Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 May 1882 — Page 8

THESE SOON.

ELACED ON HALE THIS WEEK.

\-i PERCALES.

New Handsome Denl^ns ATLOCT-ats have been 13 cents.

50 PIECES ZEPHYRS Pretty Plaids ud Checks At 20cents have been 25 cent*.

ECETJ. MULLS, FIOCBED KWI-is,

And Madras Muslins, Embroideries To Match.

WHITE LACE VICTORIAS AT NAIN'SOOK CHECKS

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SPANISH NET, Black and Cream for

OVBBnilWSKS, SACQUBH AI*1 FU1U\S.

GRENADINKft.

Black and Light Shade*. SUMMER SlliKS lti plain anil figured Htyles.

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A tout a thousand pieces, in aH the.new famonable laces. In white are Oriental, Mo iresque, Edelweiss, Aleneon, Brussels Point, DunliesHu, Hurauo, IHretoune Vals, Ile»« il«, Madras Point, Onipure D'Art, Veiiit nn, Mechlin, Medlciw, Maltese. Auril 1 t'/. Torchon, SSpaulMh &e.

In lilt ck nre Iteul, Outpure, and Imitatiou J^jMiiixh Real and MaehlneSiik, Guipure.*, French Thread and Chant Illy, Beaded Apj'-Miueaiid French Laces.

P^LBJS.SOLS.

A FOURTH NKW LOT.

UP AHA.SOLS. I.VSLLKANUULXOHASF

PARASOLS

The Novelties in Superb* Material* with Novel Handles.

PAHASOLS.

From a Child's to a Silk Umbrella.

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518 AND 520 MAIN STREET.

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THURSDAY, MAT 11,1882

STBA\V»KKHI»S come high, but we must Inn .-, v-m.

A toN lois Kuril bom to Rev. E. W. Abbey at JIfimillon, Ohio.

Tuaslrnl mminisioHers expenditures for April vne $1,405.80.

TUB distiller will increas its capa-:ity to 2,000 bushels |er day.

CITY TN.V- TO the amount ofover$751000 were co!ifv:U.l l.»st month.

Tins Republican county conventiQn will be held on Saturday, Jaue 10th.

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OLRT and Juuo 1st and 2nd

are theuafes (or our .-pringirr.tling meeting.

THK Democratic state eentral committee will met tin Indianapolis on the 18th.

MAKPOIUI TKURHI.OOD, of lost Creek township, has been talma to the insane asylum.

THERE area total of thirty-five cases cf small-pox at Roscdale. Seven are in one family.

THE ilrcnnerqhor society of this city will celebrate its twenty-iftk anniversary at Monntnger's Garden not Sunday. .» ..

SORE eyes, tetter, salt rheum, ctc., are cured by "Dr. Liadsev's Blood Searcher." Sold by a! 1 druggists". Never fails.

THV premium list of text fkir of the Vigo Agricultural Society lain the hanbs of the printer end will b« ready fs distribution about the first of the mouth.

THBti:"alof Eeadrick.the wife murderer, baa been continued indefinitely on account of ihe illness of Samuel R. Hamill, one of his attorney. It is understood the defence will be iasanity.

LAST night a woman stole a package of underwear fr««n a lady at the Union Depot ivud 'ncejltd il»«* ilothing by putting U«i\ She was foicad to •»iv« up the tiukn piop» t) by an otfice,

A PK"r:xv:w busintss man says he will gjvi $5 for photograph group of the lic^u :»•. 1 ilu-Ki." jurymen. He wants io h-uia-i: in In.* stable. H* would like a ot thr other juryman for his parl.T niituul^K-co.

THK county commissioners have coneluded to allow the Terre Haute Street Railroad company to build an extension on the National road to the fair grounds on condition thnt they vacate it if the Vigo County Street Railway constructs its line -within the titr.e. prescribed in its chartar*

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A 6000 HAUL.

