Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 July 1881 — Page 2

TR B G i Fk e The Ligonier Banner, J. B. STOLL, Edticr and Prop’r. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. - NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts, i Domestic. ‘ ANOTHER Chicago saloonist, named Ma--honey, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $5O and to a term of twenty days’ imprisonment, for selling liquor to drunkards. : GENERAL BEAUREGARD, a vicious horse which recently killed two grooms in New York, and had since been in danger of star-' vation because no one dared to attend him, was shot in his stall as an unsafe beast on the 28th. ' ' -THE Acting Superintendent of the Depart-, ment of Agriculture estimates the Illinois wheat crop as follows: In 1881—estimated acreage, 38,219,016; 1880—reported acieage, 3,126,000; increase this year, 93,016. In 1881 —estimated yield, 51,187,322 bushels; 1880 —reported yield, 58,767,200 bushels; decrease, 2,629,878 bushels. . THE boilers of the Ohio River steamer Phaeton exploded near Maysville, Ky., on the 28th, completely wrecking the craft, and killing Cash Naylor, the engineer; Samuel Reynolds, the porter; Joseph Carr (colored) and Joseph Muller, deck hands, and a lady pass_enger whose name was unknown. Njx persons were injured, one of them very seriously. L

. A WASHINGTON telegram of the 29th ult. says the comet was estimated at the Naval Observatory to be at #hat time about 30,000,000 miles from the earth. Its nucleus was 700 miles in diameter, and the envelope about the nucleus 20,000 miles in diameter. The tail was calcalated to be 5,000,000 miles in length. The dispatch says: *The fact that its- orbit lies within’the orbit of the earth-explains the apparent paradox .of its receding from the earth while approaching the'sun. On the 20th of June last it came nearest the earth, being then but 10,000,000 miles: away, and some astronomers here think it probable that the earth then passed through the tail of the comet.” ' THE newly-constructed water-tank on the 'western hills back of ‘Cincinnati, with a capacity of nearly three million gallons, burst about midnight on the 29th ult., undermining;several houses. - . . S

A BOILER in a saw -mill near Grant City, Mo., was scattered over a mile of territory by an explosion on the 29th ult. The engineer, A. B. Williams, was shockingly mangled. R o VAT the thirty-first annual Convention of the Americ¢an Protestant Association recently held at Wilmington, Del., most of the States were ref)resented. Samuel Liggett, of Philadelphia, was elected Grand Master for the next year, and John Pike, of Chicago, Vice-Grand Master. g . THE new city directory of Chicago gives the city a total approximate population of 541,711, a gain of 37,406 within the last year. THE twenty-second Sangerfest of the North American Sangerbund opened in the Exposition building at Chicago on the evening of the 29th ult., in the presence of an audience of 6,300, The chorus numbered 600, and the orchestra 140. THE weather was excessively hot at St. iLouis ®n -the 29th ult., and there were numerous cases of sun-stroke. Among the prostrated was George Kissell, Assistant City Treasurer, who died. g KATE FITZGERALD, who recently stole an infant in Cinecinnati, has been sentenced to ten years in the Penitentiary. . Vi A TORNADO and hailstgrm at Franklin, N. H., on the morning of t%th ult. moved a church frem its foundations and blew down two residences. ' ¢ , A DISPATCH of the 29th ult. says the experimental cargo of wheat shipped from St. Paul for Glasgow had reached New Orleans in perfect condition. i THE finding of the Whitaker court-mar-tial, with a full account of the proceedings, comprising. 7,600 foolscap pages,- was forwarded from New York to’ Washington on the 29th ult. Although the verdict 'was a sealed mystery, rumors were rife in ' New York in regard to it, and the opinion of those who had closely watched the case was that it was either adverse to Whittaker or that the Court failed to agree. THE receipts from internal revenue for the fiscal year just closed, exclusive of the 30th ult., were $134,974,166; the receipts from customs for the same time amounted to $197,500,000. Commissioner Raum’s estimate of the internal-revenue receipts was : $135,000,000: L . THERE are 44,496 post-offices in t@e Uhnited States, During the last fiscal year 2,894 were established and 1,408 discontinued. ®he number of postmasters commissioned was 10,441, . & - SECRETARY HUNT has appointed an Ad_visory Board of Naval Officers to make a report on the number and class of vessels *vhich should, be constructed for the United States Naval Service, and to recommend such other improvements as in their opinion may be deemed necessary for the greater efficiency of the service. : | i MR. EULER, & fireworks dealer, was fined five' shillings in Philadélphia the other morning, for a breach of the Anti-Fire- | works act, passed in 1781’ (“against the peace of our sovereign Lord, his most gra- - cious Majesty, King George the First, of England’’). The Magistrate insisting on the- - being paid in shillings, the defendant was compelled to buy them of a broker. ; - AT midnight on the 20th ult. two masked men robbed a stage-coach near Alamosa, Col., securing from the six passengers about ‘

