Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. XCMt. At Rondout, N. Y., two men were killed and two were seriously injured by the caving in of a quarry. The death is announced of Dr. John Bacon, for many years Professor of Chemistry at Harvard College. Went, Wm. Redlieffer, partner in a wholesale grocory.-house at Kansas City, killed him. self with a revolver rather tfcan be placed in a lunatic asylum. The propellers Lake Erie and Northern Queen were wrecked in Manistique bay, on tho north shore of Lake Michigan. The crews had to walk a hundred miles over rough country to get to a railroad. The Chicago Times has made a compilation of statistics of tho lumber product ol the Northwestern States, from which it appears that the amount manufactured was one-eighth greater than last year, and that Chicago handles one-third of the total production. * Bouth. James P. Holland, an accessory in the murder of Burgess Jones, was lynched at Dardanelle, Ark., the officers making no resistance. Three Sons of J. P. Walker/ of Russell county, Ala., while traveling toward Arkansas with an acquaintance, were murdered near Aberdeen, Miss. The supposed perpetrator of the butchery was caught at Corinth. The heads of the murdered youths were split open with an ax while they were sleeping in the opou air. A fire at Augusta, Ark., destroyed over forty business houses, beside the schools and churches, inflicting a loss of $300,000. Several persons were injured by flames or falling walls. Incendiaries burned the Court Houso at Decatur, Tex., destroying all its records, and inflicting a loss of if 155,000. By the explosion of the boiler of the Yazoo oil works, at Yazoo, MiRS., seven colored men were badly injured, four it is feared fatally. It generally takes but one man to rob the mail coach in Texas. In the latest instance the solitary highwayman, who plundered the Laverna stage, was well repaid by a number of valuable parcels in the mail bag. Two negroes, Jordan and Craig, who murdered Robert Catlin, near Hunts field. Miss., confessed the crime, and were hanged by a mob. John Bodio and Sbadrach Hester, both colored, charged with the murder of T. M. Lynch, near Raleigh, N. C., wero taken from jail by a masked party of 100 men, and hanged. The victims made a full confession of their crime. WASHINGTON NOTES. During* tho twelve months ending Oot, 81, 1881, tho value of goods exported from tho United States exceeded the value of tho goods imported by $217,887,358, ns compared with an excess of $155,576,327 during the previous twelve months. The public debt, less the cash in the treasury, is $1,778,285,340. The decrease for November was $7,249,126. The coin certificates in circulation amount to $71,871,750. A marble tablet has been placed in the ladies’ waiting-room of the Baltimore and Potomac depot at Washington, to mark tho spot where President Garfield was shot.

The tender of support made by Minister Hurlbut to President Calderon, of Peru, causes a vast amount of gossip at Washington. Should it be decided to sustain our Minister to Peru in his radical course, some use may be found for seven American war vessels now cruising in that region. The State Department has sent out J. A. Trescott and Walker Blaine to investigate tho complication. POLITICAL POINTS. Speaker Randall says that a 3-per-ccnt. refunding bill will shortly bo introduced into tho House. The Democratic members of the Kentucky Legislature held a Senatorial caucus, at which there was no candidate but Mr. Beck, who returned thanks for the honor of his selection.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Bank of Prince Edward Island has closed its doors, through unwarranted advances made by its cashier, J. B. Brocker, who has fled to the United States. The works of the American Rubber Company, at East Cambridge, Mass., in which 600 persons wero employed, were swept away by fire, the loss aggregating $500,000. The flour mills of Campbell & Co., at Ridgetown, Ont., of Stiles Brothers, at Youngstown, Ohio, and of Mr. Knox, at Elkhart City, UL, were destroyed by fire. The GartieJd Monument Committee are making very satisfactory progress in their work. They propose to raise $250,000, and of this amount citizens of Cleveland guarantee $50,000, and propose to raise $50,000 more in the State of Ohio, making SIOO,OOO for Ohio in all. Burned: The hardware store of Ballary <fe Co., Jefferson, Texas, loss $50,000 ; the barns of Maxwell <fc Bros., near Geneva, N. Y., together with a large number of cattle and horses, loss $50,000 ; four stores at Camden, Ark., loss $55,000. The physicians who attended the late President have refused to send their bills to the financial agent of Mrs. Garfield, but will submit them to Congress. They have declined to take anything at all for their services unless it comes from the Government. Their bills will amount to about SBO,OOO.

FOREIGN NEWS. As Sara Bernhardt was driving home from the theater at Odessa, Russia, hor carriage was stoned by an anti-Jewish mob, who attacked the hotel and finally stopped the performance at the theater. Several outrages have occurred in the County Wexfprd, Ireland, which, until recently, was quiet and orderly. A dispatch from St. Petersburg announces that last year a Jewish resident war denounced by some enemy and taken into custody, when it was soon discovered that he was a leader among the Nihilists. He turned traitor to his comrades on condition that he be pardoni d, that bis death be proclaimed, and that he he given 20,000 rubles to leave for the United States. He pointed out over sixty of bis accomplices, two of whom were hanged last month. The Nihilists have ODly recently discovered that the Hebrew’s funeral was a sham, and that he has escaped their vengeance. A steamer for South Africa foundered in St. George’s ohannel during a heavy gale and |en persons were drowned.

The Democratic sentinel.

JAS, W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME v 7.

.Owing to recent developments in Ireland, Secretary Forster has decided to remain in Dublin throughout the winter. Lefroy, who murdered a London merchant in a railway coach, was executed at London. Marwood, the famous hangman, used a scaffold of a new pattern, by which the condemned man stood on a level wdh the spectators, on a hinged trap over a cavity fifteen feet deep. Over 300 fishing-boats were wrecked off the Scotch coast during the recent gales, and the nets of the fishermen were washed ashhre. Bismarck stated yesterday in the Reichstag that the German Government contemplated the appointment of a representative to the Vatican should tne interest of the state require it, and, in reply to the taunts of the Liberals, said that he had been forced into his present position because his former allies had deserted him. Opposition to rent-paying in Ireland seems to be on the increase. Three tenants of the Earl of Kenmare, who paid rent, have been shot at and wounded. One thousand tenants in Roscommon refuse to pay rent. The strike against rent in Limerick county' is said to be general, and the Sheriff of that connty holds writs for 300 evictions. The Ladies’ Laud League is being extended, notwithstanding police surveil lance. The Reichstag administered a very severe rebuff to Bismarck by tho rejection of the item for the expenses of the Economical Council by a vote of 169 to 83. Bismarck said the council was absolutely necessary, and appealed to the Reichstag to make tho appropriation. Two hundred cattle on a grazing farm at Carrowgull, Ireland, havo been mutilated. A farmer nnmod Hogan was shot near Tipperary for paying rent, and another near Angharas was assaulted by armed men and given twelve wounds. The corpse of the Earl of Crawford, who died a year ago, lias been stolen from the mortuary chapel at Aberdeen, Scotland.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Small-pox is spreading all over Montana Teiritory. Ham White, a Colorado stage-robber, who was being taken to tho Detroit House of Correction by Marshal Wilcox, of Denver, made a desperate attempt to.escape while in a Michigan Central coach. He quietly unlocked his handcuffs with a toothpick, and struck the Marshal on tire head with the irons until h e brought him to his knees. Seventeen men witnessed the struggle without daring to raise a hand. White next seized the Marshal’s revolver, when Mrs. Smithson, of Denver, sprung on the desperado and chokod him into submission. A Cleveland bank has been the victim of a daring robbery. An adroit thief walked into the office of the President, and relieved that official of u box containing $117,000 in railway bonds, which lay upon liis desk, almost at his olbow. The daring robber made his escape. Fire broke out in the milling district of Minneapolis, Minn., and consumed four flouring mills and one cotton mill. An explo sion in the Minneapolis mill, probably caused by flour dust, killed four men and severely wounded several others. The loss is estimated at $558,000, the insurance upon which is about $207,175. By a railway collision at. Thompson, Ct.. a conductor and an engineer were killed and several passengers badly hurt. The stockholders of the Keely Motor Company have brought suit to compel Keely to take out a patent oil bis invention, and to turn over the patent and the secret of the invention to them ; also, such machines as he may have in his possession.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

