Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Eut Tlie rolling mills of Graff, Bennett & Co., at Bennett's Station, near Pittsburgh, employing upward of 1,000 mnn, were destroyed by what is believed to have been an incendiary fire. The loss is $300,000, and the insurance $150,000. Col John W. Forney died of Briglit’a disease of the kidneys at his Philadelphia home. He was unconscious for two or three days preceding his demise. Col Forney had passed his 64th year. Within three years New York has doubled her commerce with Southern ports. The Savannah line alone runs two passenger rnd four freight steamers each week. The creditors’ committee of the A. W. Sprague estate have published a statement showing the total liabilities to be $8,912,872, and the assets $5,242,431. The Board of Trade of New York has adopted resolutions favoring an appropriation by Congress for the Hennepin canaL The cordage manufactory of John F. Bailey A Co., covering a square of ground in Otsego street, Philadelphia, was swept away by fire. The loss is estimated at $200,000. The frigate Constitution has been finally put out of commission at the Brooklyn navy-yard. The State Capital Mutual Relief Association of Harrisburg, a Pennsylvania graveyard insurance company, has followed the Southern Association in asking the court to order its dissolution. During the past year it has done a business of over $15,000,000. The Directors have been indicted for conspiracy. West. Ex-Congressman Henry B. Banning, died at his homo near Cincinnati, of hemorrhage caused by a.gunshot wound received during the war. A frightful accident occurred in Pfester A Vogel’s tannery, Milwaukee. Five employes took their places on the elevator, when the iron rope slipped on tho drum and the elevator descended about forty feet at a frightful rate, striking on the floor with a thud that shook the entire building. Four of the unfortunate passengers were killed, the fifth miraculously escaping. The packing house of Rose & Brothers, in Kansas City, took firo from tho bursting of a lard tank and was entirely gutted, the loss being SBO,OOO. Two men, James Walker and Thomas Bogy, were killed and three others were wounded at Deadwood, Dak. Ter., by the falling of a shelf of cement in the Esmeralda. The Indians in tho Pembina mountains are said to be starving became their supplies aro cut off by the quarantine regulations. Richards Jennings, of Austin, Nev., who killed John A. Barrett in cold blood, was taken from jail by a party of masked men, and hung from the balcony. . The Garfield Monument Committee of Cleveland announces that residents of that city have subscribed over $51,000, and $25,000 have been forwarded from various sections of the country. The amount desired is $250,000. Statistics show that tho total number of families burned out Ly tho terrible Michigan fires last fall was 1,147. Tho insurance on dwellings, barns, stores and shops was $632,632. Amount of relief, including monoy, clothing, agricultural implements, seed wheat, eto., so far, is placed at $500,000. Tho total loss is stated at $2,846,000, and there were destroyed 1,138 dwellings, 130 stores and offices, 38 school houses, 16 hotels, 8 churches and 28 saw mills. Col. John T. Crisp, a well-known politician of Kansas City, who is known all over the West, has been indicted by the Grand Jury for stealing turkeys from a neighbor. Col. Crißp claims the whole thing is a plot of his political enemies to prejudice the case in Texas, whore he is under indictment for murder .committed during the war, tho victim being a soldier of Crisp’s command. Tho affair causes a great deal of comment throughout tho county. Mouth. Frank Hall was hanged at Little Rock for the murder of Paul ganders, a negro. A Nashville (Tenn.) lawyer, J. J: Vertrees, shot State Senator Smith, because the latter had called him a liar in tho Senate. Leonidas Triplett and Arthur Davis had a fight at Warrenton, Va. Davis got Triplett’s head under his arm and deliberately blew out his brains. Oscar A. Rice, the defaulting revenue collector at New Orleans, pleaded guilty to embezzlement. He was lined $10,304 and sentenced to two years at hard labor. Near Ei Paso, Texas, a band of robbers entered the express car of a Southern Pacific train, disabled Messenger Banvard with the butt of a revolver, and took from his safe $3,000 in cash and $12,000 in valuable property. As the train slowed up at Rogers Station the thieves dropped off, and doubtless crossed into Mexico. Dallas, Texas, is hereafter to be the headquarters of Gould’s system of Texas railroads. WASHINGTON NOTES. Old members of the House predict that the present session will be an extremely ong and interesting one. Charles W. Clisbee, of Michigan, whose sonorous voice filled the Exposition building at the Chicago Convention during tho monotonous roll-calls, has been appointed Reading Clerk of the House of Representatives. Warden Crocker, of the Washington Jail has received letters asking him to remove othor prisoners from the wing of the jail, where Guiteau is confined, as an attempt will be made to blow him up with dynamite. Senator David Davis has received a vast number of letters and telegrams complimenting him upon-tho patriotic sentiments and faultless diction of his recent address. George Scoville gave a lecture in Washington to a small but sympathetic audience, who parsed resolutions approving his course. He pictured the desire for vengeance permeating tho country ; called attention to the constant danger of tho assassination of Guiteau, and declared that the question of capital punishment was itself on trial. He said the prisoner’s mail was filled with threatening letters, and that no Christian minister had called upon him as a sane murderer to urge repentance. Mr. Hatton, acting Postmaster General, has ruled that no supplements containing advertisements will be admitted to second-class rates unless the publisher swears that the advertisers paid the same rates in the supplement as were charged in the main sheet Gen. U. S. Grant and Mrs. Grant will be the guests of the President during the month of January. Postmaster General James has sent his resignation to the President. He asks that the resignation take effeot about the

