Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. * £Cub At Stafford, N. H., an invalid lady, named Waldron, killed her granddaughter herself with a razor. Went. Edward Maxwell, the bandit recently captured in Nebraska, was lynched by the citizens of Durand, Wis. People from the surrounding country flocked in by squads and beard the impudent wretch confess murdering the Coleman brothers. A rope was thrown over his neck in the court-room, and he was strangled' while being hauled down the aisle and stairway to the nearest tree, where his corpse was left to dangle nearly all the afternoon. At Alta, Wis., Mrs. Verrier induced her mother and brothsr to eat poisoned soup, and both died within a few hours. At Athens* Ohio, a mob broke into the jail, overpowered the Sheriff and lynched a mulatto named Davis, who was accused of outraging an elderly white woman. While a party of young people were skating on a pond at Columbia, Mo., the ice suddenly broke, and John Gath, Theodore Murphy and Maggie Buckner, all about 16 years old and members of well-known families, were drowned. Gen. John W. Reed, an old and wealthy citizen of Kansaß City, was killed near Lee’s Summit, Mo., by falling from a caboose on the Missouri Pacific road. Lewis Raabj a farmer near Perrys-Tnu-g, Ohio, lulled his wife and himself, leaving uiiie children to charity. JSoutbu The jail at McDonough, in Henry county, Ga., was destroyed by fire, and two of the fifteen prisoners perished in the flames. The others were in a senseless oondition when rescued. Many of the citizens of McDonough were injured while attempting to save the unfortunate inmates. In presence of his wife and five children, Henderson Lasater was murdered by five masked men, who broke down the doors of his residence at .Harrison, Ark. Osborn Pitts,of Columbus, Ga., drank a quart of whisky on a wager, and survived but an hour or so. The liquor-seller was arrested for murder. Six railroad employes were killed near Savannah, Ga , by a collision between a freigh and lumber train. POLITICAL POINTS. For the vacant Congressional seat from Ithodo Island Henry J. Spooner, Republican, had 3,617 votes, against 1,116 for Henry J. Sisson, Democrat. WASHINGTON NOTES. Frederick P. Lilly, late Deputy Auditor for the Postoffice Department, was arrested «t Washington on a warrant charging him with accepting SB,OOO for securing a mail contract in Louisiana. Bill Jones was arraigned in the Police Court at Washington for firing at Guiteau and waH jailed, in default of 5,000 bail. The police failed to identify him as the man who did tlio shooting, and, whether he is or is not the wonid-be avenger, there is little likelihood of his ever being punished for the act. Publio sentiment at Washington is all on his side. The pension rolls for the month ol December foot up $7,900,000. During the ten months ending Oct. 81', 1881, 114,789 emigrants sailed from Bremen, Germany, for the United States. The Grand Jury at Washington found six indictments against Capt. Howgate for forgery, and ono for embezzlement. A Washington dispatch of Nov. 23 says: “William Jones, who attempted Guiteau’s life on Saturday, was brought from jail, and arraigned in the Police Court on the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Jones, by his counsel, waived examination, the court fixing his bond at $5,000. Messrs. E. G. Wheeler and Ebastar Aman went on his bond in the amount named, and Jones was released. He left the court and mounted his sorrel steed, riding off amid the plaudits of the crowd. So far, S6OO has boen subscribed for his defense.” Mrs. Chnstiaucy created quite a sensation in Washington by running about the streets bareheaded aud barefooted, screaming wildly and scratching her face. She was secured and conveyed to her home in a carriage. It appears that Mrs. Cbristiancy has brooded over her troubles overmuch lately, particularly since some damaging testimony was given in the divorco suit, and it is feared that the unfortunate lady has become demented. Secretary Folger has ordered a computation to ascertain at what rate the Government can advantageously purchase i}{ snd 4» per-cent bonds, instead of calling in extended percents.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Eight persons composing the families of Frank Cuppernul and Charles Wilson, hotel proprietors at Eel bay, wero drowned by the upsetting of a small boat while on their way to Gananoque, Ont. A Panama dispatch says the steamer Albion foundered in a gale off Point Burbacoas, and thirty-two of the forty persons on board were drowned. New York has raised $138,734 for the Michigan sufferers. Gov. Jerome states that $500,000 will be required for the winter.

FOREIGN NEWS. The new French Cabinet favors the repeal of the decree prohibiting the importation of American pork and lard. Recent arrests in Ireland nnder the Coercion act "include the Secretary of the Land League, at Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, and a solicitor in County Limerick, who had been intimidating rent-payers. French troops report a brilliant victory over the Tunisian insurgents, the ohief being captured. The iron ship Culcean, while being towed to the Clyde from Dundee, Scotland, was wrecked and seventeen persons drowned. Asiatic cholera has appeared in Northern Egypt, and, worst of all, at Alexandria, thus threatening dissemination to the countries bordering on the Mediterranean. Baroness Burdett-Coutts has resigned her half interest in the Coutts Bank to satisfy, the demands of her relatives, who have never got over her mesalliance. Instead of the half share, sho will hereafter receive an annual pension from the bank. “ I have good news for you,” said old Buyerten, to a clerk in his olTice. “ Your uncle who died last week left his Ohio farm to your cousin Beu and you get gothing, ” The clerk laughed a Jou4

