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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 28 Dec 1881, p. 2

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SI 61 71 8 12il3:14fl5 19 20(21.22 23 £6:27,28 29;30 1 61 71 8 13il4il5|16 20j21:22 23 27,28129130 2i Si 4 9 10 11 16 17.18 4 25 31 4 S 10!ll!l2 17 1819 184 25:26 811... D0I3GS OF CONGRESS. bills Jfo#po«d in the.Ben&toajpl.' thf^tbwtt one bjjfc. Williams, of Kcgffeck^ ' j Tjikkk is very general dissatisfaction Moong Congressmen »t the m*ke-up of tfa« Congressional committew. '"®be Western Representatives say that the East has re­ ceived the most important CtniinnaiwhipH, i >to fVcv«ta( the exportation of di#e**ea and the lion's share of the pood committees. - - - -- The New York men are angrj[_ because New ~ " ' " " Commerce bers say ,t reoogni- York is not represented kin Committee, and the Southern thnt their seotion m not, had lion. Will, cry becau 1 tl °° riilliemb mMe ntl *» cjgitorai- In a public written statement Guiteau, the assassin, reviews hia trial, with which he says be is well pleased. He thinks that Judge Cox believes in his idea of inspiration. He holds that tfap Deity compelled him to act in the shooting of President Garfield just as a highwayman compels a man to give him money after placing a pistol at his head. The victim might know it was absolutely wrong to give money that his wife and children needed, but how could he help it with a pistol at his head ? During the five months ending the SOth of November 291,818 immigrants arrived in this country, against 254,262 during the same period of last year The bill conferring the franking privilege on Mrs. Garfield has be­ come a law, and i*, therefore, the first Uw of the present session of Congress. A story of severe suffering is told by the survivors of the steamship Bath City, which foundered off the coast of Newfound­ land. The crew of twenty-seven men em­ barked in two boats; four were drowned by the lioat capsizing, and the Captain and live of the men died from exposure. The survivors, seventeen in number, were picked up by a vessel and carried to Liverpool. The Canadian authorities se.zed a number of Pullman palace cars in Montreal to satisfy a claim by the-Dominion Government for $160,- 000 which, it is alleged, the Dominion Govern­ ment has been delrauded of by the I'ullman Company because of the company's failure to pay duties on cars manufactured in the United States and imported into and used in ,Canada. FOREIGN. v President Calderon, of Peru, being still herd prisoner by the Chilians, and Pierola having fled !o Europe, Vice President Montero is the only persen with whom negotiations for peace can be carried on Storms and floods of a destructive character occurred throughout England. Hundreds of trees were uprooted in the vicinity of London, and many minor casu­ alties among tiie shipping are reported..».. The constabulary barracks at Croboy, Ireland, was burned Friday night The men barely es­ caped with their lives. Arrests were mnde of the suspected incendiaries A large quantitv 1 of arms, ammunition and dynamite were seized in a house in Dublin, and four persons were arrested... .The correct list of the deaths by the Ring Theater lire, at Vienna, is 794. Another of thbse terrible mining ac­ cidents which are unfortunately so frequent In England occurred at Orrell, in Lancashire, causing the death of about 180 persons. The system of working the miue was purely me­ chanical, and the cause of the explosion cannot be ascertained The movement in Ireland against the payment of rent is becoming uni­ versal. Persons who have appealed to tiie Land Court, those who have paid or are suspected of paying rents, have their names posted on iv,j,™iy. JUB U1IUO km uureu u uw ui nuriun | - » ' . . T. • in , ,. , vjmasterpieces of silver satin en traine, richly | Lrm,mnn, ;ntl j ^ t « f , f S . Adorned with lace and looped with diamonds n^ I the female Land .jJ^Alt is rumored tbat her weil-to-do papa made I ° r o „ Jher a present of a $£(>0,000 house and £250.000 ' to lthTe the I8lftnd on aocouut of the dirturbt'd ' ' 'fn caali "on the nail." Other weddingpuuenta % "Wara of tbe richest kind. W E E K L Y H E W S R E V I E W . '£•' ' THB EAST. Db.ISAAO L HATES died' suddenly at (New York, of heart disease, aged 49 years. He will be chiefly remembered for his explorations ; , in the Arctic ocean, which made his name iknown in every part of the civilized world. He l^fft'fr^was elected a member of the New York Legis­ lature for six successive terms....A fire in Crosby street, New York, destroyed mercantile roperty of the estimated value of #325,000.... &:A wholesale-grocery firm at Erie, Pa., had J" iBteadily missed bank bills from its cash drawer . *'i0 other day workmen discovered a large <i,»taonae nest made entirely of paper money, im- j 'h Hjyj mediately back of the cash receptacle. Many \ & r of the notes were uninjured. tisi " ^ John A. Ingram, a miner residing at ^ Monnt Union, Pa., placed a small quantity of »| V;'dynainite on the stove to melt the ioe. Almost I, * I instantly there was an explosion like an earth- Hi -if-"' ,, q«ake. Four children were blown to atoms % v ' and the father and mother were fatally injured. i • .y Hw Siro Delmonico, who recently be- - \ i.' came the head of the famous catering-house in ' New York, died of apoplexy the other day, pi"0k" leaving Charles Delmonico, a bachelor, the last ;®"of t^le family on this side of the Atlantic. Miss Lelu. Osgood Vanderbilt, *' ^youngest daughter of the millionaire, was mar- " # i*r1nedto Dr. W. S. Webb, son of Gen. J. W. 4 5 1 fv at St. Bartholomew's Church, New York t >|jcity. The bride was attired in one of Worth's TOE WMl. 1#^ A tarty of cow-boyB raided the town t.iof Caldwell, Kan. Talbot, the leader killed - 31ike Meagher, ex-Mayor, which he threatened "to do last year. The citizens of Caldwell at • ' ionce organized to crunh out Uie raid, and, |RR the miuderers^rode out of town toward - ( Jndiau Ttrntory, one of them wafr' shot condition of offairs. The type and presses of Utu1e<l Ireland, organ of the Land League, have been i-ent to London. The Irish constab­ ulary are dissatisfied at the enlistment in their ranks of militiamen and tnne-exp,red soldiers. Aylward, ti e ex-Secietary to Jonoert, the Boer General, who Wat a promi­ nent Fenian, has arrived in London From Algier->. North Africa, a cablegram states tbat ij> the bursting of a daut 400 persons were drowned No less than 1.5"0 arrests for po­ litical offenses were made iu.Iiussia diring th6 present year. Many of them were by false ao-% , ydead and several others wounded.... , , .