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Ist of January, and assigns Important and pressing private business as the reason for the resignation. The Secretary of tho Interior decides that the mere filing of a declaratory statement by an alleged pre-empter cannot be considered as, of itself, sufficient to defeat an entry prior to the settler who has failed to offer his final proof within the statutory period, but who, in all other resoects, has complied with the requirements of the law. The Mississippi River Commission has made public its annual report, telling in detail the work accomplished this year. An appropriation of $200,000 for next year is recommended. POLITICAL POINTS. Samuel A. Green, Republican, was elected Mayor of Boston, over Albert Palmer, Democrat, by 582 majority in a vote of 37,000. H. H. Riddleberger was nominated sor United States Senator by tho caucus of Readjuster members of the General Assembly, at Richmond, Ya. Ho received the unanimous vote. The Southern Republican Represcnta- * tives in Congrees aro said to bo “ solid ” for Frank Hatton, now Assistant Postmaster General, for tho Postmaster Generalship. Senator Cockrell, of tlie sub-committee appointed to investigate the manner of the expenditure of the contingent funds, says that the investigation will bo thorough, sweeping and impartial; that every fraud discovered will be made public, no malter whom it may hurt.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Hugh Hayvern, who murdered a fel-low-convict in the pemtenti ry at Montreal, named William Salter, was executed inside tho prison walls on Friday. lie acknowledge 1 his guilt and was resigned to his fate. Three car-loads of silk-worms’ eggs, valued at $250,000, en route from Yokohama to Milan, in charge of four Italian merchants, passed through-Chicago, a few days ago. Chief Arrogatti and thirty warriors, tho main remnant of Victoria’s band, wero captured on the Northern Rio Grande, by M xican troops under Francisco Grodino. Tuo chief and several bucks were immediately shot. Three skiffs containing eight men were caught in tho current in the Government Lock No. 3, near Charleston, W. Va., and carried over the dam. Five of tho men were drowned. John W. Garrett has been re-elected President of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.

FOREIGN NEWS. An explosion occurred in a Belgian colliery, causing the death of sixty-six persons. in Silesia a cattle plague, said to resemblo that which recently raged in this country, has made its appearauco. A requiem, mass for the repose of the souls of the victims by the awful catastrophe at tho Ring Theater was solemnized at the Cathedral of Saint Stephen, Vienna. This magnificent Gothic building, one of the largest and grandest churches in the world, was filled with members of the imperial family, court officials and members of the Legislature. The congregation was largely composed of tho bereaved, whoso sobs echoed tho solemn chant of the officiating clergy. Gen. J. 11. Martindale, formerly Attorney General of New York, died recently at N ce, Franco. There was an earthquake on the north shore of the Island of Arran (in the Firth of Clydo, Scotland), which threw thousands of fish dead upon the beach. Italy is the only European power which refuses to acquiesce in the French occupation of Tunis. The Ministry has indorsed tho action of the Consul in protesting against the occupation, and has dispatched au Italian man-of-war to Susa. There is alarm in Dublin over tho disappearance of Lieut. Viscount Boyle, eldest son of Earl Shaunon. Kelly, the Town Counselor of Tralee, has been arrested for intimidation. The Dublin police seized the office of United Ireland, the Land-League paper, carted away 4,200 copies of tho paper to the Castle, and arrested the editor and clerk. Mrs. Langtry the English professiona beauty, made her debut in the Ilavmarket Theater in London and astonished tho oldest playgoers by her ease and grace. LATER NEWS ITEMS. Pierola has resigned the Presidency of Peru and embarked for Europe. Sarduy, the noted Cuban bandit, surrendered, unconditionally, with thirteen followers. Ireland is in a ferment. The LandLeaguers seem to bo unsubdued. United Ireland, the Land-League organ, has been suppressed in Dublin and Cork, and other parts of Ireland, but it threatens to come to life in London, and, if suppressed in London, the owners say it will be published from Paris. The Democratic police at the national Capitol havo been replaced by Republicans, W. S. Kearney, a former member of the Illinois Legislature, getting the Lieutenancy on the Senate side. In a lecture at Buffalo, George William Curtis welcomed President Arthur into the civil-service reform ranks, and tiusts that he will carry out the declarations of his message. Forty saloon-keepers of Omaha have taken out licenses at SI,OOO each under the Slocomb law. The Railroad Commissioners of Missouri havo sent a letter to Manager Gault, of tho Wabash road, declaring the center span of the St. Charles bridge unfit for the transportation of passengers with reasonable safety, and requiring its reconstruction of wroughtiron or steel. An assignment has been made by R. W. L. Basin A Co., manufacturers of fertilizers at Baltimore, whose liabilities are estimated at $500,000. G. Hos heimer A Son, clothiers at Norfolk, Va., have failed for $75,000. Mark Twain failed in his efforts to obtain a Canadian copyright, on the strength of a domicile in Montreal for two weeks. The authorities at Ottawa will decide that if he obtains a copyright in Great Britain it will extend to Canada. The total values of exports of domestic provisions for the eleven months ending Nov. 30 were $210,318,432, as compared with $257,231,045 for the corresponding eleven months of last year.

By actual merit the famous substance, St. Jacobs Oil, has steadily won its way until it is to-day the national remedy for rheumatism. Lawyers, physicians, clergymen—all use it. —Cincinnati (Ohio) Daily Dn quiver. The Pittsburgh Sunday Leader quotes : Mr. Martin Karg, Silver Creek, Minn., cured a badly-wounded bore* with St. Jacobs Oil.

• RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY'. DECEMBER 23, IBSI.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