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laugh of joyous relief. “By George,” he said, “that takes a load off me. Uncle Ezra was so angry at me the week before he died he swore he would leave me that farm. It has two tax titles and three mortgages on it, there is a flaw in the original patent, five families are fighting for it, and there is a stranger iu possession. Ben must have made the old man awful mad somehow.” — Hawk■ Eye.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Henry Johnston, a colored man, was hanged at Sumter, S. C., for the murder of John Davis, also colored, on the sth of February last. Sang Armor, colored, was banged at Crawfordsville, Ga., for the murder of Amos Eilington, an old white man. Joe Harris, also colorod, was executed at Rogersville, Tenn., for killing Bowen aud Heck. Richard James, another negro, was hanged at Marion, S. 0., for the murder of David M. Hanell. Great Britain and Ireland have been swept by a storm of unusual violence and destructiveness. The ship Culzean, with a crew of twenty-one, was lost; a bark foundered and three seamen were drowned; the Barbara, from Rangoon for Liverpool, was wrecked oft the Welsh coast; a brigantine, with a crew of seven, was lost. Many disasters aro also reported on land. An unsuccessful attempt on the life of the Czar and his family was made recently, and they will remove at once from Gatschina. The police kept the discovery quiet, and arrested the Chief of Police of an important provincial city, two daughters of a high state official, and two Jewish merchants. The plot involved the use of a balloon to carry dynamite and fireballs over tbe palace, where they would make terrible havoc. Boyd, the English oarsman, has accepted tho challenge of Hanlan to row on the Thames for the championship and a stake ol from SI,OOO to $5,000. The British Government will appoint more Sub-Commissioners for the Land Court, to relievo the pressure of business. The steamer Brooklyn, from Liverpool for Montreal and Quebec, lost 581 sheep and 117 head of cattle during its las l voyage. Mrs. Garfield has placed the literary remains of her husband in the hands of Col. Rockwell, who is to act under her directions in the preservation and care of them. Gen. Swaim has been appointed attorney and financial agent of the late President’s estate. The city of Hartford, Ct., has voted $60,000 for a monument to the soldiers and sailors killed in the late war. A fire in Buffalo consumed the plan-ing-mill of Dart & Brother and a considerable pile of lumber, the loss being estimated at SIIO,OOO. Kiefer, Stiefel & Co.’s tannery was burned at Allegheny, Pa. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. The National Board of Health have made arrangements with Iho health authorities of other nations to prevent tho spread of Asiatic cholera aud the dreaded plague or “black death,” Doth of which diseases are r aging in Europe and Asia. The steamboat Peninah sold liquor from its bar at an ludiau reservation in Montana and was condemned by the United States court, and will be sold at auction by the Marshal at Bismarck.

A BAD SHOT.

A Third Unsuccessful Attempt Upon Use Life of the Assatwln of President <>a,rficld. Another attempt upon the life of the assassin Guiteau was made shortly after the adjournment of court on the sixth day of the trial. The prisoner was being conveyed back to jail in the prison van, Ferry H. Carson, a guards' man, stood upon the rear steps of the van. Ihe driver, James Leonard, was accompanied by Officer Edeliu, of the mounted police force but upon this occasion Edelin was not mounted, and sat upon the box by the side of the driver. As tho van turned into East Capitol street, heading for the jail, a man mounted upon a wiry sorrel gelding o’ashed up to the side of the vehicle. Tho rider deliberately looked in through the narrow barrel ventilator upon the ride of the wagon until he saw Guiteau crouching down upon the right hand of the vau. “Oh, there you are, you sou of a shouted the rider, as he wheeled off and discharged one shot from a revolver through tho side of the van at Guiteau. A shriek of abject terror was luaid inside, Guiteau yelling : “Oh, my God! my God !I am shot! Help ! Murder !” Then he fell in a fit of fright upon the floor of the wagon. The would-be assassin of the occasion dashed away without risking a second shot. As he put spurs to his horse he held his revolver upon tho officers until he passed tnem. He bent low over his horse’s neck aDd spurred with fiery energy toward the north. The officers were "so overwhelmed with surprise at the suddenness and unexpectedness of the attack that they hardly realized what was done until the bold rider was off aud away. Officer Edelin fired ono shot after him, but it did not delay him at all, as it went very wide of its mark. The officers at first paid no attentior to Guiteau, who kept shrieking with terror, saying thatJie was killed, and constantly calling for help. The officers stupidly imagined that they could pursue the fleet rider with theii heavy van. It was wheeled about, and the horses attaohed to it were lashed to a gallop, while Edelin sat with a cocked revolver in his hand looking for a shot at tho flying man. The van reached tho high incline overlooking the railroad tracks only in time to see the sorrel gelding bolt straight across the tracks - toward the open country. Some hours of afterward a drunken, half-w it ted fellow named Bill Jones was arrested in the vicinity of tho Soldiers’ Home, but ho proved to be the wrong man, after lying in jail twentyfour hours. The real shooter escaped. Th« , easy manner m which he succeeded iu making himself scarce, and the general conduct of tin police officers, leads to the belief that there if a conspiracy in Washington to mako way with the assassin, and that the Aen who have beer detailed to guard the wretch aro at least disposed to wink at, if not aid, the conspirators it their plans. When the officers saw that furthei pursuit was impossible, they opened tin van and looked for Guiteau. He wai in a pitiable plight. Already he had suffered a hundred deaths from abject terror. His face was livid and bathed in a cold sweat. His teeth were chattering as if in some deadlj chill. His wound was bleeding quite freely, staining his murderous right hand a bright red. His terror had also produced a spontaneous movement of the bowels, so that, all combined, he presented a disgusting appearance. On examination it was found that the ball had just grazed Guiteau’s left wrist, inflicting a mere scratch. The ball struck the opposite side of tho van and fell upon the floor, where it was found on reaching the jail. It was not until Guiteau was inside ol the jail that the assassin recovered his composure in a measure. Ho was taken to his cell, whore the slight wound was dressed, and a change of cloth ng provided for him. After all was done Guiteau said : “ I want after this to have a strong body guard. I desire to prevent a recurrence of this attack.” Then ho subsided into a gloomy fir, as if tho fact was beginning to pierce the dense shell of his vanity that he did not have a friend upon the earth, and that death was reaching out itt hand for him from every quarter. An lowa minister has adopted a new system of prices for marrying. He charges 4 cents a pound for the groom and 2 cents for the bride as his wed-ding-fee. “My dear boy,” wrote an Irishman to his son, “never put off till to-mor-row what you have duuo ti/-day,”

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THE JURY. Jobn P. Hamlin, restauranter. W. Brankeubttrg, cigar manufacturer. Henry J. Bright, retired merchant. Charles J. Stewart, merchant. Thomas H. Langley, grocer. Michael Stephens, grocer. Samuel F. Hobbs, plasterer. Georee W. Gatos, architect Ralph Wormley, laborer. W. £l. Brainier, grocer. Thomas Heralino, machinist Joseph Prather, commission merchant. SIXTH DAY.

