Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1882 — Page 7

The Assassin’s Trial.

Masterly Argument of Judge Porter, Counsel for the Prosecution. .•*. 4"“ . A -if . . « • . Judge Cox Gives his Decision un the Legal Points of „ \ the Case. Exciting Colloquy Between the Prosecutor and the Prisoner, Judge Cox Rules Against the Prayers of the Defense, . z '* ■ "Worthless Drafts Sent to the Prisoner and His Coun- . l /sei, Etc.

FORTIETH DAY. Guiteau arrived at the Court House about 9:30, and was taken to the wait-ing-Toom. He appeared rather nervous, and his countenance indicated anxiety. When he had taken a seat in the dock, he glanced around stealthily over the audience, and immediately began a harangue evidently intendedforthe jury. “I have received’” he said, ‘Some 800 letters, a great majority of them from ladies. When I get time I shall attend to them. I want to send my greetings to the ladies of America and thank them for their sympathy. They don’t want me to be hanged. Public opinion is fast changing. I received Saturday a check for SI,OOO from the stalwarts of Brooklyn, and another for SSOO from the stalwarts of New York. I want this jury to understand how public opinion is on this case.” A bailiff here tried to silence him when he turned upon him in a most vicious manner and snarled out: “You keep quiet and mind your business. Do not interfere with me when lam talking. If you had any sense you would understand your place.” With this opening breeze the proceedings in due form were begun, and Mr. Scoville resumed his argument. Mr. Scoville proceeded without interruption for an hour. His remarks were listened to with marked attention. He laid stress upon the propositions that insane men often knew the difference between right and wrong, and for that reason conceal their plans, and that the benefit of the doubt should attach to the plea of insanity when raised with the same force as when urged in connection with the commission of a crime. His allusion to the decision of Judge Davis, “who went out of his way,” he said, “to pass upon something not involved in the case, he was then considering,” brought Judge Porter to his feet withan indignant reply that the charge was false.

Scoville retorted that the opinion of a man who sat on the same bench with a Barnard and a Cardozo should not be received with much consideration. Judge Portor, with even more vehemence reiterated that the charge of counsel was absolutely false. That . Judge Davis never set on the bench with either of the gentlemen named. “If an honorable member of the Federal Judiciary is’fo be put upon trial here, I demand,” said Judge Porter, “that the record be produced here upon which this charge is made.” Scoville insisted that when the style of proceedings best suited to a police court were indroduced here by the prosecution h® should comment upon them as he deemed fitting. He should not not be frightened by the tragic utterances of Judge Porter. He had heard the same notes, years ago, from owls at nights in the woods of Onio. Guitead laughed and called out sneeringly: “That’s a ' very fine speech, Mr. Porter.” Mr. Davidge protested that not five minutes had been devoted to the proper scope of argument, and the court warned counsel that they must abstain from personalities. Mr. Scoville concluded his argument at 12 o’clock, and in conclusion desired to make a few remarks of a personal character. Alluding to his controversies with Judge Porter he disclaimed any intention to transgress the bounds of propriety or the rules of practice, but he should criticise the conduct of counsel when it meritedcriticism, and threats of prosecution would not intimidate him. Citing the custom of counsel upon the other side of bowing to the jury upon entering, Scoville said: “Sometimes it is three bows all around; sometimes more; never less than three. It has never been done by counsel Upon this side, and Ido not hesitate to criticise the propriety of it.” s Judge Porter—The gehtlemanjs simply instancing his lack of politeness. If he has no apology to offer, I shall certainly not apologize for him.