' THE winter-wheat crop of Missouri is reported at less than two-thirds ‘of last year. North of the Missourf River the chinch-bug and fly were active destroyers. o Five members of a party which left New York fora yachting trip in the sound were lost in a storm off Bridgeport, Conn., on the Othmlt. b o - JOHN Davis, his wife and daughter, of Pittsburgh, | Pa., were recently seriously poisoned by eating smoked sturgeon which had been cured with creosote. THE publie-debt statement. issuéd on the: Ist makes the following exhibit: Total debt (including interest of $20,948,657), $2,089, - 062,226, - Cash in Treasury, $249,363,415. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,840,698, - 811. Decrease during June,- $12,323,159. Decrease since June 80, 1880, $101,578,483. THE 104th call for outstanding bonds was issued by Secretary Windom on the Ist. It isTor five per cent. registered bonds, issued under the acts of July 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871, which will be paid Oectober 1, 1881, interest to cease on that date; or, if holders prefer, such bonds will be paid on

-presentation at any time prior to the Ist of ‘October, with accrued interest from lgy;’ |lBBl, to date of presentation. : £ | THE Chicago Zimes of the 2d. contains reports furnished by the Boards of Agriculture of several of the Western States to the following effect: In Ohio the yield was expected to be about eighty per cent. of that of last year, the early sown being the best. The acreage in Michigan was about the same as in 1880, and only ten or twelve bush« els per acre were looked for. Indiana expected a crop of only 30,000,000 bushels, as against 47,000,000 last year, the quality being excellent. Wisconsin had a large acreage in spring, but a half breadth of winter wheat, ‘and the crop was in fine condition. The lowa Board estimated the spring-wheat erop at half that of last year, and the winter sown at forty-four per cent.

DURING the six months ended June 380 241,803 immigrants arrived at Castle Garden, against 176,985 for the corresponding period of last year. Ly A MILITARY force on the Ist closed up the business houses on ‘the west shore of the river in the Sioux reservation. The merchants were compelled to cross the river with their goods, and a guard was stationed on the bank to prevent their return. 5 DuRING the past four years 1,003,514,000 postal-cards were issued from the Post-Of-fice Department at Washington. THE coinage of the United States mints for the year -ended June 80, 1881, was as folJows: G01d,578,733,864; 5i1ver,527,649,066.75; other metal, $405,109.95, making a total of $lO6, 788,040.70. : e - IN a quarrel at Boston a few days ago Otto Tooker, aged thirteen, fatally shot Gustave Bueltner, aged sixteen, with a toy pistol. FI¥TY-FOUR National Banks were organized during the last fiscal year, with an aggregate capital of $6,409,700. Nineteen banks, with an aggregate ‘capital of $1,620,« 000, went into voluntary liquidation,and there were no failures. The number of such banks now in existence is 2,122,

