Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 6 January 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV.

Thebe have been thirty-seven mmders in Chicago this year. The iee impending laiume is now the chief topic of the eroakers. The progress of the Guiteau trial is slow but it is toward the gallows. Ireland is now garrisoned by 50,000 well drilled and veteran English troops. • It is nearly mid winter and not a pound ot ice yet gathered east of the Mississippi river. The total cost of the projected Mississippi river improvement company will be $33,01:0,000. Jay Gould has secured control of the entire system of elevated railroads in New York city. Thb French cabinet is g. ing to pieces owing to differences about the conduct of the war in Tunis. Several heavy failures among the eastern coal trade are announced. Too much warm weal he’’. The new state capital just completed at Albany, New York, last week lias eost tUat state $12,000,000. It is an index of American inventive genius to note that three hundred and forty patents were issued from the patent office last week. Money seems to grow old pretty fast. During the past week there were $1,089,000 received at the United States treasury and exchanged for new’ money; Nearly all the mail contracts for the whole Pacific coast expire next June, and are now being readvertised. I his is the section w'here the star outes abound.

One Rev. Dr. Gardner w r ho lias been investigating the subject says that of the 167 murderers who were questioned on the subject 164 had seen public hangings. Mexico knows how to deal with frontier robbers and outlaws. A gang of thirty, comprising the most noted ruffians in the country, were hung at Chihuahua in one day. Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, is a philosopher. “Oueof the first duties of a community," he says, “is to protect its youth—protect the boys first, and they will protect the girls.” Forty female clerks are marked for discharge from the treasury department at an early day, because of no work for them to do. A vast amount of congressional influence is being exerted to havejthem retained. The “boss” hunter of modern times hails from Australia. His name is Hawthorne and he has killed 5,372 kangaroos, 1,418 wallabies, 118 dingoes, 362 wildcats, bandicoots, and rats, 204 eagle hawks, and 167 snakes. If the cabinet remains as now composed it will have some peculiar features. It is composed entirely of lawyers; and the speaker of the bouse and president pro tern ol the senate are lawyers. It is, in fact, a legal administration. The way to quiet Guiteau, or make him hold his tongue while in the court room, it is suggested, will be for the judge to inform him that lie must keep quiet or he will be made to walk from the jail to the court room with but one guard. The idea of running the gauntlet of stray balls between the court room and the jail would soon settle the “devilish depravity” of the fellow ami dry m» his insanity. 4 StEW explosive iias just been discovered. It is a sort of improved nitro glycerine and is called tri-nitro. It is very cheap and will come into general use. An idea of its power may be gained frcm the statement that while gunpowder explodes at the rate of 1,100 miles a minute, tri-nitro explodes at the rate of 19,000 miles a minute. Two dollars’ worth of it will blo-.v the most powerful iron-clad to atoms.

England has suddenly awakened to the fact through three late decisions of her highest court that a recent act of parliament is in reality a universal suffrage act and that at the next elec.ion she will find herself in the grip of a great democracy. The act of parliament referred to is the “Household Suffrage Act,” a law that makes every householder a voter. The judges hold that every man who rents a separate room and carries the xey m his pocket—practically every man with a settled residence—is a householder. In the cities of England, where one-haff of the whole population lives, this makes very nearly every adult male, not a vagabond, a vcter. - The closing “f tm- Pavenport, lowa, public schools for their holiday vacation presented a novel and practical feature that can not be too highly recommended to public school teachers everywhere. Two months ago the pupils were invited to prepare for exhibit in their respective rooms articles of their own manufacture made at home. The result was a surprising one to the large numbers of visitors. Hundreds of articles representing the range of arts,mechanics, and industry wereshown, and many of them showed not only skill but original design. A partial enumeration will give some idea of the work presented. It comprised boat-building, needle and crochet work, knitting, drawing and painting, bread and cake making, shoes and slippers, candy manufacture card work, wood-carving, lace work, picture frames and scroll-saw-ing.

The Decatur Democrat.

