Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1877 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1877

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7. Returning Hoard Hayes, or R. Bradley Hayes, or the fraudulent president. Use anyone of the appropriate titles and you will not be misunderstood. What has stopped the gubernatorial halls over in Columbus, Ohio? Can't the Cincinnati ediiors keep up that special "dancing" train to the capital of Ohio? Wonder how much money Tilden used on Prof. Seelye and Oeneral Barlow, also on Congressmen Purtnnn of Florida and Pierce of Massachusetts. Another million at the outside. . Grant is distinguishing the last days of his administration by arresting editors of newspapers and giving order? to prevent South Carolina citizen soldiery from parading on Washington's birthday. This is the way an outsider sees it. The St. Johns (New Brunswick) Telegraph says: "If the United States can stand the incubus of a chief magistrate elected by fraud 'and perjuryCanada need not complain." They say Bill Holloway is turning up his nse at the post office. He is after something bigger. Four or fiye thousand a year for running the Indiana branch of the presidential kitchen cabinet is not his gauge any longer. Bally for Bill. Nothing like getting ahead. St. Faul tells us to "forget those 'things which are behind and press forward." Bill's progressive. ' The strongest claim that niden has to the presidency is that he bought Ute office and paid for it. Ho far as known Governor Hayes never paid a cent for It. Journal. It takes a very small boilor to run machinery enough to turn out such lies in quantities. The radicals have absolutely lied so about Mr. Tilden that they believe the trash themselves, and are constantly making comparisons between Mr. Tilden and Mr. Hayes on the basis of their own lying statements, aud never cease wondering and admiring the angelio qualities of their new fraudulent what is it?

.We like to give our readers all the fun that is floating. Here is one of those sparkling gems that we gather from our good neighbor, the Journal : "It is useless to 'urge upon the democracy that Mr. Morton's 'services on the commission entitle him to a 'unanimous re-election." Quite useless we should say, without going into the merits of the case. In the same item the Journal speaks of Morton sinking the partisan in the patriot. Think of Oliver P.Morton in his grand fine horse bareback feat of "The Patriot." Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, is getting desperate as the 4th of March draws near and the Hayes villainy not yet consummated. There was a terrible and wonderful pyrotechnic double leaded irruplion in Thursday's paper. Here Is the way the words "kicked the heavens," and all about the wicked democracy: "A mass of 'malice, recklessness, desperate greed and 'grow ignorance; also, cussed ness and childishness, wanton vindictive opposition, too 'formidable to be despised." How is that sort of talk going to sound to the courtly habitues of St Cloud or St James? How ever, the inflammation can be speedily re duced by blue glass application. In an issue last week the Cincinnati Commercial copied an article from the New York Nation, a radical paper, and one of the few papers that supported Hayes decently and courteously without lying about Mr. Tilden. The Commercial suggested that the article would be "soothing" to democrats. We make a selection from the last issue of the Nation, which we commend to the Commercial, with the charitable hope that it may rove "soothing" to it: This settles the present controversy as to the presidency, but It does not decide who, within a reasonable field of Inquiry, wa trulv elected and consequently docs not nable Mr. Hay 7 "to pass unchallenged to the , president! chair." It It-aven in doubt the question whetnl er his majorities in two states were not take! from his opponent and transferred to him bjV a band of disreputable pemona discharging the duties of can valuers. This, It must be ood-,fe.-ted, is most itKretable, and would bo so even if 't were not the result of a strict party vote. It leaves the democrats sore and angry, a well a disappointed, and it certainly Is not pliftnant to ninny Kood repaollcans o nee "tne 'great party" sneaking out o' couit after getting the indictment against It quashed on a technicality. Of courw this Is better than koin to Jail, but K Is not a pecles of escape from Jail that honorable men feel comfortable about or are lnci ned to cnucale over.' The "great party sneaking out of court" is an exceedingly truthful and rtriking figure. It has ben "sneaking" ever since the 7th day of last November. Mr. Pierce, congressman from M assachu setts, is another radical who thinks that Mr. Hayes was not fairly elected, and who opposed the counting of the electoral votes of Louisiana for him. He said in the debate in congrpss of la&t Thursday: It con Id never have been Intended by those who established this system of government that tfiere snould be no examination, no scrutiny of th returns of the el ctoal votes as cortlUed by th täte authorities. Th most careful conservator of tte rights wouid never hav object! to an examination by