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VOL. II.
O’NEILL CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29,1881.
NO. 23.
NEBRASKA ITEMS.
The David City Republican tells how
Tom Duncan came wltbln an ace of being
buried in a well, which he was digging for
Mr. Speer. He was down twenty-nine feet,
when he noticed a dangerous crack In the wall
above him. He called to tliet man at the
windlass to poll him out, which w»» done in
a burry. He reached the top and stepped out
of the dirt tub and looked down to see an ava-,
lanche of clay cover bis tracks deep and dark
(pretty good sized tracks ton) In the bottom
of the yawning grave. Though Tom did not
finish the well, he donated the work he bad
tone. t ' .
Wavorly (Neb.) has been woke np by
by a blood-spilling row in a private family. A
man named Travis has been absent In the
mountains three years. His wife supported
the family, clerking In a drug store and keep
ing the postofflee. It is said by those knowing
her best that she was an excellent woman in
every respect. A meddlesome neighbor told
ugly stories, but peace was restored. The
other morning Travis ferociously assaulted
his wife, giving live wounds with a butcher
^knlfe. He thep cut bis qwd throat. The wo
man may not die. Travis is little hurt and is
in Jail.
Says the Valparaiso Avalanche:
“Thursday evening our gunsmith, Wm. Sage,
after repairing a gun put a capon It and snap
ped the gun to rce If the main spring was
strong enongh, when the gun was discharged,
it being loaded with shot and be not knowing
It. The discharge passed out through the
window and struck a young man uamed
Samuel Kusten In the left hip. The wofinded
man ran some iorty feet and fell on the side
walk where he lay seemingly uncouscloua ugjll
removed by Dr. Morton and others to the
Commercial Hotel. Hla wounds were dressed
and probing was made for the shot.”
Says the Custer Leader: “F.ffieCopsy,
s little six year old daughter of Mr. Copsy, of
Clear Creek, had a miraculous escape from
almost instant death oueday last week. While
playing near the well she stumbled and fell
Into It, going clear to the bottom, about twen
ty feet. Arthur Copsy, her brother, was a
witness to the accident and Immediately de
scended luto the well and rescued her from
peril. Fortunately she struck neither curb
nor bucket in her fall, which alone explains
why she escaped probably fatal Injury.”
The dedication of the new and ele
gant M. E. church at Spring Valley last Sab
bath was an occasion long to be remembered
as a most flttlug satisfaction of a work which
lay near and dear the hearts of many ctt.zena.
The day was one of the loveliest of the season
and the attendance was so large that a large
number were unable to gain admins on to the
spacious building. Rev. Miller, of J-lncoln,
assisted by Revs. Worley and Spencer, offici
ated In the Interesting services.—IBla'r Rn
Alexander Hickey, the old mashal
ad«1 chief of police of Nebraska City, Las been
taken to the penitentiary for killing'a man
named McGuire. He will remain six years
unless pardoo ed out. The prisoner has many
friends throughout the state who will.be very
sorry to 1 ear of his misfortune. When sob r,
he is a quiet, inoffensive and humane man,
bat when.whlskey has possession of him, be is
like many others, partially insane.
The courtesans of Lincoln are all go
ing to 1* “pulled.*’ “This policy,** wya the
Journal, “will be kept up from time to time
during the entire winter, ami before the dais
ies appear again the inmates of the various
houses will have a chance to respond to the
question, ‘guilty or not guilty I* perhaps three
or four times. In plain words, the high offic
ials of the city are determined to put a atop
to the social evil in Lincoln, if they can find
men euough to perform their duly.”
A nad accident occurred on the Mis
souri bottom last Tuesday, by which a young
man, .Henry Tuttle, son of Steven Tuttle, was
.crippled for life. In attempting to draw a
charge from a gun it was discharged and the
•hot took efteet in the right hand shattering it.
terribly. Fortunately, I)r. Taylor was in at
tendance near by, and being n jtifled, ampu
tated the poor fellow’s arm above the wrist
Joint.—[Blair Republican.
There ettme near being a panic at the
Baptist church last Sunday evening. A light
ed lantern exploded in the rear pari of the
church and as by one impulse the whole con
gregation rose to their feet ready to make a
break for the door. The lantern was thrown
out of doors and order restored.—[Pawnee
Republican.
Judge Smith and family will this week
take •> their residence in the new mansion
just completed by the judge. It is one of the
finest residences in the county, and would be
an ornament to cities like Lincoln or Omaha.
—[Juniata Herald.
The dwelling house of Chas. Reis
dv rf, together with all his household furni
ture, three miles north of David City, burned
to ashes receutly. The fire is supposed tc
have originated in some Way from the flue
$500 will no more than cover the loss.
A boy named Adams, at Osdeola, was
ran over by a wagon loaded with corn. Th«
heavy weight passed over the lad’s stomach
but inflicted no injuries except the loosening
of a rib or two. The boy fell off as the wagoi
was running.
The United States court will com
mence its next term at Lincoln, January 1st—
a week laU-r than utual. The judge and couri
officers wapt a rest after the long term it
Omaha. A large amount of business is ex
peeled to be brought up.
The bodies of three soldiers recentl)
taken up at Ft. Hartsuff were found to b*
petrified. It Is claimed that the action of th<
water which penetrates the soil surroundin]
them cause the bodies to turn to stone.
There are forty teams at work on th<
depot grounds this week. A change in th<
plans necessitates a vast amount of extn
work, hence they will not be finished as sooi
as was anticipated.—[Sheridan Post.
No town in the state is making mon
permanent Improvement* than Pawnee City
The Republican of that live Tillage Is respon
slble for this statement.
A young bread-crusher has arrived ii
the family «f State Auditor Wallichs. at Lin
coin. He weight ten pounds, and Is the fain
lly Idol already.
The number of persons in the state o
• school age is 1J3,12S, and the rate allowe
each scholar for education is a fraction ore
$1.3.
Protracted meetings are being held a
tl e Methodist church in David City,
t Valparaiso erpeots to be a divisio:
railway station tome time In the future. ‘
It only c6sts fourteen cents to becorn
a freeholder la Juniata—(Herald.