THE TRIAL OF GUITEAU. THIRTY-THIRD DAY. ’.Vashington, D. (’., Dec. 28 — Court opened at the usual hour. Cross-examination of Dr. McDonald was concluded without important issue. Dr. Randolph Barksdale, superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum, Richmond, Va., testified that he believed Guiteau had been feigning in court, and also believed, taking as true the facts in two hypothetical questions of the prosecution, that tiie prisoner was sane when he shot the president. Dr. John H. Colleuder, of Nashville, superintendent Tennessee State Asylum for the insane was next sworn. Witness believed, taking the facts set forth to be true, that the prisoner was undoubtly sane. Judge Porter here insisted upon his view that the prisoner be removed to the dock After much debate, the court then rendered his decision directing the dock eleared, and the prisoner was removed hence by the marshal. Cross-examination was then resumed. A plaster east of the prisoner’s head was then handed witness, who said that while he found it more shapely and symmetrical than he had expected, he placed no importance on the shape of the head as indicating sanity or insanity. On the redirect examination witness stated he did not think the prisoner had been feigning insanity in the court room. He had been exagerating his characteristics of self-conceit, impudence, audacity and nsolence. The court then adjourned, the prisoner, as he was passing his counsel, expressing his contentment with his posi. ion in the dock as affoiding more pure air. THIRTY-FOURTH DAY. Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—The court room was densely packed despite the rain. A rumor was cnrrent this morning that the jury, with one exception, are satisfied of Guiteau’s legal responsibility. The twelfth juror, it is said, strictly maintains that Guiteau is as crazy as a March hare. The prisoner was taken, without demonstration, to the prisoner's dock. This is located about twenty-five feet from the counsel upon the left < f the room, a narrow passage separating it from the large window which overlooks Louisiana avenue. The entire day waspent taking testimony of experts. The feeling of bitterness among counsel is daily growing stronger and much valuable time was consumed in their personal discussions. Doctor C’olleuder’s examination was concluded. The principal witness of the day was Dr. Walter Kempster, superintendent of Wisconsin state hospital for the insone, after a vast amount of testimony bearing on insanity and mental derangement, ColonelCorkhil! read the hypothetical questions of the prosecution, and witness replied to each: “Taking the facts set forth to be true, in my opinion he was sane.” After recess. Dr. Kempter, again took the stand, but the-proceedings were interrupted at this point i>y a grand passage alarms, indulged in by counsel, and participated in by the prisoner from the dock. Some fifteen minutes had be n consumed in the dispute, and the bourt admonished counsel that the trial must proceed without consuming so much time discussing immaterial differences. The cross-ex-amination was then continued by Sc rville, witli occasional outbursts on the part of the prisoner until adjournment.

THIRTY-FIFTH DAY. Washington, D. ('., Dec. 30.—At 10 o’clock Guiteau was led into couit by the bailiffs. Counsel for the prosecution having entered, Hr. Kempster took the stand and Scov He resumed his cros--examination. The witness adhered to his opinions of yesterday, and the most persistent efforts of '.he attorneys failed to shake his perfect faith in the sanity of the prisoner. The next witness called was Doctor John P. Gray, medicel superintendent of the New York state lunatic asylum. Witness had made a study of insanity since 1850, and in that time had treated and investigated 12,(k0 cases of insanity. After a lengthy detail of his opinion as an expert, in cases of mental derangement; witness gave a minute account of his examination of the prisoner. Dr. Gray continued the story of his interview with Guiteau with occasional comments by the latter of assent or dissent, but not to the extent of a serious interference. Adjourned until to-moorow. THIRTY-SIXTH DAY. Washington, December 31. —At the opening of court Guiteau called out: “One of my guards here, Cunningham, has got an eleven pound baby foraNew Year’s present.” [Laughter, in which the jury healthy Joined.] Dr. Gray resumed the story of his conversation with the prisoner in jail. The entire day was spent in the ex'aminationof this witness; all through the cross examination he adhered to the belief expressed in direct examination: “The sanity of the prisoner.” Witness was continually interrupted bv the counsel for the defense, and harrassed by insults from the prisoner; but he stood his ground, exhibiting neither uneasiness at counselor terror for the detested culprit. 'Hie afternoon passed wearily. Counsel for the prosecution devoted themselves mainly to the preparation and arrangements of the points for the forthcoming arguments. Finally the Lour for adjournment having arrived, Guiteau, who had been listlessly following the proceedings, called out: “Tomorrow will be new years, 1882. I shall receive to-morrow in jail, and shall be happy to see all who can succeed in getting in. I wish every one a happy new year. Come Seoville, it is 3 o'clock, let’s go home. Court adjourned until Monday*.

TELEGRAPHIC. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. I.—The Com-mercial-Gazette's Beaver Falls (Pa..) special says: “A terrible dynamite explosion took place yesterday at the extension of the Pennsylvania company’s new line, which is being graded on tiie north side of the Beaver river, near^ Wampum. Mr. King Smith. tiiesßsad director of a gang of workmen, placed some dynamite in an old powder-keg to dry previous to use. This was at the noon hour, just when the men stopped to take their dinner. The keg containing a couple of so-call-ed cartri 'ges was placed some eight feet from the fire, and while the men were eating their dinner a can exploded, and the result was that Wilford Cunningham was struck by some of the exploded can and fata ly hurt. John Burns was seriously injured. Samuel Parker had .me eye and the right side of his head injured. William Wo»d was hurt on tiie head and shoulders, as were also Albert Boshell and Frank Shargnut, a couple of men, and both members of the laboring gang. Mr. Smith had just le t the spot tor the purpose of getting necessary caps ami fuse, and thus escaped injury. Willord Cunningham’s case is stated to be necessarily fatal, he being injured in several places, besides the carotid ariery beingsevered. Burns is suffering from a succession of hemorrhages. Samuel Parker is injured but slightly, and will recover. He may lose the sight of one of his eyes, but the physician in attendance is not positive. As to the two Frenchmen, Boshell and Shargnut, they will come out all right. Kennebunk, Me., Janaary 2. —As tiie 8:30 train from Boston on the Boston & Maine railway, with two engines, crossed the iron bridge at Coles, a corner of the bridge gave way after the engines, baggage and parlor car had crossed, precipitating the other four cars down an embank ment and they immediately caught fire and were destroyed. There were about 100 passengers on board. One man, name unknown, was killed; J. Henry Downer, of Berwick, Me., was probably fatally hurt. Conductor Weymouth, James Nolan, a brake man, and Leland and James Conney, of Pittsfield, were badly hurt, and fifteen other passengers sever- injured. Indianapolis, Jan., 2.—A street car at he crossing of Virginia avenue, and the Union railway tracks, was ran into bw freight train of the Wabash railway this morning, and a sister of mercy of tiie Assumption convent of St. Marys Catholic college, in attempting to get out of the street car, was thrown under the freight train and instantly killed. One other passenger in the street car had his feet crushed.

