Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. EJant. By the burning of the stores, Nos. 14, 1C and 18 Crosby st reset, New York, A. & E. Wallache, dry-goods dealers, loat $250,000, and Dessor Brothers A Co., clothiers, $50,000. Dr. Hayes, the famous Arctic explorer, died suddenly in Now Yolk. John Ingram, a miner residing at Mount Union, Fa., placed a small quantity of dynamite on the stove to melt tlio ice. Almost instantly there was an explosion like an earthquake. Four children were blown to atoms, and tho father and mother were fatally injured. Rendered insane by jealousy, a German carpenter, of New York, named Menzel Felix, a confirmed invalid, beat out his wife’s brains with a mallet and killed himself with a razor. George G. Sickles, 92 years of age, a resident of Now York, with a fortune of $12,000,000, was married in that city to Mrs. Sawyer, aged 40. He is the father of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. Judge Devens, Attorney General under President Hayes, has been appointed to Bucoeod Chief Justico Gray as head of the Supremo Court of Massachusetts. West. At Caldwell, Kan., several cow-boys raided the town, riding up and down the principal streets—hooting, yelling and firing their revolvers indiscriminately. Thoy killed Mike Meagher, ex-Mayor of the city and one of the most intrepid men on the frontier. The citizens rallied, armed themselves and pursued tho dosperadoos, killing two of thorn, the remainder escaping into the Indian Territory. Mouth. A feud in Ashley county, Ark., culminated in the assassination of Col. Edward Files, a prominent citizen. The bodies of three Mexican thieves were found hanging to a treo near Ban Antonio, Texa». They were hanged by German farmers. Gov. Churchill, of Arkansas, who was State Treasurer for tix years, is charged with a shortage of $75,000 in las accounts. A committee appointed by the Legislature lias been investigating the matter for noarly nine months. The Governor claims that he can square accounts when ho receives credit for certain bonds destroyed. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its investigation inlotbo management of the Treasury Department by John Sboiman, took the testimony of Custodian Fitiuy last week. He stated that SBOO worth oi stationery was taken from the department to furnirh tho Sherman committee rooms in the 'last campaign, and that the lunch given at that time was paid from the treasury funds on vouchers for candles. Gen. Reynolds, of Chicago, one of the witnesses in the Guiteau case, says the assassin’s memory was something remarkable. He never knew but one man like bim, and that was R. G. Crawford, a sergeant in his regiment during the war, who is now serving under the banner of the Crescent with the title of “ Pasha.” The sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations having in charge what is known as “ the Sherman investigation’’ has decided to make its inquiry with closed doors. The police of Washington have been informed that James Uteiy left O’Neill City, Neb., with the intention of killing George Scoville, and that a crank narnod Foster had armed himself at Pittsburgh and set out to kill Guiteau. A package addressed to the assassin was opened and found to contain a piece of rope. The Washington Monument Commission will ask Congress for $200,000 to complete the work. Guiteau was called upon at the jail in Washington by his divorced wife and her husband and little girl, to say good-by. Mrs. Dunmire was affected to tears. Clark Mills and his son induced Guiteau to have his beard removed and to submit to the taking of a plaster cast of his head, Mr. Lambert Tree, father of Judga Lambert Treo, of Chicago, died at Washington at the rather advanced ago of 83. He became connected with the postal service in Washington during the administration of President Monroe, and was fifty-eight years in active service. Most of the Western Senators and It prosentatives are opposed to any measure which would interfere with the Silver act of February, 1878, and some of them go to the extent of proposing measures to further the coinage of silver and the issuance of silver c. r i.icatcs. It is not likely, however, that any of these measures will become a law, as the President will probably interpose his veto. Assistant Postmaster General Hatton has decided that advertising, insurance and other sheets of a similar character shall not b« admitted lo tho mails as second class matter. The Guiteau jurymen, in a body, attended the funeral of tho deceased wife of Mr. Hobbs, one of their number. The Legislature of Virginia elected n. H. Li Idloberger to the United States Senate. Ho goes unpledged to either party. The Navy Department thinks it impracticable to send the steamer Rogers in search of the missing crew of the Jeannette until spring. The Russian Government will be requested to aid the survivors with funds and facilities to reach home. POLITICAL POINTS. The Greenbackers in Congress are determined to join any party or element in the House that will oppose the restriction of the Mlver coinage. Representative Ladd said,

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in a conversation, the other day: “If the Democrats take a sensible stand on this question they can carry the next Congress. The East as well as the West is opposed to the restriction of silver coinage and tho administration has made a big mistake in recommending it * Every Greenback member will vote against it”

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. In a public written statement Guiteau, the assassin, reviews his trial, with which he says be is well pleased. He thinks that Judge Cox believes in his idea of inspiration. He holds that the Deity compelled him to aoin the shooting of President Garfield just as a highwayman compels a man to give his money after placing a pistol at his head. The victim might know it was absolutely wrong to give money that his wife and children needed, but how could he help it with a pistol at his head ? Scovillo thinks Guiteau has badly damaged his case by his frequent interruptions of witnesses. The United States Supreme Court has decided that failure to pay au insurance premium when due forfeits the whole policy, and that sickness or incapacity is not a valid excuse for non-payment. The Canadian officials at Montreal have attached the property of the Pullman Palace Car Company for smuggling. The attached includes thirty Pullman cars. The Government claim,sl6o,ooo. The steamer Bath City, which sailed from Bristol for New York, was wrecked off the coast of Newfoundland. Tho Captain and the crew took to the small boats, one of which was capsized with the loss of four occupants. After three days in the storm, in which the Captain and fivo men diod, seventeen survivors wore picked up by a sailing vessel and taken to Liverpool. The Census Bureau has issued a bulletin showing that there was standing od the 31st day of May, 1880, 80,610,000,000 feet of merchantable pine in Minnesota, 23,975,000,000 feet in Mississippi, 21,192,000,000 feet in Ala-bama,-6,615,800,000 feet in Florid*, and 17,508,600,000 feet in Texas.