Mr. Scoville says the drafts for Bums' amounting to $1,500 received by 'Guiteau to-day were worthless, and sent by some practical joker. It is not the first time during the trial that such a thing has occurred. Scoville himself has had worthless checks sent him, one. for $15,000. After recess, Mr. Corkhill stated that he had not expected to speak on the legal points, relying upon the assurance of the defense that the question of jurisdiction would not be raised, but as the last two prayers of the defense distinctly made that issue, he felt it his duty as prosecuting officer of the Government to address the court upon the question, to which he had devoted much careful consideration. He then proceeded to read from printed slips an exhaustive argument upon the subject of jurisdiction. The argument occupied the attention of the court one hour. Davidge then addressed the court upon the general propositions contained in the prayer: “I do not deem it necessary,” he began, “to advert to the question of jurisdiction at this time.” “A very wise decision,” piped in the prisoner. Davidge then discussed the question of “malice,” which, he said, in its legal sense, meant the intentional doing of a wrongful act. FORTY-FIRST DAY. When Gtiteau came into court, as he passed his brother, he whispered to him: “Come over to the dock, I want to see you about something of great importance.” Taking his seat, the prisoner laid down a large bundle of papers, and spreading out a manuscript, busied himself in looking it over.

Judge Porter began his argument shortly after 10 o’clock, and at once fixed the attention of every one in the room. Guiteau pretended to be engaged in nis manuscripts, but soon laid it aside and listened with wrapt attention. Nothing like it has been seen or heard during the past nine the Guiteau trial, as Judge the conduct of the prisoner and the conduct on the part of hisjCounsel of his cause in this court. The crime in all its hideous ugliness was held np to the destation of his hearers. The silence became oppressive, and the presence of the avenging justice in the near future was suggested with the force of conviction that swept from the court-room every vestige of that levity which has so long danced attendance upon every utterance of the prisoner, and, like a veil, obscured from the consciousness of the spectators the horrors of the crime and what should be the solemnity of judicial atonement. The prisoner winced and nervously twisted in his place, and for sever-, al minutes was unable to say anything that in any sense could approach to an interruption. Gradually the prisoner regained his usual assurance, and resumed his daily habit of interrupting with contradictions and denials. For once, however, the insufferable impudence of the prisoner was completely overawed. Neither his noise nor his abuse could interrupt or silence the avalanche of condemnation that swept from the lips of the eloquent counsel. “The prisoner is mistaken, your Honor,” said Judge Porter, “if he believes, by his unseemly brawling, he can prevent my voice being heard by the jury. The puppet cannot be moved in such good time as when he sat with his counsel, andjby hisoutbursts now, he is fast tightening the hangman’s noose about neck.” . -* With a nervous twitching of the mouth, Guiteau muttered, “We’ll see about that.”

The heretofore audacious aud wholly unabashed prisoner seemed ill at ease, and at a loss to understand why his would-be sallies of wit or impudence, wholly failed with the audience. While the more severe became the denunciation of counsel, the more frequent and marked were the demonstrations of approval. Guiteau yelled out: “I staked my life on the jssue, and I’m Willing to go to the gallows tomorrow if it’s the Lord’s will, I’m sick of this bosh, Judge Porter. I wish you would get your $5,000 and go home.” Judge Porter concluded his masterly argument at 11:30 by reading the now famous letter of President Garfield to Judge Payne, in which he complimented and thanked him for brushing away the net work of sophistries with which it has of late years been customary to envelop the plea of insanity when set up in excuse for crimes. Judge Porter began his address with reference to the disorder which had characterized the proceedings of the defense, and then spoke of Mr. Reed’s argument as lawyerliKe, and based on the only law points which, with any plausibility, could be adduced by the defense. Of Scoville’s argument, he said it could only have been delivered by one of the family of Guiteau, who, as he had himself boasted, had learned his law in the police courts, and acquired bis manners among hooting owls In the woods of Western Ohio. Mr. Porter reviewed the .argument of Mr. Davidge, pointing out its strong points. “Malice,” Mr. Davidge had rightfully said, “was in the presumption of law, a question for the Judge,

