Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Nlut. The Catholic clergy of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pa., will hereafter refuse priestly absolution to members of the secret benevolent order of Knights of Labor. The Rev. Enoch Pond, President of Bangor (Me.) Theological Seminary, and connected for sixty years with that institution of earning, has just died at the age of 91. Tom Ballard, the famous counterfeiter, now in the penitentiary at Albany, N. Y., under a thirty years’ sentence, offers to give the Government a secret for making bank-note paper which will preclude all counterfeiting of notes and bonds, if the Government will grant him a pardon. Mrs. Judith Twombly died at Lowell, Mass., aged 103. Nearly fifty years ago she took a razor and removed from her side a cancer which extended to the bone and weighed twenty pounds. A ladle of molten metal overturning in Wallace H. Brink <fc Co.’s foundry at Burlington, Vt., the building was gutted, and Patrick Donnelly, Benjamin Wright, Thomas Crowley and James Hayden were fatally injured. A loss of $150,000 was incurred by the burning of the office of the Lancaster (Pa.) Inquirer and two adjoining buildings. Wert. Robert 0. Bailey, a teacher in a public school near the town of Redbud, Monroe county, IIL, was kilted by one of his pupils named Emmet Mcßride. The teacher undertook to chastise Mcßride for disobedience of the rules. The latter resisted. A struggle ensued, during which Bailey was stabbed to the heart and killed. One man was killed and two fatally injured by the premature explosion of a blast in a stone quarry at Joliet, HL In an interview in the Indianapolis Times W. H. English acknowledges that $30,000 slipped out of his ban-el iu the campaign of 1880. lowa has 17,714 special taxpayers, of which number 4,309 are liquor dealers, 12,779 tobacco dealers, and 566 brewers and distillers. A controlling interest in the St. Louis and San Francisco railway has been purchased from Messrs. Seligman by Jay Gould and C, P. Huntington. A bill has been introduced into the Wisconsin Legislature, imposing a tax of 15 cents on every 1,000 feet of logs run out of the State to foreign markets. John L. Kaiser, a steamboat clerk of Bt. Louis, was rendered insane by witnessing the execution' of Kotovsky and Ellis, and di<nl in the asylum. The house of Henry Cleer, of Des Moines, took fire in the absence of his wife, and two small boys were burned beyond recognition. Mrs. Catherine Brearton, a native of Ireland, who vividly remembered the scenes of the revolution of 1798, died in Cincinnati at the age of 102 years. The open winter is causing much in jury to the logging interests of Michigan, Wi« cousin and Minnesota. Five hundred citizens of Dakota, representing twenty-three counties, gathered at Sioux Falls to urge the admission of the southern half of the Territory as a State. A committee of 134 was selected to visit Washington. South. A man named John Nelson, while plowing on the farm of Robert Hicks, in Boono county, Ark., plowed up an iron box containing over $1,400 in gold coin. A lire which originated in the candy factory of F. E. Black, at Atlanta, Ga., destroyed seven buildings, on which the loss is estimated at $500,000. , Neal, one of the murderers of the Gibbons family at Ashland, Ky., has been sentenced to death. H. C. Caldwell, District Judge at Little Rock, Arie. threw into the grate a small package of white powder which he found on the mantel. A terrific explosion followed, in which, the Judge was blown across the room, the flesh torn from his arms, and his hair and whiskers scorched off.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. An attempt to assassinate President Salomon, of Hayti, was made by five armed men, who secreted themselves in the executive mansion. Forty arrests were made in connection with the plot The Coroner’s jury in the Spuyten Duyvil disaster declared Brakeman Melia guilty of willful and culpable neglect in not warning the approaching train, and pronounced him responsible for the loss of life which followed. George P. Hanford, the conductor of the wrecked train, and Edward Stanford, Archibald Buchanan, and Frank Burr, engineers, were held responsible for neglect of duty, as was also Superintendent Toucey. These men was found guilty of causing the death of Webster Wagner and others by criminal negligence. Vennor says February will be very cold. Cattle for breeding purposes will now bo imported into Canada under the same quarantine regulations as govern such importations into England. A verdict for SIOO,OOO was rendered in the Dominion courts against the Canada Central railroad for damages to lumber by forest fires started by locomotive sparks.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington telegram says the treasury investigation has practically reached an end. The majority report will not refleo upon Secretary Sherman, but will recommend that all purchases made from the contingent fund of the treasury shall be itemized. The Adjutant General has decided that all soldiers enlisted between June 22, 1861, and Aug. 6,1861, are entitled to a bounty. A number of citizens of Utah are in Washington endeavoring to secure a form of government for that Territory something simiar to that of the District of Columbia. For the first time since the nominal resumption of specie payments we are seriously threatened with an outflow of gold to Europe. Six survivors of the expedition sent out by Gen. O. M. Mitchell, in 1862, to destroy the Georgia State railroad, petition Congress to grant them a pension. A delegation from the recent National Tariff Convention, headed by John Roach, was before the House Committee on Postoffices and Post-roads, urging Government subsidies and the opening of new routes. The project for the creation of a commission to investigate the traffic in alcoholic liquors will be favorably reported to Congress as the special committee having the subject in charge have agreed to recommend the passage of the bill.

The Democratic Sentinel.