4 Personal and Political. STATE SENATOR SESSIONS has been indicted for bribery by the Albany County (N. Y.) Grand Jury. Accompanied by counsel, he entered the Court of Sessions ‘on the 28th, and said he understood he wasmi%’dicted for bribery, and wanted to surrénder himself and enter bail. Thsough his counsel, he pleaded not guilty, reserving the right to alter or withdraw his plea in future. Counsel on behalf of defendant demanded an immediaté trial.., The District Attorney demurred on the ground that he was mnot ready, and had other cases to dispose of. Besidey, he said, this was not a case for immediate trial. .Judge Van Alstyne remarked something about this being wanted ,as a record. Mr.. Smith, of counsel, denounced the action of the District Attorney. Judge Van Alstyne explained that the District Attorney wanted to correct the record. Smithstill demanded immediate trial, to demonstrate the truth or falsity of the charge made. Finally bail was fixed at $3,000, Senator Sessicns to-appear from day to day. It was understood the case would not be tried this term. THE Republican State Committee of Virginia met in Richmond on the 28th. John F. Lewis took the chair, but soon called up-. on State Senator Early to preside. A reso- | lution calling upon Mr. Lewis and General Wickham to resign was finally adopted. It was resolved that a Convention be held in Lynchburg, August 10, to which no person would be eligible as a delegate who had participated in the Readjuster Convention. J. W. Cochran (colored), of *Rockingham, was elected Chairman; ~ THE Greenbackers of the Second District of Maine have nominated W. R. Gilbert for Congress. ; It was reported in Albany, N. Y. on the evening of the 28th that Vice-President Arthur had stated that the only way for the Republicans to get out of the United States Senatorial difficulty was to concentrate on Conkling and Depew. : : THE lowa Republicans met in Conventiofi at Des Moines on the 29th ult. There were 1,017 delegates in attendance. 'Buren K. Sherman, ex-State Auditor, was nominated for Governor on the twelfth ballot, and by acclamation, after the eleventh ballot had ‘shown that he had received within one vote of the number necessary to success. O. H. Manning, of Carroll County, was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor on the third ballot. Judge Austin Adams, of Dubuque, was nominated for Supreme Court Judge, and John W. Akers, of Lian County, for Superintendent of Public Scheols. The platform adopted expresses hearty sympathy with the spirit of recent conventions for supplementing and improving the great water routes of the Nation: declares the party to be in accord’with the popular demand that unquestionable legislative power shall be used to protect the people from any abuses and unjust extortions, and that the plenary power of Congress over the subject of patents should be so exercised as to protect the people against the wrongs and injustice which have been developed and are practiced under the present system of laws relating to patent rights; ete. = CARDINAL MCCLOSKEY, with other passengers, suffered serious injuries in a New York Central car as it entered the Grand Central dépot ata high rate of speed on the 209th ult. . ' ; i THE Grand Jury at Albany, N. Y., on the 30th ult. brought in an indictment against A. D. Barber on the charge of paying E. R. Phelps $12,500 for the purpose of: bribing State officers; he pleaded not guilty. and was admitted to bail in the sum of .$3,000. K. R. Phelps was also arraigned and placed under bail to the same amount, after a plea of not guilty. Charles A. Edwards was also indicted on 3 charge of receiving from Joseph Dickson $7,000 for the purpose of bribing State officers. All the cases were held over till the next term of court., SIR EDWARD THORNTON, for several years British Minister at Washington, presented his letter of recall-to President Garfield at the Executive Mansion on the 30th ult, THERE was considerable excitement in Albany, N. Y., on the 30th ult. over a reported scandal involving ex-Senator Platt and an unknown woman. Gt JOHN G. SAXE, the poet, lost a son at. Albany on the 80th ult., with whom he was ‘about to make his home for the future. . PRESIDENT GARFIELD has appointed R. 8. Foster to the Marshalship of Indiana, made vacant by the resignation of William W. Dudley. it : . AT the request of his congregation Mayor Kalloeh, of San Francisco, has concluded ‘not to run for office again, S . I the Joint Convention of the New York Legislature on . the Ist -Speaker Sharpe,. after stating that he had been voting for ‘Thomas C. Platt for United States Senator, ‘said that, 8t his request, and in the interest ‘of the Republican party, he withdrew Mr. Platt’s name as candidate, and would, when xhz name was called, vote for Richard Crow- ; YA URh et Ll e e 173-:-’:;“’;‘1;

/" GOVERNOR CORNELL has vetoed a bill’ passed by the New York Legislature providing that the pupils attending the Brooklyn public schools should =be furnished school-books at the expense of the munieipality. ' o Ee GENERAL JAMES B. FRYE, Assistant Ad-jutaut-General, has been placed on the retired list. By this change General Robert | Williams becomes full Colonel and General Thomas Vincent Lieutenant-Coloneél. = SECRETARY KIRKWOOD on the Ist notified Mr. French of his suspension from the office of Railroad Commissioner. Mr. French: thereupon intimated his intention to resign! at once. . This action of the Secretary had been decided on at a Oabinet meeting.’ :

Foreign,

THE French fishing-boat Emil Ernestine was recently sunk off the coast of New Brunswick, by collision with a bark, and six of her crew were drowned.:

AT the Wiltshire Sessions in England on the 20th ult. Marquis Townshend was fined £5OO and costs and held to keep the peace for.one year, for horsewhipping Lord Edward Thynne. The latter had abduected the Marquis’ wife. 3

ON the 80th ult. a flying column of troops and police went to aid the Sheriff at Mitchelitown, Ireland, in enforcing evictions, but in each case the tenant paid mn full. Thirty persons were injured in a charge by the military. ‘ ; ’ : ~

A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the 30th ult. says four regiments of Turkishiroops were under orders for Tripoli, and war material was being shipped with which to dfm the native police. The French were considering the propriety of a naval demonstration in the waters of Tripoli. THE announcement was made on the 380th ult. that the De Lesseps Canal Company had practically completed the purchase of the Panama Railway for $17,000,000, and that the Canal would closely follow the line of the track. i IN the Henley (London) regatta on the 30th ult. the Cornell boat was injured by striking that of the London Club, necessitating a halt for repairs. On the second start, the Americans lost the race by bad steering. o

. THE Canadian Government on the 30th ult. notified , the Dominion bankers that thereafter they would not be permitted to igsue any bills of any denomination under $5. All bills under that figure will be issued by the Government. T ; A RECENT festive gathering of German students at Prague was attacked twice by Bohemians, and several persons were stabbed. . : P ]

M. DEVILLE, Senator and Member of the French Institute, and one of the most celebrated chemists of the day, died on the Ist at Paris. Site e :

- WALLACE Ross defeated Trickett, the Australian oarsman, in the race on the Ottawa River in Canada on the Ist. The contest was witnessed by 20,000 spectators. TURKISH brigands have recently captured the manager of the forest works belonging teo Baron Hirsch, and demanded £15,000 ransom.