not the jury. Should the Judge de* clde, as defense desired, the malice was a question of fact for the jury, he would overturn the law. He would create a precedent in this famous case which would inevitably be condemned througn all time to come.” Mr. Scoville had objected that decisions in support of the prosecution’s postulate were as antiquated as his (Porter’s) style of oratory. “I never,” said Porter, “imitated any man and never commented on any one’s oratory.” “I never,” said Porter, “sat at the feet of that Gamaliel as Guiteau did. Whether my manners arid morals’have been improved is for others to say. Judging from the disciple who is before you, he would scarcely seem to be an appropriate instructor, for youth.” Proceeding to expound the law on the subject of malice, reading from the 1880 edition of Archibald’s “Criminal Practice,” Porter dwelt upon the premeditation of Guiteau, Referring to his lyings in wait and to his dogging the footsteps of the President he said: “Was this worthless vagabond the man to be selected and inspired by God, a cheat, a swindler, a creature of vilest habit. He, then, is junior in the firm of Jesus Christ & Co. This murderer, tracking his victim at night, at church, at railroad station, everywhere, till the deed is done. But grant this hideous pretension and allow him the inspiration of Paul, which he impiously quotes, that does not protect, as it did not protect Paul from stripes and death.” Porter went on to say that although the President had died, the Government still lived and his successor was prosecuting his assassin. “Yes,” said Guiteau, "and Arthur employed you under a misapprehension.” “Yes,” said Judge Porter, “under a misapprehension that the law was stronger than Guiteau. Guiteau seems to think that he’s stronger than the law.” “I do not claim to be stronger than the law, but God Almighty is stronger than the law,” said Guiteau sullenly.

“You will come before God Almighty presently,” said Porter solemnly. “Until then he would do well to refer but little to Him. He will feel soon what he has never felt before, the Divine pressure in the form of a hangman’s noose.” The prisoner had sworn on the stand that he was predestined to remove the President. He had forgottep to say that he was also predestined to be hung for it. Speaking again of his interruptions and of the promptings of his family, Porter said he had a supreme contempt for all Guiteaus—not the respectable ones—but- those who sympathized with the assassin. Porter then took up the authorities cited by the defense, pronouncing them either mis-reported or bad law from obscure benches. He sneered at the assertion of Scoville that the antiquated arguments of the prosecution could not stand in the light of those of the defense, which purported to be the outgrowth of arisen lighted age—an age of Guiteaus—when a hungry politician kills a President from pique. “A politician,” countinued Porter, “who had such a belief in the guillibility and depravity of mankind that he supposed he was doing men like General Grant, Mr. Conkling, the greatest parliamentian and one of the foremost statesmen, of his time, and even President Arthur, a service, for which he would receive a reward. Why, had General Grant, Mr. Conkling or President Arthur been standing at the door of the Baltimore and Patomac Railroad on the morning of the shooting; had they seen the assassin creeping upon bis victim, revolver in hand, aiming at his back, an iron hand would have descended which would have paralyzed the assassin and saved the President.” The audience, carried out of themselves by Porter’s eloquence, applauded despite the cries of “Order,” arm “Silence.” Even Guiteau was affected, but he managed to say: “The stalwarts are copaing to my side every day. You ought to see some of

the letters I get. They are all coming to think with me, and so are all decent people.” Porte' ran over the decisions of the State court collectedL in the St. Louis Law Journal introduced yesterday by defense and showed that thejcourts of eighteen States held the view of prosecution, that the insanity of assassin mutt be proved by the preponderance of evidence. The Federal courts unanimously adhered to the same view, while the Courts of eight States Held feebly that the accused was entitled t< the benefit of the doubt. Judgp Cox, at 11:45, began, the reading of ij is decision, which begins with a leng by review of the subject of jurisdiction. He occupied fifty-five minute!; in reading that portion touching upq a the question of jurisdiction. He reviewed the progress of opinion, and cited all important rulings from the earl; j days of the common law In England, and decided against the prayer of the defense. He summed up the question, “That jurisdiction is complete in the place where the wound is completed.” Consequently this court has full cognizance of the offense. Judge ICox next took up the question of the legal test of insanity, and decided that a knowledge and apprecia-