George C. Maynard, an electrician, and for many jears a resident of Washington, was tbe first witness called on the sixth day of the trial. Ho was questioned by the prosecution, arid testified to loaning the prisoner money last spring. Guiteau rose to an objection to this kind of evidence. Mr. Scoville said the objection was in good faith, ana Guiteau said: “ I don’t think it makes any difference who owes me or whom I owe. Mr. Maynard is a good follow, and I owe him $25.” The witness ’’testified further that he had boarded at tho same house with Guiteau dining his school days at Ann Arbor. M ieh. He did not see him from that time until ho came to borrow the $lO. “Did you notice anything strange in his appearance at that time?” asked Mr. Scoville. “Nothing, except that he looked hungry.” “I was boarding at a first-class house at the fiine and had plenty to eat,” interrupted Guiteau. ■} v.thing else?” continued Mr. Scoville, addressing the witness. “He looked a little soedy, I thought.” Guiteau—“l had a S7O suit of clothes on. Nothing seedy about that. Again, I do not think my circumstances have anything to do with this case. I have been well led ever since I have been in Washington. I know plenty of public men, an 1 could get all the money I wanted. If I looked hungry, it was due to menial anxit iv. I had a great weight on my mind.” He spoke with his usual vehemence, but was allowed to finish. Mr. O’Meara, a Washington pistol-dealer, was called, told the story of the purchase of the pistol by the assassin and identilied the weapon. At this point Guiteau arose and addressed the court calmly, as follows : “ While this is being done I want to give public invitation to John D. Towusend. of New York, to assist me in this trial; also Leonard Swett and Mr. Trade, of Chicago. I desire thus to invite them to meet mo here with Judge Magruder, of Maryland, on Monday. There are good brains on the other side, and I want some on this. Mr. Townsend has said he would come, ana I think the others will do so. Reporters will please make a note of this.” Theu, hesitating a moment, he wont on : “Another thing I want to say: I understand there are some disreputable characters lurking about this court, intending to do me bodily harm. I want to say that the Chief of Police has kindly provided me with an escort, aud I have a body-guard. lam not in fear of niv life, for any one attempting it will probably be shot down at once fay my body-guard.” Col. A. 8. Rockwell, the next witness, began to detail the occurrences at the depot, when Scoville interposed, acknowledging tho killing.. Guiteau quickly shouted: “ No, your Honor ; we acknowledge the shooting but not the killing.” Col. Rockwell briefly stated tho facte within his knowledge, and, without cross-exam-ination, was followed by Gen. D. G. Swaim. Gen. Swaim described briefly his association with tho President during his illness. An impressive scene occurred during his testimony. “What were the President’s last words?’ asked Mr. Corkhill. “His last words,” replied witness, with emotion, “were, ‘Oh, Swaim!’” Dr. D. W. Bliss was then called. Witnesi gave a narrative covering from tho V- iA* ■ye r called to the President’s side, fifteen or twenty minutes afier he was shot, until his death. The immediate cause of death was hemorrhage. Witness then explained miuutoly iho charactei of the wound, using the upper portion of a wired skeleton for the purpose of illustration, and detailed at great length the progress and symptoms of tho case. The sensation of tne trial was produced when tho District Attorney suddenly drew from a pasteboard box upon his table a section of a human hlackbone, and, holding it up, inquired: “Do you recognize this, doctor? ” The audience hung breathless upon the answer as the witness, in measured tones, replied : “Ido. It is a portion of the vert bro of the late President, James A. Gaifield.” The vertebra) was then handed the jury, and the character and extent of the injury to them explained. Dr. Bliss was followed with the closest attention on JLhe part of the entire audience, with the sole exception of Guiteau, who devoted himself to his papers, only occasionally glanoiDg up with the air of aman being bored with a recital in which he could have no possible interest. After tho vertebra? had been returned to the District Attorney’s table, Scoville reached over and requested the opportunity of examining it. It was handed him, and Guiteau, who sits immediately on the right, examined it closely as Scoville iurned it over and from side to side. He made no movo to touch it, however, and gave not the slightest indication of any feeling other than casual curiosity. Upon the conclusion of Dr. Bliss’ examination Guiteau here attempted to say something, when the District Attorney, bowing with mock gravity, continued: “If Mr. Guiteau will permit me, your Honor, I will move an adjournment.” Guiteau appeared to relish the pleasantry, and, nodding, replied : “ Qb, certainly. You shall have full chance.” The court adjourned. SEVENTH DAY. The crowd about the Court House was greater than on any previous day. The assassin, livid with fear, was escorted from the jail to the court-room by a squad of five policemen. , Immediately upon the opening of court, Hit Robinson arose to criticise the treatment he had received from Mr. Scoville, and announced his withdrawal from the case. Guiteau, with considerable warmth, said: “ That’s an able speech, and I agree with most of it. If he had only made it last Monday there never would have been any disturbance between us.” Scoville here tried to quiet Guiteau, when h« retorted upon him: “Keep quiet yourself. I'm talking now. I sympathize with him iu this matter.” Scoville made a brief statement, deploring tho disagreement, after which Judge Cox relieved Robinson from further connection with the defense. Ncoville began to address the court with : “ We do not expect to be compelled to conduct the case entirely without assistance.” Here Guiteau exemimed : “I understood Judge Magrudt r was anxious to assist in this trial; also Mr. Townsend. I should like to have them ap-. pear here, as well as Swett and Trade, of Chicago.” Then adding, after a short pause: “ One word on the question of malpractice. My idea is simply this—that, by tbe physicians own st ltncent, on the 25th of July, the President was not fatally shot. Wo don’t want to press this subjeot— only desire to have it go on re. ord, so that the court in bane may take notice of it.” After a brief pause Guiteau added : “ That’s all there is to the malpractice business, short and to the point. I want it understood I appear as my own counsel here. I am agent of the Deity, and I expect Him to take care of me. I think He has managed it pretty well so far.” After the examination of Drs. Woodward and Lamb and the exhibition of the fatal bullet, the prosecution rested its case. The assassin was given permission to speak in his own defense. Guiteau, retaining his seat, began: “Your Honor, I was not aware I was expected to speak ■ this morning.” Scoville here leaned over and whispered to him, when Guiteau retorted, sharply, and with impatience • “ I won’t stand up. I m not afraid to, howevor, but I have only a moment to speak, and will keep my seat. I do not care to say more than was published last Monday in my address to the publio. ] presume the jury all saw it I have no sei speech to make. I appear as my own counsel, and my idea is to make corrections as we go along, just as I have done the past three or four days. • I don’t mean any discourtesy to any one. I only want to get at the facts. If any one says I owe them S2O and don’t I will deny it on the spot. My idea is to take things when they are hot, not let them get cold and suffer from misrepresentation. Of course, I shall go on the stand at the proper time, and be examined and cross-exam-ined. My idea, however, is to meet a misstatement when it is hot, instead of waiting to let the matter get digested and misunderstood. I think the true way is to interject my statements as the case proceeds. I have no set speech to make, but am much obliged to your Honor and to my oounsel for the courtesy of tbia invitation." *

RENSSELAER, JASPEJt COUNTY, d#D|ANA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2,1881.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

