Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1881 — Page 4

AN ASSASSIN’S SASS.

Guiieau on the Witness Stand is aa He Always has Been— lmpudent and Contemptible. Proceedings of the Trial—The Examination of the Witness, and Other Interesting Notes* FOURTEENTH DAY. Guiteau’s recital yesterday of his varied experiences as a religious tramp and dead beat, seems to have whetted .the public interest in the case, for despite the rfliri, the crowd was as great as yesterday. Upon the opening of the court Guiteau was taken directly to the witness box. The witness was asked by Mr. Scoville to identify some papers. The Ant shown, him was a hand-bill announcing a lecture at Evanston, Illinois. J « “Yes,*' said Guiteau, turning it around to the jury with an air of satisfaction, ‘‘that was the announcement of one of my lectures. Shall 1 read it?” 1 Scoville—No, I will put these papere in evidence. Giuteau then gave his ideas concerning the religious tenets of the Ouieda Community. The witness continued tb say 186® instead of 1878, and his at- ‘ tontion being called to it, explained, , “I don’t feel very well to-day. My brain don’t work jusUrignt, probably owing to the rain.” . Guiteau then resumed the. narrative of bis experiences in trying to lecture. On one occasion he tried to lecture against Bob Ingersoll, who was to deliver a lecture against “Hell,” while he (witness) proposed to lecture on the ‘‘Existence of Hell;’’ While he fotiud, however, the people very ready to pay Ally cents to hear that there was no‘ hell, they wouldn’t pay a cent to hear that there was a hell.

. Witness was asked to identify a book handed him, and said: “Ob, yes, that is my revised work Called ‘Truth’—a companion book to the Bible. I have not seen it since it was taken Jrom me when I was arrested.” Witness then desired to read a passage, add read a page or two descriptive ot the trials of the Apc-tle Paul in endeaVctiog to Introduce Christianity. “I bat was just my case,” said Guiieau, striking bis fist Upon the desk. “I strove to enlighten the world justas Paul did. I had no money and no friends, and I had just about as rough a time as the apostle had.” Witness went to New York from Boston on the steamer Stonington tfrhen she struck the Narragansett. He tnoiight his time had come then; but it hadn’t. Witness wrote his speech, “Garfield against Hancock” in the Public library In Boston. It was originally intended for Grant, as he (witnejs) supposed Grant would be nominated at Chicago; but after Garfield was nominated it had to be all worked over. When in New York witness called on General Arthur to offer his s< rvices in the campaign. He also called at the Republican headquarters; saw all the big linn; they were ail glad to sl?e him. He consulted with Governor Jewell, tGeneral Arthur and others. They were very friendly, but they told him they must have men of big reputation, like Grant aud Coukiing, to do the speaking. Witness added: “I was on free aud easy terms with Arthur, Jewell and tire rest ci them.” Witness made his first application for office soon after General Garfield’s election. He called on General Garfield ft the White House. “After Garfield was at leisure,” said Guiteau. I shook hands with him and handed him my speech, on which was written Paris Consulship. He knew me as once. I left aim reading the speech, and tbaPs the only interview I ever had with President Garfield. I wish to state hern that my gettipg office or not getting office, had nothing whatever to do with my removing the Presidents That was an act of inspiration, and was done as a political . necessity.” Witness then related his experience at ’he State Department aud his interviews with Secretary Blaine, describing as he termed it, the modus operandi of getting at the Secretary of State. Witness described his last interview with Blaine, who rather hurt his feelings by his abrupt manner, which was so in contrast with his previous cordiality. Witness then determined to see the President, and with considerable exhibition of excitement related bis efforts see the President. Witness contin ued:“The party was at loggerheads, and I got very much worried over it. I wrote several notes to the President telling him something must bs done, but he paid no attentim to it.” “I kept worrying,” he continued, “over the political situation, and I knew this nation was coming to grief.” , Witness was then asked as to the inspiration which he had said impelled him to remove the President, and replied: “The inspiration as I understand it, is where a man’s mind is taken possession of by a supreme power; where be acts outside of him- . self.” Witness then desired to read

from?a printed slip, purporting to be an interview with the prisouer, giving his theory on the subject. Counsel fcr the prosecution objected to the reading or to the use of it by witness to refresh his memory. A discussion ensued, the prisoner insisting that he was not feeling well; had not yet gotten ovtr his thanksgiving indulgences, and did not feel able to state it so thoroughly now as he did then. The court 'ruled against the use of the slip, and Guiteau resumed: Suddenly on the’Wednesday evening after ConkliDg’s resignation, be thought that if President Garfield was out of the way all would go well. He tried to shake it oft, bat it -grew. Iu a fortnight's time it had become a fixed resolved. He had never doubted since that time, abont the Ist of June, that he was inspired. He prayed and pray ed, asking God if Garfield wers not to be thus removed to get rid of him in some other way.. The removal was to save the nation from ruin. J*l thftjjord ampioyed me, becaoselioalways employs lbs best mv JwWL, I felt the Lord wt nted me to do ®y bock." No al-

r lusion was made by the witness to the immediate incidents of the shooting. Recess. After recess Guiteau said he believed in special Providences and' had no concern about his personal safety. He felt that the Lord and the Government would take care of him. “The Lord,” he added, is no fool. He uses the best m«ans for His work, and He has provided ail these guards, the court and the jury to do His work and preserve me.” Scoville—Have you distinct recollec* tion of the inci Jenta of the 2d of July? Guiteau (smilingly)—Oh, ye 3, certainly. Witness then briefly recited his arrest and incarceration with as little exhibition of feeling as if relating the commonest incidents of every day life.

