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McHENBY, «r :KS 4„ ^ I* 0 „ ' % < V w-„t M *• 1 * *•* j . li^'Pw iw'^pNi c * •*" ' H * „ -®F' • 5;-, *>•1,WJ'̂ ?W ^7-: '*£• *,•*-;? •;' |'• *2. * # f w r y ; * & ' y % - r r ^ M h ? * * < * # • - j ^ s « > $? *4 • 'V? *7,' £r*k?c; & V . ? 4E yb" F , * • ' ^ &• ̂ 1' >¥' »VI « V N * ' ,5vjfciC: IPS XI' •; Mfrtftrntg flamJcalti I. VAN SLYKE, tSKer aM Publisher. ILLINOIS. 9 WEEKLY IEWS REVIEW. 1HG EAST. Til will of William F. Weld, who died rertatly at Philadelphia, coven an estate of $21,000,000, the bulk of which goes to four grandchildren. The widow and daughters are given annuities of §20,000, and two sous will reoeivo $500,000 each. In a six-days' walking match at New York, Fitzgerald came in first with a record of 582 miles and fifty-five yards, beating the best previous record (that of Robert Tint, 578 miles, in May, 1S81) by four miles and a few yards.... The tMal number of deaths from small-pox in New York last year ™ 450, and from scarlet fever, 1,961. This is 419 more deaths from small-pox than in 1S80, and an excess of 671 cases of scarlet fever. The record of all classes of oontagions diseases shows a great increase over the record for 1880 New York reports for the year the erection of nearly 2,500 buildings, at a cost of #47,000,000. ....By the I turning of a boarding house at Richlnrg, N. Y., Gilbert Abet* and wife were seriously burned, and their threo children per­ ished in the flames. By the breaking of a bridg# over ths Kennebunk river a passenger train on the Boa- ton and Maine railroad was precipitated down a high embankment, and, the cars taking fir#, a scene of horror occurred. Out of the 100 pas­ sengers very few escaped unhurt. One was killed, one fatally wounded, three seriously hurt, and sixty others braised and injured.... Oscar WUde, the English esthete, who arrived in New York last week bj the Arizona is 28 yean of age and six feet four inches in height. Be says he oame to lecture and see the country, and will not return to England until he does. Washington Butchers' Sons, of Phil­ adelphia, have settled with their creditors at the rate of 40 per cent. Ms. Darlington, the head of the Chicago branch, has retired. THE WEST. H. Crknbhaw, a saloon proprietor of Kansas City, was arrested for beating his wife. He turned upon Officer Hynes, the oldest mem­ ber of the polioe force, and fi~«l four shots, killing him in the street. The officer succeeded in inflicting a mortal wound upon his mor­ as against an exoess ef iS9^MS,090 for the pre­ ceding year. The following is the pablio debt state­ ment for December: Bixper cent, bonds, extended..........t 140,682^00 Fivo por eentn, attended <01,WW,900 Four and owe-half per oeut. bonds. .. •« |8lM,flOO.(iO0 Four w®r erat.bonds. ... • • '••••W,'<72,560 ttofundin# oortiftcatee 675.'ISO iiavj |»eusiou fund ...•••» 14,'*>o,nOQ Total interest-bearing Mt.. $1,554,534,680 Matnnd d«U 11,528,365 l^illondtn $ 844,740, #96 Certificates of deposit... 9,590,000 Gold and silver oertlH- catcs 78,863,850 Fractional currency 7,076,926 437,270,211 Total without interest. Total debt .$4^)03,333,078 Total interest 15.536,619 Cash in treasury ........ 1353,877,980 Debt lew oash In taWnr*. .fl,76r>,«»l ,717 spn-;: "v : T .'A- i"./ a At San Francisco, CaL, a elerk named Beed, rendered temporarily insane by doss ap­ plication to woik, shot and killed his mother- in-law, fatally wounded his daughter, and then killed himself....The receipts ior the single performance of the " Messiah " at Cincinnati, with Patti as the principal attraction, were f 19,443. At Short Creek, Mo., two boys named Williams and Gates, aged 7 and 5 years, while at play quarreled and had a fight. Before this was ended young Williams ran into his homo, etoee by, and secured a revolver belonging to one of the cider members of the family, and discharged the weapon at his little adversary, killing lam almost instantly Three men em­ ployed in the Paradise tunnel, near Silverton, ColorMio, wen* buriwi 100 feet deep in a anow- Sttde. Kbab Louisiana, Mo., John Morgan 089 Qi Bill AndeWon'a guerrillas, was shot and killed by his brother, Morgan Shaw. The murder arose from a family feud a Wont the division of the father's property. In May, 1880, Joha Morgan Shaw shot and killed his brother. Perrin sjn&w, and this second tragedy is the result, of the first. The fall bench of the Supreme Court •f Kinsas, in passing upon an agreed case, has made a decision which will invalidate nearly all the laws passAd by the legislature of IM |>ooreaae during December Decrease sliioo .Tune 30, 1881.......... • Current liabilities-- Internet due and unpaid...*... ........*4} Debt on which Internet has 8SMS&...... Interest thereon Oold and ailver certificates United States notes held for redtunpttoa of oerttfieatea of depoeik Cash balanoa avallabls Jan. S, ........ Total.... Available aeset»-- Oash in treasury,... 12,793,(23 75,107,0»4 1,311,845 11,538,265 714,685 73,863,350 0,590,000 156,369,534 f 353,377,980 .% 358,377,980 * K \ ISf'r W>: FT,R; _ 'TOtewor row bmkmrs wpo weieiiW lly elected. Among tw iawe thus made ^ is the prohibition constitutional amend- Th* Territorial Division Convention of Dakota has recsmmended the division of the Cemtory on the forty-sixth parallel, admitting the southern part as a State and the northern part as a Territory, to be called South and North ll^lepta, respectively. THK SOUTH. ^abhekii White, a negro, was hafiged in Watersboro for the murder of Frederick Bellinger, another n«gro, in 1878. William Henry Erb was hanged at St Louis for the murder of his wife. A triple hanging at Mans­ field, Lwas forestalled by the recent escape of the condemned from the jail at Shreve- port A moBo from Cairo infected the whole town of Milan, Tenn., with small-pox. Nearly twenty cases are under treatment; ami t*r<» pest-houses have been established. The perpetrators of the recent terrible tngedy at Ashlaad, Ky., have been arretted, and they have stade a full confession. Their Btmes are Wtlttass Seal, KUig Craft and George Bills, all waits. T%» rtrange^t part of the story »ttil ill tfiiie flf flMii were preseut at the burning mt sfe* kecae, whieh thsy had set oa toe to oonaeal tibr.i crime; that one of them move the h«ar«e at the funeral of the three victims, and another aoted as pall-l«arer A frightful tragedy was iatelv enacted near Mtoden, La. Robert Lewis, son of the late Jndge Langdon Lewis, and brother of Will 8. wwu, shot Mrs. Will S. Lewis and her sister Thomson, both severely, and then killed known. Bonds issued to Pacific railway eoatpaa- les, interest payable in lawful toeosgr, principal outstanding f 64,633.513 Int«rastV«rv<ed and not yet paid • 1,93K,7H5 Interest pitid by United States......... 61,467,273 Interest repaid by oompaniea-- Interest repaid Dy transportstbm at maite -...i Bj oaA payments of o per oenu at nst 14,707,886 earnings. 666,}96 Balance of Interest paid by the United States. 