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Mr, Scovflh# then proceeded, address the court. He-said the question for the jury was Whether or not the prisoner killed Che President, and Whether or hot the aPcsusejl was to such a condition mentally as to redder him response far his action. He bed got finished his remarks’ when the time for adjournment was reached. EIGHTH DAY. ; ■ There was the usual crow£ present wlttp. Guiteau was brought into the eourt-sWm. j, Hfe had * a ride of honor” from the jail, a mounted oncost Attendance He seemed in remarkably good humor, which re expilnnea by the fact that he had jnst. received a very nice letter, inclosing a money order for S2O, from Blinqia lawyer. Mr. Scoville continued-the opening speech for the defense. He recounted the history of the assassin and his family, with the idea of establishing Guiteau’s insanity. The assassin made the usual number of interruptions, and created the usual number of scenes. Scoville, referring in his address to the prisoner, said that he was unsuccessful as a lawyer, and collecting bad debts was his principal business. Whenever he met another lawyer in court he failed. Guiteau interrupted him, saying: “I have had a good many cases in court* and never was called a fool. When a lawyer I generally gave them as good as I gob” Scoville continued : “ Guiteau was persistent as a debt collector, and had a good business —” Guiteau interrupted: “He had also good habits, and his personal appearance, which brought the business.” “Well,” said Mr. Scoville, “he never had bad habits. He never smoked, drank or chewed. Once ho tried a case with Charles Reed, of Chicago, in which Reed got the impression he was a little off.” “That's false,” said Guiteau. “ I don’t want to interfere with your theory, but I never tried a case with Reed-in my life. The rest of your story is good and true- and, in regard to my peculiarities you seem to understand them. But I want you to know I never was quite a fool when a lawyer, and don’t yon forget it” Scoville said the prisoner was lacking in business ability, and ran behind in money matters. Guiteau interrupted by saying: “I had brains enough, but I had theology on my mind then ; that’s the reason I did not adhere to law. There s no money in theology, and I ran behind on that, and haven’t got over it yet, Fm out of the business now, though.” Scoville stated that, when in Wisconsin, Guiteau, overcome by heat, acted strangely and threatened his sister with ail ax. Guiteau said this was a lie. Scoville continued that friends and family physicians considered him insano.' Physicians said he could be put into an asylum, but the family objected so long as he was not dangerous. Guiteau acted as usher at Moodj and Sankov meetings, and finally lectured on the second advent of Christ He made no money. Guiteau —“ They were new ideas that people were not educated up to.” Scoville continued te describe Guiteau’s indifference to monetary responsibilities, and Guiteau interrupted with the statement that he dead-headed from Detroit to Washington as agent of the Lord, and on his personal appearance. He was never put off a train' but twice' He jumped once, and was nearly killed.- -•- Scoville’s speech was a very ingenious plea, and seemed to make a.favorable impression or the jury.

WIN TH DAY, When court opened Scoville made a formal • request for the papers taken from Guiteau the time of his arrest, stating that they were material evidence for the defense, and since the prosecution had not needed them he could see no reason why they should be withheld. The District Attorney offered to furnish copies of the papers, but Scoville insisted upon his rights in iho matter and asked for the originals. Pending the discussion Guiteau insisted upon being heard, and said : “I can throw light upon this. At the time of my arrest I had forty or fifty editorial slips showing tho political situation in May and June last. These slips show the action and one of the forces that impelled me on to the President. They are very important as showing the gist of the whole matter. There tvero forty or fifty slips deuouncing President Garfield. It was through living on such ideas as these that I was finally impelled to fire on Ihe President with my inspiration.” Scoville’s request for the return of the papers was complied with, and he resumed his opening speech for the defense. Ho alluded to Guiteau’s career as a politician, and drew the sonclusion that his intellect was deficient.. This view aroused the prisoner at once, and ho began a series of interruptions, protesting against Scoville’s conclusions as false. When reference was made to his running aroupd from one com-mittee-room to another, seeking to be employed aa a campaign speaker, and his failure to obtain recognition was mentioned, Guiteau shouted, angrily': “’Twasn’t because I had no ability, but I was not known. I had ideas, bnt not reputation. They wanted big guns like Gen. Grant and Serator .Conkling—men who would draw.” Then, in direct contradiction of his counsel’s declaration to the jury yesterday, that Guiteau was a man who never made a joke in his life, Guiteau looked up with an amused smile, mid added: “I presume I’d draw now.” This provoked general laughter, which was promptly suppressed by the Judge,, who struggled to disguise the smile upon his own features. Mr. Scoville went on with his - remarks, bjrt was interrupted at almost every sentence by the prisoner, who soon began to get excited, and finally grew so violent that Col. Corkhill arose aud solemnly protested. He got a sharp retort from Guiteau, who insisted, as he said, upon “ making running statements as against a set speech.” Mr. Davidge here suggested (the court having asked for something of the kind) that this annoyance might all be avoided if Mr. Scoville would only confine himself to the limits of a reasonable opening address, and bring his already long speech to a close. To the great amusement of the crowd, Guiteau heartily approved this idea, and proceeded to compliment Corkhill’s address in a most flattering way. Finally the court interposed, and informed Guiteau very firmly that he must keep quiet. This he finally consented to do, ana Mr. Scoville shortly closed, and was greeted with hearty approval’ by the aadience as he sat down, though their demonstrations were quickly suppressed by the warning of the bailiff that order must be preserved. The examination of witnesses for the defense was begun immediately. Those examined testified mainly as to the history of the family and to facts connected with Gniteau’s life before he came to Washington. Generally their stories were briefly told, and little attention was given them by way of cross-examination. The witness Frank L. Union, of whom Guiteau once hired a hall in Boston, produced some merriment by detailing how the prisoner had informed him that lie was a, member of the firm of Jesus Christ <fc - Co., and that he was trying to save three-fourths of .the human race, who were surely going to perdition. He swore that he and the forty-nine other people who listened to Guiteau’s lecture thought him crazy. Mrs. Lockwood, one of Gnitean’s numerous unpaid landladies, was on the stand, and Guiteau had much to say to her and about her testimony, but the scene created little or no excitement.