“When I was finally lodged in Jail,” said Guiteau, “1 felt happy. I said, ‘thank God, it is all over with.’ ” After a few questions had bein propounded and objected to, Guiteau broke out: “I want to define my posi* tion on this one point t believe General Arthur is a friend of mine. He ought to be, for I am the mau that made him, or my inspiration did, but I have never yet asked a favor of him, and I don’t suppose I ever shall.” [frIFTHENTH DAt.

Guiteah’s trial was resumed this morning in the presence of the usual throng. Upon entering the witness box Guiteau desired, before resuming his evidence, to make a personal statement and address to* the audience, saying: “Two weeks ago I sent out an appeal for money. I did it on my own account, and a day afterward Scoville publicly announced that it was with* oilt his authority. I again invite fiaj’ friends to send me money in the interest of the cause of justice and for mV defense. They can send $5, sld, or sls, or SI,OOO if they wish. If they don’t want to be known, they can send without name to Scoville.” Judge Porter then began a rapid fire of interrogatories, eliciting from the prisoner in his several replies that physically, he was a coward, and always kept away from personal danger. Morally, he was as brave as a lion,when be thought the I)elty was back of bim. i In iiis dpinion the dobtois killed tbfe \ President. The acts of Jones aud Mason in attempting to kill him were w rejig. and they ought to be punished, unless they can shoft they were inspired by Deity. Witness soon showed signs of impatience and excitability, and striking his open hand upon the desk, emphasised every sentenced uttered. • When pressed for answers, he finally became obstinate, and shouted to Judge Porter: “I know you well, and I know bigger men than you are. I’ve seen you shake your finger at witnesses in New York, but you can’t scare me;” aud shortly after, when asked if he believed in the ten commandments, to which he responded in the affirmative, and if he believed that the commandment, “Thou shalhuot kill,” ought to read iu his case, “Thou ehslt kill,” he became exceedingly violent, ami refused to diseuss that matter at all. There was no murder iu his case, and no killing. It was simply for the jury to determine whether or not his act in removing the President was inspired by Deity or not. It was all nouesense to split hail s any longer over that word. It must be distinctly understood that the removal of the President was an act of Deity. f Witness proved decidedly obstinate, and after flatly contradicting the testimony of General Logan, Charles H. several other witnesses, he positively refused answer several questions, his invariable response being, “I decliue to discuss that with you.” Witness eeemed to be greatly annoyed at .Judge Porter’s habit of pointing his finger at him, as he frequently did it in away of emphasizing his interrogatories, aud agsip broke out angrily: “You ue4d irot poiut your fiuger at me, Judge Porters I’ve seen you do that before, but you can’t scare me.” . Witness declined to go iuto board-ing-house matters, as they had no bearing on the case. He supposed he owed $l5O to various landladies, and, some time or other, expected to pay them. '

Judge Cox directed him to reply to the questions. * \ Witue.-a was readily driven from one position to another till confronted with the evidence of his own witnesses, when he would unhesitatingly pronounce their evidence false. Once he emphasized his contradiction by saying: “Anything I swear to,' Judge, is true. You , can put that down as a fixed fact.” Being pressed as to how he propsed to raise the funds which he said he was expecting to receive, the witness replied: “I intend to borrow it from some'of my friends,” and added, “I will tell you, Judge, how I borrow money. It may be of service to you when you want to borrow for yourself. I don’t lie nor sneak, but go right 'up to a man and ask him fqr what I want.” *,

Witness was closely questioned about bis purchase of the pistol, and, being a«Ked why he bought one with an ivory handle instead of a plaiu one, replied: “Because I thought it worth a dollar more. 4 * Judge Pbrter—“Did you not say it would look better id the Patent Office?” Witness admitted that he might have believed or thought the pistol would some time be placed in the State Department. Shortly afterward Guiteau became very indignant at Judge Porter’s use of the word “murder” and shouted fircely: “You seem to delight in the use of the words ‘kill’ and ‘murder.’ There’s no nse of your whining in that way. The mere outward fact of how I removed the President has nothing whatever to do with this case.”

Giiiteau’s shrewdness' in detecting and anticipating any point which might be made against him was the marked feature of the Investigation. Judge Porter pressed him very closely to fix the day when he received his alleged “inspiration” to remove the President, and Guiteau finally shrieked 'out, “To remove all this loose talk, I want you to know that I would have removed the President at any time between the middle of June and tt)s 2 of July if I had had the opportunity. I

would have done it for the good of the American people.” Guiteau was permitted to indulge bis passion for talking upon the pending political situation at the 'time of the shooting, until, speaking of the President’s ingratitude to Grant and Conkling, he was led by Judge Porter to admit that “ingratitude Is. the basest of crimes.”

Judge Porter—“ Stop there. What would you have thought of your act in killing the President had he given yotl the Paris Consulship, instead of having refused it?” Guiteau had previously said that General Garfield was his (prisoner’s) “warm personal and political', friend;”- that no personal motives whatever were involved in his act, and fearing evidently that some trap was being set for him, be hesitated a moment, and then said, with great emphasis: “I want to just fasten you solid, right here. I would not have taken the Paris Consulship after the first of June if I had been appointed to it, and the President and Secretary Blaine had both beseeched me on their knees to take it. I bad at that time resolved to remove the President for the good of the American people.”

SIXTEENTH DAY. Immediately upon the opening of the Criminal Court, Guiteau was placed in the witness bo±. He glanced at the papers a moment and then said: “I desire, Judge Porter, to state to you and the honorable court that I decline to answer any more questions which are mere repetitions of What we have already been over.” THE CROSS-EXAMINATION RESUMED. Judge Porter immediately resumed the cross-examination with the question, “Was one of your purposes in removing the President to create a demand lor sour book?” Answer —Yes, sir; with the modification that it was to preach thj gospel.