Burglar's Tools, Costly Clothing and S?me Dangerous Weapons-

Chief Russell and Constable Dwyer were notified this morning that a kit of burglars tools could be found at a house on south First street. Proceeding to the place named they found the report to be true. The occupants of the room, a young colored man and a woman whom he claimed to be his wife, were arrested. When searched the man was found to have a loaded revolver, a bottle of chloroform, a bowie knife and a small gold watch on his person. He gave his name as James McCullough, recently From St. Louis, though the woman said his name was Williams. They are evidently tough characters. Some costly clothing and other articles were lound in the room. The preliminary hearing is set for Friday morning before Justice Lockman. Other evidence may accumulate by that time. McCullough jumped through the north window of the jail office in an endeavor to escape, but was recaptured.

A Constantinople Paper.

We are indebted to Mr. Eugene Hess for a copy of the Constantinople Times. It is a four paged paper, printed in the Turkish language, aud so far as we could judge from a Lasly perusal, very ably edited. We are a little rusty in our Turkish, but lrom the general appearance of the sheet it seemed to be full of Lews. The characters look like Chinese writing, and the whole thing might be very easyly be palmed off for a family wash bill from Chi Lee or Hong Wah. The front page is on the back, and you begin at the right eoluiun and read to the left. It is very awkward reading, and one who is not used to it is very apt to fall off his chair two or three times on the first effort, but be gets used to it after awhile and it comes more natural. The title of the paper looks like a patent fish hook either of a very new or a very old pattern, and would nover be suspected of having any significance. The whole paper contains appaiently about as much matter as three or four columns of the GAZETTE.

Can't Keep From Swearing. Webb Casto, one of the kings ot Sugar Creek, is as clever a fellow as ever drew breath, but he will use cuss words. They are second nature to him. Once, when he was superintendent of Bethesda Sunday School, he told the children, right after irayers, that a glee club from Terre laute would soon visit them. "And I want you'' said he "to show 'em what you can do. Don't act like a damned heathen and make damned asses ot yourselves but sing right up

Webb says he always took particular pains not to swear in Sunday School and how those CUSK words slipped out he can't understand.

Going to Cleveland.

The boys and the older gentlemen, too, are all sorry to learn that Mr. Joseph Erlanger, the' fashionable merchant tailor has decided to remove to Cleveland, Ohio. Sometime ago Mr. Erlanger bought an interest in the ladies' wraps manufacturing house of Felsenbeld Bros.-* in Cleveland. The business has largely increased and it now needs the personal attention of all the partners.

Mr. Erianger will, therefore, close out the business here within the next sixty days and remove with his family to Cleveland. His departure will be sincerely regretted for "Joe" Erlanger has been-a long time in Terre Haute, and besides being a square business man he is a clever sentient an.

ANew Way to Collect Old Bills. A south end dealer liad an account of about fifly dollars against a certaiu party which he was anxious to collect, but the man hadn't the money. He suggested that he borrow the money of his friends. This the fellow said would be easy enough if the dealer (who is responsible) would go his security. The unsuspecting dealer jumped at the chance. One hundred dollars were borrowed on cote out of which the dealer received his account and the man kept the rot. The prospect now is that the dealer will have the $100 no'e to pay and the shrewdness of the collection doesn't loom up so mueli like a wedding breakfast tobim as it did.

THK Amalgamated Association of iron and steel workers of this district will have a picnic reunion in this city on the 10th of June. The participants will be the persons connected with the iron and steel industres here and at Oreencastle. A committee of then' from Grrencastle were in the city yesttruay to perfect arrangements. Invitations will be out far and wide and it is probably a great throng will be there on that day. The exact place of holding the picnic has no: been decided though it will be in this city—probably at the fair grounds. ~.

The Fuller Will Case.

Judge Knight, of Brazil, heard Mr. John (r. Williams against and Mr. Mack in support of the Widows' Home bequest in the Fuller will case most of the day yesterday. The argumenti were very thorough and seemed to cover the whole debatable ground. Most of the lawyers listened through the argument. Judge Kuight rendered his opinion io-day against the validity of this clause in the will and in favor of the heirs.

A Batch of Victims.

The Sheriff's record at the jail shows the following arrests since Saturday: Michal Peters, drunk Oakey ami IIogan.