-- v h-5 - ;iJohn Malioy and Ed Patton walked through ensations, and the maligners are to be prose- j, , T-'tbe streets of Independence, CoL, and fired re- ! cuied. , • 'volvers at the windows m stores. They after- ? - ^ Jwai'd ciptnred a saloon, drove all out, and stood lithe constable's posse off with poetols. A party 'of citizens commanded the desperadoes to de­ sist. They refused, and the dczens shot both The Bchowl-bouse and farm-house at ,|||f:the Wichita Agency, in Indian Territory, were The Governor General of Eastern Si­ beria carried news to 6'. Petersburg that the Arctic exploring steamer Jeannstte has been discovered and assistance rendered the crew. Hoffman, Charge d'Affaires of the United States, sends a cable , ram to Secretary Freling- • -I % , V "-T, 'V \i •v. ,.tv' -X$. and the; spread of Ift$oct iQut diseases - i domestic cattle; ^and one by Mr. |IS4pB. fejfwrtnieT) to ^provide for apd regulate the counting P^pk i d i.- nt-i 'B-« " '• UriBg. of'-'i'lortoral vottta cast for n'oA Vice Pre^idenrlof the United Ktatfes. Mr. Allison pretientfd the nu-morial of thojjlft- hois and Michigan Canal and Kiver Improve^ mont Company, asking for the construction of the Honucpin canal The President sent in the following neminations: Thomas C. Xrton, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York, vice Ilillhoase; Quef,Jusiice Gray, of Massachusetts, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stales; William Hcmy ^Trescott, „of South Carolina, to be Special Envoy Extraordi­ nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the tTnited States to the republics Chili, Peru a<*d loUv!ai| George M.' Duskin, to be Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama; The nomination of B. H Brewster to be Attorney General, and J. C. Bancroft Davis to be Assistant Secretary of State were confirmed. In the House, the bill to grant the franking privilege to Mrs. Garfield was passed. Mr. Tell man handed in a bill to authorize national banks to make loans by mortgage on real es­ tate. Mr. lteagan introduced a bill to permit the purchase and register of foreign built whips by citizens of the United States. A new Income-Tax bill was presented by Mr. McMillan, which provides for a 3-per-cent tax on all incomes or corporations, companies and individuals whose net incomes shall exceed $3,- 000; also to make the trade dollar legal tender. Bills were also introduced: To provide for a drawback of 10 per cent on all goods hereafter imported in American-built ships, owned ex­ clusively by citizens of tho United States; to regulate the customs duty on sumac; to regu­ late the duty on sheep and goat skins imported for the purpose of making morocco; to abolish the tax on tobacco; for the admission of Da­ kota, New Mexico and Washington Territories into the Union as States. •< A bill was introduced in the Senate, Dec. 20, to exempt pension-money from seizure or at­ tachment by process of law, and also pension money when invested in homesteads. Mr »l ul>iio Uirtlfl -binwi 'ON mtAttiw annum or MUSE. OulniiMI rill* Tim ftiliti* u! Ui« fiir busllMWi ^ t* ti uuiu in handles nearly JB*'.1"» worth i» r yvmr. Ttf nUmJ^of Ear ui JU«-ir chief source "of Hiipply are in th# er*--Bnlford, * , Theraiton, Bucku^r, rf*t» ? Bepartment ot Mate--msiw y, Btrran, WfflUma (Wta), Exprndltnres -- Wt'|p»«, gorcroen, Neal, A|iii{t«t<ni, '^TOeDdlturesW- ErAtl, % 'BNk, 6n^ X'lieir mtjjiU TRIAL. Dr. Frank H. examined. Hia ft' the defense, be tlitoiy of insanity. _ Dr. Worcester, of i func'd, when upon t] ' answer the hypbthe| Se jvilLt), testified t oiier was a sana m- Gtiiteau (sba#^l\ to get tor that will be worth $50i Ccrkhiil Is runiii: worth a snap,with Corkhill then tion, which cov the prisoners hit bis act oh the 2d Burning all tlie - ion, was the pns killed the Pre^ni* Answer--" I ! Guiteau (sn»er pect to get $51)0 All through t,b question Guitcai lalse," "ALisolu said, "That's lal for your hypothi Judge Porier mi you, Coi kinll. b: have got that stuff up for dou certainiy have not got rains enough. ) " i witnt ta Koy'fjplit here that Col. Corkhill has,, made a vety food outward statement of facts, but he hiiBf't touched at all upon what was goingpu in orif snind at that time. That's a,matter for thclury, the court, the Deity and me to decide. W< four." The witle ss st tftd that at one time he be' Ingalls made a favorable report on the bill for j iievcid th6X the Ipr.-toner was insane. He had the sale of the lands of the Miami Indians. regions at the headwaters of the Andros- ; Bojjgin, Kennebec, and Penobscot Rivera ' and the streams entering iuto them. ' Sportsmen and occasional hunters fur­ nish a few pelts, but the bulk of the furs is furnished by tiie professional trappers. There are many Hundreds of men in Maine who earn their living and !,>m, Mass., who re- »uPP<>rt their families by hunting, trap- swd for the defense, to ping, and fishing, and who do nothing question proposed by else, except, perhaps, act as guide for in nis opinion, the pris- pleasure seekers in the sutbmer months for the whole year. Every year the fur catch decreases, and the bounds of the trapping lines are gradually be­ coming more limited. While game of most finds is retreating further into the forest and becoming scarce, it said that the number of moose aud deer, which are protected by law, is increasing. In numbers the muskrat exceeds any tither kind of gam<5 trapped for its fur in Maine and handled in Lewiston. They are caught in common rat traps, and fifty of these small traps are sometimes set by one trapper. Immense quantities ^ ^ ̂ of them are caught. Eight or ten tliou- ir. Get The^facte^right 9an^ of them are shipped from Lewiston whatever von call it. ^annually. More of them are exported to Germany and Italy, where the skins are dyed and furnish a popular fur for IOTB BAY. v • ion, of New York, was |ice was unfavorable to it did, against the How much do yon expect nion, sir? I suppose that you. That is the way but I don'i think it will be tjtary --not a snap, Sir." d the hypothetical ques- all the material facts in froih boyhood down to f July, and inquired, "Ajb- to bo true, iu your opm- cf sane or insane when he t ?'