Witness soon became excited and gesticulating widely, insisting upon his inspiration, and that the Lord had selected him to do the work. He was no fool. The Lord never selected fools to do His work. He had inspired him to remove Garfield, and left him (witness) to use his own judgment in selecting the means, continuing excitedly, “and the Lord has taken care of me; I’ve neither been shot nor hung.” Judge Porter—And you did not eipect to ba? Answer—l decline to discuss the matter with you. I did not have any thought on the subject. I left it all to the Deity. Witness repeatedly refused to answer questions, or, as he termed it, to “discuss” matters under inquiry. Atone Jime he appealed to the court for protection against the manner of crossexamination.

Judge Porter said: "I have not attempted to force a reply from you, Mr. Guiteau. If you will allow the jury to understand that you refuse to answer, it will suit my purpose just as well.” Witness at once turned to Judge Porter, and inquired: “Well, what was your question, Judge?” Witness was then asked if his entering the Oneida Community was inspiration? If his leaving it was inspiration? and declined to discuss the subject. Judge Porter then produced Guiteau’s book, “Truth,” which witness had claimed was the result oj direct inspiration from the Deity, aud compared it paragraph by paragraph with the “Berean,” the Onedia Community book written by John H. Noyes. The similarity of ideas and identity of. expression were apparent all through, ami witless struggled desperately to explain away his palpable plagiarisms. A letter addressed by Guiteau to the Ouedia Community was then read, in which the writer confessed his love for, and subjection to, John H. Noyes aud the Onedia Community. Several other letters written by Guiteau about the time he left the Oneida Community, were then placed in evidence, identified by Guiteau, and read. One of then;, addressed to the Community, sets forth the writer’s repentance for his insub* ordination, and contained a confession that he had acted “under the influence of his own self-will, conceited and fanatical disposition.” Guiteau insisted, in spite of warning, in making his explanations as th^ reading progressed. “I was elbowing my way out of the Community then,” said the witness; “you want to imagine yourselves in hell, ladies and gentlemen, and trying to get out, then you can understand my position at that time.”

Guiteau continued bis testimony He (the witness) believed in the personal existence of the Deity and the devil, aud when the impulse to remove the President seized him, he wrestled and prayed to find if it came from the Lord or the devil, and had it not been for the political situation and the evident necessity for his removal for the good of the country and the American people, witness would not have shot the President, but would have believed the impulse was prompted by-the devil.

Witness was then asked, “Are you insane?” and replied, “I am not an'expert. Let these experts and the jury decide that.”

Being pressed for his opinion, witness declined to answer. He was then subjected to a rapid series of questions, and soon began to exhibit irritability and anger, and his replies, when given at all, were in short, jerky sentences. He was asked if he laid in wait for the President in an alley by night, and after a short wrangle said: “Now, you are on that. I’ll give you a little news. I’ll tell you what occurred that evening, July 1.” Witness then detailed his movements up to the time he saw the President and Secretary Blaifie emerge from the house of the latter and walk down Fifteenth street. Said Guiteau: “They walked along so lovingly, arm in arm; they had their hauls together like two school-girls. Their fellowship was delightful, and it confirmed me in the belief that Garfield had sold himself body and soul to Blaine, and that Blaine was using him to ruin the Stalwart wing of the Republican party.” Grtiiteau here became furiously excited, and plunged into a wild harangue, denouncing Blaine as a bold, wicked, designing m*n 4 who wanted

to rain the Republican party in revenge for the two times he had been slaughtered by political conventions. Striking the desk with considerable violence, he shouted: “Yes, sir, iu my opinion, Blaine Is morally responsible for the death of Garfield.” After recess the examination was continued. The prisoner said he did not intend to remove the President at church. He went to the jail about the first week of Juue; wanted to see the

accommodations there; was there only once. His motive in visiting the jail was to look at its interior;eipected to live in it after the removal of the President; hired a hack to go toward the cemetery, not the jail. Sat in the park because of the hea'tand not for an opportunity to shoot the President; at the same time he had his pistol with him. He was usually an early riser; may have gone to the river on the morning of June 18; fired his pistol off, when he went to the river. The prisoner still maintained that he took the precaution to send for General Sherman to receive protection, because the crowd .would think him a disappointed office-seeker and hang him before he could explain the motive that prompted him. Mrs. Garfield’s presence, the prisoner again stated, saved the President life on the 18th of June. The prisoner here took up a paper and refused to answer questions unless something new was asked; and Mr; Scoville said he thought the prisoner’* objections were well founded. A legal spat then took place between Scoville and Porter.

CHEMISTRY IN CRIME.

