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THE CONSTITUTION. ffinZ Tev '^ Ga TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 24, 1882. PRICE 5 CENTS A FEELING TRIBUTE i his liberality in one form proved the cause of j j his inability to keep up its exercise in anoth- I er. The good will, however, remained; not . ! until his life went did that fail. TO THE MEMORY OF A. warm-j As a lawyer, his standing was respectable, HEARTED GENTLEMAN. | and his succtss not below the average. After J the war he practiced hut little and only in A TALE TWICE TOLD YOUNG WIFE’S FRENZIED JEALOUSY. JmJcc Loe«n 2. nircv.cy Pays Tribute to the Worth *nd Wudom, the Heart mnd Oenerotltj of the Lata Colonel Jam--. D. Vv.ddi 11—A Bean. Ufol Ltfo Worthy it Imitation. COLONEL JAMES I>. WADDELL, DIED, DECF.MnEB 15th. 1SS!. "I pray thee, then. Write me as one that loves hb fellow-men. special cases. Ilin appetite for law was never insatiate; lie seemed not to crave it as a men tal aliment, and it may be doubted whether he took it with even tolerable relish. Viewed on the side of the affections, he embraced the, legal profession, thinking it was Rachael, 'and next morning, lxdiold, it was Leah”! A Corcrtl'ut on Reporter Pays a Visit to Kate Sothern Kow She Appears After Pour Yeats of Servi- tude-The Liberties She Enjoys—A He- v cw of tbo Pickens County Crime. By consanguinity of the heart, by the kin ship of sympathy and generosity, James I). Waddell was the brother of all mankind. If the whole human family had known him, his death would have been felt by all as a be reavement of the race. Alas! what a be reavement to those who did know him! Especially to that inner circle who knew him intimately and loved him with corresponding tenderness and devotion! An ardent, frank and impetuous cordiality was natural to hint; his every impulse was to confer lienelits and scatter deeds of kindness; mid his impulses were but the advance forces of a steady energy of goodness, itself constant and incxhuustible. In the range of objects ' Ids sympathy bad no limit short of the boun daries of humanity; it was his delight to render n friendly service to any and every one who had a want or could receive a grati fication; and he knew how, in each instance, to adapt his benefaction to the condition and character of the recipient, for though Ids benevolence was universal, it was not chaotic or indiscriminate; on the contrary, its in stinctive order ami symmetry was one of its conspicuous excellencies. By favors appro priate to each, he eould oblige at the same time tlic humblest and the. most ex ulted; bounty to the one involved no neglect of the other; he could gratify a multitude without confusion, though they might vary in rank and degree from servants up to statesmen and divines. The manner of his deed was often more prec ious than the matter; for lie wore all the graces of kindness. The very sound of his voice went home to the heart. His presence created a sort of atmosphere of benignity. As if a magnetism of the soul issued, from him and diffused itself through the air, he seemed to charge his whole environment with an influence of love. This ]>ortrnit of him is not overdrawn. Tru th sometimes lies in the regions oi ap parent exaggeration. To describe a large moral trait as manifested in an instance of its very largest development requires far-reach ing language. There is nothing bigger than goodness. Col. Waddell was a native of Abbeville district, South Carolina, was bom December 22d, 1838, and was the son of Rev. Isaac W. Waddell, and o grandson of the illustrious Dr.'Moses Waddell, many years president of the University of Georgia. His mother, for merly Miss Sarah Rebecca Daniel, was a mem ber of a well known and most respectable family of Greene county, Georgia. His pa rents removed to this state when he was quite young, and settled at Marietta; where his father was pastor of the Presbyterian church serving ably and usefully in that position as long as he lived. Here Janice grew up to manhood. He gruduuted with distinction, re ceiving one of the honor] of bis class in 18->.‘5, ^i|'> in,! fulli rthe study of law and was adrfiffted to the bar. .b titering into coiMirtnarship with Colonel E. I). Chis olm. and settling at Cedartown, in Polk coun ty, lie practiced law until 18(51, when he went into the military service as a captain in the aHh Georgia regiment. lie was promoted, during the succeeding year, first to the rank <jf major and then to that of lieutenant colo nel, and in the next year to the rank of colo nel of his regiment. lie was a brave and true soldier. Writing of him to the adjutant gen eral, under date of March 14, 18(54, Lieuten ant-General John B. Hood said: “I have the honor to bring to your notice the gallant con duct and distinguished services of Colonel J. D. Waddell, of Den ning's brigade. I know him to be a most efficient and energetic, officer.” In the same year, on A.pril 1st, Bricadier-Generul K. M. Law, writing also to the adjutant general, said of him—“His reputation in the army as an officer of sterling worth and ability is de servedly high, and there is no one connected with this division who has performed more arduous service.” On account of physical disabilities lie quit the field in 18(54, and was assigned by the government to judicial duty in tiie court of slave claims. As president of that court he concluded his faithful ‘and zeal ous exertions in behalf of the Southern Con federacy. He was connected with both reconstruction conventions held in Georgia after the war, with