Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1884 — Page 5

A TALE OF BOURBON VffiuAG. How A. W. Burnett Was Driven from His Mississippi Home. The jailing of Matthews, as Related by the Murderer —Barksdale Morally Responsible for Political Murder. The National Republican has a long statement from A. W. Burnett, of Copiah county, Mississippi, the only Republican lawyer there a native, and of a well-known and wealthy family, giving new details of the Matthews murder, and the circumstances connected with the mob driving lliim, Burnett, from the county. Following are 'extracts: Mr. Burnett was fornerly of Hazlehurst, Miss. He is now of nowhere. He has no home. The Bourbons of Hazlehurst have robbed him of (home, business and property. He is now in [Washington and expects soon to settle somewhere iii the North, where his life and his property, when he has again accumulated some, may l>e tolerably safe. Mr. Burnett is thirty years old, a lawyer by profession, and a man of intelligence and education. No man who talks with him will believe him to be either a liar or a coward. He talks most of and seems most interested in the murder of his friend, “Print" Matthews, but as a Bourbon bullet went through his own body less-than two months ago, it may he inferred that his personal experience of Mississippi methods are interesting, f * TMfTWheeler ever make any excuse for the i hooting?” “Not a word. I can give you the story of the shooting in his own words. He says that when Matthews came into the polling-place that morning be said to him (Wheeler): ‘Well, good morning. Ras; what do you know?* Wheeler said he knew of nothing, and then he asked him: ‘Print, are you going to vote?’ Print said Wes/ and Wheeler said: 'Print, I wouldn't vote.’ Print smiled, and replied: 'I prize my right to vote very highly, and feel that I owe it to my country.’ Then he stepped up to the ballot-box and gave Inspector Coxwell his ticket. I then took the shotgun,’ said Wheeler, ‘which was concealed in a dry-goods box, and. cocking both bar rels. leveled it on him. Just as I pulled the trigger he threw his eyes on me and put his right hand to his side, lie had no pistol in his hand so far as I saw.’ That is Wheeler's own account of the affair.” “Why did they shoot you and drive you out of Hazlehurst, Mr. Burnett?*’ “I was the only Republican lawyer there, was getting the most business, and was the chairman of the Republican executive committee. Some weeks before the election 1 went to Jackson and succeeded in getting an intelligent white com missioner of elections appointed for our side, in stead of the ignorant negro that the Bourbons had brought up and wanted appointed. I got home late at night and went to bed. The next morning a friend of mine came to my room and told me that J. W. Bailey was looking for me to slap my jaws. I prepared myself for him and went out. When I met him I asked him if lie had said any such thing, and told him if lie tried it one of ns had got to die. He denied having said any such thing, but said that he understood I had been making remarks about him and had made sport of him. I told him 1 bad not done so so, and he said it was all light, we would be friends, and he shook hands with me. “A couple of hours afterward I was walking down the street, and Bailey, Head and four or five others were talking together on a corner. As I came up to them they separated, and all went away but Bailey and a fellow named Hart, who stood so that I had to pass between them. Hart said to me as T came up, I understand you say you didn’t make sport of Bailey?* I said I didn’t. He began to draw his pistol, and said. ‘Well, you’re a liar.’ I struck at him with my knife, and he ran away. His pistol caught in his pocket. When he got thirty yards away he fired, and the ball went straight through my body. That was how 1 got my wound. When Hart was arrested the judge asked him who his counsel was, and he said, ‘The Hazlehurst bar.’ It was true. I had to send to another town for a lawyer to prosecute him. He was hound over, but the grand jury ignored the whole thing. I hadn’t ?ot entirely well at election time, and the night before the election I went up to Crystal Springs to look after the election there, when I heard that Matthews was killed. I started for Hazlehurst, but the crowd on the train told me that they were going to put me with Print Mat thews, and I jumped off at Gillman while the train was running.” “Why didn't they shoot you there?" “Because it wasn't safe for them. I had friends there who would have joined in the shoot ing. The next day I went to Hazlehurst, but didn't stay but about two hours. The darkies are true to the men that they have confidence in, and one of them told me that the mob was going to kill me. I took the first train for Jackson. 1 told Meredith Matthews, the son of the murdered man that 1 should be back on * Thursday night. I got a letter and a telegram from him telling me not to come back—that there was a crowd waiting for me at that train on Thursday night to kill me. Here is a note which was sent to me two days after the election. It is in the same handwriting as tin* warning which went to Matthews the day before ho was killed.” Here Mr. Burnett showed the following note: “We were in hopes that your dark-visaged face would never he seen on our streets again. You have no business here. We now give you fair warning 1o leave, or you will meet the fate of your friend, and. P. Matthews. X. “Nov. 8. 1883.”