A Trifle of Acid Beveals a Wealthy Forger’s Villainy. Chester (SI C.J Bulletin. The recent dfeath in our State Penitentiary of W. W. Ward, the for met Sheriff of Williamsburg county, recalls the circumstances that led to the discovery of his crime, which are the most extraordinary in our criminal annals. At the spriDg term, 1879, of the Court of Common Pleas for Williamsburg county. J. H. Livingston brought suit against Ward to recover the sum of $5,000, money loaned on Ward’s sealed note. His Honor, Judge T. S. Mackey, presided, aud, by con* sent of counsel, heard the case without a jury. The plaintiff, proved the execution of the note and clofifeti his Case. Ward’s counsel then produced the receipt of Livingston, dated two years previous to the trial, for the whole amouut due, principal and interest, and a witness testified he had seen the pay men j made in SIOO bills aud four SSOO bills to Livingston himse’f, on the day named in the receipt. The plaintiff took the Witness stand, and on examining the receipt admitted that it bore his true and genuine signature, but solemnly protested that he nad not received $1 from Wal'd, aud had never entered Ward’s house in his life for any purpose. He declared that he was ruined, and that he and his wife wculd be made homeless by a false receipt which he could not explain, but which he never knowingly signed. On crossexamination, Livingston, who was an old man, admitted that his memory was very infirm, and that he had on previous occasions received a payment of S2OO frbm another debter of his, which he afterward had denied receiving, but which be recalled to memory when shown his receipt. The plaintiff and his counsel at this stage of the proceeding were in utter despair, for their cause was apparently lost. Judge Mackey, however, whose* subtle brain aud practicedieye nothing can escape, and who follows crime through all its windings, directed that that the receipt should be handed to bim. He then ordered the Sheriff to proceed to the uearest drug store aud purchase a drachm of muriatic aqid and a small i piece of sponge. On the return of the officer with the articles named, the Judge said to the plaintiff: “Mr. Livingston, did you ever write a letter to the defendent, Ward, demanding payment of your money?”: The plaintiff answered: “Yes, sirj I wrote him many letters, but never received an answer from him.” Judge Mackey then observed to counsel: “I preceived that on the face of this receipt there are several peculiar brown spots, and the original surface or sifting of the paper has been removed, except in that portion of the paper where the signature was written. The body of the receipt is in the handwriting of the defendant jn my opinion the defendent has taken a letter of the plaintiff’s aud rejaovi d the writing with muriatic aoAi, and then wrote the receipt kbove the signature. I will now apply this acid to the writing on the back of the complaint in this case, and it will bfe seen that the writing wifi instantly disappear. And the paper will at once exhibit several brown spots identical with those on this receipj.” The acid was applied to the paper, and as the writing disappeared, the brown blots were seen upon its surface, aud the crime of the defendant was clearly revealed I Ward, at this juncture, looked as horrorstricken as Lady Macbeth, when, gazing upon her fair but murderous hand, she exclaimed, as she vainly rubbed it, .“Out, damned spot I” The Judge immediately rendered his decision in favor of the plaintiff, stating that it was the duty of the solicitor to have Ward

Jtrosecuted at once for bis audacious orgery. On the next morning Judge Mackev left for Georgetown, forty miles distant, to hold , court. While there he received a letter trom a friend warning him not to return to Williamsburg, as he had promised to do in a few days, for the purpose of hearing an argument in chambers, as Ward had sworn solemnly to shoot him down at sight. The Judge’s record, however, shows that he is not one to swerve irom the line of duty because of an armed enemy in his path. He returned to Williamsburg after an absence of five days, and, meeting Ward upon the street, demanded whether he had threatened to take his life. Ward answered that he hgd, but that he had abandoned his purpose. At the next term of the court Ward was indicted and placed on trial for forgery. When the virdict of “guilty” was renderd, Ward rose and discharged his pistol at Liviugston, the prosecuting witness, one of the balls passing through his coat. He was instantly disarmed, and sentenced to a term of seven years at hard hard labor in the penitentiary. Ward was a man of wealth and of good standing in his community. He died last week in the penitentiary, illustrating by his career the truth of the scripture: “The way of the transgressor is hard.”

The Strength of Methodism.

Edinburg Itevlew. I Methodism has in its constitution a principle of strength and authority Car surpassing the more lax and tolerant rule of the Anglican Church; it is one of the great bulwarks of, the (kith amongst the middle" classes in this country, opposed alike to the secularism of the party and the Bomanieing tendencies of another party; and we are thankful that a movement which has so impressed the religious life of the country, is true to the fundamentals of Christian oonduct, renders val* uable services to the cause of virtue at considerable personal sacrifices, and derserves well of the commonwealth its loyal adberenoe to counsels of Jus dee and moderation in times of ne> tfanal disturbances.

OHfO OUT WITH IHE TIDE. Raise me up in my bed, wife; There* the sound of the sea In my ear; And Ueiuea to ffly goal In a music That earth ta not bieeead to bear. Open the little window, WIA. Then eome and come and tit by my tide; We’ll wait God* sweet flood water TO take me out with the tide. I see the harbor-bar. wtftu And my dear little boat in the bay; But who shall be able to ankle her When her metier taas paeeed away? I know that her helm, so trusty, Will answer no other hand, As it aneWerod mine, when 1 knew wife, Yon were waiting tat me on the strand. Oar boys are all before ns, wife, Wee Jack Is beneath wave; And blue-eyed Freddie sleeps, wife, In fonder y*w-boWered grave, Where the early daisies cluster Around his baby bed. And the tbrusn ■lts chanting softer In yon tree thst shades the dead. There’s a ebtll runs through oar hearts,wife, When the harbor-bar doth moan: But a darker grief will be yonrs, wife, When you’re left In the cot alone: But a few more flows of the sea, win, And a few more ebbs of the tide, Then God*sweet flood shall bring yon Again to your old man* tide. The red sun Is low In the west, wife,. And the tide sinks down with the sun; W« part With each other in love, wife, For sweetly out lives have run. Give me your hand irty, own love, As you gave It In days es yore; We will clasp them, ne’er to be surrendered. When we meet on the far-off shore t

SOME GHOST STORIES.