the first as sectary and with the second as a delegate fron "the county of Polk. In the latter he and his friend Colonel Trammell, ot Whitfield, were the active leaders of a small but "lively” minority, who kept the body well served with indiginous ideas—the native growth of old Georgia as modified by the transition period. They were ablealways to worry and sometimes to batllc the carjiet- bag section of the convention. He prepared and submitted to the body for adoption a res olution indorsing General W. S. Hancock, and recommending him for the presidency of the United States, the first formal and impressive attempt ever made to bring forward this great man for the chief magistracy of the country. His admiration of General Hancock was ardent and intense, being founded on the sentiment, common to them both, of fidelity to civil government and constitutional liberty, a sentiment which he devotedly cherished, and of which lie con sidered General Hancock a most noble advo cate and exemplar. Though his chief work in the convention was not constructive but somewhat in the nature of police services, he was a laborious and useful member, his use fulness being represented in the final result by what was not done, rather than by what was done. He occupied a place on the democratic elec toral ticket in 1S(>S, and assisted in costingthc vote of Georgia for Seymour and Blair. Twice he was clerk of the house of representatives of the state; first, in 18G5-6, and again in 1871-2. In 187G and 1877 he was editor of the "Times,” a daily newspaper published in At lanta. For several years of his life, whilst attending to other pursuits, he had upon his hands a farming interest more or less exten sive. He had quite a taste for agriculture, and a faith in it which no reasonable amount of discouragement from the crop as compared with the cost could extinguish. If he was not an accomplished farmer, he was at least an amateur wno displayed the spirit and en deavored to acquire the skill of a professional. For the most part, in his business opera tions generally, he was not unblessed with thrift; and.'until of late years he was in cir cumstances which enabled him, when at home, to keep open doors and exercise a gen erous hospitality. No man ever delighted more in the indulgence of this noble virtue. Nature formed him for a host, and cultivation improved and perfected him. To be his guest was to be, for the time, separated from any want which it was in his power to gratify. That his fortune ultimately became reduced so that he was forced to dam up this stream of his bounty was due muinly to his having in curred obligations for others which, in the end, ho had to meet and discharge. Thus, A few days ago Tun Constitution published an interview with Captain JohnW. Nelms, He had a taste as well as a talent for politics, principal keeperot the penitentiary, in which and could liar liy have failed of brilliant sue- I f * , . . e . cess if in due time be had entered fully upon i 11 was stated that Kate So.hern,.the once a political career. That he never did so is 1 famous Pickens county murderess, was living explained by what explains so much else in Atlanta as a domestic iu the family of Mr. his destiny. He always had some friend, fre- I n n quently a number of friends, for whose J l. tiow-ru. vanccnient he was more concerned than for his I The hit of information was nothing U3W to own. He walked behind that others might I the reporter who penned the interview, hut J? *n front, and that he might have the hap-1 jj- was eagerly seized upon by the public, and pmess of Hashing them on to place and power I , . ° ahead of himself * I f° rme d the theme of many conversations. Perhaps the vocation to which he'was best Yesterday ‘Tar. Constitution decided to adapted, and for which, considering him all send a reporter down to interview the fair Deseended V Trom S a 'lin^fthola,^' convict f and see how she appeared after four himself a man of liberal learning. His taste j years of service. in letters was pure and refined. He wrote j The reporter was not long in finding the with facility, and |iis style was ever lucid and I residence of Colonel Howard on Ivy street, graceful. He could clothe his best thoughts I , . tr , ,. „ , - .. fn composition so faultless that it seemed a bctween Houston and Lllis. It was just gro w- clasaic drapery woven iu words. In author- ing dark as the unceremonious scribe rang the ship ho attempted but little, too little to serve I door hell at a two-story, brown framed house, as more than an earnest of what he and a , vaited the answer which was to usher have accomplished. He wrote in part and 1 , . , , . edited in part a volume published under I him into the presence of the woman who was thc title of "Biographical Sketch of Linton more talked about, read about and written Stephens,” his share of which was I about than perhaps any other who ever lived finely executed, and the hook was favorably I ... „ . . ., received by a limited and discriminating | u Georg,a - As the reporter stood thus mus das*of readers. Its merits entitle it to reach I * n S he heard a footfall in the hall and almost n wider public than if has yet greeted; that it 1 immediately the *door opened and the re- will gradually do so is almost certain. He ter stood face to face witll a tall, rather wrote and delivered a number of .addresses of I . , . , , , . u . marked excellence—among them several for sln £ u 'ar looking personage dressed in a black '‘decoration’’occasions in honor of t lie con- j dress. After mentioning