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VOLUMtE XVIII. MONROE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1883. NUMBER 19. THE TELEGRAPH: Publishod ovary Saturday. AT MONROE, OUACHITA PARISH, LA. 0-. ~7, . MIcCSLA.1T23E, Editor and Proprietor. TER1MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oton copy, one year............................ ,50 Positively in Adtl"ncr. 'TAr.tlFF OF ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at one dollar anld fifty cents per square (one inch ot space or less) for the first, and seventy live cents for each subsequent insertion, for any time under one month. For longer periods as follows: SN.unI -isQ'n1i-. L ll. 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'I'TOItNEY AT LAW, MONROE, L7A. . Jan. 2. 187). 'I'IaoM. O. Beniton, ITTI tNlIY AT LAWV, SON tOie, I.A. t)ilicee with 5. 1). Melctnery. -----I[ T.()IN (AhlDI.DRWOOD. THIOS. Y. AllY. Drs. ('alderwood &k Aby, I'ractitionors in ,Medicine and Surgery. Oliceo on Grand street, in rear of .1'. M. lMcitormniek's Drug Store, and opposite I). B. (;unhy's store. .Jaonuary 23, 10. n20:ly f John II. Di)nkgrave, A''TTOItNEY AT LAW, MONROE, LA. SOlico opposite Court House. Practices f in all the Courts of North Louisiana; also in the Supremlo Court of the State and the l'oderal Courts. All claims, including cot- f Lon claims, will receive prompt attention. Ir:.tld Ollih and Pension matters attended to. MarChl 28, 1879. I)r. S. C. lIurply, 11oE.SAltD ST., MONROE, La.-Having i recently arranged his oliceo with special relirence to the treatment of chronic female c diseases, lDr. Murphy will give particular sttention to that branch of his profession. ..;-efers to the umedical fraternityof Mon- C roo and Trenton. Juno 15, 1811.--t1. -- t Talbot Mtillnan, t ATTORNEY AT LAWT. Momnos, LA., @ will practice in the Parishes of t Ott'rchita, 3Morehoitsc, Richlandl and 1,rank lin, in the Supreme Court of the State, and in the Federal Courts. Will take claims for 'collection in all other parishes in Inouisiana, with privilege of managing f samo in connection with attorneys residing here. August 18, 1881. ST. HOAT'INEI. T. S. BOA'TNER C. J. & J. S. IIOATNER, i AlTTOIRNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT I Law, Monroe, La., will practice in all the Pari:ihes of North Louisiana, in the Supreme Court at Monroe, the Federal Courts, and il the Land Olice Department t of the (loneral G(overntuent. Olleoo fronting northeast corner of public .qtuar. July 15, 18852. Dentistriy. 1)1l. S.L. BRACEY, Doentist, respectfully Sotliers his professional services to the citizens of Monroe and surrounding coun try. IHaviug anl experience ::" fourteen years in the practice, lie fiels iolntident of giving satisfaction ill all branches of his proeission. Is willing to warrant all work. hlliiet at residence on Jackson street, near the Feollale Academy, Monroe, lna. v7-marlG:ly John McEnery, AT'Il'OININEY AT LAVW A. LAND AIENT', No, t; Caroudelet St., New Orleans. LAND B)USINESS at the Land Offices in Now Orleans and Washington City at- I tended to. Agency for sale and purchase of Plantations, Farlllms a. I uninoproved lands solicited. r Mlajor .. (. t. ichardson is associated with lMr. McEnery in the land lbusiness, to which he will give his entire attention. January ti, 1881. WV. 1'.. MIItSAP S. C'. . TROL'SIAIl. Miillsaps & TI'rousdale. A'"'l'OItNEYS & C'OUNSELORS AT LAWV i ItONIROE, LOUISIANA, ill praitico in the courts of the Fifth I Dist rit, Supreme Court, and F'ederal Courts. Will take claiims for colled ction in all the parishes of North Louisiana, with privilege of managing sumit in connle'ition with residelhnt attornevs. oflice in SrUiT~ns Bli'IT,lDi.s, oni Wood stroet. August 18, 181. F)t. It. A''MAR S.HITll, 1F" ILl ILET.7A'"ON, A. (., >m waslgradulated in 170 at the Phila delphia Dlontal College. and has since beien practicing t11 his native city. will visiti Monroe albout Christmnas, when he will opeu an oflice and offer his profieional serviees to the public for a few weeks. '!