LATER NEWS.,

'THE latest news received by telegraph from the President up to the morning ot the'sth was alittle more hopeful than that which had been sent out during the night. Surgeon-General Barnes had predicted the death of the President before midnig%xt a subsequent telegram, dated at 11:45 p.¥n.g said there was much more reason t 6 hope than there had been an hour or two before.

AMONG the appointments made by President Garfield on the Ist were the following: Hannibal Hamlin, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, in place of Lucius Fairchild, who asked to be relieved; Charles Payson, of Massachusetts, Charge d’Affaires at Copenhagen, in place of Cramer, transferred to Switzerland; George Carter, of Louisiana, Minister Resident to Yenezuela, vice John Baker, recalled; Rev. Henry Highland' Garnett, of New York, Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia, in place of John H. Smythe, recalled; Walker Blaine, Third Assistant Secretary of State, ir},pla‘ce of Charles Payson, appointed Charge d’Affaires to Denmark. The Presidentsent for Mr. Walker Blaine and tendered the appointment with many warm expressions of friendly regard, telling him not to consider it as done on his father’s account, but on his own. The President has known him since his early childhood. = e ON the 2d and 3d a police force wasemployed to guard the entrances of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, where VicePresident Arthur was stopping, against the entry of any person who might attempt his life. A ‘ detective also accompanied the Vice-President to Washington. . ! ' O’CONNOR, the Secretary of the Cork branch of the Land League, has been arrested under the provisions of the Coercion act. | . 5 e

~ Inthe New York Legislature on the 4th a ballot was taken for United States Senators with the following result: For successor to Mr. Conkling: Potter, 27; Wheeler, '22; Conkling, 16; Cornell, 6; Lapham, 6; scattering, 7. No choice. For successor to Mr. Platt: Depew, 82; Kernan, 24; Cornell, 11; Crowley, 10; scattering, 6. No choice. . MAUD 8. made a mile on the Detroit track on the 4th in 2:1337. The track is said to be three seconds slow. . e

IN a double-scull race on Charles River, .near Boston, on the 4th, Plaisted defeated *Tricket, making three miles in 21:13. A . STATE Temperance 'Convention was held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 4th, at which one hundred counties were represented., A resolution was adopted asking the Legislature to pass a Prohibitory act. - IT was stated on ‘the 3d that the Bank of England had assured the Government that if suitable arrangements should be made by the United States and France the. Bank would be willing to buy silver to the extent ‘permitted by the Bank act of 1844—namely, to an amount -equaling one-fourth of the gold in its issue department. ‘ MEXICAN official reports state that the results of the Morelos Railroad accident were 140 persons killed, and 112 persons wounded ; forty-nine persons escaped, and about forty were missing. Seven engineers had been “commissioned te examine the bridge. ;

ON the 4th picnic trains on the Kentucky Central Road collided néar Covington, by which four perscns of that city were killed and fourteen wounded. Two of the wrecked coaches took fire, and were reduced to ashes. The orders of the train dispatchers were misunderstood by the conductor and -engineer, . S !

'THE English wheat crop is said to have passed favorably the critical blossoming period. The plant appears healthy, though thin on the ground and stunted in growth. » AT the gymnasium at Ekaterinoslav the Russian polige ‘have recently discovered s Nihilist press with a block already engraved with a revolutionary proclamation, ' '