TOREIGN NEWS. The rapidity with which France is increasing her armament creates some excitement in Europe, The works at St. Denis are to be doubled, and 900 new cannon have boon ordered for the navy. Tho Chambers have passed heavy appropriations for ordnance. It is reported at Berlin that another Nihilistic mine-assasßination plot has been di*covorcd at the Czar’s palace, Gatchina. Tho official list of the victims of the Vie nna theater 'horror places the number at 791, of whom 144 were legally identified, the remainder being burned beyond recognition. At Dublin the officers of the Government made an important discovery of arms, ammunition and explodentn, and a list of officers belonging to an old Fenian organization. Four persons were arrested in connection with the affair. By the bursting of a dam at Perejaux, Algeria, 400 persons were drowned. An explosion in the Orrell coal shaft, in Lancashire, England, resulted in the loss of 180 lives in that and an adjoining mine. A Cairo (Egypt) dispatch reports an insurrection in Soudan. A false prophet, with a following of 1,500 men, has put to flight the Egyptian forces of 350, and killed the Governor. The movement against the payment of rent is extending in Ireland. It is regarded in Land-League circles as a crime to apply even to the Land Court. Lists of persons suspected of having paid rent are posted on the chapels anu other places whore they are likely to bo seen. No sooner are such notices torn down by the police than they are again posted up. United Ireland, the Land-League organ, will bo published from London. The very interesting intelligence comes by way of St. Petersburg and London of the discovery of the greater portion of the crew of (he steamer Jeannetto, which sailed from San Francisco two years and * half ago upon an Arctic exploring expedition. It appears that on tho 14th of September some natives of Oulonov, near Cape Barhav, in Northern Siberia, discovered a boat containing eleven men of the Jeannette’s crew, who had made their way in an open boat from the Jeannetto, which was crushed in the ioe on tho 23d of last June in latitude 77 north, longitude 157 east. The crew left the ship in three boats, but were separated by winds and fogs. One of the boats arrived at the eastern mouth of the Lena river, and another boat succeeded in reaching tho same spot, but it is not clear from the dispatches that the third portion of the crew in boat No. 2 have been heard from. The Jeannette is a wreak, a considerable number of her officers and men havo very likely perished, tho North polo is as far from discovery as ever, and the Northwest passage, if there is such a thing, still remains a sealed mystery. A bill to confer the suffrage on all who can read and write has passed both branches of the Italian Legislature.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Mr. O’Donovan, correspondent of the Loudon Daily News, who was recently in prison at Merv, has been thrown into jail at Constantinople on a charge of publicly abusing the Sultan. A Russian semi-official newspaper says of Mr. Blaino’s Panama canal dispatch that no guarantee of the preservation of the neutrality of tho canal will be es any value unless agreed to by the European powers conjointly with the Government of the United States. Gen. Ignatieff has ordered an active search for the second cutter of the Jeannette. James Gordon Bennett sent a cablegram from Paris to Secretary Frelinghuysen stating that he had transferred 6,000 rubles to Gen. Ignatieff to aid Capt. De Long and bis party. The distance by wagon from St. Petersburg to the poiDt where the shipwrecked crew are stopping is 4,000 miles. <; Highwaymen, near Pottsville, Pa., made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to rob the mail coach. A brace of speculating fellows at Reading, Pa., want to insure the life of Guiteau for their own benefit in the sum of SIOO,OOO. The Grand Jury of New York indicted Col. J. Howard Welles for writing and sending annoying and threatening letters to Jay Gould. The’wife of Justice Swayne, United States Supreme Caurt, died last week. The President left for New York Deo. 22 on the limited express, acoompanied by Private Secretary Phillips. Secretary Lincoln left for Chicago the same day. Friends of the Pr< sident sent two detectives to escort him from Washington to New York. He was not aware of the fact. Some Mexican cavalry and customs guards had a fight with twenty smugglers near Mier, Mexico, Lieut Neza and a corporal and private were killed, 'The smugglers escaped in?

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to Texas. Three noted bandits were hanged by Mexican vigilante near Renosa. Mr. Scoville, counsel for Guiteau, has received so many threatening letters that Mrs. Scoviile is making urgent appeals to Marshal Henry and the Washington police to protect her husband and her brother. Horses in the Wisconsin lumber region are suffering from pink-eye.

FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.

Among the bills introduced in the Senate on tho 19lh was one by Mr. Williams, of Kentucky, to prevent the exportation of diseased cattle and the spread of infectious diseases among domestic cattle; and one by Mr. Hoar to provide for and regulato the counting, of electoral votes cast for President and Vice President of the United States. Mr. Allison presented the memorial of the Illinois and Michigan Canal and River Improvement Company, asking for the construction of the Hennepin canal. The President sent in tho following neniinations: Tnomas C. Acton, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, vice Hillbouse ; Chief Justice Gray, of Massachusetts, to be Asiociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; William Henry Trescott, of South Carolina, to be Special Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of tho United States to the republics of Chili, Peru and Bolivia; George M. Duskin, to be Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. Tho nomination of B. H Brewster to be Attorney General, and J. O. Bancroft Davis to be Assistant Secretary of State were confirmed. In tho Houso, the bill to grant the franking privilege to Mrs. Garfield was passed. Mr. Tillman banded in a bill to authorize national hanks to make loans by mortgage on real estate. Mr. Reagan introduced a bill to permit the purchase and rogister of foroigu built ships by citizens of the United States. A new Income-Tax bill was presented by Mr. McMillan, wtiich provides for a 3-pcr-cent tax ou all incomes of corporations, companies and individuals whoso net incomes shall exceed $3,000 ; also to make the trade dollar legal tender. Bills were also introduced: To provide for a drawback of 10 per cent, on all goods hereafter imported in American-built ships, owned exclusively by citizens of the' United States; to regulate the customs duty on sumac; to regulate the duty on sheep and goat skins imported for the purpose of making morocco ; to abolish the tax on tobacco ; for the admission of*Dakota, New Mexico and Washington Territories into the Union as States. A bill was introduced in the Senate, Dec. 20, to exempt pension-money from seizure or attachment by process of law, and also pension money when invested in homesteads. Mr Ingalls made a favorable report on the biil for I lie sale of the lands of the Miami Indians. The Committeo on Finance reported favorably on Mr. Morrell’s bill, which provides for a special committee of experts exclusively. Mr. Hoar gave notice that he would introduce t, bill in favor of fcinalo suffrage, and that he would particularly direct his attention to the iinfrancbisement of women in the Territories. I lie House resolution forau adjournment from Dec. 21 to Jan. 5 was concurred in. Acting Vice President Davis announced that he had ugned the bill giving tho franking privilege to Mrs. Garfield. Mr. Blair introduced a b.ll providing that Collectors ol' Internal Revenue shall bo appointed for a term of four years. Mr. Pendleton reported adversely ou the bill to luthorize Lieut. Commander Sigsliee to accept i decoration from the Emperor of Germany. 'Timothy O. Howe was nominated for Postmaster General, and William A. McOlcary for Postmaster at Pittsburgh. Timrti.y O. Howe was confirmed as Postmaster General, Horace Gray as Associate Justice of lie Supreme Court, W. H. Trescott as special Envoy to Peru and Chili, and Thomas O. Acton vs Assistant Treasurer at New York. The House was not in session.