FAIITY CAUCUSING. The Republican members of the House of Representatives met in caucus at the Capitol in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 3, and were called to order by Mr. Hubbell, of Michigan. Mr. Robeson, of New Jersey, waR chosen Chairma u. A call of the roll revealed the presence of 146 Representatives, including J. Ilyatt Smith, of New York, elected as an Independent. Nomina Rons for the Speakership being in order, seven candidates wero placed iu the field —being Messrs. Uncock, Keifer, Kasson, Dunnell, Orth, Burrows, and Reed. On the first ballot Keifer received 52 votes, Hiscock 44 and Kasson 15. Tho vote changed considerably throughout fifteen ballots, Keifer being chosen on the sixteenth. For Clerk of the House, Edward MbPherson, of Pennsylvania, was selected ; for Postmaster, Harry Sherwood, of Michigan; for Sergeant-at-Arms, Col. Hooker, of Vt rmont, and for Doorkeeper, Col. Brownlow, of Tennessee. On motion of Gen. Henderson, of Illinois, seconded by TJpdegraff, of lowa, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: “That the follow-ing-named honorably-discharged soldiers, minus a leg or arm, or" both, and now borne on the soldiers’ roll of the House of Representatives of the United States, bo retained by the Doorkeeper of the House on said roll, subject, however, to dismissal for jnst and sufficient cause: 8. H. Decker, both arms off, Ohio; John ltyan, one log off, Pennsylvania; James L. McCormick, one leg off, Indiana; Hugh Lewis, one arm off, Wisconsin; John Rome, one arm off, New Jersey; Capt. J. W. White, one arm off, Ohio.” Three of these soldiers are Republicans and three Democrats. Soon after the adjonrnmant of the Republican caucus tho Democratic members-elect assembled, in the same hall, and orgamzed thdr caucus by re-electing Representative House, of Tennessee, as Chairman, and Frost, of Missouri, and Welborn, of Texas, Secretaries, ltepresentative Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, then offered a resolution indorsing the declarations of the Democratic National Conventions of 1876 and 1880, the supposed object being to put Democratic members on record in favor of the plank indorsing “ a tariff for revenue only.” The resolution was supported by Representatives Knott and Reagan, and opposed by Representatives Hammond, McLain, Hooker and Herbert. Representative Hooker moved to indefinitely postpone consideration of the resolution, and the motion was carried—ayes, 53 ; noes. 42. Representative McKenna then moved that the caucus indorse and put in nomination as candidates for the Democrats all the officers of the last House, and the motion was carried, viva voce, without dissent. The Greenback members-elect of the House met in caucus and nominated Nicholas Ford, of Missouri, for Speaker ; Gilbert De La Matyr, of Indiana, for Clerk of the House ; Lee Crandall, of Washington, D. C., for Sergeant-at-Arms ; H. Martin Williams, of Missouri, for Doorkeeper ; and W. H. Moore, of Pennsylvania. for Postmaster.

The Life-Saving Service.

The Superintendent of the Life-Saving Ser vice, in his annual report, says : At the close of the fiscal year the servioe included 183 etaions, 143 on the Atlantic, 34 on the lakes and 6on the Pacific. The number of casualties on the Atlantic coast within the scope of the service was 151, on the lakes 94, on the Pacific 5 ; number of persons lost, 26 ; number brought ashore by life-saving appliances, 408 ; and succor afforded 407 at various stations. One hundred and seventy-eight vessels wero helped by life-saving crews to get off when siranded, and piloted to places of safety. The estimated value of vessels wrecked within the scope of tho service, together with cargoes, is $4,054,759, of which amount $2,826,680 was saved. The General Superintendent recommends additional stations on the Atlantic coast and the lakes, and urges that compensation of keepers and crows be increased to a living rate,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9,1881.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