tion of the difference between right and wrong must be taken as the correct test. - //l —*/ Judge Cox concluded his decision at 12, haying consumed an hour and forty minutes with rapid speaking, upon every material point. His rulings were directly against the prayers of the defense. The only grain of comfort for the prisoner was offered when Judge Cox reached the question of reasonable doubt. Upon this subject he said: “I shall not charge the jury to acquit if they find reasonable doubt as to any one element, but I shall take into consideration and charge them relative to the elements, and that if, from all the circumstances and evidence they have reasonable doubt of the commission by defendant of the crime as charged, then they shall acquit.” As Judge Cox finished speaking Guiteau called out: “I am perfectly satisfied with that exposition of the law,”.

“Old Ironsides."

Lying at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, set aside as unfit for further use, is the frigate Constitution, “Old Ironsides.” On Sunday last she was towed from the Newport training Ship squadron, and orders were received' by Admiral George H. Cooper, commandant ot the navy yard, to put her out of commission, as she was unseaworthy and too worthless to be repaired. In a few days the Constitution will take her place among the old hulks in Wallabout Creek, where, probably, she will be allowed to slowly drop to pieces. Several years ago the Navy Department concluded to break her up, but the republication at the time ot the old poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Aye, tear her tattered ensign down,” aroused a. popular protest, and she was repaired and converted into a school ship. Tiie Constitution was one of the largest of six frigates whose construction was ordered by Congress on March 27,1794 She was launched in October. 1797, She was built in Boston, of the best live oak, and cost $302,718. She began her career m the Iripolitan war in 1804, engaging against batteries mounting 115 guns at Tripoli, and her broadsides assisted in recapturing 300 American sailors who had been captured by the Tripolitans from on board of the frigate Philadelphia. In the war against Great Britain in 1812, she gained her famous victory over the British frigate Guerriere on Aug. 19. On Dec. 26 following the Constitution had an engagement with the British frigate Java,and after a hot contest took her as a prize. The following year on a cruise on the coast of Guiana and among the Windward Islands,she captured the British sloop-of-war Picton, a letter of marque, and several merchant vessels. She barely escaped being captured by a British fleet in 1814 by taking refuge in the harbor of Salem, Mass. On Feb. 20, 1815, duriitg another cruise, she captured, after an action of forty minutes at night, the British frigate Cyane and the British sloop Levant. The latter was recaptured by a British squadron off the harbor of Porto Praya.and Capt. Stewart of the Constitution, fearing that the neutrality of the Port would not be observed, ran away with ids other prize. The Cyane arrived at New York in April, 1815, and the Constitution a month later. During the administration of President Jackson, while the Constitution was moored in Mew York harbor, a cuiious incident occurred. A figurehead of President Jackson had been put on the prow,and the circumstance arousing the indignation of a lieutenant, he determined that “Jackson should not go before the Constitution.” He therefore beheaded the figure. The head was recovered and replaced by Commodore Elliott. It remained on the prow until the vessel was repaired for centennial duty, when the "effigy was removed and placed on a pedestal on the grounds of the Annapolis Naval Academy. The picture of Capt. Isaac Hull, who first commanded the Constitution in the war of 1812, hangs in the Governor’s room in the City Hall. The late Beeckman von Hoffman of this city was one of her lieutenants, and Ogden von Hoffman, who died about five years ago, was one of her midshipmen in 1812.

Timber Exhaustion.

