Decatur Democrat, Volume 25, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXV

THE NEWS IN BRIBE. Tomb Thumb in a spiritualist. John Dunn, maltster, of Oswego, has failed for $90,000. A Baltimore church has adopted the electric light. Ex-Vice-President Wheeler is visiting Chattanooga. Hammond, the evangelist, Is trying to couvert Nashville. An earthquake occurred on theeast coast of ludta on the 31st ult. Large quantities of Irish potatoes are being ex|x>rted to America. Madame Patti’s receipts for three concerts iu Chicago were $28,000. Tbecreinationists of New York are raising mouey to build a furnace. President Hinsdale, of Hiram college, wants to be consul to Honolulu. The census of Paris gives a population of 2,225,900, against 1,788,800 in 1876. St. Louis journalists have organized a press club, which promises to be successful. A son of Oliver Wendell Holmes is a candidate for the Massachusetts supreme court. Frederick Marquand has given the Y. M. C. A. of Brooklyn SIOO,OOO toward a new building. The National bank of Illinois, Chicago, has increased its capital stock from $500,900 to $1,000,000. Cahoes & Wiley’s lumber warehouse, at Lancaster, Pa., burned. Loss, $35,000; insured. Incendiary. Jesse James and his brother have for more than a week been in the neighborhood of Mount Olivet, Ky. The lumber rate from Chicago to New York has been reduced by all roads from 35 to 20 cents per hundred. The khedive and other friends of America in Egypt contributed $1,200 to the Garfield memorial hospital fund. Gilbert E. Randall, who has been doing a swindling commission business in Taunton, Mass., has dissappeared. It is said the report of the finding of a boat of the Jeannette containing corpses is discredited in an official quarter. Bylandt Regdt, Austrian minister of war, lias tendered his resignation in connection with the dirturbance at Krivoecie. Lieutenant Schwatka ia about to marry a beautiful and clever young woman of Rock Island, Miss Ada Bracket. On Wednesday, January 29, a congressional memorial service in honor of the late Senator Matt Carpenter, will be held. The Italian press bitterly comments upon the verdict of imprisoning Italians implicated in the riots at Marseilles last June. A revolution is toared at San Tomas, Venezuela. President Blanco, fearing assassination, has a strong guard surrounding his house. At Newark, N. J-, Assistant Citv Clerk Powell has been arrested, charged with complicity’ in the crookedness of Auditor Palmer. A drunken man at Bradford, Pa., fired three shots into a bowling alley and wounded one man fatally. It was merely a drunken freak. The czar of Russia has issued a ukase which will materially lessen the debt for lands granted to the serfs when they were manumitted. Tlie annual reports of the Montreal corn exchange calls attention to the abuses of under-grinding in bond regulations, and suggests.that breadstuff duties be abolished. The king and queen of Spain were received with eclat by King Louis of Portugal at Lisbon. There was a grand procession through the streets and a banquet in the evening. Those members of the Dublin c rporation who favor Parnellism will petition the lord lieutenant to allow the freedom of the city to be presented to Parnell and Dillon in the Jail. The London Daily News, in its financial article, speaking of the effect of the German emperor’s rescript on the stock exchange, says it is considered as revolutionary in its tendency. The Right Rev. Bishop Doane, of Albany Protestant Episcopal diocese, is not in favor of the use of the revised version of the new testament, except by students. General Grant has asked Senator Miller to withdraw his (Grant s) name from the Nicaraguan canal bill. He believes that the Eads ship rai way and the De Lessepa canal should be tried first. At the agricultural department, Washington, a meeting of representatives of agricultural colleges and socieUes was held. There were 150 delegates. Commissioner Loring presided. . At Weatherford, Texas, fire destroyed Laprewesky’s dry goods and Sry store, Carsoa & Lewis’ hotel, fnd Evans * Martin’s dry goods bouse Loss, $25,000; insurance, oneha»'. f . , The boii“Ui has dropped out of the Hie ooi. avcfu-ment at Ottumgold and silver■ . } ()f trft(le coro . wa, lowa. The (he chieago mittee has reported that . v , er „ o | ( j assayers found no mln ?£“’’. e “ k ~->bor silver, in the samples of rock smitted to them. At A’ton, Illinois, the house of a named George White was discovered in flames and lying on a bed in th house, with her throat cut from ear to ear. was the body of Mrs. Gar rett, a white woman who kept house for White. Supposed murder. A remarkable story te told as having occurred near Monroe ', N ..rt|l few days ago. A man named Merrill was inclosing the graveyard in which his little child had just been hurled, and wa» carrying two poles, one on each shoulder, when he tripped and fell lifeless across the little grave, his neck having eaught against one of the poles and been broken. An expert ehi-builder who was commissioned by the Canadian government to examine the mercantile vessels of the Dominion has reported that they are, as a rule, litde better n „ Hnatinff - coffins, ana in all reto ships built in American ports. The establishment of state appellate courts of review ill proposed In a tui irToduced into the house yesterdlv by Representative McCook. They to review causes from other courts when the amount in controversy exceeds SIO,OOO.