TWELFTH DAT. Mrs. Scoville resumed her testimony. 8h« described Gniteau's actions during his visit tc her in 1878, and said she was then convinced ho was insane and should be put in an asylum. Frequent objections were raised by counsel for the prosecution to the character of questions propounded bv Scoville, and a continuous dscussion ensued between counsel upon the admissibility of certain evidence. George D. Burroughs and Fernando Jones, both of Chicago, testifh dto their belief in the insanity of the prisoner. C. S. Joslyto, of the Oneida Commnnity, thought Guiteau’s marked characteristic was intense egotism. The prisoner interrupted the court long enough to deliver the following speech : “ I desire to tell all those crank newspaper men that I appear here as my own counsel. That is my answer to all the silly stuff they have been delivering themselves of for some days past. Some of these newspaper men have gone crazy. I appear here in part as my own counsel, as I have a right to under the law and the constitution of America.” John W. Guileau, the prisoner's brother, was next examined. He had not been on good terms with his brother for some years, but had not doubted his sanity until he received some letters in October. Since he had come on nerc and had seen his brother m the court-room and at the jail he had become satisfied he was insane. On being cross-examined witness admitted that before he had come to Washington he had always, in talking of the case, said he believed his brother was responsible. He believed him responsible, but not sane—responsible, because, as he thought, at some period of his life the prisoner had voluntarily surrendered himself to evil practices rather than good. Guiteau winced under theso statements, evidently fearing his brother’s candor was injuring the case, and with considerable bitterness interrupted: “My brother and I have not been on good terms for fifteen years. He always sympathized wuth my father on that Oneida community business, while Scoville and my sister sympathized vrith me. The last time I saw my brother we had some angry words, so he does not come here to testify for me with the ordinary force a brother usually does come, and I’m glad to find he lias changed his views, however, in my case. I want the public to un derstand about this.” Guiteau continued to interrupt, explain and correct witness. Once Judge Davidge attempted to stop him, but lit waved his hand imperiously, tajing: “Yoj keep quiet, Judge, if you please.” Short! > after witness was asked, in connection with an incident be had related, if he at that time thought the prisoner insane. Guiteau quickly anticipated his reply by saying : “ Why, of couise, ho has always thought I was badly cranked.” Witness said he ncvei detected the slightest traces of insanity in his father. The prisoner, accompanied by Marshal Henry and threb bailiffs, walked to the stand anil identified a bundle of letters written by himself to various members of the famijv. THIRTEENTH DAY." Immediately upon the opening of court Guiteau was called to the witness stand and took his place, closely watched and guarded by policemen and court officers. Ho was asked by Scoville to give some incidents from his earliest recollections of his mother. Guiteau asked : “Ami to be put on as a regular witness to-day, or only to identify somo letters ? I suppose the latter. lam not feeling at ail weli to-day, but shall be much better in a week or so.” -Scoville—“l had arranged to examine you to-day, and there are no other witnesses present.” Guiteau—“You should have had your witnesses on hand. I object to going on tne stand when 1 am r.ot feeling well, to be subjected to cross-examination by counsel for the prosecution. I have got a good deal to say. I want to go over tho whole business carefully and scientifically, so to speak, and I want to be in good talking condition.” Scovilie—“The court will relieve you if you cel ill.” Guiteau - “ With that understanding I will go 01. Oorkbill—“ Wc cannot submit to any such arrangement as that.” After some further discussion Guiteau was removed from the stand, and Scoville proceeded to read the letters, which wero put in evidence the preceding day. They were all written by Guiteau to bis father and other members of liia family, and covered a period of fiiteen or twenty years. As tho reading of the letters progressed, Guiteau occasionally commented upon them, or suggested the proper word where Scoville hesitated. While oue, dated from the Oneida community, was being read, Guiteau said: “ Well, you can see I was badly cranked about that time.” At another time Scoville hesitated and said “Here is a word I cannot make out.” “ Civilization is the word,” prompted Guiteau. “You can see how badly mixed up I got in that miserable community. It makes me mad every time I think of it. I wish those letters were out of existence.” Scoville road from oue of the letters : “ I am with Jesus Christ and company, and I am working for them.” ‘•That was my sentiment,” said Guiteau “ and that has been my position ever since.” In another letter addressed to his father, the prisoner had requested S2OO or S3OO. Guiteau commented upon this letter, saying : “ Father didn’t send the money. He always thought 1 was badly cranked.” Another letter was read, in which tho writer criticized severely the Oneida community, and referred to a circular inclosed, which also denounced the community and their practices. Guiteau exclaimed : “Several of the New York dailies took up my circular and devoted editorial comments to it. That was a little bit of revenge I had for living in that miserable society. I’m glad to know they are broken up now. I was a virtuous man all the time I was tliero, though. I want that understood.” The reading of tho letters was finished and Guiteau resumed the witness stand. Scoville began to question him relative to liis early life. Guiteau responded promptly, intelligently and with perfect coolness for some minutes, apparently enjoying tho situation and his freedom to talk.

Guiteau gave hi« views ou his father's religious belief, and was asked if ho (his father) had any peculiar views ou healing diseases. He replied: “Oh, yes; father was an awful crank on that subject. ‘ Scoville —“ What do you mean by crank ?” Guiteau —“ Well, that’s a short way of putting it, when y®u want to say a man is pretty badly crazed.” The witness then went on to relate his various failures in delivering his lecture in Chicago and other cities. He frequently laughed as he repeated some of the humorous incidents of his failures. Various times he was put off railroad cars for not paying his fare and arrested for not paying his board bills. At other times grew excited in the assertion that in all he did he was like Paul, engaged in the service of God, and that God was, therefore, respouti do for bis board bills. “ When you get down,” said Guiteau, “every one is ready to give yon a kick. I was thirty days in the Tombs; I have been in jail several times, but never for crime. Nevor was indicted before this time in my life.” Guiteau then related bis efforts to secure the Chicago Inter Ocean, which he proposed to make the great newspaper organ of the West. He offered one wealthy man to make him Governor of Illinois if he would advance the money. While the prisoner was giving his testimony he was watched most attentively by all the medloal experts present, and with great curiosity by every person in the crowded court room. At times he showed his exhaustion by lowering his voice, and it was in consequence of one of those signs that, some ten minutes before the usual time for adjournment, (lie court, attll9instar.ee of the District Attorney, adjourned. FOURTEENTH DAY. The assassin continued his statement of the causes which led him to commit his great crime. Witness was asked to identify a book handed him, and said: “Oh, yes; that is my revised work called ‘Truth,’ a companion book to the Bible. I haven't seen it since it was taken from me when I was arrested.” Witness then desired to read a passage, and read a page or two descriptive of the trials of the Apostle Paul in endeavoring to introduce Christianity. “That was just my ease,” said Guiteau, striking his fist upon the desk. “ I strove to enlighten the world, just as Paul did. I had no money and no friends, and I had just about as rough a time as the apostle had.” The witness said that when in New York, during the last Presidential campaign, he called on Gen. Arthur to offer his services in the campaign. Also called at Republican headquarters -, saw all the big men. They were ah glad to see him. He consulted with Gov. Jewell, Gen. Arthur and others. They were very friendly, but told him they must have men of big reputation, like Grant and Conkling, to do the speaking. Witness added: “I was on free and easy terms with Jewell and the rest of

"A Firm Adherence to Correct Prineiph&,”