United States Economist. The now well-known fact is that we are rapidly exhausting, largely by reckless and improvident waste, our supplies of timber in the Northefn States. The de nand for it inci eases at the rate of thirty per cent, a year, and even those who are interested in high prices and immediate sales of what is left of it admit that in twenty years or sooner, building “timber will be extremly scarce, and that in many parts of the country, yet Supplied in part from their own soil, it will have entirely disappeared. It is stated bn good authority that more than 65,000 establishments, employing 400,000 persons and using material to the value of over $150,000, 000 a year, are engaged in the United States in manufacturing articles entirely from wood in addition to 8,000,000 persons partly employed on wood or using that material yearly to the value of $6,000,000. No country can be .or ever has been despoiled of her timber and flourish

Magnitude of the Circus.

The circus business demands a small army of performers and attendants. Mr. Barnum, in the coming season, will have 600 persons in his pay. The “master of thasails” will have 125‘ent setters; the head groom, 60 grooms; the loading-master, 100 razor backs;” the menagerie, 60 attendants; and the advertising department 70 men,al ways ahead of the show. There will be performers of all kinds,caterers,side-show-men, etc., at least 200 more in number. The master of the sails sail that.in 18 minuses his force of 125 men had taken down and packed in the wagons 15 tents, containing 260,000 yards of canvass, to say nothing of ropes, poles and other appointments. The National banks all over the country are preparing, under a call of the Secretary of the Treasury, to report their condition on the 31st of December 1881.

JOCOSITIES.

“ What is this talk about Queen Victoria wishing to marry the Princess Beatrice to some distinguished American ? My address is Gramercy Square, New York.”—B. J. Tilden. The Boston Advertiser gives this as anew college joke: Professor says. “Time is money :how do you prove it?” Student says, “Well, if you give twen-ty-five cents couple of tramps,that is a quarter to two.” Wigglesworth met Kelly on the -street this morning. “I notice that Colonel Buck is dead.” said Kelly. “I want to know,” exclaimed Wiggleeworth, “did he leave any money?” “Oh, yes.” “How much?” “AU he had.” - Two little girls, aged four and six, had just had new dresses, and were on their way to Sunday School. Said Etta, the elder: "Oh, I have forgotten my verse.” “I haven’t forgotten poipe,” replied the other; “it is, Blessed are the dressmakers.” For the new primer: Here is another young man. What has the young man in his hand? The young man has in his hand a marriaee license. Has the young man plenty of money? No, the young man nas not plenty of money. What will the young man do? He will board with his mother-in-law. An Austin clergyman, whose name * we suppress on account of his sacred calling, absorbed in thought a few Sundays ago, Just before divine service began, when he was approched by tbe organist, who asked, referring to the opening hymn: "Whatshalll play?” “What kind of a hand have you got?’ responded the absent-minded clergyman. Mr. Marrowfat was relating to his wife at the breakfast table the story of a friend who, in a critical situation, .had escaped by the skin of his teeth. The circumstance that anybody should have skin'pn his teeth struck little Miltiades as so very remarkable that he glanced up with the utmost innocence, and asked: “Pa, was that before he was weaned?” This is a good little boy. It is Christmas Eve, and he has crawled under tiie bed. What is he doing there? He is watching for Santa Claus. He expects to be filled with toys and candies. Does he want the toys and candies? No; only he wants to know whether his parents has been ying to him. This boy will grow up to be a political reformer. Translated from the Omnibus: In the Garden street met themselves two friendesses who one another for a long time had not seen, and it ensued the following dialogue: “Good day, Marie, how goes it to thee, then? Let me thee get one time onlook. O. Lordy! Hay, once, thou Las now a husband 1” “Yes. it’s so; but whence knew you that?” “Why, thou hast a scar over thy whole face?” “Oh, that was merely a joke!”