JAS. W. McEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

Gen. Robert B. Mitchell, of Kansas, formerly a member of Congress, died at Wash, ington after a brief illness. FOREIGN NEWS. Burlington Smith, the American ViceConsul at Bristol, England, died suddenly of heart disease. The Irish Land Court has before it no less than 70,060 applications for fair rents. The revolt against Austrian rule in Herzegovina and Bosnia is spreading fast. The rising seems to have been simultaneously planned and is not without organization. The position of isolated Austrian posts in Upper Herzegovina is very precarious, despite the feverish activity of the military authorities in dispatching reinforcements. Italy will not consent to armed intervention in Egypt by France and England, bolding that if force becomes necessary Turkey should supply the troops. The German Governmenthas presented a proposition to the Landtag for the purchase of six railways at present belonging to private companies. They will cost $119,000,000. By the explosion of a dynamite factory at Port Vendres, France, sixteen persons were killed. It is announced that France and England have arrived at a complete understanding in regard to their collective action, and will so inform the Porte. «■ The Russian peasantry are riotously resisting the taking of the imperial census. The political and financial complications in Europe have demoralized all the markets •VJholera has made its appearance i.mong the pilgrims in Allahabad, one of the Hindoo sacred cities of Northern India. An old man, aged 80 years, steward on the estate of Mrs. Morony, at Milltown, County Clare, Ireland, was shot dead by unknown assassins. The situation in Herzegovina is represented as extremely grave. The insurgents are concentrating their forces in an absolutely unassailable position which commands all the principal mountain passes and threatens important lines of communication. By a vote of 305 to 117 the French Chamber of Deputies rejected the Government bill for the revision of the constitution. M. Gambetta thereupon handed to President Grevy the resignation of himself and his entire Cabinet.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Violent gales caused great destruction of property throughout New England on the 27th and 28th ult. Three persons were injured at Pittsfield, Mass., and a church steeple was blown down. Extensive brick buildings were toppled over at North Adams. A four-story shoe factory at Nashua, N. H., was moved two feet out of line, stampeding 200 workmen. A building filled with carriages was overturned at Rochester, N. H. The roof of the gas house at Rockland, Me., was destroyed. Three buildings at Burlington, Vt, were robbed of coverings, and the ice was swept out of the bay in almost an instant. Two negroes were executed in Louisiana on Friday, Jan. 27 —August Davis at New Orleans And Ed Belton at Mansfield. A negro named John Morris was hanged at Shelby, N. C. Wash Roberts shot his wife to death and then committed suicide at Memphis. Jealousy. Speaker Keifer is a candidate for United States Senator. The National Distillers’ Association has a lobby in Congress in the interest of a bill reducing the tax on whisky to 50 cents per gallon. Mr. Blaine will deliver the eulogy upon the late President Garfield, before Congress, Feb. 27. The Russian authorities are assisting Melville, of the Jeannette crew, in his search for the missing men. Several large failures have occurred on the London Stock Exchange, due to the panicky condition of the Paris Bourse. An informer has revealed to the authorities the existence of a widespread and dangerous conspiracy in Clare, Limerick and Cork counties, Ireland. Austrian gens d’armes (police) are deserting on account of the atrocities committed by the Herzegovinian rebels on their Austrian prisoners. Six Mormon elders undertook to hold a street meeting at King’s Cross, London, but a large crowd made a raid upon them, severa 1 persons being hurt in the struggle. It is feared that the Utes, Piutes and Navajos are getting ready to go on the warpath in the spring. The Oklahoma warfare between Gen. Pope and Capt. Payne and his party of invaders is to be renewed in the courts. Payne has brought suit against Pope for 325,000 damages sustained by reason of having been arrested, imprisoned and finally ejected from the Indian Territory. Died in Cambridge, Mass., Theophilus Parsons, the celebrated law writer, in the 86th year of his age. Eastern furniture dealers in convention have decided to advance prices 10 per cent.

A SMILE OF SATISFACTION.

This, from the Cleveland (Ohio) Penny Press, carries its own suggestion : Recently meeting Mr. H. G. Keffer, treasurer of the Cleveland - Herald, our representative inquired of that gentleman, after stating his mission, if he personally knew anything about the Great German Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil. A smile played across Mr. Keffer’s expressive face and his eyes twinkled merrily as he replied in the affirmative. I will not refuse to state my experience with it, and you may use it as you think best. Four years ago I sprained one of my ankles, an accident which, as you are aware, entails much suffering and sometimes leaves the limb in a condition to remind one frequently of the old hurt. Unfortunately this result ensued. Whenever the weather became damp or my system absorbed the slightest cold my ankles pained me. This went on at intervals for over three years, and I could not obtain relief. Last winter I applied the St. Jacobs Oil and it completely cured me. I Have not since felt a return of the pain. There seems to be no occupation so dangerous as that of brakeman on freight trains, and many insurance companies refuse to take the risk of insuring their lives. It is said that only twen tv-five percent, of freight brakemen d.e except by accident. The Trenton (N. J.) Gazette mentions the case of Mr. John Wood, with the American Pottery Co., that city, who was cured by St. Jacobs Oil of an attack of rheumatism, which had confined him to his bed for seventeen weeks. He praises it unstintedly.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1882.

THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

FIFTIETH DAY. The assassin was given the fiftieth day of his trial to address the jury. He said : “ The prosecution pretend that I am a wicked man ; Mr. Scoville and the rest think I am a lunatic ; and I presume you think I am. I certainly was a lunatic July 2, when I fired on the President and the American people generally, and I presume you think I was. Can you imagine anything more insane than my going to that depot and shooqug the President of the United States ? You are here to say whether I was sane or insane at the moment! fired that shot You have nothing to do with my condition before or since that shot was fired. You must say by your verdict sane or insane at the moment the shot was tired. If you have any doubt of my sanity at the moment you must give me the benefit of the doubt and acquit—that is, if you nave any doubt whether I fired that shot as the agent of the Deity. If I fired it on my own account I was sane ; if I fired it, supposing myself to be the agent of the Deity, I was insane, and you must acquif.” With this introduction the prisoner took up a newspaper and proceeded to read to the jury his published speech. His manner to the casual observer seemed completely self-possessed as usual, but behind the ostentatious affectation of composure was intense feeling, which was ouly held in control through his undoubted strength of will. His excitement was betrayed by a slight hectic spot, high upon each cheek, of his usually colorless face, and by the unusual deliberation with which he began and for some time continued’ to speak. Whether this excitement was from merely superficial effect upon his emotions, naturally incident to the occasion, or whether it proceeded from a deeper and more overpowering influence, the true realization of his position, an almost-convicted murderer pleading for his life, it were difficult to divine. Whatever the original character of feeling, it finally gained the ascendency over his powers of control, and as he reached that point in his speech—“l have always served the Lord, and whether I live or die”—he broke down completely, stopped, tried to choke down the rising lump in his throat, but found it impossible to keep back a genuine sob. Taking out his handkerchief, he buried his face in it for a few seconds, wiped his eyes, and with a determined effort started on again. He seemed to recover his composure so quickly that some believed the whole effort was manufactured. His sister, Mrs. Scoville, however, apparently thought otherwise. She was deeply affected, and wept and sobbed bitterly for some minutes. After this incident Guiteau continued to read, occasionally adding brief comments upon the text. As he proceeded with his reading all appearance of nervousness gradually wore off, and, w th the utmost composure and an unction that bordered upon the ludicrous, the prisoner read on with an attempt at every conceivable form of oratorical and dramatic effect. His description of the taking off of the President was given with striking effect. At this time he closed his eyes or turned them heavenward, waved his body baek and forth, sank his voice to a whisper or raised it to a high treble. At times the intensity of his utterances seemed to react upon himself, but the effect was but transitory, and with the exception of one instance there was no indication of breaking down. At frequent intervals he paused to emphasize some sentence or sentiment by repeating it or commenting upon it. At one time, pausing, he leaned toward the jury and, emphasizing with his head and hands, said, with an attempt at great solemnity of utterance: “I tell you, gentlemen, just as sure as there is a God in heaven, if you harm a hair of my head this nation will go down in blood. You can put my body in the grave, but there will be a day of reckoning.” “ The jury may put my body in the ground, but my soul will go marching on. The slaveholders put John Brown’s body in the ground, but his soul goes marching on.” Here he chanted most weirdly one stanza of “John Brown’s Body,” closing with “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!” FIFTY-FIRST DAY. The assassin began proceedings by announcing the receipt of several hundred letters, many of them tender missives from ladies. He then informed the audience that he did not think it proper that he should accept a Cabinet office from President Arthur, and that he would stop Judge Porter should he attempt to mislead the jury. Judge Porter then commenced the closing argument to the jury for tlie'prosecution. He opened with the remark that thus far the trial had practically been conducted by the prisoner and Mr. Scoville, and every one had been denounced at their will. He proceeded to sketch the career of the assassin as a beggar, a hypocrite and a scoundrel, and to depict the horrors of his crime. As Judge Porter proceeded with a resistless torrent of denunciation and invective, the prisoner occasionally called out: “That’s a lie!” “ That’s absolutely false;” or, “That ain’t so.” Passing in review the principal events of the prisoner’s life, Judge Porter showed up in all its hideous deformity the infamous bent of nis nature. Aliuding to his dispute with his brother, John W. Guiteau, in Boston, where he struck the latter iu the face, Judge Porter said this was the first and last time this coward ever struck any one a blow in the face. His coward hand always struck from behind. After showing who and wbat was the murderer, judge .rorcer next aescunea ms victim, paying a glowing tribute to the character and services of the lamented President, and pronouncing a most touching eulogy, as it were, on bis memory. The claims oi the prisoner to be a praying man were considered, and the hollow mockery of the claim shown. Guiteau angrily shouted : ••1 pray every night and morning and before every meal. If you did the same you would be a better man. You wouldn’t be here looking for blood-money.” “ The prisoner says he prayed for six weeks. Why, if he had made up his mind unalterably to murder the President on the Ist of June,” said Judge Porter, “did he still continue to pray down to the very act of murder? ” Guiteau—“l prayed to see if the Lord wouldn’t let me off from kilting him.” “ What was he praying for ?” continued Judge Porter. “ The man who claimed to have received divine inspiration himself prepares his defense in advance for an act to do which he was divinely inspired. The believer in inspiration, he would himself alter the inspired book and substitute for it a book of his own. That he did not shoot the President on the first occasion,” said Judge Porter, “was due to his coward heart. Had he done it on that occasion he would have been torn to pieces, and he knew it. On this occasion the President was surrounded by his Oaoinet and his friends. His son, not yet strong, but who would have been urged at such a time with a God-given strength to defend his father, was also by bis side, and the assassin’s craven heart failed him and he said, ‘ Not yet; at some other t rue.’ ” witn grapmc picturing Judge Porter related the dogging of the President’s footsteps to the little churdn, the incidents or accidents on each occasion which baffled iiim. President Garfield’s visit to Secretary Blaine’s house, dogged by the assassin, was vividly portrayed. In the course of his speech Judge Porter adverted to the constant interruptions of the prisoner, his false claims of sympathy, and that the press was with him, and said in contradiction: “ I have yet to see a single American newspaper that has one word to say in his defense.” Scoville vainly strove to get the ear of the court, protesting that Judge Porter was exceeding the rules of the court by such statements. At length Judge Porter paused, and Scoville demanded that he be allowed to make similar statements in reply. Judge Porter attempted to go on, but Scoville, reinforced by the clamor of the prisoner, succeeded in getting tjie floor, when, with much excitement, he demanded that his rights, and he claimed that he had rights, should be respected. He insisted that Judge Porter had no right to state what the newspapers said or what they didn’t say, and he desired an exceptionally noted. Col. Corkhili insisted that counsel had no right to object. The prisoner had been allowed to state what he had received in the way of letters. He had been permitted to read them, to read extracts from papers and to make all sorts of statements as to what the American people and press were saying of him. Judge Porter was simply contradicting these statements. Judge Cox intimated that the prisoner was not allowed to do as charged, but could not be restrained from doing so. Scoville—“ Well, can’t Judge Porter be restrained?” The Judge ruled that the speaker might contradict assertions of the kind made by the prisoner. Judge Porter then read from printed evidence several of the more noted examples of this effort on the part of the prisoner to deceive the jury.

“A Firm Adherence to' Correct Principles.”