them.” Witness made id» first application for officS soon' after Gen. Garfield’s election. He called on Gob, Garfield at the White House. “ After Garfield at leisure,” said Guiteau, “ I shook hands with him and handed him my speech, on whiaji was written ‘ Paris Consulship.’ He knew me at once. I left him reading the speech, and that’s the only interview I ever had with President Garfield. I wish to state, here, that my getting office or not getting office had nothing whatever to do with my removing the President. That was an act of inspiration and * was done as a political necessity.” Witness then related his experience at the State Department and his interview with Secretary Blaine, describing, as 1 he termed it, the “modus operandi of getting at the Secretary of State.” Witness described his last interview with Blaine, who rather hurt his feelings by his abrupt manner, which was so in contrast with his previous cordiality. Witness then determined to see the President, and, with a considerable exhibition of excitement, related his efforts to see the President Witness continued: “The party was at loggerheads, and I got very much worried over it I wrote several notes to the President, telling him something most be done, bnt he paid no attention to it. I kept worrying,” he continued, “ over the political situation, and I knew this nation was coming to grief.” Witness was then asked as to the inspiration which he had said impelled him to remove the President, and reniied • “The inspiration, as I understand it, is where a man’s mind is taken possession of by a supreme power. Where he acts outside of himself.” . On the Wednesday evening after Conkliug’s resignation, the assassin said he thought if President Garfield was out of the way all would go well. He tried to shake it off, but it grew. In a fortnight’s time it had become a fixed resolve. He never has- doubted since that time, about the Ist of Juno, that he was inspired. He prayed and prayed, asking God, if Garfield were not to Ixi thus reproved, to get rid of him in some other way. The removal was necessary to save the nation from ruin. “ I knew the Lord employed me because he always employs the best material. I felt the Lord wanted me to do it, to advertise my book.”' Guiteau said he believed in special Providences, and had no concern about his persona! safety. He felt the Lord and Government would take care of him. “The Lord,” he said, “is no fool. He uses the best means for his work.” The assassin then briefly recited his arrest and incarceration with as little exhibition of feeling as if relating the commonest incidents of every-day life. “ When I was finally lodged in jail,” said Guiteau, “I felt happy. I said, ‘Thank God it is all over v ith.’ ” After a few questions had been propounded and objected to, Guiteau broke oat : “ I wau| to define my position on this point. I believe Gen. Ai thiu- is a friend of mine. He ought to be, for I am the man that made him, or my inspiration did, but 1 have never yet asked a favor of him, and I don’t suppose 1 over shall. I have had an idea in my head for twenty years tfyat I should be President of the United States. I suppose the people think I have been . badly cranked about that. I had that idea in the Oneida community. I went to Boston with the distinct feeling that I was on the way to the White House, and I shall make it yet. If I am over President it will be by the aet of God. I shall get the nomination as Lincoln and Garfield did, and I shall be elected as they were. I anticipate a decided change in the public opinion in regard to me. I don’t care a snap of my fingers about being President. I don’t care anything about it. I don’t know if I should take it if I were actually nominated and elected. ”

FIFTEENTH DAY. Upon tho opening of the court, the assassin resumed the witness stand, and Judge Porter began a rapid lire of interrogations, eliciting rom tho prisoner in his several replies that nhysic&lly he was a coward and always kept i way from personal danger. Morally he was rave as a lion, when he thought the Deity was buck of him. In his opinion the doctors killed the Pres : dent. The acts of Jones and Mason, in attempting to kill him, were wrong, and they ought to be punished unless they can show that they were inspired by the Deity. Tho witness so 2 showed signs of impatience and excitabiJ-' j. and, striking bis oyen band upon tho. desK, emphasized every sentence ho uttered. When pressed for answers, he finally became obstinate and shouted to Judge Porter: “I know you well, and I know bigger men than you are. I’ve seen you shake your finger at witnesses in New York, but you can’t scare me." Shortly after, when asked if he believed in the ten commandments, to which he responded in the affirmative, and if he believed that the commandment “Thou shalt not kill ” ought to be read in his case “Thou shaltkill,” he became exceedingly violent. He refused to discuss the matter at all.’ There was no murder in his case and no killing. It was simply for the jury to determine whether or not his act in removing the Prosidont was inspired by the Deity or not It was all nonsense to split hairs any longer over that word. It must be distinctly understood that the removal of the Preoident was an act of Deify. Witness proved decidedly obstinate, and, after flatly contradicting the testimony of Gen. Logan, Charles Reed and several other witnesses, he positively refused to answer several questions, liis invariable response being: “I decline to discuss that with you.” Witness seemed to be greatly annoyed at Judge Porter’s habit of pointing his finger at him, as he frequently did in the way of emphasizing his interrogatories, and again broke out angrily: “You need not point your long finger at-mo, Judge Porter. I’ve seen you do that before ; but you can’t scare me.” Witness declined to go into boarding-house matters, as they had no bearing on tho case. He supposed he owed $l6O to various landladies, and some time or other expected to pay them. Judge Cox Hirected him to reply to questions. Witness was readily driven from one position to another, till confronted with the evidence of his own witnesses, when he would unhesitatingly pronounce their evidence false. Once he emphasized his contradiction by saying: “Anything I swear to. Judge, i 3 true. You can put that down as a fixed fact.” Being pressed as to how he proposed to raise funds, which he said he was expecting to reoeive, witness said : “1 intended to i.orrow it trom gom« of my friends and added : “ I will tell you, Judge, how I borrow money. It may he ol service to you when you want to borrow foi yourself. I don’t lie, nor sneak, bnt go right iip to a man and ask him for what I want.” Guiteau became very indignant at Judge Porter’s use of the word “ murder,” and shouted fiercely: “You seem to deiight inthewordi ‘kill’ and ‘murder.’ There’s no use in youi whining in that way. The mere outward fact how I removed the President has nothing Whatever to do with this case.” G uiteau was permitted to indulge his passion for talking upon the pending political situation at the time of the shooting, until, speaking of the President’s ingratitude to Grant and Conkling, ho was led by Judge Porter to admit that “ ingratitude was the basest of crimes.” Judge Porter—“ Stop there. What would yon have thought of your act in killing the President had he given you the Paris Consulship, instead of having refused it Y” Guiteau had previously said that Garfield was his (the prisoner's) warm personal and political friend • that no personal" motives whatever were involved ifi his act, and fearing, evidently, some trap was being aet for him, he hesitated a moment, and then, with great emphasis, said: “I want to just fasten yon solid right here. 1 would not have taken the Paris Consulship after the Ist of June if I had been appointed to it and the President and Secretary Blaine had both beseeched me on their knees to take it. I had at that time resolved to remove the President for the good of the American people.” SIXTEENTH DAY. Judge Porter continued his cross-examina-tion, wh ch proved, as usual, irritating to the prisoner, who made insolent responses occasionally. “Was it one of your purposes in removing the President to create a demand foi your book?” aslted Judge Porter. Answer—“ Yes, sir ; with tho modification that it was to preach the go-pel.” Witness soon became excited, and gesticulating wildly, insisted upon his inspiration, and that the Lord had selected him to do tho work. He was no fool. The Lord never selected fools to do His work. He had inspired him to remove Garfield, and left him (witness) to use his owd judgment in selecting the means. Continuing, excitedly : “ And the Lord has taken care of me. I’ve neither been shot nor hung.” Judge Porter—“ And you did not expect to bo?” Answer—“l decline to-disease the matter with you. I did not have any thought on the subject, I left it ail to the Deity.” Witness repeatedly refused to answer questions, or, as no termed it, to “discuss” the matters under inquiry.