Mr. Harrison introduced a bill in the Senate, Dec. 20, for a public building at Fort Wayne. Mr. Beck called for information as to the rate of dulios imposed on American manufactures by France and Germany. Mr. Plumb introduced a bill to tix two years as the period required in homesteading public lands. In executive session, A. J. Eogerton was confirmed as Chief Justico of Dakota, Pierre C. V«n Wyck as Superintendent of the assay office at New YoTk, and Jesse Spalding as Collector of Customs at Chicago. Adjourned till Jan. 6. In the House, Mr. McKinley introduced a resolution. which was unanimously adopted, that both houses of Congress will assemble, at a dato to be fixed by the joint committee, and listen to an address by James G. Blaine on the life and character of James A. Garfield. A message from the President recommended an appropriation of $550,000 for work ou tho census. A resolution was adopted calling ou the Secretary ot the Navy tor information as to the establishment of naval coaling stations on the Isthmus of Panama, Afrer the announcement by Speaker Keik-r us the standing' committees, Uio House adjourned till the 6<li of Janusry. The comma tees arc constituted as follows : Ways and Means—Kelley, Chairman; Kasaon, Punnet], McKinley, HubboU, HaakeU, Ruaßtll, Errett, Randal', Tucker, Carlisle, Morrison, Speer. Appropriations Hisoock, Chairman ; Robeson, Cannon, Burroughs, Batterworth, Caswell, Ryan, O Neil, Kolcham, Blackburn, Cox, Atkins, Forney, Lefvere. Ellis. Banking and Currency—Crapo, Chairman; Weber, Ding icy, Moore, Connell, Bruckner, liardenberg, Flower, Ermentrout. Education and Labor—Updegraff, Chairmau; Sherwin, Carpenter, Davis, Page, Tyler, Willis, Clements, Money, Dobble, Dowd. Rules -Mr. Speaker, Chairman; Orth, Robeson, Randall, Blackburn. Mileage Jorgensen, Chairman; Rich, Ward Cobb, Moulton. Elections—Calkins, Chairman; Hazelton, Wait, Thompson, Ranuey, Ritchie, Pettibone, Miller, Paul, Belzhoover, Jones. Judiciary—Reed, Chairman; Willetts, Robinson, Briggs, Humphrey, Taylor, McCook, Kasson, Norcross, Nott, Hammond, Culverson, Guenther, Townshend (111). Agriculture—Valentine, Chairman; Updegraff, Carpenter, Anderson, Gottschslk, Wadsworth, R'cc, W est, Cullen, Hazelton, Hatch, Dibrill, Aiken, Black, Post. Postoilices and Post Roads—Bingham, Chairman; Anderson, Jorgenseu, Lacey, Farwell, Morey, Springer, Money, Evans, Armiield, Brentz. Public Buildings and Grounds—Shallenberger Chairman; Lewis, Cutts, Demoth, Scranton, Ford Smith, Cook. Hewitt, Singleton, Herbert Mines and Mining—Van Voortiif, Chairman ; Davis, Bingham, Fulkerson, flobbs, Calkins, Young, Cassidy, Berry, Wood, Brunim, Oury. Manufactures—Campbell, Chairman ; Hammond, Mills, Gottscbullr, West, Chase, Finley, Haivh, Morse, Stocksehiager. Mississippi River Improvements—Thomas, Chairman; C.rpenter, Prescott, Darrell, Rice, Moore (Tenn.), Jones, Burroughs, King, Thompson, Guenther, Carty, Whilthorne. Foreign Affairs—Williams (Wis.), Chairman ; Orth, Kasson, Rice, DunneU, Lord, Walker, Blunk, Wilson, Deuster, Belmont. Coinage, Weights and Measures—Fisher, Chairman ; Belford, McClure, Lackey, Waßhburn, Payson, Hazelton, Stevens, Singleton, Blade, Luna. Corunierc-—Page, Chainuan ; Rich, Townsend, Washburn, Hoar, Chandler, Ward, White, George, Guenther, Laine, Ross, Herndon. Naval Affairs—Harris (Mass.), Chairman ; Robe son, Harmer, Thomas, Watson, Ketcliam, Dezendorf Morris, Davison, Talbot, Harris (N. J.). Military Affairs—Henderson, Chairman: Hiscock, Bayne, Stee'.e, Pavis, Spaulding, Spooner, Sparks, Upson, Bragg, Wheeler, McGinnis. Invalid Pensions—Brown (Ind.), Chairman; Joyce, Cullez, Ray, Dawes, Pettibone, Parker, ltioe, Wadsworth, Matson, Caldwell, bimonton, Cadwell, Latham, McMillan. Interior Department Expenditures—Hubbel, Chairman; Crapo, Wood (N. Y.), Schulz, Simontou, Blanchard, Burroughs (Mo.). Navy Department Expenditures—Robeson, Chairman ; Harris (Mass.), Harmer, Neal, Morris, Phelps, Turner. Public Ezpenditures—Randall (Pa.), Chairman ; Blackburn, Walker, A. Wood, DeMotli, Lewis, Ladd, Fulkerson, Martin, Guontner, Berry. District of Columbia—Neal, Chairman ; Heilman, Barr, Urner, Smith (N. Y.), Pierce, Dezendorf. Clotz, Garrison, Cassidy, Allen. Pensions Marsh, Chairman; Hepburn, Rice Stone, Steele, Weber, Fulkerson, Hewitt, Cox, Robinson, Burroughs (Mich.). Railroads and Canals—Townsend (Ohio), Chairman ; Dwight, Henderson, Campbell, Schultz, Lord, Brewer, Kenna, Hoblitzell. Civil Service—Orth, Chairman; KaßsoD, florr, Briggs, Neal, Hubbell, Butterworth, House, Randall, Tucker, Phelps. Territories—Burroughs, Chairman; Aldrich, Van Voorhis, Miller, Dawes, Crowley. Postoffice Department Expenditures Cannon (Ill.), Chairman; Walker, Pound, Farwell, Reagan. TUghmau, Ladd. is. Law for the Election of President and Vice President—Updegraff, Chairman; Camp, Crape', While Fisher, Jacobs, Lindsey, Stevens, Morrison, Carlisle, Hewitt Pensions, Bounty and Back-Pay-Joyce, Chairman; Brown, Lindsey, Houk, Whitthorne, Curtin Mosgrove. . ’ War Department Expenditures—Briggs, Chairman; Miles, Steele, Marsh, Blackburn, Jones (Texa«l Sparks. •’ Enrolled, Bills—Aldrich, Chairman ; Pearce, West Sbellabarger, Kellogg, Warner, Belmont ” Consuls—Presscott, Chairman; Sherman, Tyler ®* in . Fulkerson, McCord, Pearce, Cox, Colbuni (Maas.), TUghmau,