- All work done in the nmost applroed Ltyle, and satisfaction gu:ralteeCd. N,-venlber 25, 182. H. RI¢CHA.RDiON. M. J. LIIDEI.T.. Richardson d I.iddell, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MonROE, LA.. will practice in all the parishes eo North Louisiana. the Supreme Court of the Stato, the Federal Courts, and in the Land Ot(icc Department of the General Gov-ern maet. November 25, 1852. SUCCESS IN LIFE. There are people who seem toreor dained to fail, as there are those who seem foreordained to succeed. What ever one man touches turns to a cin der; whatever another man touches turns to gold. One man fishes all day without getting more than a nibble; another fishes in the same stream, and; catches more than he can carry home. Our good friend, whom we all respect, gets into Parliament, and gives pro mise of becoming a great orator and statesman; but in a few months we hear of him no more. Esquire C. buys a green bag, and shows himself at the courts, but gets no cases. The Rev. Mr. D. closes his course of study, and is ordained, but there is no place for him in the vineyard. Professor E. tries to get a living by his pen; but whatever he writes, no one c.ares to read. Mr. F. opens a shop, but he does not get custom enough to pay his rent. It is a sad thing to fail, but there is no recipe which will insure success. There are, however, certain conditions, upon which success or failure may be contin gent. A radical mistake in the choice of a profession generally proves fatal. A man ought to find out what he is lit for, before he starts. If he enters upon a vocation that is above his capacity, he is sure to fail. No amount of industry can supply the natural defect. Some people will tell you that if you will on lystick to it, no matter what line of life you have chosen, you are certain to succeed in the end. Many a poor, dis appointed, overworked man will tell you that this is not true. lIe has done his best and failed. In every profes sion there is a large percentage of fail ures, simply because there are so many who strike higher than they can reach. It may be said, that a man cannot tell what he is fit for until he has tested his powers. There may be some truth in this, but in many other cases people can tell beforehand what we are not fit for. It requ'°es no great amount of foresight to predict that certain per sons whom we know can never be ar tists, or poets, or good public speakers. On the other hand, if one has a real genius for any particular profession, it will manifest itself soon enough. If a fire is in him, it will soon blaze out of itself. But whatever profession we choose, success is impossible without labor. A fortune is not made without toil. Money seems to come very easy to a few favored people, but the world may not know how hard they had to work in the beginning. Newton said that all he had ever accomplished was the result of industry, but it was his genius that made him industrious. With the impulse that lay behind he could not help working. The wind blew, and the mill must turn. A man of good parts may have his lazy fits, but he loses just so much because of this. His success is determined by the time he gives to his work, and thede greein which he concentrates his facul ties upon what is hefore him. The habitual loiterer never brings anything to pass. The young men whom you see lounging about waiting for the weather to change before they go to work, break down before they begin-get stuck before they start. Ability and willingness to labor are the two great conditions of success. It is useless to work an electrical machine in a vacuum, but the air may be full of electricity, and still you can draw no spark until you turn the machine. The beautiful statue may exist in the ar tist's brain, and it may also be said in a certain sense to *exist in the marble block that stands before him, but lihe must bring both his brains and his hands to bear upon the marble, and work hard and long, in order to pro duce any practical result. Success also depends in a good meas ure upon the man's promptness and skill to seize opportunities, and take advantage of the rise of the tide. A great deal of what we call "luck" is