congress, or by any other national authority, so far as to c-rfi:i whether the tlwtnni who sent their vols here to be counted had been chowt j and were quiliflc-d In the manner provided by the constitution and laws of thdr state and of the UiiiUHitttfctea. And then, in alluding to the decision of the commission in not receiving evidence as to the fra i 3s and illegalities perpetrated, he emarked: If the-'S not ma'ters which the representatives of all the people, authorized by the coostlluUo t to count the voles und dec We the result, e n inquire luto, then this government stands on very ins cure foundation. lean not give my atxenlto any such declaration, it i coutr..rr to good government, it Is contrary to good niorais, It tend to weaken the hold of Um i.overnratint upon the renpect and confldci.oe ol the peoph', and the party eh jcvts -me y Its adoption will bu a party founded on principle dngerou to tne perpetuity ol tiit government. This is !' the talk of a democrat, but a pronoaric:'1 radical. We commend these

utterances for the consideration of the decent, conscientious portion of the Indiana radical party. HAYES'S INATJGUIiAI If the inaugural oath does not stick in Hayes's throat and choke him to death, he is expected in his inaugural speech to orate in substance as follows: "Fellow CitizensCalled upon by four perjured radical thieves who managed the Louisiana returning board, and eight equally infamous creatures who constituted a majority of the late radical deadfall commission, gotten up for the purpose of making me president of the United States in defiance of the will of the people, I feel the weight of the glorious crime resting upon me, but with the aid of his excellency the devil, who has never deserted the radical cause, and the fidelity of the friendship of Morton, who has outlived his legs, I hope to be worthy of the confidence of loyal conspirators generally. Fellow citizens, it becomes me in this a igust moment, after having taken the oath of office, which did not kill me, to acknowledge my obligations to the perjured patriots and thieving devootees of liberty, and to announce briefly my policy aS the c:Ime cursed chief magistrate of a degraded country and a swindled people. Recognizing the necessity of money in bringing about civil service reform, it will be my pleasure to see that the most accomplished thieves of my party are placed where they can do the most good for the present and future welfare of my party. The radical party under my illustrious bribe taking predecessor, honestly earned the title of the great thief party of the country and of the century. In this regard I shall use my constitutional prerogative to prevent any backward movement It is possible some old thieves maybe turned out of office. When such is the case I desire that my patriotic countrymen shall understand it is for the purpose of putting some thief in office who baa hitherto been overlooked by my illustrious bribe taking predecessor. Fellow citizens, I regard it as my duty in this, my first official announcement, to recommend the Louisiana returning board machinery as the best calculated to preserve the supremacy of the radical party. It has more lives than a cat, and can manufacture perjuries faster than a Colorado grasshopper can lay eggs. I express the hope that the model will be closely and critically examined, and that my friends and the friends of the devil will see to it that similar machines are established ia all the states where our constitution loving party holds sway. "Fellow citizens, I desire in my first official announcement to acknowledge . my obligations to the radical electoral deadfall commission. Without it truth would have prevailed. With it the sacred ness of perjury has been maintained. The sublime purpose of fraud has been carried out, and I am glad to assure you, my countrymen, that all hell rejoices. "I should be derelict my fellow citizens, if I wer to omit to mention my obligations to the profound corruption and rottenness of the supreme court It has furnished us, in the hour of peril, three judges whose depravity will compare favorably with anything hell has produced since its corner stones were laid. For elegant and polished scoundrelism, Judge Bradley wears the horns, and is entitled to the largest measure of hell deserving panegyric. I desire to say that no perjury was too big or too horny for him to swallow and digest; no fraud, no matter what its proportions, was too colossal for him to approve. Aa a patriotic damned scoundrel, he is entitled to your confidence, and it is my pleasure to reeommend that my patriotic thieving officials at once commence laying away a certain portion of their swag to build Judge Judas Bradley a monument "Fellow citizens, hext to Morton, Bradley and that eminent statesman and patriot, J. Madison Wells, who has accomplished so much in utiltzing fraud for my elevation to the eminently . damning position of a crime cursed president of the Louisiana returning board, made up of i perjured thieves and gutter vagabonds, I desire to ask yonr patriotic attention to that elegant specimen oi feminine patriotism, Eliza Pinkston, of Ouachita parish, Louisiana, whom my damphool co-laborer, Murat