TWENTY-THIRD DAT. , The day was devoted to the examination of Dr. Edward Charles Spitzga, of New York, who claimed to have made the study of nervous and mental disease! a specialty. He had, on the preceding day, examined the prisoner in jail, and was satisfied of hia insanity. He considered the mam features of the prisoner s case to be a tendency to the formation of delusive opinions and morbid projects, and strong indication of imbecility of judgment. “And while,” said witness, “ I have no other evidence tuau the expression of his face, I should hive no doubt that he is a moral imbecile or mora monstrosity.” __ Witness would not undertake to exp ice. a'dr cided opinion as to the mental condition of th< prisoner July 2. Guiteau—“ There was no depravity abou this business-at all, and I tbink it is a burning shame for gentlemen of ihe prosecution to nai f upon that word depravity. I have been a consis tent Christian all my life, and because I com mitted adultery to get rid of a woman I did no love, and owe a few hundred dollars, it is i burning shame for the prosecuu on to blackei mV character.” Despite cries of “Silence, silence,” and “Order,” Guiteau continued, to strike upon tin table and shriek out at the top of ins voice “ I am not afraid to go to the gallows if the Lord Almighty wishes me to go there. I expect an act of God that will blow this court and jury out that window to protect me, it necessary. I want to thunder this m the eari of the American people.” Davidge (with an air of disgust)—“Ob, this pantomime business is getting played out !” Guiteau—“ You aro getting played out, and your theory of prosecution, too.” About this time some one m the audience, incensed at the assassin’s impertinence, created a sensation by crying out, ” Shoot him now 1 ” The bailiffs restored order after a few moments, and the Inal preceded. Col. Corkliill sharply questioned the witness in regard to an article he had contributed to a medical journal. A spicy colloquy lollowed, whi h Guiteau int riuptbd by snouting: “It seems to cause you considerable trouble. You bad bettor cool olf, Corkliill. I haven’t seen you heated so bolore. It’s 3 o'clock. We had better go 1 ome.” The witness was asked if he had not appeared as an expert in a certain case, and, after taking a fee on ono s.de, returned it, and taken. a larger one from tho other side. The witness replied with somo warmth, “You have uo basis for such a question ; and uo man dares make the assertion upon which he could found it.” Guiteau again interrupted in a groat rage, and, in a voice whch completely drowned the utteraiicis of the counsel and witness, felled out : “ That’s a very dirty question for you to ask, Corkliill. It just suits your brain. I’m going to ask Arthur lo kick you out of this case. Why, this man :s one of the first scientists of the country. Why, he would’nt condescend to spit on you, Corkliill. You are in bad repute, Corkhill, with every member of this bar. You are an unmitigated nuisance in this case.” The witness finally answered, “Most decidedly, no.” The court adjourned without concluding the examination. TWENTY-FOURTH DAY. Dr. Rpitzka resumed the witnosg stand. Corkhill handed to witness a slip of paper upon which was drawn a diagram and human head, and said: “Now, supposing this to bo the prisoner’s bead, will you please point out the inequalities to which you referred yesterday ?" Before any reply could be made Guitoau raised a laugh by saying : “ That accounts for it. A Lattor camo to see mo this morning and offered me a hat if I would let him take my Bead. I got the liar, but you don’t pay for it, Corkhill. Oh, uo, the Government will havo to do so.” Witness went on, giving his reasons for considering the prisoner insane. Upon a question being asked by Corkhill, Guiteau broke in with : “I have been looking up your record, Corkhill, and I’ll show you up.” Subsequently, Guiteau again interrupted the examination, and shouted : “I see that craDk, Tahnago, has been doing some sensationalism business in this case. He had better go slow. He has been before his synod sevoral tmi :s for lying. I have got my eve on several of these cranks, and if they don't go slow I’ll give some more of them some freo advertising. The high-toned portion of tho American people are beginning to tako the right view of this case.” Witness thought the proper way to summon experts would bo for the court to summon them, irrespective of the chauces of what tneir testimony might be. Corkhill insisted the witness had attacked the character and honesty of the experts who were supposed to entertain opposite opinions from hints'if on the prisoner’s sanity. Gui eau interrupted iu his most angry mood, and. shaking his head at Col. Corkhill, shouted : “It’s the unanimous judgment of the American people that you aie' a consummate jackass, Corkhill. This gentleman is an honest man, and if your skull was not so thick yon would tee it,.”

Witness desired to explain his position, and said ; “I do not hesitate to reiterato my opinion that the expert who will in this court testify that the prisoner is sane is iu my opinion, no expert, or a dishonest one.” Dr. Fordyee Barker, of New York, was next examined. The audience listened intently as the distinguished physician defined insanity and the several phases thereof. Dr. Barker’s comprehensive and positive conclusions were all in accord with the theory of the prosecution. Judge Cox requesicd witness to explain to the jury what he meant by irresistible impulse, and the answer was: “Perversions of emotion to such a degree as to produco conduct entirely at variance with the individual’s former life, and to such a degree as to completely control the will power, constitute an irresistible impulse.” Guiteau—“ Doctor, I want to ask you, where a man is impelled to commit crime by an impulse ho can’t resist, is he sano or insane?” Answer—“ When that fact can bo proved, sir, it is insanity.” Guiteau— “ That’s just my case, sir,” with an air of perfect satisfaction; then, turning to Scoville: “ Come, that’s the whole case. Now let's have recess. I’m getting hungry.” Mrs. Seovillo desired to ask a question. Guiteau (impatiently.)—“ Oh, you keep still; it’s all they can do to pmt up with me.” Judge Cox assented, and Mrs. Scoville asked: “ Can a man be born insaue?” Answer—“No, madamo ; he could be bom an idiot or imbecile. Insanity is an acquired state after birth.” Dr. Barker, in answer to a question, declared positively that he thought Guiteau responsible for his crime. Mr. Gobell, in fho insurance business, H. T. Ketcham, a lawyer, Mr. Wood, and Samuel D. Phelps, a broker, each testified to the perfect saneness of the assassin, whose bitterness of language increased as the insanity dodge wa# weakened by their evidence. TWENTY-FIFTH DAT. Ilev. Dr. John L. Withrow, of Boston, was placed upon the witness stand. Ho said the prisoner desired to deliver a lecture in his (witness’) church, in answer to Ingersoll, but witness declined to have the church used for that purpose, Witness observed him during the winter at meetings and social gatherings of the church. Never saw the least indication of unsoundueis of mind, but, on the contrary, thought he possessed unusual shrewdness. Cori eeting himself, witness added : “ I should say cutencss.” Guiteau—“ What’s the difference, doctor?” Answer —“ The one means brighter than the other.” Col. Corkhill—“And of larger caliber.” Guiteau— “He didn’t say that, Corkhill. You must have slept well last night. That’s the smartest thing you have said yet.” Witness said the prisoner generally took part in discussions upon whatever subject might be under discussion ; that he was always critical and accusative rather than concilatory and kind. Guiteau—“l always spoke to the point, incisive and gritty. That’s me. There’s no nonsense or romance in'my composition. If there had been I might have gone through the world more smoothly. It’s very evident to the mind of every one that the sole object of this kind of examination is to show that I knew the difference between right and wrong. That has nothing whatever to do with this case. The only question is, whether or not my free moral agency was destroyed when I was impelled upon the President. That’s the point, Judge; and it knocks the bottom out of your theory.” After a short pause he broke ent again, and with increased vehemence : “ I’m not here to save my neck from the gallows. I’m here for vindication, for justice, and for right.” . Judge Cox—“ Well, that will do now. -Suspend your remarks.” Guiteau--- 11 All right. When I get to the jury I am going to talk to them on this subject, This is just ahttle incident*! speech.”