that lie wished to federate dead. An elaborate paper on Stephen see Colonel Howard, the scribe was ushered A. Douglas embodied his conception and es-1 H where lie was left for a timate of that eminent statesmen, but was by ,uto tUe P ar ‘ or ; *“ e , re ue was le “ 10r a other hands somewhat mutilated before pub-1 moment to meditate aloiit, lication in order to accommodate it to certain I The woman who had met the reporterat real or supposed northern standards of u door and conducted him into Colonel political and historical orthodoxy. It ap-1 _ ,, , ■ .. . peared, thus curried down, in the pages of {a Howard s par.or was Kate Sothern, who, New York review. In the main, however, when she was informed that there was a the article as printed is his, both matter and I Constitution reporter there who wished to form. He prepared a similar paper on Tbos. j t t her, came in and meekly seated lier- H. Benton, the manuscript of which is doubt-1 , . ’ , , , . , , less preserved; and it is matter of conjecture 1 suit upon a low cushioned chair and gazed that a few other unpublished writings of merit I wcariedly out of the window at the darkness, from his pen, all of them brief, may be in ex- As she sat there idly waiting to istence. " I he “seen,” the reporter was intently Comparing his parts and his performance, I studying her face. She appeared fully s genius and his work, tlieir disproportion I thirty and no one would believe her to be so seems, at first, not easily accounted for. But I young as twenty-two, which is her real age. in literary matters the’ southern people ad- I Her cheeks were still rosy and her naturally mire thc potential, irrespective of its eonver-1 curly hair stood in pretty little “kink a-bils” sion into the actual. Like courts of equity. I —to coin a word—about her forehead. Her they consider as done that which might and I face wore an expression of sadness and. her ought to be done. Power stands .both for it- I manner was so gentle that the reporter could self and its produet. The able non-pro-1 scarcely realize that she was famous as the dticer, certainly the able spare-producer, j most- noted murderess Georgia ever had. is hardly less esteemed than the most prolific. | The reporter felt that lie was upon a deli- A sort of literary reticence throughout the I cate mission and ingathering the information south has been the result. The best genius that he wanted rarely directed a question to- and culture of the section, with certain rare I ward Mrs. Sotherif. She showed no ihcli mi- exceptions, have not made it a distinct oh-1 tion whatever to talk, hut when asked a ject to be fruitful. There lias been no ]>o!nted question auswered it with childlike scarcity of capable intellect, nor, on thc side I simplicity. of development and acquisition, any deli-1 She very frankly told the repo; ter how old ciency of earnest labor; but thc drudgery of I she was when she killed Narcissa Cowart, she production has been borne with reluctance, | was seventeen. When the reporter asked i'/.T ormore frequently declined. The pain requi- how she liked her situation, she placed,h r site to produce with excellence on a .large | hands to her face and said nothing._ She up scale has n south; . tracted, is pain unendurable. He was married early in 1857 to Miss Me- dora Sparks, a daughter of Thomas H. Sparks, of Polk county. This union was crowned. with every blessing (offspring al ne excepted) I thought that perhaps it was her baby that is which is vouchsafed to fortunate and happy 1 dead. wedlock. Its only calamity was the one I While in North Carolina a runaway from which brought its dissolution—the failure of I the law, theio came to the fugitives a wee her health, and her consequent death in the I little girl, who, when Kate and Bob Sothern spring of 1880. lie mourned her with an I were captured, came back with them to Geor- inconsolablc sorrow, and was never afterwards I gia. The baby was in jail with her parents, the man lie liad been before. His interest in I and when, after the conviction, Airs. Sothern life went out, and thc natural desire to live I and Bob passed through Atlanta on their way was supported by a vague longing to thread I to the convict caiup, the little, girl was a much the shades in loving quest of her spirit, and to I sought for member of thc party. Her name have his body repose beside hers in friendly I was Lula Grady Sothern. dust. The painfully disordered state of lii's Mrs. Sothern went to Captain Jack Smith’s own health, during the last year, had much I camps to begin her service hut never has she to do with preventing moral reaction and I worn a stripe or been subjected to the regu- with causing his mental depression to he per-1 latious governing the other convicts. She manent as well os extreme. Belonging to I was there nearly a year engaged in making ppinn fnniiliinj I plnthpo t.liD cnnvif*fs Xli** tlipn fall fn flip become .constcnial at tiiel pears to b- ve^given up all hope rf liapphi- and study it one woulde conclud that her thoughts were bent upon tilings that happened in the past rather than on what will come in the future. The reporter Hr; attentions to Miss Cowart. P young wife feared that her ■’.’.