TENTH CAY. Immediately upon the opening of court Scoville stated that Guiteau desired to-' fciake a statement No objection being made, Guiteau read from manuscript substantially as folio,ws “ I propose to have all the facts hearings on this case to go to the court aud jury, and to do this I have been forced to interrupt couusel and witnesses who were mistaken aS to supposed facts. I meant no discourtesy to them or any one. Any fact in my career bearing on the question who fired that shot, the Deity or myself, is of vital importance in this case, and I propose that it go to the jury. Hence, my personal, political and theological record may bo developed. lam glad that your Honor and opposing counsel are disposed to give a historical review of my life, and ask the press and pnblio to do likewise. All I want is absolute justice, and I shall not permit any crooked work. I * have no idea my counsel want crooked woijt. They are often mistaken on supposed facts, and I shall have to correct them. Last spring certain newspapers in New York and Washington were bitterly denouncing the Resident for breaking up the Republican party by improper appointments. ’ I would like thpso newspapers to reprint those editorials now, and see how they would look and sound. In attempting to remove the President I only did what the papers said ought to be done. Since July 2 they have been deifying the President and denouncing me for doing the very thing they said ought to be done. I want the newspapers and doctors, who actually killed tBo , President, to share with me the odium of his death. I never would have shot him of my own volition, notwithstanding those newspapers, if I had not been commissioned by the Deity to do the deed. But this fact docs not relieve the newspapers from the supposed disgrace of the President’s removal. If he had been properly treated he would have been alive to-day. It has been published that lam in fear of death. It is false.

i J have always been a religious man and an active wo ker for God. Some people think lam a murderer, but the Lord does not, for He inspired the act, as iu the ease ot Abraham and a score of other eiwetr in the Bible. The assault made upon me Saturday last by a crank has been condemned by tbe press. The eyes of the civilized world are watching this case, and it behooves this court and the metropolitan police to protect mo at all hazards. I hereby warn all pranks, of high or low degree, to keep away ibdkn me under penalty of instant deatn. He would have been shot dead Saturday but for the rearing of the horses in the van. As the wtfficer tsm Aborting, the .horses shook the vau so heloathis aim, though the van pursued him, temporarily escaped. I waste my arguments on cranks. All they can see in this case is a policeman’s revolver. Again I say, il they value their lives they must keep away from me.* I desire the court and jury to dispose ol . this case on facts and law, and leave all reBDonsibitity about it to the verdict.” The assassin retained his seat whi'e reading bis statement, evidently dreading that some member of the crank fraternity might not heed hi* warning.. Scoville, then asked for some printed slips taken from Guiteau after he had been arrested, and he and Corkhill had a wordy War. Senator Logan was called as a witness, bnt did not appear, neither did Emery Storrs, of Chicago, or Mr. Joseph B. Smith, ol Freeport, IIL Charles H. Reed, ex-Prosecut-iug Attorney of Cook county, was the first witness examined. The general tendency of his testimony went to show that Guiteau was somewhat insane, though not incapable of judging right from wrong. The witness was interrupted by the prisoner soveral times, and Guiteau could not be oven suppressed by the Judge, who threatened to have him gagged. One Amerling, a Pennsylvania lawyer, aud Tom North, of Chicago, were examined to prove tnat members of the Guiteau family were somewhat imane. Judge Cox has received sever.il anonymous letters of a threatening character, containing reflections upon the manner of conducting the trial.

CENSUS BUREAU.

Tlie Annual Report—Population of the States and Xerritories. Washington, Nov. 20. The annual report of tno Census Bureau, covering its operations since the Ist of December, 1880, has been submitted to the Secretary of the Interior. The iield-work of the census has been completed in all the departments except those relating to the department of shipbuilding, to the production of petroleum, arid a lew other industries, and to the population, resources, etc., of Alaska. Six ageuts are employed ill these departments, and will complete tiieir work in a lew weeks. On the Ist of December last the number of employes was 1,084. The maximum of the clerical force was reached on the 15th of March, 1881, when the number of employes was 1,495. Five-sixths of the cler.cal labor of the bureau has been accomplished. The revised and corrected returns of population show the following to he accurate : Alabama 1,^62,505 Arizona... » 40,140 Arkansas 802,523 California 864,601 Colorado ~ 104,327 Connecticut ~ 622,700 Dakota V 35,177 Delaware ~ 146,608 District of Columbia 177,624 Florida 269,403 Georgia a 1,542,180 Idaho 32,610 . Illinois 3,077,871 Indiana. 1,078,301 lowa 1,624,613 Kansas.....' 096,086 Kentucky 1 1,648,690 Louisana 930,946 Maine 648,936 Maryland. 934,942 Massachusetts 1,783,083 Michigan........ 1,636,937 Minnesota 780,773 Mississippi.... 1,131,597 Missouri 2,168,380 Montana 39,159 Nebraska... 452,402 Nevada 62,266 New Hampshire, ' 336,991 New Jersey 1,132,116 New Mexico 116,565 New York 5,082,871 North Carolina. 1,399,750 Ohio 3,198,062 Oregon 174,768 Pennsylvania 4,282,891 Rhode Island ; 276,531 South Carolina a 995,577 Tennessee. ;. 1,542,359 Texa* 1,591,749 Utah 143,963 Vermont 832,286 Virginia...'. 1,512,565 AV&jbington 75,116 West Virginia 618,457 Wisconsin 1,315,497 Wyoming 20,789 Grand total 50,155,783 Superintendent Walker refers to and reiterates his statement in regard to the inaccuracies of some of the statistics of the ninth census, and he doubts if c ither of the three censuses of 1850, 1860 and 1870 obtained half of the mineral product of the country, or compassed twothirds of the total number of the defective, dependent and delinquent classes (the deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, criminals and paupers)‘who have by law been made the subjects of a special enumeration. All the statistics of the present census he considers sound and reliable. The extended, work'increased the expenses of the bureau. The ninth census cost £3,336,000. Since then the population has increased 30 per cent., and other estimates of the cost of a census have increased propoitionally. Had the cost of the census work kept up with the rate of inciease it would have reached £4,500,000. The census for the first time collected the statistics of railroads and telegraphs, of fire, marine and life insurance, and iu other departments the information obtained has been at least double that of any former census in mere matter of bulk. Cannibal Scotchmen. When Scotland liad a climate very much like that of Cauada to-day, when the Hebrides boasted great forests of immense trees, and when, too, a man could have walked on dry land from Edinburgh to Stockholm, the primitive Scotch-folk were as peculiar in habit and head. The skulls of this, period, which are still occasionally dug up, all belong to what is characteristically called the “boat-headed” type, and the good who owned them indulged iu a variety of savage practices, from having a community of wives to eating their own children. Prof. Owen says: “The lowest skull in the Caithness series of an ancient stone-period resembles that of a West Indian negro.” He also found a child’s jaw “ which had been broken, for its dental press was not gnawed by beasts, and concluded the race to be cannibal.” Little wonder after this that one scientific observer asserts the antique Scotch skull is far more animal-like than those of any European race either known in history or hitherto discovered in pre-historic tombs of the iron, bronze ox latter stone periods.” There is something almost humorous in the contrast thus presented between modern Scotland—demure and devoted —and the olcT, old Scotland where a kind of unutterable savage was in the habit of rampaging about, combining wholesale Mormouism with the delectable habit of feasting on cold baby, s 'iSraf, Huxley goes so far as to link thsseprimitive ancestors of Sir Walter Sc6tt and the Marquis of Lome with the Australian Maories, but they were so inferior to the latter that they had no sense of ornament, not a single fragment 1 of bead or bracelet belonging to these dim ages having ever been found in all Scotland through. Almost depressing is this idea of a people who belonged to so debased and low a type of 'humanity. One comfort lies in the fact that they lived a very lotog time, ago, when Glasgow was the site-of a sea, and what is now the bed of the German ocean did not contain water enough to have filled a teacup. —Bow Bella. The best kind of revenge is that which is taken by him who is so generous that he refuses to take any revenge at all.

