Ligonier Banner., Volume 16, Number 34, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 December 1881 — Page 2

o . ™ : ; The Ligonier Sanuer, ‘J. 3. STOLL, Edttor and l?rop'r. . LIGONIER, : & 3 Ih’_,'DlAN A. M ‘ . 5 Y ," | NEWS SUMMARY. e : Important Intelligence from All Parts. 2 e e 4 a Trial of Guiteau, the Assassin. Upon entering the witness-box for his crossexamination.on the moriaing of the Ist Guiteau made another appeal for money. ‘J udge Porter conducted the cross-examination, elieiting from the prisoner in his sevcra_l replies thiathe was physically a coward and always kept away from personal danger. Morally he was a 3 brave as a lion, when the Deity was back of him. Inhis opinion the doctors killed the President. The acts of Jones and | Magon in attempting to kill him (witness) were wrong unless they can show that they were inspired by Deity. Therc was no murder in his case and no killing. It was gimply for the jury to determine whether or not he was inspired when he removed the President. WitY ness flatly coutradicted the testimony of General Logan, Charles H. Reed and others. He declined to discuss his boarding-house experiences, as they had no bearing on the case. He became very indignant at Judge Porter’s persistent use of the word ‘‘murder,” and said that the mere outward fact how he removed the President had no bearing on the. case. Referring to his failure to obtain the Paris Consulate, witness said that he would not have taken the office after the lst of June, even if - be had been a&)pnmmd to it and President Garfield and Mr. Biaine had both besought him on ~theirkneesto take it. Witness declined to discuss the question any further. There wasnouse of wasting of time in discussing a matter which had been so often ventilated. Judge Porter then questione:d witness as to his opinion of Blaine, whom Guitean charadterized as a wieked man, because he was using Garfield, who was a good man, but a weak politician. Garfield just sold himselt, body and. soul, to | Blaine, Guiteau said. When Mr. Porter again questioned the prisoner in regard to the shooting the latter became greatly excited, - and said the question the jury was to pass upon wuas whether the peity and himself did the act, or whether witness did it on his personal account. He said he expected there would be an act of God to protect him, if necessary, from any kind of violence, either hanging or shooting. The witness claimed that his deed had saved the couns try from war. In answer to the question why he requested General Shermian to send troops to the jail to protect him if he obeyed his insgimtion, Guiteau said- he would have been ghot and hung a hundred times ‘it it had not been for the troops. The prisoner here complained of fatigue and the Court adiourned. The cross-examination of Guiteau was re. sumed on the mornpm of the 2d. At.the beginning he arose and addressed Judge Porter and the Court, declaring that he would not respond to questions covering the ground already gone over. - 1f the prosecution had anything new to ask h¢ would answer, otherwise, he would not. In respounse to interrogations the witness said one of the purposes he had in view in killing the President was to create a demand for his book. This book was a sort of collateral gospel—the Bible brought down to the present duy. He believed in the doctrine of predestination most decidedly, and claimed that he was a man of destiny as much as the ' Savior, Paul or Martin- Luther. It was his destiny to‘ obey the Divine will in removiag Gartield, and He -~ would take care of the matter. He (witness) had not been huing or shot yet, and-he was satisfied with the Deity’s muanagement of the case so far., The crosg-examination was continued with the view of showing that Gui# teau’'s alleged ideas. of inspiration were plagiarising from Noyes and from a book | called the ** Berean.”’ Judge Porter offéred in | evidence a letter written by Guiteau on the ' oceasion of his leaving the Oneida Communi- . ty. Resuming his cross-examination, Mr. Porter asked witness if it was in view of the political situation that he deeided to murder the President. 'l'he prisoner here interrupted ~ the coungel excitedly and said he used that word ‘‘murder’ altogether to freely, .and insisted that .the proper word was “removal.” The prisoner was then closely questioned as to his pistol practice and to pis Jarrangements for going to jail. With regard to the last-named circumstance he - Baid he desircd to be incarcerated because he feared that he would be mobbed before he could have an opgortunity to explain his views to the people. 'hey would say he was a disappointed oflicegeeker and would hang him. Witness gaid he - should,'not have shot the President on the 2d of July if Mrs. Garfield had been with him. The prisoner then gave "an account of his actions on: the morning of the 2d of July, but declined to recapitulate the circumstances of the shooting. IFe d:d, however, say that it was his intention to shoot bim in the back. He had no donbt asto the necessity or ‘the divinity of the act. Being . elosely pressed he acknowledged that he felt remorse, and Judge Porter closed the crassexamination. Mr. Scoville then proceeded -with the direct examination, the sugsmn’ce ot which was that witness was as clear as to the divinity and necessity of the actthen as he was on the Ist of June. Dr. Alexander Hall ~ bhad seen the prisoner at Columbus, 0., three . or four years ago, and thought the prisoner was a lunatic. At this point the Court ad- - Journed. | : | The first witness called on the 3d was Captain J. 0. P. Burnside, who formerly resided in Freeport 'and knew Guiteau and his father. The latter was an invalid. Charles C. Allen knew the Guiteau family in 1839 and 1840, Mrd. Guiteau was in teeble health. Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago. knew Guiteau as a young lawyer. He thought he had an illy-balanced mind. He hal never saw anything in him ‘to _‘indicate that he could not distinguish between right and wrong. or to indicate that he would not ‘be responsible for crime., Mrs. Scoville was particularly indignant at Mr. Storrs’ answer, and distinctly charged that he had perjured himself. Edward Daniels testified as to Guiteau’s pcculiar religious views. Mr. Scoville read several extracts from Stalwart newspapers. Senator David Dawis was called and questioned as to the differenees in the Republican, party. E. A. Bailey testified that he had made the stenographic¢ notes upon which the Herald article was Ea.sed. Guiteau notified the Court-that he wished subpwenas issued for a large number 'of witnesses. The Court hereadjourned.