Madison now has four hand re
houses. <
A correspondence of the Massacht
setts Ploughman says fruit trees may h
surely cured of canker-worm by the us
of Paris green applied to the foliage wit
a hand pump or spring as soon as th
, worms are hatched, and at a cast of n<
more than ten cents per tree.
Be sparing of advice by words, bt
tench thy lesson by example.
V -
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NEWS OF-THE WEEK. '
GENERAL
Senator Van Wyck says the object of
| the resolution introduced by him directing the
I committee on public lauds to Investigate the
| muses of the failures of so .nany titles in south
ern Nebraska, whereby s great Injury Is
threatened settlers who have invested their all
and expeuded the labors of many years, I*
made necessary by tl e action of the St. Joe &
Denver railroad company and their assigns,
now claiming lands which the government bad
conveyed by patents. If the claim of the rail
road company is sustained and if the goveru
ment does not indemnify settlers—General
Van Wyck will insist that American citizens
are treated worse than the Irish peasantry are
by the the landlords and the 1 «wa of England,
lie proposes by the action of the committee to
obtain fully all the facts in the case. Testi
mony will be taken at Lincoln, Nebraska, by
Van Wyck, McDill, and Grover, sub-commis
h!oners, during the present congressional re
Po«tmaster General James has given
instructions to Mr. Bliss, attorney for the
government In the star route cases, to com
mence civil suits against contractors, who
have fraudulently received money from the
government. Mr. Bliss says it has been the
intention all along to institute civil proceed
ings, but the amount of attention given the
criminal cases has prevented the government
from doing so. He thinks it more important
that the law makers should be shown wherein
the criminal law is defective, and thereby se
cure an amendment of it at once, than that
the stolen money phould be hurriedly recov
ered.
Aug. Arndt, 21 Saunders county farm
er, who was in Omaha on the night of Watson
B. Smith’s murder, is suspected of having
committed the crime. He Is under arrest,
though not for the murder of Smith, but on
the charge of threatening Judge Dundy’s life.
The grand Jury was investigating the murder
case when news of it reached Arndt throngh
the daily press. Fearing his escape District
Attorney Lambertaon had him arrested on the
charge above referred to. Evidence is purely
circumstantial, but many ^Ings in his con
duct since the murder, Indicate the probabili
ty of Arndt having fired the deathly shot.
Accessories are suspected.
Wm. S. Webb has married the daugh
ter of Wm. H. Vanderbilt. Many elegant
presents were displayed, among them magni
ficent diamonds from the bride’s mother, anl
diamonds and silver from W. K. Vanderbilt
and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
D. O. Mills, and others. It was reported the
father of the bride had presented Mrs. Webb
his present residence on Fifth Avenue and a
check for 1250,000. The couple started on a
tour. They return in January, when a recep
tion will be given In the new residence of the
lirldn’a narAlltl
Knowles, Cloyes & Co., No. 25 Kiver
street, Chicago, have suspended. Their busi
ness was chiefly In the coffee, tea and sp'je
trade. LlabillUes $:K),00U; assets, consisting
of stock and collectable bills, 1450,000. Col-,
lections have heen delayed by bad roads.
Local creditors pushed them to the wait.
They will doubtless resume, after paying up
in fall. The announcement of their failure
caused great astonishment.
Acting Postmaster General Hatton,
authorises the ruling that “no aupplement
containing any advertisement whatever, can
be allowed in the malls at second-class rates,
unless the publisher makes affidavit that the
Bame rates arc paid for advertisements in the
supplement as In the body of the paper it
self.''
John F. Foster, of Beavor, Pennsyl
vania, will swear that one day in June last he
met Guiteau at a boot-black’s stand In Wash
ington, when the latter told him he was to be
appo'nted consul to Paris, and that if he did
not get the place, there would be more excite
ment at the capital than since 1865. Mr.
Foster has been subpmnaed, and his sworn
statement will be shortly made known.
Congressional democrats are dis
gusted with Speaker Kelfer's assignment of
committeemen, no attention haring been paid,
they claim, to order of precedence. They also
aasert that the election’s committee is in the
Interest of southern republican candidates,
and expect the summary unseating of demo
crats to follow, unless filibustering prevents.
This last course is threatened.
-Daniel Hale Haskell died at San Fran
cisco in the alms house, haring been arrested
as a broken-down, rermln-fested beggar. In
the early days he was manager of the banking
and express house of Adams A Co., with an
Income of $70,000 per year. He gave all his
means to endeavor to save the bank, retired
into poverty and took to drink.
Sumo sensational individual at Wash
ington recently set afloat the rumor that the
president would marry the daughter of th«
new secretary of staU. But the country will
not be thus distinguished.
And the paragrapber’e pun
Can’t make any tun , „ ,
Over the marriage of Arthur and Frelingbuy
sen.
Mrs. John Evans, of Sheridan, Mon
ticello county, Michigan, locked her hous<
and went to a neighbor’s, leaving two children
one of eight months the other three years old
In the house. Shortly after the house wai
diseovered to be on fire. An attempt to rescui
the children was unavailing.
Scovil.e thonght on the 20th, thal
two weeks more would be necessary to flnlst
Gulteau’s case. Bailiffs accompanied the juri
in a body at the funeral of Mrs. Hobbs (th<
Juryman’s wife), and the aggravating specta
cle of a new t rial has been removed.
' The report that cx-Secretary. Blaine
would not deliver the eulogy at the comment
orativc ceremonies pf the his president be
1 fore congress was without foundation. It ii
i now authoritatively stated that he has accept
i ed the invitation.
The contents of au me saloons in
darville, Ohio, were demolished the othe:
1 night bj a body of masked men. The door
were broken open and some buildings ton
down. Temperance men are supposed to b<
the perpetrators.
i The U. S. grand jury has been un
- able to find evidence to support th<
- charge of murder sgainst August Arndt
About thirty persons were examined, bu
l nothing tangible could be learned.
l« R. Raynor United States deputy col
r lector of revenues at Ft. Worth, Texas, sho
dead John Morris, one of the best know
t sportsmen in the southwest. They quarrele.
over a courtesan. Raynor surrendered,
i The 9tearaer Westphalia was detain
ed at quarantine out from New York, small
» pox having broken out. There were 106 cabt
passengers and 1,000 steerage. A steamer ha
^ brought the cabin passengers to shore.