96,104,186 The following is an official statement for the year ending Dec. SI, 1881, just com­ pleted by the Treasury Department: Decrease in the principal of the interest- bearing debt, §120,730.800 ; decrease in the interest accrued and unpaid, $6,069,768.35; total decrease, $126,- 790,559.35 ; less increase in the debt bearing no interest, 324,134,011.80 ; increase in the debt on which interest has ceased, #43,870; total increase, $24,178,781.80 ; net decrease in prin­ cipal and interest, $102,611,777.55; increase of cash in the treasury, •31,078,24L35; total net decrease, $133,690,018.90. A Postmaster in Pennsylvania in­ forms the Postoffice Department that a doctor who is treating a number of small-pox patients persists in calling at the office for his maiL The Postmaster has been informed that the law cannot help him. CEHIGRAL. Dun, Wtman & Co.'s mercantile agen- ey reports the business failures throughout the country for the week ending Dec. 30 as 161, which is lower thsn the preceding week, bnt fully np to the highest average which has been maintained for some months past. The distri­ bution is as follows: Western States. 60; 8 mth- em, 44; Middle, 27; Eastern, 16; Pacific, 6; New York city, 10. Qih. Gbant has recently reached the conclusion that Gen. Fits John Porter was deeply wronged by dismissal from the army, and he will address an earnest appeal to Presi­ dent Arthur for the prompt restoration of the disgraoed leader. Abtio&bs of incorporation have been prepared for the Gulf and Pacific Railway Company, which proposes to construct about 1,130 miles of track from New Orleans to Isleta, New Mexieo. It is intended to make Gen. Daniel £. Sickles President. James G. Blaine, £% J. yewHell^ •tin na r\f Vaw Vrtl'V ' the Nickersons of Boston, are said to be inter­ ested. Postmasters throughout the country are appealing to the department at Washing* ton for protection against the small-pox. Four postmasters have died from the disease, con­ tracted, it is supposed, from infected mail matter. Gen. BOTIXANGEE and the five re­ members of the Frcnch cause of the 'tngedy is un- \<s - {4-1 k ' •- H - = I '%* !•'; f t - r % f, m-&: Threk brothers named McDonald, *ho murdered a man named Martin, made an attempt to escape from jail at Graham, Texts. Jhey first sprang upon and disarmed a turn­ key, shooting him in the hand. Another offi­ cer oame to his relief and was instantly killed. They then fled with the wonnded jailer, and were pursued for 300 yards by the citizens, tile murderers being killed in the battle. Two of the citizens were wounded, Jakes Isox died in Richmond, Ky,, last Sunday, after having attained the age of 102 years. His life was an eventful one. Dar­ ing the war of 1812 he passed the time in a cave in the mountains, making saltpeter for the manufacture of gunpowder for the American aimy Near Eagle Springs, east of El Paso, Tex., eleven Chinamen engaged in surfacing «p the track of the Southern Pacific were mas­ sacred by Apache Indians. The three men in custody as the per­ petrators of the fearful tragedy at Aahiand, Ky., were removed from Catlettsburg to Maysville for greater security against impend­ ing action by a mob. The law officers to slip their prisoners on board a river steamer, and got them away before anybody knew what was afoot. When the citizens heard of it they seized another steamer and gave chase, hat finally relinquished the pursuit on ascer­ taining that a detachment of militia was on board with the prisoners, and that any attempt to get possession would be resisted by foroo of aims. Finally, the three prisoners were safely boosed in the jail at Maysville, where it is be­ lieved they can be held secure againat d&* •ta" of the would-be lynchers. % Washington, The attention of Congress is about to be called to the irregularities in the office of the Comptroller of the Currency in winding up in­ dent national banks. It is alleged that ex- Orhltant fees have been allowed to receivers and attorneys, and that one bank in New fork has been favored with the sale of all bonds belong­ ing to wrecked institutions. Congressman Herbert, of A1nh«.iw ̂ recently introduced a bill, now in the 9f the House Judiciary Committee, which, if passed, will completely revolutionise the pies- ent system of paying United States District At­ torneys. It abolishes the nominal salary, fees Wd percemagos now allowed bylaw, and pro­ vides a yearly salary in hen thereof The President returned from Now York to the White House on the last day of the old year, and on New Year's day gave a public reception. Fob the twelve months ending Not. 90,1881, the excess of exports of merchandise ftou the United State® mm §135,123,212, and imports of gold s,nd silver coin ' bullion for the same period was $62,983,036, saion to '•part eft We United >,8tateCv MdiSTlSr pe last week....Death has paimed Dr. J6hn W. Draper, the author ; Clen^nt C. Clay, an old-time Southern politician and former Senator from Alabama, and Dr. Hotchkiss, of Buffalo, a famous theologian. The Sub-Treasurer at San Francisco found his vaults so completely filled with silver that he refused to receive any more from the Collector of the port. The Secretary of the Treasury ordered the continued receipt of silver, and will a«k Congress for an appropriation for additional storage capacity. POLITICAL. A thorough reconciliation seems to have taken place between President Arthur and Collector Robertson, and it is said that the candidacy of the latter for Governor of New York is looked upon with favor by the flhiof Magistrate. fOBDOll. One coasting steamer and two steam­ ers engaged in the Mediterranean trade an finally given up as lost during the November gales. The loss of life is 110. The trial trip through the Si Gothard tnnnel was highly successful The time occu- pied in the passage of the train was fifty min­ utes one way and thirty-three the other way. Jakes Gordon Bennett boa gone to St Petersburg to confer with the Czar in re­ gard to a polar expedition on a new plan, in which the base of operations will be the mouth of the Lena Once more a failure is recorded in the effort to fix np a commercial treaty be­ tween France and England. This time the hitch occurred on the duty on cotton and wool­ en goods, the French Commission failing to re­ duce the figure to the minimnm fixed Dy the English Commissioners. Emperor William received numerous congratulations on the seventy-fifth anniver­ sary of his entrance into the German army.... In one of the suburbs of London, two Mormon missionaries, attempting to hold service, were forced by a mob to seek refuge at police head­ quarters The President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Ladies' League at Roscommon, Ireland, have been arrested.... By means of forged cablegrams from Madrid in regard to a lottery ticket, a banking-house in Havana wa# tricked into negotiating a $500,- 000 prize. The scheme was boon exposed, the principal operator arrested, apd most of the money recovered William Harrison Ains- wortb, the English novelist, has just died at the age of 76 years. In a speech at Birmingham, ranging John Bright supported the policy of the Gov­ ernment in dealing with the