THE NATIONAL POSTOFFICE.

Synopsis of Mr. Janie*’ Yearly Report. Postmaster General James’ report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1881, opens with the general financial statement, by which it appears that the total expenditures made on account of service for the fiscal year were $39,251,736.46. The revenues were $36,785,397.97, made up of ordinary receipts, $36,489,816.59, and from the money-order business, $295,681.39. The total excess of expenditures over receipts on account of tho firoal year was $2,481,129.35, of which $14,790.86 appears on the books of the Auditor for “ bad debts” and “compromise accounts.” In addition to the expenditures above stated, the sum of $340,829.76 was paid on account of indebtedness incurred in previous years, making tho total amount expended daring the year $39,529,566.22. The item of compensation to Postmasters was the only one in which the expenditure exceodod the appropriation, the latter amounting to $7,500,000, and the former to $8,298,742.79. In the remaining items there was a total unexpended balanoe of the appropriations of $761,907.73. Tho total amount of appropriations was $39,204.901.40, leaving an excess of expenditures of $16,835.06, growing out of the excess of compensat on to Postmasters. The receipts for the year were $3,469,918.63, or 10.4 per cent., more than those of the preceding year, and $4,575,397.97, or 14.2 per cent., more than the estimate which was made two years ago, before the present period of business prosperity had fairly begun, to whioh the increase is in a large degreo attributable. The estimated expenditure for the current fiscal year is $43,661,800; the estimated ordinary revenue is $42,561,722.05, and money-order business SIBO,OOO, making a total estimated revenue of $42,741,722.05, leaving an estimated deficit of $920,077.95 to be appropriated out of the treasury. The decrease in the estimated amount of money-order receipts is owing to a contemplated reduction of the fees on money orders for small amounts. The total income from tho sale of postage stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards for the fiscal year was $34,625,435.01, against $32,085,342.46* in the proceeding year, an increase of 7.9 per cent - The total amount of postage collected daring the year on newspapers and periodicals mailed to regular subscribers from known offices of publication, and from nows agencies, at 2 cents per pound, was $1,399,('48.64, an increase of $172,598.05, or ft liitle over 14 per cent By careful reckoning based upon an actual count made in every postoffice in tho United Stales during the first week in December, 1880, it has been ascertained that the whole number of letters mailed in this country in the iast fiscal year was 1,046,107,348. The number reaching the Dead-Letter Office during the same period was 8,323,621, or one in every 315. Of the letters and packages opened, 18,617 were found to contain money amounting to $40,587.80; 22,012 contained drafts, money orders, checks, notes, etc., the aggregate face value of which was $1,899,062.61. The records of the department show that 8,338,918 registered letters and packages were mailed in this country during the year. Of this number, only 2,614 reached the Dead-Letter Office, and of these 2,131 were finally delivered to the ownors, the balance being placed on file awaiting identification by the parties interested. « The amount of unclaimed money-orders, domestic and foreign, at the close of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1881, is estimated by the Auditor as $1,250,000. A postal order for sums less than $5, for 3 cents, is under consideration.

The Postmaster General recommends postal savings depositories as worthy the consideration of Congress,^ Iu regard lo'Tniand transportation, the report states that ou Juno 30, 1831, there were 6,156 contractors for transportation of mails on inland routes. There were in operation 11,592 routes (of which 1,194 were railroad routes, showing an increaso of seventy-six routes of this class since the last animal report), aggregating in length 344,006 miles, and in annual cost, $19,323,893. The service was divided as follows : Railroad routes ; Leng'.li, 91,569 miles ; annual transportation, 103,521,229 miles ; annual cost, $11,613,368 (including $1,364,107 for railwav-postoffice-car service), about 11.22 cents per mile. Steamboat routes : Length. 21,138 miles; annual transportation, 5,046,507 miles; annual cost, $753,167, about 14.92 cents per mile. “ Star ’’ routes, on which the mails are required to bo conveyed “ with celerity, certainty aud security Length. 231,299 miles ; annual transportation, 79,557,296 miles ; annual cost, $5,957,355, about 8.74 ceuts per mile. There are 6,014 offices supplied by mail messengers, at an annual cost ot $763,341. The railroad routes wi re increased in length 6,240 miles, and in cost $1,114,382.