Domestic.

BY a recent accidental explosion of fireworks in an establishmsent devoted to their manufacture, five persons were seriously injured at Rochester, N Y., and the building destroyed. Two of the wounded were proprietors of the concern, and the others were visitors. Vs g o

THE cost of carrying on the State Government of lowa for the last two years was $2,424,000. During that time the war bonds were paid. f : THE propellers Lake Erie and Northenr Queen, of the New England Transportation Company, were wrecked in Manistique Bay, on the north shore of Lake Michigan, on Thanksgiving Day. The crews had to walic a hundred miles over rough country to get to a railroad. bR

' THE public debt statement issued on the Ist makes the following exhibit: Total debt (including interest of $13,623,837), $2,023, - 828,207. Cash in Treasury, $245, 042,866, Debt, less amount in Tredsury, $1,778,985,- | 341. Decrease during November, $74249, - 126. Decrease since June 30, 1881, $62,BB :

' A MAN who had suffered from leprosy for - twelve years died a few days ago in a New York hospital. S MICHAEL LEONARD, convicted ,éf illegal voting at Philadelphia, has been gentenced to three months’ imprisonment and to a fine of $lOO and the deprivation of the right of suffrage for four years. g

DURING the past fivé months $22,113, 300 in National Bank notes have been redeeimed, an increase of $3,401,150 over the redemptions for the same period in 1880, ; ON the 80th ult. Secretary Folger fssued a call for §20,000,000 in extended bonds bearing three and a half per cent. interest, the date of redemption being January 29, . CAPTAIN PAYNEand a large body of followers crossed the Red River into Oklahoma a few days ago. R RN . GENERAL SICKLES spent four months in Europe, during which time his residence in

New York . was closed, notwithstanding which fact the. Manhattan Gas-Light Company sent in a bill for 1,000 feet per month, and he has been compelled to procure an injunction to prevent the removal of the meter. oy i

ON the morning of tl‘e Ist two women, one of them sn old lady, perished in a burning house in Seranton, Pa. A father and son were drowned at Leominster, Mass., on.the 30th ult,, the father going down while trying'to rescue the son, who broke through the ice while skating, : . DURING the twelve months ended October 81, last, the value of the goods exported from the United States exceeded the valuc of the goods imported by $217,887,358, as compared with an excess of $155,676, 327 during the previous twelve months. _ o SECRETARY OF THE NAVY HUNT, in his annual report, recommends an appropriation of $20,013,716 for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1883, for naval purposes, to be used chiefly for the construction of new war vessels. g - SECRETARY LINCOLN, in his annual report, indorses the recommendation of General Sherman that the army be increased to 30,000 men, and calls the attention of Congress to the nécessity for legislation to prevent intrusion upon Indian lands, especially in the Indian Territory, from Kansas. : ON the evening of the Ist connection was made between the Texas Phcific and the Southern Pacific Railroads, near El Paso, Tex., which gives the Mississippi Valley a third all-rail. connection with the Pacific coast region. . " ON the night of the Ist.a .party of eighty. masked men surrounded “the jail at Oxfora, N. C., disarmed the guard, and fook out and hanged two negroes charged with the murder of T. M. Lynch. The people of Shephardtown, Miss., on the same night lynched a brace of colored men for the assassination of Robert Catlin. :

AT the close of the last fiscal year (Juune 30,-1881) there were in the United States 183 life-saving stations, of which 143 were on the Atlantic coast, 84 on the great lakes and Gon the Pacific. The number of- casualties on the Atlantic coast within the scope of the service was 151, on the lakes 94, and onthe Pacifics. The number of persons lost was 26, and the number of persons brought ashore by life-saving appliances was 407. One hundred and eighty-seven vessels stranded were enabled to get off by the lifesaving crews. s :

THr farm-house of J. J. Furrow, near Winterset, lowa, caught fire at an early bour on the morning of the 2d, and his three daughters were burned to death in an upper room. e