Judge ‘Farter produced Gritteau’s book “ Tfuth.” wffliih witness had claimed was the result of a direct inspiration from the Deity, md compared it paragraph by paragraph with dhe-“%rean.” the Oneida community book Vi nit an* by Jehn H/Noyea. * Similarity of ideas and identity of expression was’apparent all through, and the witness struggled desperately to explain away his palpable plagiarisms. Witness believed in the personal existence of the Deity and the devil, and when the impulse to remove the President seized him he wrestled and prayed to find if .it came from the Lord or the aevß, and had it hot been for the political situation and evident necessity for his removal for the ‘geo# of the country and American people witness would not have shot the President, bat would have believed the impulse was prompted by the de viL Witness was then asked, “Are you insane at all?” and replied: “I’m not an expert. Let these experts and the jury decide that" Being pressed for his opinion, witness declined to answer. He was theu subjected to a rapid series of questions, and soon began to exhibit irritability and anger, and his replies, when given at all, were in short, jerky sentences. He was asked if he laid in wait for the President in an alley by night, and after a short wrangle said: “Now you are on that, I’ll give yon a little news. I’ll tell you what occurred that evening of July L" Witness theu detailed his movements up to the time he saw the President and Secretary Blaine emerge from the house of the latter and walk down Fifteenth street. Said Guiteau: “They walked along so lovingly, arm-in-arm; they had their heads together like two schoolgirls. Their fellowship was delightful, and it confirmed me in the belief that Garfield had sold himself, body and soul, to Blaine, and that Blaine was using him to ruin the stalwart wing of the Republican party.” Guiteau here became furiously excited, and plunged into a wild harangue, denouncing Blsine as a bold, wicked, designing man, who wanted to ruin the Republic an party in revenge for the two times he had been slaughtered by political conventions. Striking the desk'with considerable violence, he shouted: “ Yes, sir, in my opinion Blaine is morally responsible for the death of Garfield.” The prisoner, in response to questions by Judge Porter, gave his story of the shooting of the President. Blaine and the President drove up in a single-horse carriage, and not in the White House carriage, which showed how much the President w«s under Blaine’s influence. Blame was blowing and blowing, and tho President was listening. They were on the most intimate terms. Blaine got out of one side of tho carriage and Garfield out of the other. They walked up to the depot and passed within a few stet of -tho prisoner, who drew his weapon and fired twice, and hit him once. Q. You shot him in the back ? A, I did not fire at any particular place. Q. —Did you not fire for the hollow of bis back? A.—My intention was to shoot him in the back. Q.—Did yon think if ho got two balls in his back it would remove him ? A. —I thought so. Q.— And you intended to put them thero? A.—l did. Q. And you feel no remorso ? A. (In a low and almost inaudible voice.) Of course I feel remorse so far as my personal feelings are concerned. I feel remorse as much as any man, and regrtt the necessity of the act, but [raising his voice], Mr. sorter—The cross-examination is closed. Dr. Alexander Hall, of Columbus, Ohio, was (tailed and testified to his belief in the insanity of the prisoner. SEVENTEENTH DAY. Col. J, O. P. Burnside, DisbursingOffieer of the Postoffice Department, and Charles C. Allen, of Missouri, were tiie first witnesses examined. They formerly lived in Freeport, 81,, and knew the Guiteau family. They testified to the illness of the assassin’s mother about the time of his birih. Emery A. Storrs, the well-known Chicago lawyer, was then called. His testimony was a disappointment to the defense. They had supposed he would declare that, in his opinion, Guiteau was insane. According to Mrs. Scoville, Storrs told her one day in his office that he would send a deposition to that effect When in the witness-box, however, he declined to give an opinion, stating that he was not qual fled to do so; but on the crossexamination he did say that in his acquaintance with the prisoner he saw nothing whtenled him to believe him irresponsible for his acts or unable to distinguish between right and wrong. Mr, Scoville did his best to prevent this testimony from going on the record, and, being overruled by Judge Cox, took au exception. The evidence created quite a stir in the court-room, and seemed to stagger those about the defense’s table. The sister of the prisoner was particularly affected, and, intones distinctly caught by tho reporters, said : “He has perjured himself; that is all there is about it.” Edward Daniels testified to Gniteau’s peculiar religious views, and his impression was that he was crazy. Senator David Davis was the next witness. In answer to questions by Scoville he testified that be didn’t belong to either parly. He had not heard 1 of the disruption of the Republican party, and didrft believe it aphid disband until the DoipoibwiticTJarty died, afid the success of either party would not imperil the republic. Q. Do you believe the success of the Democratic party would tend, in any degree, to brirg on another civil war? A No, I don’t. I think that the Southern people are the last people, in the world to desire to go into any war. If there be any war, it will oomo from somewhere elso than the South. ' Mr. RcoYille—That is aIL , Judge Davis was evidently mystified and somewhat indignant, and asked Scoviilo what this was all about. The lawyer for tho defense said he. would see when tho time came. The next witness was E. A. Bailey, Col. CoiklillPs stenographer. He testified that be made the notes from which the New York Herald interview with Guiteau was published, and was paid SSOO. He was introduced to Guiteau by Corkhill. Guiteau. after Bailey’s withdrawal from tho stand, addressed the court. Baring : “Tne following persons I want subpoenaed as witne. ses : President Arthur, Secretary Blaine, Senator Logan, Senator Conkling, Gen. Grant, Scnutors Platt, Dorsey and Jones, Gov. Jewell, James Gordon Bennett, Whitelaw Reid, Gov. Jones. Charles A Dana, and W. H, Hurtbut, and -files of their pap As from May to June ; also George "C. Gortiain, of the Washington Republican, . and Stilson Hutchins, of the Washingt >n Pa.d, and files of their papers for May and June, and TV. P. Nixon, of the Chicago Inter Ocean ; and files of the Inter Ocean.

Contested Seats in the House.

Papers giving notice of contest for Congressional seats have been filed with the Clerk of the House of ’Representatives in the following election contests • First district of Alabama, James Gillette vs. Thomas J. Herndon ; Second district of Alabama, Paul Strabac vs. H. A Herbert; Fourth district of Alabama, James Q. Smith vs. C. AI. Shelley; Eighth district of Alabama, William M. Low* vs. Joseph Wheeler; Fifth district of Virginia, I. T. Stovall vs. George C. Cabell; Eighth district of Virginia, S. P. Bailey vs. J. S. Barbour ; First district of South Carolina, Samuel Lee vs. Joseph Richardson; Second district of South Carolina, E. W. Mackey vs. M. P. O’Connor ; Third district of South Caro- ! lina, C. J. Strobrand vs. D. W. A'ken ; Fifth district of South Carolina, itobert Smalls vs. George D. Tillman; Second district of Mississippi, G. M. Buchanan vs. Yan H. Manning; Sixth district of Mississippi, John R. Lynon vs. J. R. Chalmers ; Second district of Florida, Horace Bisbee vs. J. J. Finley; Sixth district-efLomsisnir, “Alexander Smith vs. E. W, Robertson ; Tliijrd district of Missouri, Sesrtngbauo vs. JL (A Frosty Sixth district or lowa, jT C. Cooke vs. M. E. Cutts ; First district of Maine, 8. J. Anderson vs. Thomas B. Reed. The sitting member in all except the last two mentioned cases are Democrats. The contestants are Republicans or Greenbackers. I The Des Moines (Iowa) Tri-Weekly Tribune isays: “ A Harrisburg (Pa.) journal mentions that Mr. D. Bensinger, No. 4 Market Square, that city, was cured by St. Jacobs Oil of a violent attack of rheumatism.”