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Indian Affairs—Peering, Chairman) Rice, Mason, Spaulding, Buck, Richardson, Hooker, Scales, Weltrtifn, Blanchard, Ainsley. Revision of Law*—McKinley, Chairman; Robineon, Buuk, George, Brumni, Hall, Chadwin, Covington, Richardson, Jones, McMillan. Accounts—Drner, ’Chairman; Skinner, Brew, Caulder, Morton, Hardy, Houk. Pa ten ta—Young, Chairman; Skinner, Farwell, Jones, Spoon- r, Vance, Turner, ScovUJe, Shehey. Claims— Crowley <N. Y.) Ch«nu« t Taylor, Bowman, Mason, Thompson, Ray, Peel, gilt, Bmith (111.)* Mills, Hutchinson, Turner, Clarke, OHS. Public Lands—Pond, Chairman; Telford, Hep1, uni, Dwight, Watson, Straight, Rice, Cobb, Foster, Mil h ter, H 0& Militia— Strait, Chairman; Rainc, Houk, Mdrey, Guenther, Valentine, Thompson, Jfmes Pacific Rett-ways-Haze!ton, Chairman) flantier, Camp, Eobineon (Ohio), Hammond, Farwell, McKenzie, Bliss, Houte, Dunnell, Dolan. Private Laud Ciaims-Patcheco, Chairman ; Norcross, Hazel ton, Cornell, Morey. Cutts, Mullrow, William*, Ford, Shackleford, Houk. War Claims—Houk, Chairman; Updegraff (Iowa), Smith, Dun Bey, Nodrnen, Hall, Robertson. Geddea, Holman, Barter, Chapman. Treasury Expenditure* Beiiord, Chairman; Reed, Holman, Scranton, Thornton, Buckner, Curtin. Expenditures of the Department of State—Peering, Chairman; Liudaley, Barrau, Williams (Win.), Herndon, King, Frost. Department of Justice Expenditures—Wi'letr, Chairman; McCord, Norcroaa, Neal, BIUDt, Bragg. Public Buildings Expenditures—Errett, Chairman ; Robinson (Ohio), Houk, Grant, Wise, Garrison, Lanharn.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY. Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, of New York, was examined. His evidence was unfavorable to the defense, bearing as it did, against thu theory of insanity. Dr. Worcester, of Salem, Mass., who refused, when upon the stand for the defense, to answer the hypothetical question proposed by Scoville, testified that, ill nis opinion, the prisoner was a sane man. Guiteau (sharply)—“How much do you expect to get for that opinion, sir? I suppose that will be worth SSOO to you. That is the way (kukbill Is running, but I don’i think it will be worth a snap|with tnat jury—not a snap, sir.” Corkhill than read the hypothetical question, which covered all the material facts in the prisoner’s history from boyhood down to his act on the 2d of July, and inquired, “Assuming all these facts to be true, in your opinion, was the prisoner sane or insane when he killed tho President?” Answer—“ I believe bim to have been sane ” Guiteau (sneering ly) —“ Yes, sir, and you expect to get SSOO for y’our opinion.” All through tho reading of the hypothetical question Guiteau continually shouted, “ That’s false,” “Absolutely false.” At one time he said, “ That’s false, sir. Get tho facts right for your hypothesis, or whatever you call it. Judge Porter must have got that stuff up for you, Coi khill. You certainly have not got plains enough. “I want to say right here that CoL Corkhill has made a very good outward statement of facts, but he hasn’t touched at all upon what was going on in my mind at that time. That’s a matter for the jury, the court, the Deity and me to decide. \Ve four.” The witness staled that at ono lime ho be’ lieved that the prisoner was insane. He had however, changed his opinion, because ho no longer believeel to be true the statements upon which he had based his opinion before coming to Washington. Guiteau (impatiently)—“Don’t you understand, Scoville, that SSOO has modified his views. What’s the use of wasting time on bim? Let bim go !” Scoviile was about to resume the examination when Guiteau struck the table violently and called out: “ Make the matter short. It’s simply a matter of fact for the jury to determine whether my free agency was destroyed or not. I claim it was, and I won’t have you compromise my life, as you are doing, by your stupid, blunderbuss way of examining witnesses.’’ As the examination proceeded Guiteau frequently interrupted, and roundly abused Scoville for his incompetency, and' charged him with compromising his case. Turning toward (he Judge, Guiteau added, depreciatingly: “ Hcovillo is a perfect idiot in this matter, and between him and Corkhill I have a pretty hard time. [General iaughter.] I’m a goodnatured man [laughing], but I can’t 6tand a buzz, and when I’m buzzed I want to talk right back,” Scoville, who bad borne everything heretofore with apparent equanimity, seemed to feel very keenly this last evidence of heartless ingratitude. His voice trembled, and for a minute he was unable to go on. Even the prisoner realized the injustice of his conduct, and hastened to apologize, saying, “ You are doing very well, Scoville—to the best of your ability. Ceveral times afterward during the examination of Dr. Worcester Guiteau denounced Scoville, at one time with evident anger, and again with a sarcastic smile. “ Why, your Honor,” ho shouted out, “if I were indicted for manslaughter I would be hanged for murder if Scoville should defend me.” Mrs. Scoville reached over to speak to Guiteau, when he snarled at her : “ You keep your mouth shut. You're as big a fool as your husband. You’re a crank ou this business. If you had all stayed, in Chicago it would have been far better for my case. These relatives are a nuisance. 1 would bo better off if I didn’t have any. I would have plenty of friends if this pack of relatives were out of the way.” Mrs. Scoville whispered some expostulatory reply, when he turned again angrily and shouted : “You have been an unmitigated nuisance in this case all the waj through. ’ Then, changiug quickly from anger to mirth, he added with a laugh : “ You’re a queer lot, you Scovilles.” Adjourned. TWENTY-NINTH DAY.

