The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-24 00:00:00

THE OUITEAU TRIAL.

On the opening of the Ceu,t on 9 iturday, Guttman,
sittit.g down in the witness-biz and reading from a
manuscript, said that he was not afraid of being shot,
but that he could speak better while sitting. After
certain preliminary remarks, be sail that be thought
the recant decison in the New York Court of App..sl
was • special pr widen:ice in his favour, and asked the
jury so to consider it. He read his speech. When
he reached the words "I have always served the
Lord," he broke down completely, and beam t. sob.
He buried hi. trice In a handkerchief for • few wends,
and wiped his eyes determinedly. He started again
and quickly recovered himself. Sin, persona said
that it was • manufactured eflo.t. Mrs. Sc mile wept
bitterly for • in. moments. As Guiteau proceeded all
hi. nervousness wore if and he wads an attempt at
oratory. His descriptioo of the shooting of Prpsident
Garfield was given with striking effo,t. At times he
closed his eyes or timed thin heavenward. He
swayed his holy backwards ani forward. and sunk his
voice to • whisper or raised it to • high treble. He
told the jury that he was as sores, that there was God
In heaven that if • hair of hit head was harmed the
nation would go down in blood. He added. '' You can
put my body I the grave, but tbere will be a day of
reckoning." With the ezoaption of the lime stated he
showed at other indication of breaking down. On the
conclusion of the speech the C urt adjourned.

Tag Ostrom or APINOTINOMI GLADOTONFA—WiIIiam
Henry Wllkon, who at the II awarden rent, eudit presented
to the Premier • loner offering him a ones!, of briaostopo.
is now an inmete of the Broughton Hall Markt:gauge, to
the parish of Hawat•don, to which place the temietratess•
the Mold Petty Sessions °Morel that his should be tr.us•
ferret until his Monde would undertake his charge. He
Wars to be quite aa natioual se any other of the
inmate' in the Louie. and make of the letter to Mr.
Gladstone see freak for which he fmls very **(arty.
RATS AS ISCINDIAIUSS.—A Baltitcom builder tells •
comets !Agog' in an Ainericsa contemporary, sho•ing how
the madmar which rots be.. for phosphorus may on.
lit, god pomoorty, In Terminus a prio•to house
heated with • steam separatol he had (*.xenon to take up
g piece of flooring, when hat Mlle upon a madeay.ius of
rats, and to his sunnier, founds large quantity of matches
In dome natant with the pipes ol the &operetta.. It turned
out that the matche, had been kept in an open tin box on
too kitchen shell, whence they moat have been aboracted
by the thievish rodents. If, in their" brigade drilla,' the
ran had sot Sr. to some of them, the house would soon
nave been in Sorest, and then one of those clever lalivi•
duals, who gto always reedy with • cans. Cor: soy (lima
would have discovered that the taisch44 wet
wrought by the steam pipes Moral—Keep Inciters oat of
the mach of rate—Lead.
Tux Logs or ma Darnim...-,Three of the crew of the
Doterel have been summoned to London, too from
Dovonpott sod a third from Portsmouth, to give further
testimony in -connection with the Meader to that vessel.
Toe men an. gip xtod in London to-day, add a prtvete
Inquiry will be itetitoted at the A laniralty regarding the
molts,. This course haa been brought about by tho
recent exeloong of carotins stoutly* ea board her
Majesty'. ship Triumph. as that aocident &Pinar* to have
Tagil tarnished a boo solution of the Doteml &assign%
From the communications already furnished by the men
respecting the presentee of that material on board the
Doter.), and that some of it had *Mostly moped from
the es.lc in which it was obipped, it to considered that
prirol facie tho lose of the Doterel was actually doe to the
cgoogt,to of ...mune sicaattve cod not to the isnitins of
octal gm. On Saturdey • couple of the survivors of the
111-feted wet-sloop DAiiiion craw were privately examined
it the Admiralty romp, cting the @temente'. recontrir made
Mucascting the blowing-up of tbi yesiiil with an explosion
of xerotine skutative. It is said that tint man's statements
left little doubt that this la the %roe expjaaatinn ef the
Obese Of the disaster
.• and the authoritaes at Whitebait
have in comenixeste• decided to mopes the inquiry tato
tli• ot Ow WWI.

LATEST.

THE CRIBIB IN FRANCE.
PANEL MasaMl.

The difiloultlee of the situation increase. The leoletlen
of Ganabetta beanie. nv To alophoba &ad the brim%
betwrion (key), sod th • Cabinet is Wi ening. No
ministers were railed at the Sipes yeeterdny, and
the oublic refused o 4,1.ve iu °anal:WA's redraw it.
Minietertal j urnals seal° starts be is determined not
to yield, and that dies lotion can only result in Game
betts'e triumph.