“A Firm AdherenctfW'Correct Principles

Charles A. Bryan, of the New York Equitable Life Insurance Company, knew the prisoner in New York. Witness was proceeding to relate the circumstances of Gnitean’s connection with bis company, when Guiteau indignantly shouted: “Well, now, I want to say right here, when a witness comes here and tells what is false I shall tell him, You are mistaken, sir; that is false; that is a he; and, finally, you are a miserable whelp ; that is as far as I shall go. It’s equivalent to the bar-room expression, ‘Go down below,’ but 1 don’t go that far.” Witness said the prisoner asked a loan on the strength of a Consulship he was to have. He considered him sane. Henry M. Collier, attorney, of Newark, took the stand. : - “I remember you, sir,” shouted Guiteau. “If you are the man that put up that Herald job on me—. Keep quiet, sir (turning to Scoville). I will dispose of this man in short order. He brought suit against me to pay over certain money, and the court ruled I should keep it. That kills liis evidence.” Witness related an instance of Gniteau’s collecting $175, and failing to pay it over. His evidence proved extremely damaging to the Erisoner’s oft-asserted claim of having always ved an upright Christian life, and Guiteau wriggled and expostulated, and vainly attempted to explain the transaction. Witness at one Doint said : “ I informed Judge Donahue at that time that I considered Guiteau a thief and a scoundrel.” Guiteau (excitedly)—“You did not dare say so to me. 1 would have knocked you down.” One of the jurors here stated to the court that he was too ill to concentrate his thoughts on the evidence, and an adjournment was taken. TWENTY-SIXTH DAT. At the opening of the trial the assassin addressed the court and said : “I want to make a little speech. It will be a great misfortune if anything should happen to this jury. They are very honest, intelligent men, and I want the be st care taken of them. There aro some of them who are not acoustomed to good wholesome food, and consequently. are liable to havo indigestion. ■ 1 want the court to order them out every morning before breakfast for a walk ol four or five miles. I havo two or three more little speeches to make, but this will do for the present.” Judge Cox—" The court wiH attend to the wints of the jury.” J. M Justice, ’a lawyer, of Logansport, Tnd., met the prisoner iu 1878. Tue prisoner was selling a book entitled “The Life of Moody.” Guiteau —“Well, you aro a liar, sir—a miserable liar. That is the best way to dispose of you.” Witness, continuing, said the prisoner remained in Logansport about three weeks, selling the book. Guiteau continually interjected abusive comments, and finally shouted : “ You miserable whelp, to come in here and make me out as u book agent I was preaching the gospel and l sold my own productions.” Rev. Rush K. Shippen testified that in three months’ intercourse in a boarding-house he saw in the prisoner no signs of insanity. Dr. Noble Young, the jail physician, swore that the accused is perfectly sane. Mrs. Scoville desired to ask a question, saying that her husband did not know how to do so. When she had written it out, Guiteau ordered her to attend to her own affairs, and the witness was dismissed. Guiteau gradually worked himself into a towering rage, and declared against tho witness, the prosecution and the cranks, whom he claimed threatened him with violence, his Liilingfgate being especially directed against the Prosecuting Attorney. Referring to Co!. Corkhill he said : “He is getting too dirty and too stinking to live, and the first thing he knows God Almighty will take him off and send him down below.” The most important witness examined during the day was Gen. Joseph 8. Reynolds, of Chicago, m whose office the assassin studied law. The evidence of Gen. Reynolds went to show that Guiteau never thought of tho inspiration theory oi defense until the 14th of July, and do; then until he was iu formed by Gen. Reynold, that Gen. Grant, Mr. Conkling and the Stal warts as severely condemned hie crime am. himself as the warmest friend of President Garfield. This announcement seemed to strik. terror to tho heart of Gui.eau. Ho expected that there would be a reaction of public feeling iu his favor; that, as Gen. Arthur would benefit by bis crime, he would therefore condone it. When he found how much mistaken he was he fell back on the inspiration theory. Gen. Reynolds’ evidence had a very marked effect on tin assassin. He seemed to be thoroughly dis mayed and terrified, and his anger found ven. in the foulest abuse of tho witness and the District Attorney. TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY. The Prosecuting Attorney was a little late in reaching the Criminal Court, and Guiteau improved the opportunity to make one of his little speeches “To put in time.” Looking over tho vacant seat, he said, with a chuckle: “I understand Gen. Reynolds is sick this morniDg: I wonder if Corkhill is. -I guess they got more than they wanted yesterday. It’s about time for Corkhill to get sick, and stay sick.” The first witness cdlled was Deputy Clerk r>arnard, of the New York Supreme Court, who presented the record in the divorce case of the prisoner. Tho prisoner shouted out that he committed adultery to get rid of a woman he did not love.

Gen. Joseph 8. Reynolds, of Chicago, was called. Guiteau at once broke in, petulantly, saying, “ I hope you will cut off Gen. Reynolds and not waste any more time on him. He told all ho knows about this case, and a good deal more.” Scoville cross-examined the witness. Guiteau frequently interrupted, contradicted and insulted tlie witness. At one time he shouted out.: “ I would have been hung a hundred times iu July last but for the national troops, and all through your lying and Coikhill’s. I’m going to get even with both of you, too.” Witness explained that when he visited Gnitoau his trial bad not been arranged. President Garfield was still living, and he (witness) had no thought of being subpoenaed as a witness. “ You lie !” shouted Guiteau. “ You came to my cell as a spy in the employ of tho District Attorney.’’ Ger. Reynolds read from notes he had taken on the occasion of his first interview with Guiteau. Quoting the prisoner’s words, he read : “If there is a stalwart in the land, I am he. Grant, Conkling, Logan and Gov. Cornell are big guns among the stalwarts, and I rank with them.” Guiteau retorted: “ I never said I could rank with them; but as a matter of fact I think I can.” . A number of newspaper slips which witness had read to the prisoner at this interview, to siiow him what were the sentiments of Grant, Conkling and others m regard to his (the prisoner’s) crime, were then read by the District Attorney. When the letter of Gen. Grant’s was read, in which the writer, speaking of Guiteau, said : “My sou tells me he is a dead-beat,” Guiteau became very angry and shouted: “This id what Fred Grant says. He’s a nice pill ; isn’t he? Hanging around his father. I should say he is a bigger dead-beat than I am.” Another passage was read, wljch spoke of Guiteau’s crime ns a “most andacious act.” Guiteau interrupted : “And so it was, to enter that depot and shoot down the President of the Unfied - States, sun ounded as it was by all his friends. I have wondered at it a good many times—how I ever did it I thought to rtvself this morning I would not undertake it again for a million dollars, bat I was in such a desperate state of mind I could not resist. I was impelled upon the President by a pressure I could not resist” Ellen 0. Grant was called, apd Guiteau shouted: “Mrs. Grant is the lady I boarded with prior to the Ist of July. She is a very fine lady, and I owe her $47. I trust I shall pay you soon, Mrs. Grnftt. As soon as these fellows holding fat offices shall respond to my call (striking the table excitedly). I made them. If they don’t soon contribute I shall call out their names in meeting.” Witness the prisoner was insane. Mrs. Anna S. Dunmore, Guitean’s divorced wife, was then called to the witness stand. She testified in very plain language that she never thought the assassin was insane. Foi a wonder Guiteau kept quiet while she was giving her testimony, which was probably owing to the fact that’her present husband stood by her while she was testifying. -