* him to have been sane." gbj--•'"Yes, sir, and you ex- tur opinion." iding of the hypothetical tinually shouted, "That's false." At one time he The Committee on Finance reported favorably on Mr. Jlorrell's bill, which provides for a special committee of experts exclusively. Mr. Hoar gave notice that he would introduce a bill in favor of female suffrage, and that he would particularly direct his attention to the enfranchisement of women in the Territories. The House resolution for an adjournment from Dec. 21 to Jan. 5 was concurred in. Acting Vice President Davis announced that he bad signed the bill giving the franking privilege to Mrs. Garfield. Mr. Blair introduced a bill pro­ viding that Collectors of Internal Revenue shall be appointed for a term of four years. Mr. Pendleton reported adversely on the bill to authorize Lieut. Commander Sigsbce to accept a decoration from the Emperor of Germany. Timothy O. Howe was nomi­ nated for Postmaster General, and William A. McClearv for Postmaster at Pittsburgh. Tim­ othy O. Howe was confirmed as Postmaster General, Horace Gray as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, W. H. Trescott as special Envoy to Peru and Chili, and Thomas C. Acton as Assistant Treasurer at New York. The Hbuse 'was not in session. Mr. Harrison introduced a bill in the Senate, Dec. 20, for a public building at Fort Wayne. Mr. Beck called for information as to the rate of duties imposed on. American manufactures by France and Germany. Mr. Plumb intro­ duced a bill to fix two years as the period re­ quired in homestead) ng public lands. In ex­ ecutive session, A. J. Edgerton was confirmed as Chief Justice of Dakota, Pierre C. Van Wyck as Superintendent of the assay office at New York, and Jesse Spalding as Collector of Customs at Chicago. Adjourned tUl JaD. 5. In. the House, Mr. McKinley introduced a reso­ lution, which was unanimously adopted, that both bouses of Congress will assemble, at a date to be fixed by the joint committee, and listen to an address by James G. Bktine on tfen life and character of ; James A, Garfield. A message from the President recommended an approyfi- • ation of $550,000 for work on tho census. A resolution was adopted calling on tho Secretary of the Navy for information as to the establish­ ment of naval coaling stations on the Ig&hrous o, huysen, stating that the Jeaunette was crushed j[Panama. Afror anaoi , , , , „ . . . i n t o e 3 t i t l e 1 1 . V f e e c r i r w e m b a r k i n g i n t h r e e destroyed by an incendiary fira, eighty puptta r-BGsIs, which Were separated by wind i and escaping in their night clothes. 1 Two passengers on a Hannibal and St. Joseph train drew revolvers and demanded the a. - money of the passengers. Conductor Buahnell and the train crew threw the ruffians into the ' - ditch at Utaoa, and Bent hack .men to arrest them. A jibe in West Bay City, Mich., which '•>" v " burned three business blocks and destroyed » tbe*pdblic records, caused a loss of #80,000, on jwhich there was $35,000 insurance. ffi'&i-. • THE SOUTH. - -> The bodies of three Mexicans, whb had been robbing travelers near San Antonio, German far- b»- mers of that section are believed to have done y-i *• were found hanging to a tree. mers of that secti society this favor. A committer of the Arkansas Legis­ lature, appointed last winter to investigate the books of State Treasurer Churchill, now Gov. - 8*111 Churchill, has made a report showing a sLort- foi One party, Capt. De Long and thirteen mefl. reached Lena in a pitiable condition, and were promptly succored. The second boat has not been heard from. The third boat, contain­ ing eleven men, with Engineer Melville in com# maud, reached the mouth of the Lena Sept. 19. Several persons were recently arrest­ ed in St Petersburg, and oranges containing dynamite were found on their persons The income of the Baroness Burdett-Coutts has been reduced by £75,000 ou account ofher re­ cent marriage. ADDITIONAL NEWS. Oh* of the graveyard insurance com­ panies of Pennsylvania had the impudence to propose to Stilson Hutching, of the Tost, of Washington, to obtain Guiteau's signature to an application for a policy of £100,000, offer­ ing the journalist 20 per cent, of the profits in the scheme. The agents offered to fill up any blanks in the application for which Guiteau might refuge to furnish facta Three noted S7. v • i»• . » , » / a A i *U'KUI itJi Ubc I/O lullUeu IaCto.... $90.000. Gov. Cimi chill says that the discrep­ ancy is apparent and can easily be explained by him. It arises, he <iays, from the fact that cer­ tain bonds ordered burned*had through mistake been charged to him. Washington. T#e Senate Appropriations Commit­ ted, In its investigation into the management of the Treasury Department by John Sherman, took the testimony of Custodian Pitney. He cV. -wn , . ^ ^ j stated that $800 worth of stationery* was taken Si ' from the department to furnish the Sherman |p. • ^ committee rooms in the last campaign, and - , » « t h a t t h e l u n c h t a k e n a t t h a t t i m e w a s p a i d f r o m the treasury funds on vouchers for candles. A suspicious-looking package, which was thought to be an infernal machine, sent to George Scoville, Guiteau's counsel, was, after formidable precautions, opened, and the box wm found to contain a coil of rope with a qoow at the end. Tin: box also contained a polite Bote saying : " W;th the compliments of the Garfield and Arthur Club of Meversdale, Pa".... District Attorney Corkhill thinks that the final argument in the Gniteau case will not be ended before the 10th of January .It has been de­ cided by the Washington Monument Commis­ sion to ask Congress for an appropriation of •200, U00 to continue the work of completing the monument. --The catalogue of monstrosi­ ties has been swelled by the taking of a plaster cast of the head of Guiteau. Clark Mills, the sculptor, performed the operation in the Wash­ ington jail. Assistant Postmaster General Hat- r _ JOT has decided that advertising, insurance and other sheets of a similar character shall , #£§1 not be admitted to the mails as second-class •*M matter. ^ Mr. Joseph K. McCammon, Commis­ sioner of Railroads, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, says that the indi­ cations are that within a short time there will be five different routes to the Pacific coast, where less than a year ago there was but one. The tendency is toward increased developments, principally in the West and South. It is believed that operations in railroad construction year will exceed any previous year.... •An effort is beiug made by the Southern mem­ bers of Congress to procure the repeal of the law restrictug tl^e sale of tobacco in the plant­ ers hands, and several bills have been intro­ duced with th t general purpose. Some of the Boui hern men favor the reped of all the in­ ternal-revenue laws. All the jurymen in the Guiteau case attended the funeral of the wife of Juror Hobbt. They were accompanied by a Dep­ uty Marshal and Bailiffs. >'( POLITICAL. Th* Greenbackers in Congress an determined to join any party or element in t-*1* House that will oppose the restriction of the diver coinage. Representative Ladd said in a conversation, the other day : "If the Demo- mats take a sensible stAid on this question they l,be ]iext Congress. The East as well as me W ent is opposed to the restriction of silver coinage and the administration has made a big mis.ake in recommending it. Every tireeaback member will vote against it." H. H. Riddleberger, the Readjus­ ts candidate