The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-05 00:00:00

A JURYMAN IN TROUBLE.

A man named William King, charged with steal-
ing a bag of money, was called upon at the Surrey
Sessions to surrender to his bail. After some bawl-
ing on the part of the officers of the court, a
respectably-dressed man came forward, and
introduced himself with the formula "Here I am."
He was immediately ordered into the dock,
and the indictment was read. The man began
to tremble at the onerous words " did feloniously
and wilfully steal," and said, sotto voce, to Mr. Cook,
the gaoler, " Please, sir, it's all a mistake." The
Gaoler : " Oh, there's no mistake; you listen to the
indictment." The clerk of the peace having read
the indictment, asked, in the usual form, "Prisoner,
Pow say you—are you guilty or not guilty ?"
risoner : "If you please, :my lord, there is some
mistake." The Clerk of the Peace : "We shall see
that presently. Are you guilty or not guilty ?*
Prisoner: "If you please, my lord, lam a juryman."
This man will doubtless make an excellent juryman
in future, having realised in some measure the un-
pleasant position of a prisoner with his life or liberty
at peril. If other jurymen could go through a
similar course of training, perhaps they would be a
little more careful in the preparation of their

( From the Anglo-American Times)

We have long suspected it, but now we know
that the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times is a
prophet. It is true that he has not been fortunate when
he based his calculation of coming events on careful sur-
veys, therefore he has dropped that, and adopted the style
of the inspired men of old, who spoke of things still in the
future as past. This may deceive the readers of the Times
unless explained, and therefore Wo desire to observe, that
the election in lowa does not occur till the 3d November,
though the corrospandent, on the 16th October, said
"that the election in lowa had, as usual, gone Republican,
and that the party had lost none of its candidates there."
It is a pity, when in this prophetic trance, that he did not
write more fully, as many of the candidates would,
above all things, have desired to kaow the particulars.
In prophesying in the Times, where naturally we would
look for a prophet., he ought to handle subjects of inte-
rest to its readers. Had he told them the result of the
elections now about to take place in Scotland, Ireland,
Yorkshire, or London, he would have removed from the
minds of many a load of anxiety, but few have cared what
was going to occur in Iowa; while published in America,
it would have been of the greatest interest, and thus this
prophet wastes his gifts. It may be, however, that he
well knows a prophet has no honour in his own country,
and he prefers seeking it hero, where he might have a
chance, if it were not for the cable.

The officers of the Easthampton (Massachusetts)
Farmers' Club for the ensuing year are—President, Ansel
B. Lyman ; Secretary and Treasurer, Watson IL Wright.

Harding G. Woodard, of Greenfield, who killed
Walter G. Coombs by a blow from a whip stock, has
been held to bail in the sum of 810,000, which was readily
obtained, seveTal citizens volunteering to act in that
capacity.

The death is recorded of Francis De Witt, who
was a native of South Hadley, and lived for more than 20
years iu Ware. He was a member of the State Senate
from Hampshire county for two years, and was Secretary
of State in 1836-58, preceding Mr. Oliver Warner, the pre-
sent Secretary, in that office.

The veteran conductor, James Parker, who for
29 years has had charge of the morning and evening ac-
commodation train between Springfield and Worcester,
Massachusetts, has finished his course, and will scon
enter on the less active duties of a new office, the super-
intendency of sleeping cars, established on account of the
increasing business of the Boston and Albany Railroad. It
is calculated that since Oct. 4, 1839, he has travelled
1,500,000 miles.

Marshall Field, head of the great Chicago dry
goods house of Field, Leiter, and Co., whose sales for 1668
will reach $10,000,000, was botn in Conway in 1835, and
began business in Chicago in 1856.
The bodies of the five men who were burned in
the central shaft of the Hoosac tunnel, last October, were
recovered, Thursday, Oct. 15, placed in coffins, and taken
to North Adams.

Joshua P. Blanchard, a well known contributor
to the religious press, and for many years an active officer
of the American Peace Society, recently died is Boston at
the age of eighty-six years. Thirty years ago he was a
book-keeper inthe Eagle Bank.

Brigham Young's newspaper divides its editorials
between efforts to establish the purity of Mormonism and
to hurry up the grading of the Pacific Railroad. Brig-
ham Young has thirty-five marriageable daughters to dis-
pose of, the sooner mankind are hurried up the better for
the girls.
By the wreck of the schooner Dashing Wave,
near Portsmouth, Now Hampshire, on Monday morning,
Oct. 12, Captain Ezra Hall of Camden, E. B. Crockett of
Searsport, and a man named Ellis of Camden lost their
lives. _ _

Mr. Du Pont, elected in 1859 Chief Justice of
Florida, and reappointed by the Governor in 1865, and
ought to be Chief Justice till 1872, has informed the people
of Florida that he considers himself not dead, but sleep-
jug. He says:—" Circumstanced, however, as I am, de-
prived of the aid of the Executive to sustain the Judi-
cial Department in the exercise of its legitimate func-
tions, and opposed to the entire legislative and mili-
tary authority of the United States, 1 have no other
alternative than to announce to you a suspension of
the exercise of the functions of my office as Chief Jus-
tice until such time as the same may be resumed
without endangering the peace and good order of so-
ciety." After giving much good advice to the citi-
zens as to their behaviour towards settlers from the East,
Nortb, or West, he tells them to sot their faces as a flint
against the unwelcome intruders, who are the instruments
of an infamous and heartless tyranny, while they extend
the right hand of fellowship either to those who come for
recreation or to establish themselves in Florida as citizens.

Herr Von Grabow, of New York, has been ap-
pointed to the post of Consul-General of the North Ger-
man Confederation at Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.