It is undeniable that there are many soberminded people, hot In general disposed to be credulous or superstitious, who yet entertain a firm conviction that they have Come acres? the supernatural in some shape or other, and under cli cumstflnces in Which they had as little reason to doubt the evidences of their senses as in the most cofilmon occurances of Hfe. On more than one occasion We have given instances of ghost stories unveiled, with a view to allaying the fears or those who are in tne habit of giving credence to what is termed the supernatural, and as we have reason to believe that our efforts have been attended by good results In various quartern, we present no apology for again taking up the lubject. A well-known witty English divine once remarked that the best End most reasonable—because the most convincing—way of ,coffibatting the foolish fancy, commonly known as a “belief in ghosts,” is to make public all well authenticated instances .such stories have been “unveiled;” The following narratives, comfflflfifcated by various contributors, may serve aa further illustration* of the truth, that nothing of the apparently supernatural sflbuld be received which has nbt been submitted to the test of absolute demonstation. A GIGANTIC FIGURE IN WHITE.

One splendid afternoon of a glorious summer, 1 set out on a Walk from EyJhorn to Deal, a distance of six ffllleS. took particular note as I went along —the route being entirely strange to me—of all the landfnSrke, ftuCn as churches, farm houses, the bendings lit the road, etc., thinking that I should probably have to friake at least part of return walk after dark, though sure of a sufficiency of Ught if the moon were only shining. I reached Deal, and was beguiled oy the beauty of the afternoon and eteuingto stay longer than I had intended. Sea aha land iky bathed in the warm golden sunshine, the of the brightestjbhie, uuflecked'by a cloud and th.e sea almost equally blue. I lingered by the shore until the lengthening shadows began to wain the that I should find the night drawing on dlipoat before I got far from the precincts of Deal. .Hastening along, theD,- without any doubt of my w,ay, and mounting the rising land at the back of town I found the moon was already shedding its light over the scene and I looked forward to a delightful walk home, when suddenly a dense sea fog roll in from the bay, which soon enveloped the land, obscuring every object* and even obliterating the light of the moon, save for occasional rifts in the fog as it rolled rapidly inland. I soon {became very doubtful of my way, as the notes I had carefully taken of landmarks were new useless. But I trudged along, knowing that I was pursuing at least an onward course, till I emerged upon much higher ground, and was thankful to find that the fog was losing its density and the moon recovering Its light. Inquiring at a cottage where I saw a light in the bed-room, I found that I had Come right and should soon strike the road from Sandwich to Dover. After this the fog seemed to lift, the moon shone out brightly, a light haze only remaining over the lower-lying country, aud I soon found myself comfortably nearing Evthorn. The* road into Eythorne from the Dover road turns at right angles, and is straight and rather descending, so that during the day,or on a fine moonlight night, objects can be seen a long distance. The moon had now risen considerably, and the whole country lay olearly revealed—the road to Eythorne into which I had now. turned, especially eo, being chalky. I had not gone many pedes when I saw, some distance on before me, a gigantic figure in white, apparently at least ten feet high. I oould cee, too, It was moving, not toward me. but from me. I watched it uarrowlv for a few minutes, to satisfy myself that It was no momentary impression; but there assuredly it was, white, spectral.gigantic —and moving.

- My firat’thougbt was to beat a retreat, take the Dover road again, and return into Eythorne through Walderahare park;but as this would have lengthened the time at which I wiahed to beat home, and as 1 had already proved the park at sight to be a difficult route,and had had some unpleaaant experiences thereia, I made up my mind rapidly that there was nothing for it but to face the spectra, or whatever it might be, “for better or wore#.” Now, I thought, ia all my vaunted unbeliaf la the supernatural to be put to the test, and perhaps to be shaken down in some dreadfully unpleasant manner. I confess I felt many a qualm as the tall figure stalked on before me, but, as I had now fully made up my mind to find out what it was if I oould. I quickened my pace, almost running under the excitement. As I neared and was evidently overtaking it, I notloed that it seemed rather to lessen in its proportions, and this continued as I got nearer and nearer. It wee still, bowavar, out of ail human proportion ; and at this point, aa I more leisurely looked about me, I began to observe that the more tamllisr otyeets known to me,the cottages by the roadside, the park gates, etc., looked unusually large also,and as I passed them, resumed their natural aiie. This at ones K + /varna a elua to me, and I determined not to lose the chanoe of unraveling the mystery of the white figure, still some distance before me. As I got rapidly near it, It ae rapidly decreased in alee, till at length—l mnel aay much to my relief—l found It to be nothing more than a country girl in a light drees quietly pursuing her way homeward.

Thus, then, I discovered that the Rigan tie spectre of my walk was an effect due in sous way to the combined action of the moonbeams and the base in magnifying ail objects looked at, at a osrtain distance or angle, and in this resembling the mist specters of the Brocken and other mountains. Now, it is evident, If I had not been compelled to feet and investigate the matter, I should have continued to believe to this dhy—despite my unwillingness to do so—that I had oertainly seen a specter upon such evidence of my own senses as I could not doubt. The occurrence has served me in good stead ever since, as a useful lesson. inducing me to pause in aooeptlng apparently inexplicable . phenomena without the moftt rigid investigation, fll* CLANGING OF CHAINS. M* social gathering of friends one

’ * evening, a few yean ago, the much vexed question of supernatural appearances came under discussion. As might have been expected in those days of scientific experiment and inductive philosophy, the tone of the conversation was of a decidedly skeptical tinge. The lady of the house, anxious apparently that ghostly claims should be fairly represented, appealed to her sister-in-law, who had lived for several years in a haunted house, and begged her to say what the results of her experience had beep. ‘•Our hodse,” replied the'slster, “was In a bleak and lonely situation; and many years before we entered its walls some disagreeable association had been woven into its history. In spite of these, the plftce did "us no harm, though lam bound to say that during our

sojourn in it we heard sounds which superstitlously Inclined folks might have regarded with dread. Perhaps we were not a family likely to suffer from imaginative terrors, because we were more accustomed to examine an unwonted object than to run away from it- nor did we conclude that every phenomenon not clearly understood by us must be due to supernatural causes. Often at night we heard noises in uninhabited rooms, as if article* of furniture were being moved or dragged across the floor, but these we became used to, and assigned them to such simple causes as mice, or possibly rats. But once I lecollect that the clanking of a'chain at midnight wakened me from a half-dreaming state to lull consciousness.