‘•Jumping from the train and the exposure had made me sick, and I went into the country to my father's house, and lay in bed four weeks with typhoid fever. I have just got well enough to get out. I shall never go back to Mississippi. I have lost my library and all my business, but shall start again where life and property are safe.” ‘‘Are you a carpet-bagger, Mr. Burnett V' “I was born in Copiah county, and have lived /other there or in Hines county all my life. Mine is no new family in the State. Two of my father’s uncles, John Ford and Daniel Burnett, were delegates to the convention which framed the State constitution. My father was a meinl>er of the State Legislature in 1880. lie was an old Whig, but during the war had to go into the confederate service. For if a man did not go they took him out and broke his neck. My father pays more taxes than two-thirds of the mob which drove me out of the State. He has never been wanting in his duty to his government in any capacity. He is now an infirm and feeble old man. and I expect them to spare his life on that, account. 1 have two young brothers there, two sisters and my mother. I have been driven from my family, home and native land for no other reason than because I would not indorse the views of the Bourbons. If the Bourbons elect a President of the United States I shall leave the country. I was urged to stay in Jackson, but l was going to tell what 1 knew about these things, and they certainly would have sent a man there to murder me. Here. 1 think, among a different people, I may be able to defend myself if I am attacked.” “What about Barksdale's denial that he advised the shotgun campaign?” “I did not hear his speech, but T sent a man to hear him tl,at was not suspected by them, and could safely be there. This is the exact language that he used in Hazlehurst the night before the election, just after they had voted to see whoshould kill Matthews. Baid lie: ‘Fel-low-citizens —I must compliment you on your patriotism and the manner in * which you nave evinced it by shouldering your shotguns. I saw in the countenances of those armed men who paraded the streets to-day a determination so carry this election, and I say you must carry this election, regardless of what the issue may be.*'- I defy Mr. Barksdale to produce any lawabiding citizen not a part of that armed mob who will say that he did not use that language | tie has produced certificates from several men {hat he did not so speak. Every one Os the men who made such certificates, except one, was in ihe audience that with a shotgun on his /boulder. Every one of them is in that list winch I gave you before of men against whom , warrants had been issued. That is the kind of certificates he has got. R. N. Miller, one of the certifiers, was making a similar inflammatory speech at Wesson, ten miles away, that very night, and never heard a word of Barksdale s speech. J. W. Baily, another of the certifiers, was called on for a speech when Barksdale finished. He said: *1 have been in the saddle for six days, and am not fit for speaking, t will mly make a motion that we appoint a commit joo to bury the dead Independent and Kepub-

lie,an voters of Hazelhurst to-morrow.’ I tell you Ethel Barksdale is morally responsible for all the political murders of Mississippi. He was responsible for the murder of poor Mahoffey, dragged from his bed from beside his sleeping wife, and shot for no other reason than that he taught a colored school. I don't know what the North is thinking of lo turn over the control of this government to such men. They don”t know what it means. That's what's the trouble. 1 should just like to have Henry Ward Beecher and some more of those men who think it is all so lovely for Southern Republicans, spend a few weeks in Mississippi during an election or a canvass. GATH’S PHILOSOPHY. The Influence of Garfield's Wounds —Impressions Made by Great Crimes. Now York Triburto. “The influence of Garfield’s injuries over the voters of New York was seen in the Poughkeepsie district, where Mr. Lewis Payn. running for a normal Republican majority of 3.000, suffered defeat by about 5,000.” So said a friend to me, and added: “Payn is right on the surface. He lias nothing concealed. He may have said hot things about Garfield. Anyhow, the imputation of them heat him, though he had the united politicians of both parties with him and $5,000 subscription, it is said, from the most assiduous and wistful politician in the State.” Said Mr. Carroll Smith, of Syracuse, recently to me; “Garfield’s death had an educating influence over the voters that will be felt for a generation. It was like a picture of the crucifixion in a church. He was considered to represent public opinion in the office, and to have died for it, lest there might be no more public opinion.” That the young lady and the young man who sat with the Lincolns in their private box the night of the assassination should have married, multiplied and ended in a terrible tragedy, is no greater subject of wonder than any other human combination. Often a nearly supernatural crime bears tragical posterity, for aeeds reproduce themselves like men. It can probably be shown that every violation of nature makes the vacuum or example into which similar events rush. One sailor found the Indies westward, and all liis sons, brethren and contemporaries turned navigators. The impression made by a powerful crime is greatest according to the degree of contact, whether that contact be personal or mental. Mrs. Lincoln’s mind broke after her husband's murder. John Brown provoked a race of invaders from those about his gallows. A player, reading the weak piece of Jonn Howard Payne on Brutus, weift and killed a magistrate. “The lesson of a recent tragedy.” said a Utica man lately to me, “is that a young woman who begins a self-supporting career by going to the railroad trains to meet commercial drummers may finally commit suicide for a very worthless specimen thereof at the sight of liis marriage certificate.