- band ot a few months was being drawn pt > a whirlpool which would wreck their do- iv- die joys. She grew intensely jealous., '1 hings went on so until one night there was » i iuee at her father's house. Among the ga its was Miss Cowart. When the bail pened Mrs. Sothern went to her husband anil asaed him not to dance any with Miss Oj-.vart. It is said that he made' the promise The-jealous wife retired but watched the merry makers with an aching heart. About twelve o’clock she saw her husband step upon the floor with his wife's fair rival by his side. She went to him and remonstrated but in vain. Her hus band turned from her to engage in the mazes of" she dance with a woman whom she hated Mis. Sothern watched the dance for a while and then left the room. She went to her father, who was out of the house, and under the pretence of wanting to cut a tooth-brush borrowed his pocket-knife. She returned to the room, where the dancing was going on. T!-e dance had just ended and Miss Cowart was walking toward a seat. With all the frenzy which rage and jealously could arouse thu maddened wife seized her by the shoul der, and said, “You have danced enough.” At the same time she drew from the folds of lier dress the open knife and with a terri ble energy plunged the blade into the girl s neck. Tlie gash was a iriglitful one and ex tended toward the region of the heart. The warm blood spurted for several feet. The knife again descended, this time entering the left breast. The victim, already staggering, wnt dealt another blow, and fell to the floor dead. One of the men present rushed forward and shouted: '"Where is the man that struck that wo man?” Kate Sothern, in a tone of defiance, re plied: "I am the man that did it!” /tlie horror-stricken crowdsnrged about thc door when Bob Sothern, realizing what had eoine of his flirtations, strode to the front avid said: ■ “Gentlemen, I am going to leave this house and take my wife with me—and we are going ti -oughif we have to shoot through.” . He drew his pistol, flourished it and the d. vzed crowd gave wav while the man and wife e. rted through and disappeared in the dark- n ss. A reward of §250 was offered by the Cowart family and $150 by the state, hut fora fi :1 year the fugitives were never heard of. Finally,- they were heard of in North Caro- li ;a, and were brought back to Georgia. They were incarcerated in the jail of Pickens i unty, and with them was a little baby girl .that had been born to them since their flight. Kate Sothern was tried for murder, con victed and sentenced to death. Through the e.iorts of friends, Governor Colquitt was in duced to commute her sentence to ten years ii the penitentiary. On the 29th of May she passed through At lanta on her way to begin the serving of her sentence at the camps of Captain Jack Smith, h- Washington county. The crowd which t tessed about the car shed on the ar- r ,-al of the train was one of the,- !. i.'gest, if not the largest, ever seen in -•vianta. It was simply overwhelming, r :e was accompanied by her husband and her l by. When the train stopped at the depot a it tie ruse enabled them to reach thc saloon a iid avoid the crowd. As soon as the -crowd ti/scovcred -that the trio had evaded them, t ey made a wild rush for the saloon. Every imaginable thing was done to secure a g i lapse of the fair convict. Some clinched i i cars and others pressed up to the windows, irough all this Mrs. Sothern was calm and ire an almost spiritless and dejected air. U "-as dressed .in & dark dress and wore a ISfiCk hat iuiu veSl. * Sl:e lift at -11 > (clock c.t night and was gone for about three years, wiien the course of events brought her back to Atlanta to live. THE INSPIRATION THAT LED TO THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. GARFIELD Declared by Mr. Scortllo to Have Come From t- e Stalwart Leaders. Who Made Suggestions WhioN Found Fraotio-1 Lodgement iu the Crazed Brain of Quiteau. one of the most staunch Presbyterian families in thc land—staunch in intellect, in sacred ' learning and in piety, he received a religious ] nurture and training, the influence oi which never ceased to be in some degree authoritative | upon his life; authoritative for guidance, olten; and often,-alas, for reproof. Like tool many others, he lived habitually upon a lower religious pique than that on which he | was reared; hut even when farthest away clothes for the convicts. She then fell to the lot of Colonel Howard, who had his camps in Taylor county. She stayed there eleven months, and then Colonel Howard carried her to Bartow county. During the time she acted as a domestic in the fauuly and her husband was with her all the time except during six months of the time when she was in Bartow county. Last February Colonel Howard brought her from his early moorings, lie was non- 1 to Atlanta and she has been here since that religions rather than flagrantly irreligious, time. Since she came to Atlanta her bus- Though not a member of the church, he was I band has been with her constantly. In fact, always in close and cordial relation, socially, I one would never suspect that the patient anil with many ot the ablest and best Christian I pains-taking domestic in the family of men, and some of the purest Christian women I Colonel Howard was serving out aten years’ of his time. Respecting thc church itself, he sentence for murder. She has the freedom of no doubt often felt like a stray laiubtkat had, I the city, as it were, and with the balance of spmehow, parted from the flock and wandered I the world went to seethe exposition. She off into the wilderness. There is hope, how-1 went under escort of her husband ever, that at last, he returned and was admit ted, not indeed into the visible, hut into the invisible congregation of the just, A godly minister, to whom he could and did reveal his heart, is said to have it in liis power to and displayed much