THE total coinage at the United States mints during the- month of November amounted to $12,351,760, of which $2,300,000 were silver., - :

THE extensive glass works at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., were burned on the night of the Ist, inviolving a loss of $250,000. ; THE Irish-American National Convention recently held in Chicago adopted a series of resolutions declaring the English rule in Ireland to be without either legal or moral sanction, and demanding the establishment in Ireland of a National Government, based upon the will of the Irish people; pledging ‘the people of Irish birth and Irish descent in this -country to stand by the people at home in this momentous struggle to the full extent of their power and resources’’; thoroughly indorsing the policy of the Irish leaders at home in the present erisis; heartily indorsing the *“No-rent’ manifesto of the Home Executive of the Irish Nationaal Land Leaguc¢ at once as the best available weapon to strike their landlord jailers, and as a swift and smiting instrument to abolish utterly a bad and hateful system, and as the fitting answer of the Irish people to the attempt of the coercion Ministry to force the acceptance of defective legislation at the point of the bayonet.”” A resolution was also adopted pledging the delegates present°to raise §250,000 by the Ist of January, to lhelp the cause, nearly $30,000 of which was subscribed at once. ! .

HaM WHITE, the Colorido stage-robber, who was being taken to the Detroit House of Correction by Marshal Wilcox, of Denver; made a desperate attempt on the 3d to escape while en route to Detroit in a Michigan Central coach. He quictly unlocked his handcuffs withia toothpick, and struck the RAlarshal on the ‘head with the irons until he brought * him to his knees. . Seventeen men witnessed the struggle without daring to raise a hand. White next seized the Marshal’s revolver, when Mrs, Smithson, of Denver, who was on her way to New York, sprang on the desperado and choked him into submission., The Marshal will send hér a draft for $5OO, The robber says that if he could have wounded Wilcox he would have gone through the whole pack of cowards. THE stockholders of the Keely Motor Company have brought suit to compel Keely to take out a patent on his invention, and to turn pver the patent and the secret of the invention to them; also, such machines as he may have in his possession. ! A NEW YORK child named Willie Blake, aged three years, recently poured kerosene oil over his infant brother in the cradle, and then set fire to the fluid, and the babe was burned to:death.

- EARLY on the morning of the 4th a fire broke out in the milling district of Minneapolis, Minn., and consumed four flouring mills and one cotton mill. An explosion in onefof the mills, probably’ caused by flour dust, killed four men and severely wounded several others. The property lost was estimated at $558,000, the insurance upon which was about $207,175. ;

Personal and Political.

AT a conference of the Readjuster leaders and Legislators of Virginia, held on the 29th ult., it was resolved that the Riddleberger bill should be passed as speedily as possible. ;

Tur Tariff Convention recently in session in New York City adopted a series of resolutions declaring in favor of a policy of protection to. home industry, and such an “‘in= telligent revision'of the existing Tariff laws by a Civilian Comnission appointed by Congress as will give full and harmonious effect to the protective policy, and, pending the deliberations of the commission, disturbing and destructive assaults upon protective duties or special industries shall not he permitted.”” The resolutions also demand immediate action by Congress .in regard to the practice of overturning protective duties, and ask for the prompt adoption of an amendment to the laws which will furnish a rule for the decision of cases of disputed classification ¢* in harmony with the spirit and purpose of our carefullydevised protective system of tariff legislation.’” It was declared that the decline of American shipping is not attributable to any lack of materials or +kill in building ships; that the blame rests with the Government, which treats this great interest of the country, not merely with neglect, but oven dis-

criminates against it. It was resolved to recommend the abolition of the tax on bank checks, proprietary articles and matches. BY a vote of 15 to 34, the Methodist Judicial Conference at Terre Haute, Ind., on the Ist rejected the appeal of Rev. H. W. Thomas, of Chicago, ;from®&he decree of excommunication pronounced against him by the Rock .River (Ill.) Conference. The principal reason for refusing to entertain the appedl was because of Dr. Thomas’ action in resuming his functions as pastor of the People’s Church in Chicago after his expulsion by the Rock River Conference. AT its session in Cédar Rapids on the 24 the Nuational Butter and Cheese Convention elected Austin Belknap, of Boston, President, and Colonel Littler, of Davenport, Secretary, and chose Madison, Wis., as the place for meeting next year. : THE Democratic members of the Kentucky Legislature met in caucus on the Ist and nominated Senator Beck for his own SUCCESSor. : S

MR. UPTON, Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury, tendered his resignation on the 3d. e At