Halstead, immortalized. Eliza is a prostitute black as hell but Murat HalStead took to her; he praised her, and went into business with her, and Murat is a patriot, or a parrot anything, in fact, to ' help the cause of radicalism. I shall regard it as a duty and a privilege to recognize the great services this buzz-saw representative of perjury has done for you, for me, for o'ur party and the cause of fraud, and shall hold myself in readiness to exhaust my power as the president of the glorious thief, fraud and perjury party to see that such angelic specimens of the mud sills of my party as Eliza are taken care of from the public crib. Fellow citizens, I now enter upon the duties of au office to which I have been ex alted byfraud and perjury, returning board and deadfsflEcommission ecsundrelisru. Under such circumstances, I feel a profound satisfaction. Fifty thousand a year is enough to make an average radical feel a deep solicitude for his country. I shall do my level best to make fraud respectable and perjury pass current in all departments of the government Fellow citizens, we are entering upon the second century of the republic, and if in breaking constitutions, violating laws, bulldozing supreme courts and overturning legislatures, I can do anything to rromoie the hell ward course of my country, assure my radical co-conspirators I shall exhaust every constitutional privilege to accomplish such a glorious work. Fellow citizens, inclosing allow me to assure you that my confidence in fraud and perjury u unabated; ami assuidof the continued assistance of the devil, Morton and the supreme court, I shall at once commence drawing my salary."

THE STATE BOABD OF AGRICULTURE AND ITSEHnUtRASNMETS. The Indiana state board of agriculture was, as we learn from the official report for 1876, created by special law in 1851. The opinion that has prevailed to some extent and that may still be entertained by some persons, that the organization is a joint stock association in the interest of individuals, is entirely erroneous. In the introductory remarks of the report of the officers of the board for the year 1876 the matter ef proprietorship is explicitly set forth as follows: "The board is virtually 'a state institution, not a department of state, 'but abureau of agriculture.controlled by delegates who represent the county and district 'agricultural societies of the state. The legislature has provided an annual appropriation Of $1,500 for the use of the board in 'promoting the interests of agriculture. The 'property of the board is exempt from taxa'tion, and in case of the board being dis'banded the property would revert to the 'state. The board having been created by 'act of the general assembly is, therefore, subject to the will of the people." In carrying forward legitimate enterprises the board, it seems, has become involved to the extent of $40,000 for which the holders of the obligations of the board have a mortgage on its entire property which, in fact is the property of the state, and in which the people are directly and vitally interested. In this connection it. is eminently proper to show the value of this property which, unless the legislature interposes, will be sacrificed and lost to the 8 täte. We copy from the official report as follows : ' ASHETS Or TU B SOCI KTT. Thirty-six acres, fair ground- ........f2Ou,0OO Three acres for railroad switch . 15,000 Hulldlngs, cost $150,000, estimated lOO.OUO Library and moveable property 2,500 Total............ . $317,500 Admitting, however, that, considering the general business prostration, the above estimate is too high, the fact is on record that a number of gentlemen eminently qualified to judge, and whose opinions are entitled to the highest respect have, at a more recent date, placed the value of the property at $180,000, a sum which will doubtless be regarded by the legislature as a 'hard pan" valuation. This entire property is now in danger of being swept away for the comparatively paltry sum of $40,000, resulting in an absolute loss to the people of $140,000 in money. But the' money loss is the smallest item in the calculation, for the abandonment of the purposes and objects - which the board of agriculture was created to promote will be a direct and severe blow in the face of Indiana's progress as an agricultural state, and that, too, at a time when by her energy and intelligent enterprise she has placed herself in the front rank of the agricultural commonwealths of the country. The property of the state board of agriculture, situated as it is on the margin of the capital city of the state, with growth and wealth and progress all around it, must, in the nature of things, at a very early day. become immensely valuable. Already it is being environed by the city, which in its growth will at no distant day make it as central as the Circle, and in the very heart of wealth and business. To permit it to be sacrificed will be a suicidal policy, as much so as to permit the state house square to be sold for a song. Indiana is too populous, too rich to permit this to be done, and we haye faith that the legislature will devise means by which so great a wrong to the people will be prevented.