Senator Conness, of California, arrived in Spring-
field, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, tho 13th Oct., and left
on the 15th. He was a guest at the Massasoit, at G. H.
Harrison's and at Rufus Elmer's. At the residence of the
latter he was serenaded in the evening by the armoury band
attended a crow of armourers and other citizens, to whom
he made a speech on the eight-hour law, assuring them
that if the administrators of the law refused to allow for
eight hours' work a full day's pay, Congress would cor-
rect the mistake. When called on afterward by the ward
seven. Grant Club, with their glee club, ho spoke cheering
words on the present aspect of the campaign, and said the
recent elections insured Grant's success.

The Lighthouse Board has given notice that the
Granite Bay Beacon heretofore marking the shoals ex-
tending from Canonicus Point in Providence River, Rhode
Island, has been prepared for illuminating. apparatus, from
which a fixed white light will bo exhibited for the first
time on November 5. The light will be visible in clear
weather at a distance of about 1.1 nautical miles. A fog
bell is attached to this station which will be rung during
thick weather. The light at Nasal Point, immediately
opposite, will be discontinued from the sth of November.
The anniversary of the &Bowery of America was
celebrated on Monday, October, 12, in Boston, by the Ita-
lian Mutual Relief Society, that people holding proudly to
the fact that Columbus was born in Genoa. A procession
of about 150 Italians paraded the streets, and in the even-
ing addresses by distinguished Italians were made in Mer-
cantile Hall, the State and city Governments being in at-
tendance by invitation. There are 2,000 Italian residents
in Boston, and the president of the above-named patriotic
society is Signor G. M. Finotte. This account does not
bear out the statement in a letter to the Times that the
number of Italians in America, could be counted on the
fingers.

The Public Ledger says :—Mr. Burlingame, ac-
cording to despatches received by the Atlantic Cable, will
succeed in carrying out the objects of his mission. His
personal intercourse with the prominent men in London
appears to have effected a favourable impression, and the
attack§ in the gogligh newspaper§ upou the treaty nes-

tiated with Mr. Seward, and upon the objects of the mis-
sion, have ceased to appear. Despatches received in Lon-
don from all parts of Europe show that the Continental
nations are favourably disposed towards Mr. Burlingame,
and that he and his associates will be cordially welcomed
at the different Courts.

The Westfield (Massachusett) Athenaeum Asso-
ciation has raised $7,000 of the proposed library fund of
$lO,OOO. Stimpson and Co., the well known manufac-
turers of piano legs in that place, have presented the asso-
ciation with a piano valued at $BOO.
Grace Church (Episcopal), at New Bedford,
lately abolished the pew rent .system, and the amount
subscribed for expenses already exceeds what has ever
been raised from pew rents. It would be well that such
an example could he followed.

Four more German prelates and professors have
been summoned by the Popo to assist in th 3 preliminary
preparations for the (Ecumenical Council, viz.—Monfar g,
from Mayence ; Dieringer, from Bonn ; Giese, of Monster;
and Hefele, of Tubingen. No wonder that the prevalence
of German dignitaries and their influence are already be-
ginning to form the subject of complaints in certain politi-
cal and ecclesiastical quarters.

Considerable excitement has been caused in Eng-
land by the rumour that there will bo no race for the
Derby in 1869 or 1870. A portion of the course at Epsom
has, it is stated, passed into the hands of a gentleman who
refuses to let it to the committee of management. Should
no arrangement be come to, entries for the Derby in tiro
next and following year will have to be cancelled,
according to the conditions of entry, the race cannot be
run elsewhere.

A. D. Briggs and Co., the bridge builders, of
Springfield, Massachusetts, have just made two important
contracts. One is to construct the bridge for the Shore
Line Railroad over the Connecticut river near its mouth,
which is to be 1,200 feet long ; to consist of six spans
of the Howe truss bridge, 165 feet each, and an iron
draw of two 275 feet long; with piers after a new
invention, made up of piles encased with drums of
iron, and filled with concrete ; to be finished next
June, and to cost about $200,000. The Hartford people
are fighting the enterprise in the courts, and the case is
to be heard first on their claim for an injunction in the
United States Court in November; but not much delay is
expected in building the bridge from this movement. The
other contract is for an iron bridge 50 feet long and 50
feet wide over the Harlem and New Haven Railroad
track near West Farms in Westchester county, New York,
and forming part of a grand southern boulevard that is to
sweep around on the high land of the Sound shore from
the Harlem River to Jerome Park, and be occupied by fine
suburban residences.

The six prizes offered last term to the members
of the junior class in Yale college have been awarded to
Edward P. Clark of West Springfield ; Dwight W.Larned
of Plymouth, Ct.; Charles E. Shepard of Dansville, N. Y.
Edwin R. Stearns of Wyoming, a; Charles If. Strong of
New Orleans, La. ; and Thomas J. Tilney of Brooklyn,
N. Y. Yale college has 118 seniors, 114 juniors, 113 sopho-
mores, and 170 freshmen, with a prospect of 10 more
when all the conditional men are admitted. The theolo-
gical department of the seminary numbers 25 students,
the law 15, the medical 20, and the scientific 130; total,
676 students, with 54 instructors.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Housatonic Railroad Company now runs a
milk train from Pittsfield to New York daily.

The meeting of the stockholders of the Boston
and Albany Railroad, at Boston, called for the 14th
inst., is to see if they will vote to subscribe half or
three-quarters of a million of dollars to the stock of
the Atlantic steamship company, which owns the
new steamers Ontario and Erie; or if the railroad
will indorse the bonds of the steamship company to
that amount. Boston and the steamship company
are anxious to have this done. An act was put
through the last Legislature for the purpose of
authorizing it.

The Wall-street Journal gives the following asa
comparative statement of the business of the Illi-
nois Central Railroad Company for the month of
September, 1868 :