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The Speech Which the Prisoner had Prepared for Delivery,

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A Mass of Bnbbiah from in Unhun* -v Murderer

Who Compares Himself With Washington, Calls Himself a Patriot.

5 I W A S IN O TO N, Jan. 17. Immediately after recess and before Scoville resumed his speech, Guiteau with an air of apparent sincerity, announced that be was in luck had just signed his name to a check for $25,000 on the First

National bank of New York be had received another lor $5,000, and another for $730, and believed they were all genuine.

Scoville then reviewed the prisoner's life, and said: "When be left the Oneida community he sought out Beecher's chuich, the Young Men's Christian Association and the society of Christian people. His tendencies at this time were not immoral, nor had he shown any indication of that awful [with sarcasmj crime of not paying bis board bills, for which the prosecution are trying to hang him

Corkhill—Ob, no, if he is hung at all

it will be for murder, not for owing board bills. Guiteau called out: "I guess there ain't much chance of my being hung any way."

Scoville continued, up to the hour of adjournment, his review of the life of the prisoner, explaining his acts in the light of counsel's [Scoville's] theory upon the I case. Guiteau occasionally commended, but never seriously disturbed the course •of the argument. Scoville spoke of the monumental assurance of the prisoner in naming himself in connection with Grant,

Oonkling and Arthur. "I should say, a pretty fine quartette," said the prisoner. Later on, Scovillc read from Guiteau's speech, when Guiteau again called out: "You had better not read auy more, Scoville it will go dead against your fool theory."

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Guiteau come into court this morning with a quick, confident step, naluted his friends and as soon as he bad taken his seat turned to Judge Cox and said, "I presume your Honor will allow me to address the jury when Scoville is through."

Judge Cox—"We will c6hlid$f" that When Scoville gets through." Scoville in reply to an inquiry, stated that he hardly expected to conclude his speech to-day. He resumed his address, taking up and discussing the statistics of insane criminals introduced in evidence by the piosecution. He had noticed that the tables produced by Dr. Grey omitted some essential features of his reports.

Corkhill—,lDr.Grey didn't prepare any tables especially for this trial." Scovillc—"Dr. Grey was hired to come here to help hang this man. He wa9 one of the co-conspirators in conspiracy, of which the District Attorney was the chief but fortunately he has left his foot prints here and before I get through I can contradict him out of his own mouth."

Discussing the horrors of the crime as often 9hown in the acts of insane criroy nal8, Scoville said there is nothing in this act to compare with some of these acts of insane criminals, and, gentlemen of the jury, in my opinion it' there were not reasons and powerful ones back of this prosecution, this prisoner never would have been brought to trial, but I tell you gentlemen of the jury baek of this prosecution, is an influence which 1 have felt and which you may feel gentlemen before this trial is concluded. There are politicians who

SEEK TO IIIDK THEIK OWN SHAME b?hind the disgrace ot this poor prisoner, andj make him a scapegoat for their crime. I did not intend gentlemen ot t. the jury to notice this feature of the case but when I find the power and the influence of this government used against me in denying the small pittance that I have asked for, a fair and impartial trial and small facilities needed for proper defense $ I do not propose to keep quiet. I say a that such men at Grant and Oonkling and

Arthur are morally and intellectually re- & sponsible for this crime. Mr. Conkliag shall not escape. He Bhall not shihk re

A aponsibility for the state ot things led to this act and he shall not escapc the condemnation of the American people if I can help it for his share in this disgraceful scramble for office that led to a con .i» flict with tte chosen ruler of this nation and led this poor insane man to compass what they would have

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as would probably hundreds of other poli ticians, if it could occur other than through assassination or the removal of Garfield, who stood in tho way of their unrighteous and disgraceful struggle for offices,

Neither shall Grant escape that condemnation to which ho is so justly sub!A- Jected

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coming from Mexico and

coming with undue haste to throw his

own name into this petty quarrel about a

small office in the Republican arty and sought to formeot differences that had sprung up. I am not going to see the

misdeeds of these men, hi$h in power, t- visited upon the head ot this poor V1 insane man if I can help it.

The clamor for his blood is not for the purpose of avenging Garfield or of satisfyingjustice, mit the theory is this if it can be shown th it this was the aet of a sane man, then those pclitioians in high places ''fir1 will say court ewe are not lesponsible for an act of a sane man. To be sure we had some differences, but it never could have led a sane man (.to do such an act.