The steamboat routes were decreased in length 2,182 miles, and in cost $134,064. The “star” routes were decreased in length 3,910 miles, and in cost $364,144. The report then says that the founders of our postal system intended that it should be self-supporting, and proceeds to give a history of its growth and the gradual reduction in postage and the annual deficiency. According to tho report of" Ike Second Assistant Postmaster General, which he quotes, the total reductions during the lost fiscal .year in the star service was $665,832 per annum, but some of the orders did not take effect until the beginning of the present fiscal year. The net reduction, allowing for new and increased service, was $364,144. The aggregate reduction of tho cost of steamboat service was $282,009, from which is to be deducted the cost of increased service, $30,653, making the net reduction $651,356. Thus far in the current fiscal year reductions amounting to $701,651 have been mode in the star service. The net reductions from July 1 to Oct. 81, in the star and steamboat servioe, are $532,257. In leaving the consideration of tho star routes the Postmaster General says a minute investigation into alleged abuses in the star-route service was instituted by direction of the late President, and is still being prosecuted. The Postoffico Department has co-operated and will continue to co-operate with the Department of Justice in this investigation. No one who has not been directly concerned in the matter can fully appreciate the magnitude of the undertaking, the mass of record evidence examined, the difficulties of a personal investigation in sparsely-settled territories and the results attained by the patient and intelligent labors of the inspectors of this department There can be no doubt, from the facts already ascertained, that the existing statutes leave the way open to great abuses, and that there is abundant ground for asking a judicial investigation of the transactions of the last few years. The report then turns to the question of a reduction in the rates of postage, and says if the lecommendations for a decrease in the cost of railway service be successfully carried out the reduction of letter postage from 3 to 2 cents will be possible within three years. It believes this reduction could be accomplished without the proportionate diminution of receipts which followed the adoption of 8-cent postage in 1851. There were 2,915 new postoffices established during the year, and an eonal number of new Postmasters. The total number of employes in the department Jnne 30, 1881, was 61,444, against 60,530 June 30, 1880. Tho report urges the extension of the freedelivery system and collection system, as it has been found that the convenience of delivery and deposit acts as an incentive to letterwriting. There was an increase during the year of 84.000,900 in the number of letters and other articles of mail matter delivered and collected bv carriers. Attention is invited to tho fact that, of the 4,636 complaints of registered letters and packages as lost, rifled, tampered with and detained, 2,575 were recovered or satisfactorily accounted for, lea\ing only 2,061 still under investigation, or finally closed as lost, including losses by fire, highway robberies and other thefts. By comparing this number, 2,061, with the entire number of letters and packets registered during tho year, namely, 8,300,000. the certainty ai d security of tho registered mail is clearly demonstrated. Thero wero 16,662 ordinary letters reported lost, of which 12,108 were letters with valuable inclosures, and 4,454 contents not specified. Of this number 1,737 were reported as being delivered. Three hundred and twenty-three robberies of postoffices wero reported during the year, and ninety-two offices were burned. Bobberies of mail stages on the highways numbered eighty-six. One hundred and thirty-five oomplaints of depredations were made by Postmasters, of which nineteen were found to have been groundless. Eleven mails were reported as burned in mail cars, in railroad accidents or in postoffices, and sixty-five were reported as lost by carriers, by floods, snow blockades or from other causes. In concluding his report Postmaster General Junes has a word to say in favor of oivil-ser-

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 43.

vie* reform. He i# convinced of the great public benefit to be derived from conducting the public brininess on business principles. The public is best served by honest, experienced and competent officers, and changes, therefore, should be made carefully and only for reasons affecting official conduct

THE PROGRESS OF REPUDIATION.

The Repudintors have carried the day in Virginia. Their triumph is due to the open support of the Federal administration and to the large amount of money raised in Northern oities to oonquer the prejudices of uncertain voters. The Postoffice and the Treasury Departments, with the entire strength of the Internal Revenue Bureau, were used by Mahone in this campaign as if they were his personal dependencies. The negro vote was oast nearly solid for the Repudiation ticket, and joined with it were thousands of whites, glad of an opportunity to trample under foot a sacred debt, not a dollar of which can be charged to carpet-bag rule or to military government. What are the facts of this case ? The debt was contracted before the civil Avar, and it is represented by railroads, canals, turnpikes, institutions for the insane, dumb and d9af, and by universities and colleges founded or endowed. Every department of the State Government recognized it as completely valid and obigatory. After charging one-third of the original debt to West Virginia, as her just portion on separation, Mr. Mahone, in a written speech, delivered in Richmond Feb. 25,1879, said :

“ I would use my best endeavors to secure a vote of the people sanctioning a settlement at 3 per cent, for forty-five years, on the basis of $32,977,090.62. I would do so because I believe it to be right.’ Recently, in an address before the Union League in this city, Mr. Mahone declared: “If we carry the Legislature, as we hope to do, we shall adjust the debt on that basis ($20,000,000). On the other hand, our enemies assume a* debt of $33,000,000 —offering to pay $13,000,000 which tney do not owe. ” The Democrats adjusted this debt with the creditors, under what was known as the McCulloch bill, in a way that imposed no heavy burdens on the State, and yet saved its credit from dishonor. The Repudiators were not satisfied with that settlement. They rallied their forces in 1879, and carried the State. One of the first acts of the Legislature was to pass the Riddleberger bill, providing as follows : 1. Repudiation of $13,000,000 of the principal. 2. Taxation of the bonds, principal and interest.

3. Repeal i the provision making the interest coupv ns receivable for taxes. Gov. Holliday, Democrat, vetoed this scheme. The question before the people at the last election was practically, therefore, whether repudiation should be sustained or should be rejected. Upon that distinct issue the Republican party of the nation and the Federal administration took Malione’s side, and the result is before the country. The new Legislature will meet on the 6th of December, and it may be confidently assumed that the Riddleberger bill will be again passed, and this time it will be signed by the new Governor, a repudiator. . With a single exception, all the Judges of the Supreme Court will be chosen by this Legislature, so that it will bo packed in the interest of Mahone and of repudiation. The Republican party is now committed to repudiation. The Federal admin* istration, by the steady support and countenance given to the repudiators, have just elected for the Governor of Virginia a man who long ago mode a full profession of his faith in these words:

“As to the full and final payment or liquidation of the present enormous national debt, he that knows the American people and their utter deficiency in the high qualities of truth and integrity knows that snch an expectation is bat an idiot’s dream. “For ourselves, we shall rejoice when the crash comes. It is a debt contracted in the prosecution of an infamous and unnecessary war. ” The Attorney General of Virginia also proclaimed publicly, after the passage of the Riddleberger bill, that he was in favor of “ the rigorous application of the principles of readjustment to the national debt.” Is the Republican party prepared for the next step in this career? —New York Sun.

Tardy Admissions.

The coolness of Republican leaders and organs in admitting the rascalities of the party long after the time has passed when the admission will do any good, is one of their most prominent characteristics. Tears ago, when Franklin J. Moses was Governor of South Carolina, thanks to the power of a corrupt administration to Override the popular will in that State, the Democracy all over the country denounced him for the corrupt scoundrel and thief liqr showed himself. At the time he was a necessary adjunct of Republican power; and there was not a whisper against him in that party. On the oontrary, he was upheld and applauded by the party just as Mahone and Riddleberger are now, and the stories of his scandalous and admitting what a rascal he was, the Republican organs are cheerfully admitting it. The New York Times says of him: “Speaker of the Assembly, he engaged in a career of corruption, bribery and robbery, which has had ao parallel in this country. He made ‘no bona; ’ of his rascally intentions. If ho wonted money, horses or any species of property, he demanded these of'the men who sued for his influence in the passage of bills in whioh they were interested. He procured the enactment of a law whioh Sve him as Speaker unlimited power to aw upon the State treasury, and from that day his warrants, taking precedence of all other demands, wereplentiful as the leaves of the forest He owned a money mill. Having issued nearly $2,000,000 in pay certificates as Speaker: it was obvious that Gov. Moses would rule the State with all the profligacy 1 and extravagance that he had shown m his less influential position. There, was al*., most no limit to this map's recklessness. He seemed utterly devoid of moral sense. He levied toil on every public and private legislative measure ‘with money in it’whioh required bi* signature. It is a matter of record, for example, that valid claim of held by a banking oompany agataafctfce