for Senator from Virginia in Con- 5eoeiv^.the «?hdrote ot ttMGeneral -'I'-kfA "\t'M i same name, Manuel Asundo, and the third named Lucas Franco, were Captured near Renosa, Mexico, by vigilantes, who had them hanged. Parnell has been quietly transferred to the jail at Armagh. Dr. Kenny, who at­ tended the imprisoned suspects, has received £1,000 from sympathizers. Some workmen re­ pairing a Protestant church in County Cork were attacked by the people, and a house in rliich they took refuge was wrecked.... Gen. Count Ignatieff has ordered no ex­ pense to be spared by Russian Government offic ials in attending to the wants of the sur­ vivors of the Jeannette, and in bringing them into the Temperate zone. Mr. Bennett, of the New York Herald, has asked Gen. Ignatieff to draw on him for any sums required for this purpose. The crew are located 4,000 miles from St. Petersburg, and it will take a traveler one month to reach them traveling by wagon. An energetic effort will be made to rescue the men who embarked in the second cotter, now missing. President Arthur left Washington on the 23d of December for New York. It is said that he was guarded by three detectives, employed by overzealous friends, while on the way to New York The wife of ex-Justice 8wayne, of the United States Supreme Court, died in Washington a few days ago. Pig-iron sold at Pittsburgh, the other day, at t26 per ton, and bar-iron will be ad­ vanced to 3 cents at the next meeting of the association A syndicate of members of the Manhattan Club of New York has purchased Booth's Opera House from the estate of Oaket Ames, paying $550,000. Advices received at the Indian office in Washington are to the effect that small-pox is rapidly spreading among the Indians in the belt ut country extending from Montana to Idaho. National Health Bulletin. The National Board of Health bulletin make* the following death-rate of cities in every 1,000 inhabitants: FOBEIGH C1TIXS. Montrert 27 Victoria 82 Curacoa (W. I.). 88 Aspinwal} 69 Aeapuleo 13.* Vera CiUE .88 Iiio do Janeiro. 29 Dubiin SI Belfast 0) • Cork ..IT axbbica* Cities, Edinburgh M Bremen.... IT Munich Dresden........... Viei na, Warsaw St Petersburg.... UexHiidrla. Bombay .80 ...27 ...M ...89 ...88 ...» New York 29 Brooklyn 22.7 tliiiadelphla 90 ko ton 24 Cambridge ^ .15 Portland..": 15.4 Bangor 28 Pittsburdh .28 I>ist. of Columbia 27 Wilmington, N. C....80 Charleston. .82 A<igun!a 25 Mobile 26.1! Richmond, Va. 42.5 Norfolk 21.4 J ackson villa fl.6 New Orleans. 28.v Rhreveport S3.V Baton Xtouge 28 Galveston 28.1 .Ban Antonio 41.2 Jfesuvil « 18 Memphis 40.8 KnoxvllVsu 10.1 trfuisrtlle..., MJ ....18.8 Ciuclu Dayton.l ..1S.8 Cievelsnd .35.1 Irj'Jianapolli 14,6 Hiclimond, Ind. 24.6 EvansviUe 14.3 Chicago 24.8 Peoria jf.8 Aurora ij.a Jacksonville 8.6 Elgin.... Mtoline Hock Island....'. ao.« r^ke 8.# Quincy 14.4 Milwaukee .W.l Miiiiieapolls. 84.5 East Saginaw. s.a Flint ia.4 Davenport ....14.8 St, IjOUIs 24.1 Kansas Citjr 9.3 OiliMift....... 15.4 UsnaM u Ketfpr of Jihe stjindjiie cpi adjoiirneCT till, tho 5ih or January.' miitecis btb constituted as follows ; i WayHand Means--Kelley, Chairman; Kaepon. Dun­ ne!!, McKinicy, Hubbel!, Haxkc'I, Ruwstll, Errett, limirtall. Tucker, Carluile, Morrison, Spier. Appropriations -- Hi«cock, Chairman; Robeson, Cstmon, BarjougUn, Batterworth, Caswell, Ryan, Q:Neil, Ketcham, Blackburn, Cox, Atkins, J^orney, * Iiefvere, ElliB. " BaukiuK and Currency--Crapo, Chairman; Weber, Dinele.v, Moore, Connell, Bruckner, HaVdenLerg, FI<Jwor, Ermentront.. Education aud Labor--Updegraff, Chairmau; Sher- wln, Carpenter, Dads, Page, Tyler, WiliW, Clements, Money, Dobble, D^wd. Rules -Mr. Speaker, Chairman; Orth, Robeson, Randall, Blackburn. . • ' , Mileage -- Jorgeiisen, Chairman; Rich. Ward «Cobb, Monlton. ' , . Elections--Calkins, Chairman; Hsceltcm, Wait, Thompson, R.muey, Ri'.-jhio, Pettibone, Millar, Paul, Belzhoover, Jones. Judiciary--Reed, Chairman; Wlllett?. Robinson, Bng^s, Humphrey, Taylor, McCook, KasSou, Nor- croi-s, Nott, Hammond, Culverson, Ouenther, Townsbend (111). Agriculture--Valentine, Chairman; Updegraff, Curpeuter, Anderson, Qotteohalk, Wadsworth, Bice, Went, Cullen, Hazelton, Hatch, Dibrill, Aiken. Block, Post. ,, I'ostofflcea ind Post Roads--Bingham, Chairman; Anderson, Jorgensen, Lacey, Farwell, Morey, Springer, Money, Evans, Anntield, Brentz. Public Buildings and Grounds--Shallenberger Chairmau ; Lewis, Cutts, Demoth, Scrauton, Ford Smith, Cook, Hewitt, singleton, Herburt Minea and Mining--Van Voorhin, Chairman; Da­ vis, Bingham, Fnlkernon, Hobbs, Calkius, Yonng, Cassidy. tserry, Wf>od, Brnnun, Oury. Manufactures--Campbell, Chairman; Hammond, Mills, Oottschalk, West, Chase, i'inlev, Maivh. Morse. Stocksch'iagcr. . Mi-Bi«Hipp; River Improvements--Thomas, Chair­ man; Carpenter, Fre-cott. Barrel], Rice', Moore (Teun.), Jones, Burroughs, King, llbcmpson, Ouenther, Cart.v, Wlutthorne. Foreign AfTuirs--Williams (Wis.), Chairman; Orth, Kas-ion, Rice, Bunnell, Lord, Walker, Blunk, Wilson. Deuster, Belmont. Coinage. Weights and Measures--Fisher, Chair­ man : Bedford, Mc'.'lurc, Lackey, Washburn. Payson, Haz>'lton, Stevens, Singleton, Blade, Luna. 0. •nunerci--l'age, Chairman ; Rich, Towssend, whburu, Hoar, Ohaud er, Ward, White, Oeorge, Guenther, Laine, Ross, Herndon. Naval Affairs--Hari is (Mass.), Chairman; Robe son, Harmer, Thnmas, Watson, Ketcham, Dezendorf Morrif. Davison, Talbot, Harris (N. J.). Military Affairs--Henderson, Chairman; Hiecock, Bsj-ne, Steele, Davis, Spaulding, Spoonev^ Sparks, Upson, Bragg, Wheeler, McOinnis. Invalid Pensions-- Urown (Ind,), Chairman-' Jpyce, Culles, Ray, Dawes, Pettibone, Parker, Itice! Wadsworth, .Matson, Caldwell, Simonton, Cad well. Latham. McMillan. interior Department Expenditures--Hubbel, Chairman; Crapo, Wood (N. Y.), Schulz, Simonton, Blauchard, Burroughs (Mo.). Navy Dej»artment Expenditures--Robeson, Chair­ man; Harris (Mass.), Harmer, Neal, Morris. Phelps, Turner. Pub:ic Expenditures--Randall (Pa.), Chairman; Blackburn, Walker, A. Wood, DeM^th, Lewis, Ladd, Fulkerson, Martin, Huentuor, Berry. District of Columbia--Neal, Chairman; Heilman, Barr, Urner, 8mith (N. Y.), Pierce, Dezendorf. Clotz, Garrison, Casaidy, Allen. Pensions -- Marsh, Chairman; Hepburn," Rioe Stone, Steele, Weber, Fulkerson, Hewitt, Cox. Rob­ inson, Burroughs (Mich.). Railroads and Canals--Townaend (Ohio), Chair­ man ; Dwight, Henderson, Campbell, Schultz, Lord. Brewer, Henna, Hoblitzell. Civil Service--Orth, Chairman; Kasson, Horr, Briggs, Neal, Hubbell, Butterworth, House. Ran­ dall, Tucker, Phelps. _Territories--B11 rronghs, Chairman; Aldrlch, Van voorhis. Miller, Dawes, Crowley. Postofflce Department Expenditures -- Cannon OIL), Chairman; Walker, Pound, FarweB, Re>gan. TUghman, Ladd. Law for the Election of President snd Vice