THE CRIME. The indications are that Rutherford B. B. Hayes will be, at an early day, inaugurated president In the opinion of a large number of people the calamity can not be, or rather will not be, avoided. The crime that has been maturing since the seventh day of November last is now receiving its finishing touches, and preparations are being made to carry it into effect The American people can no more avoid the contemplation of the infamy which the electoral commission has consummated than Jehovah can avoid the recognition of the curse the devil inflicted upon the world by deceiving Adam and Eve. There i no possible way by which the crime can be dwarfed or obscured. It is the creation of unmitigated scoundrelism. From every point of view it is hideous and haggard. To comprehend it in its far reaching consequences requires the boldest effort of the largest brain power of the country. In the first place, the crime in its inception, development and culmination has, to a very great extent, if not entirely, destroyed the faith of the people in the ballot-box as a means of correcting the abuses of power. It confronts them with its triumph and impresses the humiliating truth upon their minds that their will in the choice of rulers may be reversed, and that their boasted liberty in this regard is a sham and a deception. To this it has come at last and there is no method by hieb, the force of the crushing truth can be arrested It may be possible to estimate the influence oi the crime, by virtue of which R. B. Hayes is proclaimed president, upon the future .of the; country, but we do not believe any estimate will even approximate its demoralizing consequences. There are crimes that reach beyond their perpetrators and immediate victims, and like cancers send out their fibrous roots to poison and corrupt the entire body politic. : They poison the fountains of truth, of right of law and of confidence, until every stream sent forth is freighted with demoralization and death. There are crimes so fiendish in their character as almost to make man wish be were a wild beast so unutterably vile do they make human nature, and in all the catalogue of crimes since Cain slew Abel there is not one recorded in authentic history better calculated to undermine confidence and promote

anarchy then that conglomerate iniquity

which enables a band of conspirators to inaugurate R. U. Hayes as president President of what? Not of the United States. Not of the radical party -even. But if president of anything or anybody, his jurisdiction onght not to extend beyond the returning board thieves and perjurers and equally infamous conspirators, including the eight miscreants who, under cover of law, have made possible for him to disgrace the white house and the American name. It has been possible to save the country from the shame and degredition of the great crime, but we fear the opportunity has passed away forever, and that the penalty of eternal ignominy is to be borne by the country. We recognize the fact that in due time the final blow will be struck, and that when R. B. Hayes mounts into power there will be a dead republic at his feet A horse thief and murderer was hung by an outraged populace in Louisiana Friday. Grant will doubtless order to the spot all the troops that can be spared from the inaugural. The state assessment for general purposes has been fixed at 12 instead of 13 cents, and with this amendment the revenue bill passed by the cheerful majority of 70 to 0. THE Pit ATIIER CASE. Details or the Alleged Wire Marder In Jackson County nnd the Aeqnltal or the Accused. THpeclal Correspondence of the Bentinel.) Bktmocr, Ind., feb. 'M, 187. On the l!5th day of October. 1876, the wife of John C. Prather, living seven miles north of Seymour, died very suddenly. She was well enough when she got up in the morning and commenced getting breakfast and at 12 o'clock she died. Dr. Davis, of Reddington, the family physician, was called in and pronounced the disease congestion of the stomach and bowels. Mrs. Prather was buried the next day following her death, and nothing was thought of the fact that she had died so suddenly, and perhaps nothing would ever have been done in regard to it, only for the fact that about a year previous Prather had secured a policy on her life in the Michigan Mutual life insurasve company, Detroit, Mich., for $3,000. This, together with the fact that Prather