PRESIDENT GARFIELD ASSASSIE e AT : Particulars of the Terrible Crime—The Dastardly Deed Committed by Oné Charles J. Guiteau, Formeriy.of Chicago. * o ~ From the great mass of telegraphic dispatches sent out from Washington on the 2d, 8d and 4th, giving the particulars of the asgassination of President Garfield, the following statement is compiled: Just a little before half-past nine o’clock on the morning of the 2d the President and Secretary Blaine entered the Baltimore & Potomac depot to take a train for i Long Branch. As: they reached the ladies’ wait-ing-room a man, who stood on the right ot the President, raised his arm and deliberately fired two shots from ‘a revolver,’ exclaiming as he did so: ¢‘T am a Stalwart; it had to be done. Arthur will now be President.’? : The second shot was fired within ten seconds from the first, and took effect in the President’s side, the first having struck him in the left arm. The President fell, and Mrs. White, who attends the ladies’ waiting room, rushed to him-and raised up his head. Secretary Blaine also rushed to the assistance of the President. The assassin passed out towards B street, but Captain Parke, the ticket agent, jumped through the window and éaught him, he making no resistance. He was then handed over to two depot policemen and taken across Pennsylvania avenue'to the police station. Meanwhile the President was ‘taken upstairs. He said not a word until he was laid down, wheh he asked that his shoes be taken off, saying he felt pain in his feet. ‘" As soon as his shoes were removed, he said to Secretag Windom:® ¢“ Go right home now and send a telegram to Mrs. Garfield, saying, ‘I feel considerably better, and if she feels well enough, tell her to eome to Washington immediately.’ > This dispatch was sent, and a special train was at once sent to Long Branch for Mrs. Garfield. Secretary Blaine was not going with the pggtg',, but went down to bid the President good-by. -He said: ‘‘The President and I were walking arm in arm toward the train. I heard two shots and saw a man run, I started after him, but seeing that he was grabbed just as he got out of the room, I came to the President and found bim lying on the floor. The floor was covered with the President’s blood. A number of people who were around shortly afterward have some of that blood on their person.”’ - The physicians made an unavailing effort to discover the ball. It was evident that. nothing could be done in the presence of such a crowd, and that the slim chance of saving the President’s life depended upon pla.citng him where he could have absolute uiet. : A police ambulance was sent for, and the President was brought down-stairs upon a stretcher. The doors were thrown opén and the crowd parted while the wounded man was gently laid upon mattresses in the bottom of the vehicle. The President was easy, ggle and weak, but consciopsc He opened is eyes and gently waved his hand towards the crowd: Strong men cried and sobbed at. the pitiful sight. A squad of twelve mounted policemen surrou‘n%ed the ambulance.

The vehicle was driven slowly over the Belgian pavement to Pennsylvania avenue. As soon as the smooth pavement wasreached the horses were put at a gallop and the cavalcade dashed up toward the White House at full speed. Theé avenue was crowded with’ geople, who stood upon the sidewalks watching with tearful eyves the mournful procession as it bore the almost lifeless body of the President to the White House. The east gates south of the Treasury building were thrown open. The ambulance passe within, and the gates were closed against the crowd. Officers were immediately stationed at the entrance to the grounds, and the public were excluded. After arriving at the White House the utmost quiet in and around the sick room was secured, and the physicians—Dr. D. W. Bliss having the chief management of the case—and attending friends anxi ouglg awaited further developments, the wound in the side being probed to ascertain the direction and whereabouts of the bullet. It was finally ascertained “that it.had effected a lodgment in or near the liver, lacerating that or%an. e it The first dispatches sent over the wires relative to the probable result of the President’s wounds were of a mixed and doubtful nature. Soon more hopeful and encouraging reports were telegraphed, the entire country awaiting the news with almost breathless anxiety.

Early in the evening of the 2d the news was of a discouraging nature, and the fears of a fatal termination cast a gloom over the hearts of a‘’ waiting people; but later at night more favorable symptoms were reported, and early on the merning of the 3d the glad intelligence was flashed over the wires that the President, owing to his more favorable condition and ilis robust constitution and courageous bearing, stood a Food chance to survive the terrible effects of the wound in -his body.. The news continued quite favorable during the day, but later on in the succeeding night a change for the worse was regorted, the President’s symptoms became decidedly unfavorable, violent. inflammation having set in, and on the morning of the 4th—the anniversary of our country’s birthday—the sad intelligence was spread throughout the country and cabled aeross the ocean that the President of the United States was lving at the point of death from wounds inflicted by a cowardly assassin, The preparations which had been made for celebrating the 4th were mainly abandoned in many sections of the Union, or so modified as to be more befitting to the sadness caused by the eritical condition of the Chief-Magistrate of the Nation. . - f Notwithstanding the fact that she had but recently risen from a severe illness,. from which she had by no means fully recovered, Mrs. Garfield, who was brought from Long Branch by special train to the bedside of her husband, exhibited the most heroic fortitude and presence of mind. : Sg:akli_n;f of the manner in which the news of the'terrible traiedy was received throughout the country the Chicago Tribune of the morning of the 4th says: **One of the most remarkable features of the deplorable calamity is the intense anxiety of all classes of people that the President may not die. Repubticans and Democrats and men of "all parties join in its expression. In every Part of the South as well as in the North, and all through Canada, there is the same manifestation - of ‘ardent hope and desire that the President will be restored to health and strength. The glad shouts and clapping of hands by the crow% in front of the 77ibuite office all day {.es rday, whenever an encourging dispatch appeared, was an instance of this grea_t anxiety.”’ ! ' Messages of symg:my were received at ‘Washington from the heads of foreign governments, and from almost every part of the civilized world, as well as from all sections of our own country, came the earnest expression of sincere »grayers and hopes that the efforts being used to save the life of the President might be successful, : ' _ THE VICE-PRESIDENT. : Vice-President Arthur called ut the White House on the evening of the Bd, and paid his Jrehsfects,to and - ex(fressed hfs sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and her family. - He had been in communication with members of the Cabinet ever since his .arrival, and had been governed in his action b{ ‘their suggestions. An affecting account is given of. his BRI Al o kg Bion a 8 atie to-tears and e te the most uninistakable Eg\‘liéh’. ol ot ~ EX-BENATOR CONKLING. : At New York, late on ]?1“ evening of the 3d, when ex-Senator Conkling had partially recovered from the awful news, he left his 'roo@‘:m%gnwdetuuxghttMly along the halls of the Kifth Ayenue Hotel. *I hardly know what to say,’”’ he remarked to a party of imflmflwflg met him. “Iffium‘g}mwd ogq!mosgfbnymmfbmmermmtm; hen 1 saw that dispateh in General Arthur’s hands