He Gave Up His Teeth.

Tlie richest man Virginia ever produced was Samuel Miller. His wealth, as popularly calculated, amqunted to about $3,000,000. When his State was invaded, during the war, Mr. Miller himself, though a Union man, had a visit from a roving band. “ His stocks, bonds, letters and account books,” says a coj-respontJeiit of the Philadelphia

Press, “were thrown around with a lavish hand, and hundreds of thousands of securities taken away. Fortunately for him, the ravagers did not know the full value of these papers; but one of them did recognize the glimmer of old gold in the artificial teeth of the Virginian. • Get out them teeth, ’ casually remarked the warrior, with a bayonet handy to back tho appeal. And Mr. Miller, like a prudent man, got out his teeth, and fared on soft diet for some time to come.”

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 12th inst., for the payment of reasonable expenses incurred in behalf of the late President, not to exceed SIOO,OOO. Among other bil.s introduced was one by Mr. Edmunds, providing that jurors in trials for polygamy and bigamy in the Territory of Utah may be challenged, and another lor the scientific exploration of Alaska under the direction of the Secretary of War, and apbropriating $68,000 for the pur; obi ; and a bill by Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, granting the right of way through the State of Alabama to the Gulf and Chicago Air-Line railway. Mr. Call, of Florida, introduced a resolniim authorizing the Committee on Territories to inquire into the expediency of establishing Territorial government for Alaska. Mr. Garland addressed the Senate on the Tariff Commission bill. He alleged that ihe tendencies of a protective policy were that they were but a step te and led up lo monopolies. Mr. Beck, on tho same side, asserted that Mr. Morrill’s bill was iu favor of “ Congressional pets,” and that under a protective tariff the American mercantile marine had been driven from the sea, and ihat we are now paying foreigners $130,000,000 a year, instead of receiving from them $25,009,000 a year as in 1860, under the protective tariff of 18 per cent. F. T. Frelmgliuysen, of New Jersey, was nominated for Secretary of State, and confirmed without an objection. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, introduced resolutions in tho Senate, on the 13th inst., instructing the Senate Committee on Pensions to inquire into the working of the Arrearages-of-Pensions act. Mr. Edmunds introduced a resolution calling for full copies of tlie correspondence between the State Department and Ministers of Chili and Peru. Mr. Vest introduced Eads’ bill for a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the projector to expend $75,000 in preliminary work before any guarantees are given by Congress. Mr. Logan reported favorably from tho Committee on Military Affaiis his bill for placing Gen. Grant on tbo retired list. Mr. Pendleton spoke at great length on the bill to improve the civil service. The President nominated Jas. G. Watmouth to be Paymaster General of tlie Navy and John H. Stevenson to be Inspector. The names of over 100 Postmasters were sent iD. In the House, 781 bills were introduced. Of these biils 121 were introduced by the Kansas Congressmen, and tho industrious Illiuois legislators introduced 117, while Louisiana’s representatives introduced o ghty-nine, Kentucky’s eighty-two, Indiana’s sixty-seven and lowa’s forty-seven. The bills deal with agreat variety of subjects,but principally with the tariff, the currency, national banks, iuter-State commerce and transportation. Mr. Page offered a bill to restrict Chinese immigration; Mr. Springer, an act for the appraisement of telegraph lines, and Mr. Momson. a measure to reduce all tariff duties 10 per cent A select committee of eleven wag ordered, to audit claims incident Ml the illness and burial of President Garfield and to consider what allowance should be granted the widow. The Houso adjourned to Friday, the 16th.