Mme. DeKoerber, of Berlin, Germany
who Is st present in Boston, is endeavoring t
" get up an international immigration societ]
e to aid German girls an I women in coming t
e this country. - -
^ F. L. White's tannery, at Highland
t station, near Chicago, was destroyed by fir
the other night, with all machinery. Losi
t $150,000; insured. Eighty.men out of worl
The Chicago driving park associatio
• . '
ha* decided to offer etokee end puree* lor tbe
summer meeting aggregating $15,950. Tbe
race* will last from June ‘34th till July 4th.
The report that Capt Payne had en
tered the Indian territory 1* pronounced flctl
tlou* bj Gen. Pope. The stories of Invasion
are scattered to keep up excitement.
The steamer Jeannette has been
found. Report come* by way ot Siberia, bar
ing been forwarded to St. Petersburg, Russia,
by tbe goremor of that country.
Timothy O. Howe has been confirmed
as postmaster general, rice James resigned.
Tbe new officer will take charge of tbe de
partment about January 1st.
The steamer Braunschweig, of the
North German Lloyd line, sank at Bremen.
She was coaling when water rushed into the
port holes.
Small-pox is spreading rapidly in Illi
nois. It recently broke out at Man helm, a
town fourteen miles north of Chicsgo.
Jay Gould’s would-be blackmailer has
been ihdicted In New York city. J. Howard
Wells la the fellow’s name.
The Indians who inhabit the oountry
extending from Montana to Idabo are in ectcd
with the smallpox.
A bonded warehouse in New York,
filled with silks, tobacco and spirits, burned,
with less of $500,000.
Riddlebergor has been elected U. S.
senator from Virginia, receiving the solid read
justee vote.
The Kickapoo- Indians are starving.
Uncle Sam will take measures for their relief.
The tow boat Robin burned and sunk
at Cairo recantly. No lives lost.
*_
CRIME.
The cow-boys that “rounded-up”
Caldwell have probably escaped. They were
beaded for Mexico at last accounts.
A Newark dispatch says: James
Graves, a “crank,” aged 60, sbot dead this
evening in tbe street EddySoder, aged 13.
When Graves was taken to tbe station be said
be guessed the boy would not botber him
again. He offered to plead guilty of man
slaughter. Three years ago Graves was ar
rested for threatening the life of Soder’s
father.
August Arndt was arraigned before
Judge Dundy, on tbe 90th, on tbe charge of
nuking threats against tbe court's life. The
prisoner refused to employ counsel, saying he
would defend himself. Upon advice from
tbe court, he plead not guilty and wll
be tried at tbe next term of court at Lincoln,
though by some other U. B. judge than Dun
dy, who does not care to try the case. A news
paper interview with the prisoner disclosed
nothing inconsistent with a theory of Inno
cence on his part of the charge of murdering
Col. Watson B. Smith.
FOREIGN.
IBSLAND.
There will be another meeting of the
corporation of Dublin, at which efforts will
be made to carry the resolution to confer free*
dom of the city on Parnell and DHlon against
all obstructions.
■■•LAHD.
It is said that Thomas Power O'Con
nor will return from America to take the lead
of the Irish parliamentary party on the reas
sembling of parliament,
stair.
The confession made by a postoffice
clerk has led to the discovery of a gang of
thieves and forgers who used the contents of
stolen letters to procure money by forging
acceptances. Five thousand letters were
stolen. The clerk arrested had on clothes
made expressly to conceal plunder. Sixteen
persons were arrested, including several con
nected with the postoffice. One hundred
valuable letters directed to Important firms in
Madrid were found In houses of accomplices.
Many arrests have been ordered throughout
Spain.
Married to a MendldanL
Philadelphia Pram.
A little girl named Murry, only 14
years of age. and small and slinily built
for her years, was married recently to
a blind man named Patrick Murphy,
residing in St. Mary street, below Sev
enth. The bridegroom is a stoutly built,
tall man, over 60 years of age, and for
the last eleven years has earned his liv
ing by soliciting alms, being unable to
secure othor employment owing to his
infirmity. The girl Murry is the daugh
ter of a pensioner, now deceased, and
she lived with her mother in the vicinity
of Murphy’s residence. She was employ
ed by the blind man to lead him through
the streets, and on occasions she accom
panied him to Harrisburg and other
cities in Pennsylvania where Murphy
was in the habit of making periodical
visits in search of nickels.
A man named Sullivan who keeps a
cheap grocery store in St. Mary street
told a Press reporter yesterday that
Murphy earned on an average as much
as $16 a week all the year round. He
had a considerable sura of money saved
in the bank, and after country expedi
tions had often handed Sullivan $60 to
take car*, of for him.
“Why did he marry soyonng a girl?*
WLaliio
“Well, be was accustome1 to the
young lady,” was the reply. “He told
me that he should not regard her as
his wife until she had attained woman
hood, but that met nwhile he desired to
have a dim on her so that he could
bring her up his own way. She appears
to be perfectly contented, and it is a
very good match for her from a money
point of view. I never heard of Murphy
owing anybody a coat.”
“Wh, re were they m .tried?”
“Well, they are, properly speaking.
Catholics, but no pnest would tie the
■ knot, the gir. being so young, and so
, they went to a Unitarian minister, and
1 he married them.’1
“Did you ever hear how Mnrphy lost
bis sight?” asked the ruportoi.
“Yes; I think he told me he met with
an accidentia a machine shop at Cleve
1 land, Ohio, twelve years ago. He came
’ to this city with $4,0(0, his entire sav
■ ings for years, and was robbed Of every
cent of it in a den in Alaska street the
- day after his arrival.”
t “How did that happen?”
i “Why, he got into a conversation with
1 a stranger and foolishly spoke about
his money, and said be wanted to put it
in a bank. He was a simple sort of fel
low, and the stranger had no difficulty
in taking him ~n. He told Mnrphy he
1 would snow him a bank where he conld
‘ place his money in safety, and then took
him to a house in Alaska street and told
, him that was the bank. Murphy paid
> down his money on a kitchen table and
got a receipt from a confederate of ti e
> wily stranger, and the unfortunate blind
man was led into the street, and con
, ducted a square or two and left leaning
against a lamp post. A police officci
“ soon enlightened him as to the so called
» bank, but nothing could be done to as
• sist him, for Murphy had not the slight
i est idea where had been.