Fitz Patrick (col) same". J. B. Robbins, druuk Loveland. $ Jerry Thompson, drunk Kidd. Julia Riley, drunk Ho-an and Oakey. James Brady, druuk and vagiancy Cain and Greggs.

The Prairie Creek Shootist James Veneta, the man who shot Samu.l Farrand in Prarie Creek township hist week, was brought io this city at 3 o'clock yestuday morning by constable Dwyer on a warrant and lodged in jail. He was subsequently released on $500 bail. John E. Lamb is his attorney*®

A CERTAIN real estate man in this city offers a reward of $3 to anybody who can get a group of autographs of the eleven jurymen in favor of acquitting Bill Hicks.

DKPCTT SHERIFF STEPP last night took George F. Davis to Jackson county.

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Railroad News.

OFT THE TRACK.

At 4 o'clock this morning a north bound freight train on the C. «fcE.I. Jumped the track and wa3 wrecked north of Danville delaying the Watseka ac commodation nn'il 2:45 this afternoon No one reported as hurt.

I.ATElt.

A later and correct report of the wreck makes it much more serious. The train was south bound fast freight No 23 which ran off the switch at West .Newell, seven miles north of Danville, where the north bound freight was sidetracked and waiting. The fireman wae severely scalded and brakeman Brown was killed.

COMMENDABLE ACTION.

The Indianapolis Journal says: "Wm. R. McKeen, president of the Vandalia, seconded by Col. Joseph Ilill, superintendent, have, within the pasi fewweeks, favored people in southern Illinois, who suffered from the drought of last year in tbeir crop", in a manner worthy or note. They have purchased from said parties over 100,000 cross-ties, paying them cash as delivered, and distributed them all along their line, even over the Indianapolis division, taking them before they were really needed on their track, thus enabling the farmers who had no wheat, corn or stock to sell to raise money to pay their taxes and necessary living expenses, by selling tincJier which thev did have.

Mrs. i. James.

A circular purporting to come from Mrs. Jesse James has been received by the GAZKTTE. It is dated St. Louis, April 29th. The relatives and friends of the notorious bandit's many victims will read with curiosity the following paragraph, in which that sweet scented cutthroat is referred to as a "cherished husband." '•Many grievous circumstences have transpired during the past month which have placed me fn a humiliating attitude before the public, and added largely to my already deeply distressed condition of "mind. While suffering from an overwhelming misfoilune.ere the body of my husband"became cold, insinuating and persistent writers and pulishers intruded themselves upon me, ami, taking advantage of my perturbed and distracted frame of mind, have outraged every honorable feeling by representing me as an' instrument ol accusation against my cherished husband."

The Man and Woman Burglars. Chief of Police Russell yesterday evening received the following telegram in relation to the colored man and woman arrested on South First street day before yesterday by Constable Dwyer and himself:

VST. Locis, May 9th.

To Harry Russell: Hold colored man and woman arrested A charge of burgalry and larceny. Send full names by telegraph at once. Will send officer.

Fred B. Kenuett. Chief of Police.

The names of the prisoners are Chas. Williams and'Alice McLaughlin. It will be seen by the above dispatch that they are womttiLLp St. Louis. They refused to tear* without a requisition -and .their departure will turn on the arrival of the officer with the necessary papers.'

Prairie Creek News-

The wheat crop looks badly in the southwest portion of Prairie Creek township, on account ot the overflow of the river.

Mr. Buckhart's Spring mill is doing a rushing business, and having secured the services of a good miller is gaining a large trade, which is quite an advantage to the people in this section.

Rev. Mr. Mater, of Terre lfau'e, held services at District Sehoolhouse No. 7 last Sunday, aBd we hope he will make it convenient t« call acain.

P. H.

Middletown, May 7.

Wanted in Jackson County. George F. Davis, a young mau. was arrested yesterday evening two miles east of the city on the Bloomingtoii road in a ileld where he wife' at work by Deputy Sheriffs Sparks and Butler. The arrest was made on a warrant from Jackson county, this state, and charges him with assault and battery with intent to murder.' The afTair is said to be about eighteen months old. This is the second warrant received by Sheriff Stepp, the first being returned marked "not tound." Fuller instructions weic sent «ith the second warrant and it resulted in the arrest. The an thorities in Jackson county have been ate tified by telegraph.