Mr. Garland’s Presidential succession bill was debated at considerable length in the Senate on the 14th inst. The debates partook of a legal and technical character, and made it evident that the bill will not pass until considerably amended. Mr. Beck strongly opposed that portion of the bill investing the succession in the Cabinet officers. Mr. Hoar addressed the Senate in favor of the appointment of a committee to investigate the question of woman suffrage, and incidentally denounced the brutal treatment to which women were subjected under the old common law of England. Mr. Vest vigorously opposed the appointment of tho committee. To confer the ballot upon them would, in his opinion, have the effect to. lower them to tho grade of the ward politician, the constable and the JtiTico of the Peace. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to the statutes so as to make mandatory the issue of gold certificates. A favorable report was made on the bill to straighten the northern boundary of Nebraska. Mr. Garland’s Presidential-Succession bill was discussed again on the 15th at considerable length in the Sonate by Mr. Garland, who defended the bill, and who urged the necessity for the adoption of some such measure, and by Beck, and Jones of Florida, who took exception to some of the provisions of the measure. Mr. Hoar’s Woman-Suffrage Committee resolution was discussed briefly, Mr. Vest indulging in some caustic remarks. He said that to establish woman suffrage would add “tremendously” to the volume of illiterate voters, and that, while the “women" of the country would rush to the polls, not one “lady” in a thousand would go there. Ingalls, of Kansas, introduced a resolution instructing the Committee on Pensions to inquire and report what increase of pension, if any, should be allowed the widow of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Hale introduced four bills on the subject of Congressional reapportionment, in order to bring the whole subject before tho Census Committee, of which he is Chairman, with a view to securing final legislative action on the subject during the present session. The following among other bills were introduced by Mr. Coke: To regulate inter-State commerce and to prohibit unjust discrimination by common carriers ; by Mr. Beck, to repeal taxes on deposits with banks, banking associations and bankers; by Mr. Plumb, to authorize the issue of silver certificates and standard silver dollars on deposit of silver bullion. After listening to the views of Secretary Folger, the Senate Finance Committee unanimously indorsed John Sherman’s 3-per-cent. Funding bill, with amendments providing that not over $25,000,000 in deposits shall be received at one time, and that tho bonds to be issued shall not exceed $200,000,000. The House was not in session. air. voornees addressed the Senate on the 16th inst., in opposition to tho recommendation of Secretary Folger as to the limitation of silver coinage. Re criticised Secretary Sherman’s financial policy, and intimated that President Arthur and Secretary Folger were mere agents of the national banks. He defended tlie greenback theories of a few years ago, and claimed that they had triumphed. He was very severe on monopolies, corporations, etc. Mr. Van Wyck presented & petition from 3.IKK) citizei s of Nebraska, praying for an Inter-State commerce bill to prohibit railway discriminations. The President nominated B. H. Biwßter to be Attorney General ; N. A. Adams for Pension Agent at Bt. Louis and Wallace E. Finch as Survevor of Customs at La Crosse, Wis. in the House 867 bills were introduced, among them the following :. By Mr. Townsend, of Ohio, to appropriate $50,000 for the relief of the widow of President Garfield ; by Mr. Neal, of Ohio, to incorporate the Garfield Memorial Hospital Society; by Mr. Miller, providing for the discharge in bankruptcy of one or more of the innocent members of a partnership when another partner has been guilty of some illegal act; by Mr. Shallenbcrger, to prevent persons living in bigamy from holding any officj of trust or emolument in the Un.ted States Territories, and regulating marriage in the Territories: by Mr. Cnalmers, to pay the pnblic debt and stop the manufacture of money by corporations; by Mr. Hatch, to pernit planters to sell tobacco of their own production without payment of license or tax, to the amount of twenty-five pounds annually. Mr. Robinson, of New York, tried to make himself heard upon the question of imprisonment of American citizens in Ireland, but the Speaker called him to order. A resolution was adopted for a holidav recess from Dec. 21 to Jan. 5. Speaker Keifer announced the following as the committee on the expenses attending the illness and burial of President Garfield : Taylor, Pound, Cox, Lefevre, Belford, Blackburn, Page, Springer, O’NeiU and Shelley.

C. M. Clat says in the Kentucky lave Stock Record that the finest carriage horses lie ever saw are the Russian Orloffs. They are heavier than English and American horses, and are blacks and dapple grays Mr. Olay advises breeders *9 import that stock.

SENATOR VOORHEES.

Hia Answer to the Recommendations of Secretary Believes Ihe Silver Dollar Cured Usof the Terrible Panic of 1873, and if tho Coldbugw Could Strangle Silver Currency, Tney Would Bring the Hard Times Back —Shall the People Trust Themselves to the Hereies of the Bankers 1

In the Senate of the United States, Dec. 16, Mr. Voorhees’ resolution, referring to the Finance Committee parts of the President’s message relating to a repeal of the laws authorizing silver coinage and the issue of silver certificates, was taken up and that Senator addressed the Senate. He referred to the financial distress of the country during five years prior to 1879 and following the act demonetizing silver, and said that, while this distress was not due to that legislation, the act was a potent factor in the general scheme for the contraction of money and tjie consequent overthrow of business property. It was one of several kindred measures designed to the same evil, and looking to the benefit of the moneylending usurers engaged in making money scarce and dear, the rate of interest high, wages low, and the times hard for all but bond and mortgage holders. The law of the Democratic Congress, in 1878, restoring the silver circulation by means of certificates Rud coin, broke the nightmare spell of financial prostration and quickened the vitality of every business enterprise. It gave positive assurance of a muchneeded gradual increase of our circulating medium. Everybody could then know how much was coming, and at what rate, and could prepare for business accordingly. None of the vehement prognostications of evil then made against the use of silver money had been verified. The capricious exercise by the different Secretaries of the Treasury of the vast and dangerous power of contracting the currency and tightening the money market at the instance of the national banks, who would have driven out the circulation of all kinds of money but their own, in order that they might have the whole financial field and all its profits to themselves, together with the demonetization of silver, more than all other causes combined, created aud continued the panic of 1873. The act of May 31, 1878, prohibited greenback money from being touched, and the treasury was thereby told to let the greenback circulation alone at the amount then outstanding. The answer to the cry that the greenback cause was a failure is given in the fact that the amounts of greenbacks in circulation in 1878 and 1881 respectively are exactly the same. That cause had achieved a great and important victory, for the greenback currency remained a steadfast, undeviating and ’honored one. Beside the act of securing the greenback from further molestation, a subsequent step making it receivable for import duties raised it to a par with gold, and there it has remained ever since. By these measures t le currency has been reasonably expanded by the use of silver, and our entire circulation rendered stable and uniform in value, and to this was due the business prosperity of the country. It had been accomplished against the avowed hostility and the active energy of a Re- j publican administration. Under the act of Feb. 28, 1878, about $92,000,000 of legal-tender silver money lias been : coined, and silver certificates to the amount of $66,663,800, based, dollar for : dollar, on that amount of coin now in the treasury, and pledged for their redemption. These certificates are in the i pockets of the people, performing all the offices of money iu daily business. , Mr. Voorhees characterized the ree- j ommendation of the Secretary of the 1 Treasury for a repeal of the authority for silver certificates, and for their early ; retirement, a wanton, and, to liis mind, criminal assault upon the financial sta- j bilily and business prosperity of the whole country.