The Rector—A gentleman I - know slightly is coming down from London, Farmer Groggins. Do you think you could board and lodge him for a while? Farmer Groggins—Oh, yes sir. The Rector—l believe you will find him to bean immensely studious and a deeply religious young man, Farmer Groggins—in which case, begging your pardon, sur, I expex my money in advance.— One afternoon a stranger, observing a stream of people entering a church, approached a man of gloomy aspect who was standing near the entrance and said, “Is this funeral?” “Funeral no,” was the sepulchral answer, “it a weddin.” “Excuse me,” added the stranger,“butfl thought from your looks that you might be a hired mourner.” “No,” returned the man, with a weary far-off look la his eyes, “I’m a son-in-law of the bride’s mother,” Monsieur X.“ I discovered one curious gustom in your countree, madame!” Madame—“ What is that, monsieur?” X.—“lteeszls: Ven a young ladee she get—vat you call it—married, she bag tier, game, I tink I bear you say.” Madame—“We sometimes so remark, monsieur.” Y—. “And ven a young ladee she tell a young man she no has heem, you say she gees him de Sack?” Madame—“ Quite true, monsieur.” X. —Now, madame, when I read in ze die —in ze dieshun—ze vat you call eet? —I find ze sack and ze bag are ze same ting. So, madame, I find me dat it is ze gustom in zis country ven a young ladee she vih marry sLe put ze young man in ze bag; ana ven the ladee she vill not marry she make of ze bag a present to ze young man. Zis is one curious gustom I find in yoUr countree, madame, and it mooch interests me.”

Wall Street’s King.

New York Letter. Gould has gradually thrown so wide an extent of influence over stock market that it enables him to carry his plans into Immediate operation. His regular broker(Conner)"is only one of many agencies which are m bis service. Other brokers are employed by Conner himself for the purpose of carrying out these secret schemes. It was in this manner that Gould depressed the Elevated stock until it reached the desired point, when he loaded himself with all he could carry. He then at once became a bull, and the quotations rose more rapidly they had declined A vast amount of money was lost by those who sold ont under Gould’s attacks and the advance on these very shares now adds a million or more to his wealth. It has for ten years been Gould’s rule to be on the waatch for weak stocks. When he has made a selection he forces it down to a low mark by a series of well connected attacks aud then makes heavy purchases and forces the market up as easily as be forced it down. Only a man of the highest order of genius can carry on such a system, and the fact that Gould succeeds is the greatest proof of his vast natural powers. His method is precisely like that which Napoleon so successful. The latter massed his forces on the weak point of the enemy, and, having crushed it, soon obtained complete victory. He then formed alliances With his ' -*ner enemies, who were compels . J . serve him. The‘ime came, bovver, when this game turned against him, and Gould, too, will yet meet his Weterloo. Like the former conqueror of Europe, he orri s ’ ’♦ ■» ms Jme of doom. Guuiu is toe most Inferior of all leading business men in point of p ersonal appearance M and a stranger would take him fora Bowery clothes rather than a rail way king. He has the motion of a

counter jumper, the air of a. spraoa trafficker in cheap goods. Both front and side face are interior, but the lower part of the latter is concealed In a heavy beard, so intensely black as to suggest .artificial means, Gould leads a hard life. He labors with closeappllcation, and is driven by the pressureof his engagements until he is considered a mere bondsman. He has no leisure, no society, no reading, no recreation, but is simply under the whip and spur of necessity. To this has been, added the consiciousness of impending danger.' He has a body-guard of detectives to protect him when walking ‘thestreete, but he spends most of his time in hia office, being as secluded as possible/ ’•

A Woman Lawyer in Court.