nothing more nor less than this. It is the man who keeps his eyes open, and his hands out of his pockets, that suc ceeds. ""I missed my chance!" ex claims the disappointed man, when he sees another catch the ball and ''go in." If he had been as alert as the other, he might not have missed. But sone thing more than alertness is needed ; we must know how to avail ourselves of the emergency. An elastic temperament, which never seems to recognize the fact of do feat, or forgets it at once and begins the work over again, Is very likely to insure success. Many a great orator has mi~tfe a terrible break-down in his maiden speech. Many a merchant loses one fortune only to build up another and alarger one. Many an invwntor fails in his first efforts, and is at last rewarded with a splendid triunllph. Some of the most popular novelists wrote very poor stuff in the beginning. They were learning tiheir trade, and could not expect to turn out first-class work until their apprenticeship was I over. One great csecret ol sUcc-·e is,not t to ie discouraged. i The secretary of the treasury hais authorized the coinage of a new five cent nickel piece, which will comply with theexisting law more nearly than the five cent nickel now in use. It is a trifle larger andl thinner than the existing coin. Mrs. Sarah RLy, a leadvillo waiher asWoman, hasq mRdn a fa , lrtunc f ot ole million. POLK AND PRENTISS. LN. o. City ltet.m.] The late unpleasant incident in the history of a member of the Polk family revives memories of the long ago in i which the statesman and patriot,James 1N. Polk, figured with more or less of prominence. Well does thie writer of this remmeber one fine day, some forty years or so ago, when, witll something more of youthful ardor than he feels at present, he was induced to visit a court-house in one of the interior towns of Tennessee to listen to political speech from the inspired lips of James ICK. Polk. The btiilling was so packed that there was no chance of getting out, and for five long hours this depon ent was compelled to listen to an ex pose of the political sins of Brown, the opposing gubernatorial candidate, fol lowed by a eulogy of the superior vir tues of unadulterated Democracy. The affair was rather tiresome; but the wearied auditors, at length released, went out in search of a late dinner. Prior to this, James K. Polk had at tained prominence as Speaker of the House of Representatives at :Washing ton. Such was his position during the memorable contests between the cele brated \Vhig orator, S. S. Prentiss and his Demcratie opponenlt, for the honor of representing Mississippi in the halls of Contgress. The title to the seat was vigorously contested on ea'll side, and Prentiss went to WVashington to speak in his own behalf. (On the evening before he was to be heard, a numlber 01 the prominent \Whi;gs at Washing tou, including Daniel W\ebster, called on the Mississippi orator at his hotel and were disgusted when they found him sitting on the floor of his room with a bottle of brandy between his legs. Knowing that his sole chliance of success depended on the brilliancy of his effort on the morrow, they lost all hope and left him in despair. But when the morrow came Preutiss was himself again. His faithful servant had revived him by an early and vigor ous sponge bath; and when he entered the House all traces of his previous night's carousal had disappared. Iis speech was indeed one of the most brilliant and beautiful-even if not the most severely logical-ever delivered before an American assembly. It closed by a fervid appeal to the I louse to vindi cate the integrity of the ballot box, and witi the declaration that if his right to the seat he claimed was denied, it would be as well at once to blot out the star which reprosenouts 'Mississippi on our country's flag, while the stripes might be left as a fit emblem of the degradation imposed upon her. When the vote was taken it was found to bea tie, the last name called being Yell, of Arkansas, who voted against Prentiss, though the Plrentiss party thought he would vote on their side. The casting vote was then