PERDITION’S PET.
His Trial-He Court's Dipity Ignored
aid tie Majesty of Law
MteiL
While the Deed President’* Suffering*
and Death Seem Like Forgotten
Facts. ■ ' ■ - 1
GuKean’s Abas* at Scovill*—The Basest KM
el Ingratitude them Hla—Sesume el
Testiawiy. >,
THE TRIAL RESUMED.
• On the 21st inst Gulteau’s trial was
resumed after the delay caused by the
death of Mrs. Hobbs.
Dr. Worcester, of Massachusetts,who
refused when upon the stand for the de
fense, to answer the hypothetical ques
tion proposed by Scoville, testified that
in his opinion the prisoner was a sane
man.
Guiteau (sharply)—“How much do
you expect to get for that opinion, sir?
I suppose that will be worth $500 to
you. That is the way Scoville is run
ning, but I don’t believe it will be worth
a snap with the jury; not a snap, sir.”
Corkhill then read a hypothetical
question which covered the material
facts in the prisoner’s history from boy
hood down to his act on the 2d of July,
and inquired, “Assuming all these facts
to be true, in your opinion was the pris
oner sane or insane when he killed the
president?”
Answer—“I believe him to have been
sane.”
Guiteau (sneeringly)—“Yes, sir, and
you expect to get $6(50 for that opin
ion.”
All through tne reading of the hypo
thetical question Guiteau continually
shouted, “That’s false,” and “abso
lutely false.” At one time he Baid:
“That’s false, sir, get facts right for
your hypothesiSjOr whatever you call it.
Judge Porter must have got that stuff
up for you, Corkhill; you certainly have
■not got brains enough.”
Scoville cross-examined: “When
and where did you get your title of
rlootiir?’1
Answer—“I got it from Hrvard un
iversity in 1868.” Witness was then
questioned at length regarding the
books he had read, patients he had
treated, and his opportunities for in
vestigating the subject of insanity. He
was asked how he came to form the
opinion in Salem that the prisoner was
insane, and that he had written counsel
(Scoville) that such was his belief. He
replied, “From statements I had se ’n
that he was actuated, when he shot the
president, by an insane delusion, and
thatjjie uncontrollable influence under
whienue acted was the outgrowth of
that delusion. I wrote you, thinking I
might be of service to an insane man ”
Witness had changed his opinion as to
the insanity of the prisoner because 1 he
no longer believed to be true the state
ments upon which he had based h s
opinion before coming to Washington.
. Guiteau afterward frequently inter
rupted and soundly abused Scoville for
incompetency, and charged him with
compromising his case. Turning to
ward Judge Cox, Guiteau added,
depreeatingly: “Scoville is a perfect
idiot in this matter, and between him
and Corkhill, I have a pretty hard
time. (General laughter.) I’m a good
natured man (laughing) but I can’t
stand abuse, and when I’m buzzed I
want to talk right back.”
Mr. Scoville, who had borne every
thing before with apparent equanimity,
seemed to feel very keenly this last evi
dence of heartless ingratitude. His
voice trembled, and for a minute was
unable to proceed. Kvcn the prisoner
realiz d the injustice of his conduct,
and apologized, saying, “You are doing
very well, Scoville, to the best of your
ability.” Several times afterward Guit
eau denounced Scoville, at one time in
evident anger, and again with a sarcas
tic smile, “Why, your honor,” he
shouted, “if I was indicted for man
slaughter I’d be hung for murder, if
Scoville should defend me.”
DECEMBER 22.
When Guiteau entered the court
room, he was evidently laboring under
excitement. Col. Chas. Reed and Sco
ville commenced expostulating with
him, when he said to Scoville:
“I won’t have you compromising my
case by your foolish questions; you must
gel off my case if you can’t stop com
promising it.”
Further consultation between the
three resulted in pacifying the
prisoner, who at once began opening
his mail. Among other letters received
was one from Dr. Spitzga, in which
the writer said he had received over
200 letters congratulating him upon
his testimony. Guiteau said his corres
pondence was mostly from high-toned
people—only one crank letter.
Dr. Theo. Diamond-, of Auburn, New
York, who was summoned by the de
fend and retained by the prosecution,
testified that he believed—judging by
o vidence to which ho had listened, in
cluding that of Guiteau himself, and
from appearance and conduct of the
prisoner, that he is a sane man. Wit
ness also answered that Guiteau is a
sane man if the facts put in the hypo
thetical question to Dr. Worcester, yes
terday, are true.
Witness was asked if he thought it would
be any indication of insanity in a man
of mature years who honestly believed he
was inspired to kill the president ol
the United States and who honestly be
lieved when his motives were known to
the people they would not only excuse
him but applaud his act, and replied,
“If he honestly believed that and his
will was dominated by conviction it
would be an indication of insanity.”
Witness Shaw was called and asked
bv the prosecution if he had been in
dicted for perjury. He answered affirm
atively, but explained that the charge
arose from a misapprehension, and that
he was acquitted by the jury.
Scoville told him to prepare to defend
his character, as four witnesses woulc
testify contrarily.
DECEMBER 23.
Clias. H. Heed was admitted as asso
date counsel for the prisoner.
Wm. A. Edward, clerk in the offici
of Shaw, testified that he overheard thi
conversation in which Guiteau said hi
would kill some big man some - day a
Booth did. *
Dr. S. H. Talcott was called to testify
as medical expert; .said Guiteau wa
sane on the 34 of July.
“How much do you expect to get for
that, opinion,” shouted Guiteau.
“You’ve been here two or three weeks.
I suppose you’ll want five hundred dol
lars (striking the table angrily), but I
don't care a snap if you bring in five
hundred such witnesses.” Judge Cox,
demanded quiet. “All right, your hon
or. I’ll be quiet now.”