is very unpopular with his immediate neighbors, led them to readily suspect foul play, and the fact of the suspicion soon reached the agents of the company in which Mrs. P. was insured. The general agent and special agent of the company had the body exhumed by the coroner of Bartholomew county (Mrs. Prather having been interred in that county), and caused the stomach to be taken out and analyzed, which was done by Dr. Henry Samson, of Indianapolis, who reported Ioison as the result of the analysis, 'rather was immediately indicted, the grand jury of Jackson connty being in session at the time Dr. Jamison made his report Prather was arrested and held to bail in the sum of $20,000, and being unable to hie a bond he remained in jail until the 12th inst, when his trial commenced. The prosecution was conducted by Samnel B. Voglea, the prosecuting attorney, and by David Overmeyer, Esq., of Vernon, who was emfdoyed by the insurance company. The deense was conducted by the Hon. Jason B. Brown and W. K. Marshall, of Seymour.' The jury was one of the best ever empanneled in the county. Every man on it has good intelligence, sense and judgment, and all are men of unquestioned integrity. The trial of the case occupied seven days, and the argument six. The defense was conducted by Mr. Brown. The argument of the case was unusually lengthy. Mr. Vogles opened for the state in a speech of four hours. He was followed by Mr. Marshall in a speech of seven yours for the defense. Jason B. Brown closed the case for the defense in a speech of nine hours. Mr. Overmeyer closed for the prosecution in a speech of seven hours. The jury took the case at 10 o'clock a. m. Saturday and brought in a verdict at 12 o'clock Sunday, having been out 26 hours. The jury for the greater part of the time stood 10 for acquittal to two for conviction, when finally the two yielded to the 1 and they made a verdict of not guilty, and Prather is to-day a free man. He will bring suit at once against the insurance company for the amount of the policy on his life. HOBE TllASf OLD EX. A IMoneer of Putnam Connty Celebrates Ills Fifty-Eighth Wedding Anniversary. (Special Correspondence of the Sentinel . Clovebpalk, Ind., Feb. 26. Yesterday witnessed an interesting and very unusual event about one mile south of this place on the home farm of Major Joseph B. Ross, towit: The celebration of his fifty-eighth wedding anniversary by a larje family reunion. Major Ross is of Irish descent, both his parents having come to this country from the Emerald Ile. His father settled at an early day in Bourbon county, Kentucky, where "the major was born August 25, 1800. His wife Hannah ' (Piercy) I toss was born in the fame county August 22. 1795, and is thus five years his senidr. They were married in Kentucky, February 25, 1819, and toon after he received the title of major of the militia, which he still wears. They moved to the farm on which they now live, in Putnam county, Indiana, in 183.J 14 years ago. The country was then a wilderness, and Major Ross is one of its earliest settlers. They had eight children, all daughters, seven of whom survive. They have 31 living grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. Six of his daughtm have living husbands, and 10 of his grandchildren are married, making a total family, including the Old couple, of 77 persons, more than Jacob took down to Eypt Of this large fatuily all his daughters were present, four of their husbands, viz: Owens Martin, of Owen county; L. M. Martin, of Ladoga; Willis Lsyne, of Greencastle, and Dr. Pritchard, of Cloverdale, fourteen of the grandchildren and five of their companions, among whom was Profesor J. 0. Hopkins, of Butler university, at Irvington, and thirteen of the grandchildren, making forty-five of the family present, ana a few othrrs, about tifty in all. The major is a life long democrat and has brought up hi family well grounded in the faith. A republican has scarcely dared even marry into the family. Among all the com pan v there there was not a Bingle republican. Even some of the little great grandchildren had learned to lisp " 'Rah for Hendrick' and Tilden!" Before dispersing the major undercook to make the company a little speech. He could only say he thanked them for their appreciation of him and his feeble and aged companion. Longnisy his memory be green ia the memory and affections of his offspring.

TRIED FOR M CR DER.