given by Speaker Polk against the admission of Plrentiss. After the defeated orator returned to Mississippi a friend inquired how lie had thus been left out in the cold. "Oh,"'' he replied, "the unterrified raised a Yell, and I was ]'olked out." In 18.1, James K. P'olk was elceted President of the United States, and Prentiss' joke about being I'olked re appeared afterwards in thie refrain of a IDemocratic campaign song : "The WVhigs we l'olked inll Fn y-IOr. WVe Pierced in Fifty-two." IUTLEI"l AND TIE PRtESI lDENCVY. In a few of the large eities of the North and VWest the eighth of .January was duly celebrated, but it is sad to observe that it has ceased to be the fes. tival day which it once was. It is now narrowed down to a D)oemocratfc holi day, and is derisively called by the Republicans "St. Jackson's Day." The recent triumph of the I)emocrats in Massachusetts has awakened the long slumbering patriotism of the Boston ians, and on the recent anniversary they celebrated the day with due re spect and spirited enthusiasm. Colo nel Jonas Irench, who during a large portion of tile (',nfederato war was the Provost aiMarshal (Ieneral of this de partment, stationed at New Orleans, sounded the keynote of th of thoccasion by declaring thalt thie nnltitude had assembled "to do hionor to Andrew Jackson and i,in Buttlehr." (good I leavens ! wthat an association, and what a profanlation! Such a declara tiOll, and coaling froml sucll a man as F 'rench, is enough I0 II'aket "ldi Ilick ory'' turit ill Isi co flin. The impression s.een to b(e pretty j general that lButler alnl his admirers got up this celebration lfoir thie ::pecial I glorification of luin and to s.tart himin on ithe road towvard the l'ro-ideney. Many of the ltopuhlicain journals idelight to mention him as a lirobhatlie 'andidato for that exalted station; Inut ii l)emo Scrat, o itiile of ( ,: :1ssachrtlt:l-s, (vetr al 1 hlhe- to hint iin that connicti ion. Smart able, crafty, and lirrtinar:in-s though Sh be ,e ctnl never suieeld ill r'.iltb ing to a poition hiighler than has Ia nlow attained, lland woe le to a nation ;w'hen till mnn such a: lii br:omtllt" ilts SChief Mlagimtrate. iThe times will then y ' be truly toutt of jiit,"'' arid 'mnn have n loset their re:i'on." The Rlepublic will ) be in it-, last three- ofdi-fd oluion when ta wicked, coisciw iii-i-dIos, dr liica:lt,li pIerson like lHutltr ir pilacd at it head. a \ five year old steer, weighing 3,S, pounde wea--,ll in .t. louis last week. IDINNEEl-TABLE 'RLCKS. wIlherewith a iClever Persou may Ilake the )t1ll MIoments Mellow. LPhiladolphia Times.] The young folks, and some of their elders, for that matter, will occasion ally feel in the mood for a little diver sion at the dinner table; so hero are some odds and ends for the gratifica tion of such as are disposed to take kindly to them. The ,"Fruit Conjurer" is first presented : The performer hands round a dessert plate and cambric handkerchief for ex amination ; these being returned, he places the plate on a table near to him, then spreads the handkerchief quite flat over the plate. At command, al monds, nuts and sweetmeats pour into the dessert plate when the handker chief is lifted up. It is done thus : Make a calico bag large enough to hold the various articles, like a night-cap or the letter A. A small selvage is turn ed up at the bottom of the bag; procure two pieces of watch-spring and bind them flat, each spring to be half the diameter of the bag. These are put in to the selvage and sewn up firm. When the bag is opened it closes itself by the action of the springs. A loag pin is passed through the top of the bag and bent round hook-shape. It the bag be now filled with nuts, etc., it may be suspended by the hook without the ar ticles falling out-the springs keep it shut. The prepared bag is hung on the sideof tile table that is away from the audieuce. The plate is also placed on that side, and when the handker chief is laid over it a portion Is left to fall over the side of the table. Now the handkerchief is picked up with the right hand in the centre, and with it the bag-the folds of the