Daridge—Your honor, please note
the free agency quoted by 'the prisoner
operates all right now, as he can keep
quiet when he desires.
Guiteau—I don’t pretend I’m insane
now any more than you are, but on the
2d ef July and thirty days before I was
insanfc. That’s the issue,”
Daridge—Then if you are sane now
you Oprtainly should know how to be
have yourself.
- Guiteau—I do, and I behave just as
well as you, I appear as my own coun
sel and have as much right to talk as
you.- You have altogether too much to
say on this case; you are as bad as a
man b >m with a diarrhoea of words) now
you keep quiet.”
Witness did not believe the prisoner
actqd under an insane delusion when he
shuffle,.president, if by inspiration it
was meant as a happy thought to ccta
mit an act;then he was inspired; in any
other sense he was not. Recess.
Dr. Henry P. Stearns, superintendent
of the Hartford retreat for the insane,
was the next witness. From 800 to
1000 cases of insanity had come under
his supervision during the eight years
he had been connected with the “Re
treat.” . Witness had made four exami
nations of the prisoner at the jail,
directed to his physical and mental con
dition. Guiteau interrupted, saying:
“Y u came to me, doctor, as a mend
and I, supposing you were going to tes
tify for the defense, talked very freely
about my religious feelings and all
about myself, butCorkhill’s money was
too much for you. I want to say bore
that I don’t pretend that I am any more
insane at this minute than Davidge is.
I won’t say Corkhill, for I think ho is
cracked. (Laughter.) But I rest my
case right on this claim, that I was in
sane on the second of July whon my in
spiration and the state of my mind im
pelled me upon the president. To make
it short, that’s all there is about it. I
don’t care what these experts say about
my sanity now. That’s got nothing to
do with it.”
Witness detailed at great length the
results of his examinations ana inter
views with Guiteaa.
Pending the cross-examination the
court adjourned until to-norrow.
DECEMBER 24.
Dr. Stearns again took the stand, and
testified in regard to different phases of
msauiLy.
! Guiteau asked whether a man could
not be insane as to a specific act, with
out having a diseased brain.
Witness replied insanity meant dis
ease of the brain.
The prisoner was about to ask anoth
er question, when Judge Porter sug
gested that the doctor hold no colloquy
with the criminal.
Guiteau protqsted that he was no
criminal; he appeared as his own coun
sel, and claimed as much right to speak
as Porter. He added, with customary
egotism: “I stand as well outside as
you do. Plenty of people will say I’m
a bigger man than old Porter.”
Corkhill said if - this abuse be per
mitted, the prosecution would insist
on Guiteau's removal to the dock.
Judge Cox—“The court has already
considered the advisability of such a
course.”
The prisoner seemed to feel the inci
dent keenly, inasmuch as it recalled his
bold assertion that he was perfectly
sane now, and impressed him with the
determination of the court to hold him
amenable to the same rulos that are ap
plied to persons in his status generally.
Dr. Strong, of Cleveland, was called,
and began testifying. He was imme
diately interrupted by Guiteau, who
shouted;
“Doctor, let me cut this short by say
ing I am in as good physical condition
as you are.”
Judge Porter demanded interference
of the court to stop the prisoner's inter
ruptions.
The court stated that while he did not
desire to act hastily, he should punish
the prisoner for contempt if he again
transgressed the bounds of propriety.
One or two incidents occurred during
the rest of the -trial, bnt the prisoner
was not boisterous enough to be pun
ished. Guiteau stated one or twice that
he was sane now; insane July 2d.
VIRGINIA’S VIRTUE.
And How II Was Saved by thd (Old Roman Cen
turion o( the City’s Fourth Century.
The history of ancient Rome is nota
bly marked by changes in its form of
government which have had for their
inciting cause the outrage of womanly
virtue by some one in jiower. The sto
ry of Luc.retia, wife of Collatinus, may
be cited as one instance. It will be re
membered that Tarquin the Proud was
then (510 B. C. ) reigning monarch,
and his riotous son Sextus becoming'
enamored of his cousin’s wife, and be
ing hospitably lodged in his . kinsman’s
house, violated the honor of its mistress.
Her suicide followed in the presence of
her father and husband, to whom she
related the perfidy of Sextus, and over
her dead body Lucius Junius Brutus
pronounced her death service, and the
banishment of the Tarquins in the same
speech. Through the reign ofr consuls,
dictators and tribunes that followed,
the struggle between plebeians and pa
tricians continued, till the establishment
of the decemvirate in 451, B.C. The
decemvirate originally established to
protect the common people, ultimately
became an engine of oppression, but
the people bore the yoke patiently till
again a private injury another attempted
outrage on woman’s honor, accomplish
ed what wrongs of a more public nature
had failed to effect. Appius Claudius,
a leading decemvir, had fallen in love
with the beautiful Virginia, daughter of
Virginius, a patrician officer; but find
ing her betrothed to another, in order to
accomplish his purpose he procured a
base dependent to claim her as his slave.
As had been concerted, Virginia was
brought before the tribune of Claudius
himself, who, by an iniquitous decision,
ordered her to be surrendered to the
claimant. It was then that the distract
ed father, having no other means oi
preserving his daughter’s honor, stabbed
her to the heart in the presence of the
court and the assembled p eople. A re
volt followed, the army took sides wit!
the people, the decemvirate was abolish
: ed, and the tribune re-established. Ap
, pius died in prison, some chronicler;
say by suicide. This is the historical
1 .incident that is said to have occured fR
1 B.C.,or about 305 years after the found
ing of the city by Romulus, and out a
’ which have been created a play and i
l poem that will doubtless perpetuate in
definitely what is at best but a legend
CONGRESSIONAL
What k Going on in tin National Logklatun
Synopjit of Proooodingi.
Senate, December 21.—The commit
tee on public lands bas been divided to make
inquiry in relation to alleged defective titles
of innocent purchasers of Nebraska l*ids.