interest what she saw. She began her service iu 1S78 and was 18 years of age. She has six years yet to serve before she breathes the air of liberty. Her little girl died when eleven bear presumptive witness of his final eonver- I months old and she now has no children, sion. Contemplating him from the moral I This tale twice told may vex the ear—but and emotional, rather than the dogmatic I as circumstances have aroused new interest in standpoint of religion, it is scarcely possible I her case we give below a brief sketch of how to believe that such a gentle, genial, noble I nd why and when she dipped her hands in spirit was doomed to go lienee into a future I blood: slate other tiian one of rest and everlasting! About four or five years^-'go Kate Sothern felicity. j was the greatest sensa'tion of the times. Her At uis death he lacked just a week of being I name and history, with the tragic details of forty-nine years old. He died in Marietta, at I the crime, which she committed, her flight, the'house and surrounded by thc family of I capture, trial, sentence of death, and its com- his aflectionate sister, Mrs. Dr. Setze; other 1 mutation to imprisonment in the penitentiary near and dear kindred, also, being present. I for ten years, furnished a thenie which was He left no one from himself descended, to I taken up by the press and used for all it was bear his name or revere his memory. But lie I worth. There was much in these facts that will not be forgotten. L. E. Bleckley. | was of interest and the case grew in interest until it was known over the entire country and written of and talked of by the people of Tl,at there are seventy styles of fashionable note I the north as much as bv the people of the • I south, or even of Georgia almost. Ihe details That certain fashionables have the Wilde fever f ibis woman’s history furnish the material badly. for a romance as thrilling as could be desired That small talk at balls and parties Is now based -I by tile most extravagant concoctor of yellow- on the ajsthetic craze. I backed literature. That debutantes of the season have hadnodi&i-l Avery well-to-do Pickens county farmer culty in becoming-engaged. j named Ham brick was the father of a more That married ladies are accused this season oi than usually good-looking mountain lass some exceedingly violent flirtations. I named Kate. Her eyes were blue, her cheeks That the social calendar for the balance oi the I were rosy and her dark hair feil about her mouth is nothing if not bewildering. I shoulders, while wee bits curled in sly con- That the jewelers say that never had they known I fusion above a brow that was broad, and more prosperous days than these. 33 white as alabaster. Her step wq? elastic That fashionables now go to a wfddin^verymuoh I and she had in her all the life and health that WHAT MRS. GRUNDY SAYS. INTO THE RIVER. Disaster Oeenrrlnc from Incompetent Workmun.hlp* Lebanon’, Ky., January 18.—[Special.]—A bridge in thc progress of construction over Rolling Fork on the Lebanon and Bradfords- ville turnpike, eight miles from this place, fell yesterday by reason of the undermining of the false work by high water. Six men were on the bridge at the time. Aloysius Hayden was instantly killed, John Black had an arm broken and a man named Wattingly was severely cut on thc head. James Walthen leaped into the water, a distance of sixty feet, and swam out un hurt E. A. Perkins, of Cleveland, manager of the bridge and iron company, liad his shoulder severely wrenched and suffered concussion of the brain, causing delirium. Joseph Shively had an arm broken. tVomen Who Gamble. St. Louis Globe-Democrat The police sergeant spoke of a discovery made more than a yeai-ngo of a house in a respectable quarter where women of good position and con ceded respectability gave vent to a passion for ;aming, staking their pin money at faro and the less scientific games of chance, blaelc and red, chm-k-a-luck, and English hazard. While walking a beat in the locality ne noticed the mysterious ac tions of ladies who called in carriages aiql only en tered a certain house after much manouvering. lie one evening arrested a servant girl employed in the house. At the four courts some ivory chips were found in her pocket, and then she weakened and made a full confession to the effect that gam bling was regularly carried on in the house, the patrons all being ladies, and the games being pre sided over by her mistress. The sums wagered were always small, but it was straightout gambling all the same. * A Scone at a Pari. Wedding. Correspondence Boston Journal. A young lady in Paris was recently fined fifty fraues and sentenced to pay fifty francs damages for rushing at another young lady who wus walk ing up to the altar of a church on her bridegroom’s arm and tearing the crown of orange blossoms from the bride's head. "You don’t deserve to wear it; you have done me too much harm!” shrieked the girl, after which she fainted away, but was picked upby the beadle and handed over to the police. HEALTH HINTS. a3 if it were a nuisance and a bore. That billiard playing has been taken up by ladies anxious to be taken about by men. That ministers say that the great gayety this year has injuriously affected the churches. That Oscar Wilde is astonished at the way he has been socially taken in and done for That the swell of the period would sooner cut off the pure breezeaof the mountains could bring to her. Within the circle of this fair damsel’s friends and acquaintances there moved a dashing mountaineer named