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Bat sn the contrujr gentlemen of the jury, what is the effect of jour verdict if •on acquit him as insane! Why people will say some one is at fault They *ay we wQl fix the blame upon the heads aw hearts of those men who waged war noon our poor dead President wntff ''it drove this poor insane Bin from reading daily in the papers what Grant says, what Oonkling says and from constantly thinking upsQ it, to hit insane act of killing the President, and then are men in high places, the really culpable ones, who will go down to posterity with the stigma upon their names and detestation or their countrymen fastened upon their memories.

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THEA8SA9SIJIS APPBAL.

Gatteara's Speech Prepared far ©e» livery I* the Jsrf-The Mm Old Starr. 1

WASHINGTON, Jsn. 16.—The following is fhroished for publication: To the New York Associated Press:

GENTLEMEN—I have the honor herewith to transmit my speech. It is an historical document, and I desire it sent broadcast throughout the American Nation.

I am not certain that Judge Oox will allow me to deliver it, but I send it to my countrymen, and they, and the President of the United States, if necessary, will finally adjudicate this case. If he does not, his name will go into history blackened as a gag-law man. 1 am sure that the able Chief Justice and his associates who represent the Washington Court in banc, will spit with scorn upon the position of Judge Cox, and I am sure that the high toned men of the Nation will do likhwfse, because 1 am my own counsel and it is infamous if I am not permitted to address the jury when my life is at stake. I would not trust any man in Amer ica to close my case. I take no stock in Scoville's or Reed's theory of this defense. 1 removed the President, and this speech contains my defense, and it should be read by every American, and I desire yon to give it the widest publicity by printing it in its entirety. I have the honor to be yours, efc.

CHARLES J. GUITBAU.

United States Jail, Washington, Jan. 15:1882. THE SPEECH.

If the Court Please: Gentlemen of the Jury—I am a patriot To-day I suffer in bonds as a patriot: Washington was a patriot Grant was a patriot. Washington led the armies of the Revolution through eight years bloody war to victory Grant lea the armies of the Union to victory and glory, and to-day the Nation is prosperous and happy.

To-day Christmas, 1881, I suffer in bonds as a patriot bec»use I had inspiration and nerve to unite a great political party, to the end that the Nation might be saved from another desolating war. To-day I suffer in bonds as a patriot. There is not the first element of murder in this case. To constitute the crime of murder two elements must co-exist: First, an actual homicide secondly, malice in law or in fact. The law presumes malice from the fact of the homicide There is no homicide in this case, and therefore no malice in law. The Deity allowed the doctors to finish my work gradually, because He wanted to prepare the people for the change, and also conlirm my original inspiration. 1 am well satisfied witii the Deity's conduct of this case thus far, and I have no dmbt that He will continue to further it to the -end. ft Nothing but the

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la?t spring justified the President's removal. The break in the Republican party then was widening week by week, and I foresaw civil war. The Lord wanted to prevent a repetition of this desolation, and inspired me to execute His will. Why did He inspire me in preference to some one else Because I had brains and nerve, probably to do this work. The Lord does not employ incompetent persons to serve him. He uses the best material He can find. I, of all the world, was the only man who had authority from the Deity to do it. With out the Deity's pressure I never should have sought to remove the President. This pressure destroyed my free agency. The Deity compelled me to act just as a highwayman compels a man to give him money after placing a pistol at his victim's head. This irresistible pressure to remove tho President was on me for thirty days, and it never left me when awake. It haunted me day and night. At last an opportunity came and I shot him. As soon as I fired the shot the impression worked off, and I felt immensely relieved. I would not do it again for $1,000,000. Only a miracle paved me from being shot or hung then and there. It was the most insane, foolhardy act possible, and no one but a madman could have done it. There are more than thirty-eigbt eases in the Bible where the Deity has directed to kill for the good of the people that is to save them from some far greater trouble.

Had Jefferson Davis and a dozen or two of his co-traitor* been shat dead in January, 1861, no doubt our late rebeliOn never would have been.

GENERAL ARTHUR, ,1*

as President, is doing splendidly. No man can do better. I am especially pleased with his conciliatory spirit and wisdom towards the opposition. It is exactly what I wished him to do, viz, unite the factions of the Republican party to the end that the Nation may be happy and prosperous In short, every tody politically is happy save a tew cranks, and they will probably be happy soon.

I have no doubt as to my spiritual des tiny, I have always been a lover of the Lord, and whether Hive one year or thirty 1 am His.