Big Money Order Business. For the week ending Saturday, May Gth, the money order department here was rushed with business. Mr. Guf Arn was kept hard at work. Nearly eleven thousand dollars were paid out.

The receipts were from 199 domestic orders, $2,250.05 3 British orders, $69.00 4 German orders $37.00, and the tees on, same.

The payments were as follows: 039 Domestic orders, $9,453.75. 4 Canadian orders, $127.50. 3 Domestic orders repaid, $15.^0. It was necessary to make a draft for $8,000 on New York to pay these orders.

The Russell Investigation. A meeting of the police board was to hare been held at 4 o'clock yesterday evening. At that hour the following notice was found posted up on the door of the Mayor's office: '•All persons summoned to appear before the Mayor at 4 o'clock this alternoon as witnessef are discharged."

It is understood that Chiet Russell has withdrawn from the tee for re-election.

The Proposed Ll«to Terr* Haute. Judge Davidson, president of 4he branch of the Wabash road from Lodi'to Terre Haute, in a Inter to Col. W. K. McLean, says the ruud will be built this summer if the ciiirens w«ll subscribe any amount not less than $50,000. The construction of this road would give Terre Haute another direct eastern outlets

One Year's Se ..^ace}

Wm. Needham stole au overcoat from Policeman Deming uDd an accordeon from John A. Tucker, of the Crapo House, at the latter place last night. This morning he pleaded guilty and was given a vear. A man giving his name as Charles 'Hamilton was arrested as an accomplice.

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THE TERftK HAUTE WElC&UJf GAZETTE.

AN OLD PAPER."

A Copy of the Boston Post Printed in 1741, in the Possession of Wm. Lotze

Usually whecevr-r a newspaper gets short of news it falls back on a review of some paper of "ye olden tymes." But it isn't because the GAZETTE lacks city or telegraphic news to-day that it hss something to say about a paper, me Boston Post of the date of April l'-l. 1741, a copy of which has been in the family of William Lotze since l«o2: Mr. Lotze got the paper from his brother and it has traveled across the ocean several times. It is yellow with age just like a Chinaman would look atter ninety-nine years of scrvice in the Hong Kong penitentiary, an institution, by the way, which favorably compares with Mr. Stepp's hotel on Third street. The Bostonians of 1741 no doubt looked upon the Post as a sort of a New York Herald, but to a newspaper reader of to-dpy it couldn't begin to compare with the Brazil Miner or Col. Rirapybug's "journal of intelligence," the Alonkeytown Mimic. The Post was not to say enterprising. Its foreign news, for instance, was not of the day before (like we have it to-day), but the latest was about five months back, or November 29th of the previous year. The latest South Carolina news contained in the Post of that day was dated January 15th and the latest Philadelphia news March 5th. If this newspaper lacked enterprise (aud enterprise was a word rarely used in those days) its contributors, it cannot be charged, lacked sense, for here is what one of the saires wisely remarks, apropos of street comer loafers: "If mv countr}men would apply themselves with greater diligence to their respective callings, the mechanic to his trade and the husbandmen to agriculture and leave off contention and politics. I should conceive great hopes ot the prosperity of the Proviucr, for I receive it as a divine truth, that in all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury."

There' were quper advertisements. What would our readers think if the GAZETTK would publish this in its "Wanted Column "A likely negro mau to be soUi. Inqubte of the printer."

Wouldn't there be a rush to see him Then again some "gentleman having for two or"three years past missed out of his library an abridgement of Monsier Sanson's maps of Europe, supposed to be lent the owner desires it may be returned to the printer hereof."

After all the press has greatly improved within the last century, though it remains a matter of much doubt whether some editors have.

Horticulture

One of the very pleasantest meetings of the Horticultural Society ever held was at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gilbert on Fruit Ridge Avenue Saturday. President Gilbort ra» the chair.

The President Biaae a report on fruit, and gave the unwelcome intelligence thai pears, plums, cherries, arid peaches were all about dead, but he restored cheerfullness by saying that apple3 wefe scarcely injured at all.