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TELEGRAPHIC. Pittsburgh, January 21. — The sheriff's sale of the Seemen Anderson steel works began this morning, and will probobly not be concluded before Tuesday. Much of the stock Is being sold above the regular rates. Nashville, January 21.—The river has surpassed the flood of 1847 and is, still rising halfan inch per liouir torcl ng an additonal large number of people from their Jtomes to-day and to-night. There seems to be no telling to what point the flood will reach. Mill men have lost much lumber and three rafts since last night. Merchants have been forced to remove goods from a large number of cellars of stores on which the track waters were encroaching. A portion of the Tennessee & Pacific railroad is under water, but not so deep as to stop the running of trains. One train a day is run on the northwestern division of the Nashville, Chattanooga railway. The passengers are ferried across the waters between Camden and Johnsonville. News from Point Burnside, ou he Cumberland, is to the effect that the river is 35 ft. above low water and rising eighteen inches per hour. The river at Clarksville is half a foot above the rise ol 1847. No arrivals or departures of steamers. The signal servicejreports inches of rain since January 1, Nashville, January 20.—The steamer Ewald, which left Carthage at six o’clock yesterday morning, 150 miles above Nashville, reports the river falling between Point Burnside, the head of navigation, and Carthage, and that the river fell two inches during the night. As the river was stationary here throughout to-day it will probably be falling to-morrow morning, unless the steady rain which prevails shall continue through the night* It measured 52 7-10 feet on the guage. within twenty-one inches of the rise of 1847. A a large number of sufferers from the back waters were supplied with provisions to-day. New York, January 20.—R. G. Dun & Co’s, mercantile agency and their ninety branches, report business failures for the seven days past at 177. The eastern states had 13, western. 61; southern, 57; middle, 33; Pacific coast, 9; New York city 9. The failures iu the country, particulary in the south and west, are among the more important class of traders than usual, and indicate that the unseasonable weather which has prevailed most of the winter is beginning to tell both on sales and collections. Catlettsburg, Ky. Jan., 20.— The Ashland murder trial was delayed this morning by consultation with witnesses by the defence. Mrs. Ellis was the first witness. She and her husband went to bed about 7 o’clock on the night of the murder. She was awake at 12 o’clock and her husband was then in bed. She was awake at 4:30 and still her husband was in bed and was sleeping between 12 and 4:30. She heard no noise at the gate, and if her husband went out that night she didn’t know it. She stated they djd not have dinner on Christmas day. Saw her husband and Craft at the fire, but didn’t see her husband again till about 12 o’clock. She thought sufficient time intervened from the time she saw her husband at the fire till she saw him again to go to the Ashland cemetery and back, the point designated by Ellis where Neal and Craft met. It will be remembered that Ellis stated he ate dinner at home that day about 12 o’clock. Oliver Hampton was called. Herda Ellis say in the presence of A. C. Campbell that Neal and Craft were innocent, but the prosecution tried to show that Ellis was seared into this declaration by threats from Neal and Craft. Depositions read from witnesses in Maysville jail tended to strengthen the confession of Ellis. J. B. Hornell, owner of Gibbons’ house, is now being examined as to the shape and location of the building. Mrs. Neal was present crying at times, while Neal sat at a table scribbling on a piece of paper with a short lead pencil. The prisoners have not yet been told of the banging at Ironton by a mob last night, which has stirred up much excitem-nt here. Some one has lied in the Ashland murder trial. The defense examined a number of witnesses this afternoon, and proved by several that on the morning that Neal, Craft and Ellis were said to have been seen talking near the Ashland cemetery that Ellis and Craft were not there, but defense proved that Craft and Ellis were somewhere else, and that John Hensley, Isaiah McAlister and Joe Bartram were the parties v. ho met Neal there, and all were talking near the Simmons house, and at the same time saw some woman looking at them. The defense is gaining ground in the case, and the excitement is higher now than at any time previous. The court room was packed with eager listeners. Several reliable witnesses were called and proved Neal's character and general reputation good. The defense will close early in the morning. Columbus, January 20.— E. R Ganson, a conductor on the Little Miami road for thirty years, and secrutary of the railroad conductors’ I'fe insurance association of the United States and Canada, died to-day, aged fifty-seven. New Orleans, January 21.—At the reunion of the association of the Northern Virginia to-night, Jefferson Davis made a sharp speech, in which he said the cause was not last but only sleeping. Alluding to the striving events of the late war in which those before him participated, he said. Aou have done your duty in the past, and may God spare you to do it in the future should ever necessity agair arise.” New York, January 21.—A cable special from London, says: Our correspondent at Ragusa sends a long dispatch respecting the formidable insurrection which has broken out in the districts under Austrian rule in Harzegovina. In telegraphing Thursday night he says: Herzegovina has risen the focus of insurrection. This is the district which was the scene of the first uprising against the Turks in 1875. Insurgent corps are forming in the mountains near Nevinggo, Gubinje, Foeha. Bilek and Trebinje. The warlike clan of Zubie, in borders of Krivoskia. have burned their homesteads and joined the insurgents under the well known guerilla chief Vulkalovick, villagers on the Herzegovinian frontier near Ragusa following their ex ample. The rising seems to have been simultaneously planned, and is not without organization. The insurgents do not lack for resources. The Mohammedan population are fratereniaing with the insurgents, and the Mohnammedan general de armie