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. THE BEST EVER PUBLISHED. Columbus Republican. The Indianapolis Journal is now the best paper ever published in the State, and equal in every respect to almost any of those published in any of the larger cities. It is a better paper for liidianbins than any one published outside of the State, and no one who wants a good general family and political paper should neglect our home paper, the Journal, for any foreign paper. FOREMOST AMONG TtfE DAILY PAPERS. Ladoga Leader, The Indianapolis Daily Journal is foremost among the daily papers of the State, and is diligent in its endeavors to get every item of news of any note. It lias a correspondent at almost every point in the State, and all events of any importance are given mention; besides, its columns of foreign and general news are always filled with news most interesting to the reading public. STRONGER AND MORE PRACTICAL-MINDED. Danville (111.) Commercial. The Indianapolis Journal is sixty years old. But the older it grows, the stronger and more practical-minded it becomes. This fact is very clearly demonstrated. HAS NO EQUAL. Bloomington Telephone. The Journal for a family paper with Indianians has no equal, and it should be at every fireside. Why the Fig Crops Failed. Los Angeles (.Cal.) Letter. A curious reason is assigned for what has heretofore been the inferiority of the fig. It appears that this gentle and pretty tree is peculiarly susceptible to the deprivation of tin* society to which it is entitled. Ignorant of this trait of the female character, the gardeners have set out whole orchards of female fig trees by themselves and then wondered that they did not bear. Since they have discovered their mistake they have imported male variety and distributed it through the orchards at the rate of one to every twenty females, with astonishing success. Perhaps if each female fig tree had her exclusive mate there might he more and better figs, but they seem to recognize the fact that one-twentietli of a husband is better than no husband at all. Charities in New York City. New York Special. No less than $5,348,223 was expended in various forms of charity by the city of New York in 1882. In 1881 the amount expended was even greater, but for the two years preceding 1881 the expenditures were only upward of $4,000,000. A comparison of these figures with the expenditures for public and private charities in Brooklyn or Kings county for the same year is suggestive. New York’s population in 1880 was 1,203,577. The population of Kings county at the same time was 599,549. New York exjunded in 1880 for public and private charities $4,340,701, and Kings county expended in the same year only $930,711. A Practical .Suggestion. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. That is a timely and practical suggestion which the Indianapolis Journal makes in connection with the alleged corruption of thousands of Democratic voters in Indiana in 1880. by means of $2 bills. Let an investigation be ordered, the Journal says, and if there are thousands of Demo crats who will testify that they voted against their party for $2 apiece, by all means give them a free and fair opportunity to put themselves on record to that effect. How It Looks Abroad. Philadelphia Prose. The London Chronicle remarks that the election of Mr. Carlisle to the speakership “will be of considerable importance to the manufacturers and merchants of Great. Britain.” The Chronicle is right—it will ho of importance to English manufacturers if Colonel Morrison knows himself, and he.seems to think ho does. Meditation Among the Tombs. From the Average New Year Editorial. Could man look back the long vista of time to the period when the world was young, and take in with a single glance of the eye the history of each day, since the world began, count all the tombs erected and filled by “Old Time,” what wonder, what amazement would fill his soul! An Unhappy Mixture. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Buckner wants to issue more greenbacks, and Mr. Bland wants to coin more short weight dollars. To turn these two worthies into committees charged with the duty of digesting and preparing bills relating to finance was like setting a cowboy at work running a conventicle. General lla/.en’s Popularity. Terre Haute Express. The country would he very much gratified if General Hazcn were given some nice, easy position outside the signal service, and a man put in the place who knows something of the business. And Cast Into the .Sea. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Henry Watterson has got his party onto the high horse of free trade. And the horse and the rider are bouud to be overthrown. Ladies, do you want to be strong, healthy and beautiful? Use Hop Bitters. It never fails.

rnE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1884.

