Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1882 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Kwt.’ Edwin W. Stoughton, ex-Minister to Russia, died in New York of Bright’s disease. John Pierpont, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont, died at Vergennes, aged 76 years. The great sugar refinery of the Hon. Theodore A Havemeyer, located in Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire. The loss is stated at •1,500,000, and the insurance at about •900,000. The walls of Rannie & Sears’ buildtog, at Syracuse, which was recently burned, toppled over upon Tracy’s restaurant, killing three persons and injuring nine. The miners in the anthracite coal region are insisting on an advance in wages, and the operators propose to defeat the movement by restricting mining to three days each week up to the 15th of April, West. The reported massacre of a party of Chinese laborers by Apaches on the line of the Southern Pacific railroad in Arizona proves to have been a hoax. It is said the Chinameq employed in grading the railroad are always in sufficient numbers to repel an attack either by Indians or whites. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says that American Consul Willard, of Guaymas, Mexico, has received a dispatch from Hermosillo giving an account of a raid by Apaches in the district near Orava, between Bronzes and Trinidad. A. M. Maynard and some sixteen others were among the killed and wounded. The house of Joseph Posey was burned near Knife Falls, Minn., and Posey and two of his children perished in the flames. The lumbermen of the Upper Mississippi report themselves able to secure threefourths as many logs as in previous seasons. One of the party of seven Indians who murdered L. D. Perkins and wife in Washington Territory was hanged at Yakima. Three have been executed and three others were shot while resisting arrest South. The Exposition building at Atlanta was sold for •200,000, and will be metamorphosed into a cotton factory. Peter Mankins, who had been a Democrat and a Baptist for 111 years and a fraction, closed his career in Washington county, Ark., last week. In consideration of a grant of 3,000,000 acres of land, a Rock Island firm has con-' tracted to erect a capitol for the State of TexasThe building is to be 366 feet high, 566 long and 285 in depth, the seventh highest building in the world, and the second in the United States. J. T. Lloyd, famous as a New York map publisher, has been arrested at Nashville, Tenn., and is now in jail under a true bill for obtaining money fraudulently.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The National Board of Health receives word of the continuous spread of the small-pox. It is proposed tbat all Postmasters and Government employes be vaccinated. The addresses of all proprietors of bovine-vu-us farms are asked for. The star-route sureties were before the Police Court at Washington, aud gave bail, excepting Barringer, Hoyt and Donohoe, who were committed to jail in default of bonds. Boone was released on $15,000 bail, and the others on $2,000 each. The war against* polygamy will be waged with great energy in Congress this winter. The Government printers are endeavoring to inaugurate a movement to secure an increase of pay. The House Committee on Appropriations has authorized Chairman Hiscock to report an item of $540,000 to cover the deficiency in the census funds.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. Hon. Richard H. Dana, Jr., died Recently at Rome, Italy. An instructive statement of the composition of the Territorial Legislature of Utah has been prepared to be submitted to Congress for its information and guidance. It appears from this statement that, out of thirty-six members composing the General Assembly of Utah, and paid, like other Territorial Legislatures, out of the treasury of the United States, thirty-two are high officers of the Mormon Church, bound by their oaths to obey the doctrines of the church in all things, secular as well as spiritual, and twenty-eight are living in polygamy in violation of the law of Congress of 1862. Advices from New Foundland report the loss on that coast of the steamer Lion, with all on board, consisting of over forty people. Two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, taken twice a week, acts as a thorough preventive of small-pox. This is what the nurses in the pest house at Chicago use. Ama jority of them have never had the disease, and thus fortified they have no fears of catching it A man in the Chicago small-pox hospital is suffering from his third attack of the loathsome disease, which is something remarkable.’ A second attack is by no means rare, although, as a general thing, it comes but once. Mr. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State, bas just received toe following telegram from our Charge d; affaires at St. Petersburg, respecting the fate of the Jeannette and her crew: “Danenhower and five of the crew of the whale-boat arrived at Zakutsk, Dec. 17. They are comfortably lodged, and all lheir wants supplied. Melville and six men are expected soon. Capt. De Long and the crew of the first cutter had not been found up to Nov. 16, the last date Boulonenga reported. The, Jeannette was caught in the pack Oct 1, 1879, drifted with the winds and currents till June last, and was then abandoned. Hoffmann.”

POLITICAL POINTS. It is stated that George H. Pendleton is formally in the field as the civil-service-reform candidate for 1884. The movement to curtail the power of the Speaker is growing to strength. Republican members of the House, who are dissatisfied with the organization of the committees, now recognize Orth as their leader. Mr. Orth will introduce a resolution transferring the power of committee appointments to the House. Prominent Southern Republicans are bringing strong pressure to bear upon the President to have Secretary Hunt, of the Navy, retained in that position. In the Republican caucus of the lowa Legislature, on the 10th tost., James F. Wilson was nominated United States Senator for the long term, and J. W. McDill for the Kirkwood vacancy. The Committee on Ways and Menna

