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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTOR. JANUARY 3, 1S8
O
AS*
A DAY IN COURT.
LEGAL COMEDY IN WASH
INGTON.
The Scone* and Incident* of the Trial on Saturday—
Disgraceful Conduct of Court, Prisoner and
Counsel for Dtftnse—A Vain Appeal
for Decency in the Court.
W\riius<<TOS, December 24.—Tlic long for
bcurance of the counsel for the government
coded to-day. fulfilling Ihe indications ponit-
e-d out in these dispatches last niglit. The
manner of the assassin, while more subdued
than usual, was. at such time as he allowed
himself full rein, loo insulting to be borne
with patience, and Mr. Scoville himself, who
ought to he more keenly conscious than any
one else of his client's indefensible be
havior, became the prisoner's ally,
instead of his censer. To-day Gui-
teau directed most of his insults toward Judge
1'orter, whose manner from the first plainly
allowed that lie had endured being black
guarded by an assassin alxiut as long as he
could. Mr. Scoville, early in tiie cross-exam
ination of Dr. Stearns (who resumed the stand
at the opening of court), asked
question which made no attempt
to conform to the rules of
the cross-examination. Judge Porter ol
jetned emphatically, adding, with a look of
much significance at tiie judge, “I think that
it is due to the government, to the jury, t<
your ii*>nor and to us all that we should ad
here more strictly to the forms of law than
we have hitherto done." The immediate re
spouse to tliis came, as usual, Ir. a jeer from
Guiteau, and not in any form from the bench.
"You are getting excited, judge," the pris
oner remarked. Mr. Scoville said, with a de
risive smile: “Judge Porter can make more
out of nothing than any man I ever saw.
*‘I agree with you,” chimed in Guiteau, in
his most cheerful tone.
Again, when Mr. Scovilie interrupted Dr.
Steams in the middle of an answer, Judge
Porter protested, and there was a sharp ex
change of words, at the end of which Judge
Porter demanded that the counsel should
keep within the rule. Guiteau, leaning back
in his chair and looking over toward the
government counsel, who sat almost within
arm's length of him, jeered at Porter: “A—
aw. indeed, that's very line, ain't it?’
Judge Porter submitted in si
lence, aif-1 for a time Guiteau was quiet.
But it was not for long. He was soon at his
old trick of putting questions to tiie wltne
Judge Porter spoke up, telling Dr. Stearns to
pay no attention to the prisoner. Guiteau
turned almut witli an insolent.stare, and said:
"Who's doing this business, you or the
court?" Judg« Porter, raising himself to his
full height, replied, with a withering look at
the bench, and witli a slow anil hitter intona
tion that fixed the attention of every person
in the room: "1 had supposed that the court
was, hut tiie community is under the im
pression that the criminal is:" “Pm
no more of a criminal than you are, Judge
Porter,” tlic assassin broke in roughly. Judge
Porter went on as if he had not Heard him,
ami as lie talked Guiteau went on with his an
gry abuse. "1 stand a great deal better out
side than you do,” said tlic assassin. “All the
mc^rspupcrs are saying that I'm a bigger man
than old Porter” “1 shall lie compelled,’'
. Judge Portci continued, in tones trembling
with suppressed anger, “if these interruption
-continue, to have them made from the dock,”
pointing to the opposite side of tlic room
“A—aw, A—aw,” jeered tlic assassin, “Jusl
try that on?”
Tlic man's obvious feeling of security in the
weakness of tiie court was something strange
and trying to see. Colonel Corkhill then ad
dressed tlic court, saying: "I think it is a
proper suggestion, and it is one that I shall
insist ujion, if these interruptions and this
abuse arc continued. This man, who knows
what he is doing, mustmake his interruptions
from tlic dock where tiie criminal belongs.”
Meanwhile Guiteau was saying that, he was
present as his own counsel, and that the court
had no discretion, and was tuTinting the pros
ecution witli being very anxious about their
■ case. Justice Cox spoke severely to him and
lie submitted, saying: "I'll do whatever you
:-slv. judgt^,”
Uis ''uDniisskui was brief, however. Before
long lie was telling .the assembly, as of old,
that he was "no fool,” and "the Lord never
employed a fool todo Ilis work. ’ Judge Por
ter arose with the air of a man who had borne
and forborne long enough. "I notice,” be
said, "that these interruptions arc equally
annoying to tiie jury, your honor.” He
demanded that upon the next instance of
disorder the prisoner should lie put into
. the place to which the law assigns
him. Mr. Scoville. who ought to have
been busy at this point in keeping his client
silent anti co-operating in any proposition for
iiis reasonable discipline, broke into the dis
cussion with a sneer at Judge Porter and an
ill-natured remark. Guiteuu’s abusiveness
was now redoubled,ami Judge Porter repeated
ids former declaration. “Do it now.” called
out the prisoner. “Why don’t you do it
now?" lie seemed tei feci sure that tlic court
would not’ "do it now,” and the result
proved that lie was right. Judge Porter re
newed his announcement Jliat he slitiuld
move his committal to the dock, saying: "He
has murdered tiie president. He has sworn
that he lias been perfectly sane ever since.”