Joseph Hook Kills John McShane About Chew or Tobacco and ts Arraiirned Therefor. Special to the Sentinel. Bloomingeon, Ind., March 1. 1877. The trial of Joseph Hook for the murder of John McShane in Kerr's shoe hcp here la.-t November was begun Tuesday. Mrs. Hook, with Thomas Hanlin, auditor; Mr. Welker, cleric of Floyd county, and Captain Woolsey, formerly master mechanic on the L., X. A. and C. railroad, arrived on the evening train fb attend the trial. Judges Lafollett, Buskirk and Duncaand Judge McNutt appeared for the defendant, and Prosecutor II. W. Miers alone for the state. Mr. Miers opened the case for the prosecution, going very fully into the theory of the esse and the facts proposed to be proved by his witnesses. Mr. John Buskirk, in opening for the defense, claimed that McShane, who was shot, was a quarrelsome man, and was largely responsible for the quarrel; that the pistol found was last seen in his possession, and that he shot himself in the scuffle. These arguments occupied the whole of Tuesday. Yesterday morning the introduction of testimony for the prosecution was begun by calling Dr. Jas. G. McPheeters to the witness stand to prove the character of the wound that caused the death of McShane. Dr. McPheeters aaid McShane died from bleeding from a perforated wound through the right iliac artery, and that the wound had the appearance of having been made by a pistol all or shot Josiah East was then called, and said that he was in Sam Kerr's shoe shop on Fifth street, Bloomington, about noon November 14; that about that time John McShane came into the shop and'sat down; that soon after McShane came in and sat down Joe Hook came in; that McShane said to him, "Get out of here! When Hook replied, "Is this your house?" And McShane said "No, take a seat Joe;" that Hook then sat down and McShane said, "Give me a chw of tobacco, Joe;" that Hook pulled out of his pocket a small piece of tobacco and gave it to McShane, who took a chew of it and offered the piece back to Hook, who refnsed it and said, "No, put that in your pocket,, and if that is not enough I have more," at the same time pulling a larger piece out of his pocket and extending it toward McShane; that McShane put the small piece in his pocket and made a "grab" at the other piece extended to him, but that Hook jerked it back out of McShane's reach, whereupon they both laughed. That soon afterward Hook got up from his seat, walked to the front door, which was at the other end of the shop, opened the door, then turned around to McShane and said, "You God damned son of a bitch, that is the last chew of tobacco you will ever get of me." That McShane then arose and taking the tobacco given him by Hook on the palm of his ft hand, extended it toward Hook, and a piece of bread or cake which he had been eating, in his right hand; he advance 1 toward Hook. saying, "Why, what do you mean Joe?" That Hook then reached behind him, drew a revolver, cocked and pointed it at McShane saying, "Don't you run agin that or you will get hurt." That McShane advanced on up to Hook, and laid his open left had on Hook's right shoulder; that Hook then placed the revolver to McShane's left side, and snapped it, but that the cap did not explode; that McShane then got hold of the pistol, and wrenched it from Hook and forced him backward with his hip upon the floor and his body and head against the wall and shoebench; placed his knee against him, and struck him several times about the head with his right fist, at the same time holding the revolver in his left hand out of the reach of Hook, who was trying to recover it; that Hook' succeeded in getting possession of the pistol again, and said, "You had it; now I have got it," then placed it to McShane's abdomen and fired; thatMcSbane, who up to this time had been partially bend- ' ing over Hook, straightened up, and Hook, rising to his eet, caught McShane by the lapel of the coat and pushed him across the shop to the north door, where they remained standing until John P. Kerr, who bad heard the shot, ran in and pushed them apart, and asked McShane. who groaned, what was the matter; that McShane began sinking to the tloor and said, "Joe Hook has shot me;" that in a short time afterward McShane died. The next witness, William Donahoo ashce.maker, who was in the shop at the time of the difficulty, bat run out before the fatal shot was fired, testified to the main facts in substance as East had stated them, with the exception that he said McShane never got possession of the revolver at any time. John P. Kerr, the next witness, testified that on the day of the shooting he was in his saloon adjacent to the shoe shop, and after he heard the report of the revolver he ran into the shop and saw Hook and McShane standing up at the north door of the room with McShane's right hand on Hook's left shoulder and Hook's left hand on McShane's left shoulder; that he ran up to them and pulled them apart; that the revolver then fell out of Hook's left