FIFTY-SECOND DAY. As Judge Porter rose to resume his address, he assassin shouted out that two cranks had eon hanging around the court-room, and if they undertake to harm him they will be shot down. Judge Porter opened by the assertion teat the wuole defense has been an imposture. Wneu he spoke of the destruction of the notes of Stenographer Bailey, Mr. Scoville demanded to be heard, and Mr. Beed expressed the opinion that the court should arrest Judge Porter lor contempt. Allusion having been made to Pres.uent Ar thur, Guiteau interrupted with the ooasl that his inspiration placed Arthur in the While House, adding, “And don’t you forget it, Judge Porter.” Replying to this taunt from ti.e prisoner, Judge Porter described him as slippery as an orange peel, as venomous as a rattieuake, and, speaking of the act of the murder, said tins was a rattlesnake without a rattle, but not without fangs. J udge Porter pointed out the cunning, the dupucity, tue acting of tne prisoner since the beginning of the trial. Reterring to the oft-re-peuted assertion that he had sent Garfield prepared to meet his God, and he (Guiteau), too, was ready to die if God willed it, Judge Porter, with deliberate emphasis, said: “I do not believe, in all this assemblage, there is one soul Ln at contemplates with such abject terror the possibility of f icing his Maker as does this brazen murderer.” Guiteau whirled around with the ferocity oi a wild beast and fairly yeued: “ That's a miserable iie and you know it, Porter, and you are an infernal scoundrel 1 I hope God Almighty will send for you soon, both you and Corkmil. Sucti a miserable, sneaking whine as that isl” “Thelaw,” Said Judge Porter, “asit bears upon this case, is the Supreme Court, and you are but simply God-made men, under the obligation of a solemn oath to bring in your verdict under tlie law and facts.” Bumming up the question presented by the case upon which they were soon to be called upon topass, Judge Porter said:’ “The first question for you to consider is: Was the prisoner insane on the 2d of July? If he was not, the case is at an end, and your sworn duty is ended. Second, if you reach that, if he was insane on that day, was he insane to that degree that on the 2d or July he did not know that murder was morally and legally wrong? If he was not insane to Chut degree, you are bound under your oaths to convict him. Third, if in utter disregard of bis confession under oath you shall find that he actually aud honestly believed that God had commanded him to kill President Garfield, and that he was under that delusion, unless you find the further lact that the delusion disabled him from knowing such act was morally and legally wrong, you are bound by your oaths to convict him. Fourth, if you find such delusion hid not exist: chat God commanded him to do tne act, and that the delusion was the sole product of insanity, then, and then ouly, you cau acquit him—when you find he was unable to control his own will—a nd jou must remember that under oath he lias sworn he was able to control it, for he said had Mrs. Garfield been with him at the depot on the 2d ot July I would not have shot him. ■ Filth, if you find that even though lie was partially insane it resulted from his own malignity, his’ own depravity ; yet still you are bound, under the instructions of the court, to convict him. Sixth, if upon the whole case you have no reasonable doubt whether he was partially or wholly insane, if you believe that he knew his act was legally and morally wrong, you are, under your oaths, bound to convict him. The law is founded upon reason, and it must not be said that an American jury shall override law and establish a principle which will let murder and rape and arson ran not through the land. FIITY-THIBD AND LAST DAY. As usual, Guiteau opened proceedings in court by announcing : “My sister has been doing some silly talk in Chicago. She means well; but she’s no lawyer.” Judge Porter immediately resumed his argument. Reading from the evidence of J. W. Guiteau aud commenting upon it, -Judge Porter said of the prisoner: “He has two faces.” Guiteau—“ How many have you got ?” Judge Porter—“He has two faces—one showing the sanctity of a pharisee, and the other the hideous grin of the fiend that possesses him.” Ah ho continued to read from J. W. Guiteau’s testimony, relative to hte last interview with the prisoner,’ Guiteau continually interrupted with such comments as: “What I say is always true, Judge Porter. What you say is generally false.’’ “ Inever said so.” “ That is absolutey false.” ’ Proceeding, Judge Porter contrasted the life, conduct and deceits ul practices of the prisoner with the Apostle Paul, in the light of the pi lsoner,s assumption that he, like Paul, was honestly engaged in doing the Lord’s werk. Paul never palmed off brass watches for gold. “ Neither did I, - ’ spoke Guiteau. “Paul never swindled his creditors out of theirjlistdues.” “ Oh, you are a blood man,” retaliated Guiteau. “You belong to the Judas tribe.” Hie picture drawn by Judge Porter was anything but a lovely one, and provoked the prisoner to the most abusive retorts. “ you're a liar, and you know it; and I tell you so to your face, Judge Porter!” he called out. As Judge Porter continued his arraignment of the prisoner, Guiteau winced and nervously i wisted in his seat, and finally drowned the voice of Judge Porter, who gave way to his slaiuor. In savage tones he shouted : “A aaint from heaven couldn’t stand the abuse of that man Porter, and I won’t stand it. I will reueve my mind. The idea of this man trying to make me out a fighting man, a man of bad character, and all that. It’s a he, aud he knows it He’s a liar, and I’ll call him so.” The interruptions of the prisoner grew in violence and frequency till, reinforced by an objection of Scoville, the clamor and din for the moment resembled a small Babel. Scoville finally made himself heard and desired an exception noted to the statement of the construction put ou the evidence by Judge Porter. A sharp discussion ensued, during which the prisoner made himself heard from tue dock, shouting : “ It’s an outrage lor that man to be allowed to speak. He ought to be under arrest tor his insolence. It iias been nothing but one stream of abuse from him all morning. It’s enough to provoke a saint from heaven. It's a disgrace upon a court of justice.” . Judge Porter compared the prisoner to Wilkes Booth, and showed the latter to be almost a-patriot compared with the cowardly assassin now ou trial. “ For Booth was actuated by a mistaken motive of patriotism, and was a man of manhood and manliness. But this sneaking, cowardly wretch, who could plan for his victim’s death aud his own safety at the same time, murdered his man for revenge aud for notoriety.” Guiteau—“ I shot my man in broad daylightand don’t you forget it, Porter.” Pressing the assertion that Guiteau was actuated by revenge and a desire for notoriety, Judge Porter compared him to a noted Criminal iu Europe. “I don’t recall his name,” said Judge Porter, , “but he said: ‘ I am the ugliest man in Europe.’ “1 would rather be the ugliest man in Europe and have notoriety tnan remain in the ranks of mediocrity.” For the next half hour there was one continual stream of interruptions aud abuse from the prisoner. A score of times he denounced Judge Porter as a liar, varying the expressions as adjectives suggested themselves. His vindictive disposition showed itself as never before, and lor once his cunning was merged into his angry spite, and, as Judge Porter piled up an Ossa of invectives upon the Pelion of denunciation, the prisoner unwittingly emphasized and corroborated the diagnosis of depravity and wicked-heartedness which counsel was, with such telling effect, pronouncing upon him. “ You know that’s all an absolute, desperate, wicked, devilish lie,” finally shouted Guiteau, stammering with rage. Judge Porter, in closing, said : “ Gentlemen, the time has coma when I must close. The Government has presented its case before you, and we have endeavored to discharge our duty to the best of our ability. His Honor has endeavored to discharge his. I know you will be faithlul to your oattis and discharge yours. So discharge it that, by your action, at least, political assassination shall find no sanction to make it a precedent ' hereafter. He who has ordained that human life shall be shielded by human law from human crime presides over your deliberations, aud the verdict which shall be given or withheld to-day will be recorded where we all have to appear. I trust that the verdict will be prompt, that it will represent the majesty of the law, your integrity and the honor of the country • and that this trial, which has so deeply interested all the nations of the earth, may result in a warning (to reach all lands) that political murder shall not be used as a means of promoting party ends or political revolutions. I trust also the time shall come in consequence of the attention that shall be called to the considerations growing out of this trial when, by an international arrangement between the various Governments, the law shall be so strengthened that political assassins shall find no refuge on the face of the earth.”