to-day I wasalmost stunned. Yfelt as if 1T could scamy.hold my breath. God grant it be not true. 1 cannot yet bring myself to believe it is as bad as was first reported. It is:nié true, the most terrible scourge that has afilicted this country since the murder of Lincoln. And all I have to say further entlemen, is (tuming to go to his room maghrowing up his hands) may Heaven help our country!” - g = _ PHE ASSASSIN, T

Charles J. Guiteau is his name. He 'was born at Freeport, 111., and is of French descent. He is about thirty-five or forty year. of age. He hailéd from Chicpfo, where he was, or purporigd tobe,a tgmct cing lawyers ‘When first captured in the depot the prisoner made no resistance, saying that he had contemplated the killing of the President, and it was for the good of the country. . . About nine o’clock he had gone to the hack stand adjoining the depot fo engagea. hack from Barton, a colored hackman. He said he wanted to go to Glenwood Cemetery in a short time, and wantéd the hackman to drive veg fast: when he should get in the hack. e ::freed to pay two dollars for the hack;on condition that the hackman would drive fast. When etop‘ged, the assassin was going to the hack he had engaged, and he Insisted that it was important for him to go and deliver a message to General Sherman. When the officers refused to let him go he pegged them to take a letter he had.to General Sherman, of which the following is a copy: . : = : : “JoLy 2,188 L - “To the Whi;fi House: : ! “The President's tragic death was a sad necessity, but it will unite the Republican party to save the Republic. Lifeis a flimfg dream and it matters little when one goes. human life-is of small importance. During the war thousands of brave boys went down without a tear. 1 presume the President was a Christian, and that he will be happier. in Par-. adise than here. It will be no :worse for Mrs. Garfield, dear soul,. to -part with her husband this way than by natural. death. He is liable to go at any time anyway. I had no ill-will toward the President. His death was a political necessity. I am a lawyer, a theologian and a politican. I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts; I was with General Grant and the rest of our men in New York during the canvass. I have some papers for the press which 1 shall leave with Byron Andrews and his co-journalists at 1,420 New York avenue, where all reporters can see them. lam now going to the ’:fail.

i :* CHARLES GUITEAU.” ' The tollowinf letter was found on the street shortly after Guiteau’s arrest. The envelope was unsealed and addressed: “¢Please deliver at once to General Sherman or his first assistant in eharge of the War Department.” v . ; 5 i “ To General Sherman: 5

“I have just :}xotrthe President. I shot him several times. as I wigshed him to go as. easily as possible. His death was: a political necessity. lam a lawyer, theologian and politician. lam Sthlwart of the Stalwarts. I was with General Grant and the rest of our men in New York during the canvass. lam going to jail. Please order out tro‘c;ps and take possession of the jail at once. ery respectfully, . ; : “ CHARLES GUITEAU.”

' The Chicago dailies contain detailed accounis of the doings of Guiteau while in that city, all of which go te show that he wag very erratic and peculiar. . He was thought by many tobe a religious fanatic, and in his writings usuallg st;led himself ‘‘a lawyer, theologian and politician. He was pronotinced crazy by ma.ng'ot those who had dealings with him in Chicago, New York, Washington and other. cities. -Frank Gilbert, of the Chicago Evening Journal, says he knew Guiteau and believed him insane several years ago. - Speaking some time ago of Guiteau’s If)'ret,emsxons in ‘Washingington, General Logan said the man was crazy. The National Republican, of Washington, says he had for months been a persistent applicant at the State Department for an appointment as Consul, and had recently sent Secretary Blaine several denunciatory letters, bitterly complaining of the Administration’s neglect 'in not favorably recognizing his application, and that paper thinks the most natural explanation of the motive of his act is that he had been so long out of employment, and had' 8o gersisteutly tried to secure appointment without success, that he had become so bankrupt in pocket, In infltuence and in eharacter that he fancied the President to be his especial enemy and the cause of all his sorrows and trouble. -°