As a ma'ter of fact I presume I shall live to be President. Some people"" think I am as good a man as the President. General Arthur is a good man in every way. I happen to know him well. I was with him constantly in New York during the canvass. So with General Grant, Oonkling and the rest of these men. They have not taken an active part in my

defense because it waold not be proper. The prosecution have introduced certain witnesses who are guilty of raak

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rjury. It has excited my wrath, and I denounced them in plain language, hat* the mean, deceptive way of the pitwentioo,

The mob crucified the Savior ef mankind. 8t. Paul, his great Apostle, went to an ignominious death. All inspired men- musi do their1 Work add Mate the retail with the Deity, whatever becomes of them. The worst men can do is to kill you. but they can not prevent your name and work from going

THUNDXRINO DOWN THE AGWL Had I stuok to my law business, either in New York or Chicago, I should have been a rich man today but I had other work to do. My book, "The Truth,*' contains my theology. It cost me trouble enough and I have no doubt it is official. During the three years I was on theology 1 incurred some smsll debts which I have not been able to psy. A thousand dollars would pay every Jollar I owe. Some men owe $100,000 and are considered high-toned.

The prosecution have made a gffcat noise about my owing some board bills, but thst has no bearing on this issue. Mr. Oorfchill, who has taken it upon himself to dig up my circumstances, owes a hundred times what I do. I always pay when I have money, but theie was no money in theology and I knew it when I went into it.

To-day, I suffer in bonds because I had inspiration and nerve to remove the President that the Nation might live. But I expect you gentlemen ot the Jury will re. move these bonds to the end that I may go forth a free and vindicated man. That is what you are here for, and I ask you to liberate mc. Tell the American people that you find naught against me. It is the opinion oi some of the ablest members of the Bar that this Oourt has no jurisdiction to try this case. This point will be pressed if necessary in arrest of judgment, but I expect you gentlemen of the Jury to Justify the act. You are here to vindioate my inspiration. But I would have done it any time after June 1 if I had kaowr I was tobe shot dead the next moment. I had no power to prevent it. My free agency was completely destroyed. I was under duress. In law anyone under duress is not responsible for his act. On this ground I ask you to acquit me. How do we know you was under duress My word for if. No One else can know theiftft,

BUT THE DEITY AND ME

I know it. The Deity knows it. I bad to do my duty to the Deity and to the American people regardless of the consequences to myself. No one wants to Bhoot or hang me now save a few Cranks, who are so ignorant they can' hardly read or write. The high-toned people are saying: "Well, if the Lord did, it, let it go."" The President did not die before his time. If the Lord had not wanted him he would not have departed.

Physical death is nothing. All men have died all men will die. The President might have been taken by a railroad accident, or slipped on an orange peel and broken his neck.

The interview with Brooks I consider a special providence in my favor. I talked with him freely about the Deity, my inspiration and the political situation, which showed the condition of my minu on July 2. when I was precipitated on to the President. A vast deal of rubbish has got into this case on both sides.

The issue here is: Who fired the shot The Deity or me? Had I fired it on my own personal account no punishment would be too quick or severe for me, and this is why I protected myself by going to jail, and having the National troops ordered out.

I would humbly suggest that the jury be charged as follows: "That if they believe that I believed it was right for me to remove the President because I had special Divine authority for so doing, they will acquit on the ground that I was overpowered by the Deity.

THE CLOSE.

After quoting Beecher, Talmage and other clergymen, and declaring that when he became President in 1884 he would ciean out the Mormons right speedily, he closes thus to the jury: "To hang a man in my mental condition on the 2d of July, when I fired on the President, would be a lasting disgrace to the American people. The mothers and daughters of the Republic are praying that you will vindicate my inspiration. I beg you do not get the Deity down on you by meddling with this case. I beg for your own sakes, and for the sake of the American people, and for the sake of generations yet unborn, that you let this case?, alone. You can not afford to touch it. Let your verdict be that it was Deity's act—not mine. When the President was shot his Cabinet telegraphed to foreign nations it was the act of a 'madman,' and it will be far better every way that it be officially decided that it was the act of a 'madman.'"

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AT FRANKLIN OR0VB, ILL.