Dr. Theodore Diamond, of Auburn, N. Y., was called to the stand. Witness believed, ludging by the evidence to which he had listened, including that of the prisoner himself, and from tho appearance and conduct of the prisoner, that he is a sane man. Tho hypothetical questions put to Dr. Wooster yesterday were then read to wimess, and he replied ; “I should say he was sane.” Witness was qnestioned at great length ; and, Uis answers indicating great conservatism of opinion, Scoville finally asked: “Well, doctor, how old do you think a physician ought to be before he iB able to distinguish between a sane and an inssno man?” While-s replied that ho himself was not yet old enough to distinguish between sane and in»ane pi oplo. Guiteau (laughingly)—“ That’s tho best thing )'ou iiave said yet, doctor. Ladies and gentlemen. you see I’m le. ting Scoville do most of the talking to-day ; I’m keeping quiet. “ I opened my mail myself this morning” (holding up twenty or more letters). “Pretty food mail, too, and only -one crank letter m the wnolo lot. All from high-toned people, too. Thoy are beginning to think better of me outsicK High-toned ladies are sending for my autograph. They think I’m a big man, but I don’t care a snap whether I’m a! big man or a little one.”

The prisoner busied himself reading his letters, md soon broke out again, saying : “Well, I <;id not notice this before, ladies and gentlemen, I have just received a letter from Dr. Spilzka, in which he says he has received 200 letters since he returned from Washington, all congratulating him upon his testimony ; that he has only received two threatening opes, and two from lunatics—a pretty good showing, I think, when he came on here for nothing and did nofc get a pent, while these ielloSvH are handsomely paid by the Government. Then, here is another one from Mr. Beatty.” Judge Cox—“ Well, that will do, prisoner. We have not time to listen to the reading of your correspondence.” Gniteau—“All right, sir.” The witness was asked if he thought it&kould 4)e any indication of insanity for a man « nature years, who honestly believed ho was inspired to kill the President of the United States, and who honestly believed that, when lis motives were known to the people, they would not only excuse but applaud ! his act, and replied : “If he honestly believed th it, and his wi.l was dominated by the convict oii, it would be ail indication of insanity.% Mr. S.oviile—“ If'it is not imperiineAt, Doci lor,, in this day and gen.ration, I will ask you if you have ever devoted any attention to the subject, or believe in inspiration?” Answer—“ Well, not specially.” Ouiteau—“Well, Doctor, if God could inanire a mail 2,000 years ego, why could He udtiaS so now ? Is there anything different in human n dm i ? Mr. SSoVille—“l havo no objection to your an wering, Doctor.' Th a ic-tiot was lead again to the witness, and he replied : “ If the Lord did inspire anybody 2.000 years ago, Ho can now, if He oiiooses.” Guiteau—-“That’s my idea. He not only can, bat He did in this case,”

When the witness was dismissed Guiteau shouted out: “ These experts may be all hightoned, honorable men, but, iu my opinion, they hang more men than the doctors kilL” Growing more and more excited, he declaimed for some minutes, and said : “ Gen. Garfield woutu ue auYe to-aay nau it not been for the doctors. They completed what my shot began. The Lord intended he should go, and so He let the doctors kill him. He didn’t die before his time, though,”

Apparatus by Which the Interior of a Man’s Stomach can be Viewed.

Physicians have long been in possession of instruments—commonly small mirrors—designed to assist them in getting a look at the interior parts of the human body, such as the back part of the mouth, the throat, the inner ear, etc. The dentist’s mirror perehelion, a flexible joint, is familiar to all. But it has long been desirable to penetrate to the stomach of a pitient afflicted with gastric troubles and see by actual inspection what is its condition. Thus may often be gained during the life of a man the valuable information obtained at present by post-mortem examination for the mortuary report, and what has hitherto served too late to gratify the curiosity of the doctor may go to saving the life of his patient—in a word, the means to diagnose the condition of the stomach by sight rather than guessing, has long beep wanted, and Herr Leiter, of Vienna, patented an instrument designed to supply the want. The gastroscope, says an exchange, is an electric lantern and mirror combined, which, fixed upon the end of a flexible tube, is inserted bodily into the stomach, being passed down the throat of the patient with its equipment of wires for producing the electric light. The lantern is a small, hollow glass globe containing the plantinum coil which, when heated by a current of electricity, is to produce the illumination of the interior of the stomach. It is made double, so that no heat can be communicated to the stomach, and to make it the more sure, the space between the inner and outer globe is kept supplied with a current of cold water by means of two small India rubber tubes inclosed in the main tube. The tissues of the human body are comparatively translucent, and when the current of electricity is turned on the internal organization, it is said, becomes distinctly visible. The experiment of illuminating the interior of fish has often been performed by amateur electricians, the straight lines and simple structure of the. fish facilitating the introduction of the apparatus. What is really novel, therefore, in Herr Leiter’s apparatus reremains to be described. It is the addition he makes of a series of mirrors and lenses by means of which the light coming from the illuminated stomach is sent back up the tube to which the lantern is attached, and, reaching the eye-piece outside the patient’s body, is viewed by the surgeon. But a small portion of the surface of the stomach is thus brought into our view, it is true, but it is enough from which to make a diagnosis. If a broader field is desired to be covered it is done by revolving the lantern. By the agency of a little notched wheel with teeth playing into a ring in the interior of the tube, the whole lower part or the apparatus may be revolved without the necessity of withdrawing it for a new adjustment. Though but little known as yet, this instrument has been put, it is said, to the test of practical use, and we can scarcely doubt that it will soon come to form a recognized part of the stock of instrument in the hands of every surgeon. Happily for Herr Leiter’s invention, its introduction into general use has been rendered possible by M. Faur’s secondary battery for restoring electricity. Without the latter the gastroscope could have but limited use, since to obtain the high degree of light required, a very strong galvanic battery would have been needed, and such a battery few physicians possess and care to bother with. As it is, one large Faur’s cell, which the physician can readily carry with him in his buggy, is all that is needed for intro-gastric diagnosis.

Preserving Wood Against Decay.

