National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-11-30

had TO go 20 work TO make new start in the law
q. What was your idea in buying the Inter
Ocean "a proposed TO make II the great news.
paper organ Of the West proposed to put into II
the Republcanism of Horace Greeley and the en-.
terprse and snap OF James Gordon Bennett. l
suggested 10 to some first. Class newspaper men
and they said that II was brilliant idea aud they
thoughtit Il feasible II had got hold Of the money
II would have been feasible,
q. How much money did you want2-A. De.
lievc that $4,000 would have bought up the whole
conccin. ] consulted several parties about y and
they all thought 1t grand scheme but would not
others applied 10 Mr.. Adams, president of the
Second National Bank of Freeport, supposed TO
be worth half n million dollan.
@. Did you offer him amy induecments2-A. Yes;
/ told him would make him Governor Of Illl-
nois, and he said that he dld not want to be Gov
of reputation and characters but he did not pai
ont very well after my interview with him.
q. What do you mean by his not panuing out?--
A. lie did not have any political aspirations /
wanted to get hold of those fellows who had both
aspirations and money; They, were the kind OF
fellows to help me Adams did not have nny po-
litical aspirations. lie did not seem to care any.
thing about being Governor. He was man Of
about sixty years old, and he preferred his old
simple way ofliviug, aud did not care t. go into
politics. I nlso CONSULTED my old friend Charlie
Reed on the subject. ] believe that he put
ingl | went TO theology after that; and that was
worse than the newspaper business ,,
ing the New York Herald simultaneously In Chi
cagolA. That was part 6f tho Inter. Ocean scheme.
Mr.. Nixon was tncu proprietor of the Inter Ocean,
and my idea was in starting the new concern that
Nixon was TO be the manager and finuncicr and
was 10 he the cditoz. gave him some ideas about
dpp,iGaing the dspnteheSs IS Of IT, the New York Her.
q. Did you take any steps for securing build
ing to carry on the new paper?-A. Yes, went to
look at n building on Fifth avenue, which
thought would be good one. ! inquired who
owut d II, what It could be rented for, &c.
q. Did you take any steps to obtain printing
fNrft . A Hnffq aUqIl uI
Chicago.
q. How many prcssesdld you arrange for1.,A. |
cannot rccullect the details. went through all
that bus ness and worked IL out in detail in my
own mind. ] went around among newspaper
men, ptcssmen, &c.
q. Did you arrange for telegraph dispatches p
A. | consulted the manager of the Western Uniou
Telegraph Company and also the manager OF the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. The
Atlantic and Pacific was lust starring at thnt time
and Its manager was nn active young fellow who
wanted to get business said that proposed TO
duplicate the New York Herald dispatches, and he
| thought 1t an immense thing-nnd so IL was
O. Did you have any phn In your mind for OBJ
Gordon Bennett at the time. got no answer aud
l believe he was then In Europe.
q What inducements did you hold out to Mr..
Bennett to furnish the dispatchcs?-A.. Nothing
very pressing; | think told him that If he helped
me ont in the matter would consider the Herald
suit ut an end.
q. Did you consider that fair equivalent "A.
Yes; because had no doubt that would have
recovered $1,000 or $4,000.
u hlcT YOU BuNb UP llc HeWspupeT culcTUTlhc
in Chicago what did you next do?-A. That
brought me down to the winter and spring Of 1876.
tried TO pick up Jaw business, which had ne.
elected but law business was scarce, and found
II hard 10 get any. Then l went out to your
place in Wisconsin. worked around the house,
studied theology aud the New Testament, read the
papers, soaped trees aud all that kind of things
O. DO you remember the circumstance of your
sonping treesH-A. Yes; remcmbermy sister nd-
vising me to go down one morning and soap some
fruit trees. But could not tell ruit trees from
other trees. am not u horticulturist or ilrmer
romem6er igl6 her laughing ut the time ~ oG.
and Sankey meetings. attended prayer meetings
aud services regularly day and night during the
three months that Moody was there-from October
to January. During all that time was with Moody
and bore an active part.
2, what did you dOY-A; was an usher, and
| helped around in general way.
| frequently
q. TO what particular branch or subject of relI-
| giOn was your mind directed at that time IA.
| Sometime in November, during the Moody work,
/ heard DR.. Kinredge, of Chicago, pastor Of the
| Third Presbyterian Church, say-in reference to
the text, :" II will that he pmeaniug John tarry
| till come what is that to thee p" Brethren, l
have have to confess t % asa man OF God that & 40 not
considerable expectation In the public mind that
the Saviour might soon appear, and that idea has
| pervaded peoples minds ever since That set my
| brain awhrling. and began to investigate 1t. l
went to work in the Chicago Public Library, and
dug, out my lecture OH the Second Com.
went to work and wrote my lecture.
| The idea of that lecture Is briefly this
That the second coming of Christ occurred on the
destruction Of Jerusalem, in the clouds directly
over Jerusalem; that II was an event in the
spiritual world and that the destruction Of Jeru.
salem was the outward sign of his coming. Ihold
that for all these eighteen centuries the churches
have oil been in error in supp0sing the second
PROPOSITION on which my lecture was written, and
that was the result of three or four years inycsti-
cation on that subject. The witness then went on
to relate his various failures in delivering his lcc
ture in Chicago, Evanstown, Racine, Kalamazoo
| Ann Arbor, Detroit Ypsilanu, Toledo, Cleyelnnd
Buffalo, Washington, Rochester, Syracuse Albany
Troy, aud elsewhere, He frequently laughed rs
he repeated some of the humorous in
cidcnts of his failures: the various time,
not paying his fire and arrested for not paying
his board bills. At other times he grew excited in
the assertion that in all that he did he was, like
Saint Paul. engaged In the service of God and that
God was therefore responsible for his board bills
ON this latter point lie said Il did not give NJ
lecturing because of my repeated failures. stuck
TO my work. Ny idea was that. as was working
for the Lord. would do my duly and let him take
care ofmc as he felt disposed: went into that
money. Success or failure was nothing to me.
considered that the Lords affair. My duty was tC
continue with my workI iJ Panl had no sIcce'i & DE-
thinking of Paul all the time pnd how lie stuck tC
his theology all the time. ON ms way from Balli
more TO Washington avoided the cohdnctor who
had ordered me to get of at the kclny House
and So The masgaa 70 gi on alton, 20 MS
along TO me and said My friend, are you goinJ
to Washington / said Yes lie said, 'WOulC
you like a good boarding -housey said, Yes,
and he said he could take me TO one. Now, hat
been praying that could gCta boarding house, a.
l did not want to go TO hotel, and had no soone
got the prayer out than this man came along aut
was just rs free and easy with me ns II he hat
known me twenty years. Now, THAI call Provi
dence. / have had hundreds OF that kind of ex
periences where tho Lord, in direct answer TO my
, | prayer, has beiTiended me-" While the prisone
was giving his testimony nc was watched most at
tentively by all the medical experts present ant
with great curiosity aud interest by every persoi
| In the crowded court room. At times he showed
his exhaustion bya lowering of his voice, and
was In consequence of one of those signs that SOM
ten minutes before the usual time of adjOurnmen
the court. ut the instance of the District Attorney
adjourned.
scenes and Incidents OF the Trial.
Mr.. scovllle begins to show signs Of the constan
strain entailed upon him by the defense Of III
assassin.
Fancy the tongue lashing the jury win rccciv
4; from Guitcau when they return II verdict of mur
4 I Il. ala.N NfN. al.