FRANKLIN GROVE, Jan. 18.—A fire broke out in this place this evening at ll o'clock, destroying the elevator of Smith & Co. Loes $10,U00 insured for $1,000 the meat market and flour store ot Smith & Fitzen, loss $2,000 the photograph gallery of Mrs. Faunley, loss $100 and the Electro-light printing office owned by Mr. Webb, loss $8H) no insurance

AT MILHAUSEN.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 18.—A Tides Star Greenburg. Ind., special says: Barney Koursers flouring mill at the village of Milhausen, seven miles south of Greenburg burned this morning. Loss, $1,000 no insurance.

The Times-Star of Little Rock says: A prominent Deleware Indian, "Run-About-Six," while hunting in Deleware district* Indian Nation with three other Indians got drunk along with his companions, lay down to sleep by the Are in a large heap of logs. .One of the logs in the night rolled on Run-about-six and roasted him to death. i" iT f* li

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a number of bills, Beck rammed his remarks upon Infers resolution declaring (hat the jpension irrears law ought not to befrepealed. Ia support of his allegation, that the legislation was instigated and psssed through Congress by pension claim agents, he read from the records of the investigation by the House committee in 1879, shortly atter the act became a law showing the existence in Wsshington of an organization professing to be a Soldiers' and Sailors' Association, which wss actively eagaged, when the bill was pending, in sending out for signatures, and having returned to Congress as voluntarily prepared by the signers, petitions in favor. One of these circulars asserted that all of the credit for prosecuting the measure before Congress with success was due to the president of the association, Captain Dimmick, and that without his efforts it never wauld have been pressed to a passage. This individual, in his testimony before the eommittee, admitted having interfered in the Senatorial canvass In Kansas to defeat the re-elec-tion of Ingalls, on the assumption that he was unfriendly to the soldier interest, and a pan who could not be reached easily, a statement wliich Beck construed to mean thai Ingftlls was regarded by the pension attorneys as one whom they could .not .us*. He read further to show that Dimmick, upon being pressed to give the name of one man whom he had beard denounce Ingalls as opposed to the soldiers, jpentioufd Bweipe, who at the time wasoqe ,of the doorkeepers of the Hotifee. Thfe claims made by the organization showed that Mi [Beeh's] charges were udmnade without Mpport. He then quoted the report of the Pensiou Commissioner in 1879, and others, to the effect thst ffimd9 w6re almost a necessary consequence of arrearage legislation, and that it had revived from 3,000 to 4,000 cases onthe pen&tar flies that were too vigorous when deifcaoclng the measure, but thought he bad not transcended ordinary parliamentary limits in that regard. In connection with his reference to the late Commissioner, Bendy, he expressed his belief that the pension agents were at the bottom of the removal of that official, who zealously endeavored to prevent the frauds that were necessarily connected with the new legislation.

Ingalls said that as the funding bill bad percedence to-day, he would defer a formal reply to Beck to a more convenient time. The subject was accordingly passed over for the present, and considerion of Sherman'S"funding bill was reatmed.

Plumb argued that ilie redemption fund for United States notes ought to be diminished. He argued that it was the solemn duty of Congress not only to cut down but definitely limit that fund at a stated figure, thereby making a saving to the country on the item of interest, while allowing money heretoiore boarded in the TVeasury to circulate. He believed the reduction of the fund to $50,000,000 could safely be made. To make his proposition wholly conservative, he had fixed the limit a $100,000,000, so a* to make full and ample provision for the redemption of every Government obligation. He advocated the redemption of the 3^ per cents, out of the surplus revenue, over and above $100,000,000, and that this total ought not to be reduccd fxcept in the redemption of United Slates notes. He was also in favor of ihe other feature of the bill which would work a gradual extinction of the National banks and the issue of greenbacks in place of the National baak currency.

Pughsiad Vest's amendment, being a copy of the Carlisle amendment, while applicable to the funding bill of last Congress, was inoperative and inconsistent with Some of the provisions of the pending bill.

Teller said he was opposed to the bill, because be thought the bonds could not be sold, but because he was disinclined to continue the everlasting tinkering of the finances, and failed to see that retuuding would be of any advantage to the Government.

Pendleton supported Vest's amendment. He said it provided that banks intending to increase their circulation, and citizens desiring to organize new banks, shall take the new bonds as a fesis for their circulation. He could see nothing un reasonable or unfair in this. His colleague [Sherman] had spoken of the banks as the weakest factor in politics, but these banks which his colleague thought so weak had twice successfully attacked funding bills, once in 187V, when they captured the House of Representatives and prevented his colleague from attaching to the bill then pending a section whicn he urged as a necessary safeguard tor the Government. And again, in 1881, when they attacked the bill passed bo the deliberate jungment of both houses of Congress, which was vc toed. His colleague's statement in regard to that matter was that at the first blast of the bugle the banks ran. It was true they ran, but they ran at the President and at his Secretary of the Treasury. Pendleton said the banks had b«n enormously paid for whatever of benefit they had been to the Government. They had enjoyed a monopoly of the currency, and had been the sole depositories of public funds to the amount of $100,000,000.