The strawberry yield will be light, the first blooming having teen killed. The grapes are not injured, nor are raspberries, blackberries and currants. We ui8y all have the comfortable feeling that we are not to do without fruit altogether.

In his report on the same subject, Mr.L. Heinl agreed substantially with Mr. Gilbert.

The report on Landscape Gardening waa postponed, as Capt. Potter asked for more time.

Capt. Potter, uoticinc that Mr. Mack had a crooked wire in his hand, called on him for remarks on the best method of toasting bread, to which lhat gentleman responded with tome humorous observations. "The Effect of the Cyclone in this vicinity" was the subject of discussion, and was participated in by most of the gentlemen present.

The society next turned itsjittention to the quickest way of exterminating caterpillars. Knowledge on this subject was not as universal as on the switteat way of disposing of a good dinner. Everyone of the members and all the visitors are postgraduates in this.

The next meeting will be held at the residence of Mrs. Thomas W. Harper on the first Thursday in June. iti-

That Prairie Creek Shooting, There is considerable excitement down ia the "Battlerow" settlement in Prairie Creek township, growing out of a shooting affair lietween two brothers-in-law, James W. Yenetta and Samuel Farrand. They met in a lane Tuesday a week ago and had a reconnoitre in which Venatta shot Farrand twice through the arm. Farrand claims that' he was unarmed, and that Venetta's attack on him was unprovoked. Yenetta says he acted wholly in self defense, and that he shot Farrand because the latter assaulted him with a revolver, and threatened to kill him if he didn't get down on his knees to him and acknowledge he had done wrong. A large crowd ot witnesses and others assembled on last Saturday at Battlerow school house to attend the trial. But it didn't come off. The state dismissed the case and brought another prosecution against Venetta before Justice Cookerly in this city. Venetta was arrested and brought to town and put in jail. But he anon gave bail, and is now at large. The defendant is represented by Judge A. B. Carlton & John E. Lamb and the state by Kelley, Foley and Farris. ,f.

.'-•"r Lord Cavendish. A good many years ago Lord Cavendish. the aasawnattd Secretary lor Ireland, was in this city with two friends and stopped at thcTerre Haute House.

W hvn he was in this country in 1856 or 7, Mr. .Oladston-- also topped hereon his way to Si. Lonis.

Vanetta Bound Over.

Justice Cookerly yesterday bound over Yanetia, the Prairie Creek shootist, in the sum of $500, for assault and battery ith intent on Samuel Farrand

MAKE haste, if you are constipated, dizzy, pain in the back, or headache, take "Sellers' Liver Pills." 25 cents a box.

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THE LAND LEAGUE.

The Action Taken Last Night on the Recent Assassinafon.

Mhurice Haggerty occupied the chair at the regular monthly meeting of the Land League at Oriental Hail last night. A very large audience, among whom were many ladies, were in attendance. John E. Lamb offered the following resolution:

WHEREAS—The dispatches of this morning bring tidings of the murder of Lord Cavendish, the new Chief Secretary for Ireland and his Secretary, Mr. Botirke, be it

Resolved, That we, the members of the Terre Haute branch of the Land League, denounce the act as an infamous and cowardly assassination.

Resolved. That we trust that the assassins, be they British hirelings or murderous fanatics, will be immediately arrested, tried, convicted and made to suffer the severest penalty of the law for be they one or the other Irelaud has no greater enemy.

Mr. Lamb addressed the meeting, expressing the opinion that the assassins were the tools of Forster. recently driven from office to make place for Cavendish.

On motion of P. B. O'Reilly the resolution was unanimously carried. Judge McNutt said he d'd not believe this act, no matter by whom committed, will delay the wheels of progress for one hour. It the cause of Ireland can stand the imprisonment of all its leaders it can stand the assassination of Lord Cavendish and liiB Under Secretary. Ik ventured the opinion that the act was the work ol enemies and not friouds to the Irish cause.