Judge Cox then proceeded to charge the jury. He instructed them to pay no heed to the statements made by the prisoner as to public sentiment in his case, the only question being that of guilt or innocence. The jury spent thirty minutes in reaching a verdict of guilty. The assassin passed the time in a small waiting-room, and predicted his acquittal. When brought back to the dock he showed unusual palter, but no nervousness. When the verdict was announced, he cried out: “My blood will be upon the heads of that jury, and don’t you forget it.” The audience shouted itself hoarse in approval of the conviction. Mr. Scoville at once gave notice of a motion for a new trial Guiteau said: “God will avenge this outrage.” Judge Cox paid the highest compliment to the jury. When the assassin was put in the van the crowd hooted until he was out of sight Juror I.ongley’a Story. Longley, the fourth j uror impaneled, in telling the story of the verdict, said : “We were not long in getting our verdict ready. We were fifty minutes absent from the court-room, and halt an hour of that time was taken up in reading the indictment We took two ballots. On the first we Mood eleven for oonvtction and one blank. That was cast by the German, who was a little doubtful on one point and wanted to be instructed. He didn’t understand the instructions as to the question of insanity thoroughly. It only took a moment to satisfy him. aud then, when a ballot was taken, we were unanimous for conviction.” He was asked if he had heard that the public were for a time fearful that one of the jurors was going to hang the jury. He said -. “Yes, I have heard that since I left the court-room. We thought ourselves, fur a while, that one man would stand out against all the others, but it was only for a time. We didn’t express any opinions to each other during the time, but I think we all knew pretty well what the general feeling was.” Being asked to give some idea as to how the events of the trial impressed the jury, particularly the interruptions of Guiteau and the speeches, he said: “It was all very tedious. There was so much that was gone over and over again. The lawyers kept telling us, day after day, of things we were tired of hearing. We didn’t mind Guiteau’s interruptions, and we understood that Judge Cox was giving him liberty so as not to have another trial As to the speeches, I think Judge Porter’s impressed the jury the most, but then none of the lawyers’ speeches had any influence with us. We made up our minds from the evidence and from the instructions. We listened to Scoville with interest He did ven well, ahd stood up for Guiter.u manfully ; but he cotildn’t make anything out of the case. Judge Cox’s instructions were clear and to the point. There was no mistaking them.” Longley was asktd what his personal opinion of Guiteau was. He replied: “I think he is a fanatic, but he is morally responsible for his actions. 1 have known lots or people who were fanatics, and they imagined all sorts of strange things. But they knew when they were doing what was wrong, and were accountable for it. We heard a great deal about moral depravity during the trial aud about illusions. I have met some wicked people, and they have had all sorts of illusions; but if they killed a man I would have held them responsible. Guiteau may imagine things, but our instructions were, if we thought he knew the nature of his act, to bring him in guilty, and we did so.” Longley was asked what effect the statements made by Guiteau that the press and public were on his’ Bide had upon the jury, and answered:__i‘They made no impression upon us J - We knew he was not telling the truth any more than when he said ue had received a check for $25,000.” In conclusion, Longley said : “ Guiteau’s prophecies have not come out true. He said that the Deity would clear him, if to do so would necessitate the taking away of a juryman. We all lived, and we didn’t clear him. He wished for it. I have no doubt, but none of us died, although one or two of us were quite sick at times.” Mr. Longley also said that the jury were ven tired after their ten weeks-of seclusion without books, papers or company, and for his part he didn’t want another such trial. Interviews have been had with other jurors, and they tell similar stories. How iflrs. Garfield Received tlie News of the Verdict. A Cleveland dispatch states that Mrs. Garfield and the dead President’s aged mother were at home when the first intimation came in the shape of a dispatch from Capt Henry at Washington. When a reporter called, three hours later, Mrs. Garfield was quite quiet and composed, but said that she had nothing to say in the line of comment for the public. It is said that she has read no report of the trial, and has kept the subject as much out of mind as possible. A Cleveland journal, one of whose editors called on Mrs. Garfield after the receipt of the news, says: “The finding of the jury was immediately telegraphed from Washington to the family of the dead President. The widow and the mother of the illustrious victim had anticipated no other result. They could not bring themselves to believe that justice would fail to overtake the vile reptile whose infamous deed had overwhelmed them with grief. But they are women whose hearts are too full of sorrow to have room for revengeful feelings, and the news of the conviction of Guiteau comes to them rather as the vindication of natural justice than as the avenging of personal wrongs. They do not see how the result of the trial could have been different. They accept it as a foregone conclusion and more important to the public, who will have other Presidents to guard and protect, than to themselves, whose great stay and reliane* was so causelessly taken from them.” How The Verdict Was Received. The verdict of the jury was received with great satisfaction throughout the country. A salute of fifty guns was fired at Madison, Ind. In Detroit, Mich., when the audience in the opera-house applauded the verdict, one fellow hissed aud was promptly_thrown out of the house 'well 'pummelea for his temerity. A London dispatch says that “ ail the newspapers not only express one opinion as to tiio justice of the verdict, but are certain it will be unanimously approved, Scoville says the result was no Hurprise to him after he heard the charge of Judge Cox. John W. Guiteau still believes the assassin insane, but sees no escape from execution. The Assassin Issues Another Address. On the day after his conviction Guiteau, the assassin, sent to the press another “ address to the American people,” in which he arraigns the character of the jurors, especially charging that they were not “ high-toned, Christian gentlemen,” and therefore “did not appreciate the dea of inspiration’.” He demes the authority of the court which tried him, relies upon the Deity, but, as usual, makes a demand for money. He looks for a reversal of the verdict by the court in banc. The following is the closing portion of the assassin’s blasphemous screed: “lam God s manmthis matter, just as truly as the despised Galiilecajx was God’s man. They said He was a blasphemer and a glutton, etc., etc., and it seemed a small thing for His acquaintances to kill Him. But His death stirred tue wrath of the and He got even with them forty years later at the destraction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, and He will get even with the American people if a hair of my head is harmed. God will vindicate me, even if the nation rolls in blood. Mv physical death is nothing to me. Under the law I canuot be executed, in any event, until July. I may die a dozen times before then ; so I have no trouble about that. I shall not go before my time. I had rather be hung, so far as physical death is concerned, than die from painful illness or meet with a railroad or steamboat accident. I hardly think lam destined to be hung, and therefore give myself no thought on that But lam anxious to have my character and inspiration vindicated. To that end I need help, as herein mentioned. My friends need not be ashamed of me. Some people think I am the greatest man of this age, and that my name will go into history as a patriot by the side of Washington and Grant.”