cambric hide the bag. The left hand now draws over the handkerchief and presses the bag, which causes the springs to open and out fall the "good things." This causes sufficient diversion to enable the conjurer to drop. the bag behind the table, while he advances to the audi ence,politely inquiring: "Will you take a few nuts ?" A TRICK W.;TI T\igt'iOTI"ilKi. Should the fruit conjurer not have the skill necessary to perform the some what diflicult sleight-of-hand act dle scribed, lie may try the following very simple trick: Take twenty-four matches or tooth-picks. I II i I '' Tke .:away Iha tihe nun. r and4. lcav , Iwo Ierfsc-t squares, I hu: Next come directions showing how three clever tricks with glasses may be (lone : I. To place one's hand on a wine glass, and, lifting it from the table, hold it out horizontally or turn it com pletely over without holding it. Slightly crumple a pi'ee of paper, light it, and putting it in the glass, place the palm of the hand perfectly Ilat on the glass so as to exclude the air. This will cause the flame to ex haust the air in the glass, and after the light goes out it can be lifted, and, if wislhed, carried round an ordinary table hanging downward or in any pos ition desired. Care must be taken not to break the glass, and the little heat from the flame must not be objected to. 2. To drink a glass of water turnedi upside down on a flat-topped hat held in the right hand, with the left hand Ilehind one's back : Place the foro head on the bottom of the glass and, keeping the whole firm, lift up the hat and glass, bcnding the head at the same time back; when the glass is firmly on the forehenal lilke the hll away, drop it or let a frioend take it fromu yos, when your right hand eliltg tlereby, freed you cann remove te glass anld . 'ut a dime under an inverted glais oin the table cloth uandt get it out without touching it or tile glass. Scratcht the cloth sharply with the fin lier nail and the coin will easily pass beneath tile tumbler. 4.E:,ITr'I wVITlh 4.A1 KNIvI:5. Now follows a lit of table-knife geometry : Mlake a figure as below, containing live tlivisions, with aid of knives, forks anli so on, land by removing three' iicees leave only three divisions, with out lilny oldd lpieces. This is done by removiinvg the numnbered pieces: To, moike a bridgte Iy interweaving the blades of three table knives, each blade to go under one and over the other of the remaining two : Let the ends of the three handles rest on three tumblers, placed to form an equilateral triangle. Any moderately heavy ar ticle, say a bottle of pickles, can be placed on the bridge. ENGINEER IELVILLE'S FAMILY TROUBLES. PutI ,ADEI.II1A, .Iau. S.-There was a great crowd in the court room in Media to-day. Engineer Melville of the Arctic steamer Jeannette was there So were Mrs. Melville an I her three children. Engineer Melville had ap plied for a writ of habeas corpus to get possession of his children. The answer to the writ was read, charging that Melville was not a fit man to have charge of the children. Then the en gineer was called to the stand. lie said that the troubles with his wife began in lb?, wihen his faunily was residing in Bristol, and notice of the number of debts which she had incurred having reached him while on duty on the Pen obscot. As far bnck as 1877, on his ar rival home after a long absence, his wife told him that she had been accus ed by the neighbors of being addicted to drink, and asked Ilim if he would believe it. lie said that he would not until ho should :co proof of it. One Sunday morning afterward his wife offered to caress him and lhe deleclted the smell of liquor in her breath. Speaking of the circmllstances sur rounding his return fron the lato Arc tic expedition, N,.. 