It has long been known that wood set in mortar is preserved against decay, and many stories have been told of the lasting qualities of wood which have come in contact with this substance. A naval journal stated recently that a lime-laden coasting schooner of unseasoned Maine timber, which went ashore and bilged 40 years ago, was raised some time after and is still in service; and an English paper gives the history of a platform of nine planks which have been used successfully by father, son and grandson for mixing mortar, was then thrown aside ' and allowed to be overgrown with grass, but when brought to light again sixty years after, was found to be still in a state of preservation. strangely no systematic attemps to utilize this knowledge has hitherto been made; and now a method based on this principle has been devised in France, and is simple, cheap, requiring no special apparatus, and also effective. The plan is to pile the planks in a tank and to put over all a layer of quicklime, which is gradually slacked with water. The time required depends, of course, on the thickness of the wood. Timber for mines will he thoroughly impregnated in about a weak. The material is said to acquire remarkable consistency and hardness after this process. The Babylon (L.* I) South Side Signal quotes from a Missouri paper : Mr. Wm. F. Quinlan, Crystal City, Mo., suffered occasionally from rheumatic pains in his knees, for which he successfully tried St. Jacobs Oil

National Health Bulletin.

The National Board of Health bulletin makes I the following death-rate of leading cities in | every 1,000 inhabitants : FOREIGN CITIES. i Montreal 27 Edinburgh ...22 ! Victoria 32 Bremen 17 Curacoa (W. I.) 38 Munich 30 Aspinwall 59 Dresden 27 Acapulco 13.4 Vieina..... .....24 Veru Cruz 85 Warsaw 39 Bio de Janeiro 29 St Petersburg .38 Dublin., *.21 Alexandria. 44 Belfast.... ....V..—j.20 Bombay 28 j Cork.■ ..17 I .1 AMERICAN CITIES. ' Now York 29 Cincinnati 19.6 ! Brooklyn 22 .1 Dayton 18.8 j Philadelphia 20 Cleveland 25.1 1 Boston 24 Indianapolis 14.6 Cambridge..,........16 Richmond, Ind. 24.6 Portland 16.4 Evansville 14.3 j Bangor. 28 Chicago 24.8 Pittsburgh 26 Peoria ; 17.8 Diet, of C01umbia....27 Aurora 13.2 i Winuington, N. C.... 30 Jacksonville 9.6 ; Charleston..... 82 Elgin 6 l Augusta 26 Moline 26.7 ' Mobile 25.6 Bock Island 30.6 Richmond, Va. 42.5 Lake 8.6 ; Norfolk 21.4 Quincy ‘.....14.4 ! Jacksonville 6.5 Milwaukee 16.1 i New Orleans i. .26.9 MinueapoJie.....' 34.5 i Shrovepbrt...‘.i...!. .83.2 East Saginaw. 8.2 Baton Kouge ...29 Idint 12.4 1 Galveston 28.1 Tlavenport .14.3 San Antonio 41.1 St Louis ..24.1 Nashville 18 Kansas City 9.3 ' Memphis 40.3 Omaha 15.4 Ksoxville •. 19.1 Lawrence ......... 6.1 | Lou is ville 24.9 • The Milwaukee (Wis.) Evening "Wisconsin s.iys; “In all our experience we have never heard so many favorable reports from till classes as We have concerning St. ’ Jacobs Oil,"

USEFUL HINTS.

The expressed juice of green walnut shells diluted with water is used for dying blonde hair a light brown. A little spirits of turpentine added to the water with which floors are washed will prevent the ravages of moths. Use kerosene, or bath-brick, or powdered lime to scour iron, tin or copper; wash in hot suds and polish with dry whiting. To remove spots from furniture, four ounces of vinegar, two ounoes of sweet oil, one ounce of turpentine. Mix and apply with a flannel cloth. Various materials may be advantageously covered with rubber enamel, iron thus being protected from rust, glass and crockery from breaking, and wood rendered stronger and more ornamental. The caoutchouo material is applied in a plastic state to the foundation material, after which the whole article is submitted to a high degree of heat, the materials being thus firmly united and the enamelled surface obtained. Take half a pound of the best ground coffee, put it into a saucepan containing three pints of water, and boil it down to one pint; boil the liquid, put it into another saucepan, well scoured, and boil it again. As it boils, add white sugar enough to give the consistency of sirup ; take it from the fire, and when it is cool put into a bottle and seal. When traveling, if you wish a cup of good coffee, put two teaspoons of the sirup in an ordinary cup and pour boiling water upoD it and it is ready for use. Macaroni makes an excellent variety in the scarcity of vegetables, and should be much better known and more used by the masses here. It is the staple food of tho common people in Italy, indeed, of most classes. It is made of strongly glutinous wheat flour, hence is flesh forming, while its starch supplies heat. It may bo cooked tender in boiling water, seasoned with salt, and eaten with or even without cream sauce, or milk or butter. After boiling it can be put in a pudding dish, with about a quarter its weight of grated cheese sprinkled over it and lightly baked. The addition of this cheese makes this diet about equal to lean meat as a fleshformer. A good, respectable-looking husk mat, says a writer in the Household, is not an unsightly object, and I wish every housekeeper knew what a world of scrubbing and wiping of floors they saved, that they might have one. One bushel basket and a boiler full of husks is sufficient to braid a large mat. If you have boys or girls, it will be just fun for them to braid one in the evening ; but if, like myself, you have neither, it would pay you to take the time and do it yourself. Have ready a tea-kettle full of hot water, and turn on to the boiler of husks. Begin a common threestrand braid, and as you bring over a strand place about three husks on, leaving the large ends of the husks up. When enough is braided for a mat, sew firmly with twine in any shape you choose—long, round or oval. Then sprinkle, warm water on upper side. Run a fork through the busks, splitting the ends into little, curly fibers ; then with the shears trim of! evenly. This can be done in one evening by a good worker. I braid enough in the fall to last me the year round.

“Live and Let Live.”