THE SURPLUS REVENUES. Historical Paper on the Subject by Comptroller John Jay Knox. Twenty-Eight Millions Distributed Among the States—President Jackson’s Plan, and the Debate in Congress. Washington, Jan. I.—At a recent meeting of the Philosophical Society of Washington, Comptroller John Jay Knox read an historical paper on the subject of “The distribution of the surplus money of the United States among the States,” of which the following is an abstract: President Jackson, in his message to Congress in 1820. referred to the difficulty in adjusting the tariff so that the revenues of the government should be but slightly in excess of its expenditures. He considered the appropriation of money for internal improvement by Congress as unconstitutional, but suggested that if the anticipated surplus in the treasury should be distributed among the States, according to their ratio of representation, such improvements could then bo made by the States themselves. If necessary, it would bo expedient to propose to the States an amendment to the constitution authorizing such legislation. In his message for the following year he again suggested the same proposition. The receipts from sales of public lands for the three years 1834. 1835 and 1830. were $44,492,381 —slightly less than the total receipts from this source for the thirty-eight years previous, fvoiu 1796 to 1834. On Jan. 1, 1835, the OSfantry was virtually out of debt, and the receipts of the government largely exceeded the previous estimates of the Secretary. The amount of surplus on Jan. 1, 1835, was $8,892,858. and at the same date in 183 G, $20,749,803. On Jan. 1, 1837, it amounted to more than $42,000,000. In 1834-35-30 the public money, which had heretofore been deposited in the Bank of the United States, was deposited in favorite State banks, by order of General Jackson. The deposit of the revenue in these banks was followed by financial distress, and during the year 1834. and previous thereto, propositions were made in the public press for distribution of the surplus revenue among the States, as a measure of relief. These propositions were first in the form of a distribution of the revenue from public lands; then a distribution of the lands themselves, and finally a distribution of the surplus. During the session of 1835 a select committee wits appointed in the Senate, which reported a resolution to amend the constitution so that the money remaining in the treasury at the end of each year, until the first of January, 1843, should annually be distributed among the States and Territories. Both General Jackson and Secretary Woodbury were opposed to this proposition, as the withdrawal of public moneys would deprive the State banks of the deposits, and would he likely to increase the financial troubles* A bill to distribute the surplus was. however, introduced in the Senate, and passed by? a vote of 25 to 20. It was evident that this bill could not pass the House, as a majority of its members considered the bill, in the form of a distribution, as unconstitutional. The friends of the measure in the Senate determined to change its form so as to remove the difficulty. A bill then pending in the Senate was so amended as to change the proposition for distribution to a proposition for deposit in the State banks. In this form it passed the Senate, and subsequently the House by a large majority, 155 to 38. This act of June 23, 1830, provided for the de posit with the treasurers of the several States of thirty-seven millions ($37,468,859) in four installments during the year 1837—the Secretary of the Treasury to receive certificates of deposits therefor, signed by competent authority, in such form as he should prescribe, which certificates should express the usual legal obligation, and pledge the faith of the State for the safe keeping and repayment of the deposit, from time to time, whenever the same should be required. The first three installments were deposited. Be fore the last installment, payable on the first day of October, was transferred, a series of financial disasters culminated in the crisis of 1837, and there was no surplus to deposit.

THE EMERGENCY OF THE PANIC. Further legislation was deemed necessary in tliis emergency, and an extra session of Congress was called by President Van Buren. During this session, on Sept. 11, 1837, a bill was reported from the finance committee of the Senate providing that the transfer of the fourth installment should be indefinitely postponed. The opposition to this bill was persistent, and there was a long debate, which was participated in by Webster. Clay, Calhoun, Buchanan, Benton, Silas Wright, Caleb Cushing and others of the Senate; aud in the House by Adams. Fillmore and Sib ley, of New York: Bell, of Tennessee; Wise, of Virginia, and many others. A bill was finally passed providing for the postponement of the deposit of the fourth install intent until Jan. 1. 1839. It passed the House by a vote of 119 to 117, and contained an amendment proposed by Mr. Buchanan, providing that the deposits should not he subject to the requisition of the Secretary of tin* Treasury, but should remain until called for by Congress. On the Ist of January. 1839, there were no funds in the Treasury available for t lie payment of the fourth installment, and since that date there never has been a surplus in the Treasury above the debts and estimated expenditures of the government. The amount of the three installments was $28.101,<>43, and the amount placed in the treasury of each State has since been carried among “unavailable funds of the general treasury,” as may be seen by reference to the annual reports of the Treasurer of the United States. The fourth installment, amounting to $9,307.215, has never been transferred or deposited, and recently the State of Virginia, through the action of its Legislature, and the State of Arkansas, through the action of its Treasurer and one of its United States senators, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasurer for the payment of this last installment. It is generally believed that the moneys deposited by the government with the different States were, for the most part, wasted or employed in works of internal improvement which were unnecessary. The data for a full investigation of this subject are not. at hand, but it is known that the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois. Indiana. Kentucky, Ohio and Missouri appropriated a considerable portion of the income from this fund to the support of public schools, and that in