are deserting their camp, naturally taking with tnem their arms and accoutrements, so thoughtlessly distributed among them by the Austrians. Even iu the Catholic district of Papavo the well known chief Musslchi Is reported to have made his appearance. On the whole the Mohammedan element prevails among the insurgents. The Turkish bey at Foscha succeeded in raising in forty-eight hours a picked band of 340 men. The position of the isolated Russian posts in Upper Herzegovina is very precarious. Despite the feverish activity of the militia authorities in dispatching reinforcements. At Dobau, from ten to twenty soldiers were cut to pieces. The boldness of the insurgents .may be judged from the fact that five’ soldiers were cut dow’n in the very suburbs of Castellanova. The air is naturally full of wild reports, some of which need confirmation. This much is certain that the situation eveu on the Dalmatian Herzegovinian frontier was so critical that the garrison of Ragusa had to be sent forward in the night to reinforce the endangered posts. The movement is said to be a thoroughly national one. The watchword of the insurgents is, “Death to tiie stranger.” A severe engagement was fought between Gatza and Bilck, the facts of which the Austrians are endeavoring to conceal. It is reported they were repulsed. Our correspondent telegraphing yesterday evening says: Two thousand additional troops were shipped yesterday at Trieste. Ragusa forms the base of Austrian operations against, the insurgents. The plan of the campaign seems to be to drive a military wedge forward to Montenegro to separate the Kerevisan from the Herzegovinian bands. Vienna, January 21.—The war department will not send any more bodies of troops south, but will arrange for strengthening tire regiments stalioned in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia, excepting those in the Lim district. General Gevanosrich reports that a corporal of the 11th regiment with a small detachment, who was in charge of the excise post north of 'Bilek, was attacked on the 16th instant by 200 insurgents. He defended himself in a house for thirty hours, and upon the withdrawal of a portion of his assailants, fought his w’ay through those remaining and reached Korito. He received a gold medal for his valor. A lieutenantcolonel commanding a body of the laudwehr on the march on the 20th inst. into Bilek from Kanto with a convoy of provisions and ammunition, on the 19th inst., while marching over the mountains betw’een the main road and the Montenegrin frontier, his detachment was continuously engaged with the insurgents. The latter were repuled on all sides. The huts they occupied W’ere set on fire, and tlie ammunition accumulated therein exploded. On the return march of the detachment, on the 20th inst., the insurgents followed the rear guard, but did not venture an attack. In eight encounters since the 16th inst. between Karito and Bilek a lieutenant and a private were killed and five men wounded. The insurgents suffered heavily. Cincinnati, January 24.—A Catlettsburg special to the Gaietto says in reference to the conviction of William Neal of the murder of the Gibbons family, calls attention to the fact of conviction following the crime precisely one month, and says Neal and Craft both protest their innocence. It says that to-dav a bloody sweat rag, such as is used by mill men, was found on the Gibbons’ place. Efforts will be made to ascertain who owned it and use it in evidence. Ellis Craft was arraigned this afternoon. His counsel moved to quash the indictment on the ground that one of the grand jurors was not a householder. After hearing arguments till late in theafternoon, Judge Brown sustained the motion and immediately summoned another grand jury. It will be interesting to know how this will affect the case of Wm. Neal, who was convicted to-day upon an indictment of that grand jury, one of whom was not a householder. The Gazette’s special says it will not affect Neal’s ease. Pittsburg, January 24. —Fifteen new cases of small-pox in Pittsburg and six in Allegheny City were reported to the board of health to-day. Twenty deaths occurred in the city from the disease last week. Des Moines, January 24. —Because of some doubt as to the legality of the former election «*f United States Senators Wilson and MeDill, both houses of the legislature ratified their previous action by another formal ballot. Two Girls Save Seven Lives. On Friday evening seven young men, who live several miles down the Ottawa River, started to skate to Gatineau Point for the purpose of attending a special service, which was being held in the church at that place, for young men. When they arrived opposite Kettle Island they happened to strike a piece of bad ice, and five of the party fell through. The other two did the best they could to rescue their comrades, but, after they had got seveial of ihtm out, the ice on which they were standing gave way, and they themselves got info the water. Two Misses O’Neil,daughters of Superintendent O'Neil, of the Dominion Police, witnessed tlie accident from their house on Kettle Island, and with great presence of mind these two young ladies ran for their father's boat, which they push, ed across the ice until they came to the broken spot, when they launched it, and succeeded in rescuing the young men who were in the water They were not a moment too soon, for one of the youag men was utterly exhausted, and was taken cut of the water senseless. ♦ a ♦ ... .... — — It is related in a New York letter that or Thursday last some enterprising advertiser oi tliat city, taking advantage of the prevailing so-called aisthelic craze, rigged up a young man after tlie manner of Oscar Wilde, with lily in hand,and incautiously sent him down to Broad and Wall street , to distribute business circulars to the passers-by. As soon as he made his appearance in front of the stock exchange, some unfeeling wag started a report among the crowd of brokers on the floor that Osear Wilde was outside; straightway the entire gang of bruins and bovines rushed out pell inell, like the demons from Kirk Alloway after Tam O’Shanter’s mare, and hustled the poor young man from pillar to post, supposing all the while lie was the genuine, original Oscar. When last heard from the unhappy youth was making for Broadway at a 2:40 gait, sans hat, sans coat, sans Bly, sans Mr. Kimball, the “church debt raiser,” has assisted in freeing 175 churches from incumbrances. The largest amount which he wrestled with, and which he “conquered,” was a debt of SIIO,OOO.

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, A. IAN A, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27,1882.

CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Mr. Plumb presented a petition from citizens of Kansas in favor of women suffrage. Bills were introduced: By Messrs. Conger Cameron, Vance, Garland, Davis, Teller, Blain and Ferry. During the morning hour Mr. Beck resumed his remarks upon Mr. Ingalls’ resolution, declaring the pension arrears law ought to not be repealed. Mr. Ingalls said that as the funding bill had precedence to-day he would defer a formal reply to Mr. Beck to a more convenient time, and the subject was accordingly passed over for the present. Consideration of Mr. teiberman's funding bill was resumed, and Mr. Plumb argued that the redemption fund for United States notes ought to be diminished. Debate followed participated in by Messrs Pugh, Saunders and Pendleton. Without closing the debate, the senate went into executive session and adjourned until to-morrow. HOUSE. A resolution was introduced calling for the decision of Carl Schurz over the ruling of the decision of the commissioner and restoring lands to the Northern Pacific. Mr. Garrison, on behalf ot the committee on District of .Columbia, moved to pass the bill to incorporate the Garfield memorial hospital. A half-hour debate disclsed some objections to the measure on the ground that there were already enough hospitals in the district for all practical purposes; that the,incorporation of another would have the effect of bringing to the district persons from adjacent states who should be taken care of In the various state institutions, and that their was nothing in the bill which would prevent the incorporators from applying to the government for assistance. A motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was defeated—yeas 140; nays 86; not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. SENATE. Washington, January 16.—The senate took up Mr. Ingall’s resolution declaring the arrears es pension act ought not to be repealed. Mr. Voorhees, in support of the resolution, said the denunciations of the aet by the press of the country, and particularly by prominent organs of all kinds of corporation of wealth, were made without the slightest basis for their support or gratification. Mr. Beck said that in the passage of the bill referred to, both houses of congress were imposed upon by a set of pensidh claim agents who devised the scheme of the pension arrearages for their own benefit After further discussion by Messrs. Beck and Ingalls, Mr. B ck asked for thirty minutes to-morrow to conclude his remarks, and the discussion closed. HOUBB. Mr. Robeson called up the report of the committee on rules for increasing the membership of the committees of the the house. Mr. Kasson opposed the report of the committee on rules. So far as he knew this motion did not come from the gentlemen who felt themselves misplaced or not placed properly. He continued his remarks at length, being frequently interrupted by applause. Mr. Orth then offered as a substitute for the committee’s report his amendment for an election at the beginning of each congress of a commission charged with the duty of assigning the membership of committees. Mr. Kelley moved to lay the report on the table. Lost—ayes, 97; Nays, 140. Mr. King moved to amend the report so as to give the committee on the improvement of the Mississippi river, power to report on appropriations on that subject. Pending further action the house adjourned. SENATE. Washington, January 18.—A communication was received from the secretary of the treasury in response to the senate resolution as to the present ratesot duties imposed by France, Germany and Mexico upon American manufacturers. Mr. Blair offered a resolution instructing the committee on public lands to inquire into the administration of the la ml laws. The remainder of the morning hour was occupied by Mr. Brown In remarks upon the currency question. The senate then resumed consideration of Mr. Sherman’s funding bill. Upon the conclusion of Mr. Morgan’s remarks, the funding bill was informa ly laid aside until to-morrow. The senate then went into executive session, referred the nominations received to-day, and adjourned. HOUSE. Mr. Neal offered a resolution for printing 3,00 J copies of the report of the Guiteau trial for the use of the house. Referred. The house resumed consideration of the report of the committee on rules, proposing an increase in the membership of certain committees, the pending question being on Mr. Orth’s substitute for the appointment of a board to select the committees. Mr. Robeson made a point of order that the substitute was not germane to the original proposition. A discussion of the point of order followed, at the close of which the speaker proceeded to state his opinion on the point of order. The question was submitted to the house, and the point of order taken against tlie substitute was sustained —yeas, 163; nays, 74. So the substitute w’as ruled out of order. Mr. King offered an amendment relating to the committee on improvement of the Mississippi river. Mr Dawes offered an amendment specifying the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Mr. Willis moved toamend Mr. Pages amendment so as to give the committee on the improvement on the Mississippi river Jurisdiction also oyer the principal tributaries. Mr. Davis presented resolutions of the Chicago board of trade relative to transportation bet wood the Misslssip" pj river and the lakes. Referred. SENATE. Washington, January 19. — The president pro tern submitted the response of the secretary of the interior to the resolution of the 12th inst., inquiring as to the lapsing of the land grant to the Northern Pacific railroad. The communication was thereupon referred to the judiciary committee. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, called up the