“Must the American oyster die? ,! asks one of our exchanges. It must. If it is tough enough to go through a plain stew or a fancy roast alive, we don’t want it. —Springfield Union. It is useless to groan with rheumatism when a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil will cure it, as everybody knows. —Columbue (Ohio) Daily Times,

GOLD AND SILVER.

Report ol the Director of the mint. The annual report of Horatio C. Burchard» the Director of the United States Mint, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1881, contains, in addition to the customary detailed statements of the operations of the mints and assay offices, much valuable information in regard to the production of precious metals in the United States and in the world, their use in the coinage of this and foreign countries, consumption in arts and manufactures, specie circulation, aud an examination of tho course of prices i comparing paper and metallio circulation for a series of fifty-six years, with the percentage of yearly prices to the mean prices of staple articles, indicating the annual variations in the purchasing price of money. Gold and silver received and operated upon by all the mints and assay offices, exceeding by more than $60,000,000 the receipts of anv previous year, amounted to $226,225,522, of which $193,371,101 was gold, and $32,854,421 silver. This large increase was duo to the continued influx of gold from abroad, over $95,000,000 deposited being from that source alone. The coinage facilities of the mints will be enlisted to their fullest extent in converting this bullion into coin. The gold coinage amounted to $78,733,864, or which $15,345,520 was in double eagles, and the remainder in coins of lesser denominations. The coinage of silver was confined to the minimum value of silver bullion required to be coined by the law authorizing the coinage of the standard silver dollar, $27,637,955 of which wero struck ; of subsidiary coins only $12,011 were coined, and of base metal or minor coins $405,109. The total coinage of silver dollars since the passago of the act for their coinage, up to Nov. 1, was $100,672,705, of which $34,096,327 are in circulation, and $58,833,770 held by the treasury for tho payment of outstanding silver certificates, leaving $7,737,608 for disbursement by the treasury in ordinary payments. The usual examinations and settlements were made at.the close of the year. The report, referring to the probable restoration of silver to its former the monetary circulation, says: “Iu view of the failure of the international monetary conference to Agree Upon any practical measure, aud while awaiting its future action, it is a question for our serious and early consideration whether it is not desirable to suspend further coinage of silver until by international agreement and effective legislation unlimited coinage of silver and gold at common fixed rates shall have been authorized by the principal commercial nations of Europe and America. Should the $650,000,000 silver coin now full legal tender in Europe be demonetized, the United States could not, single-handed among commercial nations, with no European co-operatiou or allies, sustain the value of silver from au inevitable fall. With tM&t danger menacing us, wo cannot, without serious embarrassment, continue such coinago unloss other commercial nations will agree upon the general use of silver as well as gold.” The ratio of 15% to one already approved, and iu use among the nations composing the Latin Union, would doubtless be chosen. This would causo, if the coinage of silver, as well as gold, at all the mints of the world wero made free, as bi-metallism implies, the voluntary withdrawal from circulation of the standard dollars and their recoinage. In such case the further coinage of the silver dollars of the present weight, unless needed for circulation, is a useless expenditure. Director Burchard estimates the world’s production of gold for the calendar year 1880 at $107,000,000, and of silver $87,500,000. The consumption of the world in ornamentation, manufactures and the arts is estimated for the same period at $75,000,000 gold aud $35,000,000 silver. The estimated circulation of the principal countries of the world is placed at $3,221,000,000 ; full legaltender silver, $2,155.000,000; limited tenders, $423,000,000; total specie, $5,759,000,000; paper, $3,644,000,000; making the total circulation, including the amount held iu the Governments’ treasuries, banks and in RCtive circulation, $9,403,000,000. Upon tho subject of the course of prices, and indicating the annual variations in tho purchasing power of money in the United States, the Director has prepared tables showing the averaga annual prices of both gold and currency of tne leading staple articles in the New York market for fifty-six years, with the mean price of each, and also the relation which the average annua] price of each article bears to the mean price for the whole term of years. The mean percentage for each year of all articles named furnishes a basis for measuring the purchasing power of money, and is instructively compared with the per-capita circulation and estimated wealth for •ach year.

Irishmen in Council.

A National Convention 06 Irishmen assembled in McCormick Hall, Chicago. About 1,200 delegates were in attendance, representing nearly every State and Territoiy In the UnionJohn F. Finertv, of the Chicago Times, ealled the convention'to order in a speech in which lie declared that it was the duty of IrishAmericans to support their countrymen in the old laud in their strugglo against British domination and misrule. Mr. Wm. J. Hynes, of Chicago, was elected temporary Chairman. MeSsrs. Ronayne and Horgan and Mayor Pqwderly, of Scranton, Pa., was elected Secretaries. T. P. O’Connor, M. P., Father Sheebv and Mr. Healy, M. P., fresh from the old sod, depicted ttie wrongs of Ireland, the speeches being greeted with the wildest enthusiasm. The convention effected a permanent organization by the selection of Rev. Dr. Betts (Protestant), of St. Louis, as Chairman, and the appointment of a Committee on Resolutions, consisting of one member from each State and Territory, one from Canada aud one from Ireland. Tne convention was saluted by a cablegrain from Patrick Egan, at Paris, announcing that tenants on 600 properties iu Ireland had refused to pay rents. Tfie convention adopted a series of resolutions indorsing the “no-rent” manifesto of the Irish leaders, pledging the delegates present to raise $250,000 between now and tne Ist of January, practically agreeing t-o allow existing organizations to stand, and appointing a committee of seven to assist the organization to devise ways and means to carry ont the subscription pledge of the convention. The resolutions were accompanied by an eloquent address, arraigning tho policy of Gladstone, and indorsing Parnell and the iio-rent manifesto.. A gentleman named O’Connor, from Elmira, N. Y., Opened a subscription for Land-League purposes by planking down SSOO, and was followed by Mr. J. F. Finertv, of Chicago, who subscribed SSOO, and liy Mr.' Michael Kecley, of Chicago, who subscribed SI,OOO. The total amount subscribed was about $30,000.

National Tariff Convention.

A National Tariff Convention, with about 400 delegates in attendance, met at New York, and was called to order by Col. Houston. Hon. George B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, was called to tho chair, and urged the importance of a bureau of industrial returns. Peter Cooper read a lengthy address, asserting that the Government should never havo permitted individual States or banks to issue paper money. Senator Miller was elected permanent Chairman. A letter from Secretary Blaine contained an expression of his belief that at no previous time has the principle of protection been so strong with the masses of the people. John Thompson, a banker, spoke in favor of silver coinage and silver certificates; Joseph Wharton said the tariff shonld be arranged so as to promote American industries ; John Jarrett, President of tho Don and Steel Workers’ Association, said that all the members of that body (5,000 in number) were protectionists ; J. B. Grinnell, of lowa, hoped that the $275,000,000 bushels of corn raised m his State would be consumed under the American flag. J .H. Brewer, a New Jersey pottery manufacturer, thought foreign competition would be dangerous to American industries, and should be avoided ; George W. Moore, of Michigan, favored a tariff convention ; H. J. Stebbins, of Michigan, apoke in the interest of the lumber, copper and salt interests ; Lewis W. Hanley spoke also in behalf of the salt interests ; Robert Grimshaw favored the sugar interests.