many of these States the income from the whole fund has been from the commencement, and still is, devoted to the education of the people. The government lias assumed the Arkansas bonds formerly held by the Smithsonian Institution. and the government also held quite a large amount of the bonds of the States of Virginia and Arkansas in the Indian trust fund. He thought if legislation should be obtained author izitig the payment of the fourth installment to those States, such legislation should provide that the payment be made in the bonds now held by the government. The Hon. Hugh McCulloch, being invited by the chair to participate in the discussion, said that in Indiana the application of the money deposited by the United States had occasioned a long debate, which had resulted in its division. One half, by means of a system of commissioners, was loaned to individuals on land and mortgage; the other half was put into the stock of the State bank. witH which the speaker was at that time connected. In the financial crisis the first half was practically lost, probably less than onetwentieth part being recovered: but the loss was fortunately made good by the bank stock, upon which dividends were regularly paid, and by which the investment was eventually doubled. Since, the closing of the bank this money has constituted the school fund of Indiana. The Ferocious ami Ungovernable Negroes. National Republican. We feel a thrill of sasisfaction that the quiet two hundred got the four negroes under. Had they remained in the jail there is no knowing what ravaged they might have committed. How long will the aggressive and dominating negro continue to persecute and terrorize the meek aud timid whites of the South? The Majority Outside of the Crime Records, I’hiladelphin Press. Back of this tawdry scene before the footlights lies the great mass of the American peopty, unpublished, obscure, decent and God fearing. The average American who belongs to this uncounted

majority is the most quietly well-bred, selfrespecting, largely good humored man of his class on earth. He is faithful to his wife and child, regards all women with the quizzical fondness of Dobbin for Amelia. He will weigh you sugar or lay out a town with energy and precision, and when you have suddenly called on him to be President, you have not, as you know, taken him unaware. Our foreign cousins do not find him in clubs or New York receptions. But as long as we know that there are 50.000.000 of him waiting out of the newspapers, and almost out of sight, we can afford to be patient with their mistakes. BEECHER'S BRIGHT THOUGHTS. Pertinent Sayings ami Pitliy Remarks from Sunday's Discourse. New York Herald. The text was Matthew, v, 43-48, its burden being: “Love your enemies.” In the course of his sermon Mr. Beecher said: “The supreme art of life above all other arts, is the art of living together justly and charitably —no other thing so taxing, requiring so much wisdom, so much practice—how to live with our fellow men.” “Everywhere, in all nations, men can get along with everything else than with the highest creation of God.” “Asa rule men get along very well with natural law—everywhere outside of their stomachs.” “A man gives to the barnyard fowl what the barnyard fowl wants; ho makes its necessities tho rule of his conduct. No man cherishes a turtle as he would a canary bird.” “When we reach the sphere of man, supremely endowed, carrying within himself more than all the rest ©f animal creation altogether—it is there thu/ yfen break down, and hardly anybody knows how to get along wisely and well with man, or ever has known. ’ “Men don't keep step; they don’t march to the same music, no that they are out of sympathy with each other in various moods. And yet what a whirl there is: what a drive of intensity there is! Men are swept along with masses of men.” “In political affiliations men go on together. What would the rebellion of one thread in my coat amount to? It cait’t help itself: it is woven in. So men are woven into party: when they try to work themselves out they only make a rent.” “Oh, if one's life might be like the life of a skiff or a yacht, or any boat of single sail, in a sequestered lake, where the winds did not blow too hard; if one's sold tohld withdraw, it would be easy to live—that is, it would be easy to live if there were not so many men around.” “Can a man carry himself in this lunatic world of population and love his enemy?—do good to those who hate him? I wonder liow many prayers you ever sent up for those who hate you? It wouldn’t take up the top of the page in the angel's record book.” “When a large house-dog comes out with an announcement of himself, a man knows what he has got to meet; but when one of these nasty little Spitz dogs, without a hark at all, runs behind and nips, you don't know whether to run or stand still, whether to fight or give it up. Now, an enemy that is an enemy outwardly, and strikes a fair blow, can be met; but whisperers, backbiters, mean folks who follow you and nip you, and sneak in and out the fence to save themselves —and we are commanded to pray for them. You don't need any command to damn 'em. That nature dictates. But grace turns that all out. The meanest kind of men, who, with all the manner of a coward have the venom of a serpent —Oh, mayn’t I damn ’em? No, not till after you’ve prayed for them first.” “Into this-maelstrom of human life men are sent without knowledge, without experience; not of their own volition. We wake up and find ourselves lion?: we arc not responsible for being born as we are.” “£ don’t wonder that some mothers weep when their daughters are born, and cry, ‘Oh, that it had been a son!' There art* some sad experb ences that would lead a mother to pray that every one of her children be men.” “If you had the opportunity of saying whether you should go all through this life again, would you do it? I wouldn’t. With what I know of this world now, if I should be asked. ‘Will you go through another?' I might do it for God’s sake, but for scarcely any other reason would I accept a r -petition of the varied experiences of such a lit* as this. Once is enough.” ‘ 1 never saw a fat spider on a summer's day pet ring out of his retreat until a gauzy fly strikes his net, when he pounces upon him. that I don't want to hit him—be a spider myself for a wlriit? and fight him.” “Pick out the worst, the meanest, the dirtiest rascal of the crowd—had as he is, there is within him a pearl.” “You haven’t done it last year; will you endeavor to do it next year.”