‘When bein% conveyed to the District Jail from the police .station, after his arrest, Guiteau talked freely, and said what he had done was for the good of the Republican party and the country. He. had nothing against President Garfield, but wanted Arthur to be President. :

' Detective McElfresh, one of the officers who conveyed the prisoner to the jail, says: ‘I asked him: ‘le there anybody else with f-ou in this matter?’ and he answered ‘Not a iving soul. I contemplated this thing for the last six weeks, and would have shot him when he went away withers. Garfield; but I looked at her, and she looked 8o bad that I changed my mind.’ eis 3

The description of the prisoner, as shown on the books at police headquarters in Washington, is as follows; “ Charles Guiteau, arrested at 9:20 a. m., July 2, 1881, for shooting President Garfield. Agéd thire ty-six, white, born in the. United States and by profession a lawyer. Weight 130 pounds; has dark brown, thin whiskers and a sallow comglexion; dressed in a dark suit, with a black slouch hat.’? : ; : -

Speaking of the prisoner the Chicago Times says: : { ‘“He is about forty years of sge, has‘a strongly-marked French accent;and.is a native of Free%(;rt, Ul. He made his appearance in Chieago about ten years ago, and married a Miss Scoville. He failed to make a living in the practice of law, and soon became notorious as a boarding-house beat. By many he is believed to have been insane for years. He threatened to shoot Miss Sweet for refusing him a clerkship in the pension agency. He never paid his office rent.: He ‘ta‘ll&d of founding a great daily newspaper in Chicago, and actually made contracts for dispatches., Adyvertising himself as & lawyer and theologian, he-delivered lectures and wrote newspaper articles on the Second Advent. For months he pestered . with his ‘attentions a young lady on the North Side, and had to be threa'ened with arrest. During the past two: moniths he has baunted the Executive Mansion and demandedan appointment as Uonsul. It can be truly said that he represents nothing in Chicago save unpaid bilis.”” * i

A special from Freeport, 111., to the Chicago Inter Ocean Bays: R

“Charles Julian Guiteau, who, it is claimed, attempted toassasinate President Garfield,was borain this city, and is about forty years of a.ize. His parents are old citizens of this place, well known, -highly respected, and move in the fitgt circles of Freeport societ{. ‘ Mr. Guiteau, the father of the assasgin, held the ' position of cashier in the Second | National Bank of this city for over twenty | Years, which' position he held. up to the time of his death, about one year ago. The assasgin, from his.youth, has always been & fear and & terror to his parents, and‘: on account of his mean and stubborn dis%)smon his father could not control him. e left home some fiffeen years ago, and has been leading a dissolute. and immoral life ever since. On account of his bad conduct and disreputable habits his father disowned him as a son and always predictéd that he would brin%egisgrace‘ upou tne family. By those who best know him here he -was always consideved peculiar, and with many eccentric no= tions. de was never -considered of sound mind by his parents, and:at one time received treatment for insanity. His mher did all he could to effect a cure, and m a steady man of him, but of no avail, as he was bound to. bave his own way. He has a mother, brother and a sister living in this city and a brothgr in Boston. The family is ‘highly respeoted here and have the sympathy of phe community.”’ | —The Belgian Academy of Science has received a report on the researches made by M. Fabre regarding the diseases to which coal miners are especially liable. .He. finds that, as coal absorbs rapidly up to 100 times its - own volume of oxygen, the air ‘whigh the miners have to breathe is deprived of oxygen to a hurtful degree; the atmos--Ehere of a mine is_also further vitiated by the fimm carbon compounds given off by the slow cenmbustion of’ the coal. M. Fabxe;gg_l%dg& that & supply of air is more essential than that of light, and ‘even the best ventilated mines require

Weate pleased to announce that 'Mrs, Schuchardt, = daughter of eéx-Governor Dougherty, the woman Master in Chancery Judge Harker, of the Circuit Court, paid her the compliment of saying that she was. the most competent Master in his ‘circuit, but held that as she was a woman she could not legally hold the office. She appealed to the Appellate Court, ‘' composed of Judges Casey, Baker and ‘Wall, and ‘they, without 'giving - any: reasom, or writing an opinion, afirmed the judgment ‘of Judge Harker. - Mrs. Schuchardt again .appealed and took the case to the Supreme Court, and on last Tuesday that Court, by Judge Scholfield, reversed the judgments of the two courts below, and held that a woman could hold the office of Master in Chancery. Oneby one the old rules of law which prevent:(fwomsn from standing side by side upon an equality with man are being removed by the liberal enactments of the law-making power and the construce tion of our courts.—Chicago Legal News.

Rich 'Find in a Trunk.