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fn the national House of Representatives have decided to refer all tariff measures to a subcommittee, to be appointed by Chairman Kelley. The House Committee on Commerce has decided to hear no delegation except through members of Congress. One exception is made to case of the Mississippi Commission. ’ A delegation of Louisiana Republicans called on the President last week, to ask the appointment of Pinchback, the colored exGovernor, to the Collectorship of New Orleans. A Washington dispatch says there is excellent reason to predict that the President will make no more Cabinet nominations this winter. The delay is expected to prove fatal to the aspirations of ex-Benator Sargent The Republican bolters of Pennsylvania held a conference at Philadelphia and resolved to nominate an anti-Cameron State ticket on May 24. Secretary Folger has called in $20,000,000 in extended bonds, on which interest will cease March 13. FOREIGN NEWS. In consequence of a recent warning, the tomb of Napoleon at Chiseihurst will be connected with the priest’s house by an electric wire. The Khedive of Egypt has been notified that England and France, which placed Rim on the throne, are determined to maintain his authority against any attempts to create disorder. Intelligence from Accra confirms the report from Cape Coast Castle, in November last, of the massacre of 200 young girls by order of the King of Ashantee. The girls were purposely captured for massacre in raids on the neighboring tribes. A St. Petersburg dispatch states that Admiral Saulkowsky, who sailed in the Russian man-of-war Chasseur in search of the Jeannette, has informed his Government that he had been in company with the Rodgers, search vessel, which he left Aug. to Irkutsk, and that the Rodgers bad sailed for Herald island, having heard that one of the Jeannette’s boats (containing corpses) had been cast ashore there. A Berlin paper which designated the Emperor's rescript as a coup d’etat has been seized by the police. A Belfast dispatch: The largest steel sailing ship afloat, registering 2,220 tons, has just been launched for Ismay, Imrie & Co., managers of the White Star line. It is named the “ Garfield,” and will be employed in the Australia and California trades. An earthquake in the district of Kanchow, Chim, caused the loss of 250 fives. Parnell and Dillon have written to the Town Clerk of Dublin thanking the corporation for the “ freedom ” conferred by them. The Czar has ordered a reduction of twelve million rubles per year in the payments to be made by peasants on lands which they received at the time of . their emancipation. The Emergency Committee dispatched a messenger by mail train from Dublin with a bag of writs to be delivered at police stations in Westmeath, Galway, Roscommon and Mayo. While the train was traveling at a rapid speed a gang attacked the messenger in the railway carriage, seized the bag, and destroyed the writs. The census of Paris gives the population as 2,225,900, against 1,948,800 in 1876. The Sultan has commissioned a numoer of German officers to reorganize his force of gendarmes. Germany has demanded of Holland facilities for the navigation of the Rhine and the protection of German fisheries. In Ireland large forces of the military arc employed to protect Sheriff’s sales and writ servers. The dead bodies of a process server and his nephew were found chained together in Lough Mask.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Large amounts of mutilated silver have been sent to the Treasurer of the United States for redemption. Instead of being able to do this, he is compelled to send all consignments to the mint, to be purchased as bullion. Nothing less than SIOO will hereafter be received at the mint, and the Treasurer cannot accept any packages. In the jail-yard at St. Louis, Thaddeus Baber and William Ward suffered execution on Friday, the 13th inst. A French Canadian, named Antoine Moreau, was hanged at Rimouski, Ont. At Wentworth, N. C., a crowd of 5,000 persons witnessed the execution of Eldridge Scales, Matilda Carter and Joe Hay, all colored. The new move of Bismarck in the direction of Holland is creating excitement to Europe. The movement is new, but the purpose is old. It has long been an open secret that Germany has desired to incorporate Holland in order that she may have readier access to the sea, and has been waiting for a pretext for action. That pretext appears to have come in the rejection of, or rather the failure to consider, Bismarck’s demands respecting the navigation' of the Rhine and the protection of German fishing interests. That there is something more than ordinary coolness between the two countries is evident by Bismarck’s order to the German representative at The Hague to demand his credentials and come home, and his dispatch of another representative having more ability and determination in presenting his demands. Out of this apparently slight pretext there may grow a radical movement that will distur b Europe. The South Carolina State Legislature have been apprised that within the past six weeks an exodus of 5,000 negroes occurred from one county. A serious conflagration occurred in the business portion of Galveston, Texas, resulting in a loss estimated at $1,600,000. A suhiCommittee has been appointed by Congress to consider and report on a system of postal telegraph in this country to be operated by the Government The Methodist University of Boston has come into possession of $2,000,000 bequeathed it by Isaac Rich, the fish merchant, ten years ago. A vein of petroleum has been discovered at Pomeroy, a few miles north of Leavenworth, Kan

Sumner’s Practice.

Near the close of Sumner’s career “Apphia Howard” said to him in his Washington home : “What are you doing here without Congress ? ” “Did you never see,” he asked, “ when, a train of cars is standing in a station’,* a man go around striking each wheel and every part of the machinery that has been under any strain ? He is testing it. I am doing this,” he continued, “ with my speeches. lam going over them sentence by sentence, and testing each, to see if there is one that gives an uncertain sound.” Music exerts a very perceptible influence on the circulation and respiration of human beings and animals.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 1882.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