Presi- dsnt--Updegraff, Chairman; Camp, Crapo, White, Fisber, Jacobs, Lindsey, Stevens, Morrison. Car­ lisle, Hewitt Pensions, Bounty and Back-Pay- Joyce, Chain- man; Brown, Lindsey, Houk, Whitthorne, Curtin, Mosgrove. War Department Expenditures--Briggs, Chair­ man; Miles, Steele, Marsh, Blackburn, Jones (Trx%e). Sparks. ( " Enrolled Bills--Aldrich, Chairman ; Pearoe, West, Sbcllabsrger, Kellogg, Warner, Belmont. Consuls--Presscott, Chairmah; Sherman, Tyler,' Bain, Fulkerson, McCord, Pearoe, Cox, Colburn (Mass.), Tilghman. Indian Affairs--Deerlng, Chairman; Biioe, Mason. Spaulding, Buck, Richardson, Hooker, Scales. Wei- burn, B:anchard, Ains'ey. Revision of Laws--McKinley, Chairman; Robin­ son, Buck, George, Brumin, Hall, Chadwin, Coving­ ton, Richardson, Jones, McMillan. Accounts--Urner,. Chairman; Skinner. Brew. Caulder, Morton, tfardy, Houk. ' 1 Patents--Young, Chairman; Skinner, Farwell, Jones, Spoou. r, Vance, Turner, Scoville, Shehey. Claims--Crowley (N. Y.), Chairman; Taylor, Bow­ man, Mason, Thompson, liay, I'ecl, Hiil, Smith (111.), Mills, Hutchinson, Turner, Clarke, Otis. Public Lands--Pond, Chairman; Belford, Hep­ burn, Dwight, Watson, Straight, Rico, Cobb, Foster, Muhler. Militia--Strait, Chairman; Raine, Honk, Morey, Cnei.ther, Valentine, Thompson, Ktasgrove, Jones (Texas). ' ' l'acitic Railways--nazeltcii, Chairman; Harmer, Camp, Robinson (Ohio), Hammond, Paul, Darrell, i'arwei;, McKeuzie, IJUbs. House, Dunnell, Dolan. I'rivate Laud Claims--Patcheco, Chairman; Moi^ Hazelton, Cornell, Morey. Cutta, Mallrow, Williams, Ford. Shackleford. Houk. -- however, clianjcod his opinion, because he no louder believed tob>; true the statementu upon which he had bdijeci his opinion before coming to Washington. Guiteau (impatently)--"Don't you under­ stand, Scoville, lhat #500 has piodifled hia views. What's tie use of wasting thne on him ? Let him go !" Hcovilio wks abtut to resume the examination when Guiteau struck the table violently and ealled out: "Kake the matter short. It's simply a matter of fact for the jury to,deter­ mine whether my free agency was destroyed or not. I claim it was, and I won't have you compromise my life, as you are doing, by your stupid, blunderbuss way of examining wit­ nesses." As the cxamiration proceeded Guiteaii fre­ quently interrupted, and rouudly abused Sco­ ville for hi* incompetency, and charged him with compronmiiiK his case. Turning toward the Judgef Guiteau added, depreciatingly: "Scoville is a perfect idiot in this matter, and between him and Corkhill I htyve a pretty hard time. [General laughter.] I'm a good- natured man [laughing], but I can't stand a buzz, aad when I'm uuzzed I want to talk right back." Sooville, who had borne everything heretofore with apparent equanimity, seemed to feel very keenly this last evidence of heartless ingrati­ tude. His voice trembled, and for a minute he was unable to go* on. Even the prisoner real­ ized the injustice of his conduct, and hastened to apologize, saying, " You are doing very well, Scoville--to the best of your ability.", Several times afterward during the exam- | ination of Dr. Worcester Guiteau denounced Scoville, at one time with evident anger, and again with a sarcastic smile. "Why, your Honor," he shouted out, "if I were ind cted for manslaughter I would be banged for mur­ der if Scoville should defend me." mrs. Scoville reached over to speak to Gui­ teau, when he snarled at her: " You keep your mouth shut. You're as bijj a fool as your hus­ band. You're a crank on this business. It' you had all stayed iu Chicago it would have been far better for my case. Th&e relatives are a nuisance. 1 would be better off if I didn't would have plenty of friends if """Vves were oat of the way." / .li-rwMwjgoine expostulatory and shout- •j» veenmn UntSitigatQcr puW^"1* ,he way through " ng quickly from anger to mirth, have anv. pack off Mre. S00V -eply, * Then, chaiil JL. yiM:, %e added with * laugh:' " You're a queer lot) you Scovilleg." A4jou£tte4. TWENTY-NI>'TH DAT. Dr. Theodore Diamond, of Auburn, N. Y., iras called to the stand. Witness believed, judging the evidence to which he had istened, including that of the prisoner himself, ind from the appearance and conduct of the prisoner, that ho is a sane man. The hypo- (hetieal questions put to Dr. Wooster yesterday were then read to witness, and ho replied : "I ihould say he was sane." Witness was questioned at great length; and, >uis unswers indicating great conservatism of Opinion, Scoville finally asked: " WelL doctor, how old do you think a physician ought to be before ho is able to distinguish between a sane ind an insano man ?" Wiincss replied that he himself was not yet }ld enough to distinguish between sane and in- iane people. Guiteau (laughingly)--" That's the best thing i'ou have said yet, doctor. Ladies and gentle- nen, you ste^'m letting Scoyillo do most of the asking te-day ; Pm keeping quiet. "I opened my mail myself tnis morning" ^holding up twenty or more letters). "Pretty ;ood mail, too, aa<^ only one crank letter in the wiiole lot. All from liigh-toned people, too. rtiev are beginning to think better of me out­ side. High-toned ladies are sending for my autcjprapli. They think I'm a big man, but 1 ion t care a snap whether I'm a big man or a little one." The prisoner buiied nmiself reading his let­ ters, snd soon broke out again, Baying : *• Well, [ (lid not notice this before, ladies aud gentle­ men, I have just ^received a letter from Dr. Spitzka, in which lie says he has received 200 tetters since he returned from Washington, all sougiatuLiting buu upoti his testimony ; that tie has only received two threatening ones, and two from lunatics--a pretty good showing, I think, when he came ou here for nothing aud did not get a cent, while these fellows are hand­ somely paid by tb4 Government. Then, here is another one from Mr. lieatty." Judge Cox--"Well, that will do, prisoner. We have not time to listen to the reading of your correspondence." Guiteau--"All ri^ht, sir." The witness was asked if he thought itwonld be any indication oi insanity for a man of ma­ ture ye^r#/ who honestly Bvlieved he was in­ spired CofliiU the jp'tesident of the United States, and who 1 honestly believed that, when liis motives! were known to the people, they would ijot only excuse .but applaud his act, ami replied : "If he honestly believed that, aud hia will wa» dominated by tbe convic­ tion, it would be an aidication of insanity." V Mr. Scoville--" I Fit is not impertinent* D^so- tor, in this day and generation, 1 will ask you if you have ever devoted any attention to the subject, or believe in inspiration?" Answer--" Well, not specially." Guiteau--" Well, Doctor, if God could inspire a man 2,000 years ago, why could He not do so now? Is tnere anything different inhuman