situation in Ire­ land. He justified the coercion measures on the ground of absolute necessity, and referred to the ruling spirits in the recent Chicago Con­ vention as "though mistaken, honest and pa­ triotic, but they took their ideas of Ireland' from the basis'of bygone times." Joseph Charriol, of Bordeaux, France, has been for­ mally declared a bankrupt. His liabilities ara 15,000,000 francs, and he has absconded. The Cardinal Archbishop of Rouen urges the Government of Italy to choose an­ other capital, and to leave Rome to the Pope, to avert the neoeesity of his removal from that city. Business Failures in 1881. The total number of business failures for the entire year 1881 throughout the United States is stated by the mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co. to be 6,582, involving liabilities of slightly over $81*000,000. The failures for the year previous were only 4,785, with liabilities of $65,000,000. The in­ crease is, however, regarded by the agency as small in proportion to the enormous growth of the volume of trade, and especially in proportion to the number of per- sons engaged in business. Compared with 1878, the showing is strongly to the ad­ vantage of the year just closed, the failures in that year being 10,400, and liabilities $234,- 000,000. In the year 1881 only one person in every 140 engaged in business has failed, while in 1880 the j roportion was one in every 158. in 1879 one in every 10S, and in 1878 0B6 in merr sixty-four. The figures of the year and the facts presented are interpreted by the agency as confirmatory of the impression that the trade of Uw wufa; is prosperous in a safe condition. Shall herrings are packed as sardines m factories on the coast of Maine, but they appear in Am market as French brands. OTRtAU TRIAL* •airnrrn mi. As the assassin was led into eoart by the bailiffs, he passed a moment at the table where his counsel sat and whispered to Sooville : "If you will only keep quiet to-day I will laugh this ease out of court. As soon as he reached the dock he shouted «vui: "Some leading; in America consider me the fcrealc<«t they have met in some time. At 8 o'clock last night 1 received a telegram, which 1 will read for the edification of this audience aatd/he Amerioan people: MMr. Charles J. Gultean, Washington, D. O.S "All Boston sympathizes with you. Tea ought to be President (Signed) "A Host or Admires*. " Pausing a moment, he branched off into a rambling harangue, quoting scripture, and comparing himself to the "meek and lowly Jesus," who used plain language, though some­ times severe. " I have been accused of using too harsh language," he added, " but I take my pattern from the Savior of mankind. I shall submit my n&mo to the next National Repub­ lican Convention. I shall expect to be before it There are only two men in the country who want me hung. One is Judge Porter, who ex­ pects to get $6,000 from the Government if I am oonvioted, and the other is Cork lull, who expects to get bounced, &ad wfee knows 1 am the canse of if Dr. Keropoter took the stand and Bcovills re­ sumed his erosB-exsmination. Witness did not believe in temporary Insanity in the sense that persons oould be insane and wholly reoover from it in an hour. Upon the witness learng the stand Corkhill announced that he had but one more witness to introduce on the part of the Government. Booville replied: " We have some witaesnes whose names have been presented since wo elosed our case, and I shall ask the oourt to permit us to have them sworn, and our reason will be upon the ground of newly-discovered evidenoe material ?.« the case." Davidge--" Could you give lis an idea how much time you will want upon surrebuttal 7" BcovUle--"Several days; probably all of next week." Davidge--" We nrast object, your Honor, to a reopening of this case." Scoville insisted that he did not desire to de­ lay the trial or oonsnme the time of the eoart but the prosecution had consumed weeks with these expert witnesses, meeting with them nightly and conferring with them in prepara­ tion of this case, and he did not propose to be eat short in the matter of lime. He would re­ new, however, his proposition that the jury be allowed to separate and go to their homes, relying upon their honor and integrity. The question of permittng the jury to dis­ band was dismissed by the foreman announc­ ing t hat they preferred not to separate, pro­ vided that they could have reasonable oppor­ tunity for exercise and to obtain fresh air. Corkhill proceeded to reply to what he termed counsel's aspersions upon the "dis­ tinguished medtoal gentlemen who did honot to their States." sjeoviile miJied to Corkhill, and surprised every one by making one of the best ana most impressive speeches that has been heard in the court-room since the opening of the triaL Some manifestation of applause followed the conclusion of his speech, bat it was quickly checked by the court. Dr. John P. Gray, Medical Superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, took the stand. Witness had made the study of insanity his business since 1850, and in that time had treated or investigated 12.000 cases of insanity. He had never seen a single instanoc where the only indication of insanity was an exhibition of immorality or wickedness. He did not believe ill what had been called "moral insanity." It was impossible to dissever mental unity so as to locate the impairment of morol nature that was not accompanied by intellectual deteriora­ tion. Insanity in itself had no more tendency to excite to crime than neuralgia or any other disease. It puts nothing new into a man's na­ ture : it only perverts what is already there. Di. Si») nuiLeii thai ho iiam uiuuu a wvi- ODgh, complete and satisfactory examination of the prisoner at the jail, and gave at some length the details of his examination and conver­ sation with the prisoner. Witness atked the pris­ oner the question : " Suppose the President had offered the Paris Consulship during the time von were reflecting upon the subject of remov­ ing him, would von still have shot him V" and he replied : " WelL that would have settled the matter. I should have taken the position." Gniteau called out from the dock: " 1 said if of JtilteTtw difference. Witness asked prisoner how he came to shoot the President, and his reply was: " I came to the conolusion the political situation justified it I gradually h. came convinced of this, and I resolved upon his removal." Gniteau shouted again: " That knocks your Paris Consulship, ana shows there was no mal- ioe in it--not an element of murder in it, bat political necessity." Witness then inquired of the prisoner in re­ gard to his alleged inspiration, and asked him if it came to him in the fcrm of a voice, or vision, or direct command, and his reply was: "No, it came into my head, a conception, and I re­ flected upon it until I resolved that it was justified by the situation." Witness then asked the prisoner how this statement accorded with his theory of inspira­ tion, and his reply was: " The inspiration was in the form of pressure constantly upon me to commit the act." Gniteau--'"That's all there is to the case, short and to the point You can talk about it •is years if yoa want to." TBIRTT-SIXTH DAT. At tbe opening of court Gniteau called eat: * One of my guards here, Cunnmghlm, has got an eleven-pound baby for a New Year's present." [Laughter, in wkieh the jury heart­ ily joined] Dr. Gray resumed the story of his conversa­ tion with the prisoner in jail. Guiteaa continually interjected comments, and with Scoville's frequent objections witness soon became sensibly disturbed, and, when asked to go on, 8aid: "There have been so many interruptions I don't know where I ito.