THE Republijcan Congressmen held a caucus in Washington at noon on the 3d, 146 Representatives being present, including J. Hyatt Smith, of New York, elected as an Independent, Nominations for the Speakership being in order, seven candidates were placed in the field—being Messrs. Hiscock, Keifer, Kasson, Dunnell, Orth, Burrows and Reed. On the first. ballot Keifer reccived 52 votes, Hiscock, 44, and Kasson, 15, The vote changed considerably throughout fifteen ballots, Keifer being chosen on the sixteenth . by ° a vote of 93 to 18 for Hiscock, 11 for Reed, 10 for Kasson, 8 for Orth, 3 for Dunnell and 1 for Burrows. Mr. I{eifer is ‘the Representative from the Eighth Ohio District. For Clerk of the Housey; Edward McPherson, of Pennsylvania, was selected; for Postmaster, Harry Sherwood, of Michigan; for Ser-geant-at- Arms, Colonel Hooker, of Vermont, and for Doorkeeper, Colonel Brownlow, of Tennessee. The Democratié Caucus placed in nomination the officers of: the last House. = . L

: Forelgn, MARIO, editor of a Roman newspaper, has been sentenced by a jury to two months’ im--prisonment and a fine of 500 francs-for writing articles abusing the Pope. The publisher, Capricciosi, got three months and a fine of 1,000 franes. e THE evictions on the irish estates of Lord Bantry, where the tenants were two years in arrears, were quietly completed on the 29th ult. EKight tenants were conditionally rein‘stated. ‘ » ; A DUBLIN dispatch of the 30th ult. says over 1,000 tenants of the County of Roscom~mon had refused to pay any rent. Fox_hunting was broken up in Ireland. About a dozen new branches of the Land League were organized each week in England and Scotland, and subscriptions to the LandLeague funds were on the increase. ON the estate of Lord Doneraile on the 80th ult. an entire flock of sheep were battered to death.. Three cows belonging to a -rent-paying farmer near Fearns, County Cork, were found ripped*open. In.the former case, the proprietor, unable to discover the parties who had perpetrated the outrage, dismissed all the laborers -on the estate. . :

WAR is threatened between Guatemala and Mexico, on account of alleged Mexican encroachments upon the rights of her Southern neighbor. ; ! " - THE German Pariiament on the Ist rejected an item in the budget for the expense of ‘an Economical Council, on which Bismarck made a vigorous protest.

AT a great delegate convention of farmers at Aberdeen, Scotland, recently, resolutions were adopted demanding the abolition of the laws of entail and priniogeniture and radical changes in the Land laws. ; Miss REYNOLDS, a young Irish woman who marched before the evicting forces and urged the tenants not to pay rent, has been served with a summons to answer the charge of eriminal conspiracy.

LATER NEWS.

A ‘‘CRANK’’ named Shively, who caliea himself the ¢‘Truie Messiah,’? arrived in Washington on the sth, and immediately addressed a letter toJudge Cox, demanding to be put on the witness stand to confront Guiteau, and to convince the Court and jury of the fallacy of Guiteau’s theory of inspiration. He was arrested, and would probably be sent to the insane asylum. He had been a traveling oil painter, and had lived at Saratoga, N. Y., for some years.

WHEN Guiteau arrived at the CourtHouse on the sth he found an immense erowd on the sidewalk, and literally begeed the officers to take him around to -the back entrance, but he was taken forward into the building. = Ex-Speaker Randall apPpeared, in answer to a subpceena, but was excused. Dr. Kennon, editor of the Medical Review .of Chicago, gave the opinion that the prisoner ' was. insane. The assassin - became incensed at the evidence of Richard Hinton, a Washington journalist, and shouted out that he had rather be hung as a man than acquitted as a fool. Several medical experts testified that, assuming Mr. Scoville’s hypothetical propositions to be true, they believed the prisoner to be insane. Guiteaun demanded that Messrs, Grant, Conkling and Jewell be summoned.

/THE first regular session of the Fortysgventh Congress began at noon on the Hth. In the Senate the credentials of Mr. Windom were presented, and he was duly qualified and entered upon his duties. The roll-call of the House showed 290 Representatives present, the absentees being Messrs. Morey, Scales, Mills and Deuster. Nominations for Speaker ware made as follows: Republican, General J. W. Keifer (0.); Democratie, 8. J. Randall (Pa.)%; Greenbacker, Nicholas Ford, (Mo.) The balloting resulted in the election of Mr, Keifer; he receiving—4B votes, against 129 for Randall and 8 for Ford. Total vote, 285; necessary to a choice, 143. Those voting for Ford were Messrs, Brumm,Burro ws (Mo.), Hazeltine, Jones (Texas), Ladd, Mosgrove, Murch and Rice (Mo.) None of the candidates voted. Messrs. Fulkerson and Paul (Va.), Readjusters, voted for Keifer. Mr. Keifer was then escorted to the Speaker’s chair and took the oath of office, returning his thanks, in a brief speech, for the honor thus conferred upon him. In the Senate Mr. Lapham introeduced a bill providing for the punishient of attempts on the life of the President af the United States, or others charged with the duties of President, punishment on conviction to be imprisonment for lif2' in solltnr¥ confinement or at hard ‘labor, n the discretion of the ~ Court. Other bills were introduced as follows: By Mr. Garland. for the appointment of a Commission to ins vestigate the questions of Tariff and leves nue laws; by Mr. Beck, for retiring the trade dollars and recoining them as standard silver dollars; by Mvr. Miller (Cal.), to enforce the treaty stipulations relative to the Chinese; by Mr. Windom, to incorporate the Garfield Memorial Hospital; by Myr. Logan, to place General W. S, Grant upon the retired list of the army; b{ Mr. Sherman, to provide for the issue of three per cent, bonds, @ o