bill to permit Associate Justice Ward Hunt of the supreme court, to retire. Upon tlie pa-sage of the bill Mr. Plumb called the yeas and nays. The bill was passed—yeas,4l ; nays, 14. The Sherman funding bill was taken up and a lively debate followed. Pending the motion for an executive session, the bill W’as laid aside informally. After an executive session the senate adjourned until Monday. HOUSE. Washington, January 19.—Letters transmitting two additional volumes of the speech of M. Theirs were presented by tlie speaker. The house then resumed consideration of tlie report of the committee on rules for increasing the membership of various committees. Mi. Belford obtaining the floor, spent five minutes ridiculing the pending proposition. Messrs. MoLand and Dunnell opposed theamendment offered yesterday by Mr. King, and after some discussion, Mr. King withdrew the amendment. After a lengthy debate Mr. Joyce moved to recommit the report and all pending amendments to the committee on rules. The house voted by yeas and nays on Mr. Joyce’s motion to recommit the report, and the report was agreed to—yeas, 159; nays 90. The house then went into committee of the whole on the state of the uni in, Mr. Haskell in tlie chair, and passed the bill to appropriate $5,000 for packing, transporting and arranging agricultural and mineral specimens. Mr. Spooner regretted that one of the earliest duties that devolved upon him was tlie announcement of the death of the late Senator Burnside, and on his motion Monday next at 3 o’clock was assigned for eulogies to his memory. Mr. Wilson presented the joint resolution of tlie West Virginia legislature in favor of protection to producers of leaf tobacco. THE TRIAL OF GUITEAU. FORTY FIFTH DAY. Washington, January 16.—As soon as court formally opened Scoville began his address to the jury by confessing his unfamiliarity with the modes of practice in criminal cases. He reviewed the evidence, laid particular stress on wtiat he termed provertion of evidence by counsel for prosecution and char red a “conspiracy to hang the prisoner”, and included in his roll of conspirators’ District Attorney Corkliill, Judge Porter, Mr. Davidge, and five government experts, namely: Drs. Gray, Hamilton, Kempster, Me. Donald and Wooster. After recess Scoville proceeded to point out to the jury what he termed “perversions of evidence” by Davidge. and consumed the balance of the day in a tirade against consul for the prosecueou. As the court was about to adjourn Guiteau shouted out,“l desire your honor to read my epoooh to nigrlrt so I ean discuss it with you to-mor-row.” Adjourned till to-morrow. FOWTY-BIXTH DAT. Washington, January 17.—Beeville resumed his argument a little after 10 o’clock, aud was at once Interrupted by Guiteau. Scoville here stated that the prisoner desired to address the Jury. Judge Cox assenting, I Guiteau addressed tlie jury, reading from manuscript. In substance, he said be claimed no disrespect for the court, he was satisfied with the law as propounded by the court, he was forced by the Deity to remove the president, and should be acquitted on the ground of transitory mania, quoting the eases of Sickles, McFarland and Hiscock. At the close of Guiteau’s remarks, Scoville resumed his argument. He proceeded to give the jury his views upon Judge Porter and to instruct them as to how much weight to his uttearnces and as to the best means of counteracting the influences of his oratory. “Porter,” he said, “wasprostituting his fine attainments in the effort to hang an insane man.” He reviewed the prisoner’s life, spoke of his monumental assursurnnee in naming himself in connection with Grant, Conkling and Arthur, and read selections from Guiteau’s speech. Pending the conclusion of his argument the court adjourned. FORTY-SEVENTH DAY. Washington, Jan. 18.—Guiteau came into court this morning with a quick and confident step. Scoville resumed his address, taking up and discussing the statistics of insane j criminals introduced in evidence by I the prosecution, pointed out in the ' conduct of Guiteau parallels to the illustrations given by Dr. Gray, and then went on to deny that the prisoner had been plaving a part during his discussion. He said, such men as i Grant, Conkling and Arthur are morally and intellectually responsible for this crime. Mr. Conkling shall not I escape—shall not shrink the responsibility of the state of things that led i to a conflict with the chosen ruler of this great nation, aud led this poor insane man to com pass what they would have hailed with satisfaction, as | would probably hundreds of other pollutions if it could oceur other than through the assassination and remo- j val of President Garfield, who stood ' in the way of their unrighteous i and disgraceful struggle tor office. ' Neither shall Grant escape that condemnation to which he is so justly subjected, when coming from Mexico, and coming with undue haste, to throw his own name into the petty quarrel about a small office in the republican party, and sought to foment the diferences which has sprung up. Mr. Scoville’s denunciation of Conkling and Arthur created a profound sensation in the court room. After recess Mr. Scoville continued with a review of the evidence, and called attention to the various incidents in Guiteau’s life, arguing his insanity as evidenced by the undoubted lack of something in his mental composition possessed by other men. Scoville continued to speak until 3 o clock, when the coi.rt adjourned until tomorrow. He will probably occupy the greater part of another day. FORTY-EIGHTH DAY. Washington, January 19.—The court opened at the usual hour As Scoville immediately resumed his argument, reading from the evidence of several witnesses who were at the depot and saw the shooting, and the subsequent arrest of Guiteau. As Scoville proceeded Corkliill made frequent, and as the speaker evidently thought, slighting comments, until ■ finally becoming irritated he turned upon the district attorney and denounced, in scathing terms, his unfair conduct, and exchange of sentiment between counsel followed the speaker disclaimed as his main motive a desire to shield the prisoner for