THE SUMMERBELL DIVORCE. Additional Details of the Case Decided at Trenton, N. J., on Monday. Trentou Special. There was a judicial eight to seven decision in the Court of Errors and Appeals here to day. The case under consideration was the celebrated Summcrbell divorce case. The husband who seeks the divorce is a preacher of the Christian Church at Milford, near Frenchtown, in Hunter don county. He prayed for a divorce upon the ground that his wife had in 1877 committed adultery with a Dr. Helm, a prominent phy sician of Peru, 111., and with her brother-in-law, McLean, in Madison, Ind. To prove, this charge he relied chiefly upon a written confession! of guilt made by his wife, and attested l>v another lady as a witness. This confession was made at the husband’s suggestion and request, and the form of attestation prepared by himself sot forth that it was made* entirely of her own free will without any force or promises on the part of the husband. In a writing made a few days later the wife waived all rights which she might have attained by any condonation of her offense by her husband. The case was referred to Barker Gummerc. as master. a year ago, and, upon a great mass of evi deuce taken, lie recommended that the Chancel lor refuse the divorce. From this decision the husband appealed to the court of last resort. Judge Van Syckle this morning read an opinion affirming Mr. Gummore’s recommendation. The law, he said, would have prevented the wife from appearing as a witness in court to sustain her husband’s charges, and it was absurd to suppose that it could recognize an unsworn written statement, where sworn testimony could not have been admitted. There was nothing in the evidence to remove the suspicion that ihe confession was made at the instigation and dictation of the husband, and with an un demanding that it was to be the means of her forgiveness. The peculiar form of the at testa ti*>n only heightened this suspicion. The evidence showed that the wife was suffering from a physical disability which made it in the least degree improbable that she was guilty'of adultery. There was no corroborative evidence which was worthy of credit if taken aside from the confession. Asa law passed since the beginning of this suit made the wife a competent witness in such a case, the refusal of the husband’s prayer would le without, prejudice to the beginning of anew suit. Judges Dixon. Knapp, Parker. Scudder, Paterson, Green and Clement voted with Judge VanSyckle against the divorce. Judges Dcpue, Magie, Reed, Cole, Kirk. Whittaker and Chief justice Beasley dis sealed, the vote standing eight to seven. The divorce was refused. Judge Depue, in dissent ing. said that he thought the letters of the wife subsequent to the concession affirmed that document. Corporal Tanner’s Tract Story. Now York Sun. The Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, ex-cong <mar. preached his first sermon yesterday as pastor of the East Congressional Church, in Tompkins avenue, Brooklyn. “There is in this town,”said he, “a friend of mine who had both of his feet shot away in the late war. As lie lay on his straw pallet a woman approached him with a bundle. The sufferer hoped she would speak to him and give of the oranges which lie thought must assuredly be in the bundle, to slake* his thirst. She bent over him and asked this question: ‘Are you prepared to die?’ Asked this of him who lay there hoping* to live to bring back to Brooklyn so much of himself as had not been hacked and cut away. When sin* had asked this question she slowly untied her bundle. It contained tracts. She was distributing tracts. And that was not all. Corporal Tanner, the sufferer added: ‘When l looked upon the tract it was on the sin of dancing. 1 feebly called her back and told her that I was converted, for 1 never would dance gain.”' : No l heater guarantee of the excellence of Oft B * Is Cough Syrup could be furnished than that? it s recommended Kv the leading drug gists.