•* retorted; "I shouldn't rfto.' Gniteau quickly think you did, nor any one eke. I have been trying all the morning to find out where you •re. The fact is, you are badly lost this morn­ ing, doctor. We will have to send a small boy to hna you." Witness did not find a single circumstance. as narrated by the prisoner, that would indi­ cate to his (witness') mind insanity. He was of opinion, judging by his examination of the prisoner in the jail, and from his observation of him in sourt, that he is sane at this Corkhill then read the lengthy hypothetisal question of the prosecution. Guiteau suggested that there WflS BO B0C0E* wty to repeat that bosh, as everybody had heard it a dozen timeH. The auggebtion wu unheeded, ,Rud the prisoner added ; " Two- tliirdn of that is false, and it me msd every time I hear it read." As the reading proceeded he continually called out: "That is false 1" "All false !'* How do yon know ? " " That's Smith's lie!" and similar expressions. Witness replied: "I believe him to have been sane on July J," 6™tea,i shouted: "The whole substratum . * How can the doctor give a truthful answer i " Witness then gave at great length full details of what he had observed in the conduct and sayings of the prisoner in the oourt that led him (witness) to believe in his sanity. Refer­ ring to the prisoner's claim that the' Deity in­ spired the act, he was interrupted by G-uitean, who called out: " Yes, and Hell take care of «, too. Dr. Gray. I'll stake my Mfe on it" Witness was asked: "Do you thinfc the prisoner has been feigning in oourt ?" And replied : " Yes, 1 do. He «!*<«« an inspiration from the Deity, I don't believe that he believes any such thing, and in such a sense he is feigning and 'acting a part" Guiteau--"No such thing. I never feign. iou are paid for your opinion • the jury is not" * ' Sooville began eross-examination. Witness was asked if ha had testified as expert in cases of persons on trial for capital crimes, bnt be­ fore he could reply Guiteaa supplemented the wrfang out: "Mow u many men question by nave you nelped tp bang t Witness was not aware of a case where he had pronounced a sane man lim^ or w^ere he had adjudged an insane man sane. He ad­ mitted, however, that his views upon some types of ins&nitv had changed since be bezan to study the subject Guiteau--" You live to learn, then, like other people. If you live twenty years longer you may know something about insanity. You ma^ reach the Abiabsmic type by tunei You are a growing man, doctor." Witness stated that he abandoned the theorv of "moral insanity " as far back as 1854 He did not think it would be found in his reports inbsequent to that data as a distinct olassifica- After some further questions oa this mjbiecf Guiteau broke oat impatiently : "The amount •r it is, these experts will swear to auvthing for monw. They will swear to things to-day thev would not have thought of swearing to twentv- five years ago, or would swear to twenty-five years henee. Ttm subject of iasanitv is i nto, (restive one." ' *pr<H Witness waft asked Jbsw he oame to visit Washington te testify in Oils esse, and replied: "I did not sate to mom, but the President of ear board said ha thought it my date to ona*" Sooville--" Thsn you cams on his lnla-^preta- tion of your duty?" (indignantly)--"No^ sir; 1 oame ya a telegram." Gniteau added: "How about Corkhill's money ? 1 guess that was the influence that bionght you here. This fellow Corkhill has got a bunghole in the treasury that will run out ilOQ.OOO before he gets through with this case. It's about time President Arthur was attending to bit* case. I wouldn't let him stay here a week if I were President However, I'll attend to Corkhill in 1884." Sooville endeavored to force an acknowledg­ ment from witness that the conversation and sondnct of the patient were the chief means of determining sanitv or insanity. Witness insisted it was only an incident, and not an essential element in the determination. Sooville--" Why, you don't have any other 'loans when they are a'ive, do you ? You can't dt at the brair to examine it can you ?" Gmteaa--" The exerts on this case want to kill the man and then examine his brain after­ ward." He wao asked if he had ever seen any case of feigned insanity that resembled that of the prisoner (assuming that he is feigning) and re­ plied : " I have not seen any such insanity, real or feigned." The hour of adjournment having arrived, Guiteau, who had been listlessly following the roceedings, called out: " To-morrow will be ew Year's, 1892. I shall receive to-morrow in }ail^ and shall be happy to see all who can suo- i. I wish every one a happy i6. Sconile, it's 8 o'cl ock, let's 1882. ;eed in tret New Year. {phome.' Tne oourt adjourned till Tuesday. WHETT-SEVENTH 3PMT. Guiteau opened court by announcing that he had many New-Year callers, none of whom Wanted him hanged, and all of whom believed he would be acquitted. Dr. Gray took the stand, and Scoville re- suihed thecross-examination. Witness had not in giving hia opinion on the direct examination that the prisoner was sane, taken into account the evidence of the prisoner himself, but taking that element into consideration his opinion would still be'the same--that the prisoner is sane, and was sane on the 2d of July. Witness did not believe in what is teimed by some writers "emotional insanity," or "moral insanity." "Kleptomania," he considered simply thieving ; "dipsomania," drunkenness, and " pysomania," incendiarism. These desig­ nations were simply convenient t^ms which bad been invented to cover certain crimes. " Insanity," said the witness, "is never trans­ mitted any more than cancer." Sooville desired to put in evidence certain tabulated statements from the annual reports of witness. From these it appeared that of fifty-four oas«^of homicides by insane people, seven were by persons acting under an insane delusion of divine authority for their acts. At the rtruest of the District Attorney witness described briefly these cases and added, " each case was one ot marked insanity, independent of the homici dal act" Dr. Gray was a^ked a few more questions by Sooville, when the District Attorney announced tbe conclusion of the examination on the part of the Government Dr. Bowker, of Kansas City, was ealled by Scovi le. The witness met Mrs. Dnnmire at Leadville, CoL, and conversed with her. She said "she had entertained grave doubts as to