Cincinnati, January 2.— A Gazette’s special says: While the Knights of Pythias festival was in progress, Saturday night, in Galler's hall, Shanesville, Tuscarawas c unty, Ohio, the floor gave way and the entire company, three hundred in number, fell with it to the floor below. The stoves, with burning coal, fell also, and set tire to the building. Pour women ami one boy perished in she flames, and twv others were crushed to death by the falling timbers. Tiie citizens, with heroic efforts, extinguished the tire, but not until the casualty list reached nearly one hundred. The death list will probably exceed ten. Shanesville is some miies from a railroad or telegraph, and the names have not been obtained. Denver, January 2.—The Republican's Silverton special says: Edward F. Ryan, Mike Ryan and Richard Atkins, employed on the Paradise tunnel .Saturday, ten miles from here, were buried one hundred feet by a snow slide. Parties started from Silverton this morning to recover the bodies. Shelbyville, Ind., January 2.— Information n aches here that a saloon kept by two Germans at Palestine, north of here, was blown up by dynamic by unknown persons. This is the third building .oat by these men in this way within the past three months. Cleveland, January 2.—A Herald special from Shanesville, Ohio, states: The Knights are of the first families of the place, and the gathering included the intelligence and beauty of the neighborhood. The band had just ceased playing, when a crash was heard and the’ floor began to settle lengthwise in the centre. The timbers had slipped off the post in the rear and pulled out of the orick wall in front. The centre settled rapidly and broke lengthwise. The ’ joists kept up at the oilier ends of the inside walls. This threw the people, tables, stove | and all together. The falling floors barr caded the front doors, but they were soon chopped down. The chandelier in the store room below was broken and the oil spilled over a number of persons. It soon bunted into a blaze, and in a few moments Milton Yoder, five years old, was burned to death in his mother’s arms. She was fatally burned. Fortunately thebuild ing did not catch fire. The storm added to the confusion. Following is as complete a list of thecaualties as is possible to get: Dead Miss MaryNett', twenty years, skull fracturhd; Milton Yooer, five years old, burned. Fatally burned: Mrs. Dr. Yoder, Mrs. Allen Goeler, Miss Annie Orrin. Seriously injured: Fred. Schwaub and Lewis Keich, legs broken; James Walter, arm broken; Lizzie Sch ewalter, collar bone broken ; Augusta Heider and Mrs. Lucilla Sctieifi, ankles dislocated; George Fraelichs, jr., feet burned. The following were painfully but not dangerouslyinjured: Mary and Amanda Kerch, May C. Schutt, Henry Crotsi, Mrs. Daniel Kline, Carrie Rice, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Wallick and son, Willie Jerome Weimers, Mrs. Augustus Goeler, Annie and Hattie Gross, Mrs. Allen Richeson, John Roth, MaryKaufman, Miss Mollie Biddle, Almira Lintz, J. E. Richeson, Will Crotz and wife, Aug. Fraeliph, Mr. and Mrs. A. Krakau. Harry Wright, Fred Klaher, Robbie Klaher, Kate Lehmer, Christ. Gross, Catherine Speinger, Miss Walter, John, Grah, Henry Homan, Dan Kline, John Klaher, John Stertsbaeh, Libbie Ream, Mrs. Michael Shutt and Annie Shutt, Drs. Welty, Miller and Jones. Drs. Si den, of Dover, and powers, of Rogersville,are doing everything possible for the sufferers. Newcomerstown, 0., January 2.— When the fire broke out among the struggling people the wildest excitement and confusion prevailed, and the scene which followed beggars description. The cries and screams of the suffering victims, mingled with the groans and shrieks of tpe dying, made the night hideous, while the frantic efforts of the victims to escape as they rushed around, their bodies burned and blackened presented a ghasteiy spec taele. As the floir fell iu in the shape of a “V” there was no means