THIBTY-NINTH DAT. The proceedings consisted to an exposition by counsel of the instructions on law points which they asked the Judge to give the jury. Mr. Davidge opened by reading and then elaborating the prayers of the Government, which ask the Judge to instruct the jury that, if the prisoner knew, at the time of the shooting, the difference between right wrong, he was at that time sane and responsible. Davidge, with the prayers in his hand, said in low but distinct tones and measured language ; “ And that they consisted firtt, of the above definition of sanity *. second, of the declaration that if the prisoner possessed ability to distinguish between right and wrong, no irresistible passion or impulse, no uncontrollable desire, no normal depravity. would excuse his act -, third, a declaration that the standard of insanity must be that of law; fourth, that no delusion, ability to distinguish between right and wrong being present, would excuse the prisoner.” He said that the law drew a line of responsibility for crime somewhere. It had not been fully defined until the Judges of England to 1843, at the request of the House of Lords laid down the legal rule defining responsibility. This rule was the good old right-and-wrong test —the rule of common sense. The law drew no line between the low degree of intelligence on one hand and the highest on the other in the respect of the responsibility for crime. Mr. Reed opened the argument for the defense in advocacy of the prayers presented by them. He premised his remarks by the concession that, in the use of a deadly weapon in such manner as to result in death, the law presumed malice. That need not be discussed. The question whether or not the killing of the President was done with malice was a question entirely and exclusively for the jury. The defense claimed the act was done without malice on the part of the defendant If the jury had reasonable doubt of the guilt of the accused, it was their duty to acquit him. They bad no discretion. As to insanity, the modern doctrine the better doctrine —was that if the jury had reasonable doubt ol the sanity of the accused at the time of committing the act, it was their duty to find him not guilty. Formerly, the insanity had to be proved by defendant beyond any reasonable doubt. FORTIETH DAT. Guiteau opened business by stating that he had received some 800 letters, most of them from ladies, as well as a check for •1,000 from the stalwarts of Brooklyn, and an other for SSOO from the stalwarts of New York. [Scoville states that the papers are worthless, like one sent him for $15,000.] “I want,” said the assassin, “this jury to understand how public opinion is on this ease.” A bailiff tried to silence him, when he turned upon him in a most vicious manner and snarled out: “You keep quiet and mind your business. Do not interfere with me when I am talking. If you had any sense you would understand your place.” Scoville then proceeded with his argument. His remarks were listened to with marked attention. He laid stress upon the propositions that insane men often knew the difference between right and wrong, and for that reason conceal their plans, and that the benefit of the doubt should attach to the plea of insanity when raised with the same force as when urged n connection with the commission of a crime. H's allusion to the decision of Judge Davis, “ who went out es his way,” he said, “ to pass upon something not involved in the case he was then considering,” brought Judge Porter to his feet with an indignant reply that the charge was false. Scoville retorted that the opinion of a man who sat on the same bench with a Barnard and a Cardozo should not be received with much consideration. Judge Porter, with even more vehemence, reiterated that the charge of counsel was absolutely false ; that Judge Davis never sat on the bench with either of the gentlemen named. “If an honorable member of the Federal judiciary is to be put upon trial here, I demand,” said Judge Porter, “ that the record be produced here upon which this base charge is made.” • Scoville insisted that when the style of proceedings best suited to a police court were introduced here by the prosecution, he should comment upon them as he deemed fitting. He should not be frightened by the tragic utterances of Judge Porter. He had heard the same notes years ago from owls at night in the woods of Ohio. Alluding to his controversies with Judge Porter, Scoville disclaimed any intention to transgress the bounds of propriety or the rules of practice, but he should criticise the conduct of counsel when it merited criticism, and threats of prosecution would not intimidate him. Citing the custom of counsel upon the other side of bowing to the jury upon entering, Scoville said : “Sometimes it is three bows all round ; sometimes more ; never lest than three. It has never been done by counsel upon this side, and I do not hesitate to criticise the propriety of it” Judge Porter—“ The gentleman is simply instancing his Jack of politeness. If he has no apology to offer, I shall certainly not apologize for him.” Corkhill next proceeded to read from printed slips an exhaustive argument upon the subject of jurisdiction. Davidge then discussed at length the question of malice. He also discussed seriatim the prayers of the defense, and pointed out “ their sophistries and inconsistencies.” The prisoner followed the argument with the closest attention, and indulged in frequent and noisy comments. FORTY-FIRST DAY. At the opening of the trial, Judge Porter began his argument, and at once commanded the attention of every person in the court-room. Writhing under the flagellations administered, the assassin shouted out that he is willing to go to the gallows if it be the Lord’s will. Judge Porter began his address with reference to tne disorder which had characterized the proceedings of the defense, and than spoke of Mr. Reed’s argument as lawyerlike and based on the only law points which, with any plausibility, could be adduced by the defense. Of Scoville’s argument he said it could only have been delivered by one of the' family of Guiteau, who, as he had himself boasted, had learned his law in the police courts, and acquired his manners among hooting owls in the woods of Western Ohio. Mr. Porter reviewed the argument of Mr. Davidge, pointing out its strong points. “Malice,” Mr. Davidge had rightfully said, “was, in the presumption of law, a question for the Judge, not the jury. Should the Judge decide, as the defense desired, that malice was a question of fact for the jury, he would overturn the law. He would create a precedent in this famous case which would inevitably be condemned through all time to come.” Mr. Scoville had objected that decisions in support of the prosecution’s postulate were as antiquated as his (Porter’s) style of oratory. “I never,” said Porter, “imitated any man, and never commented on any one’s oratory.” “I never,” said Porter, “sat at the feet of that Gamaliel, as Guiteau did. Whether my manners and morals would have been improved is for others to say. Judging from the disciple who is before you, he would scarcely seem to be an appropriate instructor for youth.” Proceeding to expound the law on the subject of malice, reading from the 1880 edition of Archibald’s “Criminal Practice,” Porter dwelt upon the premeditation of Guiteau. , Referring to his lyings to wait and to his dodging the footsteps of the President, he said: “Was this worthless vagabond the man to be selected and inspired by God, a cheat, a swindler, a creature of vilest habit. He, then, is junior in the firm of Jesus Christ & Co. This murderer, tracking his victim at night, at church, at railroad station, everywhere, till the deed is done. But grant this hideous pretension, and allow him the inspiration of Paul, which he impiously quotes, that does not protect, as it did not protect Paul from stripes and death.” Porter went on to say that alihragh the President had died the Government still lived, and his successor was prosecuting his assassin. “Yes,” said Guiteau, “ and Arthur employed you under a misapprehension.” “Yes,” said Judge Porter, “under a misapprehension that the law was stronger than Guiteau. Guiteau seems to think that he’s stronger than the law.”

“I do not claim to be stronger than the law, but God Almighty is stronger than the law,” said Guiteau, sullenly. “You will come before God Almighty presently,” said Porter solemnly. Until then he would do well to refer but little to Him. He will feel soon what be has never felt before, the divine pressure to the form of a hangman’s noose. The prisoner had sworn on the stand that he was predestined to remove the President. He bad forgotten to say he was also predestined to be hung for it Speaking again of Us in|errpptions. and of the promptings of

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

hi, family, Porter said he had a supreme contempt for all Guiteaus—not the respectable ones—but those who sympathized with the then took up the authorities cited by the defense, pronouncing them either misreported or bad tow from obscure benches. Judge Porter concluded his masterly argument by reading the now famous letter of President Garfield to Judge Payne, to which he complimented and thanked him for brushing away the network of sophistries with whichrt has of late years been customary to develop the plea of insanity when set up to excuse for crimes. Judge Cox decided that jurisdiction is complete at the place where a wbttod. is inflicted, and that an appreciation of the difference between right and wrong is the coßrect test of insanity. FORTY-SECOND TAT. Mr. Davidge addressed the jury to behalf of the prosecution. He began by commending the jury for its dignified deportment and patient attention to the evidence throughout the trial The assassin began a series of interruptions, but, finding he could not disconcert the eloquent advocate, he gradually relapsed into silence. “In the beginning,” said Mr. Davidge, “it was sought to show that the prisoner was off his balance. Now the court tells you to look for that degree of insanity that disables a man from knowing that what he was Joing was , wrong. This is the test you are to apply. Upon ’ the question of inspiration, I think I will be able to show to your satisfaction how little there is in this claim. The only question,” he said, “ was that of insanity.” He then argued that the prisoner had that degree of intelligence, legal knowledge and the moral sense which rendered torn responsible for his acts. In a telling passage he showed that the prisoner himself had the wit to see the fatal weakness of Scoville’s line of defense, and repudiated it, arguing in his own behalf that he was no imbecile, but a sane man, whose intellect and will had been dominated dtqgng a specified period of time, rendering him irresponsible for this particular crime. He then reviewed the circumstances of the crime, and the victim and the criminal. His analysis of Guiteau’s character was graphic and effective. “If,” he exclaimed, “ 1 were to sum up the moral and intellectual qualities of this man, I should say that he had the daring of a vulture, combined with the heart of a wolf.” In speaking of Guiteau’s plan, he remarked upon his greater fear of the mob than of the law, and exclaimed: “We must say, to our shame, tha t this estimate had a foundation. It rested,” he added, “with the jury to show the world whether Guiteau’s opinion was well found sd. If he had feared the law as he feared the mob, our martyred head and chief would be alive to-day.” Mr. Davidge took up to order the case of each member of the Guiteau family upon whose mental condition evidence had been offered by defense, and recited in. connection counter-evidence of the prosecution, summing up the force of this evidence with the remark : “ But the unanswerable testimony of experts settles the question how much effect this collateral insanity could have upon the mental condition of the prisoner. It is but the merest mockery to discuss this question, in view of the undoubted ability of this man to distinguish between right and wrong.” Guiteauinterrupted once, and shouted: “I have always been a Christian man, and for six years have been strictly virtuous. Don’t forget that, either.” Davidge continued: “There is not a single fact, or single jot or tittle, to show'that this prisoner.was not perfectly responsible for his action on the 2d of July. The jury will find that the defense have carefully picked out aud held up to view everything in the entire career of this man which may be considered odd or peculiar, and it is for you to consider how much value can be attached to this evidence, when you come to consider whether this man did not know on the 2d of July that it was wrong for him to kill the Chief Magistrate of the nation.” Mr. Davidge then took up the Omeda Community, and spoke of Guiteau’s wallowing there for six years. Guiteau shouted: “ And I say it is false. I didn’t wallow. I’m just as pure as you are,. Davidge, and a good deal purer. I went there to save my soul, not from lust. Put that down, Davidge, and don’t you forget it.”