nature?' Mr. Scoville--" I h»ve no objection to yonr an waring, Doctor.' Th : question nas read again to the witness, and be replied : " If the Lord did inspire anybody 2,000 years ago, He can now, if He chooses." Gu.teau--"That's my idea. He not only can, but He did iu this case." When the witness was dismissed Guiteau sKotited out : " Tncsc experts may be all high- toned, honorable men, but, in my opinion, they hang more men thau the doctors kilL" Growing more and more excited, he declaimed for some minutes, and said: "Gen. Gartield would be alive to-day had it not been for the doctors. They completed what my shot began. The Lord intended he should go, and so He let the doctors kill him. He didn't die before his tune, though." A Finished Fish Story. The latest fish story is about a bass, inside of which was found " what was said by one to be m young cat, by an­ other a young tiger, and by a third a young dog." No doubt it was a young tiger. Such animals are often found in pass, ^Jt was only two weeks ago that a fifteen-pound young hippopotamus was found inside of a two-pound baas caught m the. Schuylkill. The bass is a very voracious fish, and has been known to chase a sheep across a forty-acre field. In England the hedgehog attacks and devours the viper. in it* first fluffy, asserted its ' tared a sh ing t'ronf cious cuuin the f o^ ii top of"lie k^eaky dol dofly^BiiiV,; reooiwaicil. downy sait, than it* >tive and ut- »|Bastily jump- aAs the preco- dollB rushed from rearnliig at the AOOskler unsay, <>*: -«a»hy, kweaky ,t«i% A/ldhg time be Mercury. •••} * linings and ladies' apparel They are among the cheapest of furs. A very large quantity of skunk fur is also shipped from this city. It is used for trimmings in this country, and is often frnssed of for Alaska sable. The arger part of the skunk catch probably goes to France and Germany. The otter is one of the tnost Valuable and rare fur bearing animals trapped in Maine. Not more than 1,000 otters are annually caught in the whole State. The skins make a beautiful and warm fur, which is highly valued by the Russians, Greeks and Chinese. Tiie fur is a dark glossy brown, and two kitids, one being soft, short, and thick and the other longer aud coarser and intermixed with the former. The value of a dress skin runs from SIC to $18. Most of the otter skins caught in this state are sent almost around the world in the course of trade before reach­ ing the place where they are finally worn. They are sometimes sent frow Lewiston to New York, thence to Lon­ don, to Ltipsic, Moscow, Nijni, Nov­ gorod, and finally to a destination ir China, where they will warm some higli and mighty mandarin. A large number oi "fishers" are trapped in Maine, and 8 good many sables annually find theii way to the market. The value of oui sable or beech martin is much less thai that of the Russian sable, which is thf most costiy pf all furs. It,, is a smal animal, about three times as large as th< common weasel. Only about 25,000 an annually taken. . These small skins sel at $25 to $20Q'oach. The chief d mauc is in Rnssia, where the use of the snbh is monopolized-by the royal family. Th< lur of the fisher (an animal resemoling the fox) is rich and soit and dark browt: in color. It is very little usad in thif country, but goes chietly to Poland. Germiuiy and RfiPsia. The annual siles of red fox furs iu Lewiston are verj large. Most them are exported. Tlit Russians Use the red backs, and tin Greeks use the bellies, which are white. The fur of the.bear, of which many art Iriil/ul jp.verv year, is u«m3. for robes aud military purpose, ytiousamis <t m un are kiiie<i ou the afci'dbm-t flowing iuto oui rivers every yejir. Their fur was for­ merly used largly in the ntanuft cture oi hats, and was the leading-article in the fur trade; but its use for this purpose has been greatly ^diminished by the em­ ployment of silk ftrid otliet" lfcss expen­ sive materials. It makes handsome trimmings and fine collars and gloves foi gentlemen. . The lyux is an ajiinial which frequently finds its way into traps. The fur is soft, warm, and light, naturally grayish with dark spots, but commonly dyed a beautiful black, and used larglj for ladies' mourning attire., Minks are frequently found not far from home, and a great many come down from the Dead River. The mink ws formely a favorite in this country for muffs, collars, etc., and commanded a high price, but ie going out of fashion. Rabbit and coney skins are used extensively by hatters and for trimmings. The coon s-kin ia by no means a vulgar fur, and is not patro­ nized solely by woodmen. Nearly all the raccoon furs are sent to Russia, where .they are worn as coat linings by the Rus­ sian nobles.--JProm the Lewiston Maine Journal. ~ Impertinent Children. One of the most disagreeable of Amer­ ican characteristics is the impertinence and noisy obtrusiveness of children. In no other civilized country do children behave half so badly, in other lands children are restrained, suppressed, and taught that their clamor is not agreea­ ble, and that respect for elders requires them to keep their silence until they are asked to speak. In no other land do children ever think of joining in con­ versation unbidden, or of expressing opinions and intention? in'a confident tone and manner, as is oommon among us. #And in no other land are all infants and growing children regarded as prodi­ gies to be exhibited like educated par­ rots and rare Madagasker poodles. It is this habit of exhibiting children as pre­ cocious that does more to spoil them and make them intolerable than any native faults of their own ; for a child of seven years naturally finds difficulty in understanding why the impertinences and personalities which were considered so 44 cunning" at tour years have become improper and a nuisauce in a very short time. Mothers will find that, if they constantly display their infants as prodi­ gies of sweetness and smartness, those infants, grown to seven or twelve years', will be apt to be an affliction to all with whom they come in contact. The modest, quiet, and deferential manner of chil­ dren iu England or France never fails to make an American traveler very grateful and very tftoughtful indeed. For the boistt rousnt ss mid audacity of the young of this land affect not only society and personal comfort, but have an important bearing on the future of this country's welfare. This prevalent loudness should be reformed altogether--and that at once.