The only answer to this was more internip
tiuns from Guiteau. Judge Porter then said,
with indignant emphasis: "1 apply t. the
court to have the prisoner removed to the
And what was the answer of Justice Cox?
That he had had the matter under considera
tion, but that lie did not- want to act "too
hastily!” After five weeks of a judicial bed
lam, he did not want to act “too hastily.”
Judge Porter said nothing and continued to
say nothing, with the air of a man who could
sav a good deal if he wished to. Mr. Scoville
again lowered himself by sneering at
Judge Porter as making "a fuss" over
a little motion.’_, This brought
Colonel Oorklnll u> his feet with a protest
against being compelled to submit to such
calumny and abuse every day from the pris
oner, for which protest he was requitted, of
course, with renewed insult "I've told you
the truth," shouted the assassin, “and every
member of the bar knows that you area firat-
class fraud.'' There was a bare symptom of
applause when Colonel Corkliill closed hi
is nothing in the plea. He oan be guarded
by policemen as well in the dock as
w'liore lie is, and there never has been a day
since the trial began when a man willing to
throw away his own life for such an object
coaid not have shot or stabbed him. The
mildness of the punishment asked for by the
prosecution will strike every one. The fact
that they could not obtain even that is a suffi
cient vindication of their course in submit
ting in silence to so much outrage.
BKarly in tiie trial frequent suggestions were
made by ail the government counsel that
some coercion be used, but no action was
taken by the judge. It would have been use
less for the counsel to go on demanding day
after day measures which they knew the
court would not adopt. To do so would have
consumed time and increased tiie scandal of
tiie trial, and might have endangered their
great aim, the conviction of the assassin. If
Justice Cox would not take care of the repu
tation of iiis court, it was surely out of the
power of the prosecution to do it. The special
reason for their action of to-day is understood
to have been that they felt that the prisoner s
own declaration of yesterday that he is sane
furnished tlic best possible reason for sub
jecting him to the forms used with sane men.
The local opinion in Washington seems to
be in favor of Justice Cox. as might be ex
pected. His friends urge that he has done as
he has with tiie idea of letting Guiteau act
out his natural character, and thus demon
strate his sanity and depravity. There are
rumors, on tiie other hand, among well in
formed persons that he began the trial think
ing the prisoner insane and believing also
that a large proportion of the people consid
ered him to be so. However this may be,
the result of the license the assassin lias en
joyed in the court room would naturally be
to* leave the impression upon the mind of
the average spectator that lie was
an irrepressible lunatic, to be managed by
tact and not by severity. This feeling lias
-seemed to explain much of tiie disorder of
tiie spectators, wiio laugh at Guiteau’s talk,
without regard to tiie nerveless admonitions
fio.n the bench, as they would at the sayings
of a spoiled child. If it should prove that
this idea had been slowly impressed upon the
mind of so much as one juryman, the conse
quences may be iiuagned. It is thought by
some of Justice Cox’s friends that be will try
to recover some of his lost prestige in Iiis
charge to the jury. There is a general hope
expressed here that ho will, as lie is regarded
by bis friends as a man of good intentions
and a sound lawyer.
To show how deep an impression Justice
Cox’s remark that lie had the matter of re
moving Guiteau to the dock “under consid
eration” made on Guiteau, it miglit be said
that before the court had adjourned for tiie
noon recess lie had told the expert on the
stand that lie was “looking for his §500,” had
shouted to Judge Porter that “that moutli of
yours wags like an old cod-fish,” and added:
“You’re looking for your 85,000,” and had in
formed the prosecuting counsel that “you
fellows are badly cranked this morning,” and
soon.
The trial of the assassin was resumed, with
Dr. McDonald still on tiie stand. His evi
dence was direct and positive as to the sanity
of the prisoner Several other eminent ex
perts were also examined during the day,
and all were agreed as to the responsibility
of the criminal for his acts. The attempt of
the defense to establish what they termed
“moral insanity” was met by the declaration
from tlic medical gentlemen that they did
not believe in the existence of such a state of
mind.