Mr. Davidge discussed the evidence of Charles H. Reed, who conversed with the prisoner the Tuesday before the shooting, and who thought he appeared “ a little off his balance.” “ And this, mark you,” said Mr. Davidge, “is the extent of his evidence as to tbat day. He was never asked if he thought he was unable to distinguish between right and wrong. Is it so very strange, gentlemen, that this prisoner should have appeared queer, when at that very time he was carrying in his breast this monstrous crime?” Counsel dissected, with startling perspicacity, the testimony of one witness after another, and pointed out the weakness and unreliability of those opinions of witnesses for the defense, which had been based in many instances upon the most meager acquaintance. Before ordering an adjournment Judge Cox asked counsel their wishes in regard to a speech from Guiteau. District Attorney Corkhill protested against his again being allowed to take a seat at the counsel table. Mrs. Scoville wept hysterically. Judge Cox instructed Mr. Scoville to read over the prisoner’s manuscript, and report to the court if it contained anything he desired to have go before the jury. FORTY- THIRD DAY. Mr. Davidge resumed his argument for the prosecution, and spent the day in a matter-of-fact and, at times, rather tedious review of the evidence. Passing lightly over the more unimportant parte, he laid marked emphasis upon the damaging testimony of John W. Guiteau, who, he said, was a most unwilling witness against his brother, but who was obliged, as a man of truth and honor, to affirm the prisoner’s sanity and his hateful, domineering, egotistic temper. John Guiteau’s testimony, at the time it was rendered, was universally commented upon as very bad for the defense, and the skillful use made of it by Mr. Davidge shows what importance the prosecution attached to it. This witness was from the very first opposed to the plea of hereditary insanity, as it touched himself and his children as nearly as it did the prisoner. Hence he rendered the prosecution very material help in attacking this line of defense" It is understood that he feels very indignant at Mr. Scoville for making this theory so prominent, and that after the trial is concluded he will set himself right before the public on the matter. Mr. Davidge, while he in no wise encouraged Guiteau’s interruptions, noticed them where it served his purpose, and bn several occasions made them the text for apropos and t Hing comment. His description of the prisoner’s own testimony was given in graphic sentences. He had been put on the stand, said Mr. Davidge, as a last hope, but, so far from sustaining the defense, he had removed any doubt which remained as to bls sanity. He, then commented on Guiteau’s character as testified to by several of the witnesses for the prosecution, showing that he was a thorough scoundrel, whose insanity consisted in an absurd, idea of his own consequence, which led him* to disregard all the rights of others which interfered" with his own convenience. “He may be a crank,” said the speaker, scornfully, “but he is responsible enough to be hanged.” , He proceeded to discuss the mqdical testimony, taking up the hypothetical qttistion of the defense and claiming thatfiti bajes were not sustained by the evidence, -fes aIR pointed out that the inquiry begged the question at issue and was artfully incomplete and unfair. Then he turned to the inspiration theory. “If he was inspired,” said Mr. Davidge, “it was from the devil—not from God. Substitute devil for God, and the meaning of m«ah this pressure is clear. Guiteau struggled ttainst it as every man tempted of the devß struggles, but he did not resist. He succumbed, and sin brought forth death.” As the orator drew his speech to a close the prisoner made several of his spiteful demonstrations, and singled out Corkhill for another tirade of abuse, quoting, as he has often quoted before, the action of the mills of tfe# gods. He said that they would, in their grilling, make slow but sure work of Corkhflff . When the earth in which a plant grows is much warmer than the-air, the plant grows very thick, csttoes ulmost altogether to increase in height, and finally shows deep transverse rifts, which make further growth an impossi- : bility. These effects were produced by M. Prilleux, who used a large dish of earth, in which he planted the seeds, and kept the earth 10 degrees warmer santhe moist air of the chamber.

RAILWAY DISASTER.

Terrible Accident on the Hudson Hirer Railroad. New York, Jan. 14. The two rear cars of the Atlantic express, iiom the west, on the New York Central and Hudson rivtr railroad, were crushed and jammed together by the Tarrytown local train, near Spuyten Duyvil creek, tost night The wrecked cars were set on fire, and nine persons are known to have perished to the flames. It is believed that at least three others must have been burned. State Senator Webster Wagner is supposed to have been crushed between two of his own drawing-room cars, and to have perished with the other victims. The Atlantic express left Albany at 3:20 p. m. nearly three-quarters of an hour behind time. The train was a heavy one, comprising thirteen cars. Next to the locomotive were two mail cars and a baggage car. Behind them were three ordinary passenger cars. Five Wagner drawing-room cars completed the train. Tney were the Red Jacket, Sharon, Vanderbilt, Minnehaha and Empire. The Empire was the rear car. At Greenbush, on the opposite side of the river from Albany, the Wagner drawingroom car Idlewild, from Troy, was coupled to the engine and became the last car of the train. The train was in charge of Conductor George Hanford, an old employe on theroad. The conductor of the drawing-room cars was Mr. Taylor. Two stops were made—one at Hudson and the other at Poughkeepsie. From this last point the train began to make up some of the lost time, A speed of at least forty miles an hour was maintained until the Spuyten Duyvil Creek Station was reached. Here the engineer slowed down, and the train suddenly came to a stop about midway between that station and the Kingsbridge Station. Something, it was said by the train attendants, was the matter with the air brake. For some reason it failed to work. It was then a few minutes past 7 o’clock. The delay must have continued between five and ten minutes. Suddenly one shrill blast from a locomotive was heard, when the sound of grinding wheels from the rear grated harshly on the ear. The next instant there was a 'shock which shivered the Idlewild to splinters, drove its heavy frame like a telescope into the Empire, and completely wrecked that car in an instant. Two minutes later the Idlewild was on fire from the stove in the forward end, which had been thrown over by the shock. The flames leaped upon the splintered Empire, and that, too, was filled with fire and smoke almost before the occupants could escape. At least a dozen persons who were in the Idlewild were cut off from escape, caught by the jagged timbers, and there held to be slowly roasted alive. In the Empire were the following persons, all of whom managed to save themselves, though a number who were in the rear end had miraculous escapes from the swift’ advancing flames : State Senators John C. Jacobs ana John W. Browning, Assemblyman Alfred C. Chapin, Dr. J. W. Monk, of Brooklyn; J. Hampden Robb, Lucas L. Vanamen, James J. Costello, John McManus and Edward C. Sheehy, of New York—the three last Tammany men; Commissioner of Police Sidney Nicholas, Mr. Edward Kearney, Maurice J. Holahan, Commissioner of Emigration Ulrich, Mr. Edward Cahill, Charles Swan, Messrs. Joseph Doyle and Augustus Abel, two ladies, A. W. Lyman, correspondent of the New York Sun, and the Times' Albany correspondent. The three Tammany Assemblymen had just left a compartment at the rear of the Empire, where they had been making merry, and v(ere going toward the front of the car when the crush came, which splintered tne very compartment they had just abandoned. Senator )vpbster Wagner bad just passed them on hifr Way to the Idlewild. He was not ten feet fronFthe newspaper correspondent, and must have just stepped upon the rear platform of the Empire when th'e'ldTSWflnnror forward and telescoped the Empire. The first indication that the Empire’s passengers had of. danger was the single whistle of the locomotive of the local tram, the Tarrytown express. The shock hurled them from their seats, and they were flung along the car floor. The swivel chairs, wrenched from their fastenings, were thrown after them and lay piled on top of the struggling occupants. A shower of glass came down from over head, and the roof of the Empire was crushed in upon them by the weight of the Idlewild’s roof, which seemed to have been lilted bodily, and shot forward upon that of the Empire. To add to the confusion the lights began to glimmer and the darkness to deepen. Nearly all the occupants found their way out through windows whose sashes had been shattered by the shock. The ladies were buried in a heap of debris, and were extracted without having received any severe bruises. Assemblyman Monk was pinned between timbers close to the roof. The roof was pried off, and he was with great difficulty released. He was completely prostrated by the shock to his nervous system, and had to be assisted to the Minnehaha. The correspondents had, perhaps, as narrow an escape as anybody. They were in the rear of the car, at the side of the car which was inside of the curve which the track makes at this point. A gentleman who sat opposite them, and was consequently on the outside of the curve, was buried beneath the debris and was only released from his perilous position by the efforts of his two neighbors across the aisle. The fire was creeping slowly toward him and the smoke Was stifling, when he was pulled out and pushed through the window. Whether there were more passengers in one of the rear compartments of the Empire cannot be determined. As the last newspaper man climbed through the window he heard the screams of two women and the shouts of a man proceeding from the extreme rear of the Empire. Whether they were among that car’s passengers, or whether they were in the forward end of the Idlewild, which was launched far into the Empire, is not known. With the exception of Assemblyman Monk, the occupants of the Empire before mentioned all escaped with slight cuts or bruises. The noise of the collision was heard half a mile away, and the glare of the burning cars illuminated the country far around. A crowd of the residents of King Bridge and Spuyten Duyvil soon gathered. Axes were brought, and heroic endeavors to chop a hole in the side of the Idlewild were made. Nearly all of the Idlewild’s passengers were caught in the timbers, and were unable to move hand or foot. Their shrieks were appalling. The flames were gaining headway, and there was neither hose, nor pails, nor water at hand to quench them. Water there was enough in the creek, not 200 feet distant from the doomed cars, but in the absence of vessels of some description it could not be obtained. _ Finally some of the neighbors, whose dwell', ings fronted on the railroad track, fflrnished a few wooden pails. Valuable time had been lost, aud the flames were now beyond control. The villagers continued to throw water through the windows nearest those spots where a human voice could be heard, until the heat drove them far beyond a point where the primitive fire-ap-.paratus could be utilized. A new ganger wks'me an while threatening the thousand persona in the vicinity. The locomotive of the Tarrytown express was imbedded in the wreck of the Idlewild, its headlight a dozen feet within the car, a heavy head of steam was on, a red-hot fire was blazing in the fire-box, and there were grave doubts expressed by the engineer and fireman about the boiler resisting the tremendous pressure brought to bear upon it Water to quench the fire was called for. Then great shovelfuls of snow were piled into the furnace. The water-carriers ceased for a brief space to empty their pails upon the burning cars, and dashed their contents into the furnace. The dying persons in the ruins had to be abandoned to grapple with this danger, which promised death to so many of the living. The furnace fires were finally quenched, and attention was once more turned to the two burning cars, whose more solid timbers had by this time been eaten away by the fierce flames.. Ten minutes had elapsed since the accident. The last sound from the intombed passengers had died away. Nothing was heard but the crackle of the fire and the Shouts of the villagers, half mad -with excitement at the thought of human beings dying before their eyes, and they unable to afford them succor. Suddenly the idea of throwing snow on the burning cars was suggested by somebody to the throng. Hundreds of hands began to roll up big balls. They were passed over the fence to those who, braving the heat, ran alongside the fiery piles snd tossed them through the windows to be licked up by the flames. Ladders were procured and efforts made to punch holes through the qar panels. Never did men work with more desperate energy than did these Spuyten Duyy.il and Kingsbridge villagers. The dead bodies were reached one after another as the fire died my.

The first wm that of a portly woman, perhaps about 60 yean of age. The next two bodies were those of a groom and bride who were on their wedding trip. The husband wm Park Valentine, a young man of 22, who wm in business with his father to the manufacturing of knit goods to Bennington, Vt. The maiden name of his young wife was Louise Gaylord., They were mamed in North Adams, Mass., Thursday night, and were on their way to New York. The burned and mutilated bodies were found very near together, and it is supposed that they met death simultaneously. Both were evidently killed by the first shock of the collision. Six more bodies were found, but so charred and burned that there was nothing about them positively to find their identity.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

The woman-suffrage question assumed a new phase to the Senate on the 9th tost, which may indicate that it is to become a live issue to American politics. On Bayard’s amendment to refer the Hoar resolution to create a standing committee on woman suffrage to the Judiciary Committee, the Republicans voted “ No ” unanimously and the Democrats voted “Aye.” Davis, of Illinois, voted with the Republicans. Mr. Teller introduced a bill for the issue of certificates for bullion deposited in the treasury, and Mr. Rollins an act for the organization of the Territory of Oklahoma. Mr. Sherman explained his 3-per-cent. bond bill, and earnestly urged its passage. Mr. Logan flung to a proposition to devote to general education all tiie moneys received by Internal Revenue Collectors from the manufacture or sale of liquors. The President nominated Maj. George B. Schofield to be Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixth Cavalry, and Jack Wharton to be Marshal of the Eastern district of Louisiana. In the House bills were introduced, by Mr. Kasson; for a commission to investigate the tariff and internal revenue laws; by Mr. Caldwell, to repeal the arrears-of-pensions aot; by Mr. Page, to make the anniversary of the discovery of America a legal holiday; by Mr. Smith, for the distribution of pure vaccine matter to the people ; by Mr. Payson, to make polygamy a disqualification for office to the Territories ; by Mr. Henderson, for the construction of the Mississippi and Illinois canal; by Mr. Willis, to reduce letter postage to 2 cents ; and by Mr. Cassidy, to restore to the public domain land granted the Northern Pacific road. In the Senate, on the 10th inst, Mr. Bayard reported favorably the Morrill tariff-commis-sion bill, and pronounced against the Garland measure. He said he favored removing the tariff question from the arena of sectional feeling by selecting civilians for Commissioners. Mr. Beck opposed the Morrill bill as a scheme of monopolists to secure delay. The House took preliminary action on the Utah contest, referring it to the Committee on Elections. From the debate it was evident that among Republicans as well as Democrats there is a disposition to reject Gov. Campbell’s certificate because it assumes to decide, not the question of election, but the question of qualification to serve as a member of the House. A large number of petitions, asking for a commission to inquire into the liquor traffic, were presented in the Senate on the 11th inst, nearly every Senator submitting one or more. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution directing the Committee on Woman Suffrage to report a bill to annul any law conferring upon women in Utah the right to vote. The Sherman funding bill was taken up, and Mr. Vest declared that the Democratic measure of last year would have saved the people $15,000,000 annually in interest; that the payment of the public debt would wipe out national banks, and the latter do not intend to surrender their charters. Mr. Sherman replied that the banks were subject to the will of Congress, and that it is fortunate that the bill of last year failed. Mr. Brown offered a resolution to supply each Senator with a clerk. In the House, Mrs Orth offered a resolution instructing tho Committee on Civil-Service Reform to report a different mode of appointing committees. After a spirited contest the resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules. Mr. Haskell, as a question of privilege, presented a resolution declaring that no Polygamist is entitled to admission to the House as a delegate, but the House voted that the resolution did not present a privileged question. Mr. Burrows presented a bill to define the qualifications of Territorial delegates, making polygamists ineligible, but Gen. Singleton objected. Mr. Robeson introduced a bill which calls for a return to the Government of lands granted to railroads in those cases where the conditions of the grant have not been fulfilled. A bill to authorize a bridge across the Missouri river, within five miles of St Charles, was passed by the Senate on the 12 th inst Mr. Ingalls defended the Arrears-of-Pension act, and offered a resolution against its repeal, which was laid over at the request of Mr. Beck. Mr. Kellogg introduced a bill to extend the limits of the port of New Orleans, and appropriating $200,000 to improve the harbor. A communication was presented from the Chicago Historical Society, asking ca operation in the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi by La Salle. A prolonged debate took place on the 8 per cent funding bill. Mr. Plumb renewed his amendment requiring the redemption of all United States bonds from the treasury funds in excess of $100,000,000. In the House, Mr. Bayne introduced a bill to sweep away all the bank taxes, and Mr. Browne a measure for the issue and exchange of fractional treasury notes. An appropriation of $540,000 for work on the census was passed. Mr. Browne offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a statement of the amount annually required for pensions during the next quarter century. Both houses adjourned till Monday, the 16th.

The Original Aesthete.

A New York dispatch says that Oscar Wilde lectured to a large and fashionable audience at Chickering Hall. He was dressed to a black dress coat, white vest extremely low cut, shirt, with flowing white silk cravat, black kneebreeches, brown stockings and slippers. He chose as his subject “The English Renaissance,” which he said was the work of esthetics. Decoration, he said, was a science of art, and all teachings would amount to nothing if the workmen were not surrounded by beautiful things. For if they did not see them they could not make them. Art should not be, as in the past, only contrast with surrounding misery. In conclusion he said: “You have all heard of those two flowers dear to the esthetic’s heart, the rose and lily; but we do not love them for the reason given by Gilbert, nor for any vegetable preference, but because they are the most perfect specimens of design—the rose, with its leonine beauty, and the lily, the emblem of chastity and purity. Then why look further for the secret of life when the secret of life is out?"

Garfield’s Physicians’ Fees.

A recent telegram from Washington says. Dr. Bliss has returned from New York, where he met the other physicians of the late PresL dent Garfield for consultation relative to fees. The various sums agreed upon foot up SIIO,OOO. It is said that Bliss has taken charge of the claims of all the physicians, and will present them to the Congressional committee. It is understood that he will ask for himself $50,000. for Drs. Agnew and Hamilton $16,000 each, for Dr. Beyburn SB,OOO, and for Dr. Boynton and Mrs. Dr. Edson SI,OOO each. Dr. Woodward and Burgeon General Barnes get nothing, because they were in Government employ, aqd it is said they are to be promoted by way of recompense for their services. In answer to the question, wbat was to go to the railroads, a friend of Dr. Bliss remarked that he understood that the Pennsylvania railroad had refused to take anything, and tbat the State of Ohio would pay some other expenses, amounting to about $200,000.

" Overworked.”

He came home late at night, and his wife woke up and found him with a burning match trying to light the faucet over the marble basin in his dressingroom. “James,” she said, “that is not the gas burner.” “ I know it now, my love,” he replied, unsteadily; “fact is, I’ve been overworked and tha’s reason made mistake.” “ Yes, you look as if you had beqn lifting a good deal,” ahe quietly W~. ewwea, as she returned tq her pfliow. '

$1.50 uer Annum.

NUMBER 51.

A GRAND DOMAIN.

The Corrected Figures, Showing the Area of the United State*. [Washington Telegram to the Chicago Times.] Mr. Henry Gannett, the geographer of the tenth census, has just issued a bulletin giving the areas of the several States and Territories by counties. The information furnished is given with greater detail, and presumably with far greater accuracy, than in any of the previous census reports or other publications which have pretended to give it, and I have no doubt the general public, even that part of it which finds it convenient to get along without a great deal of really exact information, will find much of it interesting. There are few people, I take it, who have any very definite idea of the comparative size of the several States, Territories and districts of this glorious country of ours, and doubtless a good many tolerably well-informed persons will be surprised to see how small some of our big States really are when compared With our little Territories. For example, it majr astonish some to learn that Idaho is nearly as large as New York and Pennsylvania, and that we haven't a Territory in the world, save one, that isn’t bigger than New England. Ohio doesn’t begin to be half as big as Wyoming, and Illinois would be lost in either Dakota or Montana, while the thirteen original States together are less than a third larger than Texas. For the gurpose of showing the order in which the tates and Territories stand, when judged by their size, I have transposed Mr. Gannett’s table, with the following result:

Gross Area. Total Water Surface. Total Land Surface.

States and Territories.

1 Texas... 265,778 8,490 262,290 2. California 158,360 2,380 155,980 8. Dakota.. 149,100 1,400 147,700 4. Montana 146,080 770 145,310 5. New Mexico 122,580 120 122,460 6. Arizona. 113,020 100 112,920 7. Nevada..... 110,700 960 109,740 8. Colorado 103,925 280 103,645 9 Wyoming 97,890 315 97,575 10. Oregon 96,080 1,470 94,560 11. Utah. 84,970 2,780 82,190 12. Idaho 84,800 510 84,290 13. Minpeaota 83,365 4,160 79,205 14. Kansas 82,080 150 81,700 15. Nebraska 76,855 670 76,185 16. Missouri 69,405 680 68,735 17. Washington Ter 69,180 2,300 66,880 18. Indian Territory 64,690 600 64,090 19. Georgia 59,475 495 58,980 20. Michigan 58,915 1,485 57,480 21. Florida 58,680 4,440 54,240 22. Illinois 56,650 650 56,000 23. Wisconsin 56,040 1,590 54,450 24. lowa 56,025 550 53,475 25. Arkansas 53,850 805 53,045 26. Alabama 52,250 710 51,540 27. North Carolina. 52,250 3,370 48,580 28. New Yorkl 49,970 1,550 46,020 29. Louisiana 48,720 3,300 45,420 30. Mississippi 46,810 470 46.340 81. Pennsylvania. 45,215 230 44,985 32. Virlglnia 42,450 2,325 40,125 83. Tennessee 42,050 800 41,750 84. Ohio 41,060 800 40,760 85. Kentucky..... 40,400 400 40,000 86. Indiana 36,360 440 85 910 37. Maine. 83,040 3;145 29,895 88. South Carolina., 30,570 400 30,170 39. West Virginia 24,780 135 24,645 40. Maryland 12,210 2,350 9,860 41. Vermont. 9,565 430 9,135 42. New Hampshire 9,305 300 9, 1 05 43. Massachusetts 8,315 275 8,040 44. New Jersey 7,815 360 7,455 45. Connecticut... 4,990 145 4,855 46. Delaware 2,050 90 1,960 47. Rhode Island 1,250 165 1,089 District of Columbia.. 70 10 60 Unorganized territory 5,740 5,740 Delaware bay.. 620 620 Raritan and Lower New York bay 100 100 *■ Total area..... 3,025,600 55,600 2,970,000

The total area of the United States as reported by the census of 1850 was 2,980,959 square miles. The census of 1860 made it 8,026,494, and that of 1870, which included the newly-acquired territory of Alaska, some 577,599 square miles, gave it at 8,603,884. The figures for the States, and such of the Territories as still retained the same boundaries, are the same for 1870 as 1850, indicatihg that no new computation was made for either the eighth or ninth census, and a foot note appended to the table of areas in the report for 1870 states that the increase of the total area of 1860 over 1850 represents the territory acquired from Mexico, known as the Gadsden purchase. Another note says that “the land surface of the United States, 8,608,884 square miles, when increased by the water surface of the great lakes and rivers, brings the total ares Of the United States up to 4,000,000 square miles. But this, according to Mr. Gannett, who is a very careful calculator, is quite wide of the mark, since, without counting Alaska, he is only able to make it 3,025.6U0 square miles, which, minus the principal lakes, rivers and ponds, leaves us 2,970,000 square miles of fairly dry land. This ought to be enough to satisfy anybody, and UnclejSam will probably be able to content himself with it, unless the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is abrogated, in which event the Lord only knows what he’ll do. But a careful study of these figures,more than anything else, will tend to convince one that there is indeed a world of country out West. In the ten prairie States, Ohio. Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, there are 616,775 square miles, only 10,818 of which are “ water lots.” There are, therefore, 605,940 square miles of more or less productive soil in this region, on the cultivated portion of which, in the year 1880, according to the reckoning of Mr. Robert P. Porter, of the Census Bureau, there was raised 326,720,466 bushels of wheat, 1,283,865,107 bushels of corn, 70,167,982 pounds of tobacco, nearly 6,000,000 horses, more than 8,000,000 cattle, over 12,000,000 sheep, and about 16,000.000 hogs. The total production of cereals of all kinds in these ten States, according to the same responsible authority, was 1,907,848,923 bushels, or more than two-thirds of the product of the entire country. These same States produced in 1880 1,912,839 tons of iron and stee], worth in the aggregate ♦76,983,686. The progress of manufacturing industries of all kinds injthese ten States during the last thirty years, is almost beyond belief. In 1850 there were 3,162 manufacturing establishments of all kinds in Illinois; in 1880 there were 19,095. which turned out a manufactured product worth ♦339.274,109. Wisconsin in 1850 had l,26%faetones of. all kinds, in 1880 she had 57,083, and turned out manufactured articles worth ♦104,239,340. The progress of manufactures in all these States has been equally rapid.

Origin of “Smother Evening.”

There was once a wicked king who hired a wicked murderer to smother two little princes-in a great big tower. So the picked murderer went to do his work With two fine goose feather pillows. The little princes tried to melt the iron heart of the wicked murderer, but they had no fire to put tfie heart in, and cdiild not do it, and he got ready to finish his job. When he came to them they wept piteously, and cried, “ Oh, do not kill us. Not this evening.” Then the wicked murderer laughed bitterly, and said, “Aha, not this evening? ' Smother evening?” And the little princes not knowing what a pun was, because they were good Sunday-school children, both cried, “Oh, yes, dear, good, kind man, some other evening.” Then he laughed loudly again, and repeated, “ Smother evening, and in a few minutes they were both ready for the undertaker, whc was standing at the front door kicking his toes against the brick wall to keep hit feet warm, and swinging his silvermounted tape measure in his hand. Thus do we see history itself.— Lampton. •

Southern Forests.

A Southern States paper gives some facts which show that those who prajje continually about the imminent exhaustion of forests leave a most important forest country out of account. The States of Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansan, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and West Virginia contain in the oraet named 58 to 66 per cent of fdrest land/ whereas Maine and Michigan, which now produce one-half of the lumber used, contain only 47 and 40 per cent, of forest land. North Carolina, Louisiana' and Mississippi have an even greater pxtent of forest land still uhtduohed than the States just named,'- Neither is the world generally nwwje of th? good.

Of JOB PRINTINO OFFICE Um better teoflMtes than any oOa to North uislMM Indiana for the sTsouti— of all bnsMbso td job fhiistt xixro. PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger te a Frtee-Ust. er team a rsmphlet to • Foster, "Stack or ootorod, plain or tan* SATISPACTIOir GUARANTEED.

quality of the timber in the South. All the trouble'is that, owing to the absence of snow, the wood is not won so cheaply as in the North. But, with railways penetrating the country in all directions, this state of affairs will soon be altered, and it is useless not to recognize the facts.

INDIANA ITEMS.

Th® citizens of Columbia City are making arrangements to take out a city charter. G. 8. Halb, of Wabash, has sold his fine stallion, Gen. Knox, to T. H. Wilhite, of Emporia, Kan., for SI,BOO. During the past year 1,104,371 cars were handled at Indianapolis, as against 859,391 in 1880. The number of loaded cars in 1881 was 816,767, and in 1880 727,383. Lewis J. Baker, of Bedford, a prominent and respected citizen, dropped dead immediately after eating a hearty supper. Apoplexy. Moral : Don’t eat a hearty supper. During the past year $83,564.33 were expended in Indianapolis for street improvements, and $40,745.61 for sewers. About SBOO,OOO were invested in building improvements during the year. Hon. Calvin Cowgill, Indian paymaster, has begun disbursing the final payment due from the Government to the remnant of the band of Miami Indians living iu the vicinity of Wabash. There are now but 375 members of the tribe left, and the amount to be paid them is $225,000, or about S6OO each. While Lewis Green, a farmer living in Grant county, was digging a ditch on his farm he unearthed portions of a mastodon’s skeleton. Seven years ago Green’s brother, while digging in the same place, found several teeth weighing over four pounds each. Green says that he now preposes to search for the rest of the bones. This discovery is the third one of the kind made in the vicinity during the past three years. A session of the Woman’s State Industrial Association was held at the State capital, the attendance being small. Papers were read by Mrs. Anderson, of Franklin, on “ Child-Rearing as a Business by Mrs. George Merritt, of Indianapolis, on “ Industrial Schools for Girlsand by Mrs. A. B. Campbell, of Indianapolis, on “ Woman’s Work in Indiana.” The following officers were elected : President, Mrs. Mary E. Haggart; f irst Vice President, Mrs. Dr. Annie B. Campbell ; Second Vice President, Mrs. F. W. Townsend ; Secretary. Miss Florineo M. Adkinson. Judge D. D. Banta, President of the State University at Bloomington, in his annual report to the Governor, shows receips, $31,461.90; expenditures, $30,045.43, leaving a balance of $1,416.58. The Financial Committee report the estimated receipts for the year ending Oct. 31, 1882, to be $35,866.58, including the cash balance of $1,416.58 and the State appropriation of $25,000. The Committee recommends the appropriation of $22,850 lor the purcli se of books and periodicals for the library, and other sums, aggregating in all $33,165, for the total expenses of the university for the current year. The Statistical Bureau of Indiana has completed a table showing the different vocations of women, ’and the number engaged therein, as returned by the various Township Trustees of the State. Women are engaged in fifty-two vocations, among which are the following : Apiarists, 37; authoresses and newspaper correspondents, 66; bar-tenders, as an occupation, 52; boarding-house proprietors, 533; book agents, as an occupation, 107; farmers, 2,252; clerks, as au occupation, 522; physicians, 98; printers as a trade, 51; preachers, 126; bookbinders, 57; basket makers, 10, and many other professions where women have not heretofore been known professionally. A meeting of the State Wool Growers’ Association was held at Indianapolis, Fielding Beeler, President, in the chair, and J. W. Robe, Secretary. Papers were presented by C. Darnell, on “Sheep—How to Increase the Number and Quality in Indiana ;” by the Hon. Robert Mitchell, on “ How We Shall Supply the Looms of the United States With All the Wool They Manufacture,” and by W. W. Sunman, on “Sugar Beets, Wurtzels, Rutabagas, Carrots and Parsnips in Relation to Sheep Husbandry." The following ofiicers of the association were elected : President, Fielding Beeler, Indianapolis; Vice President, R. J. Farquhar, Trenton; Secretary, J. W. Rohe, Green Castle ; Treasurer, S. W. Dungan, Franklin. The Delegate Board ot Agriculture, made up of abotrt seventy-five Presidents of District Boards and the members of the State Board, met at Indianapolis. President R. M. Lockhart delivered his annual address, in which he said that by the assistance of the Governor and the favor of the Legislature an act had been passed, by which the board was enabled to refund the loan on its ground and buildings for five yews, with the privilege of ten, at a much lower rate of interest. The board had paid off five of the original bonds out of the money earned by the fair. Instead of a bonded debt of $60,000, bearing 8 per cent, interest, as one year ago, there is now $55,000, bearing 6 per cent, interest, making a saving of $1,500 annually on the interest account. He recomniended a redistricting of the State for agricultural purposes, as the present law was totally inadequate to secure justice and equality. Alexander Heron, Secretary of the Board, submitted his annual report. It shows the total receipts for the -year to have bean $44,059.45, and expenditures of $24,061.43 in cash orders, and in premiums $6,885.50, leaving a balance of $13,142.52 iu the treasury. The net surplus realized from the State fair was $2,212.85. The figures show an increase of $1,278 over the receipts of the State fair in 1880. The Secretary stated that the remilts of the fair were especially encouraging in view of the unusual discouragements at the time, among them the drought, the assassination of the President, and counter attractions. The other reports showed a very encouragijig state of affairs. Prof. Stevenson, of Putnam county, read a paper on “Indiana’s Inducements to Immigrants,” and Prof. Campbell, of Wabash College, on “The Geodetic ■Survey of Indiana.” Gov. Porter delivered an address. Tire week of'Sept. 26 was chosen as the time for holding the State Fair. The following officers were elected: President, Henry C. Meredith, Cambridge City ; Vice President, L. B. Custer, Logansport; Secretary, Alexander Herron, Indianapolis; Qeneral BUperjntendent,Fielding Beeler, Indianapolis; Executive Committee, Robert Mitchell, John P. Baines, J. K. O’Neil gnd W. B. Seward. “ f 7, * ■ • •* - •