It was deliberately proposed to retire more*than $66,000,000 and destroy it, and the consequence of this could be imagined. The bare proposition to contract and disturb the currency at this time would create disorder and panic. But Congress is wiser than the Executive Department, and will pay no heed to this recommendation. In asking authority over the silver coinage and discretion to coin much or little, or none at all, the Secretary’s obvious object is to drive silver entirely out of circulation. The Secretary complains that $66,000,000 of coin is in the vaults and will not circulate, although great efforts have been maue to that end, and yet he also makes the statement that $66,000,000 of par paper money, based on this very coin, is in circulation in every State in tho Union. The Secretary’s report shows a silver circulation, in round numbers, of $100,000,000 -$66,000,000 in certificates, $34,000,000 in coin. What, then, can be thought of his candor and intelligence in trying to leave the imSression that silver money is a rug and a failure, and that the people don’t want it? This assault upon $100,000,000 of currency on a special basis will be met by the country and its authors sternly rebuked. The source of the inspiration for it is apparently the Secretary, who, as the mouthpiece of the banks and to quiet the fear of the public mind of destructive financial contraction, says in his report: “There need be no apprehension of a too limited paper circulation. The national banks are ready to issue their notes in such quantity as the laws of trade demand; and as security therefor the Government will hold an equivalent in its own bonds.” With supreme, and he (Voorhees) might say insolent complacency, the entire control of the supply and circulation of the currency is handed over, in a few words, to the care of moneyed corporations whose tenderest mercies are legalized cruelty and multiplied usuries. The country is to depend on the generosity of the banks for its supply of money. Men neither qualified by knowledge, unselfishness nor breadth of views to pass upon the wants of labor and of active business are average national bankers. The banks desire to destroy silver and greenbacks, so that their fabulous profits may be extended over the entire currency of the country. An average of not less than $17,000,000 per year is received by the banks in interest on Government bonds, pledged for circulation; and for eighteen years this has aggregated over $300,000,000, which the people have had to pay for the blessings of bank money. Add to this the profits of

$1.50 Der Annum.

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the banks on their circulation and deposits, and they have received from the pockets of the people since their creation enough gains to pay off at least two-thirds of the national debt; and all this simply for our privilege of receiving through their hands a little more than one-third of our currency, of no better quality than other currencies for whose circulation there was no tax. Was this such a showing as would iuduco Congress to abandon the whole financial question to the banks ? Why will they not learn wisdom, and forbear their greedy aud repulsive demands ? We have heard, here and elsewhere, many earnest admonitions against financial legislation. Who have been the agitators? Those who make new, avaricious, and arrogant demands each session of Congress, or those who stand here to resist encroachment and oppression upon the rights and labor of the people ? Mr. Voorliees charged that every financial agitation from March, 1869, changing the contract under which bonds were to be paid to the present hour have been forced upon Congress by an insatiate, relentless demand by the banks and owners of bonds for unrighteous privileges and powers. People were weary and alarmed at their persistent agitation of the business of the country to promote their own selfish end?, and, if they persisted, he knew it was only a question of time when the people would turn and render them powerless. He would commend the history of the downfall of the United States Bank half a century ago to the present associated banks and their official friends in high places. He then quoted from the Philadelphia papers of that day, descriptive of the popular indignation attending the closing of that institution. The resolution was agreed to.

Guiteau, Dorsey & Co.

The embarrassment under which the President suffers, because of the character of a couple of men who claim to have made him, is grimly portrayed by a Washington correspondent. Dorsey carried Indiana. Guiteau swore: “1 think a great deal of President Arthur ; I made him President.” “But Guiteau is in court, and very likely to hang for making Arthur President, while Dorsey is threatened with the penitentiary for his manner of scraping money together to make Arthur Vice President. There probably never was an administration so embarrassed about its paternity. It is a case of etiquette not provided for in Mrs. Admiral Dalilgreu’s able work on that subject, nor is it ’aid down m the rules for governing the elevator in the war and navy offices. It must be a tough thing on the President to contemplate the probability of having to decide which of the two made him—Dorsey or Guiteau. There can be no question of identity. Mr. Arthur has formally acknowledged Dorsey at that banquet, and Guiteau has admitted the promotion under oath. It can not be charged that Dorsey was insane when he was distributing the small bills ot the Indiana campaign—sl and $2 bills—nor has he pleaded insanity as an offset to the star-route frauds. Yet it will be a bad day for party discipline and boss rule when a President of the United States rewards his most conspicuous political friends by hanging them and clapping them into the penitentiary, instead of giving them office, as is customary. True, there is more room in Hades and the penitentiary than in the civil service, but the example might frighten off a good deal of boss support. The question is : What is to be done with the stalwart firm of Presi-dent-makers—Guiteau, Dorsey & Co.?”— Chicago Times.

A Shave.

He removed his coat, and, as he seated himself in the barber’s chair, he said, simply, “A shave.” “Yes, sir,” answered the barber, pullingout a couple of towels, and whisking one across the customer's chest. “Rather a late fall, this, sir,” he continued, as he drew his razor across a strap. “Yes,” said the customer. “Heard anything about the Cabinet this morning, sir?” asked the barber, daubing a great blotch of lather on his customer’s right cheek, and bringing the brush under the chin with an artistic flourish. “No,” said the customer, shutting his eyes. “Nowit’s my opinion, sir,” continued the barber, “that Arthur will make a fair President. What do you think about it?” and the barber drew the razor down his victim’s face with alarming rapidity. “Don’t know,” said the customer. “Ever shave yourself, sir?” asked the barber. “No,” answered the victim, feeling that every time he moved his jaws he was risking his life. “Didn’t know but you might shavo yourself now and then. Razors handy to have in the house, sir; got any?” “No,” answered the victim. “Now I have a pair I can sell very cheap,” said the barber; “show ’em to you in a moment. English make, sir.” “Don’t want ’em,” said the customer, squirming os a tender spot was struck. “Hair’s a little thick,” said the barber, running his fingers through the customer’s locks, and stopping short in his shaving. “Yes,” said the victim, absently. “Better let me trim it up a bit; won’t take ten minutes,” said the barber, slapping a wet towel across the customer’s mouth, eyes and nose, and all but blinding him. “Pish! foo! no. Baid the customer. “Better have your head washed, then. Brighten you up amazingly. Won’t take fiveminutesi Here, Johnny, turn on that warm water.” “No, no,” said the customer, springing desperately from the chair. “Clothes brushed, sir,” said Johnny, rushing up and commencing a vigorous attack upon the victim with an immense wisp broom. “No-o-o!” and the customer bolted.