Sothern—Robert Soth- em. Well, he wooed and won her, and in due season they were married. The bride was as fifteen or sixteen. his right hand than wear an overcoat. \ ^ n S. Possiblyas yotra j , , . „ . The current of tueir domestic happiness was whiter at'cleopatra’s ktagdomiu the easL 1 '* i,le ** undisturbed for some time but finally.the XI on eof"theresul ts ^the present extravagant j husband began to divide bis attentions seasons will b: failures iu the spring. i between the fair partner of his joys, and an That reporters who put a Worth costume on every I equally fair creature, who before las mar- lady don’t know that this is out of style. | nage, had shared his attentions. The name 1 hat hand-painted dinner cards have been intro- * young lady was Narcissa Cowart. Mrs. duced at several of the fashionable hotels. Sothern pleaded with her husband to cease From Foote’s Health Tfonthly. Try popcorn for nausea. Try cranberry for malaria. Try a sun bath for rheumatism. Try ginger ale for stomach cramps. Try clam broth for a weak stomach. Try cranborry poultice for erysipelas. Try gargling lager beer for cure of sore throat. Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless. Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach. Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel. Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan and butternut stains. Try the crcup tippet when a child is likely to he troubled iu that way. Try a hot flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain and renew frequently. Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup, ii yon want to make it palatable. Try hard cider—a wine-glass fall three tipaes a day—for ague and rheumatism. Try taking a nap in the afternoon if yon are going to be out late in the evening. Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to remove whooping-cough. Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat. Try snuffing powdered borax np the nostrils for catarrhal “cold in the head.” Try an extra pair of stockings outside of your shoes when traveling in cold weather. Trv walking with your hand; behind you ii you find yourself becoming bent forward. Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to.go against a cold, piercing wind. Washington; January 18.—Mr. Scoville re sumed his argument to-day, taking up and discussiug the statistics of insane criminals which'have been introduced in evidence by the prosecution, and claimed that this evi dence was of the greatest benefit to the de fense. Discussing the horrors of crime as often shown in the acts of insane criminals, Mr. Scoville said: "There is nothing in this act to compare with some of these insane acts of insane criminals. And, gentlemen of the jury, in my opinion if tiiere were not rea sons, and powerful ones, back of this prose cution, this prisoner never would have been brought to trial; but I tell you, gentlemen of the jury, that back of this prosecution is an influence which I have felt, and which you may feel gentlemen, before this trial is ended. There are politicians who seek to hide their own shame behind the disgrace of this poor pris oner, and make him the scapegoat for their crime. I did not intend, gentlemen of the jury, to take up this feature of the case, but when I lind out that the nower and influence of this government used against me in denying me- the small pittance that I have asked—a fair and impartial trial—and the small facilities needed for proper de fense, I do not propose to keep quiet. I say that such men as Grant, and Conkling, and Arthur are morally responsible for this crime. Conkling shall not escape—shall not shrink the responsibility of the state of things that led to this act- lie shall not escape the condemnation of the American people if I can help it. For his share in the disgraceful scramble for office, that led to a conflict with the chosen ruler of this great nation, and led this poor insane mail to compass what they would have hailed with satisfaction, as would, probably, hun dreds of other politicians—if it could occur other than through assassination—the remov al of Garfield, who stood in the way of their unrighteous and disgraceful struggle for office. Neither shall Grant escape that, con demnation to which he is justly subjected, when coming from Mexico, and coming with undue haste, he threw his own name into the party quarrel about a small office in the republican party, and sought to ferment differences that had sprung up. I am not going to see the misdeeds of these men in high power visited upon the head of this poor, in sane man, if I can help it. If it can be shown that this was the act of a madman, then these politicians in high places will say of course we are not responsible for the act of a sane man. To be sure we had some differences, but then it could never had led a sane man to do such an act. But, on the contrary, gentlemen of thc jury, what is the effect of your verdiei? If you acquit him as an insine man why people will say some one is at fault. They say we will fix the blame upon . the uSaTO'eaid Ucfets of *thSse iflcii wLf. . ; , war upon our poor dead president until it drove this poor iusaue man from reading daily in the papers what Grant says, what Conkling says, and from constantly thinking upon it to his insane act- of killing the president and these men in high places, the really culpable ones, will go down to posterity with the stigma upon their names and the detesta tion of their countrymen fastened upon their memories.” A PROFOUND SENSATION. Mr. Scoville’s denunciation of Conkling and Arthur created a profound sensation in the court room. As soon as a recess was announced, Mr. Scoville was surrounded by ladies and gentlemen and congratulated upon his fearless exposition. One gentleman exclaimed: “That is the correct sentiment, and four-fifths of the American people are behind you on that.” The recess of an hour was enlivened by several heated discussions in the corridors and upon the outside on the general question of moral and intellectual responsibility, as set forth by Mr. Scoville. During the recess Mr, Scoville received the following telegram: New Yoke, January 18.