--Andrews' Bazar. A Little Two-Year-Old's- Mea «f a Baby. A little 2-ye<ar-old tot, 'the daughter of a well-knotvn resident of this city, re­ ceived among her birthday presents a little gutta percha doll of the 'kind that squeaks when compressed. Against this doll the little one manifested the strong- est repugnance, calling it a "kweaky dolly," and could never be induced to jecognize it as a legitimate member of her doll family. Last week another doll came into that household of the kind which the angels are said jto bring, and the little heroine of this narrative was' taken to tys, mother's chamber to see the new arrival. Barely had she caught a glimpse of the little stranger, ensconsed Writing Compositions. The use of too many words is one of the greatest faults in writing. We were attracted the other day by an article in a uewspaper entitled "Gumption," and hastily concluded that a writer who could use so homely ftWJ sttftng a #ord as the title to hi? article inust have something good to shy ^ a bout it. And so ho had ; but he employed a wide superbundance of words to express his thoughts. For example: ' "There aire many persoris, the major­ ity of persons, in fact, who see, but do not perceive." This awkward sentence becomes a good one by simply leaving out the re­ dundant words, thus: "The majority of persons see, but do not perceive." It would still be better, perhaps, to avoid the long word majority, and say: " Most persons see, but do"not perceive." Thus, by erasing nine words from a sentence of sixteen, the thought is more clearly expressed beooRise it is more directly stated. The writer then remarks that many persons have a habif of " post­ poning and putting off, what ought to be done at onoe." The ""words "and" and " postponing" are useless. In ex­ plaining the " process" by which men are to get gumption, he throws about his words with a lavish hand. ".It is neither," he- says, "more nor less than the doing and completing of anything that needs to be done on the instant, without delay or postponement, and at the same time a careful observa­ tion of what is going1 on around one." By tho omission of more than half the words of this bad sentence, it is converted into a fairly tolerable one: " It is the doing of what needs to be done upon the instant, and carefully ob­ serving what is going on atound." ' We advise our young readers, after they have "done" there compositions, to let them lie in their desks awhile, "to get oool," as Washington Irviug used to say. Then go over them again, bearing in mind Sydney Smith's recipe for good writing, " leave out every other word.' It is often possible to obe^y this rule almost literally, as we see in the sen­ tences quoted above. Daniel Webster tells ng that whatevei excellence he may have attained in the art of composition, he owed to a dis­ covery winch he made when he was about nineteen years old. He learned that "all true power in writing is in the idea, not the style." From that time he pruned his ^sntonces of-redundant words, and gave, hie ideas with directness anc simplicity. The Right Time to Kiss. An observant and evidently discrimin­ ating young reader of the Times writes to say that he has read with lively sati- faction the occasional expositions of kiss­ ing iji the various moods and tenses that he is still in doubt as to the right time to begin kissing. He retails at some length the embarrassments that this uncertain­ ly has brought upon him, and begs the publication of his letter in full, that others who are similarly situated may contrilmjf wto the discussion and thus • make tV| Ntter clear to thbse who are willing tfL* ,'inid. His own experience is not without cer­ tain oniiiuq Interest. rHe ̂ has knowff ' the ' 'th& swee'test girl in the world" ever since he left school. She belongs to a family that considers it a first duty to "live up ,to the dining-room dado and the blue china" that garnishes the side- bo. ird and table. ,The mother holds kiss­ ing in abomination and is fond of remark­ ing that the "intellect is not fed through the lips;" that a kiss is a purely fleshly perversion'of the sweet intimacy of BBsthetic love. Under such a frowning providence the young girl he adores dis­ plays an aversion to kissing him good­ night, in welcoming him with this lover's privilege when he comes of an evening to take her to church, the theater or what not. a This, it Will be seen, is a rather trying pliglit for a young lover---for a kiss is the visible sign and token of an inner senti­ ment which no words can express. The eyes and the tongue do a great deal of appreciable work in love-making, but the meeting of the Hps is the sign and seal, the chrism, so to speak, which trans­ forms the earthly into the divine. Love without a kiss would be like the harp without the hand, the raiubow without its hue; the book without its babble; tbe landscape without its colors; the tea-rose --sweetest flower for scent that blows-- without its odor; the borealis without its variations; poetry without rhythm; spring without sunlight; a garden without foli- agfe or marriage without love. The young woman whose ideals teaoli her to recoil from a kiss cheats the lover of the joys of loving and does not deserve the devotion of a manly heart. She mayltve up to the dining-room dado and the sideboard bric- a-btac, but she will never prove a con­ genial wife, and our correspondent will save his heart-strings many a future wrench by leaving" her to .her dado and bric-a-brac.--Philadelphia Times. Bores. There are tarions orders of men. The old saw has it, "It takes all kinds of people to make a world." We believe it. We believei it more snd more. We see living arguments enforcing the fact every day of our. life. /One has just walked out «'.ir office. We bowed -St him out with smiling grape, but now his back it. turned, we venture a preach­ ment. It happened in a certain profes- x sional institution, years ago, that one of these amiable bores was a student. We beg him to forgive us, if he Bees this incident; but, then, these creatures are not thin-skinned. He was a most excel­ lent scholar--more's the pity--standing * well in his classes. He possessed alar^e fund of knowledge--knew too much, in fact; and when he had once buttonholed you, woe be to any other engagement. Only a legal process would release yon. After the holidays, one year, it happened that he was late in getting back to his work. The question was mooted at com­ mons, "Where is P. ?" "Oh," replied 'the wag of the class, "Phil is engaged in telling one of his stories, and hasn't got through." Ethnography affords an opportunity of studying the races, kindreds and todgues of the earth. The Anglo-Saxon, the North American Indian, the Slay, ha ve their ch aracteristics sharply defined. We have the Bimana Quadrumana, and so on, in zoology, but are at a loss with what class to place the Boret. Like the winged creatures which Ezekiel saw, they are endowed with several mouths. They set them going, and go off and leave them to their own sweet will. A . sort of learned cherub, they fly to and fro with their four