English woolen manufacturers owe a debt of gratitude to a certain Dutchman named John Rempe, who, some 500 years ago, accompanied Philippina, of Hamault, when she left her native Flanders to become the bride of King Edward 111. At that time the English exported their wool, and received it back from Holland in the shape of cloth, and, until the aforesaid John Rempe set about establishing a cloth manufactory, not a yard of the woven material worn in England was made at home. To encourage the infant industry which Rempe established in England, Kmg Edward 111. enacted a law forbidding his subjects to yvear cloth not of English manufacture.

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INDIANA ITEMS.

Pinkeye is very bad among the horses of Fort Wayne. A son of Richard Jackson, of Lawrence county, was kicked to death by a horse. A vicious boar, belonging to Frauk Ray, of Montgomery county, killed a $l5O horse by goring him with its tusks. The New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad lias been graded, aud is ready for the ties and rails through Kosciusko county. A child of F. M. Goby, 2 years old, living near Logansport, was crushed to death by a wood pile tumbling down upon it. Walter E. Savage lias been awarded $3,000 damages from the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railroad for being put off a train at Aboite, Allen county, while drunk. Mrs. James ErsE*', a most estimable lady, of Rising Sun, died the other day, of leek-jaw, caused by a wound received in her face while taking up flowers in her garden. Two Mormon priests have been secretly working for some mouths in the vicinity of West Lebanon, and tlio result is said to be twenty-two converts, most of whom will soon go to Utah. < The directors of the Northern Stato Prison, of Indiana, report the average number of convicts at 572. The earn- ■ ings for the year were $77,429.40, aud the deficit $1,359.47. Policy holders in the Northern Marriage Dowry Association, at Muncie, were bled the other day $l6B a head to meet matured policies. The marriage dowry businesses growing too heavy, and a crash is anticipated. Hereafter the needy poor of New Albany will go to the asylum, excepting for coal, which will be furnished by the city and township. The free soup-house lias proved an attraction lor ‘dual- bouts and has been discontinued. Benjamin Singleton and Smith Call brothers-in-law,got into an altercation, near their homes, eight miles from Greencastle, over an old feud in regard to a partition fence. Call stabbed Singleton several times in the side, giving him injuries that are pronounced fatal. Col. Ben Sayre and wife, of Wabasli, have been married over sixty-eight-years. The Colonel s son, Dam 1 nay re, recently celebrated the forty-nith anniversary of his married <iie, while liis son, Hon. Warren G. Sayre, lias enjoyed over sixteon years of connubial felicity. The clothing ®f Mrs. Ralph Prosser, of Huron, Lawrence couuty, took fire from a stove nUrnuig tier body from hex ankles to her should* is. V\ he;, she covered her clothing on lit* she ran but of the house anil crossed the ei«» R twice, and, strange to Buy, nev. tnought of lying down in the water. The saloon of John Cawley, at Bainbridge, Putnam county, was entered at night by burglars, who, after robbing the till of several dollars, wasted all the liquors on the floor, broke up the furniture, defaced the pictures, and turned the whole institution into a total wreck. This is the second time tho saloon has been demolished within a y'ar. A saloon-keeper of Clovcnlale, Putnam couuty, named Hart, took an ounce of laudanum witli suicidal ini cut. After a night of work by the physician his life was saved. Hart is a young man. and only recently embarked in tlie liquor business. His conscience condemned him so strongly that he sought to atone for his sin by takiug his own life. The Indiana State Board of Health published an order forbidding uny person to enter any public or private school, either as pupils or teachers, after tlie Ist of January, until thev have been successfully vaccinated. The order also requires all persons who shall come into tho State to be vaccinated within sixty days after date of arrival in tho State. . The annual report of the managers of the State Female Reformatory shows that there are forty-live prisoners in the penal department, and 143 in tlie reformatory ; average number, 187 ; deaths during the year, one; expenditures, $26,052.28. The cluim is made that 76 per cent, of tlie inmates have been reclaimed from evil ways, aud that the institution throughout is in superb condition. Gen. John S. Simonson, who died lately at New Albany, was tlie oldest regular soldier in the United States. Ho served as a volunteer in the war of 1812, served through the Mexican war, took part, in the Indian wars up to 1861, and served through the war -tor the Union. In 1865, on the recommendation of Gen. Grant, lie was breveted Brigadier General for long anil faithful service, and was afterward pluced on tho retired list. At the time of his death lie wub 85 years of age. A colored man named William Hood, who lately died at Seymour, was ut one time possessed of prodigious physical strength. We quote from a Seymour paper: “ Hood once resided in a cabin near this city, and worked as an *xdriver. He would lift bodily one end of a saw-log that was sixteen feet in length aud two feet in diameter, and load it upon his wagon. He would handle a dozen ordinary men as if they yero playthings. On one ‘occasion an imuriated ox attempted to g re him, v*lieii he grabbed the animal by the horns aud hold it until a yoke was put up«.n its neck. He was a mcrcil.ss man, and would sometimes kuockanoxdownutoue blow with his list. It is said that on one occasion five men, with handspike* were tryiug to up-eud a rock, when he uughingly approached, ad, uuaHsi ted, raised the rock until a wg o was backed against >t, ■'*> *■ he shoved it into position f«u h i* n while the crowd st od *<y .n auia. m In the days when there w.i* n»» <> tom ’ to the roads leading from M nU-on, Hood was one of several te>nn»r«»is ogaged to move a sawmill from b> i place to Jennings county, tie > the rear and heaviiy loaded witn ;u i>*> • shalt. 1 liose wh .nd c." e double-teamed up hill, and :ok • i teams back to help pull Hoou’s .o id un. They were almost paralyzed at ui t-Ling him half war up the lull wa king o his team with the shalt upon Ins shou der, which lie carried to the top ol the hill and replaced upon the wagon. Arrived at tho destination a crowd congregated, when Hood’s feat was told. A muscular man present said that he could lilt as much as Hood. He tried to lift the shaft, failed and swore Hood ould not carry it asstated, and that no living man could do so ; wliereui on, with app -r nt ease, the dusky man shouldered the shaft, carried it to the building and placed it in position. The other stiong man shook hands, congratulated thq giant and subsided,”