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of escape until assistance from cutside arrived. During all this time the file was doing its frightful work, auff six persons perished iu the flames, including Mrs. Dr. Y’oder and her little five years old son, who was burned to a crisp in his mother’s arms. Four were crushed to death by the falling timbers and about sixty otbeis were seriously injuried, some perhaps fatally, as marry bad arms and legs broken and rib“ ‘‘rushed in, while others were hori.oiy burned. By the heroic efforts of the citizens the side of the building was broken in and water dashed on the poor, struggling seething mass of human beings, ami many lives were thus saved. Tne total number of killed and wounded will probably reach 100. The physicians of Shanesville, Rogersville and Canal Dover are giving all the aid possible to the suffering victims, who are now doing well, though some more perhaps will die of their injuries. The building was a rickety frame structure, and has long been considered unsafe. Bradford, Pa., January I.—The large frame boarding house of Garrett Abers, near Richburg, was destroyed by tire at 1 o’clock this morning. Gas from an oil well was used as fuel in a cooking stove, and an unexpected pressure set the kitchen on fire Owing to general sickness in the house, there were few boarders, and nobody was in lhe vicinity ot t e kitchen. Mrs. Abers was sick with a fever in a front room upstairs, and her husband, who is 70 years of age, was sitting by her bedside, and, from prolonged watching, was about exhausted, and fell asleep. He was first awakened by the smoke, and discovered that lhe entire rear part of the building was in flames. Seizing his wife, he carried her out and laid herdown in the snow in her night clothes. He then went back to awake three children who were sleeping in a rear room upstairs, but could not reach teem. There were two girls, aged 13 and 11 years, and a boy, aged 10 years. Their legs, arms, and heads were burned off, and their trunks blackened and charred. Several persons down stairs were also dangerously burned in making their escape. The physicians think Mrs. Abeis will die from exposure in the snow, in connection with her fever, and Mr. Abers is nearly insane with grief. In the destruction of the house he lias also lost all his property. New York, January 3.—The depute sheriffs arrested to-day at Castle Garden three cabin passengers, Germans, ore from the steamship Mosel and the other two froili the steamship Vaderlaud. One is charged with the larceny of 20,0u0 marks from a gentleman named John Horn, of Wiral, Germany, December 18, last. The prnoners’names are Cail Pfistlnger, alias Robert Rittermeyer, of Bremen, who came here on the Mosel; Anton Muggenthal, of Bavaria, and Jossph Schwabb, alias Frederick Watterman, of Antwerp, who came on the Vaderland. The prisoners were taken in a cab to jail, where they were searched. On Pfistinger 4,416 marks in gold German coin were found. A search of the effects of Muggenthal revealed 201) marks in gold German coin, and 2,342 marks iu gold were found in the possession or Schwabb. Tne prisoners are believed to be professional highwaymen and house-breakers. The prisoners did not deny the burglary, i>ut further had very little to say for themselves. Pfistinger at first denied his identity, but on a ring being discovered on iiis finger bearing the initials, “C. P„” be acknowledged his name to be as stated in the papers of arrest.

New York, January 3.—A clever and partly successful attempt at swindling by means of adroitly contrived telegraphic dispatches has just come to light in Havana. A telegram purnorting to being forwarded from Madrid through the news agercy to S. 8. Spencer, was printed in the Havana papers on the morning of December 24, announcing that at the drawing of the National lottery at Madrid, December 23, ticket No. 4,745 had drawn the capital priz?, s>oo,l>oo. Saturday afternoon ticket No. 4,746 was presented at tiie banki ig house of J. M. Borges Jr Co., who deelined to negotiate until the genuineness of the telegram could be ascertained They cabled their Madrid correspondent, and on Monday receiving a reply confirming the published cispatch, thereupon negotiated the ticket, and the next day the payee returned to Borges & Co. $211,600, against a cable transfer on Paris. A member of the firm left Havana for New York on Thursday with the ticket, iu order to send the same to Madrid under notarial seal and insured. On arrival here this morning he received a telegram from his hous* informing him that the dispatches establishing the genuineness of the report of the drawing were forged and the entire transaction a fraud. A subsequeutdispatch assured him that a large part of the money bad been recovered in Havana, and he has every reason to believe that the 1,000,000 francs transferred to Paris have not yet passed into the po-session of the swindlers. Tiie firm telegraphed from Havana that the principal operator had been arrested and safely lodged in prison, and that they expect to recover the whole remaining $29,000. Salt Lake, January 3.—Fire broke out at daybreak In Market Row, this city, yesterday, consuming four butchers’ and grocers’ stands and stocks. Loss estimated at $10,000; no insurance. Batesville, Ark., January 3.— Fire broke out at 7:30 last night. It commenced in J. C. McGuire’s livery stable, which was entirely consumed, including fourteen horses, and burned a number of other buildings, including the store of E. M. Menkers. Total loss, $30,000; one-fourth insured. St. Catherines, January 3.— Eighteen small buildings burned last night at Welland.

Chicago, January 3.—Three cases of small-pox were discovered in one family at Lake View*, a suburban town, to day. The father is an expressman who has been following his trade about the city during the three weeks that the scourge has been afflicting his family. No new cases of small-pox and no deaths. Indianapolis, January 3 —George W. Shoemaker, ex-chief of police of Terre Haute,committed suicide at the Spencer House to-day, by taking morphine. Atlanta, January 3.—A special to the constitution says a freight engine on the Savannah, Florida & Western road blew up to-day, killing the engineer and scalding the fireman. Indianapolis, January 3.—lsaac Patterson, an old resident of this city and founder of the Patterson Methodist church, was found dead in an outbuilding near his residence this morning.