“I thought I must have been mistaken, ana went quietly to sleep again; but the next night at the same hour the noise was distinctly repeated. My sister, who slept in the same room, heard ft also, and was as puzzled as myself. It recurred from that time so often that we became accustomed to it also, and were almost ceasing to speculate on its cause, when one day standing id my room In broad daylight, I heard the Clankling noise loudly repeated. A thought struck me. I ran downstairs out of the hall door, and through a garden path to the stable yard, whose walls formed an angle with one side of the house. As 1 looked into the stable the horse shook his chain 1 This was the very noise we had heard so often—the same thing which had happened night after night, when the horse waking out of hie ffleep, got np, shook himself, and stamped in his stall, before composing himself for another nap. If I had not thus tracked the sound and verified it, I could never have believed that it could have been so clearly heard through the thick walls at such a distance.” A

THE MAN MAIN«EEN AND FELT A GHOST. “Ah!” said the clergyman, who ltstened to this account with much amusement, “I am pursuaded that if the people Would take the trouble of ezaminingsuch mysterious occurances the number of ‘authenticated ghost stories’ on record would be sensibly diminished. A curious circumstance happened to thy father 'when he was a very young man. He lived at some distance from the dwelling of the girl who afterwards; became his wife and my mother. He had to work and wait for her for several year's, and for her sake he applied very Closely to his business, they seldom met. But occasional jy, after his day’s work was over, he took a very long walk into the next County to get a glimpse of her fair face, and pterchance the treat of a tfuiet walk. On one of these rare occasions he bethought himself of a short cut through a village churchyard. It was not very easy of acoess, for the gate was locked, and a brook of some depth swept found part of the outer wall; bu't he was young and active, and eager to gain time; so, after some what stiff climb, he found himself within the limits of the consecrated ground. “It was a clear moonlight night, and the tombstones stood flrosud him in close and venerable array. Suddenly he saw something which made him start and pause. From beneath the shadow of the church wall a tall white figure glided' stealthily out into the light. My father quietly retreated behind a tombstone and watched. The * > advanced; he scanned it careSand beneath the white robes ring in the night air. he beheld a very substantial pair of boots. ‘‘Said he to himself: “Do ghosts boots? I wonder who makes them and he decided on having a closer inspection of this mysterious graveyard apparition. The figure moved on; hit father quietly followed, keeping well in the shadows of the tombstones. After some little time spent in this kind of dodging, the ghost advanced to a part of the wall overlooking the road and the stream, and took up its position on the top of it. In a second my father came Dehind, and with a strong and sudden push tipped the unlucky ghost into the stream which rippled below. He heard a plunge and a shout, waited a few moments to see that the fellow had struggled safely to the other side, minus his white sheet, then turned and speed on his ?way, rejoicing at haviDg nit on so novel and expeditious a method of ‘iaying a ghost.’

‘•Years passed away. My father married the lady of bis choice, and they shared the usual course of life’s vicissitudes together. Long after her death, he took me to visit the scene of bis early wooing and the home of her girlhood. On our way from the railway station we drove through a village, from which a funeral prosession was issuing in solemn pomp to the churchyard. As we returned, we stopped for an hour at an inn and ordered luncheon. Like most of his class, our host was chatty and communicative, and at onoe entered into conversation. 'Pleasant weather, gentlemen. We have a large funeral here to-day; the largest known in these parts for many a year. We all wished to show respect to our oldest inhabitant, William Dawkins. A very civil fellow was Bill. Many a story of the good old times he used to tell. And he had some queer adventures of his own to talk about. You’ll scarce credit me,

gentleman, but ’tis a fact that that man had seen a ghost.’ “‘▲ghost!’ exclaimed my father, whose natural skepticism on the subsot bad bee" long sinoe strengthened »y the incident I have related. 'He dreamed of one I suppose, or an extra class at ale bad gone to bis bead.’ “ ‘Kotldag of this kind, sir.’ replied Ihe landlord with great seriousness. IBUI not only saw a ghost, but felt it, and that pretty sharply, I can tell you. Tbs way as fell in with it was this. Boms of our lads had gone to a (air that was bald a tew miles away, and Bill

wanted to frighten the young fellows so their way home; so he just climbed into the churchyard, wrapped a sheet about him and waited about till he thought they were close at hand. He was standing on a bit of wall just above the road, and he heard a stealthy tread coming up behind him. He turned around qmlckly, and there was a dark figure at nis back; but before he could move it made one rush it him and kaceked him olaan over into the stream that runs below. The fall and the fright took away his breath; and between the terror and the wetting, he

got such a scare that he never ventured near that churchyard again after nightflail. He said it was a dangerous thing to play at ghosts, for no one knew how near the ghosts themselves might be, nor how angry with any one who dared to play pranks In haunted places.’ “It was a strange story,” we said but our host thought it stranger stil when my father related his share in the adventure. The coincidence was certainly a curious one, and affords a specimen of the kind of foundation on which many a popular and “well-au--1 thentjoatod” ghost story may he built.

TABLE TALK.