A young fellow who was one of the ¢ reserve” was ordered to Rouen last year to serve the usual fourteen days. He had no trunk. . His funds were low. He asked a maiden aunt to lend him a trunk. She had nothing but an old-fashioned pogmanteaun, - which was o queer he hetused?" take it. He .could, howeyer, find no other, and, ashamed as he was'to be seen in such company, there was no help for it, shoulder it he was obliged to do. Offered employment in . Rouen, he made it his home. ' The . trunk -lay - hidden and forgotten -in - 8 dark closet, until one day while : rummagihg -he c¢ame. upon it. - He determined to send it back to his aunt. As | ‘he emptied it he found that it had a double bottom; hs ‘opened this double bottom; he tound in it $16,000. He carried it to the bank and found ‘the money good. He capered for joy, not only with his legs, but with his tongue; so news of the dispovery reached his aunt’s ears, and she said the- - belonged to her, and she found ‘the junk dealer who had sold her the trunk; he willingly became her witness to this. fact, ¥ but added: ‘‘Zat drunk ees my righds and zat monish ees mine.”> So they have all gone to law.—Paris Cor. N. O. Picayune: . .:

The Comet,

e LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 27. Prof. Klein, of Hartford, Ky., clainis that he discovered the- comet now attracting at~ °

tention.last September. In a ie.ttéotgublished in the Courier-Journal of to-morrdw he says: “This so-called newly-discovered comet. may be new to the world at Jarge, but it is not new to me, as I have been gazing upon this very comet ever since last September. You will remember that I told you in my letters that it would be visible to the naked eye in June or July, 1881, and that it would not be seen again forseventy-nine years. Furthermore, it is not the comet of 1812, but itis the comet of 1783, which was supposed tobe the cause of the terrific atmospherical disturbances of that year. I feel that I know more about this comet than other astronomers, as 1 have nursed it, as it were, from its first appearance until the present, and I know my comet by sight just as a father would know his children by seeing them. Prof.. Swift and other eminent scientists have written to me in :egar% to it from time to time, ever since - last fall.’’ The CourierJournal of September b 5 coritains an account of the discovery of this comet' by Prot. Klein, in which he, at that time, said: “‘T am of the opinion that the e;nh"gussed through the tail of this comet, and that its vapors so permeated our atmosphere as to be the direct.cause of the recent unpréce--dented rain-fall all over the country. I believe it was ‘the cause of the great' snowstorm on the lakes early in the fall. Indeed, the tail of the comet may have actually swept all over that po%ion of the continent. Many recent hurricanes can, I think, be accounted for if we accept the above theory.?” = . .

; : ~Nuw YORK, June 27. The comet has been successfully. photographed by Prof. Henry Draper: at his observatory at Hastings on the Hudson. ‘Prof. Draper obtained several negatives. The _ impressions will be made and pictures distributed to men of science throughout the world. : : fra b Ghi AR AnaN, Nu X, June ST - Prof. Boss, of the Dudley Observatory, says - of the.comet now visible that it is neither the comet of 1812 nor that of 1807. It isthe one lately seen by the observers in South America. : G o A Singular Mistake, A party of eight ladies and gentlemen went to Dexter Friday to attend the funeral of their father. They arrived in Dexter, hired teams to drive them some eight miles into the country, and stopped at the family ' residence, prepared to see the house in mourning. What was their surprise when they found the doors and® windows open, the occupants baking pies, and the supposed dead man in a neighboring field contentedly hoeing his corn. The sons ‘and - daughters did'not know whether to laugh or ery at this ' turn of affairs, and the old folks were puz- . zled to know whether they ought to express joy or sorrow at seeing ‘them. ‘The blunder arose from a grandson of the old gentleman in Augusta, who in some way got hold of the Teport and spresd: the mews by tele graph.—Bangor (Me:) Commercial:

* o A Dog sHes SF Griet, ~ At the burial'thi¢ evening of the infant daughiter of ‘Captain Joseph Roland it was observed that the dog that hiad been allowed to play with the child while alive ‘had followed the remains to,the grave, and while arrangements were being made: for the interment of the' baby, the dog hung sround the corpse, -moaning most piteously and otherwise exhibiting its grief, and when the grave was opened it jumped in and: refused to come out for coaxing of seolding. ' At last the dog was tied with s rope, and taken from the ground atid secured 16 a tree to prevent its going into the grave again. After the burfal rites wers performed, and the dog was approached to. be turned loose, it wag found dead.—Caldwell (Tez.) Cor. Galvibedi Ny, oo e : | —llt is a singular coincidence that Sir Eglh\;ard Tho;*;fi:n should It)gwseglt. toan." other t after serving at Washingto: e yoars, sh 6 okt Mnrth of Boie his father served in the m Legation in the same city. The latter, how--pyer, glid not at{éfiin Vtgfi‘ét&i of Minister. He was Secretady of Legation and sonetimes Charge d'Affaires. He was. there asa young mam before his son, the present Ministes, was born. Tt is expocted that the canal across Cape Cod will be finishedsin two years.