the mentfil condition of Guiteau at the time she obtained her divorce, and thought at the time she had better defer the divoros proceedings, and await some further developments in the mental condition of her hasband." Clark Mills, the sculptor, was called for the purpose of identifying the plaster cast of Guiiean's head. At tbe first question, "Did yon make a plaster cast of the prisoner's head ?" Davidge objected to any reopening of the question of insanity, suoh as would be in­ volved by the identification of the cast by this witness. TJie question oi insanity hau been gone over direct and in rebuttal. The prose­ cution had already admitted the genuineness of the east. That was all that could be asked by the defense. After farther arguments, the court ruled against Sooville, and the witness was with­ drawn. The prisoner undertook to read a letter, as he claimed, from an old friend of President Garfield, in'Ohio, showing that publio opinion was making ii\ his favor. " him to be silent Eon fofrMHTofltoi's ooufi rooL.. Judge XVMfc--" Be silent Publio opinion hai nothing to do with this case." Guiteau--'" When I speak, I speak to 60,000,- 000 people, not to this litttle crowd In this oourt-room." Marshal Henry (rising and moving toward the dock)--Keep quiet, sir. Guiteau--rve got through. The Marshal whispered some instructions to the bailiff Bitting in the dock. A moment later the prisoner started upon another harangue, and the baifrff put his hand upon his shoulder and attempted to quiet him. Gniteau--" Get away from me or I'll slap you in the mopth." With this outburst he subsided, however, and turned his attention to writing auto­ graphs. Scoville again brought up the question of introducing new witnesses, and, after argu­ ment, an agreement was made that tbe defense inbuilt a motion in w riting to-morrow, giving the names of witnesses and the facts to be testified to, and supported. by affidavit, Riving the reason why suon witnesses were not intro­ duced before. WBTI-BieHTB DAT. Bcoville, counsel for the defense, offered I motion for the admission of farther evidenoi to prove the insanity of the prisoner. Dr. McFarland, of Illinois, was to prove from what he had read in the papers that Guiteau was insane, and some Government detectives were to testify to the same from interviews held with him soon after the assassination. Other witnesses would declare that he had acted in a crazy manner a few days before he committed the crime, and Dr. Beard, of New York, was ready to swear that the assassin was crazy. After a good deal of discussion on the part of Scoville, Corkhill and Davidge, Judge Cox ruled against the admission of evidence of in- eaniiy in *ur-rebuttai. J. J. Brooks, Chief of the Treafiury Secret Service, was then called as a witness, and gave the details of an interview with the prisoner on the night of the shooting The prosecution then submitted to the court the points for the instruction of tho jury. During the reading of them, Judge Davidge was frequently interrupted by tho assassin. They are as follows: t The legal tent of responsibility, where intaa- 1 far is set up ag a dsfense for an alleged crime, is whether the accused, at tho time of committing the •ot alleged, knew the difference between right and wrong in respect to such act; hence, in the present caae, if the accused at the time of committing tbe act charged knew the difference between right and wrong in respect of such act; that is, if he knew what he was doing and that what he was doing wu contrary to the law of the land, he is responsible. Guiteau--" I didn't, because my free agency was destroyed." 2. If the accused knew what he was doing, and ttiat what he was doing was contrary to the law of the laud, lhconstitutes no defense, even If it wert true that w hen he committed the act he really be­ lieved he wa« thereby producing a public benefit or carrying ont an inspiration of divine origin or ap­ proval, suoh belief would not afford an oxcuhp, uor would Buch excuse be afforded by the fact that in the commission of the act he was impe'led by a depraved moral sense, whether innate or acquired, or by evil passion or indifference to moral obligation. Guiteau--"All of which is false." 8. Insanity would, however, constitute a defend* if by reason of the disease accused, at the time ol committing the act charged, did not know what h« was doing, or, if he did know it, that what he wai doing was contrary to law. Guiteau--" I had no choice in the matter." 4. The only evidence in the present case tendioi to show an irresistible impulse to commit the homi­ cide in the claim of tbe accused that his free agencj was destroyed by his alleged oonviction that tbe death of the President was required for die good oi the American people and was divinely inspired ; bul snoh conviction, even if it really existed, could nol afford any excuse when the party knew what he waa doing and that it was contrary to law--no mere de­ lusion or error of judgment, not even a fli.-d beliel that what ia prohibited by law 1s commanded or aD- yroved by divine authority-- Guiteaa--" God's law is higher than man's law." --can exempt th£ accused from responsibility foi breaking the law. To have such an effoct the com­ mission of lite act charged must have been the rexnll of sn insane delui-lon which was the product of dis­ ease, and such force as to deprive the accused of a degree of reason necesnary to distinguish between right and wrong in respt ct of tho act, so that at the •(me of committing the act he either did not know what he was doing, or, if he did, that the act was wroog or contrary to the law of the land. •eoville announced to the court that the ease of the defense was closed, and the court ad- Jsoraod for three days, in order to allow oounsel time for the preparation of their ar­ guments. The Prince of Gerolstein was hunting s boar. At a critical moment, the courtiers were surprised to find his Highness perched in a tree. The bold­ est of them testifying a little surprise at this: " Ah 1" cried the Prince with a fierce air, " had it been a lion, now!" Then in the moat contemptuous tone: "But only a pig 1" The Wrecks by 8m ml Other Bis- Asters of the Put Tear. Suicide, Ho Executions. WN Wrecks •( (he fear 1881. The most disastrous wrecks of the year are fciten below, with the nambepi of lives lost appended: _ . _ _ Live* Lost Bark Happy Home, NovaSootla....'. 3 Steamer Parley, coastjof J uUand, all on board loirt .. Ship Indian Chief, mouth of the Thames 18 Btoainer Harrelda and steamer Leon, collision, both Mink. 45 Bark John Zitteeon, English coast A....'. 6 Ships C:ipe Sable and Wild Iiode "i-sO. S5. Ship Lupate, all lost Japanese steamer sunk near Ynknhnmt gj Ship Leonore, English coast 9 Three vessels lost on English coast _ 44 Steamer av Singapore, India. " 70 Twolve fishing vessels in Bay of Bisoay.......... 40 Englifih steamer foundered 18 ahip Bremen, Shetland isles 18 Steamer Bohemian, Dunleigh bay......... ; 89 Bark Hazard, off Nantucket 7 Bark Fannie, never heurd from. 2% Schooner David E. Wolf 4 Steamer Clatsop Obief 4 Schooner Irving G. Hull, off Newfoundland 9 Bark Ajaca, off Roekaway, N. Y. 11 Twenty vessels ou Scotch coast 200 Schooner N. H. Skinner, off Cape Odd........4.. 