Captain J. Allen submitted a resolution thanking Senator Voorhees for his speech in the Senate in behalf of imprisoned American citizens. The ie9clution was carried. N. G. Buff, Judge Carlton, Captain Allen and P. B. O'Reilly made remarks, which were received with much lavor. The latter said it was plain for one reason that the assassination was the woik of seme crank or fanatic, for if the Irish people were given to assassination they would have selected Forster long ago. He "is execrated and universally detested throughout the Islaud and yet not a hand was raised against him during the whole of his tyrannous career.

THE SEVENTH SAEN6ERFEST.

Notes of the Coming State Festival at Evansville.

The seventh saengerfest of the Indiana Saengerbund will be held at Evansville on the 16th, 17th aod 18th of this month. The following societies will participate: Indianapolis Liederkranz, Terre Haute Mseennerchor and mixed chorus, Tell City Mwunerchor and mixed chorus. New Albany Miennerchor and mixed chorus, Lafayette Concordia, Mt. Vernon Liederkranz, Evansville Philharmonic Society, Evansville Mrennerchor, Evansville Gessenge Section of Schiller Lodge, Evansville Liederkranz aud mixed chorus.

The following is the program: MONDAY, May 15tn.-At 8 o'clock, i\ M. rehearsal of all the Evansville societies at Evans Hall.

TUESDAY, May 18th.—Reception of the societies. Rehearsal from 9 o'clock A. K. to 12 M. At Evans Hall, first grand concert in the avenlng, commencing at eight o'clock sharp.

W'KDMKMDAY, Alay 17th.—Rehearsal from 9 o'clock A. M. to 12 x. Mvetingof the dele gateq at2 o'clock In the afternoon, at Lie uerfcranz Hall, second grand concert in the eveulng, commencing ats o'clock, sharp. Alter the concert commers at Liederkranz Hail. 'inrRSDAY, May I81I1.—Grand procession, picnic and meeting of the singers and all invited societies and lodges, precisely at 11 o'clock A. M. at the headquarters. At 8 o'clock v. m. grand ball atLeldrkranz Hall.

The general headquarters will be at Liederkranz Hall, the concerts at Evans Hall, the all-room at Liederkranz Hall and the picnic grounds at Salt Wells. Half lates will be charged from this city.

AMONG the gentlemen who came down to attend the Masonic celebration last Wednesday we had the pleasure of meeting Syd. B. Davis, Esq., who informed us that he expected to be again a candidate tor Judge of this Judical Circuit. He is a native of this State, loag a resident ot Vigo county, where he is known as a lawyer of flrstclaae abilities, a christian gentleman, and a citizen of unimpeachable integrity, possessing the respect and confidence of the bar and citizens of Terre Haute, where he is best known.

Mr. Davis possesses in an eminent de gree all the qualities dUirable in a Judge, and we feel perfectly safe in recommending him to the democracy of this county, and hope that the delegates that may be selected will give him favorable consideration.— [SulliTan Democrat.

Disappointed Entirely-

Mr. W. F. Helherington, editor ot the Sentinel, informed one of our xepresen tatives that he tried St. Jacobs Oil for rheumatism, and found it all that could be asked. The remedy caused the pain to enlirely disappear.—Emporia [Kan] News. "1 have found St. Jacobs Oil to be a most excellent remedy for rheumatic pains," says Mr. F. Latham, 5 Harrison street, Providence, R. I.—Boston Her tild

A Clergyman's Theatre- mn

It will be news to many, doubtless, that the New York Madison Square Theatre is the property of a clergyman, who built it to experiment on the idea: xM a firstclass theatre, with aims to purer morals and better influence by tlie great agency of the drama.

A OEKTLKMAN bought a ticket to Roeedale this morning but brought it back Me bad found that though you can go to Rosedale you can't get away from there.

THE county commissioners have not decided on W. B. Toell's petition for the right of way for a street railway to the fair grounds. !$$|

LIBRABY Lecture Course lecture at the Opera House on Friday evening

RALPH WALDO EJIER*OV.

'The Sage of C«nc*r«l.w

Like that ot Longfellow, the life of Ralph Waldo Eaaerson, who died at Concord, Mass., April 27, was uneventful, and the public interest in both men depends altogether upon the appreciation by the people of work produced in studious retirement. Their lives presented a monotony, aud yet the record of the most trifling of their doings and sayings is of value in the eves of an intelligent public, eager to welcome words of wisdom and Ixjauty and admiringly grateful towards those who utter tlu-tu.