San Francisco Chronicle. The forbidding aspect of the front row of attorneys in Judge Rix’s Court recently was somewhat modified by the smiling face of Laura DeForce Gordon.. The champion of woman’s righto represented one C. M. McKay, who. was charged with having unlawfully appropriated a silver watch worth $25, the property of a pale and nervous youth named T. M. Williams. The prospect looked very black for McKay until the modern Portia shook het radiant curls and leveled au intimidating forefinger and lead pencil at the complainant. “You let the defendant have the loan of the watch?” said the champion of distressed woman. , The witness cast a terrified glance at Judge Rix, and, receiving no encourage ment from the Court, blurted out, “Yes, mum.” “And there was no specified time for the defendant to return the watch?” said the medium haired advocate. “No; but—” “Don’t ‘but’ me,’sir! There was nospecified time?” “N-n-o, mum.” “And you saw the defendant wear the watch, and did not protest against his doing so?” “I—I—” “Don’t ‘l’ me sir.” Prosecuting Attorney Blany, with his characteristic gallantry, was about to remark that the prisoner could not help eying the fair advocate, but she shut him off with a prompt repetition of the assertion : “You did not protest, sir?” “N-no.m’m,’ “Nor ask him for the watch?” "N’um.” “Nor tell him you would have him arrested?” “N-n-n’m.” “The case is dismissed,” said his Honor,

A Story of Ye Olden Tyme.

Arnold's Reminiscences of W. B. Ogden. General Worth was a warm personal friend of Mr. Ogden. He visited him in Chicago. I remember that, in these days, when a steamer signalled its approach, and when distinguished strangers were coming, we used to go down to the wharf, some to welcome, and. others to see who came. I witnessed on the landing of General Worth one of the saddest spectacles I ever saw. Among the crowd of citizens who met him was a retired army officer, his old classmate, as 1 was told,at West Point. He had been entrusted by the Government with large sums of public money ’ and in the tempest of speculation had used it, doubtless with the expectation of making it good; but disastrous tiroes came on, and he proved a defaulter to* a large amount. He went forward with others to greet and welcome his old comrade and schoolmate. As he extended his hand, I shall never forget the look of Worth. Drawing his tall, martial form up to its full height,and throwing his military cloak over his shoulders, he stood a moment looking at the defaulter, and then he turned upon his heel. The act seemed cruel. In those days and with such a high sense of personal honor/ a defaulter among officers of the army /was rare indeed. If those who cheat and plunder the government were'to-day, as in those early days,visited with absolute social ostracism;such offences would become far less numerous. x )

A Successful Illinois Manufacturing" Enterprise.

Sycamore (Ill.) True Republican. The Sandwich Manufacturing Company is an institution whose success is remarkable and whose management is a model. It is about,twelve years ago that the citizens formed the company with a capital of $75,000, which' Was afterward increared, and in all. the Sle have put in about SIOO,OOO in , Now for the outcome There is now a capltol stock of $250,000 and about $500,000 of assets. On this capital they have never failed to pay a semi annual dividend of 4 per cent., and at times the dividend has been 20 and even 83 per cent per anum, In all they have paid out some 300,000 in dividends. The institution has wonderfuliy enriched and built up the plaoe. Its worst back set was last year, when some 800 of the 1,700 harvesters and, binders which they manufactured proved failures in bad grain and were returned to them; but there corn shelters, which are the best the world produces, had an nuusally large sale and enabled them to pay their regular dividends with the usual promptness. They now send corn shelters to Europe. Asia, South America and to all parts of the United States.

Twenty-One Millions Divided.

Philadelphia Press. It is ascertained from reliable sources that the William F. Weld, formerly of Boston, who died in this city some days ago, left an estate valued at something near $21,000,000. By his will, which has been probated in Boston,his four grandchildren each fall heir to $3,(100,000. To his wife he bequeaths $20,000 a year income, and the sum of SIOO,OOO. To his nieces and nephews twelve to number, he leaves SI,OOO each, For charitable purposes he gives $7,000, $3,000 of which is to be devoted to the interests of the Woman’s Hospital. of Boston, fi ls two sous, George W. and William G. Weld, b get $500,000 . And, finally, $3,000 : sto be paid, according to the wilt die residuary legatees. At the time Mr. Weld came from Boston to this city, where he intended to reside until’ May 1,1882, he brought With him his personal property, bonds, etc.. It ,1b claimed that an attachment has beep placed upon these’securities M W a cover a successive tax of sßoo,y