1 Steamer iost on English coast 14 Schooner Minnie, New Bmnswiek 4 Schooner Huntington # Steamer Misspah, near Copenhann. 11 Steamer Tarartia, New Zealand.......... SO War sloop Doterel .........145 Schooner on Nova Scotia ooMt 80 Schooner Ernestine, Nova Scotia coast........... 6 Steamer Victoria, London, Canada «... 312 Steamer Teuton, South Africa,. 316 Propeller Columbia, lakes 20 Hchoonnr VanVnlkonberg, lakes........ 7 Ship IViesburg, Oregon. 10 Ship O-Heutta 13 Schooner Guy Cunningham, Grand Banks 14 Steamer Cyprian, Welsh coast 32 Steamer Corsica, Cape Boca * 21 Steamer Clan Macduff. Welsh cctast 40 Steamer Konig der Nederlander 175 Steamer Jennie Gilchrist, Mississippi river 9 Steamer Calliope, Spanish coast, all on board Steamer Calcutta! Melbourne 33 Ship Omaha, all hands Schooner E. P. Dorr, lost on Lake Brie 7 Ship Cuicean, English coast 17 Steamer Altiita, near Panama 33 Steam-yacht Lucerne, near Gravesend 7 Steamer Jackal, foundered in St. George's channel 10 Propeller Jane Miller, Georgian bay..... 35 Steamer Saxon Monarch, Bay of Biscay 40 Steamer Sol way, explosion, Irinh channel 11 Bark Helen lee, Bunk, Queenstown • The total number of lives lost upon the ocean so far as they were reported wiiPreaoh nearly 5,000. Diiastera Below we print a list of the great disasters daring the year, with aooompanying loss of life, both in this country and abroad. The summary includes only those which have been reported Dy telegraph, and is as follows in the United States: I Live* Lost Burning of a tenement, New York 10 Boiler explosion, AUcntown, Pa. 13 Burning of asylum, Scran ton, Pa 17 Sinking of ferry boat, Elgin, 111 10 Distillery explosion, Peoria, 111 14 Forest fires. Michigan 400 Sinking of ferry boat, Atlanta, Ga 13 Fire, Philadelphia 20 Sinking of ferry boat, Troy, N. Y 10 Explosion on steamer West Point 19 Burning of poor-house, Dover, N. H 13 In addition' to these detailed disasters we have prepared the following general summary of the loss of life in this country by wind, water, fire, explosions and other causes: hiMS lost. Boiler explosions 143 Varnish explosions 4 Powder ezploslons 80 Nitro-gljcerine explosions 36 y.res 91 Kerosene explosions H Linseed-oil explosions.... 13 Dynamite explosions 6 Lightning 7 Snow slides .....44 Floods 48 Mines 41 Tornadoes 187 Miscellaneous 49 The more important disasters not in thid W TtftWTtiH. Burning of theater, Cronstadt $ Boiler explosion, Shrewsbury, England...... 11 Flooding of mine, Cornwall f Colliery explosion, Choll, England IS Avalanche, Savoy, Switzerland. 15 Torpedo explosion, Melbourne..... 9 Barthqtuake, Isehis........ ; 800 Burning of opera house, Nice.. 125 Earthquake, Sclo 8,000 Fire, Quebec ;..... 11 Railroad accident, Guantla, Mexico *. 205 Co.Iiery explosion, Dartmund, Prussia 17 Powder explosion, Mazatiau, Mexico SO Mine explosion, Lourches, i'ranoo 10 Fire, Sar Domingo 'JS Fai of tenement, Vienna 20 Fall of tenement, Marsell.es 17 Kailroad accident, Charen'ton, France S3 Forest flres, Algeria. 61 Land-slide, Switzerland...................... 200 Earthquake, Anatolia... n Freshets, Mexico boo Waterspout, Algeria........ 66 Storm on English coast 867 Storm at Boulogne Ill Colliery explosion. Spain. 15 Gag explosion, Italy 40 Dynamite explosion, England. 13 Colliery explosion, Belgium 66 Burning of Ring Theater, Vienna. 449 Bursting of dam, Algeria. 400 Colliery explosion. 42 Panic in church, Warsaw. 40 Total abroad.. Total at home. ...11,273 ...1,243 Execntl Ninety perrons were executed by legal process in the United States during the year 1881, of which twenty-four were in tne Northern States and sis-ty-ais. in the Southern States. The list by States is as follows : Arkansas 15 Alabama 8 Arizona. ]. California 2 Colorado. g Florida., 3 Georgia. 8 Idaho 1 Indian Territory 1 Illinois 2 Louisians. J Maryland 2 Mississippi 8 Missouri. 6 New York £ New Jersey North Carolina... New Mexico Nevada Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina... Texas. Tennessee Vermont Virginia West Virginia.... Washington Territory! 1 Total... ...M Mallroad Dlssslm. The year 1881 fias been comparatively free from great disasters upon railroads in this country, though the loss of life by minor acci­ dents has been very large, and much larger than tho telegraph announces, as it brings wit few details of railroad destruction. The principal disasters have been as follows: ,. Lives Lett. Killed by a passing train at Middle creek, Neb 7 Poxtal-car thrown from track at Tioga, N. Y 6 Collision on Northern Pennsylvania railroad 4 Train decked on Hannibal and St. Joe railroad!! 6 Train wrecked on Denver and Bio Grande rail­ road j Train wrecked on Northwestern road (Book Island Division) at Albany, 111...... g Collision on Texas Pacific ........,!! 5 Collision on Kentucky Central. [ 7 Collision on Wabash railroad !| 4 Train wrecked 011 Louisville, Cincinnati sad Lex­ ington railroad * Collision on New York, Lake Erie and. Western railroad . Collision on New York and Erie railroad... 1 Collision on Now York and New England railroad S °i"exas °°nvtote 11111 lnto by •tr4ln*'Corsioana, The total number of persons killed in various ways by railroads during the year, as reported by telegraph, was 1,047 ; of serious injuries, Crime. This following summary includes the number of murders committed in the United States during the year 1881, as reported by telegraph, and their causes bo far as ascertained. Of conrse this includes only a part of tho whols number, as many of the mniders sn not re­ ported. Th» list is as follows: Liquor Jealousy and domestic laflilolty !!!! 133 In self-defensSh 26 Quarrels 4SS Insanity ...*** 47 Infanticide and child-killing 18 Beeenting insult 10 Resisting arrest. ...II 66 By highwaymen .' ....I 57 Burglar.* and 'htevss. 99 Wonirn killed in outrages. iq Feuds and vendettas. go Fratricide. I"" It Unknown oauses. 117 1,268 Domestic Infelicity Ill-health. Disappointment in tow....... Shame Unknown 1 Total..... 