i.and, and that McShane groaned and replied to the witness, who asked him what was the rratter: "Joe Hook shot me;" that Hook stooped down and picked up the revolver, and placing it in his breast pocket, said: "That is my pistol; he shot himself with it" The two next witnesses, Daniel Crouch and John Miers, testi tied to a dispute and high words between the men about half an hour before the shooting. The defense consisted mainly of Hook's statement and his good character for peace, which he proved by a number of wituesses from New Albany and persons who had known him on the railroad. Hook stated that he did not go into Kerr's shop with any intention of getting into a difficulty with McShane;. only drew his revolver when he thought it impossible to escape from McShane, who was pursuing him in a threatening manner; that he did not snap the pistol, as testified by the state's witnesses, and that McShane shot himself in attempting to wrest the revolver away from him. The defense also proved that McShane was a owerful man, and had the reputation of being a dangerous man, while Hook was a very small man. The state introduced evidence to rebut as to the reputation of McShane as a dangerous man. Arguments of counsel were made, and the case given to the jury at 12 o'clock to-day. PATrU'ACX. . The Marital Tronblea or the Prelly Frlmn Itouns ninfDw4l I (If rmsny. BerUn Dispatch to the New York Herald-) The Tatti afluir is the exciting topic of social gossip here since noon, because of the fact that the little Marchioness reached this city at half-past six this morning, on the express train from St. Petersburg. The good leople here, indeed, taxe an unusual interest in Patti's quarrel with her hu.-band, as they and all the rest of the world do in the love afTaits of prime don ne generally. The yonnger portion of sofiety it-calls, with rippling laughter, the love romance of the charming little Lucca. The lders of the gossipy circles have only to tax their memories a trifle to go bark to the hilarious days of Mile. Son tag and Baron Rossi -Theirt was a- love match which pro

voked acres of broad German grins and lots of scandal. It was a feast which the gossips of 1830 enjoyed and have never forgotten. Henrietta Son tag was then in the flower of her beauty of youth and charm of song. She had long declared herself invulnerable to the arrows of Cupid, bnt she was human after all. Wherever she went it was noted that the Baron Rossi was at her heels. If she arrived in Berlin by one diligence the devoted baron was sure to arrive in the nextj The same thing at Hamburg, the same at Paris, the same at St. Petersburg until the Berlinese made fun of poor Sontag and called her persistent follower Baron "Montag." When love's secret began to leak out in spite of all precautions, and scandal took the place of harmless jest, they linked Lady Sunday and Baron Monday together, but it turned out that the parson had joined them in advance, so that all the calumniators and jokers on Sontag were figuratively knocked into "the middle of next week." Although nearly half a century has passed one will occasionally encounter an old bean in the Thiergarten or the lobby of the opera, who will smile thoughtfully as he taps his snuff box and say, almost sadly, "Nobody sings like Sontag, and no one ever will." On arriving here Mme. Patti proceeded to the Hotel Rome. Signor Nicolini, however, went direct to Vienna. The Marquis of Caux passed through Berlin yesterday en route for Paris. He stayed at the Kaiser-llof Hotel, where they' had generally stopped during their visits to the German capital. The marquis sent a beautiful bouquet to Adel ina's room. Mme. Patti took a short drive at noon, avoiding the fashionable Thiergarten, but taking her way to the Hessenheide, in the lower quarter of the city, where she promenaded. On her return to the Hotel Rome she refused to see all visitors even her oldest friends meeting with the same refusal. The Baroness Berkendorf, an intimate acquaintance, called twice but was unable to see the persistent "Patti. Adelina leaves for Paris to-night, in order to be present at the trial on Thursday before the Tribunal of the Seine.

THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE. The Exact ri gares Give Tilden a Majority on the Popular Tote or 264,839. New York World.J The annexed tabular statement presents the first absolutely complete record of the presidential election yet printed. The World not long since published a somewhat similar table, but the figures were only approximate. These now given are the official votes of the states, as compiled by author ized officers, and hence are entirely trustworthy. A glance at the tables and the accompanying foot notes will be sufficient to convince the most obtuse partisan that the majority of the legal voters of this country did not vote for Governor Hayes, and did vote for Governor Tilden. The exact popular majority for the democratic electors appears by this table to be 204,829.