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Upon a basis of $450,000,0$Q of capital they had in twelve years divided $05,000, $0$ of profit, and retained ar enrpla» And of $198,000,000 having. cVrared, as had been shown bf the Sen~ ator from Missouri [Vest! a percentage upon their capital of $84 HK Bis colkiiague had argued that thelbanks had no monopoly, and that banking wan free. The answer to this was that they were givea control Issuing the circulating, medium of the country. Was net that a monopoly Banking was free in a sense in which railroad building was free, but both were monopolies where no competition existed. Sketching the history of the greenback circulation, and predicting that the country would ultimately attain to it in its domestic interest*, Pendleton added that he would vote far the amendment suggested by Davis, of West Virginia, providing that the new 8-per cents, while redeemable at any time at the op tion of the Government shall not be called in until after the other bonds bearing a higher rate of interest shall be redeemed.

Without olosing the debate the Senate went into executive session and soon adjsurned until to-morrow. mm a'ttif# fm'i

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Belford offered a resolution amending rule 14, so as to prevent a member who has the floor from parcelling his time out to Other members referred.

Dingly offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Commerce to inquire what chsnge of law can be made to afford relief to the merchant marine engaged in the foreign carrying trade, and What measures can be adopted to promote our sbip building and other commercial interests referred.

Crapo, chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, reported back the resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the House what num. ber of National banks have been organized from July 1st, 1881, to January 1st, 1882. the amount of capital ot each, the character and description of United States bonds held by the Treasury as security for their circulation, and also calling for similar information as to the banks where corporate existence shall expire between January 1st, 1882, and January 1st, 1884 adopted.

Harris, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution originally offered by Hewitt, calling on the Secretary of the Navy for the report of the minority of the commission organized to conaiderthe condition of the navy also, for specifie information as to the present condition of the navy adopted.

The call of committees being concluded, Robeson called up the report of the Committee on Rules increasing the membership of various committees of the House. He stated that there were thirteen committees whose members had before them new nearly 90 per cent, of all the business of the House. As Robeson ooncluded his brief remarks, he demanded the previous question. A storm tf "Oh noes," came from all parts of the chamber The confusion was very great, three or four members speaking at the same time, and several others being on their feet with parliamentary inquiries. As soon as he could be heard, Robeson declared that his Intention was to have the previous question ordered, and then gne the fullest possible debate, and further stated that he wished thereby to offer an amendment.

Robeson insisted on his demand for the previous question, but Robinson, of New York, before the questiop could be submitted, moved to lay the ''whole subject on the table, and the motion was lost.

Robeson then stated that on behalf of the Committee on Rules he would recede from his position and withdraw the demand for the previous question.

Page offered an amendment that the Committee on Improvement of the Mississippi River shall not have authority to report appropriations on that subject.

Robeson said there was no intention to give the committee that power. Kelley offered an amendment to strike eut the clause increasing the membership of the Ways and Means Committee.

Hutchins opposed (he report of the Committee on Rules. He spoke in a vetn of sarcasm, and pointed out what he called the incongruities existing in the formation of the committees.

Kasson also opposed the report of the Committee on Rules, and said that so far as he knew this modon did not come from tho gentlemen who felt themselves misplaced or not placed properly. Very little complaint had come to bis ears from members of the Hoase. That there was dissatisfaction undoubtedly waa the tact. It might be more or might be le?s ttten existed heretofore..' The House had a Speaker who had performed his duties as he thought wise: The House proposed to stand by the Speaker and do its duty. But he was oppowd to increasing the membership of the committees. No committee had asserted that it needed more members. Why had not the framers of the pending proposition inquired of the various chairmen whether they desired to increase the membership? On principle he thought it wrong to arrange committees with regard to personal desire, if personal desire existed.. His experience hsd taught him that more business was done by small committees than by large ones. It the committees consisted of three members he thought more business would be done than when they consisted of eleven, thirteen or fit teen, tie advocated a measure by which the House should be charged with the duty of appomtingthe committees. It would be no disrespect to the Speaker. He had done a duty, always embarrassing, imposed upon him by the rules. 8uch a measure would relieve him from that embarrassment. That embarrassment and that inducement to bribery by offer of places in the election of bpeak^r should be done away with at once and forever. [Applause Every speaker ought to be removed from temptations-