After a young man has been employed for years by a business firm, or in the laborious work of the farm, commencing, fierhaps, at the very lowest round of the adder, and by diligence, faithfulness and a watchful regard for his employer's interests, has become a thorough master of the business, it is not strange that he should, as the saying is, “ branch out for himself,” and utilize the knowledge he has acquired in his schooling for his own advancement and benefit. And in this laudable undertaking it would seem as though his late employers should deem it a pleasure, not to say duty, to help him, if not with substantial financial aid, with good wishes and the influence of kind words and commendations. While there are many instances of tflis kind, there are also many where the reverse of this is practiced, and the late honest, capable, faithful employe, when he takes the responsibilities of business upon himself, is the subject of ungenerous and unjust criticism, because he comes into honorable competition with his employer. The world is large enough for all, and no one man, or set, of men, can possibly have a mortgage upon any branch of business, or monopolize all the chanches for conducting an honorable calling, whether it be in publishing a newspaper or selling peanuts. What do we acquire a knowledge of business for? Why are some of the best years of our lives passed in the employ of others, except to educate us so that we may be capable, some day, of assuming charge ourselves, and fitting us to take the place of those whose active life must sooner or later be brought to a close ? “ Live and let live,” and when, by the aid of those who have labored long and earnestly for you, a competency has been secured, and you have a full share of this world’s goods, do not be a sordid, mean and unmanly as to throw obstacles in the way of the success of the young man who was once in you* employ. Give the boys a chance.

Earth-Eating Tribes.

M. Grevaux, a French naval surgeon, has lately been exploring the northern parts of South America, more especially in the valley of the Orinoco and its affluents. Among other facts of observation, he states that the Guaraunos, at the delta of that riVer, take refuge in the trees when the delta is inundated. There they make a sort of dwelling with branches and clay. The women light, on a small piece of floor, the fire needed for cooking, and the traveler on the river by niglit often sees with surprise long rows of flames at a considerable height in the air. The Guarauuos disEose of their dead by hanging them in ammocks in the tops of trees. Dr. Crevaux, in the course of his travels, met with geophagous or. earth-eating tribes. The clay, which often serves for their food whole months, seems to be a mixture of oxide of iron and some organic substances. They have recourse to it more especially in times of scarcity; but, strange to say, there are eager gourmands for the substance, individuals in whom the depraved taste becomes so pronounced that they may be seen tearing pieces of ferruginous clay from huts made of it and putting them in their mouths.

Homes for Bachelors.

Improvident marri; gsi Are Often Attributed to the fact ixilli illLxij llllii j weary and disgusted with boardinghouse life, rush into inatr mony to escape the miser) they have suffered. To remedy this it is proposed that houses,

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fitted up With commodious but not extravagant apartments, be built for the exclusive use of single men. Hie experience tried in New York some time Hgo has proved so successful that the Bene dict*tenement-liouse system is to be extended.

A Touching Story.

Calamity is the name of d ttiatl tvho lives at the gold camp of Cummins City, He has another name, but nobody seems to know what it is. It has been torn off the wrappers someway, and so the boys call him Calamity. He is a man of singular mind and eccentric construction. The most noticeable feature about Calamity is his superstitious dread of muscular activity. Some people will not tackle any kind of business enterprise on Friday. Calamity is even more the victim of vague superstition, and lias a dread of beginning work on any day of the week, for fear that some disaster should befall him. Last spring he had a little domestic trouble, and his wife made complaints that Calamity had worn out an old longhandled shovel on her, trying to convince her about some abstruse theory of his. The testimony seemed rather against Calamity, and the miners told him that as soon as they got over the rush a little, and had the leisure, they would have to hang him. They hoped he would take advantage of the hurry of business and go away, because they did not want to hang him so early in the season. But Calamity did not go away. He stayed because it was easier to stay than to go. He did not, of course, pine for the notoriety of being the first man hung in the camp, but rather than pull up stakes and move away from a place where there are so many pleasant associations, he concluded to stay and meet death calmly, in whatever form it might come.

One evening, after the work of the day was done and the boys had eaten their suppers, one of them suggested that it would be a good time to hang Calamity. So they got things in shape and went -down to the big Laramie bridge. Calamity was with them. They got things all ready for the exercises to begin, and then asked the victim if he had anything to say. He loosened the rope around his neck a little with one hand so that he could speak with more freedom, and holding his pantaloons with the other, said: “Gentlemen of the convention, I call you to witness that this public demonstration toward me is entirely unsought on my part. I have never courted notoriety. Plugging along in comparative obscurity is good enough for me. This is the first time I have ever addressed an audience. That is why I am embarrassed and ill at ease. You have brought me here to hang me because I seemed harsh and severe with my wife. You have entered the hallowed presence of my home-life, and assumed the prerogative of subverting my household descipline. It is well. Ido not care to live, so long as my authority is questioned. You have already changed my submissive wife into an arrogant, self-reliant woman. Yesterday I told her to go out and grease the wagon, and she straightened up to her full height and told me to go and grease it myself. I have always been kind and thoughtful to her. When she had to go up into the guich in the winter after firewood, my coat shielded her from the storm, while I sat alone in the cabin, through the long hours. I could name other instances of unselfishness on my part, but I will not take your time. She uses my smoking tobacco, and kicks my vertebrae up into my hat on the most unlooked for occasions. She does not love me any more, and life to me is only a hollow mockery. Death, with its wide waste of eternal calm and its shoreless sea of rest, is a glad relief to me. I go, but I leave in your midst a skittish and able-bodied woman, who will make Romo howl. I bequeath her to this camp. She is yours, gentlemen. She is ail I have to give, but in giving her to you I feel that my untimely death will always be looked upon in this gulch as a dire calamity. The day will come when you will look back upon this awful night and wish that I was alive again, but it will be too late. I will be far away. My soul will be in a land where domestic infelicity and cold feet can never enter. Bury me at the foot of Vinegar Hill, where the sagehen and the fuzzy bumblebee may gambol o’er my lowly grave.” When Calamity had finished, an impromptu caucus was held. When it was adjurued, Calamity went home to his cabin to surprise his wife. She has not yet fully recovered from her surprise.

Alpine Climbing a Trade.

Alpine climbing has within the last twenty years become a science and a trade.” Alpine clubs accumulate experience which is at the disposal of all the world. They have their newspapers and their annual dinners, and their monthly meetings. There are shops where every mountaineering requisite is sold, and so numerous are the guides that it is hard nowadays for even the best of them to make a living. These natives of the Alps make mountaineering easy. They point out to us the safest roads, and warn us against the most dangerous rocks. They cut for the daring adventurer a step in the ice Blope, and after he has put his foot in it they even assist his. upward joUrney by a friendly push behind. Any danger of falling into a crevasse is avoided by the party being tied together, and a precipice is brought within reach of the average tourist by a rope ladder. Hence, unless the ascent is entirely a new one, there is really little danger to encounter. The ordinary mountaineer climbs for pastime and applause, and he must be a spiritless caitiff indeed who knows not the zest which such danger as the usual, but now and then inevitable, avalanche imparts to what is one of the tamest of sports. The Alpine climber, it is true, sometimes sets up claims to be reckoned among the pioneers of science. He now and then prints a dull drawing-room book, with pretty pictures, and fondly imagines that he ranks with Saussures, Tschudes, Schlan-Gentweits, Forbeses, Payers and Tyndalls, who were first attracted to the Alps by a love of what Bacon called “natural knowledge,” but their work was carried on at elevations which the Alpine athlete would not condescend to visit, and where there is really less peril to an explorer than to a policeman in tne Seven Dials on a Saturday night. The people who insist on writing letters to the papers about the necessity of looking after these reckless folks waste their sympathy. The average Alpine tourist is perfectly able to take care of himself. When he foolishly courts danger, the verdict must be that after all he fuss a right to choose his own way of making his exit from a world in which he cannot otherwise achieve distinction.