3Melville said that immediately on his arrival in l ew York he was tendered ia public recep tion there, and accepted at similar invi tation in this city. lie arrived hero late in the afternoon, andt tihe enlter tainment was given that evening. The following evening le was to he greeted on his return to Sharon liill with illu minations and a reception at his own I horse. Iteaclhing there, he was llmet at the door by his daughter Mitaud, wlho I threw her arms about him and kissed I him. Taking his two younger children I by the hand, he enterell the house ill 1 search of his wife, whom he found in e the dining room. 1ecr hair was dis hevelled and her whllo appelrance In dicated a disorder of mind anil botly. The first thing sheo said was; ' Jiorge, I are you glad to soee m11'"I' ''No,'' was the reply. 'lI ani not." '1'Well,. then, all is over,"'' said Mrs. Melvillo; "go I out and see your friends." In the diin ing roomll were it crowd of people eat- I ing andl drinking. lie became tired of i it and went out, hoping they would disperse. An hour later he returned, and closed the house up antd went np stairs. His wife said, "(teorge, don't disgraco me." "There is more disgrace here than I have over seen before," was the reply. 'All this great crowd of people cailae here to honor mie, and have witnessed ly 1 dis grace." Thean ho returnlled to the par lor, and his witfe, very mutch excited, threatened to shoot him an li irei the house. 110 quitted the lo tse', tilt spent tihe night at a neighlbor's. l)r. I ,ongstreoith testiflied regaruing thet certifclato, aniid itillary Iloennett, i ser vant, testified that M rs. Melvilleo irllk Id a great deal of whiskey. Ioenia Slll- ' ceer, another servant, corro'loriatetd t is. i A neilghbor and two small boys tolI I him they had seen 1lrs. Melville un dier tihe inltunene of liquor. 0D11 SNAYINP1S( . As slingit, aIs hoot1l'. Asn sharI' uS a Itlao, As grave ats lpreaclti ig, As gay its ta iii, . AM , ii|'sthoi ghloainin', A ' like as two pul'+, As crook'd as t railn's "ri, As roiiund as i11: 1 ch "4 As Ital as It lo tul er, An sti.ky tsi gnlll As wi ln i o IS t olnlnllll, As tighti as iadruih As whitii IS itmiiller, A'4 llack as ita i oliW, As lind as a gray., nw.1, A's bu IIl t at Ihnl' . Ais frill s I imit . i tn ;, As 'slit ollLt :i1 oai k, Aquoeel'ras :L (faihiker, As gae11 its Ia i'lk, As "ill r l4i it I:tli' ', , As keen as it r:tzrir, 1''' rlnl'lil 1l it t le. .\ driank as at pil.r, Assobor alis jtinl', A.\ cleao as a shatl iling, As filthy a1' ai llnll ,, .sn swi'lfts it arrow, As slotw :' ia snail, A~' lilitho ia Il iiiie, As right ii th o i il. 'lf you were sulienly, reiluicI, to abject poverty iwhat business w1oult you start at'.?" asked afn AIustlin 3'o111 man of MosoeSehaumbulrg. 'In dot gase'," rep(onileld ,loo l ,'owly, .ii voud go into a liushess iii a mnall I vay in viih I onhn miike lifty 3',r sient protl."' WVhat kind of a busine,?'" 'iT vold splilit umatche, arli. '€'11." That young hlly who iltl 700 words out of ticonservalory" laiet tflli has run away froem, bom. I oir iliil fr wanted her to make thre,' n;, 'L.'e of bread out of ''flour."' Thie clergymnitlt ill a."ert:aill towV, ii S the custom 1I, having pilbli-li(2d the banns of matrimony between two per sons, was followed by the clerk ' read Ing the hymn beginning with these word-i: '' i tallcn soi]s, wh' 'lr, in of Heaven." SIJ DESPERATE RENVUIJNTIE;IN SAIINE l PAtSII. The Mlurder Morgaln eects his Fate. Lhluvoport Dally Times.] N.ATci rrotlr"Es, Jan. 11, ISS3. Quite a breeze of excitement was created in our usually placid city this morning, by the arrival of DukelCrump in charge of Mr. A. J. Johnson, of Sabine parish, and Isaac Rains, Esq, of this parish. It will be remembered that only a short time since John Mor gan committed an unprovoked and daslardly murder in Webstergparish, by shooting down two colored men. At that time le e was a fugitive from this parish, being under indictment for arson and shooting into a dwelling whouse lawfully occupied. Morgan had escaped from jail here. Soon after the deed in Webster parish M[organ returned to this parish, unak ing his headquarters in the neighbor hood of .Marthaville, riding about the country openly and bidding defiance to capture, always being well armed. Ilto was usually accompanied by like spirits, and among themi was Duke C(rump, under indictment for assault by wilfully shooting, and also an escap ed prisoner. Thie ofllcers and special deputies from tills