Report of the Comptrolier of the Currency. : WASHINGTON, December 2. The Comptroller of the Currency, in his annual report, says the recent failure of the Mechsanics’ Bank, Newark, has called the attention of the public directly to the duties of Bank Directors and of Examiners of National Banks. Sections of the Revised Statutes and by-laws of the National Banks are cited, and the report continues: = ¢ The duty of a Board of Directors is plainly defined, and, however innocent they may be of any intention to wrong, they are responsible for the safety of the funds committed to their care. If it can be shown any of .them had notice of illegal transactions, it is a serious question whether they are not legally bound to make good the Jloss which may occur; and it is a question whether they are not also liable for -losses which may occur from neglect of duty, even without notice. 1f this is nota just and proper construction of the present law, then it becomesa question for the consideration of Congress whether additional legislation upon this subject is not required. The Examiner can have but limited (fiuowl-_ edge of the habits and character of those employed in a bank. - If the Teder is making false entries,.and daily abstracting the funds of the bank: if a bcok-keeper is keeping . falsée accounts, and rendering untrue statements; if the Cashier is placing forged paper among the bills receivable and upon ihe register-books, and transmitting such paper to distant places where it is purported to be payable, it is not possible for the Examiner in a day or two to unravel this evil work. which may have continued for months, and obtain a cortect balance sheet. Examinations should be periodically made by a competent committee, selected from the Board of Directors. They have the whole resources of the bank at their command, and if they haveany reason to suspect dishonesty or *aud, it is their business to investigate thoroughly, and they should employ €xperts to assist them in so doing. = The Directory must continuously look after its own servants. The Examiner looks after the acts of the Directors. The report of the Examiner is confidential. It is for the use of the Comptroller’s office only, and is in no sense a certificate of the good condition of a bank. In many instances the capital stock of a bank has thus been found to be impaired and the deficiency been made good without the knowledge of the general public.. In other instances banks have been obliged to pass their usual dividends, using their earning to liquidate all bad and doubtful debts. The number of banks passing dividends the present year is .175; in 1350, 2305 in 1879, 304, und in 1878, 343. Hundreds of instances occurred annually, and many are occurring daily, wherein banks, under the reports of Examiners, are notitied of violations of the act and are brought under discipline of the law. The records of this office show only one among all the Examiners ever appo,ated who has been found guilty of any wrong-doing.” : Speaking of the Pucifie Natig:ml Bank of Boston the Comptroller says the Directors had full information in reference to the irregular and illegzal methods of the bank, which have since caused its ruin. His letter, in any properly-conducted bank, addressed by him to the Board of Directors, composed, as is the case in these instances, of prominent merchants and business men, should have been suflicient to correct the abuse, and save the bank from the disuster which occurred. The law should certainly be so amended as to make it a criminal offense for an officer of a bank clandestinely to make loans. either by the use of certificates, as ini this case, or otherwise. A considerable part of the report 1s given to the subjects: “Substitutes for Money,’’ ‘*‘The Proportion of Bank-checks Used,”? from data furnished by President Garfield; “Checks and Drafts in the Principal Cities,” and the Comptroller says: . *lt would be an interesting subject for investigation to determine what ]Q'oportion the checks received by banks in New York City on any given day represent the operations at the Stock Exchange, and wkat proportions of these . operations represent legitimate, and what speculative, transace tions.”? g

Secretary Lincoln’s Report.

WASHINGTON, December 2.

The annusal report of the Secretary of \War is chiefly devoted to the consideration of the important recommendations' contained in the annual report of the army chiefs. General Sherman’s recommendation that the army be increased to 30,000 men receives Secretary Lincoln’s earnest indorsement. The attention of Congress is called to the need of legislation to prevent an intrusion upon Indian lands, especially from Kansas, into the Indian Territory. Secretary Lincoln invites speeial attention to that part of the report of General Wright, Chief of Engincers, which refers to our seacoast de=fenses, and on thissubject says: e

**The Chief of Engineers shows that defense by fortifications and torpedoes is the only one which is at all practicable for a coast as extended as ours, comprising so many rich maritime cities, extensive navy yards,and depots of supply; that any attempt at'any other mode of defense would be enormously expensive, both for first cost and maintenance, and it is the only mode adopted by maritime nations. Experience shows modern wars conie on suddenly; that serious international disputes occur between nations the relations of which are apparently most unlikely to be otherwise than friendly, and a condition of readiness for defense and an attitude of bellizerency are sometimes the best preventives of actual war. We know that the necessary new works and the proper modifications of the old works will require many years for their completion, and it seems simply a matter of common prudence that we commence without delay, and, under liberal appropriations, put our coasts in an effective condition of defense.’’ :

