance, smaller size, or feebler lght; indeed, we know that there are many dark bodies which now emit no light, or comparatively little. Thus in the esse of Prooyon, the existence of an invisible body is proved by the movement of the visible, star.' Again I may refer to the carious phenomena presented by Algol, a bright star in the head oi' Medusa. This star shines without change for two days; then in throe hoars and a half, dwindles from a star of the second to one of the fourth magnitude ; and then, in another three and a half hours, reassnmea fta origiaol brilliancy. These changes seem

body which inbrceote at regular intervals a part of the light miitted by AloL Thus tha floor of heniven is not only "thick inlaid with patines of bright gold, "but: itudded also with extinct stars once probably as brilliant as our own sun, but now dead and eoM, as Helmholtx tells us that onr sun itoelf will be, some seventeen millions of years heoce. Heflect Upon This. Self-conc '-itmagnifies our benevolence, our iiffectiou, and oar merit, and selfishness suggests that we ought to receive at least as much as we giro. But modesty,.

shruiking from self-apt lause, draws ns. nearer to the truth, and generosity disdains to reqitire payment for its willing boons. True benevolence seeks the benefit of its object ; trim affection ftnda its highest happiness in loving : true excellence is most concerned about the value of its work. There make the few. st claims, .yet it is to them that gratitude, love aad appreciation flow in spontaneous and abundant iitreama. Tasadcijcai. as it may seem, Bea Joufiou was dulled "kiss Ben Joneon" Ijocavosa his work was ckaas tm& ..

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