VILLARIVS RISE AND FALL. From si Newspaper Reporter to One of tlie Financial Monarchs of the Country. Now York World. That Mr. Henry Villard is really sick there appears to be no doubt. When his friends in and out of the Northern Pacific announced on Friday that he was home in the hands of his physician, the street smiled derisively and said tlicit liis illness was only a pretext for an enforced resignation, and that the directors who are anxious to get rid of him wen* willing to let him down easy and to have it publicly announced that ill-health, and not a revolt of his former friends was driving him from office. It seemed to be accepted yesterday that he is really sick. It is persistently stated so at the Northern Pacific offices, and even those who are accustomed to put the worst construction on everything that Mr. Villard does were willing to admit that he is sick. “Nervous prostration” is said to be tlie malady which detain o him within the walls of his palace. • Meeting a well-known operator, who is chiefly prominent, for the part he takes in the elevated railroad litigation, the reporter asked him if he know Mr. Villard. “Know him? Yes, very well. And all this talk about his illness is founded on fact. He is sick, and it is no wonder that he is. Why, Villard’s career during the past five years, marvelous as it is, is enough to have shattered the nerves of the strongest man that ever lived. And Mr. Villard is not a strong man. He is robustappearing, it is true, but lie is of a very nervous temperament. HtS wonderful successes fairly earned the man off his feet and into tho clouds. “Villard is not the man once was. Too fftCt that Jx.o wAfl tho first and only man who ever had sl2.ooo,oooplaced in his hands by prominent capitalists to use as he deemed best seemed to have almost turned his head. Then for a time everything he touched seemed to thrive, and all his projects overflowed with sue cess. Now that reverses havo come, and his big enterprises havo collapsed, and those who formerly believed in him are turning against him, it is no wonder that lie is worried, nervous and sick.” That Mr. Villard’s resignation is only a question of a very short time, is the general belief on tho street, but tho prominent operators do not care to speak publicly in regard to the matter until the resignation is formally an nounced. It was indeed stated yesterday on the street that the resignation was already in tlie hands of the directors, hut was being withheld from the public for private reasons. At the offices of the company it was simply said. “Mr. Villard has not resigned.” Further than that no information could be obtained. It is said that when he resigns he will take a flying trip to Europe for the benefit of his health. “The effect of Mr. Villanl's resignation has al ready been discounted,” said a prominent member of the Exchange yesterday. “As far as actual power is concerned, Mr. Villard some time since ceased to be president. Tie -directors have already stripped him of his power. The absolute power that he once wielded has been cut. down to the size of a constitutional monarchy in which the prime minister is the power behind the throne. Frederick Billings is the prime minister. The directors have thrown restrictions and limitations around Mr. Villard so that ho must find his position very unpleasant; so much so that this alone will probably force him too resign. though his term of office (and he was elect ed for a double term) will not expire for many months. His holding of tin* stock is very small and he has not the outside backing to keep him in office. “Mr. Billings, on the other hand, has held on to his stock through the period of depression. He has seen the stock decline and-his losses roll up. hut he has held on s< that now he is the largest individual stockholder, and has been made a sort of managing director. It is probable that he will be Mr. Vi Hard's successor, as he was his predecessor. Mr. Billings was president up to 1882, when he gave place to Mr. Villard. “His election would tend to restore confidence in the company were it not that it is the general belief that the bottom has not yet been reached, and that some ugly developments in regard to all the Villard and ex-Villard companies are sure to come sooner or later. The public lias apparently lest all confidence in them. To-day. though tho general market opened firm, the Villard stocks were very weak, and Oregon Transcontinental declined to 30, the lowest price it ever touched. ”

HIS FIRST SUCCESS. With the exception of Jay Gould, no man in this country has had a more wonderful personal history than Henry Villard. Not many years ago he was a reporter on the Tribune, and achieved considerable success in the profession. His first railroad operation was in connection with the Kansas <fc Pacific, and in that he laid the foundation of his fortune. He was the representative of the foreign bondholders of that then bankrupt road, and he succeeded in so disposing of the property to Jay Gould as not only to satisfy the bondholders, but also to clear a modest little fortune <t a few hundred thousand dollars for himself. The money thus acquired he put into the Oregon Navigation Company. He was very successful .ip that project. He bought up the stock at a low figure and succeeded in placing the enterprise oii a sound financial basis, and j though In* watered the stock up to $24,900,000 he made it pay a good dividend. His success was so dazzling that it blinded his friends and supporters, lienee the “blind’’ pooh Mr. Villard was believed to boa financial genius. Men of great wealth were so impressed with his shrewdness and honesty that they placed unbounded confidence in him. The blind pool of $12,090,000, which was placed in liis hands to do with as he deemed most wise, was the largest amount ever thus intrusted to one man. All that any contributor to the fund received from Mr. Villard in payment of the money was a simple acknowledgment that he had received so much money from such and such and such an individual. It was not a note, and did not make him liable in the slightest degree. Early in 1883 Mr. Villard was elected to succeed Mr. Billings as president of the Northern Pacific, and under his management- the loan of $40,009,000 was all placed, and all the securities were advanced to high figures in the Exchange. Mr. Villard was then at the very summit of his power. He was president of the Northern Pacific, the Oregon Navigation, the Oregon Improvement. and tin* Oregon Transcontinental, the latter a company organized