Referring to the subject of the standard ef requirements necessary for admission tc the Military Academy at West Point, the Sec~ retary says: | *¢l concur in the views of my predecessor, that it would not be well to raise the standard of admission. The result of the last ex= amination, in which 49 out of 118 candidates were rejected, shows the standard is so high as to prevent the admission of many who would undoubtedly, if they had been so situated as to receive the proper preliminary training, prove valuable officers. It has recently been recommended to me by the Academic Board to permit the discontinuance of certain prescribed studies in the course for the purpose of giving time for others, the importance of which was apparent. A consideration of the subject suggested by this recommendation leads me to elieve it would be best to extend the course 80 as to cover five years. It is believed that by so'doing not only would the benefits of the academy be more widely extended, but that the graduates would be prepared to render Wetter service to the country.?’’ : The actual expenditures under the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1881, were ¥42,122,201. The appropriations for 1882 were $44,889,725, and the estimates for 1883 call for $44,5641,276. The estimates presented to the Secretary for revisipn inciuded, for the armament of fortifications, $220,000; fortitications and other works of defense, $4,186,600; improving rivers and harbers, $29,101,300; improving the Mississippi River by the Commission, $4,323,000; public buildings and grounds in and near Washington, $749,000; surveys taken, $2,000; total, $39,099,800. **This amount has been reduced on mfi revision to an aggeregate of ¥10,680,000, which sum, if judiciously allotted by Congress, will be, in my judgment, a reasonable ailowance for this eluss of expense during the next fiscal year.” s s ; )

. =—*‘Marriage,” said an unfortunate husband, ‘‘is the churchyard of love.” “‘And you men,”’ replied ais wife, *‘are the grave-diggers.”’ ,

—Oblivion is only the absence of your name from the newspapers. :

“Report of the Chief of the Burean of The following interesting statements are ' given in the report of the Chief of the Bus reau of Statistics: < . The total value of the foreign commerce of ‘the United States during the year, embrace ing both the imports antl exports of merchandise and specie, amounted to $1,675, - - 024,318, and was larger %han during any _ previous year in the history of the country. The total value of the exports of merchandise from the United States during the last fiscal year amounted to $002,377,346. It exceeded the value of such exports during the preceding fiscal year by $66,738,688, and was also considerably larger than during any previous year. The value of the imports of merchandise into the United States amounted to $642,664,628, and was larger than the value of such imports during any previous year, with the s::ception of the year ended June 30, 1880, | During the vears ended June 30, from 1860 to 1873, the value of the imports of merchandise into the United States exoeeded the value of the exports of merchandise from.the United States, the excess of imports ranging from $39,371,368 in 1873 te $182,417,491 in 1872. But during the last .Bix years the value of the exports of merchandise from the United States has greatly - exceeded the value of the imports of merchandise in the United States, this excess for the six years amounting to the sum of $1,180,668,105. ‘The excess of the value of exports over the imports of merchandise during the last fiscal year amounted to $259,712,718. During each year from 1861 to 1879, inclusive, the exports of specie exceeded the imports thereof, but during the last two years the imports of specie have exceeded the exports thereof. This excess has, during the last fiscal year, amounted to $91,168,650. The total value of the éxports of gonlestié merchandise from the United States during the last fiscal year amounted to $883,925,947. It exceeded the value of such exports during the preceding fiscal year by $59,970,591, and was larger than during any. p‘-r_éviouS year. . e

The value of the exports of bread and breadstuffs amounted to $270,352 519; of cotton and manufactures, $2,261,267,138; of proyisions, §151,528,263; of mineral oils, $40,318,609; of tobacco, #20,878,8584; wood and manufactures of wood to. $18,600,312; of iron and steel and manufactures to $16,608,767; 'and of live animuls to $16,412,398. The total value of exports of these eight commodities and classes of commodities amounted to $795,943,800, and constituted 90 per ceut. of the total value of the exports of domestic merchandise from the United States. -