House Garfield memorial resolutions, given
in full below, were concurred in:
House.—Mr. McKinley, from the
memorial committee, reported the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted:
Whbkkaa, The melancholy event of the
violent and tragic death of James A. Garfield,
late president of the United States, having oc
curred during the reeess of congress, and the
two houses oi congress, sharlngin the general
f land desiring to manifest their sensibility
grief and desiring t
on this occasion of public bereavement, there
fore
Resolved, That the two houses of congress
will assemble in the hall of the house of rep
resentatives on the day and hour to be fixed
and announced, and in the presence of the
two houees there assembled an address on the
life and character of Janes A. Garfield, late
president of the United States, be pronounced
by Hon. James G. Blaine, and the president
or the senate, pro tem., and speaker of the
house of representatives be requested to in
vite the president and ex-presidents of the
United States, beads of the several depart
ments. Judges of the supreme court, repre
.gefitatnr&ff ox foreign governments, governors
of the several states, the general of the army
and the admiral of tne navy.
Resolved, further, That the president of the
United States be requested to transmit a copy
of these resolutions to Mrs. Lucretia R. Gar
field, and assure her of the profound sympa
thy of the two houses of congress for her deep
personal affliction and their sincere condolence
for the late national bereavement.
Speaker Keifer announced standing com
mittees as follows:
Ways and Mqans—Kelly (chairman), Kas
w»n, Dunell, McKinnev, Hubble, Haskell. Rus
sell, Errett, Randall, Tucker, Carlisle, Morri
son, Speer.
Appropriations—Hiscock (chairman), Ro
beson, Cannon, Burroughs, Butterworth, Cas
well. Ryan, O’Neil, Ketcham, Blackburn, Cox,
Atkins, Forney, Lefevre and Ellis.
Banking and Currency—Crapo (chairman),
Webbeif Dingley, Moore, Connell, Buckner,
Hardenberg, Flower and Ermentrout.
Education and Labor—Updegraff (chair
man), Sherwin, Carpenter, Davis,Page,Tyler,
Willis, Clemeants, Moley, Dibble, Down.
Rules—Mr. Speaker (chairman), Orth, Ro
beson, Randall, Blackburn.
Mileage—Jorgenson (chairman), Rich,
Ward, (iobb, Moulton.
Joint Committee: On Library—McCook
(chairman), Lihdsey and Geddes; Printing
Van Horn (chairman). McClure, Springer;
Elections—Calkins (chairman), Hazleton,
Wait, Thompson, Ranney, Ritchie, Petti bone,
.Miller. Jacobs, Paul, Beltzhoover, Dugro,
Jones. „
Judiciary—Reed, Willets, Robinson. Briggs,
Humphrey, Taylor, McCook, Kasson, Nor
cross, Knott, Hammond. Cuersou, Gnirther,
Townshend (111.)
Agriculture—Valentine (chairman), Upde
gran, Carpenter, Anderson, Godshalk, Wads
worth, Rich, West, Cullen, Hazleton, Hatch,
Dibrell, Aiken, Black. Post, Poe.
PostofflceB and Post Roads—Bingham, An
derson, Jorgenson, Lacev, Farwell, Morey,
Springer, Morse, Evans, Armfleld, Brents.
Public Buildings and Grounds—Sbellenber
ger, Lewis, Cutts, Demota, Scranton, Ford,
Smith, Cook, Hewitt, Singleton, Herbert.
Mines and Mining—Van Vorhis, Davis,
Bingham, Fulkerson, Hobbs, Calkens, Young,
Cassidy, Berry, Wood, Brurnm, Urner.
Manufacture—Campbell (chairman), Ham
mond, Mills, Godshalk, West, Chase, Finley,
Marsh, Morse, Stockslager.
Adjourned till January^5th.
Garfield U a Friend.
E. V. Bmalla-, In thn Oman
The world likes to hear of the per
sonality of its heroes—their habits, -
tastes, peculiarities, likes, and dislikes.
I may be pardoned, therefore, for speak
ing of things in connection with the
dead president,which would be of trifling
interest, if not an impertinence, if said
of one not widely loved and honored.
General Garfield had a warm, affec
tionate nature. The peoplo he liked
were very dear to him. He took them
to his heart and gave them his full con
fidence. He would often sit down be
side a friend and throw his arm over
his neck,or put his hand on his shoulder
or knee, as the natural expression of his
liking, or in walking would place his
arm througn that of the friend. He had
a way of calling an intimate friend or
comrade “old buy” or “old fellow,”
and once, when Colonel Rockwell
thanked him for some kindness, he
said, putting his hand on his friend’s
shoulder, “Old boy! the ties of friend
ship are sometimes stronger than those
of blood!” By the courtesy of Colonel
Rockwell I am also enabled to include
here one of General Garfield’s most
characteristic letters. Colonel Rock
well says:
“On the Sunday preceding the elec
tion I had sent him a little expression
of my confidence in his success, closing,
as I remember, with the stanza from
Goethe:
“ ‘The future hides In It
Gladness and sorrow.
We press still thorow;
Naught abides in It
Daunting us,—Onward!’
“To this, on the eve of election, he
sent the following reply:
“ ‘Mentor, Ohio, Nov. 1, 1880.
“‘Dear Jarvis: The evening mail brings
me your letter of the 31st, and I take a
moment, In the lull before the battle, to say
how greatly glad I am for all the earnest and
effective things you have done for me. What
ever may be the issue to-morrow, I shall carry
with me, through life, most grateful memories
of the enthusiastic and noble work my friends
have done, and especially my college class
mates. The campaign has been fruitful to
me in the discipline that comes from endurance
and patience. I hope that defeat will not sour
me, nor success disturb the poise which I
have sought to gain by the experience of life.
“ ‘From this edge of the conflict I give you
my hand>hd heart, as in all the other days of
our friendship.
“‘As ever yours,
“ ‘J. A. Garfield.
“ ‘Col. A. F. Rockwell, Washington, D. C.’ ”
How Whalers are Paid.
From the San Francisco Examiner,
Willie in conversation with an “old
salt” from the Don, the old man said:
“You landsmen, who have an idea that
wo whalers are the lowest and most
miserable class of men who sail the
seas, don’t know anything about the
business. We are just as happy and
1 ve as well, and enjoy just as easy
times as any mechanic on shore, and if
we choose to do so, could save just as
much clear money as a laboring man or
mechanic on shore. Dull times ou
board, not a bit of it. We play cards,
sing songs, carve wood trinkets, and
the Kanakas make mats and things.