RELIGION’ AND SCIENCE. St. Louis is to have a new theolgieal seminary, which is to be organised by the German Evangelical church. The building will cost $30,000, and will probably be situated on Rosedale Heights. Recently a church warden of Oldham, who presented himself for communion at a Ritualistic church in Manchester, and afterward exhibited a piece of the bread in the church, was arraigned and convicted of “indecent behavior,” and fined by the Court 20s and costs. Very desirable properly has been bought by the M. E. Cburcli in Little Rock, Ark., for a university. Dr. Geo. W. Gray to be President. A meeting was held during the last week, attended by Governor Churchill and other prominent citizens, and they subscribed $15,000. A new revolving eanon is in course of construction at the Krupp works for the German Government. It is the intention of that Government to introduce it into the navy as a weapon which will be used’ especially against torpedo-boats, but it must first complete successfully with the Nordenfeldtgun. A trade cotemporary reports that a imall cargo of vermillion imported into Germany upon being analyzed turned out to be red oxide of lead colored by eosine. A separation was effected between the red oxide and eosine by digesting the spurious vermillion for 24 hours in very strong alcohol. A much shorter ti ne is required to enable an expert chemist to detect the presence ot this splendid organic coloring matter. There is said to be general satisfaction felt at the new arrangement under which religious services are conducted at Harvard College. The Rev. Dr. E. E. Hale conducted morning prayers in October, the Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, in November, and the Rev. F. G Peabody has charge of the exercises this month. The Rev. Dr. Alexander McKenzie will officiate in January. The regular services on Sunday are conducted by the same clergymen, and by others who are invited by the president of the university. The extensive use into which bromide of potassium has come renders the assertion of Herr Maachke ofgreat im[>ortance. He finds that this bromide of remarkable sedative properties is largely contaminated with lead. The samples' he tested were only reduced to a clear liquod after the addition of an acid. Hydrosulphuric acid is the best agent to use in making the test, with the exception of, perhaps, sulphide of ammonium. Leadpoisoning is a dire alternative for nervousness or sleeplessness.

The recent decision of the board of Managers of the American Bible Society to drop the subject of the controversy with the Connecticut Society as unfit for the attention of men of intelligence,” is regarded by The Congregationalist as a very unwise disposal of the matter. “Ifthe management of that society,” it says, “ think it is already rich enough to get along without the further contributions of the churches, it may be wise'or it to pursue a high and mighty policy. But if the Christian people of the country are to be asked for further contributions, a different tone will be found important, not to say essential.” The rapid spread of missionary work in foreign lands is well illustrated by the fact that fifty years ago there were 502 mis ion stations, whereas now there are 5,165. In that time the i umber of ordained missionaries has increased from 656 to 6,696, and the number of other laborers and assistants lias increased from 1,236 to 53,856. Fifty years ago there were 70 000 communicants; now there are 657,332. Tiie contributions from America for the purpose of carrying on this work have grown trom $250,00 to $2,000,000 each year. In Great Britain during 1880, $5,554,750 was contributed by all the churches for missionary work, nearly one-half of which was given by the Church of England. Enthusiasts w’ho make a special study of sun-spots and attendant phenomena, believe that tiie corner-stone of a new science is being laid by discoveries pointing to an intimate connection between solar and terrestrial meterology. Just what the connection is they are not yet able to clearly define, although electricity is suspected of being the agent through which the effects are manifested upon our planet. It is known that the gaseous envelope of the sun is affected by eruptions of such prodigious magnitude as to be utterly beyond our power of conception, these disturbances appearing to us in the form of rapidly changing spots and protuberances. The eras of the spots—or sun-storms—-occur at remarkably regular intervals, a complete cycle of the’ various stages of activity from maximum to minimum and again to maximum, being performed in about eleven years—the so-called “sun-spot period.” The sun spot physicists claim a coincidence of the periods of maximum spotsand years of great atmospheric and physical disturbance in the earth. The present has been a year of great solar disturbances, while it-has been marked by violent storms and earthquakes upon ourglobe. Fmtherthan this, these scientists claim to have recently detected by simultaneous observation minor atmospheric changes as the result of corresponding movements in the sun. Many difficulties attend these observations, but the Astronomer Royal for Scotland and others believe that te state of the sun will some day become an important factor iu weather forecasts and like calculations.

Informallou for Mrs. Scoville. “Mrs. Scoville is a very odd woman,” said Marshal Henry. “O, she possesses many of the characteristics of her brother, the assassin, without his depravity.” She does not, in one sense, possess an idea, she is possessed by it, and when possessed by it, is excited, eager, persistent; she stops at nothing in working it out. To-day she came rushing into my office, and said, exci'edly, that she wanted her brother taken better care of than lie I .has been. She said that many peo-| pie, whom she abused roundly, were writing threatening letters to him and , his family, and that she feared that almost and day the attempt made by I Mason and Jones might be repeated l this time with success, and site de- ■ dmamie in the name of justice better protectionfor her brother, of whom she spoke as though he were in faet as well as in legal fiction, an innocent man. “I thought it was about time to remind her of some things that she seemed to have forgotten, so 1 sad: “Madam, are you aware that a foul murder was committed in this city last July, and that the murderer, the self-confessed murderer, is now on trral ? Are you awaie that the people,