- The value of the exports of bread and ~ breadstuffs during the last fiscal year was less than during the preceding fiscal year by ¥17,704,816. The value of the exports of ‘ the following commedities exceeded the ~value of similar.commodities exported during the preceding fiscal year by the amounts named: Raw cotton, $36,159.841; provisions, $24,485,026; nrineral oils, $4,006,984; tobacco and manufactures thereof, $2,436, - 611; wood and manufacturesof wood, 32, - 862,982; iron and steel and manufactures thereof, $1,892,243; live animals, $530,278. - The specie value of the exports of domes= tic merchandise from the United States in- - creascd from $428,398,908 during the year ended June 37, 1871, to $883,925,947 during the ycar ended June 30, 1881, an increase of §455,527,039. This increase was| due mainly to increased exports of breadstuffs, provisions and tallow, cotton and manufactures thereof, live animals, leather and manufactures of leather, and wood and manufactures thereof. Increased value of the exports of these commodities during the fiscal year 1881, as compared with the tiscal year 1871, amounted to the sum of $374,059,476, and constituted 82.12 per cent. of the increased exports of domestic merchandise. The value of the jncreased exports of tbreadstuffs, provisions, tallow and live animals, which together amounted to $322,802,768, -constituted - 79.5 per cent. of the increased exports of domestic' merchandise. These: exports were chiefly products of the Western and Northwestern States. The increase in the value of exportation from the United States of the products of the Western and Northwestern States has been largely the result of the reduction in the transportation charges on the railroads, on the lakes and on the Erie Canal. Such increased exports have, however, been mainly the result of the general extension of railroads throughout the States referred -to in connection with the important reductions which have been mnade in railroad freight ecnarges. : Under the stimulus of cheaper transportation, the value of the exports of wheat frowm the United States increased from 341,171,229 in 1870 to $167,098,485 in 1881. The value of the exports of corn increased from 31,287, 575 in 1870 to §59,702,669 in 1881. The value of the exports of provisions increased from $29,175,539 in 1870 to $151,528,268 in 1881, and the value of the exports of live animals increased from $1,046,u3) in 1870 to $16,412,398'in 1881. The value of the products of agrieulture during the last fiseal year amounted to $729,.650,016. Itexceeded the value of such exports during the preceding year by $43,688,925, and it was larger thanfurmg any previous yeur inthe history of the country. 'The value of such exports cohstituted 82.56 per cent. of the entire value of the exports of domestic merchati-, dise from the United States. The vilue of the exports of the preductions of agriculture during the year ended June 30, 1881, was about seven times the value of such exports during the year 1880, nearly three - times the value of such exports during the year 1860, and more than twice as great as the value of such exports during. the year 1870. 8.0 S il ‘The value of the ?roducts of agriculture exported from the United States during the years 1830, 1840, 1850, 1870 and 1881, respectively, showed a fluctuation of only avout three per cent. compared to the toial value of the exports of domestic merchandise. This indicates that the growth of the exportation’ of commodities other tham the products of agriteliture—oamely: the produects of manufacture—kept pace with the astonishing growth of the cxportation of the products of agriculture. : : : The total value of the imports of merchandige into the United States during the last fiscal year amouuted to $642,664,628, ‘of which the value of the imports of sugar and molasses amounted to $93,404,258, or 14,53 per cent. The vaue of the imports of coffer amounted ‘to &6,784‘,381, or B.B4per cent. The valuefof the imports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof amounted to 46,439,747, or ' 7.23 per cent. The value of the imports of silk and manufactures thereof amounted to - §48,944,965, or: 6.68 per cent. The value-of the imports of wool and the manufactures thereof amounted to $40,860,894, or 6.36 per cent. - The value/of the imports of chemicals, drugs, dyes and medicines amounted to - §86,500,473, or 5.69 per cent., and the valueof the imports of cotton and manufactures thereof amounted to $31,876,687, or. 4.97 per cent, The total -value of the imports of ‘these seven commodities and classes of coms modities amounted to $349,000;805, and con_stituted 54.30 per cent. of the total value q({ i ghatimports of merchandise into the Unite LRbRRL . i L Ll SR An

—The man who had so elastic a step wore rabbers. ——Lowell Courier.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. P The Sunday Law. = .. The Supreme Court recently decided the case of Oscar Mueller vs. the State in favor of the defendant. . The case was taken to the Supreme Court by Mueller on appeal, he having been fined by a Justice of the Peace in Indianapolis for desecrating the Sabbath by the sale of cigars on Sunday. The decision of Judge Biddle is set aside by that of Judge Woods. Not satisfied with the decision the cigar-dealers of that city ‘have made up a test case, which- hds just been filed in'the Supreme Court, the purpose 'of which is totry the constitutionality of the: Sunday law.: The objection tothe law is founded on its last clause,which excepts from its operation “such as conscientiously observe the seventh day of the:week as the Sabbath.”” It is insisted that this exeception gives to Jews the privilege of pursuing their usual vocations on Sunday, while all othérs are excluded, 'thus ' making the Sunday trade a monopoly in their hands, while the Constitution of the State forbids the'enactment of any law whieh dees not apply to all citizens alike. It appears that the question thus presented has never been passed upon: by the Supreme Court of the State, and in the opinion of competent lawyers the law is believed to be obhoxious to the‘objection made, and mast be declared unconstitutional. Itis said ‘that in several other States where similar ‘questions *have been rhised the courts have decided favorably to the obJectors, -declaring. the laws ‘unconstitutional. Should" the. -Supreme . Court of the State so decide, there is some diversity of opinion as.to the -‘result: that would fol: low, some holding that the entire Jaw must. fall to -the ground, -while ‘others contend that the exception would become invalid while the main body ‘of the law:would _stand. In the first event’ the State would Be left, for the time being, without any statutory enactment requiring -the obseryance 'of Sunday as a day .of rest, . while, if tie latter nroposition should be the correct. one, the Hebrew race, equally with ths Gentiles, would be. bound to abstain from Sunday work. It is known that the constitutional phase of the law wis somewhat discussed by the Court in the case recently decided, but the question was not presented by the record, 'and: for that reason could not be passed upon. 'The present case is that of Johns vs. The State, and its decision will be awaited with -considerable interest, . L Dot