—Mr. Scoville, attorney forGuiteau: The New Y’ork court of appeal have just decided that the prosecution, where some evi dence of insanity is produced for the defense, must make out a case of sanity beyond a reasonable doubt. The counsel for the defense will call atten tion to this last decision and ask Judge Cox to charge the jury to that effect. ARGUMENT RESUMED. In resuming his argument, Mr. Scoville called attention to thc fact that the action of the prisoner at the time of the shooting and inimedsatcly afterward were entirely in keeping with the theory of insanity, and to prove this quoted the tes timony of a number of wit nesses for the prosecution, who, he said, could not be charged with bias in favor of the pris. oner. Mr. Scoville then continued his review of the evidence, and pointed out various inci dents in the prisoner’s life which went to show insanity, or* at least the lack of some thing in his mental composition which other men possessed. Mr. Scoville continued to speak until three o’clock, when court adjourned until to-mor row. The defense will probably occupy the greater part of another day. speaks a tailor’s art. He wears a turndown collar and a black cravat. Charles Stewart, the sleeping juror, is ’a merchant, over fifty years of age. He gen erally rests his head on his hands, as if troubled or asleep, and it is fair to presume that he has enjoyed many a refreshing nap in the court room during the trial. 'He has brown hair and whiskers, blue eyes, that look heavy and dull. His beard, which, like his hair, is mixed with gray, extends from his temples to his chin. * His left hand neighbor is a veritable Irish man in shape, mannerand behavior. Thomas H. Langley a grocer, 48 years of age. Mr. Langley has a low forehead, dark hair, whi tened with age, and short side whiskers. He has keen dark eyes and heavy brows, and his face gives evidence of intoligent attention. He dresses in dark blue clothing and wears a white cravat all crumpled and tightly tied around, a standing collar. Mr. Langley rests his hand on the curled head of a polished black hawthorn cane, and not tin frequently takes a ealnt survey of the prisoner and the audience. To his right is another Irishman, Mr. Mi chael £heelian, a well-to-dogrocer, forty-seven years of age. He has reddish tinted liair of tine fiber and side whiskers. He has a line and honest expression in his mild, yet keen blue eyes. In fact, no man on the jury has fitter or smoother features than Mr. Sheehan. He looks as if lie had “come to a conclusion” and would not care much about either the subsequent testimony o{ witnesses or argu ment of counsel. His hair is close cropped, and the blue eyes shaded by dark brows indi cate a man of positive character. These six jurors occupy the front seats. George \Y. Gales, thc youngest member of the jury, is twenty-seven years of age. He lias black hair and mustache. His eyes are wild and fury, and at times he docs not look as if he were entirely calm and composed. He is rather handsome in appearance, is a machinist, and when summoned to serve on the jury was at work in thc United States navy yard. The fact that he has an insane uncle, and has been sick during the trial, has caused some to think he was affected by the . by proceedings in the court. Thomas Hainline is an ironworker well ad vanced in years. He lias a rounded forehead, and the lower part of his face is hidden in bushy, iron-gray whiskers aud mustache that must be at least ten or twelve inches in length. Mr. Hainline’s seat is in front of the indow, and he often leans back against thc sill. His right hand neighbor, Ralph Wormley, veritable specimen of the negro, is a laborer, and was formerly identified with politics in the District of Columbia. His painful ex pression and sleepy manner are quite notice able. The greasy bandanna which ho has so long worn over his eye has given way to a B’een bandage. He frequently raises his liand to his face and generally wears as solemn a look as if he were at a negro prayer meeting. Owing to his appetite and the tine food with which the jury is served he has made himself sick several times. To thc right of-this colored gentleman is William H. Browner, a well known commis sion merchant. He is a middle-aged man with a round bald head. He is a keen man and a close observer. He, too, has had a case of insanity in his family. Mr. Browner wears a light mustache. The next juror, Mr. Hobbs, is a plasterer, and aged sixty-three years, being the oldest member of the jury. His thin side whiskers do not detract from the noticeably sad ex pression of his countenance. He sits for an tour or more with his head bowed and rest ing m liis hand, as if in sorrowful reverie.