An event of the day was the circulation by
the prisoner of another statement, wherein
lie seeks to recall attention to his claim of in
spiration in murdering the president. Tiie
document is a pitiable jargon of shrewdness
and feigned want of self-control.
The impression seems to gain ground that
the jury will certainly' convict. At first it was
feared that a mistrial would be the result, but
all the late indications point to an adverse
result to the prisoner.
The AmbmIii’h Latest Statement*
Washington, December 28.—[Special.]—In
his statements circulated to-day Guiteau
likens himself to Paul in his efforts to spread
the gospel, and to Washington in bis patriot-
ismin removing Garfield, and thus like Wash
ington saving the country. He proceeds to
say there is not tlic first element of murder
his case. To constitute the crime
of murder two elements must co
exist; first, an actual homicide;
second, malice in law or malice in fact. The
law presumes malice from the fact of homi
cide. There is no homicide in thi3 case, and
therefore no malice in law. Malice in fact
depends on the circumstances attending tiie
homicide. A'dmitiing that the president
died from the shot, which I deny as a matter
of fact, stiM the circumstances attending
the shooting liquidate the presumption
of malice either in law or in fact. Had he
been properly treated lie probably would have
been alive to-day. Whatever my inspiration
or intention, the deity allowed the doctors to
finish my work gradually', because he wanted
to prepare the people for the change and also
confirm my original inspiration. I am well
satisfied with the deity’s conduct
of this case thus far, and I have
no doubt but he will continue to further it,
to the end that the public will sooner or later
see the special providence in the late presi
dent's removal. Nothing but the political sit
uation last spring justified his removal. The
break in the republican party then was widen
ing week by week, and I foresaw a civil war.
My inspiration was to remove the late presi
dent at once, and thereby close the breach
before it got so wide that nothing but a heart
rending and desolating war could close it.
As soon as I fired the shot the inspiration
was worked, and I felt immensely relieved.
I would not do it again for a million of dol
lars. < ‘n:y a miracle saved me from being
shot or hung then and there. It was the most
insane, foolhardy act possible, and no one
but a madman could have done it. But the
pressure on me was so enormous I would
have done it if I had died the next moment.
After expressing iiis approbation of Judge
Cox and the jury and of President Arthur, he
proceeds: "My life has been a rather sad
Mv mother died when I was seven.
His. As a matter of fact, I presume I shall
live to be president.”
He concludes os follows: “I put my life on
the deity’s inspiration, and I have not come
to grief yet, and I have no idea I shall, be
cause I do not think I am destined to be shot
or hung. Blit that is a matter for the deity to
pass on. and not me. Whatever mode of my
exit from this world I have no doubt but that
my name and work will roll thundering down
ages, but woe unto tile men that kill me pri
vately or judicially.”
Tb© Trial Kwumcd.
Washington, December 23.—I>r. McDonald
again took the stand this morning, and was
cross-examined by Mr. scoville. The ques
tions were directed mainly to the subject of
temporary insanity, and the witness was
asked if in his practice he had not met an in
stance of temporary insanity. He replied:
"Yes. sir; I knew of a man who was insane
for twenty-four hours.”
Mr. Scoville (eagerly)—“And then he got
well?”
"No, sir, he died." [Laughter at Scoville's
expense].
Tiie witness was asked what he meant yes
terday by saying, “I believe he (prisoner) lias
been, playing a part in court," and replied,
"I believe he has been feigning wliat
he believed to be insanity not
really insanity. I believe he has been at
tempting to give the impression in court that
he is insane, and with that idea has been act
ing apart,”
Randolph Barksdale, superintendent of the
Central lunatic asylum, near Richmond. Va.,
visited the prisoner at the jail on the 30th of
November, when Doctors Loring and Hamil
ton examined him. He had also closely ob
served him _ in the court, and from Iiis per
sonal examination and observation, was of
opinion that he was sane. The witness also
testified that he believed Guiteau had been
feigning in the court. The witness believed,
taking as tr e the facts set fortli in the two
hypothetical questions of the prosecution,
that the prisoner was sane on
the second day of July, when
lie shot the president. Upon iiis cross-exami-
tion the witness stated that lie did not believe
ill moral insanity, though it was quite proba
ble that insane people might plan and con
ceal their plans.
Question—“Have you not stated to Mr.