Obituary.

Hon. Clarkson N. Potter died at Now York on the 23d of January. He was born in gcbenectady, N. Y., in 1825, and graduated at Union College (of which his grandfather, Rev. Eliphalet Nott, was President, and his father, Bishop Alonzo Potter, Vice President) in 1842, and a year later graduated as a civil engineer from Renssellaer Institute, going to Wisconsin to begin his profession, and while a resident of that State studied law, and was admitted to the bar. In 1847 he started his career as a lawyer in New York city, identified with a number es prominent cases. In 1868 be was elected to the Forty-first Congress. He was re-elected to the Forty-second, Forty-third and Forty-fifth Congresses.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

No business was transacted in the Senate on Jan. 23, the time of that body being occupied in the delivery of eulogies upon the late Senator Burnside. The speakers were Senators Edmunds, Anthony, Maxey, Hawley, Harrison, Jones, Hale, Aldrich, Hampton and Ransom. In the House, after the transaction of some business, eulogies were delivered by Messrs. Chase, Spooner (R. L), Browne (Ind.), Rice (Mass.) and Henderson (HL). Mr. Pacheco, of California, introduced a bill to repeal the land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific road. Mr. Willis introduced an act to regulate Chinese immigration, and Mr. King one to stop three crevasses in the Mississippi levee. Mr. Bliss handed in a bill to pension soldiers of the late war confined in Confederate prisons. Mr. Warner introduced an act to reduce the salaries of the President and heads of departments. No less than 355 bills were presented during the day. The bill giving Mrs. Lincoln $15,000 arrears of pension and increasing her allowance to $5,000 was passed by the Senate Jan. 24. Mr. Beck introduced a bill for the punishment of national-bauk officers who illegally issue certi" tied checks, stating that the practice is going on at the rate of $100,000,000 per day. Mr. Plumb proposed an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture, importation, cr sale of liquors -as a beverage. Mr. Teller submitted a joint resolution forfeiting land grants to twenty-two railroads. Mr Voorhees introduced a bill to compel railroads to heat mail cars by steam from tho locomotive. The President transmitted drafts of bills to increase the salary of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and create tho office of Assistant Commissioner ; also to make the same changes in the office of the Indian Commissioner. James W. McDdl, of Iswa, was sworn in for the unexpired term. In the House, Mr. Reed asked the immediate consideration of the Senate bill to retire Associate Justice Hunt, but Mr. Holman objected. A. bill was passed to remit the duties on some clothing sent from Europe to colored settlers in Kansas. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for a statement of the accounts of Capt. H. W. Howgate. The fortification appropriation of $375,000 was passed, x Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted resolutions in the Senate, on Jan. 25, in memory of the late Matthew H. Carpenter. Tributes of respect were paid by several Senators, after which an adjournment was voted without the transaction of any business. In the House the most of the day was also devoted to the delivery of eulogies upon the dead Senator. After considerable opposition, the Senate bill to retire Justice Hunt was passed, the vote standing 137 to 89. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury asked an appropriation of •■£23.159,690 to complete the service of the fiscal year in the various departments. Mr. Allison introduced a bill in tho Senate, Jan. 26, to provide a reserve fund for the redemption of United States bonds, one provision being for the retention in the treasury vault 8 of $20,000,000 in coin to take up legal tenders. Mr. Sherman closed the debate on his 3 per cent, funding bill, claiming that the large surplus of revenue was a constant temptation to jobbers, and that the tariff should be so revised that the charge of robbery could not be attached to it. A motion to table the bill was lost, by 23 to 45. In the House, Mr. Updegraff presented tbe petition of 4,000 citizens of Ohio for the creation of a liquor commission. Mr. Cox offered a resolution calling for the correspondence in regard to the expulsion of American Israelites from Russia. The bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac marshes was referred to the committee of the whole. The House adopted Mr. . Browne’s resolution of inquiry as to the amounts tequired for pensions for the next twenty-five years. Mr. Springer called up the Senate bill granting an additional pension to Mrs. Lincoln, which was passed. President Arthur nominated Frederick A. Trifle, of Nevada, to be Governor of Arizona, and Edwin H. Webster to be Collector of Customs at Baltimore. 8. A. Whitfield was named for Postmaster at Cincinnati, W. H. Taft for Internal Revenue Collector, and Leopold Markbret for Assistant Treasurer. The President transmitted to .Congress the diplomatic correspondence concerning Chili, Peru and Bolivia. Included mit was a letter of instructions from Secretary Blaine to Special Envoy Trescott. The arrest of President Calderon is called an intentional and unwarranted offense. Mr. Trescott is charged not to make to the Chilian Government any explanation of the conduct of Minister Hurlbut. Mr. Garland presented a petition in the Senate, Jan. 27, from Hot Springs, Ark., for an appropriation of $500,000 to improve the reservation and the streets. Mr. Logan introduced a bill for the distribution of pure vaccine virus to the people by the National Board of Health at eost price. Mr. Edmunds printed a measure to prevent the counterfeiting v>f the securities of foreign Governments. Mr. Morrill reported favorably on the act to apply a portion of the proceeds of public lands to general education. When the 3 per cent, funding bill came up, the Davis amendment to make the bonds payable at the option of the Government was carried by 38 to 26, and an amendment by Mr. Sherman tomake their duration three years was lost by 25 to 36. Mr. Ferry introduced a bill for pensions to inmates of Confederate prisoners. The Senate adjourned to Monday, the 30th inst The President nominated John Campbell for Surveyor of Customs at Omaha’ William D. Lewis for Postmaster at Vincennes’ Ind., and Theodore D. Wilson, of New York, to be Chief Constructor of the Navy. In the House, Mr. Townsend called on the Secretary of the Interior for any information at command in regard to Indian outrages in Arizona incited by the Mormons. Several private bills were passed, but the bill for ’.he relief of the children of Gen. James H. Carleton was lost The President transmitted a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, giving information in regard to the Chiriqui grant. An adjournment to Monday was taken.