wings, resting where one is distraetingly busy. We have been wondering what is to be done with them. It is possible here lies the settlement of the Indian question. Why not send a regiment of them to the far West? If the aborigines only knew they were coming, the Pacific would be full of dusky suicides. Or if that is not feasible, why should not public men employ3 professional bores? And then, when Greek met Greek, would come the tug of war. It would be as huge a joke as setting two deaf people to entertaining one another. When the interview was finished, they would sympathize with the cats of the green isle. But, seriously, we have little faith in these propositions, although we claim originality .in mooting them. The Ex­ istence of bores belongs to the unsolved mysteries curtained by the infinite. Doubtless they have as good a right to live as the miserable little gnats which are able to cause temporary insanity in a fine colt. We hardly hope to expose their final cause in so brief a paper. The German specialist spent his life on the Greek article. On bis death-bed he mournfully regretted that he had not confined himself to one inflection. Such a subject as this grows on us; "it in­ flates, it expands, it formulates," as the curbstone orator remarked. New vistas open to our vision. We dare not follow tneir fascinating beck. Here is a field for the scientist. He may win .new laurels, and gain the everlasting regard of future generations. How shall the bores be suppressed? What courteous extinguisher may be employed? Is there any help in the "liver-pad" or the electrical disk? We pause for reply. But, after all, while we wait, we re­ member in this world, patience is to have its perfect work. We" know of no sharper chisel for the carving of such a statue for the gallery of our life than « , semi-weekly visitation of bores. Tthej^ lwso,iia notionolity j they oqpmb- ^ politan. Like the wandering Jew, they live forever. They penetrate to the public assembly, the prayer-meeting, the business office. Sometimes they have books to sell, quite often a map of the world, a bankrupt f;tock of woolens. They are getting up a history of the town; twenty-five dollars will place your life-size portrait on the page and \ tell all about your grandfather. They have fruit-trees for our rural friend, which cause more trouble than that one in a certain garden years ago. They have a patent lightning-rod, and you wish the lightning had struck them long before they saw your home. 1 But of all horned cattle, to use a simile of the immortal Horace--the great editor, we mean--the religious bore is the most detestable. You may know him wherever you see him. Avoid him as the plague. You may place after his name a D. D. (dignified dullness), but drown him out with a good old Methodist hymn when his time is up ; if he gets into the pulpit to preset any "cause," cause him to retire as »n as possible. It has been Bome little time since our door closed, and our irritation has oozed out at our pen-tip; and we suppose we shall be blander than ever when the next seedy caller appears with "a patent preparation for the removal of grease-spots without the slightest injury to the fabric."--Providence Journal. j Thibtt-pour men in Uvatde county, i Texas, own and graze over 2,000,000 1 sheep. Cpcle Jerry Docun't Believe in the In­ sanity or Religion of Murderers. tfnele Jerry, the colored philosopher of the Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette, save: " I has 'bout as much faith in de insanity ob a murderer as I has in his 'ligion. Dis insanity dodge wid de white folks an' de scaffold 'ligion wid de niggers is gittin' ter be run in de groun'! When a nigger is drawed up fur killin* a man, da don't say lie's insane. So fur as my fig- gers re iches, dar neber was a murder committed by a cray.v j iggf r. But stan' h m up on de platWnm, wid a rope rouu' his naik, an' he's gwine t-r liebb. u by de shortest road. Whl him it is a iiew but, road, fruui which de stumps oo sin had been dug. De roots au' bustles ob iniquity is piled up on each side ob de road, an' fur fear dut sum mistake might be made, de road is lighted by de pine torches ob furgibnes*. He knows dat he's gwine to hebben, case de thief on de cross was furgibben. Yas, but 'mem­ ber dat de tlref on d;i cross warn't no murderer. De Bible says dat a mur­ derer ain't got 'ternal iife 'bidin' in him. I doan' see how de preachers what goes an' pi ays a n' slobbers ober a murderer can climb ober dis fack. .If 1 had mur­ dered a mau nn' a preacher was ter cum ter me and sny, 'Jerry, yez whoah ter co ter hebben,' I'd look dat man in de eyes and say, 'You is a liHr, sail I* '*> Why He Felt Men* First workingman (bursting into tears) --•" Lemme lone, I tell you I want to die and be buried ; I'm only a mean, miser­ able hound, and no good any way." Second workingman--"But what makes you keep on blathering like that, and weeping so ? Do be a man." First workingman-^-" I'm a mean, miserable hound; I tried to lick my wife, and I'm no good anyway, beoauae she licked me 1" THE MARKET^. NKW YORK. Beeves.... Hobs Cotton Floc h--Superfine Whkat--Na 2. Spring No. 2 Ked Cop k- Ungraded Oats--Mixed Western........ . Pork--Mess Laud CHICAGO. Bkkves--Choice Graded Steera.... S 80 ® 6 TO Cows and Heifers 2 40 @ 4 00 Medium to Fair 4 60 ($ 5 00 Hoo« ...i..*00 (a, « 40 Flour--Fancy White Winter Em.. 7 25 («s 7 50 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 25 @ 7 00 Wheat--No. 2 Spring. 1 25 ($ 1 26 No. 3 Spring 1 11 1 12 75 •12 95 ..... 6 40 (4 a 46 ..... 12 @ l.X ..... 4 00 (g 5 00 1 84 ® 1 36 1 a» (ft, 1 41 . ...; 61 @ 00 47 @ 49 ....17 75 trig 00 .... 105£<3 U CornI--No". 1...., Oats4-NO. 2 '. .*... "*43 Ryf.-JNO. 2 96 Bakijey--No. 2 1 03 lie i -m;k--Choice Creamery 32 Eggk--IVCPII 24 Poitfc--Mdw IS CO («»16 Labd i 10*@ l°x MITiW AUKE£. Wheat--Na 1 1 36 Na 2 1 26 Co*n--Ka 2 6u (£ Oatb--No. 2.. - 42 (a Rye--No. 1 94 ifi Bahi.ey--Na 2. 92 Pons--Mess .U6 00 Lard 10X@ 11 ST. LOUIS. Wheat--Na 2 Bed. 1 31 @ 1 82 0 61 9 44 (A 97 <4 1 04 <£>> 43 C4 25 1 40 1 S3 61 9ft (» 9b («16 Cons--Mixed. Oats--No. 2... Rye.. Pobk--He Laud _ ,,W - • !•,, 47 (| 48 J. • 10Jt@ 11 CINCINNATI, j WBMi,.., J. 185 9 1*7 CORN 64 @ 65 Oats 47 <a> 48 Rye. 1 02 <£ 1 09 Pork--Mbm lit 75 @17 00 LAW* ; I0)t(g 11* TOLEDO. Wheat--Na 1 White 1 30 @ 1 32 64 Na 2 Red.... Oo» Oasw 44 DETROIT. ; Fix)tJ*--Cholc* ....>vA;4 • 75 Wh*at--No. 1 White........ 1 33 Corn--Mixed C6 Oath--Mixed 46 Barley (per cental) 2 00 Pou-Ueu .17 25 INDIANAPOLIS. Whemj-No. 2 Red 1 35 CoBN--No. 2 61 Oat* 45 EAST LIBERTY,JfA. Cattle--Bent 100 0 1 Fair # 25 . • Common 4 oo Hooi 6 90 She?*. 2 50 SaatAi 1 84 e «6 e 4» <3 9 00 3 1 84 <3 67 <8» 47 eiris ® 1 #6 » 62 e 48 « 9 » (S. 6 00 <3 8 80 0 400

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