The deceased poet and philo«opher possessed a wide, if not particularly numerous, circle of readeis. Like those of Longfellow, his works are read probably as extensively in Great Britain and the English Colouies as in the United States, anil nations are bereaved now that the gentle and unassuming "Sa^e of Concord" has passed away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wa* tlie son of a Unitarian minister. He was boru in Boston. May 25. 180U. During the lour years from 1817 to 1821 be studied at Harvard College, where he was graduated. It is told Of him that be was not a model student, in the sense of superiority in the matter of performing set worfc, but he was a great reader and followed a decidcd personal judgment in his choice of books. Like many other great men, he started life as a teacher, which he did not follow long, but relinquished lor the study of theology—an ancestral pursuit, by the way, for it is recorded that there was always a clergyman in the American branch of the family from the time when Concord was founded, back in the seventeenth century. For three years, from 1829 to 1832, he ministered thought to a congregation in Boston, but resigued heu his people and he had grown hopelessly at variance in their conceptions of religion. Retiring to Concord, where he lived to the encH Mr. Emerson devoted himself to a life of letters, producing a considerable number of books in prose pud poetry, and lecturing in this country and abroad, as solicits by demand for bis utterances. He never cultivated popularity as a speaker, hut his voice was, at one period of his life, heard frequently on the question of slavery, womans' rights and other subjects of current and particular interest.

Mr. Emerson made his first address as a literary man, in 18:57, at Harvard, on "ManThinking." An address on"Literary Ethics," to the Divinity School of ih»* University was his ucxt effort, delivered a year after the first. In 1840, he started a magazine called Tlie Dial, which taught the "transcendental philosophy," at that time greatly exercising the keen «tits of New England. This publication Jived four years, in 1841, Emeison published his "Method of Nature," "Man the Reformer," a volume of "Essays," and several lectures. His Jlrat volume of poems saw the light in 1840. in which year two series of "Ei*says" were also published. Three veers after, he visited England, where he delivered a scries of lectures on "Representative Men." In 1852, associated with W. H. Channiug and aod J. F. Clarke, he published a biography of Margaret Fuller, who with A. Bronson Alcott, had assisted bim in the conduct of THK DIAL. ^English Traits," perhaps the most read of his books, was published in 1856. and "The Conduct of Life." in I860. These are his principle works.

Mr. Emenon's style is peculiar, possessing affectations and conceits which mar the pleasure ot the average reader. His poetry ia deeply tender and beautifaL

WASHINGTON .r

ptX GOTTKAV'S BILL OF EXCEPTIONS. WASHINGTON. May 9.—The argument upoa the bill of exceptions in the Guiteau case was begun this morning before the Judge of the Bapreme Conrt of the District, sitting in banc. Chief Justice Carter presiding, and Justices MacArthur. Haynesand James. Col. Corkhill and Davidce appeared for the government and Reed for Guiteau. Reed, after a brief opening, passed to the discussion of the question of jurisdiction of the court, arguing that the crime was not indictable in this District because the offense was not completed here, the mortal stroke having been given here while the death occurred in New Jersey. Chief Justice Carter interrupted at one point to suggest that while murder was the killing of a person and the crime could not be defined as murder until death occurred, yet the act of felony was completed when the murderer bad finished with his victim. Coonsel proceeded to discuss various authorities upon the subject of jurisdiction. The brief of counsel admitted that Guiteau might be indicted, and if found to be sane, convicted in this District ot assault with intent to kill, but held he could not lie tned for murder. {feed argued that the sentence ot death is wild because the day fixed for the execution ot the sentence is not authorized by law, claiming that under a proper construction ot the statutes of the

District, the date ot execution should have been fixed at some day within thirty days after the fourth]Monday ot October 1883. It is not expected Heed will conclude the opening argument to-day.

At ha if past one court took recess until to-motrow.

THK Asbury Cadets were in town last: night to see the McKeen C'adetB drill The Asbury boys will contest for the

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prize at Indianapolis.