M. Renan's translation of Ecclesiastes, with an elaborate preface, is now in type, and is expected to be out at the dose of the year. The French fishermen suffered last month almost as much as the British. At Boulogne the October storm has made 96 widows and 280 orphans. A Western actor claims that, while performing as JuliusCtesar,he is under the spirit control of the dead Emperor and does nothing of his own volition. At an expenditure of £IO.OOO, under the’ stock protection act, 400.000 kangaroos and wallaby dogs have been destroyed in New* South Wales in a year. ,

Dr. McCreary, of Louisville, believed that a thoroughly acquired appetite for rum was incurable, and therefor*, when he found himself possessed of one, he committed suicide. An account of a Chicago funeral sgyr that the burial casket “was made to conform as far as possible with the comforts the occupant was wont to surround himself with in the home ne has left.”

A religious controversy at Nevada, la., resulted in the election of four anti-Christians out of the six School Commissioners, and the Bible has consequently been excluded from the public'schools. Ex-Governor Johnson, of Missouri, harges the St. Louis police with being ]jaid by the gamblers for failing to enI’orce the law against gambling. Several suits for libel have been instituted and the police officials are likely to be incidentally hauled over the coals. McPherson, of Toledo, had been a hard drinker for many years when his wife, on her death bed, made him solemnly himself to total abstineee. After three days without aloohol he gave up the struggle; yet he would not break his vow, and suicide became his desperate resort.

One intoxicated man said it was a bundle of rags that lay on a window sill 200 yards away, at Ails tin, Texas, and his companion said it was a woman’s head. They made a bet, and decided it by shooting at the object; but neither won, for it was a boy’s head whieh the bullet grazed. At Odessa the mercantile community requested the Bt. Petersburg Government to allow the harbor to be lighted by night. The Government having agreed, the work of shipping of wheat goes on by day and night. This is done to counteract what foreign joui nals style “the obstinate comer” in grain in America. Blackjack is a Missouri town of some sentiment, notwithstanding its name, for it has just had an elopement, involving a furious pursuit of the flying pair by the girl’s father on horseback, a charge of shot fired scattered into their backs, a runaway by all the scared horses, a fight between the two men, and the final triumph of the two lovers.

, That fishing, as an industrial occupation, ranks very high in France, is shown by the fact that a little deoked vessel of twenty-five tons, belonging to the port of Croisic, has earned during the last five years upward of 74,000 francs, after paying expenees, of which the owner got 23,421. or at the rate of 4,700 francs per annum—a very handsome interest tor his out lay. A Parisian Journal estimates the total number of recognized medical men throughout the civilized world at 189,000, of whom it assigns 65,000 to the United States, 35,000 to Greit Britain and her colonies, 26,000 to France, 23 000 to Germany and Austria, 10,000 to Italy, and 5,000 to Spain. Of the whole number 11,000, it estimates, have cousributed to medical literature —2 800 in the United States, 2,600 in France, 2,000 in Great Baitaiu, 2,300 in Germany and Austria and only 300 in Spain.

A Louisville girl made an engagement to elope with a young man whom her father had forbidden to enter the house. The plan was to ride in a close carriage acros-s the line into into Indiana, have the marriage ceremony performed, and return to boldly announce Ithemselves husband wife. This was carried out as far as the start of the carriage. Then the man kissed the girl and she found whisky on his breath More than that, she judged his unusual vivacity to be the result of slight intoxication- Bbe at once declared the affair off. A i he would not turn hack, she called e. policeman to her aid, got into aDotner carriage and went home unmarried.

A Coroner’s jury at Brackett, Texas, was somewhat surprised to see a Mexican who had been shot by a jealous husband, and who was thought dead, rise up just as they were about to begin sittiDg on him, and inquire what all the fuss was about. ‘The supposed corpse came to just about in time to prevent n& usual dissection and postmortem examination.

An orator at Malden, Miss, is reported by the Press as saying that the place is “so charming a village that the very got of light eagerly kisses her hill tops in the morn and bottles them in regd splender at the close of day.” It probable that the word “bottles” should be “bathes” though the orator may have intended a novel figure of speech.

Connecticut is a happy State. There is so little litigation there that, according to the Hartford Courant, the legal fraternity of that city are in a state of chronitf discontent, while, according to the Register of New Haven, the Superior Court, now in session, “is begging for something to do.” A few years ago. “an attorney was fortunate to get a case tried in four or five years” in that court.

The sermon that the Rev. James L. Hill delivered at Lynn, several days ago, Was not remarkable in quality: yet tne preacher became so affected that he had to lean on the deek for support. the sexton fell flat in an isle, the choir could not sing the doxology, and a number of women were oarried out in a fainting condition. It was coal j *ss from the heater, and not eloqunce i rom the pulpit, that made this commotion.

Are Bees a Nuisance.

Harrisburg Telegraph. An unusual case is being tried in the Cumberland county (Pa.) court this week, that of testing by a jury whether the keeping of a large number of bees in a town or borough is a public nuisance or not. The case is from West Fairview, a small town on the opposite side of the river from Harrisburg. Two citizens had about 130 skepe of bees, and, as the summer was scarce of material such as the bees feed upon, they came in large numbers into the houses, stores, grape arbnrs, and wherever there was anything for them to feed upon. In ooe instance they swarmed in a neighbor’s kitchen and were there for days, he not being able to hive them, the queen being killed. They were especially bad about canning and preserving time, compelling the housewife to do her preserving in the evening, and in one instance the wife had to clinb in and out of the win-

dow for days, not daring to open the doors, for the bees would go in by hundreds; persons were stung passing along the streets and highways; entire houses become infested with bees, so much so, that the en mates could not enter to rest at night without being stung by the bees; trays of fruit put ouc for drying were entirely consumed. Indeed a reign of terror was experinced for several months, until a committee of citizens agreed to abate the nuisance, and after several efforts appealed to the court The defense claimed that the raising

and keeping of bee* was an indaster, and a* rack could not oome under (£• head of a public nuiaanoe, and that nit could not be brought nor damages recovered for the keeping of honey bees. The attorneys oa both aides presented the opinions of several Judges and the law points in the case, after which the court decided the case should be tried, and the testimony was received. Bat one ease seemed to be on reoord in the State, and that was tried before Judge Pearson in Dauphin oounty years ago, in whieh the defendant was adjudged guilty, had to pay a&fine and abate the nuisance. k

Found After Three Years.