Hayden, in the court-room, since this trial
began, that you believed Guiteau insane?"
Answer—"No, sir, I never made such a
statement to any person here or anywhere.”
Afterwards, by consent of the counsel on
both sides, the question and answer were
stricken from the official report.
Dr. John H. Callender, of Nashville, Tenn..
superintendent of Tennessee state asylum for
insane, had given special attention to the
study of insanity. For past twelve years had
seen about 2(1,000 cases during his connection
with the Tennessee asylum. The witness
visited the prisoner in jail and examined his
head and face; found his head
somewhat unsymmetrical, but the
lack of symmetry was not
more than is frequently found in sane people.
The witness had also observed the prisoner in
court, and believed him to be perfectly sane.
Dr. Callender did not believe in moral in
sanity nor hereditary insanity, save only in
the idea of a greater susceptibility to the de
velopment of insanity in tiie children of in
sane parents. In* his judgment no
such form of insanity as moral insanity
existed and his idea of the significance of the
term, moral monstrosity, is a person of average
intellect who gives free vent to evil passion
and commits heinous crimes.
A hypothetical case was stated describing
Guiteau’s apparently rational conduct for
weeks previous to his crime, and the witness
was asked if lie thought a person laboring
under an insane delusion that he
was inspired would conceal his
purpose as the prisoner bad done.
He replied that such a person, if really in
sane, would, even if he did not talk about it,
disclose his purpose by his changed manner
and conversation.
Guiteau prefaced the reading of tiie hypo
thetical case by the statement that the whole
question was full of falsehoods and added
that he made this statement beforehand to
avoid interrupting as the reading went on.
After recess tiie prosecuting counsel renewed
his motion that Guiteau be placed in the
prisoner’s dock, and after some discussion
Guiteau trembling with anger or apprehen
sion, shouted that the district attorney wished
to have him shot in exposing him in the dock
and withdrawing the force of special police
men who have so long formed his body guard
about the court.
Mr. Scoville, with much feeling, protested
against tiie proposed action which lie said
could not but be understood as an invitation
to all who heard of it, toshoot the prisoner if
so inclined.
Judge Cox gave Iiis opinion that
no certain measure to secure the prisoner’s
silence could have been taken that would not
have abridged his constitutional rights, and it
had been deemed, and the judge thought
rightly, that the prisoner’s behavior and ut
terances would prove the best means of deter
mining his mental condition.
Guiteau, in Iiis most insinuating manner,
promised to keep quiet if allowed to remain
near his counsel.
Judge Cox refused, when Guiteau shouted:
“Then 1 move, your honor, that the court
room be cleared.”
After Guiteau was placed in the dock the
plaster cast of his head was shown Dr. Cal
lender. When it was exhibited Guiteau ex
claimed. “It looks like Hunipty Dumpty.”
The witness thought that the head showed
no striking peculiarity of shape, but lie at
tached little importance to that matter. He
had known plenty of people of sound mind
with ill-shaped heads, and had plenty of
lunatics in his charge with symmetrical heads.
The witness- did not believe Guiteau liad
been feigning insanity in tiie court room,
but he had exaggerated his natural character
istics of egotism, vanity, insolence and audac
ity.
Guiteau continued to interrupt. Occasion
ally he called out: “Oli, I’ll get in my work
over here. Don’t you worry about that."
Judge Cox Expects Vindication.
Washington, December 28.—His attention
having been called to the criticisms of the
press, Judge Cox said to-day: “I am aware
that my course has been severely criticised,
but I feel that it would not be proper for me
to say anything in reply. When the right
time conies I shall be beard.”
"It is charged that you have been too leni
ent with Guiteau; that he has been allowed
to liave his own way too much.”
"The last is true." It is the most remarka-
able case I ever heard of; but it would not be
right for me to seek vindication through the
newspapers. I think in the end. however,
that everyone will be satisfied. It has been
a most difficult case to manage.”
Justice Cox seemed to be fully aware of the
general'feelingof discontent at his treatment
of the assassin, but intimated that the end of
the trial must furnish his vindication.
THE CROOKED WORLD.
THE METHODS OF THE NEWARK
ROBBERS.
9 *
How the City Was Systematically Fleeced by Some
ot thc|Beat Ottixens—Mrs. Scoville's Fears for
Her Scapegrace Brother—A Horrible Deed
in Kentucky—A Triple Harder.
IN GENERAL.
Newark, December 20.—Mr. James Yaldeu,
the expert who has been employed by tlic
common council of the city of Newark, N.
.1.. to examine tiie accounts of the ex-auditor,
Frederick A. Painter, said to-day to a reporter
that he expects to have some developments in
the case ready for tin- public on Tuesday.
The work of examining the accounts and doc
uments of the office is slow, and will proba
bly occupy several weeks. Of the total defal
cation—§125,000—which Mr.Palmer confessed,
the sum of §29,000 has been traced. Mr.
William B. Guild, Jr., the counsel of Mr.
Palmer, said that he had an interview with
his client, and found that his health is im
proving. Dr. Haight passes his whole time
with him. The prisoner is now suffering
from nervous prostration. It is the unbend
ing of the bow after a severe strain. Mayor
Fielder says that he was never more
astonished in his life and shock
ed than when lie learned of
Palmer's forgeries, and he will spare no efforts
to unearth them. An expert accountant to
day began an examination of the accounts of
the chief clerk and cashier of the controller's
department, William A. Hall, who is mis
sing. The assessment arrears of 1880 were
partially examined, two hundred and forty
names in the first ward being scrutinized.
The total embezzlement in this number
amounts to $2,175. As the names examined
constitute only a small fraction of all those
on the list, it is feared that the grand total
will be enormous. Mr. Hall's system was to
credit the property-owner with tlic payment
of his assessment on the record book, but not
upon the book of cash receipts. To have suc
cessfully maintained this system lie must
haveriuul the complicity of the auditor. Affi
davits for Mr. Hall’s arrest have been pre
pared, and active measures for his arrest will
be taken at once.
SCHWATKA’S SUGGESTION
Local option is becoming popular in Vir
ginia.
Texas exports more than $2,900,000 worth
of pecans mmually.
Montgomery, Ala., contributes §12,000 an
nually to the support of the Louisiana state lottery.
B -RING the past week there were $1,089,000
received at the United Suites treasury and ex-
chm -ted for uew money.
Tue Chicago relief committee lias forward-
SIOJmI more ot the amount collected for ihe bene
fit of the fi re sufferers of Michigan.
Forty-two counties of Kansas raised over
l.OOo WO bushels of corn each, and eight counties
ltarv. sted each over 500.000 bushels of wheat.
A: ter the war a colored man went front
Norm Carolina to Boston and started in tmde as a
»ailo>\ He now gives employment to 100 Iversons
and is worth $50,two.
The proivised university of Texas will
probably be long In building" as the regents dis
cover that they have a: their disposal only $37,000
of the $150,000 necessary.
Having learned that brownstone for build
itig purposes is not durable, \vn have changed our
plans and the family residence shall be con
structed of wood.-Rochester Express.
The preliminary arrangements for prepar
ing the white house for the new year’s reception
are being made. In addition to the usual flora]
decorations fiugs of all nations will be used.
At a country hotel near Reading, Pa., citi
zens holding graveyard insurance representing
$•050,000 gathered Saturday evening and made a
large bonfire of the policies aud assessment notices.
In tiie new favorite myrtle green riding-
habit of the Empress of Austria the skirt is so ar
ranged that in ease of accident it may b« by a sin
gle movement disengaged aud prevented from en
cumbering the feet.
The record in the Guiteau ease, made by tiie
official stenographer, now comprise* about* 1.000
pages of printed mutter. It is being published
from day to day in pamphlet form in the govern
ment printing oilice.
As an illustration of the benefits of public
parks to contiguous property, it is stated that the
establishment of Central park. New York, caused a
rise in the value of real estate in that vicinity of
over ten hundred per cent, aggregating in round
numbers fully $250,000,000.
An imperial ukase ordains a complete
ehange of uniform throughout the Russian line.
The new costume, which is very nearly that re
cently given to the police, may be called national
in character, and its adoption is one more sign of
the spirit now prevalent iu the highest quarter.
A Virginia father lias eleven children
named itt the consecutive Latin numerals from
“Primus” to "Undecimus;” at the birth of his
tenth boy the latter was named "Deqimus Ulti-
mus,” or tenth and last, but, somehow, anot*'“-
son followed, and was dubbed “Undecimus.”
A country postmaster wrote to the post
master general a day or nvo ago, saying: "A man’s
wife dropped a letter in this office addressed to nu-
othei man. The husband suspects something
wrong. Shall I deliver the letter to him?" The
postmaster was instructed that the husband could
not ascertain anything about his wife’s correspond
encc in that way.
PERSONAL.
To Surmount Arctic Difficulties by a ltulluon Voyage.
San Francisco, December 1K>.—A Portland,
Oregon, dispatch says: “The Oregonian pub
lishes an interview with Lieutenant Schwatka
regarding the-cruise of the Jeannette. He
believes the ship wintered at the Liaknov
islands, or near by. on the Siberian coast,
having passed south of Wrangell Land, would
account for the failure of the Corwin and
Rodgers to find traces of her. Her previ
ous discoveries cannot be inferred from her
position when lost, but may have been
extensive and interesting. De Long did not
follow the axis of the warm Japanese current
north of Behring’s Straits, which should lie
done before that avenue is condemned as im
practicable. As to the return of the party,
the route suggested by Kennan seems the
most sensible. Probably his instructions to
make the northeast passage a secondary con
sideration led De Long to make no attempt'to
reach tiie pole in the direction of tiie Parry
Archipelago. His retreat in boats is one of
tiie most masterly managed escapes in tiie
history of abandoned Polar vessels. Schwatka
puts no faith in the reports that the Russians
withheld information about the Jeannette.
The result of the expedition is a severe blow
to the belief that a g«od Polar route can be
found by following channels made through
the ice by the outflow of the great Siberian
rivers and the m ean currents and leaves but
little doubt as to the fate of the last Anteri-
iean whalers, Vigilant and Mount Wollaston.
He thinks that the balloon will be next called
into requisition in solving the arctic problem.
Portland, Oregon, Polaris.
Girls, stand up! We feel as it we would lilac to
strap you fast to some of those heavenward tower
ing firs. Don’t you know that the way you bend
over and tilt forward and hang your hands like the
paws of a Kangaroo is a disgrace on this laud of
straight growing, grand old forests? Of all the peo
ple iu the world, our western girls should stand flat
on the soles of their shoes, throw their shoulders
back, and walk as if they were alive. And then
just listen how you talk! Slang is bad enough, but
the simpering, teetering, fawning sentimentalism
which requires you to skip the last end of a word
lest it sound flat and uncultured, is too disgusting
for anything. And, then, vrhat is the use hobbling
on the street, as if you were de
formed, when the whole truth is, you
have a number two shoe on a number four foot.
Don’t deny it! The shoemaker told us all about it
when you purchased your shoes, and it’s all over
the city. You know you have been in mortal mis
ery ever since. Don’t you suppose people know
abou t how largo a foot goes with a physique like
yours? And do you suppose you can "deceive the
shoemaker? When you do get on a number two, it
5> a four he chauged for you. Now, just let some
things in this worid have their course; and remem
ber that a man worth the name, loves womanliness;
and most of this is made up of an open-hearted, in
nocent independence that alwavs rejoices in taking
things in this world as they are, and refusing to be
an angel till the time eoines. A wise man says:
“No woman is a true woman who is not first a true
animal.” It is worth rememberiug. No woman
ever suffered because she was muscular and strong,
and could stand and walk and talk without a stim
ulant.
prisoner*
court. Guiteau now sits in about the center
of the room. The dock is on the side of the
room farthest from the jury. His interrup
tions there would be less annoying, and isola
tion and fear would be apt to quiet him. I.
is the usual place tor prisoners, and
tftere is no reason whatever why he
should not lie there, except that he
hits succeeded with his strong will in pro
ducing the impression that he is a privileged
j*crson. The thought that he is an assassin,
und that he reasonably deserves all the
humiliation and severity which tiie law
alto vs, seems seldom if ever to cross tiie
minds of those about the prisoner or in
charge of hint. Some attempt is made to de
fend J ustiee Cox’s action on tlic ground that
Guiteau would be in more danger in the dock
t ;. ji tlic 2. ar. r* vat, Titers;
was unfortunately married, and so continued
four years. Boon after I was divorced. I went
into * theology three years. My
life in the Oneida . community
was one of constant suffering. My married
life the same, my theological life one of anxi
ety. but I was happier at that than anything
else, because I was serving tiie Lord. My life
lias been isolated. During my six years in
Oneida community I got estranged from my
relatives. I might as well have been in th;
state prison or lunatic asylum. I never was
able to forgive my father for running me into
that community. If it had not been for this I
should have had a far happier life, but let it
go. Forgetting tilings behind, I pressed for
ward. I have no doubt as to my spiritual des-
tinv. I have always been a lover of the Lord,
and whether I live one year or thirty, I am
Protection From Disease.