The Goal Crop.

Washington, Jan. 30. The census office has just published a report on the production of bituminous coal, from which it appears the total amount mined in the United States during the census year 1880 was 42,420,580 tons, of which total 29,842,240 tons were produced in the Appalachian coal field. Allegheny county, Pa., furnished over onetenth, and the Stales of Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio nearly three-fourths of the entire product. The average price per ton at the mine in 1880 was $1.22, while in 1870 it was $1.92, at a cost of 88 cents. An average of 431 53-100 tons was raised per man and 16.8 per cenLof the year’s working time, or about twenty days per man, was lost in strikes. Sufficient information was gathered to justify the assumption that the exhausted fields form but a very small fraction of the total available coal land. Attention is called to the fact that, although the value of the product has fallen, wages have not correspondingly decreased, and the totals prove again nearly a third of a million dollars annually in favor of labor. Anthracite product was 286,649,996 tons, nearly all furnished by the State of Pennsylvania, making the total product of the country for the census year 761,066,576 tons. England produced 746,818,122 tons in the same year.

A Poor Memory.

Without question, tlie memory may be cultivated. The habit of attention is one of the first to be acquired in working toward this end ; but there are other helps, such as the habit of order, and the advantage arising from proper classification, and last, but not least, the aid of the imagination, in making mental pictures. The grocer and the apothecary know the value of order in their business ; the bookseller, too, with his thousands of volumes ; see him step to the place in his store where he knows the volume you have been asking for should be ; he merely reaches forth his hand and takes it from the shelf. Wacth the type-setter at his work; you would think his fingers work automatically, as they take up from the box arrangement before him the exact letters composing the words in his copy. Observe the fingers of the piano player ; as if endowed with intelligence or.memory, rhe right key goes down at the proper time; it matters not what the speed of the movement may demand, there is no

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hesitation. Now why cannot we accomplish with facts, figures and ideas what the type setter accomplishes with his type, the pianist with his keys. All that is necessary to do this is application and a determination to succeed.

Preserving Fowls' Wings.

Turkey and geese wings are one of the greatest conveniences in a household, and every woman knows how to appreciate them, not only for dusting furniture, stoves, cobwebs, etc., but also for washing sinks and windows, and for spreading paste on wall paper. It is always a trouble to keep the moths from ruining them in warm weather, as they seem to revel in the fleshy part of the wing. I have tried faithfully various methods to preserve them, such as binding the ends with linen cloth, burying in ashes and dipping in brine, but could find nothing that was perfectly reliable till two years ago an accident revealed the secret, and readers are welcome to try it for their own benefit. A pail of strong copperas water was set away to cool over night, preparatory to using in the cellar, and by some mischance a package of wings hanging overhead fell into the water with the joint ends down. In the morning they were taken out and flung into the woodshed, supposing they were ruined. Some weeks after, supposing they were dry enough to burn, they were picked up to carry to the kitchen range, but instead of being ruined, they were in the very best state of preservation—not a moth visible or a feather loose—and they lasted the best of any wings I ever used. Last year I repeated the experiment of dipping them in copperas water, and the result was splendid; and hereafter it will be my rule in preparing wings for service, to dip them as soon as possible after they are taken off, and then string them up in a dry place till they are needed for use. It has often been said that some of the most useful methods of doing work, and recipes, were the result of accident instead of design. The method of preserving wings was purely accidental, and it is no waste, for the water is just as good to pour into the sink drain for a disinfectant as if the wings had not been dipped in it.— Country Gentleman.

Boiling Broth in the Higher Andes.

In Byam’s “ Wanderings in Bhili and Peru,” we find the following remarkable illustration of one of the well-known laws of heat: “Feeling very cold, we determined to have some soup to warm us, and as we had plenty of meat and onions, we cut them up, put them into a saucepan with salt and Cayenne pepper, and set them on to boil. I only relate this for the information of those who have not been to great heights, those who wish to go there, and also of those who, perchance, may believe that boiling must be the same thing all over the world. After our soup had bubbled away in the most orthodox style for more than two hours, we naturally concluded that our 1 bouillon ’ was ready and the meat perfectly done, especially as the last had been cut into rather small pieces; but, to our great surprise, we found the water almost colorless, and the meat almost as raw as when it was first put into the pot. One of the miners told us that it was no use trying to boil anything, as nothing could be cooked by water on the top of (hat mountain; for, although the water bubbled away very fast, the heat was not great enough to boil a potato. At great altitudes the water begins to boil long before it arrives at the heat of 212 degrees of Fahrenheit, and as water cannot get hotter than boiling-point, except by the compression of the steam, nothing can be cookkd unless some safe means of confining the steam be adopted. I saw directly how matters lay, arid, sticking the lid tight on the pan, made it fast with heavy lumps of silver that were lying about, attaching them to the handle, and putting others on the top of all. In a very short time the steam got up, and, though it made the lid jump a little, I managed to get a broth, to the great surprise of the miners, who could not conceive what I was about. ”

Blaine and the State Department.

Washington dispatches say that tho publication of the correspondence between Secretary Blaine and the diplomatic representatives of the United States to Chili and Peru has produced a profound sensation at the national capitol, and may be expected to excite an equal degree of interest in other parts of the world. In this publication is made known for the first time the policy of the State Department in reference to the South American republics a policy which has been completely reversed since the retirement of Secretary Blaine and the appointment of Secretary Frelinghuysen. Within the space of one month this important change has occurred, and the measures which Blaine originated and set on foot, presumably with the full assent and support of the President, give place to entirely different measures and plans, which have in their turn received the sanction of the President. It is claimed on one side that this change of attitude has averted a war with Chili, which President Arthur believed to be inevitable unless the United States abandoned the role of mediator and protector in the affairs of the Month American republics; and on the other side, the friends and supporters of the vigorous measures inaugurated by Secretary Blaine see in this sensational reversal of the policy of pluck and energy a square backdown which will redound neither to the credit nor advantage of the United States as a nation in the eyes of the world.

Anti-Polygamy.

A large mass meeting, to express abhorrence of the great crime of polygamy, and protest against its further tolerance under the laws of the United {States Government, was held at Farwell Hall, Chicago. Hon. Thomas Hoyne presided, and the Hon. Schuyler Colfax was the chief speaker. He urged the meeting to resolve that the national law shall be obeyed, and stated that polygamy has grown even stronger since the death of Brigham Young. John Wentworth and William Bross also addressed the meeting. Resolutions were adopted expressive of the sense of the meeting that Congress has the power, and should exercise it, to wipe out this foul stain upon our national fame ; telegrams and letters were read from persons and places, and an executive committee was appointed to further the objects of the meeting. Gov. Hubbard presided at the anti-polygamy meeting at St. Paul, at which resolutions were passed nskiug Congress to disfranchise offenders in Utah.

The New Apportionment.

Washington, Jan. 30. The House Committee on Census has virtual, ly agreed to increase the number of Representatives from the State of Illinois from twenty to twenty-one, which will make the total number of Representatives 320 instead of 319, as proposed by the McCord bill. The apportionment to each State under the bill is: Alanama 8, Arkansas 5, California 5, Colorado 1, Connecticut 4, Delaware 1, Florida 1, Georgia 10, Illinois 21, Indiana 13, lowa 11, Kansas 6, Kentucky 11, Louisiana 6, Maine 4, Maryland 6, Massachusetts 12, Michigan 11, Minnesota 5, Mississippi 7, Missouri 14, Nebraska 3, Nevada 1, New Hampshire 2, New Jersey 7, New York 34, North Carolina 9, Ohio 21, Oregon 1, Pennsylvania 10, Texag 10, Vermont 2, Virginia 10, West Virginia 4, Wisconsin &

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INDIANA ITEMS.

A woman in Wells county has twentytwo children. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture has on hand $12,460.69. Ralph S. Thomson, one of the most extensive millers in Indiana, died at Terre Haute. The number of dogs in the State of Indiana, as shown by the reports filed in the Auditor of State’s office, is nearly 180.000. The Democratic Central Committee of Shelby county met last week and decided to hold the County Convention as early as April 15. A wildcat was killed near Hagerstown last week, the first that has been found in Wayne county for years; but the hunters are confident there are more of them in the woods. A German with three daughters, aged 17, 10 and 7, has arrived at Elkhart, having walked ail the way from Arkansas. His wife, who started wi J h them, died on the road. A pretty romance was about to be enacted in Fort Wayne. An 18-year-old boy made an attempt to elope with a 14 year-old girl, when the elder brother interfered. Mrs. Conroy, of Jeffersonville, mother of Sister Assumptia, killed by a railroad collision at Indianapolis Jan. 2, will sue the railroad companies for ® 10,000 damages. John Beggs’ distillery, in Shelby county, pays a revenue tax of a day. It is said to make a larger yield of whisky to the bushel than any other distillery in the United States. The contracts for the enlargement of the Indiana cotton-mill at Cannelton, the first and largest in the State, have been let. The enlargement and additional machinery will cost $250,000. A farmer residing near Lynn, Randolph county, received from Cincinnati a letter containing two small-pox scabs. It was neither dated nor signed, but gave the advice to go home and die. The children of the late Gen. Benjamin J. Spooner have brought suit at Indianapolis against the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, for SIO,OCO, the full value of tho insurance. The wife of Charles C. Earl, a wellknown citizen of Indianapolis, has filed a bill for divorce. They were severed by the courts in 1872, and remarried in 1877. Now she complains of cruelty and abandonment. At a district school in Hendricks township, Shelby county, two boys at recess secured a bow and arrow for the purpose of having some sport. In the play a son of John Hill was struck in the eye with &n arrow, completely knocking the eye out. The development of the stone-quar-rying interest in Indiana is proceeding so rapidly that there are now employed in the State eleven steam channelers, of which eight are in Lawrence county and three in Monroe county. The new plan for running faro inNew Albany is said to be as follows : All persons visiting the faro-bank are to become members of a club and to take an oath not to reveal the names of persons they may meet in the room nor any of the proceedings. The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road has adopted the name of “ Monon Route,” from the name of their new station, formerly Bradford Junction. The name is of Indian origin, and is said to mean “fast running,” hence its significance. Sarah Gorham died in the County Asylum at Indianapolis, where she had resided, for thirty-five years. She had of late taken daily ninety grains of opium, more or less morphine, and a pint of whisky. She has been known to consume 200 grains of opium in a day. LVjke Frances, a prominent farmer of Laporte county, has met with a remarkable series of affictions within a few months. He fell last spring and broke his arm. Later, lightning struck his barn, consumed it and over $2,000 worth of property. Then rheumatism laid him up for a time. To cap the climax, a few mornings ago he fell on his doorstep, and broke both his arms and one leg. A 4-year-old boy at the Surgical In stitute, Indianapolis, is undergoing treatment for spinal troubles, which have undoubtedly been brought about by much smoking of cigars and cigarettes. The father of the child, a respectable gentleman from Clay City, states that his son has been a heavy smoker for a year and a half, and that cigars were given to him from his infancy to keep him quiet. Tho little fellow will smoke twenty stoga cigars in a day, and still cry for more. C. O. Showers, n prominent citizen of Bloomington, met with a horrible death at the depot of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road in Greencastle. He was crossing the track of the former just in advance of the south-bound passenger train, and, having his hand up to shield his face from the storm, failed to see the train, which struck him and carried him about fifteen feet, when his foot went crushing into a frog and he fell. His legs were both cut off below the knee, his hip and side horribly mangled, and his head horribly bruised. He died in about twenty minutes. James Sublette, of Putnam county, went to Greencastle and became intoxicated. In this condition he boarded the evening train for home. He was jostled off the front end of the rear coach unobserved and instantly killed. He lay in the track the whole night, and at least a dozen trains must have passed over his body. When found his remains were scattered everywhere, his head having been cut off and rolled four feet from the track, and the features of the face could with difficulty be recognized. Three of Sublette’s brothers have previously met their deaths on the same road. A handsome woman, the wife of a merchant named Kirk, at Madison, told her husbatid that a clock-mender, who had called at the house that day, wanted to come again next day and talk with her. She told him she thought it wouldn’t be proper, but would ask her husband about it. That gentleman told her it was absurd, and that the man mustn’t come. But he did come ; come several times, and, being a handsome man, made her madly infatuated with him. He left the neighborhood very suddenly, which threw Mrs. Kirk into a melancholy, ending in so violent a mania that she was sent to the insane asylum. Tho popular notion is that the clock man administered some drug which gave him his power over her, and the people would ornament a tree with him could they lay handson him.