8 1S8 .806 during T \. ....109 ....1M Decease *f Csnwssn Ths following centenarians have died the year 1881: Same and Residmm*. Harriet N. Cooper, St. Louis, Mo.i......... Barah Johnston, Piqua, Ohio *»*,»#».. Bridget Gallagher, Cincinnati, Omi> Daniel O'Brien. Scranton, Pa Sarah Ciarb, Rolla, Mo Miller Duvitt, Angola, Ind. Samuel Lane, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Richard Pease, Bumsome, N. J Jaques 8> ebo, Mount Clement, Mich....... Hannah Cole, Home, N. Y James Gf.tes, U rbana, Ohio. Steram Johnson, Salom, Pa..., Rebecca Delaney, Columbus, Oa... Thomas ("ratty, Rockville, Ot...... llrs. Judith Hathaway, Duxbury, 1 £et«y James, Nashville, Tenn.... Hannah Cox, Hulderness, N. H.... Margaret Sane, Williamsburg, N. Mrs. Sarah Moseley, Madison, lad Sabrial Whits, Piqua, Ohio ADDITIONAL NEWS. ON the application of Judge Brown, the Governor of Kentucky ordered the Mc- Creary Guards and the Lexington and Mays­ ville companies to report for ten days' duty in guarding the Gibbons murderers. The Legis­ lature passed a special act to allow the Circuit Court of Boyd county to hold a special session to try the prisoners. AN unsuccessful attempt was made the other day to capture Jesse James, Ed Miller and Jim Cummings, three notorious members of the James gang. Word was received in Kan­ sas City that the desperadoes were in Kay oounty, and a special train on the Wabash rail­ road carried a large party of officers well armed; but the gang had in some manner received an intimation of the raid, and when tne officers arrived at their supposed hiding-place thsy had disappeared. IN his message to the Legislature of Virginia, Gov. Cameron explains that the peo­ ple are willing to pay that portion of the prin­ cipal of the debt properly chargeable to the present State, all agreeing that 3 per cent, is tho highest rate of interest which can safeiv be promised The Ohio Legislature has antici­ pated the graveyard insurance business by con­ sidering a oill to make it a felony. The shipwrecked crew of the schooner Almon Bird, who were fouqd afloat in an open boat off Cape Ann, had a fearful experience. The boat contained five living and two dead men. the surviyors being almost frozen £b death, and their faoes smeared with the blood they had drawn and drank from the veins of one of their dead comrades. They had been three days and three nights adrift in the open sea in bitter winter weather, and their suffer­ ings were almost beyond conception. There were seven hangings on Fri­ day, the 6th inst, in various parts of the country, as follows: Martin Kankowski, at Jersey City, for killing his bride ; Joseph Mi- ohael Kotovsky and Charles Ellis, at St. Louis, for separate murders ; John A. Phelps, at Mar­ shall, Mo., Who killed his employer ; Terrence Achille and Sterling Ben, two colored robbers and murderers, at Franklin, La.; Joseph Ab­ bott, a convict, who killed another oonvict, at Elmira, N. Y....Two thousand five hundred negroes have left South Carolina within a month. The Czar has pardoned the Polish Bo- man Catholic Bishops exiled in 1864... .Almost S year has elapsed since the death of Alexander $ US; FORTT-SETEKTH C9HORES& crowned, although we hear of preparations being made for the event, on a scale of great magnificence. The Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service instructs Division Superintendents to suspend communication with infected local­ ities without waiting to consult him, in order that the department shall not be responsible for the spread of contagions diseases. What with Apaches and cowboyB, the settlers and prospectors in the region of Tomb­ stone, Arizona, are Having a serlofB time of fe. The Indians have been murdering people, and the cowboys raiding*the cattle ranches. It is rumored in Washington that Minister Bingham will return from Japan, to make room for John Russell Young (Grant's Bos well), and run for Cougress in Ohio. talcidee. The following is a list of the suicides com­ mitted in the United States during 1881, sad their causes, the list only including those re­ ported by telegraph: Mc.niicholy. 131 Financial low-- IIIIIIII 37 Liquor IS Tngmnlty.. "Ill,** W GRANT ON PORTER. Hla Chasfe of Heart Cawes Dlnch Tatlk. A Washington telegram says: Hie recent frank, uneqnivooal declaration of Gen. Grant to the effeot that his opinion of the Fitz John Porter case has radically changed, and that he is now convinced Porter is a greatly injured man, is becoming more and more a subject of discussion among Congressmen, offi­ cials, and army people. Gen. Grant's statements are a great surprise to persons who have for many years bitterly denounced Porter and stubbornly defended the action of the court-martial. Gen. Grant's outspoken con­ fession of his own error in this ease, and b<« determination to make amends by doing all he can to remove the stigma from Porter's record, have brought embarrassment to men like Gen. Logan and Gen. Sherman, who during the last Congress claimed to have given a careful study to the evidence produoed before the Schofield Board of Inquiry, and who, despite that evidence, stuck persistently to their old opinion. The friends of Fitz John Porter were very much elated at the frank avowal of Gen. Grant that Porter has been wronged and ought to be vindicated. They expect to get a bill for Porter's reinstatement through thia Con­ gress now without much difficulty. A promi­ nent Republican said to-night that Gen. Grant's change of opinion woald not influence Senator Logan to reverse his judgment and favor the bill to reinstate Porter. He said Logan may, out of respect for Grant, remain silent, but he will not vote for such a bilL The Democrats generally give Gen. Grant credit for an honest change of opinion in this matter. A leading Democratic Senator said to-night that he took no stock in the theory that Grant was maneuvering to catch Democratic votes in favor of a bill for placing his own name on the army retired list He said he knew Grant to be a very candid man, and one ready to make acknowledgment if ho discovered himself to be in error; that, having recently studied the case for the first time, Grant reached the conclusion that his previous opinion had been wrong, |uid frankly said so. This Senator added that, in his opinion, the bill to retire Grant will pass, as several Democratic Senators--perhaps half a dozen--intend to vote for it. Any bill to aim" ply reinstate Porter will receive the support of all the Democrats in Congress ; but should it propose to reimburse him in the shape of back pay it will meet with strong opposition from some Democrats. Porter Appeals to the President. Gen. Fitz John Porter has sent to Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, an appeal to the Presi­ dent for a reopening and rehearing of his ease. Porter asks that he be nominated to the Senate for restoration to his rank in the army. The appeal is indorsed by Gen. Grant, Gen. Terry and many other per­ sons of note. Gen. Grant, in his letter of in- dorsement, states that he is now convinced tk&t Porter rendered faithful, efficient and in­ telligent service, and asks the President to lay the whole matter before the Attorney General for his opinion. Congress reassembled, after the holiday re. ;yi, sees, on Thursday, Jan. 6. The Senate roB- ^'7. call showed fifty-one members of that body,.", : present A number of executive eommnnio^-' -1 tions were laid before the Senate, and nn- ' merous petitions were presented for legisla- tion regulating inter-Slate commerce, *" and '• for increased pay to the life-saving servioe. , On motion of Mr. Garland, the Finance Com- f | mittee was directed to inquire into the ex-L" ^ pediency of refunding the fees paid nnder the **, trade-mark legislation, which has been de­ clared unconstitutional by the Supremo Court. & ' Mr. Anthony introduced a bill to promote the fA efficiency of the navy, and Mr. Maxey presented ^ ' j one to increase the value of the signal service.: ' * In the House, Mr. Orth rose to a question of ; ?