Billy Googanheimer, whose father keeps a liquor store, could not understand his arithmetic lesson. He could not grasp the mystery of fractions. “ Now, Billy,” said the teacher, “ sup-, pose a man wants to buy a gallon of whisky, which is four quarts—but your father has only three quarts—what would he do ? How many quarts would lie still need to fill up the* gallon meas-

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ure ?’* “He would put a quart of water iq the measure first, ami theu three quarts of whisky would fill it up to the top*”

WAR DEPARTMENT.

Annual Hcport of Secretary Lincoln. The annual report of the Secretary of War is chiefly devoted to the consideration of the important recommendations oontained in the annual report of the anny chiefs. Gen. Sherman's recommendation that the army be increased to 30,000 men receives Secretary Lincoln's earnest indorsement. The attention of Congress is called to the need of legislation to prevent an intrusion upon Indian lauds, especially frqm Kansas into (he Indian Territory. Secretary Lincoln invites special attention to tha part of the report of Geu. Wright, Chief of En, giueers, which refers to our seacoast defenses and on this subject says: The Chief of Engineers shows that defense by fortifications and torpedoes is the only one which is at all practicable for a coast as extended as ours, comprising so many rich maritime cities, extensive navy yards, and depots of supply that any attempt at any other mode of defense would be enormously expensive, both for first cost and maintenance, aud it is the only mode adopted by maritimo nations. Experience shows modern wars come on suddenly ; that serious international disputes occur between nations the relations of which are apparently mast unlikely to be otherwise than friendly, aud a condition of readiness for defense and an attitude of belligerency are sometimes the best preventives of actual war. We know that tho necessary new works and the proper modifications of the old works will require many years for their completion, and it seems simply a matter of common prudence that we commence without delay, and, under liberal appropriations, put our coasts in an effective condition of defense.

Referring to tho subject of the standard of acquirements necessary for ad mission to the Military Academy at West Point, tlio Secretary says: “I concur in the views of my predecessor, that it wonld not be well to raise the standard of admission. The result of tho last examination, in which forty-nine out of 118 candidates were rejected, shows the standard is so high as to prevent the admission of many who would Undoubtedly, if they had been so situated as to receive tho proper preliminary training, prove valuable officers. It has recently been recommended to me by tho Academic Board to permit the discontinuance of certain prescribed studies in the course for the purpose of giving time for others, the importance of which was apparent. A consideration of the subject suggested by this recommendation leads me to believe it would be best t® extend the course so as (o cover five years. It is believed that by so doing not only would the benefits of the academy bo more widely extended, but that tho graduates would bo prepared to render better service to the .country. The actual expenditures under tho War Department for tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, were $42,122,201. The appropriations for 1882 were $44,889,725, and the estimates for 1883 call for $44,541,276. The estimates presented to the Secretary for revision included, for the armament of fortifications, $220,000; fortifications aud other works of defense, $4,186,500; improving rivers and harbors, $29,101,300; improving the Mississippi river by the commission, $4,323,000 ; public buildings and grounds in and near Washington, $749,000 ; surveys taken, $2,000 ; total, $39,099,80®. “This amount has been ledueed on my revision to an aggregate of $lO,089,000, which sum, if judiciously allotted by Congress, wilt be, in my judgment, a reasonable allowance for this class of expense during the next fiscal year.’j

Report of the Secretary of the Navy.

Secretary Hunt, in his annual report, calls the attention of Congress to the neglected condition of the navy, and says unless some action be had in its behalf it must soon dwindle to insignificance. He devotes considerable space to consideration of the reports of bureau officers, and generally indorses the recommendations submitted. Secretary Hunt estimates that $20,013,716 will be needed to defray the expenses of the department for tho fiscal voar ending Juno 30, 1883. Cequisitions are made upon the department to send vessels into different parts of the world to prevent threatened aggression upon rights of American, citizens and to shield them, in time of civil commotion in foreign lands, from insult and personal indignity. It is to be deplored that in many such instances it has proved impossible to respond to the calls, from want of a sufficient number of vessels. Those things ought not to be. While the navy should not bo large, it should at all times afford a nucleus for its enlargement upon an emergency. It becomes the duty of Congress to see to it that the navy of the United States should not bo left to perish through inattention, but should be restored to a condition of usefulness from which it may, upon occasion, be so expanded as to become a ready means of protection at home or active or aggressive warfare in ports and waters of tho enemy. Secrotary Hunt therefore heartily commends to the consideration of Congress the results of the labors of the Naval Advisory Board, lleferring to the work of naval surveying, the Secretary recommends that Congress appropriate tho means necessary to carry out surveys of the West Indies, the Spanish main, the coast of Mexico and Central America. In furtherance of this object the Secretary says the United States steamer Dispatch has been detailed for the purpose of sunveying during tho coming winter months the waters and shoals of the Gulf of Samana, island of San Domingo, which, from its geographical position and extent, seems destined to become of great importance commercially, and as soon as the United States steamer Linta is ready for sea she will be employed on similar service on the Spanish main. The appropriations available for the current expenses for tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, were $16,092,801; expenditures, $14,450,789.

Rutter, Eggs and Cheese.

The National Butter, Cheese and Egg Association held its ninth annual convention at Cedar Rapids, lowa. Twenty-two States were represented by delegates. Gov. Gear made a felicitous address of welcome. Hon. Austin Belknap urged prompt action to prevent the adulteration of di.iry products. The display of butter wss the largest ever exhibited at any fair in the United States, and the collection of dairy implements could only be computed by tho acre. A resolution was adopted favoring a law to prevent adulterations of dairy products. The convention decided that bitter butter was caused by variation of temperature. Several hundred dollars were collected to prosecute oleomargarine makers. Hartman & Sanford, of Amber, lowa, were awarded the grand, sweepstakes prize for butter, and then sold their, exhibit at 66 cents per pound. Toe discussions in the convention brought out the.se facts : J. That the area of dairy production has vastly increased of late years. Thousands of graiti- ? rowing farms m Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Ilinoin, Wisconsin, lowa and other of the Northern aud Western States, have been converted wholly or in part into dairy farms, while tho production in New York, Pennsylvania, New England and all the old dairy States is larger than ever before. 2. The exportations of butter for the six months ended Oct. 31, 1881, fell off one-half as compared with tho same six months in the previous year. The figures were: Poundh. Six months ended Oct. 31, 1880 25,848,780 Six months ended Oct. 31, 1881 13,462,072 Decrease in six months 12,375,808 3. The production of counterfeit butter and mixed, cut and compounded substances for pure butter, known as “butterine,” “oleomargarine,” etc., has grown prodigiously. The convention called to its Presidency Hon. Austin Belknap, of Boston, elected Col. Littler, of Davenport Secretary, and ohose Madison, Wis., as the place for meeting next year.