The following, which we take from a letter
received from one of our old patients at the
south, dated June 5th, 1880, shows the effect
of Compound OYygen in keeping up vitality
under ciroumstances of great fatigue, Joss of
rest, exposure to fever, and all the depressing
influences attendingon the.sickness and death
of near and dear relatives. “For ten weeks
mv sister and I nursed our father (the late
judge) constantly, day and night, she losing
one-half and I the other of each night. I took
the Oxygen regulaily twice a day, aud though
feeble and much exhausted, did not have any
symptoms of the fever; while my sister, who
did not use the Oxygen at all took the fever
and died. She, too, was very delieate, but I
do not believer she would have had the fever
if she had been using the Oxygen. We used
every precautionary measure in the way
of cleanliness, pure air. wholesome food, etc.”
Our Treatise on Compound Oxygen, contain
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A Judge'e Charge, With Variation*.
Editor’s Drawer in Harpers for January.
The following comes from Georgia, and its accu
racy is vouched for by the stenographer who took
it down:
Judge was noted for the way he got mixed
in his elinrges to the jury. On one occasion a case
was tried before him the points of which may be
briefly stated thus: Smith brought suit against
Jones upon a promissory note given for a horse.
Jones’s defense was failure of consideration, he
averring that at the time of the purchase the horse
had the glanders, of which he died, and that Smith
knew it. Smitli replied that the horse did not have
the glanders, but the distemper, and that Jones
knew it when he bought.
The judge charged the jury: “Gentlemen of the
jury, pay attention to the charge of the court. You
have already made one mis-trial of this case be
cause you did not pay attention to the charge ot
the court, and I don’t want you to do it again. I
intend to make it so clear to you this time that you
cannot possibly make any mistake. This suit is
upon a note given for a promissory horse. I hope
you understand that. Now. if you find that at the
time of the sale Smith hud the glanders, and Jones
knew it, then Smith cannot recover. That is clear,
gentlemen. I will state it again. If you find that
at the time of the sale Jones had the distemper,
and Smith knew it, then Smith cannot possibly re
cover, But, gentlemen. I will state it a third time
so that you cannot possibly make a mistake. If at
the time of the sale Smith had the glanders, and
Jones had the distemper, and the horse knew it,
then neither Smith. Jones nor the horse can re
cover. Let the record be given to the jury.”
Impeachment Culled For.
New York World.
Why was it necessary for ex-Judge Porter on Sat
urday to ask that Guiteau. indicted for the coward
ly assassination of a president of the United Stale*,
should be put “into the dock?” What is a dock
provided for iu a court if notas the place in which
an accused person is to be kept while his trial goes
on ? And why has the judge presiding over the
court in which this trial proceeds granted this man,
accused of a cowardly assassination, privileges
which have been so openly and shamelessly abused
bv him as to intake it necessary for ex-Judge
Porter to request that he should be dealt w ith us
any other person accused of so heinous a crime
would most assuredly have been dealt with through
out the trial of his case? Is there any way other
than an impeachment of Judge f ox of getting at
such an answer to these questions as shall appease
the great and growing indignation of all decent
people of all parties throughout this country at the
disgraceful spectacle so long inflicted upon the
public by this extraordinary magistrate?
The impeachment of a judge whose conduct had
merited this stinging rebuke is due to the credit of
the American bench. It is due to the scores of
able and seli-respecting magistrates who now fill
judicial posts all over the union.
Me elie-i id! me ch-t-i-ldrcn!—[Minister
West.
General Sir Evelyn Wood has left south
Africa for England.
Secretary Blaine subscribed $1,000 to tiie
Garfield hospital fund.
Mrs. Casey, of New York, is an object of
interest because she has given birth to three boy*.
Postmaster-General Howe lias a farm nett
Green bay, and is deeply interested iu agricultural
matters.
Sir Robert Piiillimore, judge of the ad
miralty division of the high court of justice, has
been made a burouet.
Guiteau lias never yet made use of the
word “God" in any of his blasphemous harangues.
He refers to “the Deity.”
The Rev. Arthur A. Waite, an evangelist,
closed a revival at Lynn, Mass,, by running away
without paying his bills.
Hugh J. Jewett, receiver of the Erie rail
way, has deeded to Jay Gould the- Grand opera
house, New York, for $715,000.
Ik half tlic stories of his gains be true, Meis-
sonier must be growing very rich indeed. He is to
have $10,000 for Mrs. Mackey’s portrait.
Pierre Lokrillard, of New York, owns tiie
North American Review and the horse Parole, and
is said to be engaged to Annie Louise Cary.
Mr. Horace Gray, tiie newly appointed
justice of the supreme court, is more than six feet
tall, and is stout in proportion. He is a bachelor.
Attorney-General Brewster will meet
General Arthur at Philadelphia in’the president’
special car aud accompany him on hisYeturu to
Washington.
Cheng Tsao Jc, the new Chinese minister,
is reported to have been for ten years superintend
ent of the arsenal at Shanghai. He knows arms
and machinery thoroughly.
Judge Jeremiah Black is to be invited tc
deliver the address in Baltimore on the occasion of
the centennial celebration of Grattan’s proclamation
of Irish independence on February 22.
The lion. B. Maxwell, son of the late Lord
names, a Roman Catholic peer, lately tnairicd in
London Miss Jessup, of Philadelphia. Mr. Maxwetl
and his brother have large ranches in the west.
London papers say that Lady Hill-Trevor’s
jewelry was worth nearly $300,U00: it was taken
evidently by some one acquainted with the house,
aud two servants have been arrested on suspicion
Proeksser 8. Wells Williams, of Yale
college, received a dispatch from the interior of
China on Wednesday evening, which was sent the
day before. Not bad tiiae for a journey of 19,000
miles.
Alexander H. Stephens, when asked why
he had never married, replied: “I have always
been too proud, knowing that I should always lie
an invalid, to ask any woman to marry me to be
my nurse.”
Captain John Brooks, who lately died at
Bridgeport, Conn., left in his will an injunction
that iiis remains be strietly kept from the view of
everybody except the undertaker. He desired to
be remembered as he was when alive.
Ik the Baroness Burdett-Coutts survives her
marriage ten years she will have! paid, without in
terest, $5,750,000 for a husband, taking her loss con
sequent on marriage at £75,000 a year—an ex
pensive luxury, but she could afford it.
The emperor of Brazil, who years ago was
entertained in Paris by Victor Hugo, sent a royal
messenger to France, about a month ago, burdened
with messages of affection ami esteem for the poet
and Christmas presents for the Hugo grandchil
dren.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Cincinnati,
inconsequence of dancing having been allowed at
some church fairs, has issued a circular posirively
forbidding dances after dark at entertainments
given forchurch purposes, aud round danccsatuny
time.
Governor I’laisted, of Maine has named
fusiouists for all the vacancies occurring iu the
county offices. This ac ion will probably result in
some confusion, as it is probatile that the council
will not confirm the appointments of fusiouists in
republican counties.
Secretary Kirkwood recently issued twen
ty-seven pieces of bounty land scrip t’o the heirs of
Captain John Paul Jones in appreciative acknowl
edgement of his brave and meritorious services in
connection with the capture of certain British ves
sels-of-war during the revolutionary war.
Ben Butler has brought about a settlement
of the litigation iu regard to the -Spiagne estate.
The settlement will result iu the payment of 30 per
cent, of their claims to the creditors, making the
amount already paid up 50 per cent. It is under
stood that Gcut-ral B. F. Butler purchases the en
tire property and assumes certain Iiahiiites which
will oblige "him to pay iu »he aggregate about $!.-
000,000. Thi- is estimated by creditors to be more
than could be realized by selling the property at
auction and in parcels, since a considerable por
tion of tlic property is entirely unproductive and
would, it is thought, liave yielded a very moderate
price. The arrangement, as far as it has progressed,
i< made with the consent of the creditors’ commit
tee.
Madame Wilson, the riaughterof the French
president, is, since her marriage, to be seen at the
Theater l’rancais two or three times a week, and
generally wears a high dress open in front aud fill
ed in with lace. The dress is either white or blue,
very rarely gray or black, $116 is elegant without
running into the extreme of fashion, and never
seeks to be cited as "Reine de la Mode ” Since
her marriage she has discarded her favorite round
hat in favor of a small bonnet with strings, .She
drives In the Bois in an open carriage with her
father, for Mme. Grevy dreads the cold. Mme.
Wilson, on the contrary, takes much exercise, and
leaves her carriage for a walk. She wears some
times a pretty but simple costume of myrtle-green
cloth, made with kilted skirt, and a large Directoire
redingote. with small shoulder cape. Tiie coat,
which i* long and close-fitting, is bordered with
rich black fur; a dark green bonnet, witli a plume
of shaded green feathers, and wide watered strings
tied in a large bow beneath her chin, completes
her costume. Mme. Grevy always dresses in keep
ing with her age, either in black or very rich ma
terials of dark shades—satins, cut velvets, thick
moires, etc.
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