Morning journal and courier., 1880-06-17

80 per cent. bd. div, at 97. S77s % s267 se Int. to Juue 26- 26-............-............ 364
 1,Soo SoS z. M, " ' " ''' S-- ~ ! Notwithstanding he said he had no other entry in relation to Mir. Garfield on the 22d of January, Mir. Ames presented to the con- mittee statement of an alleged account with General Garfield as follows
 1868. To 10 shares stock Credit Mobilier A. $ GOO Interest .-...-.......--..-...-...... AT June 19 To cash. 329
 TOtal.,.,.,...-..,.-..---................sl,s7 Total. sl,s76 1868. By dividend bonds Union Pacific rail road s 900 at 80 per cent less per cent. s776 June IT. By dividend collected for your count. '-..-'-. -..--.----.------ 6oo
 
 ''This account he claimed to have made up from his memorandum book, but when the memorandum book was subsequently, present ed it was found that the account here quoted was not copied from it, but was partly made up from memory. By comparing this &C., count with the entry made in diary first quoted it will be seen that they are not du- plicates either in substance or form and that in this account new element is added, name
 ly, an alleged payment of $329 in cash June 19. This is the very element in dispute. The pretended proof that this was paid Gen eral Garfield is found in the production of 8 check drawn by Mr. Ames on the Sergeant-at- Arms. The following is the language of the check as reported in the testimony: Pay o. A. or bearer three hundred and twenty nine dollars and charge to my account. CAKES AMEs. ''This check bears no endorsement or other
 marks than the words and figures given above.
 It drawn on the 22d day of June, and, as shown by the books of the Sergeant t-Arms,
 do, RI14If ya1,o
 paid to General Garfield on the account just quoted it must have been delivered to him three days before it was drawn, for the ac- count says that he received payment on the 18th of June.
 General Garfield himself has made review of the whole subject and from 1t claims that the following conclusions clearly estab- lished by the evidence: ''That neither purchased nor agreed to pur- chase the Credit Mobilier stock which MT. Ames offered to sell me, nor did receive any dividend arising from it. This appears not
 only from my own testimony, but from that
 first given by Mir Ames, which is not over thrown by his subsequent statements, and is
 strongly confirmed by the fact that in the case of each of those who did purchase the stock there produced evidence or the sale either a certificate of stock, receipt O. payment, & check drawn in the name or the payee or entries in Mir. Ames' diary of 8 stock account marked, adjusted and enclosed, but that no one of these evidences existed in reference to me. This position is further confirmed by the subsequent testimony of Mir. Ames, who, though he claimed that did re- ceive $329 from him on account of stock, yet he repeatedly testified that beyond that amount never received or demanded any dividend; that none was ever offered to me, nor was the subject alluded to in conversa- tion. Mir. Ames admitted in his testimony that after December, 1867, the various stock bond dividends amounted gate of more than 500 per centum, and that between January, 1868, and May, 1871, all these dividends were paid to several of those who purchased stock My conduct was wholly inconsistent with the supposition of such ownership, for during the year 1869
 was borrowing money to build house in Washington, and securing my creditors by mortgages on my property; and all this time 1t is admitted that I received no dividends and claimed none. The attempt to prove sale of the stock to me is wholly inconclusive, for it rests first on check payable to MT. Ames himself concerning which he said several times in his testimony he did not know to whom it paid, and, second, upon loose undated entries in his diary, which neither prove a sale of the stock nor any payment on it. The only fact from which it is possi- ble for Mir. Ames to have inferred agree ment to buy the stock was the loan to me of $500. But that loan was made months
 before the check of June 22, 186S and was
 repaid in the winter of 1869, and after that
 date there were no transactions of any sort
 between us, and before the investigation end
 ed MT. Ames admitted that on the chief point
 of difference between us he might be mistak-
 en.
 ''That the offer which MT Ames made to
 me, as l understood it, was one which in-
 volved no wrong or impropriety I had no
 means of knowing, and had no reason for
 supposing that behind this offer to sell me a
 small amount of stock lay hidden scheme
 to defraud the Pacific railroad and impern
 the interests of the United States, and on the
 first intimation of the real nature of the case
 declined any further consideration of the
 subject That whatever may have been the
 facts in the case, stated them in my testi-
 mony as have always understood them and
 there has been no contradiction, prevarlca-
 tion nor evasion on my part.
 '.In winding up his review of the whole
 matter General Garfield uses the following language: If there be citizen of the Uni
 ted States who is willing to believe that for
 $329 have bartered away my good name and to falsehood have added perjury, these
 words are not addressed to him. If there be one who thinks that any part of my public life has been gauged on so low level as these charges would place it, I do not address him. I address those who are willing to be- lieve that it is possible for man to serve the public without personal dishonor. l have endeavored in this review to point out the means by which the managers of corpora
 tion wearing the garb of honorable industry
 have robbed and defrauded great national
 enterprise and attempted by cunning and de-
 ception for selfish ends to enlist in its inter-
 ests those who would have been the first to
 crush the attempt had their objects been known. ,"
 James H. Francis, son of Henry Francis,
 of Stanley Quarter, had his left arm badly mutilated Monday afternoon near Newing- ton. He was taking double barreled gun out of an OK cart by the muzzle, and in some way both barrels were discharged, the con tents entering his arm.
 Recently at night Mir. Charles Swift of Cornwall, had buggy and harness stolen, and Mir. Cullen Holcomb, a near neighbor of his, had fine black horse about five years old stolen on the same night. Evidently the thieves knew the property as the horse was taken out of lot in which were four or five others No clue has been found to the thieves. Cornwall seems to be favorite spot for this kind of thieves as several horses and oxen have been stolen within few years
 Hon. William D. Bishop, Judge S. B. Beardsley and Rev. Dr. H. N. Powers, of Bridgeport returned last week from a weeks visit to the famous trouting region in the northern part of Maine in the vicinity of Moosehead Lake, They had splendid luck, their catch running up somewhere in the neighborhood of two hundred, nearly all the fish being large. Several of the best brook trout weighed from two to three pounds apiece.