A room without pictures is like a room without windows. Pictures are loophole of escape to the mind, leading to other scenes and other spheres. Pictures are consolers of loneliness ; they are books, they are histories and sermons, which we can read without the trouble of turning over the leaves. A mine is a hole in the ground" The discoverer of it is a natural liar. The hole in the ground and the liar combine and issue shares and trap fools.

democrati{ ggmtinet JOB PRINTINB OFFICE Ami bettor .(MOltlee than any offloe to Xarttiwectato* Indiana for the execution of all branohee of ros pßxza-TZsro. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a MoaJJet, or frees ■ Vaoophlet to a Footer, black or ookwed, plain our fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

USEFUL HINTS.

Gloss on Linbn.—Mix a little powdered borax in hot water and let it cool: then pour it, with a few drops of turpentine, into the water. Put the starched things through a machine or mangle, and iron immediately. Nothing is better to clean silver with than alcohol and ammonia; after rubbing with this take a little whitening on a soft doth and polish in this way ; even frosted silver, which is so difficult to clean, may be easily made clear and bright. An old, experienced farmer says that hickory cut iu July or August will not become worm-eaten. Oak, chestnut, walnut, or other timber cut from tho middle of July to the last of August will last twice as long ss when cut iu winter. White oak cut at this season, if kept off the ground, will season through if two feet in diameter, and remain perfectly sound for many years. Whereas, if cut in winter or spring it will become sap-rotten in a few yeard. Tar has been found to bo a preservative against phylloxera. M. Avignon says that it is to be prepared and apElied in this way : Alter the tar has een thoroughly mixed with fine sand, a quantity of wood ash is added, and the mixture is then placed in a hole dug around the stem of the vine and covered with earth. Spring is the best time to apply this remedy. Perhaps it would also repel tho insects that do so much damage to the apple and other fruit trees. Chloral for Nerves. —For toothache and its accompanying facial pain, Dr. Sporer strongly advises, in a St. Petersburg medical journal, the use of chloral and glycerine— a'scruple to half a dram of the former in two drams ol the latter, ard applying a plug of wadding soaked in this to the source of pain. As, however, this may cause considerable irritation of the mucous membrane of the mouth, the chloral can be applied in substance by wrapping from a half to at moat-one grain of the granules of tehloral in a little wool to keep tlbem together, and placing in the cavity of tho tooth; on the chloral becoming dissolved, the accumulated saliva is to be ejected. Bleaching Ivory for Cutlery Purposes.—Peroxide of hydrogen is used in Sheffield to bleach tho inferior ivory for knife-handles. The mode of procedure is as follows: Place, say, 2 quarts of tho liquid in a stone pot, adding 4 oz. liq. ainmon. fort. 880 degrees, immerse the handles and put over a common shop stove for twenty-four to thirty-six hours; the handles are then taken out and gradually dried in the air, not too quickly or they would split. The deep color of the ivory is removed, and a beautiful pcarlywhito ivory results when polished. Tlio ivory is previously treated with a solution of common soda, to get rid of greasy matter and open the pores.

A Prize-Fighter’s Preparations for the Ring.

‘'How do you train?” asked a New York reporter of a noted prize-fighter. “Well, I generally rise at daybreak, and when I want to take a sweat I muffle myself up in heavy flannels, put on heavy boots, tako a short, thick stick and start off on a two-milo run, leaving Dooney Harris, who is a little bit old, to tako care of my things at home. When I get back I am bathed and rubbed, washed with a decoction of arnica, borax and Jamaica rum, and bathe my face with white vinegar mixed with alum and borax. Then I lie down on my bed, and after reßt go down to breakfast with an appetite. I generally polish off two mutton chops, four slices of toast, four fresh eggs, and a bowl of English tea. After breakfast I rest, and then I put on heavy flannels for a run of twelve miles at a ten-mile-aii-hour gait. I get another good rubbing down, and dine on roast beef or leg of mutton or broilod chicken, with greens, potatoes aud toast, a bottle of Scotch ale, and calves’ foot jelly and custard pudding to fill up with. After an hour’s rest I play with light dumb bells, fight tho bag, or kick a football. At 3p.m. I start off on another long tramp at an easy gait, and hammer with my stick at every object I meet to strengthen my wrists, so that when I tight I can savo my knuckles and prevent the small bones on the back of my hands from breaking. After tho afternoon’s walk it is generally supper time. Then I take a sponge bath and rub down. The supper is generally toast, gruel, port wine and currants, or boiled eggs and tea. At 9 p. m. Igo to bed and sleep, with my trainer in the same room. “ You can’t imagine,” tho bruiser added, “the torments a man goes through in fitting himself for a fight, but neither can you have any idea of the glorious feeling a man has when he gets himself in condition. It is impossible to get a game man into bad humor when lio is in such a condition. Ho fools frisky and colt-like, and wants to kick up his hocls or throw out his fist and hit a man, and have a good time.”

Sharp Roulette and Poker Players.

Tom Ochiltree tells a story of a Jew out west, who bought all the privileges at a country fair, and among othora that of having a roulette table. He had an ingenious mechanism worked by a wire stirrup beneath the table, with which he could with his foot regulate tho revolving wheel so as to make the ball drop in black or red, just as it suited his advantage. He had so much other business that he had to leave -a brother Ismelite in charge of the wheel. As luck would have it, there came along a reckless man just then, who put down about S2OO upon the red, and won. The Jew came running up in great excitement, exclaiming with'an oath to his employe: “Vat for you gif me away so for?” “Don’t hit me! Don’t hit me!" said the man behind the table. “You must excuse me, Isaac, my foot was asleep. ” Another of Ochiltrees stories, that of tho jjoker player with the patent vest, is worth telling. According to Tom, this man cleaned out Texas, including Tom himself and the late Col. Jim Major, well known in Missouri. He bent every crack poker player in the country, and the natives were perplexed. Finally he went away, and Tom began to think over his tricks. He made up his mind that the man had an improved method, and getting on his track, followed him up and won his confidence. Then the poker player confessed that he' wore a. patent vest, lined with delicate mechanism and worked by wires leading to the ,toos; that by dropping a poor card into his sleeve he could work up one to suit the others that he had from the pasteboard arsenal he had next to his shirt. A musical young friend of ours, ■wishing to bespeak his mistress’ attention to the suppliant posture he had taken up at her feet, sang with thrilling effect tins, his earliest exercise: “Dora, me for solace do Timet.