> privilege, stating that it grew out of and affect­ ing the recent appointment of the committees ! 1 of the House. Before stating the point speci- vv fically, he said : " I ask indulgence to announce v that it is my purpose at an early day to introduce for consideration a proposition to change the method of selecting committees. . , The vast and diversified interests of .. - the conntry are all more or less affected by Congressional legislation, and this t legislation! as is well known, is almost ex<da-.' v™ siveiy controlled by the action of the commit- •*^ tees. For this reason their formation assumes Hli importance, and is invested with a responsibil- J,3 fty too great to rest in the hands of a single ; individual, however capable and honest f ; and patriotic such individual may be. As ' a' now exercised, it is emphatically one man's ' power, and such power is always dangerous and "'-'tiLi m conflict with the principles of our repubh- P can government It is our duty to see that it' may not at some future period be used to the ' it detriment of tho beat interests of the people." ; i 1 Mr. Orth then made a strong protest against.-,, the treatment he had received* from Speaker -v Xeifer, and closed by asking that he be ex- ensed from serving on the Csmmittes on Rules. si' The Speaker said: "The chair does not un- derstand that it is necessary for him to vindi- cate himself by saying anything in reply. It must not, however, be inferred, because the" chair does not undertake to challenge the state- i; ments charging him with injustice, tuat th«;^i|| chair acquiesces in the views taken by the ^ gentleman from Indiana" (Orth). Orth's request was granted, < and he was ex­ cused from further service on the Committee on Rules. A bill was in­ troduced by Mr. Hawk, of Illinois, providing for the labeling of oleomargarine , and other imitations of bntter with their true name. Mr. Hawk also introduced a bill to re­ organise the militia. Mr. Hewitt caused ths ^ adoption of a resolution of thanks to the Khe- dive of Egypt for the gift ef Cleopatra's nee- ^ die. jil In the Seuate, on the 6th hut., with Mr. Gar­ land in the chair, Mr. Maxey offered a resolu­ tion instructing the Secretary of the Interioi to furnish a report of the survey ofHhe Texas Boundary Commission in 1858. Mr. Sherman moved to take up his 3-per-cent. Bond bill, but wss antagonized by Messrs. Beck and McPherson. A resolution calling for infor­ mation relative to pension frauds was passed. An interesting and important document was •, • sent to the Senate, accompanied by n commu4; j. nication from the President, calling the earnestf attention of Congress to the desirableness oifc¥$$ immediate legislation amending the postal iawft relating to contracts for the star mail s*-rvi<e. ., It has been discovered that the Government;4;',:. is practically without protection against a,*v wholesale system of worthless bonds sub^Jj? mitted by bidders along with their proposals,. and that some legislation is necessary to enable^'?' ^ the Postoffice Department to examine into thevf^ljl' sufficiency of these bonds. During the: '-yi Brady regime great numbers of these worth- less bonds were accepted, and the Govern- ment was left without any remedy when thes 'S; contractors failed to carry out their contracts. The necessity for additional protection in this. matter of straw-bonds was brought to notice, bv Postmaster General James in his explora-^f|{* tions in the domain ot the star-route frauds, ; and the President is so strongly impressed with ' the importance of the subject as to urge ,' JHi upon Congress its immediate consideration. The President nominated to the Senate SamueI; !>; " ;V C. Parks, of New Mexico, to bo Associate Jus-t^'J tice in Wyoming, and Joseph Bell, of New York, , i to be Associate Justice in New Mexico. ThetMv j 8enate adjourned to Monday, 9th. The Houaelfe i was not in session. - A Missouri Tragedy, Montgomery oounty, Mo., has been the scena of a pioet sanguinary trage'dy, the particulars of which are given id the' follotffftf^'l from Montgomery City to a St. Louis paper: " The southern portion of the county is inhab­ ited principally by Germans, who have brought their own customs to this country. There were a number of tie-choppers in that section, uho are generally regarded as a rough ••;t, especially when under the influence of liq­ uor. Among these were tho King boys, as they were generally called. These l>oys would get boisterous as soon as the wine began to have effect, and the Germans would then refuse to give them more when they called for it When liquor was refused them they would break up the furniture and commit alt sorts of deviltry, and had become a sort of terror to the neighborhood. Last Thursday evening while drinking, three of the Kings- Jack, Joe and Thomas--endeavored to break into John Nellison'a residence, near Rhineland, saying they wanted something to drink. Nelh- son refused them admittance and barricaded his door, when they broke ia a window, whereupon Nellison oommenced shooting, and fired three shots at each of them as he saw them. They then left, saying they would re­ turn. He started to a neighbor's for help, and found Jack King dead near the yard gate, with a bullet through his bre&st His brother Joe was shot with light bird<shot. N alb- son was exonerated from all blame by a Coroner's jury at the inquest Friday niglifc about 7 o'clock, the moon shining bright as day, a mob, said to number from twemy-tive to fifty, went to old man King's, near Americus, where the body was taken for burial, and, on old man King's going out and demanding their business, he was told to go into the house. Mrs. King and Mrs. Austin, mother-in-law of Thomas King, then oame out, when, it is said, the mob began firing. The King boys fled out of tho back door, and in the indiscriminate shooting which followed, Mrs. Nancy Austin was killed and Mrs. King received two shots in one of het legs, and Joe King was shot in the abdomen, hand and arm. Thomas Kins: is yet missing, and it is not known whether he isoead or alive, but he is known to be hurt. THIS MARKETS. Frightful Catastrophe. During a Knights of Pythias' festival a< Shanesviile, Tuscarawas oounty, Ohio, the floor gave way, precipitating the company numbering over 200, to the floor below. Twc persons were instantly killed, three other* fatally injured, and between fifty and sixty more or less bruised or burned. The building took fire almost instantly, producing a scene oi the wildest excitement The lights were nearly all extinguished, leaving the shrieking, struggling mass of humanity to grope their way from the ruins almost in the dark. By the prompt ac­ tion of those who escaped uninjured, and ofcboi citizens summoned by the terrible alarm, the fire was subdued, but not until quite a numbei had been more or less burned. The night was pry cold, and the soene is described ats fr^rtkt- in th# ratnma • ® > -- • Upok reptiles the fluid secreted in the head of the toad acts as a powerful irri­ tant. 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