the honor of the Guiteau family. His greatest desire was to save the American nation and the American judiciary from disgrace of hurrying to the gibbet an insane man. I After recess Scoville continued his review of the evidence, and claimed tiie prisoner had been free, frank and outspoken in all things that he had conveised on at the jail with every one. He continued his review of evidence, with occasional interruptions by the prisoner, until the hour of adjournment. It is understood the defense will, at the conclusion of Scoville’s speech, renew the motion to allow the prisoner to address the jury, and ask to be heard in support of the motion. The effect of this, if permitted by the court, will be consume another day, allowing two days for Judge Porter, and it is more ,than probable he will require three. The case will hardly get to the jury before Wednesday next. Adjourned till tomorrow. FORTY-NINTH DAY. Washington, January 20.—Scoville resumed his argumeutthismorning. He occupied the entire forenoon; spending much time over a diagram showing a picture of the prisoner’s head; 1 etween which, and Corkhill’s interruptions, he labored conscientiously. At tiie close of Scoville’s argument, Corkhill stated that in behalf of t he prosecution he would withdraw all objection toGuiteauaddressingthe jury; that this trial had been long and expensive, and he did not desire to give any opportunity for objection upon which to found a demand for a new trial. Reed, with some vehemence, maintained that the district attorney had no right to attempt to influence the jury by such an imputation as he had just made. Judge Cox stated that he had decided to allow the prisoner to speak. Davidge, who had just come in, inquired, “Is the prisoner to speak,your honor? If so, I would like to inquire about, how much time he will occupy-” Guiteau—“l shall deliver to the jury my speech which has been published in all the newspapers.” Davidge—“l have not seen it.” Guiteau —“Well, then, I would advise you to get it at once and read it. I shall want about two hours your honor. I speak rapidly.” As Guiteau was not ready to speak this afternoon, court then adjourned till to-morrow. Davidge stated that Judge Porter is in quite feeble health, and will probably be unable to speak before Monday. It is probable, therefore, the court will adjourn at noon to-morrow till Monday. FIFTIETH DAY. Washington, January 21. — Upon entering tlie court room this morning Guiteau took a seat in the witness box, remarking as he laid out his papers, “I sit down because I can speak better, not that I am afraid of being shot. This shooting business is getting played out.” Arranging hie papers he proceed to open his address reading from manuscript. He proceed to set up the plea of insanity, and on that ground claimed an aqu'td He then said: "Some eminrnt people in America think me the «•••*<?•* »«...«> of this age, ami this feeling is growing. They believe in my inspiration, and that Providence and I have really . saved the nation from another war. My speech, setting forth in detail 1115’ defense, was telegraphed to all the leading papers and published Monday morning, and now I am permitted by his honor to deliver it to you.” After thanking his counsel, and extending his thanks to the court, jury and tiie press, he proceeded to read his published speech. His manner to the casual observer seemed completely self-possessed but behind this ostentatious affectation of composure was an intense feeling, which was only held in control through unboubted strength of will. His excitement was betrayed by slight hectic spots high up upon each cheek, and by the unusual deliberation with which he began and for some time continued to speak. Whether this excitement was from a merely superficial effect, or whether it proceed from a deeper and more overpowering influence of the true realization of his position, as almost convicted murderer, pleadingfor his life, it were difficult to define In either case it finally gained the ascendency over his powers of control and as he reached that point in the speech, “I have always served the Lord and whether I live or die,” he broke down completely, and tried to choke down the rising lump in his throat, bui. found it utterly impossible to keep back genuine emotions. Tak ing out his handkerchief he buried bis face iu it a few seconds, then wiped his eyes and with a determined effort started again. He seemed to recover his composure so quickly that some believed the whole effort was manufactured, and as he proceeded all nervousness wore oft and the intensity of his utterance seemed to react upon himself. At one time, pausing, he leaned towards the jury, and emphasizing with his head and hands said, with an attempt at great solemnity of utterance, “I tell you, gentlemen, just as sure as there is a God in heaven, if you harm 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.” Guiteau closed his address at 11:25, and on the announcement by Corkliill that Judge Porter would be unable to speak to day the court adjourned until Monday. Sale of Unclaimed Baggage. The sale of unclaimed baggage that has been accumulating at the principal stations of the Pennsylvania rail road company for the past ten years took place yesterday at the old depot at thirty-second and Market streets. The occasion attracted an immense crowd of people of both sexes, some of them cominir from Maryland. A.l the packages had been broken open before the sale commenced, and during the time the crowd was allowed in the baggage room every piece within reach was pretty well rummaged through, and these containing desirable articles noted by the wise ones. The sale was concluded by four o’clock, about 250 pieces having been sold The purcha es were pretty well distributed through the crowd, the prices ranging from twenty cents up to $3.25 per package. That bringthe last named sum was a large soleleather trunk, covered with canvass, marked “A. H. H” New York.” on the ends, and containing a pretty good supply of clothing. Then, in a rough looking chest, was shown a tine French pendulum clock. This, with the other supposed equally valuable contents, excited much competition, until it reached by small teds, $6.25, at which sum it was knocked down. A quite respectable looking trunk was closely packed with hard wood shavings; another one equally ?;ood in appearance was empty; a ourth held the once clean and nicely folded, but now soiled, tumbled and mouldy, wearing apparel of a woman in the oumbler W’alks of life; from a