Popular VoU-. Kl'l'rl Vote. H m H J ? States. g p E b b & Maine 4'.).41l 64,130 7 ZZZ N Hampshire SS.419 41 Ö3 6 Vermont- lS.tttJ 41,407 S Massachus'tts 108,975 150,078 13 Rhode Island 10,711 15,787 4 C onnecticut... 61,631 f,aw 6 New York. 521, S9JW; 35 . New Jersey.. 1 15.P.V. HÖ,nl7 Pennsylvania 3H,2) 8S1.14S 25 Delaware 13,31 JO ,7i5 3 .. Maryland 1,76 71.HS1 Virginia r,521 9ö,2t 11 W.Virginia.. &i,W 41,32 5 N. Carol! Da... 1, 'XO l(i,4W 10 . Carolina... pO,mt 191,7 7 Georgia 1;WS 50.41 11 . Florida VU,4M J24.S40 4 Alabama 102,002 fc,23u 10 Mississippi 112,173 S2,tf 8 Louisiana x3,tiT! 75,73" 8 Texas 103,617 44,5.52 i Arkansas 54.0K3 3S,JU ft Missouri 202.SC 144.3! 15 Tennessee 133,1 tö,5 12 .. Kentucky ltW,445 W.415 U Ohio 823.1N2 330.H9 22 Indiana 214,52 207,(i 15 Illinois 208,Wr2 277,226 ...... 21 Michigan HUfi 1 6,534 11 Wisconsin. 123.2 130,0t7 10 Iowa 112.0W 171,327 11 Minnesota 4H.7W 72,52 5 Kansas 87,r2 78,332 5 Nebraska 17,553 31.952 8 Nevada ,30 10,33 3 Colorado 113,31 1 14,154 3 Oregon 14,157 15,20 . 3 1 California 75. U 78,603 6 Total 4lö.K 4,QO.W07i 1M 16öäÖ"

Contested. t Given by republican canvassing board aa appearing on face of the returns. The committee of the house of representatives reported themverage votes as follows: Republican electors, 92,104 ; democratic electors, td,439. In South Carolina the frauds by which the etat is given to Hayes are belilnd the stale canvass. 1 Count according to opinion of the state so pre me court. I Average of votes for electors as shown by the tally -sheets and the commissioners' statements from every poll in the state. The republican returning bward threw out votes enough to give Hayes 75,315 and Tilden 70,5". I Vote in October for governor. The electors were chosen by the legislature. Precedents for the Inauguration. Only two instances are recorded in the history of this country where the 4th of March (inauguration day) fell on Sunday, as it does this year. Tböe were in 1821. on the occasion of Monroe's second inauguration, and in 1849, when Zachary Taylor was inaugurated. In both instances the inauguration took place on Monday, the 5th, Sunday being regarded aa diet rum. Jlonroe took the oath of oliice in the hall of the house of representatives, and Taylor took the oath on the eastern portico of the capitol. Chief Justice Taney administering the oath. It is expected that the latter will afford precedent in this case. Besides, it is contended that the legislative day of Saturday will run until noon of Monday next, and if that is the case Grant ia to continue in office to approve the acts of congress. Flgrs from TbistleM? fSt. Louis Republican.) We sincerely hope Hayes will give us "an elevated and reformed administration," but he will be the first usurper that ever did it. He will owe his place to the most infamous political conspiracy in modern times. He will be nothing more or less thsn a presidential fraud. He will be the product of a gigantic swindle. His robf s of office will be stfeped in corruption. lie will be the embodiment of mcre Mn and more shame than American history has ever produced before. If "an elevau-d and reformed administration" can come from a man who has deliberately sacrificed his honor and honesty by accepting a place procured for him by such n.eans, then the age of miracles has returned, and the eighth commandment should bo expunged from the decalogue. "OLD It ELI ABLE." There are many reputed remedies for that very prevalent ditease. chronic nasal catarrh, but none which have given general satisfaction and become acknowledged .ndard preparations, except Dr. Sage's Catirrh Remedy. It continues to enjoy an unprecedented popularity. . This reputation has been earned through the permanent cures which it has wrought, having proved itself a specific in the worst forms of the disease. Kerce's Pocket Memorandum. Books are given away at drug stores.