an I especially the people outside of VV isbingtoii, take a decided iuterert in this trial, and that some of them at least believe the accused guilty, and would like to see him punished? You mu t not be surprised, because you receive letters threatening the life of the prisoner, your brother. It is the most natural thing in the world. He is, however, none the more in danger of death. People who write threatening letters seldom execute their threats. Every precaution has been taken to secure the safety oi your brother at the jail, in the van. iud in the court. But you must not forget that he is a mar erer, and that my first duty is to see that he does , not escape.’ ” “Where could he go if he should escape?” said Mrs. Scoville. “I don’t kuow,” said the Marshal. “I only know that he will not run away while he is in my charge, and that he will be held to answer the demands of justice to the end.” “I don't feel satisfied with your arrangements,” she responded. “He may be killed any day.” “I have taken every precaution pos ible to prevent it,” said the Marshal. “Then I shall speak to Warden Crocker, of the jail, myself, 'she said, snappishly. "As you please, Madam,” said the Marshal. “At least,” said Mrs Scoville, still standing, “you might place a guard about my husband, whose lite has been threatened. I think it is very hard that my brother and my husband can’t have their rights, as both ol them may be killed betore to-morrow for lack of them.” "Madam,” said the Marshal, roused at last, “your brother and your busband iiave all the rights they're entitled to, and nei her of them needs any more. The defense in this case has been treated with the utmost generosity under the law. Already thousands of dollars have been expended by me, as the representative of the United States, for you. You yourself have received your fees and your mileage as a witness, and you have no cause for complaint and I’ll hear none.” Mrs. Scoville turned on hi r h.el and walked slowly out, pondering apparently “some things,” as Henry says, which she had forgotten.

Queer Dishes. What marvellous variety of tastes, of likes and dislikes with regard to special forms of food, from cannibalism to currant cake, we find among people physically constituted alike in every respect. This person eats his meat burned to a cinder; that will touch only what is rawly undone. Geo.ge 111. preferred fish when ii was semi-putrid; his successor's weakness was hot plum bread crum pled up in a quart of cream. Lord Bacon is said to have lived whol weeks at intervals on nothing bin oranges; while tiie elder Pitt could not endure the sight of fruit, ami never suffered any to be brought into the room where he was. It seems an extraordinary thing to speak of eating a skunk, and that, too, in a part of tfie world where bed and mutton are infinitely more plentiful than bread; yet, it is a 'act that the Gu .nchos of the Banda Oriental are in the habit of hunting this crea lure for tiie sake of its flesh—noris this incomprehensible to anyone w’ho is acquainted with tiie true nature oi tiie skunk. The disgusting liquid which it ejects is contained in a gland on the back, and constitutes its weapon of defence. Certainly, tin effluvium is the most horrible and enduring that may be conceived, and man and beast will fly trom it; but if it be surprised and killed before it has time to use this, and the glaud be afterward extirpated with care, the rest of the body is destitute of all otrence. Skunk-skins are largely used by furriers, and beautiful skit’s they are, and the animal is capable ol being domesticated, as it never emits the secretion except when in dange «>r alarmed. I never ate a skunk but I have handled a tame one without any olfactory disturbance. I see that tinned pepper-pot is now to be obtained in London, but cannot fancy that it would be much like tb< real article. Pepper-pot is a favorite relish for breakfast out West, and is eaten with riee like curry; in some of the old families m Dcnierara it is made to perfection. An iron crock is filled up daily with scraps of meat fish, almost anything, and various spices, pepper, chillies and other con diments added, the essential one being casaripe, a thick, b.ack, treacly fluid extracted from the cassava root The crock itself, is brought to the breakfast table, and the contents served with a wooden spoon; the mix ture is black and fibtous in appearance, and intensely hot to ihe palate; but the sine qua non of excellence in “ pepper-pot is that it shall never be allowed to become empty Thequan tity it holds is immensely disproportionate to that required for daily consumption; nevertheless, it is filled up every morning, ami kept perpet ually simmering. Rats, for instance, I firmly believe, would be not only wholesome, but very nice if properly prepared—notcommon ewer rats, but such as I ate. corn fed animals snared in a hop garden. The flesh, though perfectly white, was dry and tasteless: 'mt then they were only skinned, cleaned and submitted to the fire without any of the etceteras which makes other meats savoury. Dr. Kane, Rear-Admiral Bean for, Captain In glefield, and other Arctic explorers speak highly’ of rats as a welcome addition to their supply of food in those dreary’ latitudes.—[Chamoers Journal.

How Can You Tell a Good Cigar? They used to say that a good cigar couldbe known by the light brown specks on it. These were made by worms, the story was, and the worms were epicures iu tobacco and would touch only the best ; but the chemists soon found away of simulating these worm specks. So that spoiled that test. Then there was no other guide but the ashes. If they burned white lhe cigar was good ;if not, bad. But the enterprising tobaccouist. soon ' found away to make the vilest cabb.lgenia burn as spotlessly white as the best Havana. Another test gone. Finally, tiie makers of choice cigars put a little red label around each. This was thought to be something which would always be a sure guide, and so it would be, but unfortunately some of the menufaoturers have, by a strange mistake, put the labels on the cabbagenias as well as the Havani:as. An Ottawa special announces an important piece of railroad news—the consolidation of the Midland and Grand Trunk railways, and their connect on with the Saiilt Ste. Marie and the Northern Pacific. W. F. Fitch succeeds J. B. Trull as superintendent of the Galena and | Montfort division of the Chicago & I Northwestern railroad.