1 fifth would drop, as the attendants • carelessly tossed it about, family relics, such as photographs, letters, ; books, etc., and so on through the . two hundred and fifty packages sold. 1 —Philadelphia Ledger. INDIANA. The wolves are killing sheep by the dozen in Warren county. The Huntington News office has not been sold, as reported. In 1857 the first coal shaft in Indiana was sunk near Brazil. Resurrectionists have been at work in the cemetery at Greenfield. Professor Stone, principal of the Muncie high school has resigned. Solomon Sheets of, Monroe township, Madison county is 102 years old and retains all his faculties. Constable George Dooley, of Sullivan, was severely stabbed by some unknown person while making an arrest. Mr. Farer, foreman of the Wabash railroad shops, at Fort Wayne, was run over and killed by a train at Kokomo. A telephone circuit Is being arranged for Cambridge, Dublin, Mil ton, Germantown and Mt. Auburn, Wayne county. Danville hopes to have a paper mill established there soon. Only SI,OOO more in subscriptions are needed to secure it. James Vannie, of Danville, has got judgment for $250 against the I & St. L. railroad for damage done his orchard by fire caused by sparks from a locomotive. The Monticello Times has suspended. Its proprietor, C. J. Reynolds, deserted it, and has not since been heard from, though he has been diligently searched for by creditors. The residence of C. W. Vail, west of Madison, was entered by burglars during his absence at Edinburg, attending the bedside of his sick wife, and robbed of everything valuable. John Johnson, a Randolph county farmer, received an anonymous letter from Cincinnati! containing two small-pox scabs, and an invitation to take the disease and die. The advent of the two scabs has thrown the whole neighborhood into great terror. At a district school in Hendricks township, Shelby county, two boys at recess secured a bow and arrow for tlie purpose of having some sport. In tiie playa son of John Hill was struck in the eye with un arrow, completely knocking the eye out. William Gaines, the man who shot and came near killing William Head 1 at Bedford about three weeks ago, and immediately afterwards made his es- 1 cape, has been captured and placed in ' jail. Head is seriously ill from his ! wounds, has typhoid fever, and may not recover. George Sage, who has been on a ] week’s spree, entered Seahrt's saloon j at Laporte, and called far whisky. ] Being refused, he became quarrel- ( some, and being ordered out by Wil- 1 Moalhli xl W a* tviivi I’stMlit/v vl Seahrt through the right breast, in- 1 dieting a dangerous wound Sage is in jail. 1 The horses in Jennings county are I rapidly dying off and a number of farmers from that section report that a their cattle are dying from the s same disease, or something similar, t rhe strange feature of the cattle | plague, or whatever it is, is that it is j only the good cattle, or those fed for i market, tliat so far have been the vic- 1 tiros. Farmers are alarmed. f A man entered a drug store at Mad- j ison and cleansed his coat collar with J benzine. After saturating the cloth ' and obliteratinga grease spot, he went ■ to the cigar case, got a cigar, and in J attempting to light it the benzine ig- 1 nited, and a blue biaze enveloped his c chin and face, but did little damage. 1 c Wednesday, Mrs. Bennet, an old 1 lady aged about seventy-seven years, t who lias been living with her daugh- < ter, Mrs. George Asher, on the Haw- 1 patch, near Ligonier, was burned to t death while sitting in her chair. She 1 had been smoking, and it is supposed f that a spark of fire fell from her pipe t into her lap, lighting her clothing. t The store of Mrs. L. Hair, at New ' Albany, a hair-dressing establish- c ment, was entered the oilier night by ' a burglar, wiio used a false key, and a the drawer was relieved of S2OB. Mrs. ' Hair found a note in the room left by J the burglar, but foolishly destroyed ’ it. The money consisted of a one 1 hundred dollar bill, three twenty dol- ” lur bills, and notes of smaller denom- ' inations. No clew to the thieves. J Special mail service has been estab- f lished from Clark’s Hill to Kilpat- t rick, Montgomery county. The Star route from Mitehell to Fayetteville, . will be changed on the 9 h of January, so as to omit Fayette, and end at . Williams. From January 19, on the route from Bedlord to Silverville, the . schedule will be changed to Mondays, ( Wednesdays and Fridays. Mailmes- ( senger service between Stewartsville, , Posey county, and the P., I).and E. railroad station will be discontinued after January 5. Janie Sublette, met with a horrible death at Hamrick’s Station, on the Indianapolis, Vandalia & St. Louis road, three miles west of Greencastle, He had been in this city during the day and became intoxicated. In this condition he boarded the evening train for home. Before reaching Hamrick’s he wasjostled off the front end of the rear coach unobserved and instantly killed. He lay there the whole night, and at least a dozen : trains must have passed over his body. 1 When found, his remains were seat- 1 tered everywhere, his hen I having 1 been cut off and rolled four feet from I the track, and the features of the face 1 could with difticultj* be recognized. < Three of Sublette’s brothers have previously met their deaths ou the same road. < It seems impossible that a remedy 1 made of such common, sinnfle plant ( Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion. < Ac., should make so many and such | great cures as Hop Bitters do; but t when old and young, rich aud poor, pastor and doctor, lawyer aud editor, all testify to having been cured by them, you must believe and try them yourself, and doubt no longer. A communication from the Hon. I. N. Arnold, of the Chicago Historical society, was presented by the president of tHe senate, asking congress to co-operate in the 200th anniversary of the discovtry of the Mississippi, at New Orleans, which occurs April 9. The Egyptian situation is becoming very grave. Parliament refuses to surrender the right of voting th budget, and the programme ot parliament clashes with that of the khedive . and Cherif Pacha, prime minister. If 1 parliament persists in the attitude 1 Cherif Pacha will resign.