Time goes well enough. As for excite
ment, we get plenty of that when the
boats are towered and a whale chase
commences. Never went out after A
whale, eh? Well if you ain’t you ought
to, and then ydh wo Id know what ex
citement is.” The whalers have had a
pretty good season, with ono or two ex
ceptions—the Eliza, the Francis Pal
mer, and the Thomas Polk are coming
home light and the crew in debt to the
The men on these ships are not pan!
a stated salary but each receive a shart
of the cargo of oil, whalebone and ivory
taken dun ng the trip. The proportion!
to each man paid off yesterday wen
about as follows: First mate, 1 barre
out of 20 barrels; second mate, 1 out o
28; third mate, 1 out of 35; fourth mate
1 out of 50; boat-stcerer or harpooner
1 out of 80 or 100; cooper, 1 out of 60
cook or steward, 1 out of 100; foremas
hands or ordinary seamen. 1 ou of 160
green hands, 1 out of 175 or 180. Mos
ships carry two boys, a cabin boy and
steerer's boy. These receive about th
same proportion as a “green hand.1
To every barrel of oil there goes
pooml of whalebone and 1 pound of
ivory out of every 100 pounds captured
on the trip; so that the value of eaoh
barrel of whale-oil aud accompanying
whalebone and ivory netted the men
about $27 each. The vessels paid off
yesterday each had made a good sea
son’s haul, and tho men were feeling
jolly over their share of prize money.
There were more than 100 men to pay
off, and few received less than $175 in
cash as a share in the season's work,
most of them much more than that s. m.
The average indebtedness of each sailor
to the ship on his arrival in port was
about $125 for advanced pay and cloth
ing, tobacco, etc. After this is deduot
e<C and he receives an overplus of $150
to $200, he feels as jolly as Jack tar oan
eel.
Influence ol the Crusade*.
Haper's Magazine for December.
■ During the four ccntures which fol
lowed tlie eleventh events occurred which
wrought immense changes in European
society. Foremost among these events
were the crusades, whichlxegan at the
end of the eleventh century, and lasted
two hundred years. Considered mere
ly as a series of wars, for the recovery
of the holy land froth the Mussulmans,
the crusades were of course a failure;
but, like many other failures in this
complicated world, the ends which they
unconsciously achieved werejvastly more
important than the ono which they con
sciously strove for. Even from a mili
tary point of view they fully justified
themselves. For if Christendom had
not gone out to attack tho Mussulman
in Asia and Africa, it would have had
to receive his in Europe. One
side was as actively aggressive as the
other, and it was sound policy to con
duct the war on the enemy's soil. But for
the crusades it would most likely have
been the Seljukian Turks of the twelfth
century, instead of the Ottomans of the
fifteenth, who would have taken Con
stantinople; and this in itself would
have been a frightful calamity. Though
the Crusaders had a very odd way of
showing their friendship for the eastern
empire, they certainly protected it as
against the Turk. But these wars did
much more than merely to protect Eu
rope from invasion. They increased
the independence of the church, which
at that time was equivalent to putting
a curb upon the propensities of the rob
ber baron andin'“*easing the security of
labor and trr In another way they
aided this goou work, by carrying off
the robber baron in large numbers to
Egypt and Syria, and killing him there.
In this way they did much toward rid
ding European society of its most turbu
lent elements. By renewing intercourse
with the Greek culture of Constantino
ple they revived intellectual curiosity,
and brought about that thirteenth cent
ury renaissance which is associated with
the names of Giotto, Dante and Roger
Bacon. They developed the spirit of ro
mantic adventure, and connected it with
something better than vagrant free
booting. In these ways they widened
men's iftinds wonderfully. Finally,
they revived the commercial inter
coux'se with the Oriental world, and by
destroying tlie naval supremacy of the
Mohammedaus in ti e Mediterranean,
they established the current of trade be
tween the Indies and the great free
Thus in ttio five centuries which inter
vened between the voyage of Leif
Ericsson and that of Columbus the pro
gress of European society had been
great indeed. In the principal king
doms the question of internal politics
had gone far toward a conclusion. The
distance is enormous in English history
between Swegen Forkbeardand Henry
VU., and in French history between the
son of Hugh Capet and the son of Louis
XI. Still greater seems the distance in
the history of Spain between the trium
phant career of Mohammedanism under
Almansur and its final overthrow in
1492 under Ferdinand and Isabella.
Socially the change had been perhaps
greater than even this dramatic con
trast of famous names would imply.
Men’s minds had begun to be turned1
from warfare to industry. The struggle
was no longer for bare existence, but
for the attainment of a certain standard
of comfortable living. The great in
dustrial movement which distinguishes
modern society, and which is charac
terized by the systematic application
of trained intelligence to the .various
processes whereby subsistence is secured
—this great movement hail made some
beginnings in Italy and Flanders, and
in the German towns which lay on the
highway of trade between these coun
tries.
It would be extravagant to ascribe all
this progress to the Crusades, but these
wars contributed largely to every phase
of it. My purpose in citing them so
conspicuously is to point out how in
various ways they had been instru
mental in developing in European so
ciety a vast quantity of surplus energy,
which was now ready to pour itself out
through any new channel that circum
stances might happen to open. If there
had been no such outlet afforded by
maritime discovery—if, for example,
there had been no American continent
and no passage by sea around the south
of Africa—I believe this surplus energy
would again have assumed a crusading
form, and discharged itself upon Asia.
In such case the tide of Turkish invasion
would have been rolled back, the holy
places of Mecca might have become the
Erey of the Spaniard, and Venice might
ave remained the mistress of the sea.
Fwthered Slave*.
Fn nl the How York Etonian Moll.