- - -Indiana Items, = . .. For the past.two months the marriage-" benefit craze has- run wild throughout the State, and the number of ‘such associations incorporated has reached into the hundreds. The business originated in Union City, and advices from there, received on the 28th uit., indicate that the pioneer association of this kind is about to go -to the wall. . It is. stated the assessments for marriages up to September 20 fell short more than $2,300, and the company is now sending out assessments aggregating $153 per member for marriages oceurring from September 21 to 29 inclusive. A Kkidk js organizing among the certificate-holders; :and thuse. ‘who ex- - pected a fine raise as ‘soon as they weére® married now want to know what has become of their money. This is doubtless the beginning of the'end of this wild-cat speculation, against which the people have been warned in vain by the newspapers ecver since the business began. = -“ 7o T On the:2Bth ult.. the State Board of Health published an order forbidding any person: to enter any public or-private school, either as pupil or teacher, after the Ist of Junuary next, until they have been successfully vac-’ cinated; also, requiring ali persons within, or who shall come into, the State to be vaccinated within sixty days 'from that date, and all children to be vaccinated within twelve months after birth. A penalty of not - less than §5 is attached for any ‘violation of this order. R SRI

On the night of the' 27th ult. as a Mr.. Stone Wwas crossing the Wabash River bridge (at Wabash he was stopped by four men, who: \robbe‘d him of s6sin roney and a pair of gold sleeve buttons, - G At Evansville on the 28th ult. the -local Board of Health issued an order to the School Superintendent that all children who were not vaceéinated must at “once. reportto the members of the Board and be’ vacein--ated frec of charge. There have been no cases of smul-pox reported there as yet, but the authorities . are taking précautions to prevent the disease getting & grip in that

. At Evansville on the morning of the 2Sth ult. a shooting affray occurred at Sheldon’s saloon. Clem' Trice and Billum Taylor were playing a game of cards for money, when words were passed by théparticipants, Trice claiming it ‘was a brace game, which aroused the anger of Taylor, who borrowed a 42-caliber Colt’s revolver from the barkeeper, pointed it at Trice’s head, and fired. The ball struck him égh@;’ ‘under the eyes, taking a downward course, and lodging in the neck.. Trice will die... - ' ’

Of the 2,482 public officers in the State to whom the Indiana Bureau of Statistics hassenf blanks, only three have refused to report thereon, viz: J. P. Watts, Clerk of Randolph County; Warren Tebbs, Clerk of Dearborn County, and J.T. Costeel, Auditor of €lay County. 1+ . »vxf ove . o

The shortage of Charles A. ‘Wilder, agent. of theJThames Loan and “Trust' Company, has been figured down to $9,029, on which he is entitled to credit for $2,300 on repairs. The real loss excéeds $7,000, - o On the'morning of the 80th ult. a westbound freight train on the Indianapolis' & St. Louis Road was wrecked twelye miles * west of Greencastle, Sixteen cars were - ditched, one brakeman was killed, and the vcondds}t‘tfi‘,‘B_i‘llnygo‘;_‘fgfi%.j{;fifis‘ seriously injured. The wreck was causéd by a broken - axle. . . LY i O The Indianapolis grain guetations are:. Wheat—No. 2 Red, $1.32%@1.35. Corn— No. 2, 60@6lge. . Oats—#4@d6lge, - The. Cincinnati guotations ' are: “Wheat—No. 2 Red, [email protected]%:. C€orn — No. 2, 66}{@G6%c. Oats—No 2, £l@4B¢, Rye—No. 2, [email protected]. Barley—Extra Fall, {1.12@ 112, e NG N Jacob Neusbauin, living mear Wabash, is probably the oldest man in the State. At - 105 years of age he moves about without a e 2 as,.. ! i G

- There is a speck of war in the firmament between TUlinois and Indiana. For fifteen years the Indiana State Fair has been held during the last week .of September. Two years ago the Illinois Board changed to the same date, and, by rémwving to Peoria; materially injured the Hoosier association. Recently the Illinois managers made overturesfor the Indiana Egi;,to be advanced one week, and the Hoosier Secretary is authority that this overture will be declined. ' From the present feeling-the rivalry next year wilk be serious to both, = % e