Everett (Penn.) Frees. . * Lieutenant C. W. Mann, an officer of cavalry in the late civil war, and attached to one of the Maryland regiments, and brother of the Rev. J. B. Mann, of the Central Pennsylvania Conference, who so mysteriously disappeared from his home iu Martinsburg, West Virginia, some time over three years ago, turned up and was recognized by a cousin of nis in this place, one day last week, to the meat joy of his family and a large circle of friends, by whom he was greatly biloved. The Lieutenant is mat ried to a most estimable lddy, had a very comfortable home, was in a good position on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and was to all appearanoes prosperous and happy. At the time of his

leaving, his brother, then pastor of the United Methodist Episcopal Church, iu Wilmington, spent several weeks in searching for him through the mountains of Virginia and Maryland, and the larger towns and cities of those States, but failed to find a single trace of the lost one. The police ana detective agencies were at times assisting, but all to no purpose, and the wife of the missing man, with a breaking heart, came sadly to the conclusion that her husband had met with violence or accident resulting in the lose of his life. His toother always believed that he would one day return to his home, and sought to comfort his sister-ln -law with this hope, which at last, in the Providence of God, has grown Into full fruition. At first the Lieu *enant den lea his idenity, but his brother coming on immediately recognized him, and telegraphed to his wife, who reached here on Saturday morning, and is now among the happiest spirits we have met for many a day. Mr. J. E. Hedding, a clerk of Mr. J. B. Williams A Co., who first recognized Lieutenant Mann, and never rested until the wanderer was restored to bis family and friends, hasdone that which, should forever brighten the memory of his life, and is receiving the warmest congratulations of the family and friends. There was no apparent motive for the strange conduct of the Lieutenant, as he was an, almost universal favorite in the' community where he lived, and was devotedly attached to his wife and family.

A Somewhat Impassioned Critique.

Re view of Emma Abbott. _ ’ As a singer she can just wallop the hose off of anything that ever wagged a jaw on the boards. From her, clear, bird-like upper notes she would counter away down on the bau racket and then cushion back to a sort of spiritual treble, which made every map in the audience Imagine every hair on his head was a golden string of a celestial harp, over which angelic fingers were sweeping in the inspiring, old tune of “Sally put the kettle on.”

Here she would rest* awhile, trilling like an enchanted bird, and then hop in among the upper notes again with a git-up-and-git vivacity that gingled -the glass pendants on the chandeliers, and elicited a whoop of pleasure from every galoot in the mob. In the last act she made a neat play and worked in that famous kiss of hers on Castle. He had her in his arms, with her bead lying on his shoulder, and her eyes shootiug red-hot streaks of galvanized love right into his.*- All at once her eyes began to twitch coaxingly and began to get in position, and when he tumbled to her racket he drew her up easy like, shut his eyes, and then her ripe, luscious lips glued themselves to his, and a thrill of pleasure nabbed hold of him until the audience could almost hear his toenails grind against his boots. Then she shut her eyes and pushed harder, and—oh, Moley Hoses! —the smack that followed started the the stitching of every masculine heart in the house. She’s a thoroughbred from the start and the fellow that takes iu her kisses is more to be envied than the haughtiest monarch that ever squtted down on a gold-plated throne.

Don’t Use Big:Words.

In promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating superficial "sentimentalities and philosophical or psycological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compacted comprehensibleness, coaiescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of_ flatulent garrulty, jejune babblement'and asinine affectations. Let your extemporaneous descant lugs and unpremeditated exp tiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all poly-' syllabic profundity,pompous prolixity, « p6ittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity,and vaniloquent rapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity,and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent In other words, talk plainly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully and purely, and don’t use big words.

Postal Decision.

Postmaster General Jamas has decided that upon paper sent as merchandise there may be printed any matter not having the character of actual or personal correspondence, and of such merchandise, and merchandise of other material, there may be enclosed such printed matter, orthe same may be attached to such matter. Ail former rulings in conflict herewith are revoked. First Assistant Postmaster General Hatton has decided that publishers of matter admitted to the mails as second class may print upon the side of a postal card, intended for communication, bills, receipts and orders for subscription to their publications, and may also print the address side of the card, and enclose the same in this sec-ond-class matter.

An Englishman’s Advice.

John Walter, of the times, speaking in Berkshire, on the result of nis tour fen America, said it was desirable there should be, in all English counties, a body of men able to auvise their neighbors who are about to go to America. Any Englishmen going to America, who is a good a judge of land, and who is steady and industrious, might be certain of becoming wealthy and prosperous before he was fifty years old. Before the dose of the next century, ths United States would have a populatien of 200,000,000. He wished more Englishmen would aro there. They would be an additional element of stability in the country, and would be as likely to succeed theie as men of any other nationality.

The Cincinnati Price Cun eat estimates that the total hog-packing for last month, from eighty-eight principal points, will show a decrease ever the returns for the corresponding month in 1880 of 660,000, and at the end of tiie packing season the shortage will amount to 1,000,000. Wisconsin has been trying to destroy v its wolves, wild cats and foxes by offering a reward for every onekilled,and within six months has expended nearly SB,OOO in this way. But those who. seem to know, say that the only result nas been to increase the number of these animals, the reward for their destruction being an incentive tq. brq<4 | and raise tbepg.