JOB PRIITINB tiFFjFE Km better (mOMm than any office tn VortbwretMr l»di*iia iiTtmti'i of Ail bnooftMi of JOB PBINT ZSTO. PROMPTNESS A SPEOIALTY. - .tnytblaf, from a Dodder toe Prtae-Uei, erf rents rimpklet to » roeter, black or colored, plain or f—cj. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

State, oould not be paid until $25,000 was handed over to Moses. He involved one of his underlings, Humbert, in a scheme bv which the State was plundered of $29,000, and what seemed to be a grand larceny was attempted hgaUlst the State, and when the officers went -to arrest His Exoellenoy they found him intrenched in his palace guarded by the wicked doings were stigmatized as “rile partisan slanders ! ” But a few days ago this same Moses, fallen from his high estate, brought up before a New York police court, charged with larceny. Ho is clearly of no further use to the Republican party; and, now that no special harm can come to the party, or any good to the cause of decency, by State militia. He gave away pardon’s like holiday baubles. Pimps, blacklegs, criminals of every oomplexion, were pardoned by telegraph, by letter, by verbal . orders to jailers, and with a freedom which promised immunity to crimo so long as the offender owned in Moses a friend” The frank admissions of Dorsoy’s rascalities are in precisely the same vein. His star-route jobbery was pointed out long ago ? but he was then too useful to the pasty. He was using his plunder to carry States for the Republicans, and it would not do to admit that he was a thief. Now, when the admission is not needed it is mode with ostentatious frankness. It will be the some, probably, when Arthur’s administration, or some other, turnovers the corruption in the departments during Hayes’ term. Every Republican organ in the oountry trill come out with the fullest account of them, and labor most industriously to show that it knew all about tho corruption when it occurred —Detroit Free Preaa. ,

INDIANA NEWS.

A fire at Bedford destroyed SIO,OOO Worth of business property. Henry Bidding was drowned at Fort Wayne while gathering dnft-Avood from the river. The ticket offioe of tho Wabash road at Wabash was burglarized of SSO in money. The residence of John 0. Loecli, near St. Omer, Decatur county, was destroyed by fire.' Loss, $1,200' A young man named James Barnett, lately from the East, committed suicide at Fort Wayne by shooting himself through the hood. Hannah Burford, agod 61, of Plainfield, Hendricks county, wliilo carrying a load of wood into the house, slipped and fell, from the offocts of which she died. Vincennes has granted to Messrs. Gray k Bttift the right to erect waterworks in the city, they to furnish 144 double hydrants for fire protection at a cost to the city of $9,000. Miss Rebecca Baruch, a handsome woman of 18 summers, very suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from tho residence of her parents in Seymour, a few nights ago, since ivliich time no Avord or trail of her can be learned. Twelve line-builders of tho Western Union telegraph, traveling on a handcar on the track of the Evansville and Terre Haute road, oollided with an express train at Vincenues, killing two of the party and Avounding two others. New Indiana patents: George F. Drake, Indianapolis, wheeled plow ; N. H. Long, Munoio, rain-water filter; N. H. Long, Muncie, eaves-trough hanger; O. M. Tyler, Indianapolis, billfile; D. Wiser, Plymouth, spark arrester ; G. H. Zscheck, Indianapolis, saw-guide.

The “Knights of tho Switch,” in the southwestern part of Jackson county, are again on the war-path. From sixty Jlq seventy of the “ Knights ” turned out on two nights recently, and some sus-peot-ed parties were warned by a bundle of switches and a note left on their doorsteps. The State authorities will try to make the mutual benefit life insurance societies pay tho deposit of 8100,000 to tho State Treasurer, the same as commercial insurance companies. This will come very hard on the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, and other secret benevolent bodies. Among those who carried off premiums attlio Chicago Fat-stock show was Master Harry Davis, of Dyer, Lake county, who is bus T 2 years of age. This was his third appearanoe at the fat-stock exhibitions, and -he was paid 803 in premiums awarded his swine and poultry entries. He announced his intention of returning Aoxt year. Levi Moore, a farmer living near Lincolnville, Wabash county, after attending a funeral, became iiisano just as he reached home, and seizing an ax attempted to knock the house down and get at his family. The children ran away and returned with some neighbors, who secured the lunatic and bound him. Moore has now become lucid. Mrs. Altce C. Van Ripf.r, who married her husband, Ecclcb G. Van Riper, at Evansville, id 1865, ami later accompanied him to Russia, where he now resides, "brings suit at Evansville for alimony'outofeer tain property which Van Hibfer owns there. • She says herself and children weffs sent homo dn 1879, since when her husband lias practically deserted her. . • The test case of MagHl Bros., of Clinton, HI., against the Wabash, St. Louis and Pttiiflc road has boen decided. Ma- • gill Shipped ’a large quantity of wool over the Wabash, which was destroyed iff the floods at Toledo lost winter. The matter ' has been under advisement of the oourt for some time, and at last tho Magills havrfreoeived judgment. Taking this as a precedent the .Wabash folks will have enorjnous damages to pay. Marx UACON'IUcd an affidavit Indore a Justice of tlio Pence nt Evansville, alleging that her husband had left her without pi*oper support. Alter the Justice had heard all of tho evidence he discharged tho defendant. As he left the room tho wrfo, who was standing in the doo* with a handful of powdered Cayenne pepper, threw it into his eyes. Physicians who attended tho victim say it is impossible for him to recover his sight Fivr lunsked robbers broke into tho residence of E. C. Rice, cashier of the .Bank of Camden, Carroll county, ltouud and gagged Rico and took bim to the boniit Whore they direct*d him to opon tho safe at the peril *«f his life. Ho told tlpaia that it vyua irupyssiblo tor him to do so, aii file safe Was provided with a (fate lock, of whioh the robbers were convinced producing tho manrobbers were backed, amt in their Cage used Mr. Rico rather roughly, and tiled made off. Rico gave • thfc ahtfm. and the burglars wero tfrecked-tq a Loggnsporj,, livery stable,