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RICHMOND, INDI Jan 15 —The body off David H. Smith, a farmer residing twelve miles northwest of this city, wae found in a well in hia barn yard, last evening, with two bnllet holes in the temple, under nineteen feet of water, and partially covered with large bowlders. He had baai missing nearly two weeks and the action of the family aroused the suspicions of the neighbors, wha .Instituted a thoioujfe search.

The persons who made the search called at Smith's house yesterday, stating that they wished to mske an investigation^ They were told that they were at liberty to do so, as the famil^ was very much concerned about the missing man. A committee of the men was appointed, and a search was made from garret to cdlarr but no trace of Smith was found. They were about to abandon, all turther investigation when some one of the party sug gested that tbey examine an old well which stood about one hundred yards- tvom the house, and used only for watering cattkv On lowering a chain and hook into the well, they pulled out a very small rag. Abetter means of arranging the hook and chain was mentioned), and two of Smith's sons aided in fixing them. On again lowering the chain ana withdrawing it, a leg or a pair of pants was brought out. On this discovery Smith's boys wentto the house. It waa then almost certain that Smith was in the well, and on sgain lowering tbo'chatoa they brought forth Smith's body.

Smith's wife and two sons were immediately put under arrest, sad it is now proven beyond doubts that the nineteen-year-old son shot him in the temple twice as he sat by the kitchen. Are, and that an elder brother helped drag the body to the barn lot and throw it into the well, wt^le the wife .^

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anifprevohted the smaller children from leaving the room in which she had them until all traces ot the heinous crime had been covered up.

An angry mob gathered around the house last night and threatened to lynch the three, but a heavy guard had been placed over them by the authorities, and tne excited populace was thus prevented from carrying its threats into execution.

The circumstantial evidence of tho guilt is conclusive TUB DAUGHTER'S STATKMKNT.

The little daughter, ceven years old, the only witness who saw or heard the bloody transaction, says: "Mother locked me in a bed-room. 1 then heard two pis* tol shots and a scuffle in the kftcben, followed by two mote shots in the back yard. 1 tried to get out but mother pushed me back and told me to stay there."

The boys admit the mother had not sustained the relation of a wife to the deceased tor years, and that theytedly repeat had flghts with him. She had forced him to deed his farm tocher, but he had afterwards recovered part of it.

A pistol purchased by the youngest sen a few days before the murder can not be found and he can not account for it. avissNCK OF Gcn/r.

A bullet hole was found in the.kitchen ceiling, blood on his chair and blood on the gate post through which they passed to the barn. The boy who did the shooting is bold and defiant, but the others are beginning to weaken. A thousand persons flocked to the scene of the tragedy to-day, and tho excitement is on the in, crease. The guard may prove insufficient to prevent the mob taking the law in its own hsnds.

A SELF-SACRIFICING CONFESSION. I. CINCINNATI, Jan. 16.—A Timet-Star Richmond, Ind., special says: The sheriff has placed Mrs. Smith and her two sons in jail. On the way Dan Smith confessed that be committed the murder alone that his mother and brother bad no part in it and no knowledge that it bad been committed. He says they quarreled about a horse belonging to Mr. Smith which Dan had sold, and that he shot hia father and then broke his skull and drag., ged Him to the well and threw the body

THE SPUYTEN OUYVIL WRECK.

Aetioa of Governor Cornell.

ALBANY, Jan. 18.—Governor Cornea bas sent a message to the Legislature calling attention to the recent railway accident, at Spuyten Duyvil, and recommend, ing prompt and vigorous legislation t» prevent recurreocy of such calamities. The Governor refers to the above mentioned accident as one easily prevented and absolutely inexcusable denounces the present means of healing and lighting railway cars and suggests that all trains be required by law to carry appliances for breaking into wrecked cars and for extinguishment of fire. The Legislature adjourned without organizing.

AFire Raging at Pittsburg.

PXTTSBUBG, an. 18.—A fierce ffrc is raging in the lower part of the city, Hilliard Stewarts foundary, a story iron clad 200 by fifty feet is burnt. The fire is now making great headway.