Thu assessed value of the property of the Chinese in California is estimated at $1,600,000,

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INDIANA NEWS.

The Muncie temperance people are making a strong tight against lioense. Editor Keil, of the Gazette, has beefli reappointed Postmaster at Fort Wayne. A Norman horse weighing 2.045 pounds was lately sent to the New York market from Lafayette. The fine steamboat John S. Hopkins, built at a cost of #40,000, was burned at the wharf at Evansville. A son of Senator Dan Voorliees will, it is said, appear upon the dramatic stage next year with a company organized by himself. Mr. Draper, a resident of Hammond, died in the dental chair of Sovereign Brothers, in Chicago, while under the influence of chloroform. The safe of Marine, Brooder & Co., Lafayette grocers, was blown open by thieves and robbed of cash to the amount of about #l5O. Fort Wayne has voted #150,000 to the New York, Chicago and St. Down* road, on condition that it build construction and repair shops to employ 1,500

men. Farmers in Southern Indiana state that the growing wheat is entirely too thick, the roots and stalks being stronger than was ever known at this season. The New Albany Street Railway Company offered Mrs. Featheriugill #SOO to settle a suit for personal damages, and, the case going to a jury, they awarded only #275. William Patterson, a farmer living near Brazil, killed his sou, aged 5 years, by accidentally discharging a gun. Tins entire charge entered the boy’s head, tearing it to pieces. Judge Gresham, of the United States Court, sentenced Dr. H. C. McDowell to pay a fine of #IOO and costs for sending obscene matter to Miss Amanda Rockhill through the mail. The Bureau of Statistics has prepared a table which, though somewhat ancient in date, shows the amount of fruit raised in the State in 1880. There were (>,- 080,698 bushels of apples, 50,240 of pears aud 669,398 of peaches. Oscar Noe, a school-teacher at Warren, Huntington county, revenged himself upon a successful rival in (i lovematch by firing the stoic of the bridegroom and destroying the residence where the bride was stopping.

Armistead Lewis, a wealthy farmer who disappeared from Hope, Bartholomew county, has returned, but gives no very satisfactory account of liis wanderings or the reason for them. Ho lias been to Tennessee and Canada. Jonathan Winslow, of Delaney’s Creek, Washington county, aged 78 years, got upon a horse and started to ride him to water. Ho was last seen near the creek, all well apparently. In about ten minutes another person came along and found him dead in. the highway. New Indiana patents: T. M. Bales, Dublin, cockle-machine; M. Hedrick, Oakland City, aid-binder attachment for harvesters; W. Hossman, Richmond, caster; W. Hessman, Richmond, furni-ture-caster ; A. Hosack, Silver Lake, bridle ; W. Kendall, Logansport,showerbath ; M. C. Meigs, Romney, cultivator; E. W. Poston. Fort Wayne, car-brake and starter ; J. R. Rude, S. B. and G. W., Liberty, grain-drill (reissue). G. A Wagner, Portland, steam generator. In answer to an inquiry as to whether the Commissioners of a county can lawfully order all the county advertising to be dwne in a paper designated by them, the Attorney General expresses the opinion that under the act of March 9, 1875, it is the duty of the Auditor to make the publication ; that he has the right to determine what paper in the county has the largest circulation, and his decision is final. In the case of Sheriffs, Clerks aud administrators, no one has the authority to control their action in selecting a paper for the publication of their notices, unless it be the court, and even its power is doubted.

A dreadful murder was recently enacted near Greencastle. Benjamin Lynch, a farmer with an unenviable reputation as a bully, and whose wife had recently obtained a divorce from him on the ground of brutal treatment, started to see his child and get some articles belonging to him, when he was met near the house by his two stepsons, who shot him four times in the abdomen, and then beat out his brains with a club. The Coroner held an inquest on the body, and the jury returned a verdict of willful and premeditated murder in the first degree against the Young boys. Lynch, the murdered man, was a cousin of the lato Gen. Nelson Trussler. The annual report of the Directors and officers of the Southern Penitentiary at Jeffersonville has been submitted to the Governor. The Warden’s report shows the number of convicts in the prison, Oct. 30, 1880, to bo 5(52 —received from the courts, 225 ; total, 787 ; total discharges, 2.(59, leaving in prison 518 convicts. The unexpended balance of the general appropriation is $2,221.38. The average cost of each .convict per day was 39 3-25 cents. The daily number of men employed was 425, and the total earnings on contract labor were $57,007.04, and the total expenses of the institution for the year were $74,881. During the year there were nine deaths. Since the penitentiary was opened, 7,260 convicts have been received. Twenty-two per cent, of the convicts this year could neither read nor write, and 60 per cent, were married. State Treasurer Hill has submitted to Gov. Porter his report for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31. The total net receipts from all sources during the year, and including $888,865.37 balance on hand Nov. 1, 1880, were $4,167,025. The net disbursements for the year for all purposes were $3,426,374.28, leaving a balance in the treasury Oct. 31, 1881, of $740,650.72. Tlie total receipts of the general fund, including $501,589.84 balance on hand Nov. 1, 1880, were $6,912,920.02. The largest items of expenditure were : Exihuisos of penal and benevolent institutions, $012,415.39; the State judiciary, $147,828.83; the payment of interest on the State debt, $285,500.09; sessions of the Legislature, $146,626.58, and the payment of the warloan bonds, $139,000. The foreign debt is shown to be $971,825.12, being a decrease of $12,215.70. The domestic debt consists of 6-per-cent, non-negotiablq bonds due the common-school l'uud interest payable semi-annually, amounting to $3,904,7851.22 ; making the total debt of the State $i,8i6.6(>3..’4.

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