No people are more ingenius than the
Chinese in the minor arts of life. That
they have succeeded in training birds
to fish is a striking example of their in
genuity and patience. Instead of car
lying nets the fishermen provide them
selves with a large number of cormo
rants which perch on the edge of thi
boats. It is a curious spectacle to set
these creatures engaged in fishing, div
ing into the water and always coming
up with a fish in their beaks. As th<
Chinese fear the vigorous appetites o
their feathered servants, they fastei
around their necks an iron ring, largi
enough to allow their breathing but t<s
smaUto admit of the entrance of tin
fish they seize; to prevent their stray
in°- about in the water and wasting th
time desired for their work, a cord 1
attached to the ring and to one claw o
the cormorant by which he is pulled u]
when inclined to stay too long unde
water. When tired he is permitted t
rest for a while; but if he abuse the in
diligence and waste bis time, a fei
i strokes of the bamboo recalls him t
: duty, and the poor diver resumes hi
laborious occupation. In passing floi
one fishing ground to another, the cot
morants j>erch side by side, so as not t
; disturb the eOuill’''”:,^>*,' f the frail vet
t gel. _
His nut Don.
Said a sufferer from kidney trouble wh<
asked to trv Kidney Wort for a remedy, “I
try it, but ft will be my last dose.” It cun
blm and now he recommends It to all. It y<
have disordered urine don’t fail to try it.
Yokohama Dispatch. v
THE GIFT.
BT II.LEV CnUE.
- * >
Out of the kingdoms under Urn sun
What shall 1 bring thee, litUe ouel
Bring me the smile of m j mother’s eyes,
Dourer than sunshine out of t e skies;
Briug me a kiss from her lips to set
Warm on my cheeks, with the tears still wet,
Nay; there are treasures far over the see,
What shall the dying ships bring to theel
Out of the silence of unknown land
Bring me the touch of my mother’s hand;
Keep thou the treasures of tea and shore—
Bring me the sound of" her voioc once more.
Nay; there are wisdom and wealth and power,
Little one, choose of these thy dower.
Give me my mother’s sweet love untold, #
Better than measureless wealth of gold,
Wiser than wisdom of sages »U—
Let me hear only her soft footfall.
Little one, what thou askest me,
Only Death’s angel can briug to thee I—
[Woman’s Journal.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,. ....
It is to live twice to be able to enjoy
the retrospect of your past life.
Have patienoe with all things, but
chiefly have patience with yourself.
If you know how to spend less than
you get, you have the philosopher’s
stone.
If peace of mind is fur possession,
wo may smile at evory misfortune or
loss.
Men often judge the person, but not
the cause, which is not justice, but ma
lice. .
There is nothing that so leflnes the
face and mind as the presence of great
thoughts.
Wo may laugh or weep at the madness
of mankind; we have no right whatever
to villify them.
The natural affoctions are as debased
by vice as they are ennobled and re
fined by virtue. .
What men want is not talent, it is
purpose; not the power to achieve, but
the will to labor.
It seems that the men who arn’t want
ed here are the men who arn’t wanted
in the other world.
Anger ventilated often hurries toward
forgiveness; anger concealed often har
dens into revenge.
He that does good for good’s sake
seeks neither praise nor reward, though
sure of both at last.
Training the hand and eye to do work
well leads individuals to form correct
habits in other respects.
Ho not lose courage bv considering
your own imperfections, but instantly
set about remedying them.
Wicked mon stumble over straws in
the way to heaven, but climb over hills
in the way to destruction.
It ever is tho marked •propensity of
reckless and aspiring minds tolook into
tho stretch of dark futurity.
One of the most fatal temptations to
the weak is a slight deviation from the
truth, for the sake of apparent good.
Contemporaries appreciate the man
rather than the merit; hut posterity
will regard the merit rather than the
man.
The science of life may be thus epito
mized—to know well the price of time,
the value of tilings, and the worfhof
people.
Our good deeds rarely cause much
gossip among our fellow-citizens, but
our evil ones leap immediately into
notoriety.
He who is always inquiring what peo
pie will soy will never give them an op
portunity of sayn' anything grea,
about him.
The only way by which capital can
increase is by saving. If you spend as
much as you get, you wiU never be rich
er than you arc.
TIij happiness of the human race in
this world does not consist in our being
devoid of passions, but in our learning
to command them.
There is no time in a man’s Ufai when
he is so great as when he cheerfully
hows to the necessity of his position,
and makes the best of it.
He who has been spoiled by *no®®“
may readily be sweetened, but he who
has7 been spoiled by non-success baa
lost wholesomeness forever.
Treat the evil companion with “skill
ed negligence,” and you will never have
to bear tLe curses that come home to
roost.
I,’Estrange says:—“So lonK “ ^
?tand boggling at imaginary evils letus
never blame a horso for starting at a
9hLoveis a great deal Ukethe small
no It it hard to determine at firat
whether il is the genuine disease ora
'"one^prinlS'point of good breeding
is to suit our behavior to the three
several degrees of men—our supen jot,
our equals, and tho e below
Three things too much and three too
little are pernicious to men: To speak
much and know little; to spend
and have little; to presume muchandbe
W ifman, or woman either, wishes to
realize the full power of personal beau
ty, it must be by cherishing noblehopes
and purposes, by having something to
do and something to live for.
Nothllf in It.
D*“S’pose,you have read the preeideat’i
message?" inquired an oldcoloredl man
as he was sweeping an office on Lamed
street the other day.
“Anything speshnl in it?"
“No, not much." _
“Say anything ’bout de way parta
ors has ris up in pricer
“Anything ’bout the world gwine to
end on de Slst?”
“GuTnyfigge™ in dar to play poUoy
on?”
“I didn’t see any.’ ,
“Did he say it was gwine to he a hard
W “No; he didn’t even mention the sub
^"^“Didn’t give any cures for chilblains
or sore froats?*1
“Den what’s de good of any message?
What’s de use of sittin’ dar an fooBn
’round an’burning the gas? Sakes to
gracious! Pears like if I couldn t squeeze
in at leas’ one leetle cure fnr corns in a
seben-column message, I’d let de old
flng go, an’ take my chances on a raffle
•fur a Christmas goose!”
of
Green manuring, or the plowing —
oreen crops, is especially adaptea for
Fight, sandy soils, which need humus to
increase their retentive power.