INDIANA. In Franklin county there are one hundred and fifty-one persons who pay t.xesto the amount of SIOO or over. The store of McLane <fc Co., at Union Mills, Lapo t county, was robbed of a large amount of goods, chiefly jewelry, silks and laces. Henry Ho me, a farmer near Vincennes, put dynamite in a stump to raise it. His hired man, named Rheinhart, was hit by a fragment and lost his leg. A. M. Tsgge't, of Logansport, committed suicide by shooting. He had had a great de d of trouble lately ; losing his wife and child by death, and having his store burned. Henry Pierce of Monrovia while out hunting iu the woods near that place was almost instantly killed by tiie bursting of bis gun. He was thirty-three years of age, and unmarried. There have been forty-five cases of small-pox in Madison up to date, and ten deaths. Only four cases are now under treatment, and the hoard of health hope to stamp the disease out altogether. Ed a in Quick, cf Crawfordsville proposes to live long enough to make it lively for the policy holders who have insured his life without his consent. Tiie policies are said to amount to SIOO,OOO. The steamer John S. Hopkins, was burned at Evansville. The crew and passengers barely escaped with the clothing they happened to have on, She was valued at $40,000, and was fully insured. David Grady, working for Jacob Finge, three miles from Mitchell, while feeding stock at the barn was knocked down by some unknown scoundrel, where he lay uncons.ious for some time.

Miss Emma Livers, whose father resides near Galena, committed sucide by morphine Sunday afternoon, because she was afflicted with incurable sore eyes that threatened to make her blind. Harris Francis, editor of the Michigan City Dispatch, which has been printing a series of article charg ing Ex Treasurer Foster with defalcation, was arrested for criminal libel, and gave bonds. John R’ Barton of Danville, filed nis complaint against Dr. Strong, of Plainfield, lleging that in August he broke his leg, and Dr. Strong rendered him a cripple for life by unskillful setting. He wants SIO,OOO. Frank Briggs, a single man, age twenty-five years, committed suicide, at the residence of William Cleary, two milts north-west of Wabash by cutting his throat with a cornstalk cutter. Tue cause is not certainly known. At Gwynn’s mills east o" Morristown, a school teacher named Charles T. Gregory, shot at John Anderson, a scholar, in the school-room, for refusing towrite on a slate. The pupil’s face and eyes were filled with powder, but he was not otherwise hurt. Mary French a woman subject to epilepsy, living at John Walton’s, ne and a half mile east of St. Paul , during the temporary absence of the otlier members of the family, fell in the fire in a fit and was burned in a shocking and horrible mariner, death resulting iu a few moments, Messrs. Matthews and Lowe, young men of South Bend, indulged in a friendly scuffle, in the course ol which Mr. Matthews picked up a revolver of the usual unloaded variety ana held it close to Lowe’s side. I’he w« apon was discharged, and Lowe received a bullet in his body. He is now in a critical condition.

The positions of Indiana members on the standing comm'ttees of the House of Representatives are as follows: Browne—Chairman of invalid pensions, and second on pensions, oounties and back-pay. Calkins —Chairman of elections, and sixth on mines and mining. Orth—Chairman of civel-service eform; second on rules, and second on foreign affairs. Peele —Filth on pnstofflees and post roads, and seventh on claims. Heilman—Second on District of Columbia, and toird on expenditures in the Treasury Department. Steele—Fourth on military affairs, fifth on pensions and third on exnenditurcs in the War Department. Pierce—Second on enrolled bills, seventh on census and sixth on District of Columbia. DeMotte—Fourth on public buildings an i grouiies and filth on public > xpenditures. Holman—Ninth on war claims. Cobb—Eighth on public lands and fourth on mileage. Stockslager—Eleventh on manufactures. Watson—Tenth on invalid pensions. Colerick—Seventh on public health and ninth on census.

A Long Encounter With A Whale. Mr Joseph W. Mead, of this city, is now on board the bark Hercules on a whaling voyage. His ship was ofl St. Helena on the 28th of October, 1881, from which place he sends an interesting letter to one of his relatives in Poughkeepsie. From it we make the following extracts: “Ot ihe Kih of June last we raised whales and got them all in favorable positions when we lowered our boats and and in a short time our second mat< struek one. In a few minutes aftei the whale caught the boat about tin quarter ami completely chewed it up. Mr. Luce, the chief mate, when ne saw our signal from the ship, sent a boat and had the crew picked up took the line and still had the whale fast. The third mate also came up and went on the whale three times The fourth time the whale caught and masned bis boat into fire-wood. The steerer was killed, but the rest of tin crew were saved. In the meantime, ■ the boats did not dare to go near tin wounded whale, but fired at it from a distance with guns. About this tinn we received help from a ship callee the Milion, which sent two boats t< the rescue, for we were in a very weak condition. Before you could hardlj think it possible, however, the Mil- i ton’s boat were both mashed and theii crew swimming in the water. Thei were soon rescued by our boats. The boats hung about the whale until dark, when we cut the line and let the huge monster go. The next morning, however, we saw him again and took another hold on him, and about 5 o’clock in the afternoon we succeeded in dispatching him. It was the largest whale taken in this section for many years, and made us 150 barrels of oil. Its length was GO feet aud jaws 19 feet.—l Poughkeepsie Eagle. Potato Pi' kings. What did the pieople eat before tl ey I had potatoes. This inquiiy is sug-