- He is the juror whose wife died two weeks ago. For forty years he and his wife lived together in quiet, happy contentment, and when she died so suddenly, and lie was ^in- moil ed to her, then 'dhronstShuisf lnj’j^ref was painful to behold. He does not look as if he could give his undivided mind to the iroceedings, for there is a great weight on his leart Joseph Prather is a middle aged man, his business being that of a commission mer chant. He has a long, hoary beard and mustache, smooth forehead, a large hut well shaped nose and bright brown eyes. He frequently strokes his beard and pays strict attention to the proceedings. The jury is and has been deemed a most excellent one, being possessed of more than ordinary common sense. They were selected from 159 talesmen. TIIE DEFENSE CLOSED. Washington, January 21.—Mr. Charles Reed, as sociate counsel with Mr. Scoville, repudiates flic stand taken by the latter in his attack upon the president and others. In an interview upon the subject Mr. Reed said: “I have hardly slept all night, thinking over and regretting it. I had not the remotest idea that he contemplated doing such a thing.” "It will not help his case?” ‘‘Certainly not. I cannot unite with him in th it ’ course, and must condemn it, aud I want the pub lic to know that I do. Don’t you see what a wide door he opens for Porter when he comes to reply? Why, he will say, if this statement Is true, and this man knew it and conferred with them, then he was sane. He has furnished the other side with a most powerful lever and placed it ia the bauds of a man who will use it to the fullest extent.” There is considerable talk and very serious com ment upon his course.” ‘.’I suppose so. I am sorry that he did it and wish that hehad not. I cannot indorse anything like that” THE TRIAL. The court room was again packed _with a miscc- laneous crowd to-day, and the rush to be one of that crowd was awful. The jury was eyed with additional interest to-day owing to the rumors about town last night that they had been tampered with. There Is no evidence of this in the conduct of the jurymen in the court. In the trial to-day the prisoner made a few intro ductory remarks and then read his speech pub lished on Monday last At the conclusion of the reading the court adjourned till Monday. CUITEAU’S SPEECH. At thc intimation from Judge Cox, the prisoner carefully arranged his glasses, and with a flourish began to read from a manuscript as follows: The prosecution pretend that I am a wicked man. Sco ville and Reed think I am a lunatic, and 1 presume you think ] am. 1 certainly was a lunatic on July 2d. when I fired on the president, and the American people generally, and i. presume you think I was. Can you imagiue anything more insane than my going to that depot and shooting the president of the United States. You are here to say whether I was sane or insane at the moment I fired that shot. You have nothing to do with my condition before or since that shot was fired. You must say by your verdict whether I was sane or insane at the moment that shot was fired. If you hare any doubt of my sanity at the moment, you must give me the benefit of that doubt and' acquit. That isfif you have any doubt whether 1 fired that shotas the agent of thc Deity. If I fired itonmv account, I was sane; if I fired it supposing myself to be the agent of the Deity, I was insane, and you uiL This is the law as given in the recce* The Men Who Arc Trying the Aniuln. Although but little has been said of the jury in the Guiteau ease there is now beginning to be some speculation as to what will be their verdict. Following is a sketch of the jurors: ' The foreman of the jury, Mr. John P. Ilum- lin, is a well known saloon keeper. He is a mild-mannered man of forty seven years and may be regarded as the type of social'geniaiity. He has a prominent forehead, well shaped head, gray hair and mustache and light eyes. He wears a black cloth suit, open vest, turn down collar and black tie. He holds in his hand a yellow cane with a carved ivory horn handle. Mr. Hamlin wears a pleasant smile, and is withal quite dignified. Mr Frederick W. Brandenberg is a German cigar maker, forty-five years of age. He is small of stature, with a head of average size, dark brown hair and mustache, blue eyes, _ high cheek bones, prominent nose and a I age of railroads, electricity." u-A-phonesj etc’., and rounded forehead. Mr. Brandenberg wears a comes from the prr^.cssiiia state of New black suit, standing collar and a small black } f-nvit Hp Tift vs pvtTwvMftl ntfpntinn 1 Providence in fa\or, and I ask this court cravat. He pajs especial attention to the jury to colder it; some of the best people proceedings, generally sitting with folded Anvy ica think me the greatest man of the age, arms. He occasionally leans forward inquest ,nis feeling is growing, and they believe in of the spittoon, and then twists his ' ,.1/ ! spiral ion, and that Providence and I hav b£SX ,taCheaSi£ reaolving “ metl &gin sSShiSdeSSwdSfcSSfvSUl^qK” Henry J. Bright is a retired merchant, and j Mon da v m'frnin^aiul no’vTanW^' 1 ' over 50 years of age. He is fat and clui .,| )V honor to deliver it to ypnj % and gives indication of living well. He i.rj, the Lord, whether a higli forehead, eyes of brown, cropped m.i,, hrokedowii whiskers, a full rounded face, a greSf acq,^ M»SSlffg8 line nose with flattened nostrils and a »oh. Taking out hia'ggj.cr mouth and a tendency to a double chin. His face in it for a few hair is parted on the lett side. His suit of wl ^h a determined elf&tT* dark brown, in its quality and shape, be- lut^iy for^me P min?t must acqu decision of the New Y It revolutionizes old rules ward in the law of insanity. give court of 11,1,seals.' a grain 1 step for.' It is worthy of this: