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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-06-02
Galveston.

Galveston.
Special to the Herald,
Galveston, May 30.--While handling
freight Saturday, William Mitchell, second
mato of the bark Ibis, fsll through q hatch.
way, striking the keelson and WAS injured 60
severely as to render his removal to the
inflrmary necessary. His condition is re-
ported precariOus
In respect to the memory of DR.. w. A.
Duntlin, one of the original members of the
cotton exchange, who died this morning,
that institution was closed during the day.
Between II ond l o'clock to-day two
sailors under the influence of liquor, became
involved in difficulty at Mat Harcon's saloon
when Alex Anderson drew a knife, cutting
Fred Peterson severely. The wounded man
WAS removed to the police station, thence to
the indrmary, one wound in neck being
considered dangerous Alex Anderson was
spprehended and incarcerated in the county
Jail.
This afternoon while some college cadets
were out bathing on the beach two lads,
Porter Brotherson and Walter May,
bolder than the rest ventured
out TOO far getting in.water too deep for them,
and before assistance could reach them both
WtIo uioWuOos Wno nuous
fourteen years of age; May about eleven.
The body of Brotherson has been recovered
Diligent search is being made for the body
of May.
The Galveston & Pacific railroad
was formed Saturday night, thoroughly
cauvassipg the city, and report
splendid progress, though some-
what impeded by the unfinished
condition Of the Palmer-Sullivsn propo.
stion. Colonel NJ. r. Jetferd, of the latter
road, arrived here yesterday looking 10 its
interest
A special 10 the Eyenipg Journal repcrA
ON immense hail storm ut Temple
neighborhood on the line of the SAINT
| railroad, doing serious damsge. AT
dale blacksmith shop and the
churct, ware blown down. At Cedar
| large church was also demolished
in the nelghborhood was entirely
| Wheat, OATS and corn wera
damaged. Tho hail storm
minutes.
Austin.
Special to the Herald.
Austin, May 30.-The/
decided to-day by
appeals:
Davidson va
Reversed anG rem
Alexander ct Ie.a(l
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es, who WINS concealed IN pla&smi,h shop
on>be road side McKnieht iM fret ard
he 'c cried ifPh Ap@SSs Meredith When When 1'TSs shot
my family before l die fbomss 49,
out and remarked with NJ oath II wifsS>
about that" he then finished his bloody =
work and made his escape Parties are in
pursuit and intense excitement prevails.
Houston.
Specl'l to the Herald.
Houston, May 3l.-Lsst night Buchanan
and Vallyntinp,a gambler and saloon k eper,
drew pistols but citizens sod police inter
fered, preventing a general row, as bq
parties were backed BY numep
friends mss ao,l1ie, IHe deputy city am m9
no arrests were msde upon any groul
was three hours before the beligere1
be quieted.
The Buffalo bridge company
Immediately to build toll brida
of Fannin street to the foot of
the county commissioners bsV
their rate OF toll. Th
been long needed in Houz
are greatly rejoiced over
The county commiss
finished the examination
Collector N Davis,
sitting in special seq
ing the town thoroI
Special to the
Marshall, y
shooting eff
the wesley
colorad
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Alexander Stephens occupies the room
at Washington that Henry Clay died
in.
New York Tribune: Public conf
dence is increasing in Guiteau's ability
to convince the jury that he ought to be
hanged.
The New York Tribune thinks that
with few brains and an additional
million or two of members the Democ-
racY would be quite formidable party.
Although Mr.. Arthur lived in New
York City nearly all his life, he was
never considered of sufficient import.
ance to be made a member of the Union
League Club. But now that he is Pres.
ident he hiss had an honorary member.
ship bestowed upon him.
In connection with the report that
President Arthur's sister is to preside
over the White House, the Edgefield Is
c. Advertiser says: Twenty or TWEEN
ty-five years ago this Miss Arthur was q
governess in the family of Mrs. Sophie
Tillman, and afterward taught at Curry
ton. And certainly this is a very strik
ing example Of the ups and downs Of
human life-a woman toiling in hel
youth in a strange land and in hel
mature years occupying the highest 30
cial position in all America.
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TO THE POINT.

Chicago Tribune: at would be inter-
esting 10 have the opinion of a sound
metaphysician on Guiteau's mental con-
dition when he shot the president and
since. He had all the primary ideas of
time, space, cause and effect, conscious.
ness, etc, in their proper relations on
July 3, and has not lost any of them
since. lie made no mistake about his
plans. He was prompt To the minute at
the depot, and stationed himself in u
convenient place to waylay the presi-
dent. Though he had no experience in
the use of firearms, he selected muir
derous weapon and practiced with it
for weeks to 1perfect his aim. He
loaded it properly and discharged it
with fatal effect, and never had the least
doubt, whatever the doctors say, that the
wound was mortal. He knew better
than anybody else where he had hit the
President, at what angle the ball entered
and what its probable course mustbe. In
point Of consciousness Guiteau has al
ways been sound. He has never i'm.
agined himself to be anybody else. II
he had, like like Mr.. Joel Henry Wells,
signed his name with an alias, or if he
had claimed to be a supernatural per.
sonage himself, there might be some
basis for his defense of insanity. But
on his own confession he has always
known who he was and what
he was doing, from the first moment
| of his miserable existence to the
last Much of the evidence that has
been adduced TO show his mental inca
pacity has relation to his moral defici
encies, and of them there never has
been any serious question. The fac
that he has been able to defraud confid
ing landladies and to wheedle small
loans out of soft-hearted acquaintance!
is no proof of insanity. On the con
trary, 1t would be next to impossible fol
a person truly insane to commit acts O.
fraud that required sustained mental CT
fort, secrecy, cunning, and persistence
No action of Guiteau's in connection
with the shooting of the President had
the stamp of insanity upon it; and i
moral perversity shall be deemed suffic
lent cause for acquittal, what murdere
can be punished?
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The st. James Gazette, an esthetic
London daily, printed on tinted and per-
fumed paper, asserts that the workings
of American institutions tend to pro-
duce "a dead level of mediocrity"
That is pretty good. England has but
two statesmen equal to Garfield and
Blaine-namely, Gladstone and John
Bright. Besides these two men Great
Britain has no men that will rank with
Senator Edmunds and Window. Hen
ry w. LOngfellow is fully equal to Al
fred Tennyson. Has England poet and
humorist that will rank with James
Russell Lowell? As Mr.. Lowell is in
London competitors might be sought
out and compared with him. Has Eng
land wit who will at all compare with
Mark Twain? Punch is not so good as
Puck. London has no paper equal in
spirit and general excellence rs a news
paper to the New York Tribune, the
Cincinnati Commercial or the Chicago
Times. The British empire has not in
all its broad domain the equal of Johr
b. Cough or John II. Vincent as orators
dead level of mediocrity," indeed
Why, even our American horses are no
only faster than the horses of England
but faster than all the horses of tn,
world beside. What is the matter of IN,
st. James Gazette? 1t is too utterly
awfully of.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
HERE AND THERE.

The announcement is made that the
Republican and Tribune, published at
Denver, are to be consolidated.
A transfer of $45, 900 of real estate in
Mclean county, ILL.,, represents the loss
es of the former owner in two weeks OF
heavy play at poker.
The mania of the future, says a finan-
cial writer, is not likely to be gold, but
diamonds. The ladies, it appears, are a
trifle in advance of the procession this
time.
The London News is of the opinion
that Guiteau is crazed just as so many
other people are called Cracked" who
are yet acknowledged fit TO control their
own affairs.
Guiteau says that the theology bust.
ness doesn't pay" A few more such
leveled- headed observations by the as
sassin as that will knock the insanity
plea higher than Gilroy's kite.
A st. Louis association, composed
principally of grain dealers, has pur
chased large area of Dakota wheat
lands, and will commence improving
and putting them under cultivation a
once.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: Mob Law
in Wisconsin, mob law in Ohio, anC
mob law threatened elsewhere. Thil
means simply that the people are no
satisfied with the execution of the stat
ute law.
Thanksgiving day was very generally
observed throughout the country anC
passed off without any incident worthy
of note save the attendance of severa
Congressman upon services at the WASH
ington churches.
The story that Mrs. Lincoln is in wan
probably had its origin in the statemen
which appeared in the public prints som,
time ago that when she came from
Europe 1t only required seventy-fiv
trunks to carry her wardrobe.
The president of the ruined bank il
Boston has reduced the bookkeeping O
embeZzlement and Encouragement t
its simplest terms. He keeps no records
made no entries of his operations wit
the specializing director, but carried
all in his head" until he had squeeze'
everybody dry.
The following item, clipped from a
exchange, is probably lie: "Winnipe
is great place for girls. 1t IS said ths
if it is found out that young lady is o
a coming train, there is sure to be abou
two hundred eligible bachelors anxious
ly waiting at the station ready to pr
pose matrimony."
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
The sangamon Flood.

SPRISGFTKI.D, Nov. 90. = The SaBga-
mon river food has reached its height,
and the water is beginning 10 recede.
Il is usually not over 200 fees broad and
inside OF the high banks, but now spreads
over the rich bottom lands, and in some
parts is two miles wide, and AT Riverton
seven miles. At Springfield there is a
terrible scene of devastation. Field after
field of corn lay covered with water,
while an occasional island protrudes
above the dreary waste of waters, COW
cred with stalks of corn. Shocks of corn
were carried bodily down the swiftly
flowing stream In some places the
wagon roads arc covered with four feet
of water. The cattle pens of RiVerton,
Alcohol county, are partially sub.
merged, and over 200 cattle and 1900
hogs have been turned into lots. John
Blacks paper mill has suspended, and
is threatened with an overflow. The
Wabash railroad bridge is well pro.
tected by strong stone piers. Edward
| Alter loses 1900 bushels of corn. and
many others lose smaller amounts. while
many farmers report the loss Of cattle
fences and corn. The State Department
| of Agriculture estimates the loss TO the
corn crop quarter million Of dollars
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
A Terrific EXPLOSION.


New YORK, Nov. 22.-Early this
afternoon a terrific explosion occurred
IN East I'D street, between I'd and Sd av-
enues, where Patrick Farley. contrac-
tor, has been blasting rock. 1t was
caused by the carelessness of Patrick
Manahan, foreman, in hanging number
of dynamite cartridges TO dry on the
steam pipe. The explosion shook the
entire neighborhOOd, and wrecked the
windows and doors of fifty-five houses
adjacent. The flying glass, splinters,
and falling bricks and furniture, injured
several people. Manahan has been ar
rested.
A Times reporter says that the in
tense cold Sunday night froZe the cart
ridges. Yesterday morning MOnahan
prepared and capped seven cartridges
and put them to Ihaw round the steam
pipe boiler. which furnished steam for
drilling. About O'Clock the men who
had been to dinner had prepared 10 re-
sumo work. George Henry Bennett,
who had charge of the drill, was going
to the drill when he saw smoke coming
up from one of the cartridges, and at the
same moment Monahan, who had just
come out of the excavation, saw the
burning cartridges, and they both real
lied what was about to occur, and run
ming away, shouted loudly, Run! save
yourselves, quickl" Ali the workmen
heard the warning, and some of them
ran away, while others threw themselves
fiat upon the ground, and instantly,
when all were comparatively safe, the
cartridges exploded, with a sound that
was heard all over the upper part of
the city. 1t was felt from Fifth avenue
to East river, and from Nineteenth TO
Sixtieth streets. The explosion of the
cartridges made a sort of a crater, about
five feet in diameter and ten inches
deep The inside workshed, which was
situated over the boiler, was reduced 10
match wood, and the steam attachment,
which conveyed the power TO the drill,
was swept away. Not one OF the work.
men were injured. When the noise OF
the explosion was over, cries of the dis.
aster and alarm and accompanied by the
crash of the falleH glass and woodwork
were heard in all directions in the i'm
mediate vicinity. In u few moments
thousands of people, attracted by the
explosion, swarmed around the excava-
ton, and residents of more than seventy
houses left their homes in fear. In sew
eral instances doors shut when the ex-
plosion occurred and were wIenched off
Many window castings and shutters were
DIoheh anu ulSplaCeu tne pgastSr IRON
ceilings. Probably a dozen windows
were wrecked in houses remote from the
scene of the explosion. In Fifth avenue,
10Th street, 9th street and First avenue
damage was done To about seven
houses. MOnahan's theory Is that
a spark from the furnace Ignited the
fuse of one of the cartridges Eight
persons were only slightly injured by
the explosion. Farley, the contractor,
notified all persons who had suffered
any loss that he wouid pay the damage
and asked those injured TO send him
their doctor bills. The heavy shock Of
the explosion caused some alarm in the
public schools in Seventy-Fifth street
but order was quickly restored.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01

The health department of ST. Louis
has been earnestly considering the ques-
ton: Is vaccination preventive of
smallpox. The conclusion arrived at is
emphatic Affirmative. One firm basis
for this is the fact that not death from
smallpox has occurred in that city for
five years, during which period vac,
cination has been more generally prac'
ticed than, perhaps, in any other large
city in the country. During last yea
alone there were in New Yorl
thirty deaths. and in Chicago
forty-three from smallpox. St. Louis
has certainly enjoyed, therefore, an en-
viablc immunity from the scourge.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01

On account, probably, of the demand
OF Dakota for admission to the Union as
a state, Secretary Kirkwood this year
requested Governor Ordway to make an
unusually full report of the social, finan
cial and industrial condition of that ter
ritory. The report has been made pub
lie. 1t shows that there has been dur
ing the past year a very large Increase
estimated at nearly 50,O00-in the pop
ulation of the territory by the immigra
ton OF, for the most part, industriou:
and intelligent settlers The total val
uahon of property in the Territory haI
nearly doubled. The finances of the
Territory are in excellent condition
bonds selling at from to per cent. pre-
MUM,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
The Guiteau Case


WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 25.-Aftel
Guiteau had completed his statement
Scoville referred to his previous demand
for certain printed newspaper slip.
which were taken from Guiteaa at the
time os his arrest.
4 colloquy then ensued between coun
sci, in which considerable feeling was
shown on both sides.
Scogiile protested against the course
of the district attorney in the matter
and later contemptuous1y retorted from
his seat, SOh, stuff, stuff, all stuff"
The controversy was finally settled
and ScoviIle called John A. Logan FOR
the defense The witness did not re
spond, however.
Guiieau, who seemed greatly excite(
here, broke in again and shouted
There is another matter / want q
speak about right now. ] understand
my divorced wife is to be brought her
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01

The report which appeared in the
associated press dispatches on Wed
nesday TO the effect that Mrs. Lincoln
was SO poor as TO be unable to pay for
the medical treatment which her stu
alton demanded have been emphaiically
denied by the best of authority, which
states that she has 100000 in bonds, in
addition to the annual pension of 5000
allowed her by congress, and that she is
entirely comfortable and well provided
for. The widow Of Abraham Lincoln
will never be permittcd TO want for any
thing while the memory of her martyrcd
husband lives green in the hearts of the
naomi.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01
GuIteau's Papers.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. Cool.
Corkhill has made public the contents
of the papers found in Guiteau's peck
cts after his arrest on the day of the
shooting. They consist mostly of editor.
ial squibs from various papers, most of
them relating TO COnkling, Grant and
Garfield. Others refer to party feuds,
and some extracts are from interviews
bearing on that subject. One of these is
marked in Guiteau's own hand, "R, E,
June Sd" and reads as follows: From
whatever standpoint the existing con-
f1ict within the Republican party is re-
garded, its outcome would seem to IN
Volye the disintegration and overthrow
of that organization in this state, and
probably in the nation Another para
graph refers TO the meeting of General
Grant and Garfield at Long Branch, and
characterizes the occasion as chilly
Still another criticizes the appointments
made by President Garfield. and also
speaks of the cabinet during the admin
is:ratirn. Most OF them are marked in
q manner which shows what paper they
are from. They are from the BrookIyu
Eagle. There are also two dispatches
cut from newspapers. one dated Long
Branch, June %, stating that the presi
dent was to return to Washington on the
following Monday, and another from
Long Branch dated June 81, stating tina
President Garfield, accompanied by Sec
rpfary Hunt and Postmaster Genera
James, had Ieff Elberon for Washington
leaving Mrs Garfield and children there
and that the president would return
from Washington to Long Branch OF
Friday.
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OLD FASHIONED SUNDAYS.
what They Used to be In PuritanicaI
Connections
From the Hartford COurant.

From the Hartford Courant.
The prevailing usages IN respect of an
observance of the Lords day by chris
tian people exhibit a wide variation
from those which were In vogue in
times which the Oldest people remem-
Der. In oiden times there were two ser.
vices in the sactuaFy on the Sabbath,
one in the forenoon and one in the after
noon, q brief recess dividing the two,
and no other services were held, as a
rule. The oldest Sunday school in this
country is said to have been established
since the year 1906, and Bible classes
and prayer meetings are of no greater
antiquity. During the week preceding
the regular administration of the Lords
Supper q preparatory lecture was
preached, but other weekly lectures or
religious exercises were exceptionally
| infrequent. New England was then in
tanned q widely scattered population.
with few facilities for frequent assem-
blies. The Sabbath gave them rest and
society. The meeting house precincts
afforded q kind of exchange" for the
| tween and after the 'tmeetinz.n dis
cussed their crops. stock, politics, and
i whatever there was OF news, while the
women folks strove in vain to get
/ through with the weekly accumulation
| girls had high old times on the sly dur.
horse sheds or diminishing in the field
just over the fence, they escaped the es
pio1age Of parents too busy with their
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01

We thought the Topeka fools had all
started newspapers of their own, but we
were wrong in this, because one, sort
OF mild type of Guiteau, wrote San open
letter" to the Commonwealth of Thurs
day morning, telling Governor St. John
he had no authority to issue a Thanks
giving proclamation, and intimating that
human liberty and freedom are in dan.
ger, so long as governors keep on is
SUNG Thanksgiving prOclamations just
as though anybody and everybody had
not the privilege of paying no attention
whatever to the proclamation, il they
felt so disposed. "Open letters In news
papers are supposed to be very weighty
and severe documents, but this one wa.
about as silly piece of nonsense as W,
ever saw in print.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-01

Officer Edelin,, who had charge of
Guiteau at the time of his being shot at,
while en- route from the court to the jail,
said, referring to the matter:
He was awful glad to get back to the
Jail guess. Do you know, gentlemen,
/ warned him against this last Thurs
day? He promised me going down to
court that day not to cut up again, and
when he began to make a noise pulled
him back in his seat. When he got into
the Marshal's room at recess, / said to
about not making noise in court !
You are getting the people all down on
you.S And he said in reply: "D0R't
make any mistake. Tan infWeReiRg TIE
public aiAd iH my behalf There's mol
a man an the court room that heard ma
0.dGy but sciH belieUe that 1 m iRsdRe. -