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gested by the f cl that th> annual crop of this vegetable in Ameiicu is • ruinated at 200 000,000 bushe s—one- , eighth of which are grown in this State. The potato is a modern gr iwu vegetable, the first mention being that of Pedro Cieca J 586), who says that tlie people of Quito eat a root which they call papas. This city consumes and' exports 25,000 bushels a day, and yet old Rome, with thrice our population, did not have a potato. You cann >t find mention of the arth le in Gib lion's “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” nor in Virgil’s “Georglc,” which Is an agricultural work. Few families would feel comfortable if deprived of potatoes for a week, and yet the world had to do without them for more than 5,000 years. The principal potato <1 strict, in addition to Rensselaer, Saratoga and Washington couuti s, is the western part of the Slate, bordering the Central and Erie roads. Potato varieties are constantly ehamring. Some of our readers may remember the old-fashioned 'Pink Eye” and the “Early Junes,” which were succeeded by the “Western Reds,” and then came the “Peachblow.” This was a highly popular variety, but like others was transitory, and then came the “Early Rose,” which also proved unreliable. There ar a dozen new varieties before the public at present, some of which put forth extraordinary claims—[N.Y. Letter to Troy Times. A BABY MERMAID. The Strange Creature Seen in the Snake’s Paradise. For some days past a variety of small boys' noses have been flattened against the window panes of R. S. (Jills’ snake paradise ami amateur menagerie, at 511 North Second street. The wriggling monsters however, were not the attraction. The neighboring gamins have become comparathely familiar witli copperheadsand rattlesnakes. and even the cannibal freaks of the King snakes fail to draw more than passing comment from the youthful acrobats of the gutter. The tire of excitemmt which had burst into flame in the bosoms of the mud pie geniuses had been Jit by the arrival at the serpent's Lome "of an infant st ranger of phenomenal rarity—a baby Mermaid. “She is a real daisy,” said Mr. Cills yesterday to a press reporter, “come and look at her.” Reclining, with her long arms folded in a neglige positing under her breast, lay the baby mermaid Remembering the ma me romances so eagerly devoured in the halcyon days of adolescence, the stories of piscatorial].? appendaged ladies, who entrapped dashing admiials and other haidy sous of the brine to their fatal embraces. the reporter felt no small feeling of disappointment as he gazed into the features of the tiny ocean eccentricity. She was not very beautiful. She could not even be calle < fairly ugly, in truth she was utterly hideous, but oh, so preciously hideous. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. The lower half of the mermaid resembles an ordinary bloater, as that excellent fish appears when it rambles the ocean over as a herring, while the upper half is similar to the bead and shoulders of a mumified infant monkey. In place of fingers are five talon-like claws at the end of each arm. The features are finely delineated, the mouth being particularly w’ell shaped, and one or two of the teetti still retain the brightness of ivory. The hair on the head is very curious, it is blonde and silky, and frizzled over the skull very much in the manner of an aesthetic maiden of the period.

“Now if she had only been preserved alive, what a marvelous curiosity she would have made, to be sure,” continued Mr. Cills, “I got this baby mermaid from a friend of mine named Pete Haff. He returned to New York from a voyage round tbe world two or three weeks ago. I had to offer him a pretty good pile before he’d part with her. He saw her eaught with his own eyes by a Japanese fisherman, with whom he was out at sea net ing for t’sulaangs, as they call a sort of fish peculiar to Japanese waters. The fisherman made a pretty big haul, and the mermaid was among ’em. She died, however, before the smack readied shore, and my friend was allowed to keep the body. He put her in spirits, and there she remained until last week, when I took ner ou. of her alcoholic sepulche. It’s a little over a year since she was secured, and the action of the spirits lias quite changed her color. Peter told me she was of a fleshy hue when first captured. Os course, she’s only a baby, but Japanese fishermen relate that they have occasionally seen mermaids three and four fed long. She is about eleven inches.” KILLED BY JEALOUSY. “Do vou remember the Kiuv snake I showed you when you were last here? The o e that eat un all his relations Well, he’s dead the mermaid killed him.” “How was that.” asked the reporter ‘Did the snake drink any of the splits in which yovr newly-acuuiied treasure arrived?” “No, sirrs-e, not it. Jealousy killed that serpent; jealousy and indigestion. As the only living represent iive of a once flourishing family, who dl dined off each other, he naturally ittracted a good of attention in this dore, but the arrival of the mermaid put its saout out of joint When lie saw the customers and the children clustered round that glass case and caking no notice of him, it was quite pitiful to see his rage. He wriggle 1 iround his den just as if he was on a ■rawling match. He got tired of all that motion after a day or two ami crept under his blanket, and darned if he didn’t try to swallow himself, and what’s more, he actually succeeded in gorging down nearly a toot of tiis copper-ringed carcass. That settled him however. Hisown body was Coo much for his vital powers of digestion, »nd on Thursday morning he disgorged himself straight again and expired. I eut him open. There was i complete family catacomb of relatives inside him, and I then discovered why he couldn't swallow himself. I’he fang of a rattle-snake which he ■at three weeks ago last Sunday had wedged itself diagonallay across his tomsoh, and, ot course, prevented anything else getting down in a comortable manner. Wneu 1 made u»„t I discovery I did not grieve so much about his premature death as he must have died sooner or late* of hunger, anyhow, I mu,t leave you now, sir, my wife’s out, and the babv is crying I’ll just take it a turtlehead suake to play with.” As the reporter leit u w store, Mr (ills put his hand into one of the snake dens, pulled out a wriggli U£r reptile of over eight feet long- amt hastened towaru his infant’s cradle in an inner room.—Philadelpba Press. Mr. 8. P. Dick, a well-known to- ’ bacco manufacturer o L.uuviHe, ia ■ I dead.