and Sabine parish have been after Morgan for sonme time, watclling a favorable opllportunity to capture himl without the useless sacrifice of the live of good citizens. Mr. Isaac Rains, son of J. .1. itains, of MIlrthaville, was it special deputy to effectl Ils capture. Mr.. ..1. Johnsol n was l1(o aIt special constable of Sabinealld Il sworn deputy sheriff of this parish. Ieast Monday night there was a frolic at the house of W. I'. Wood, In Sabine parish, about three muilcsabove Martha vill, and within ia stone's throw of tho dividing li2o of $ablue and Natch itolches. I Learning that Morgan, (Crump and others would attend the pa:rty, the otllers suulnmnoned a posse ol' ciixllns anld proceeded to WVood's house. A ,itlzes by tile namo of John Mhidleton, deeoyed Morgan from the house undllelr tille prot'nso of getting it tlrink of whisky which was hid in the woods, near by. WVheno about flifty yards from the lhouse, A. J. Jollnsonl nll2d John1 l'lnrlow, who were (watchllng for Morgan, stllppol ulp and lovelledl their gluns oil lliln hmand ordered hlin to surrenlder. I 1nstaid of doing so ho ran towards tihe house, and Johnson land Furlow bIothl levelled thleir guns (breach loaders) and strangq to;say both guns failed to fire. Morgan ran into tie thouse securedl his shot gun and stellpping out onl the gallery, ltcollled it oil i'Flrlow whlo lind jt.rt core up to the gateoiirmil, auid killid hiit instant ly. 1 iorg:n Was Iiteritally riddleld by buIOllle I frolll t i gnusl of several of the posse, thus payingg fhe inevitable fate of sluch It desperado and nurllerer. Slirunlp wai.s ubsequently captured inl the lllous', a2 is now In jail with e1l adlldtlnih iintl 1so of lbeing ncessory to iheo u2ur er r If n good alnd (law-albidlng itizeni. Soe lif teen or twenty silot.l were tiled by lit hi l( . sprieroslll posse, andiI Cruinmp's guilli u s found with onlie barrel 1empty', 11i (2ciip eixpIloded( o1l tlill otlher tube, iin(l two or thcro chambers of his pistol lempty. Iloth Crnlnp ulnd Morgan hadi sveral congonilal spirits witlh thelelm, who 1ided then1m in thiln lfight. uel chlrilehIttrs as ]orgnll are not met with in th1e Ihnimiof civilized and lawful cI;iilUliitles, 211 2 it .s(et.nis ai if 0olnle straing(L flitlLty ittracted hlilni like it lmliglitt to the scon1s of somel of his criitle0. 'ertainl is it that lie a2s1 imelt ia btlter fial I hnii ho justly loserv (, Tland (ied1,: lias he h( IIved, with his hinlnll crirl2uisonel with the blood of his fellolw 2ano, l tilhe fill at of it lawless r ll2n11:. .torlgn wait a nadliu2ll sizedIl 2il, 1a2l)1t forty y.ear1s of (ago, with jet hiaelk hair and beard, lind i2 2oi) wiise resofmblinLg in featurel s th( reckel,<s, desp orate and 1itrdened char alIcler whicllh 110ld llshownl by hiis dis. regard i f hI 2atll1 life. TI II: WASiNIINTON MONUM T Ig 'Tle allnnal report of Ielout. Col. Tholmas l. Casey, Corps of I:ngineers, UJnlte:d sItats Arny,'.ngincer in chanrgo otf (1W Vashington Monument, sub initted1 to CongreC(s Ier. 23:, shows that I1.c heighti of the sliaift is now ;110 feo1 , il2 in .rui i t (lirilig the yelr (If !20 feet. I2211:o t 'om.lulefion of tloi f2m2nli( ir n( in 1o2 5i2, tihe tital 1 1d l1hled1 to 1th1 th21 2 xi2 noillg strli2tllre h1s be(it 2,8:5- to 2, 11t2l21n Ithe ettlllillll'lnt iif t11i( liaft dto to 1hi) la t hIi' b(ecn olli( all averago about Il2 I 1nch2220 for the struc turi1. 'lime total prlns*re2 now lbornte by the 1202 of fotn'liatioll il 71,871 tons, or iib* tlt !12-100 2)1 t1 li tot1a)il lressure to be flinally plla+ce Iullpin it. The alil2,Ullt (;Xplended 'un1 the 22n12um2i12ent dtuihig tile 'ilsit year Wlls $177.5 13.60, lCavilng 21 blthaniIe availablo of $3,Il17..37. An estimate of $25i),O0t |I subminittid for contlnuing the work of th1( Imontunent for th2e yelar endhig Jnne 1 30, 1881, which it is expected will comnllet(, the shaft and pyramidlon, and also the Iltcrior staircase and elevator. The report is accompanied by a l1tter from the Joint (Jommission r 1conmmendlng anapproprialion b3 the present ('on gress of the amouit 0?timialt02ied 09 n('02.9 tofll hi-hg lit 'jf ','..) fol'e.