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CAMDEN’S BABY HIiOSI it Is Seen by a Number of Persons, Including “Pop” John-ou Camden’s claims for pov Jty in t e way of supernatural have uot yet been superseeded by its more cosinopoliton neighbors. Not many mouths agornHMH recorded the advent of a headless apparition, who terified a young couple out of their home in South Camden ,and now the necropolis comes forward with a baby ghost whose uncanny d Ings have set the gossips all agog,aud even caused an uneasy houshold to call upon Camden’s Maye rto have the spirit laid by removing the primal cause from his back yard, where the tiny bit of humanity lies buried. This was to have been done yesterday by Coroner Justice, but when the official learned that, w’hile the body of a child was really buried there, it had been interred after a certificate of death had been granted by a reputable physician, he refused to take any further action in the matter beyond requesting the absent parents to relieve the neighbors of further anxiety by disinterring the little one and taking it away, The tcene of the ghostly visitation is on Hartman street above Second iu South Camden. Three months ago a poor family lived there, and wlie n a child was born prematurely, Dr. O. B. Gross, who attended the mother, gave the usual certificate’ Scanty means prevented burial in acemetary so the father dug a grave in the yard attached to the house,aud by the dim light of a tallow candle on one dark night the babe was laid away. Shortly after the family removed to Burlington and a iiewtonan* took possesiiou of the premises Several ladies Jn the vicinity who held long mornning conferences while bending ove buckets and brooms, began whispering about the unchristian like interment, and predicted that the place would soon be haunted. This view was strengthened materially when old “Pop” Johnson a venerable negro living in the classic regions of Goattown’ stopped on his wsy heme, about two weeks since, ami told in stagey whispers how he had seen the infantile wraith flitting over the top of a boat house, on the oppo-ite side of Second street, aud from thence into the marsh beyond,audis-cisionally sitting cross legged on a tall telegrph pole,tlie people liegan to congratulate themselves on the fulfillment of their predictions. “Pop” Johnson showed the whites of his eyes when spoken to by a Press reporter about tlie strange doings, and in a scared toue said tliat it had a “mos’ skeered him simple," “Deed, boss,” said he earnestly, “If I was to be shot dis yere minute I’d tell the same thing. Las’ Sunday night when I was gwin down Second street tj seed dat air spook grinning on top I de boat-house. Bot its legs waa crossed, and it had a kinder rattle in is hand. Den it jumps up, and runs to tlie lur end ob the roof. Den it diape an’ I don’ see it no more. Fore do Lawd boss,data true, what I’se tells ing yer. If dem ere folks don’ dig dat little pickanninuy up. it’l bunt, pm g> der dyin’day, mine I tell yer. llhiladoliihls Proas.

The Protective Effect of Vaccination. Dr. Heury Tomkins, Medical Supt. of the Fever hospital belonging to the Manchester Royal Infirmary at Mon sail,in a paper which he read recently at Owens College, said: “The most striking of all evidences is, perhaps, that derived from the small-pox hospitals themselves. Here the protective influence of vaccination is proved in a manner beyond all cavil. At Highgate, during an experience of forty years, no nurse or servant having been revaccinated has ever cont acted the disease, and evidence o the same character I can myself bring forward, for during the whole time that I have had charge of the fever hospital more than a thousand cases of small-pox have passed under my care, yet no servant, nurse, porter, or other person engaged there has, after revaccination, ever taken it, though exposed daily to infection in its most concentrated form. One woman, a laundress, who escaped vaccination, took the disease and died; one nurse who some years before had suffered from small-pox, and whs then considered protected, had a very mild attack; and this summer a workman, who did not live on the premises, but. came in to work as a painter, was not. vaccinated, and had rather a severe attack; and still more recently a servant, who by an oversight as allowed to go about her work three days before being vaccinated, had, before the latter had run its course, a slight abortive attack. Again, among all the student, who dur'ng the past two years have attended the hospital f< r clinical instruction, not one has suffered, all having been revaccinated before I eing permitted to enter the small-pox wards. And in their case the false argument which opponents of vaccination have brought forward to explain the immunity enjoyed by nurses and others in attendance on the sick —viz.: that constant inter course and exposure to infection renders them proof against it by the system becoming inured to the poison, cannot be applied, as these gentlemen attend the hospital only a few hours once a week. I defy the most enthusiastic or conscientious of anti-vacci-nators to produce evidence like thsi on his side of the question, or to bring or ward enen halt a dozen persons, choose them whence he tuay, who have not been protected agrin-t smallpox, and expose th m as the students are exposed, without more or less of t e number taking the disease. Facts such as these should convert the most ardent anti-vaccinator from his folly, and convince him that a weapon of defense so powerful as vaccination should not is» left to the pleasure of the individual, but that the State has the right and duty to look after its most thorough performance.”—(Loudon Times. * I o Tiie Chicago Herald devotes consid erable space to a ventilation of the career of George W. Seoville, Guiteau’s biother-in law and attorney, In that city. The Herald charges him with swindling clients, retaining fund- in his hands belonging to others, and generally with conduct in the last degree dishonorable and unprofessional. Editorially the Herald says: Fifteen of the Brooklyn aldermen w.io defied the court by passing a resolution over the veto of the mayor after an injunction had been granted, were sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for from ten to thirty days and to pay a fine of $25 each. During 1881 over four and threequarter million tons of pig iron were produced in this country, nearly four , hundred thousand tons were imported, and nearly five million nine hundred thousand tons consumed. ‘ The consumption for 1880 was alxmt f I four million feus of pig. This ferrites •I protective tariff ou imu is evidec' • not so bad a thing, after ail.