to own and control the stocks of the others. Mr. VUlard's decline has been as sudden us bis rise, and those who have been strongest in bis advocacy have now lost all confidence in him. It is charged that his management of the companies has been that of a railroad wrecker; that he made everything subservient to his own aggrandizement; that he has made no account of the blind pool operations: that lie has speculated largely on his own account, and when successful has pocketed the profits, and when unsuccessful lias charged up the stock to the account of the “O. T.”; that lie has unloaded on his friends his immense holdings of Oregon Navigation at 150, and then let the price decline to below par: that while those who trusted him most have been immense losers, he himself lias rolled up an im mense fortune estimated at from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000, so that at the very time the securities of his several companies have depreciated in value $70,000,000. he himself has been enabled to build a magnificent mansion and transfer to his wife from a half to one million dollars in government bonds.” * A member of the Exchange, commenting on this picture, said: “Jay Cooke's collapse in 1873 in connection with the Northern Pacific was an enormous one, hut Cooke went under with the rest. But while the present collapse is even greater than that was, Villard, unlike Cooke, has saved himself from the wreck.” It was said yesterday that the committee in vostigating “O. T.” will report to morrow, and it is believed that the report will not bo very favorable. The Oregon Navigation yesterday announced that its gross earnings for tin* third week of December were $84,959.81, against $30,044.48 in tin* corresponding week last year. Mi*. Villard’s mansion is on Madison avenue. Fourth avenue and Fiftieth street. The property formerly belonged to the trustees of the St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It is interesting in connection with the developments on tlio “street” to note that this property has recently been subjected to numerous real estate transfers. During the past week Mr. Villard has transferred two lots adjoiuing his residence to Edward D, Adams and Artemus H. Holmes. The mansion is situated in the southwest corner of the block, and is built as separate residences, while a courtyard lies between them. The entiro block was in the latter part of 1882 encumbered with ft mortgage for $240,000, given by Mr. Villard to

the Manhattan Savings Institution, and Mr. Holmes, in purchasing the plot, pays the sum of $40,000 iii addition to a mortgage of $40,000 upon that particular plot. Mr. Adams, besides tho cash purchase price, which is $33,500, assumes a portion of tlie mortgage equal to that of his cash consideration. Mr. Hoi me** and Mr. Adams eontract to pay one-sixth of the taxes, mid a liko proportion of the interest on the mortgage upon Ihe court yard, over which, by this agreement, they are granted tin* right of-way. Holmes and Adams are Mr. Villanl's lawyers. They have an office iu the Mills building, on the same floor with the Northern Pacific. Mr. Adams has recently been made Assistant District attorney. Gresham's Characteristics. Louisville Commercial. One of tlie funniest things in the way of an estimate of the character of a public man that recently appeared was printed in a late letter from Washington to the Philadelphia Times about Postmaster-general Gresham. The writer described him as a man requiring the support of a stronger will—a sort of clinging, dependent creature, easily dominated by a firmer character. The people who have known General Gresham longest are as willing as anybody that he may be dominated by a superior will and a firmer character, if one could be found, but they don’t believe one can be found. The fact of the business is that the most marked defect in General Gresham’s character as a politician is a too great readiness to resent anything that has the appearance of domination. A “dominating” character and a “stronger will” sort of man acts oa hi >4 like a red rag does on He just walks around, as it were, with a chip on his shoulder, daring that sort of a man to knock it off. The idea of describing him as a sort of clinging aesthete is funny. Wherefore Not?--We Give It Up. Indianapolis Sentinel. In tin? holy hush of this midnight hour, there come, as we write, those who have dropped away from love's shining circle t<* come no more. Memory is awake, intensely vital. We are holding a grand reception in the parlors of the soul. They are whispering galleries. Wo recognizfl the voices, as one by one (icy say, “a Happy New Year.” We do not rettmi the salutation —wherefore not? An Enterprising Firm, With this issue of the Journal the Model Clothing Company adverties one of the greatest clothing sales ever attempted before by any similar enterprise in this locality. The Model in the past has from time to time offered special sales, and the workingmen have been largely benefited by their generosity and low prices; but this effort outdoes any of their former sales, and places their large stock of Overcoats and heavy winter garments at astonishing low prices. The entire stock has been carefully gone over and reductions of a startling nature made throughout. We refer all readers of the Journal to their large advertisement on the eighth page of this issue. Morton’s Life. Wo have a few copies left of the Life of O. P. Morton, which can he procured for fifty cents at the Journal office; or we will send it by mail on, receipt of price. John < Nkw & Son, Journal Office. Indianapolis, lud. Broadsides of coughing, with interludes <>f wheezing and sneezing, are heard in all public places. How strange! when everybody knows, or ought to know, that Hale's Honey of ll©rebound and Tar is an absolute and immediate counterblast to all pulmonary complaints. Fof sale by all druggists. Pike’s Toothache cure in one minute. A practical and thorough test of the Willco* & Gibbs Automatic Sewing Machine will convince you that it lias no equal. Noiseless, lightest running, and alwav. ready. 92 East Nfc# York street. _ Advice to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow s Soothing Syrup should always be used when children are cutting teeth, it relieves the little sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as "bright as a button." It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates tin* bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty five cents a bottle.

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