The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-30
LATER.

Mrs. ScovILLE resumed her testi-
mony in the Guiteau trial on the 2Sth ult. She
described the prisoners actions during his
visit to her in 1875, and said she was then con-
vinced that he was insane and should be put in
an asylum. Frequent objections were raised
by the counsel for the prosecution to the char
acter of questions propounded by ScQville, and
continuous discussion ensued between cOun-
sci upon the admissbility of certain evidence.
At times some irritabiity was manifested.
Mrs. Scovilles examination having been con-
cluded the crose-exam Ination was postponed
to allow George ID. Burroughs, of Chicago. to
testty as ne ass1re6 s, 70, 10 ts0e t nne G ey
of Guiteau's visit in ISIS, and made up his
mind that the prisoner was either fool or
crazy. He was satisfied that Guiteau was un-
settled in intellect. There was a brief interval
before the next witness appeared, and Guiteau
be o,t t OF fo te AZ these
crank newspaper men that 1 appear here
as my own counsel; That is my answer to all
the silly stuff they have been delivering them
selves of for some days past Some OF these
newspaper men have gone crazy. appear in
part as my own counsel, as | have right to
do under the law and Constitution of Amer
ica." No effort was made to check Guiteau,
and no notice whatever of the inter
s. O~ Jooelyn. of s the Oneida % Community,
Thought Guiteaus marked characteristic
brother of the prisoner, was next exam
ined. He had not been on good terms
but % had IN not doubted his sanity until he sre, re-
ceived some letters in October. Since he
had come on here and had seen his brother in
satisfied he was insane. On being cross-ex-
amined the witness admitted that before he
talking of the case, said he believed his broth
er was responsible. He believed him response
bic but not sane; responsible, because, as be
thought, at some period of his life the prisoner
had voluntarily surrendered himself to evil
practices rather than good. Witness un-
derstood that his Uncle Abraham was insane,
and that another uncle died in an asylum. Be
sides Abbey Maynard, his Aunt Julia and Au-
gustus Parker, who was cousin, the witness
had never heard of any other case of insanity
In the family. Thought his father was sane.
Sarah Parker, of Chicago, widow of Augustus,
and cousin to the prisoner, Testified that her
husband died In an insane asylum. Fernando
Jones. of Chicago, who, in 1878, had boarded at
the same house with Guiteau, and been one of
the Board of Trustees who had supervision
over the Insane Asylum at Jacksonville, con-
sidered Gniteau of unsound mind, and in what
some authorities would call a state of. incipi-
ent insanity. The prisoner was then sworn,
Seoville stating that. he merely wished him to
identity some letters. Scoville then presented
a number of letters dating from 1865 to 1868,
which were identified by the prisoner, who
made running comments upon his penman-
ship. The Identification having been compile
ted, the court adjourned,
THE business portion of Kosciusko,
Miss, was destroyed by fire on the 18th ult-
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has approved the
report of the Government Commissioners az
pointed to examine the 200 miles of Northern
Pacific railroad recently completed in the
Territories of Washington and Idaho.
THERE were nine Republican candi-
dates for Speaker of the House in the field on
the 2sth ult, as follows: Keifer. Kasson,
Orth, Dunnen Burrows, Henderson. Hiscock,
Reed and Robinson.
ALVIN D. BUCK was arrested at Wash
ington City on the 2Sth ult, charged with
conspiring to defraud the Government
through the Postofice Department.
EDWARD KEARNEY and Michael Gil
helm were killed and John Cassidy and Sandy
Phslen seriously injured by cave in quarry
| at Roundout, n. Y, on the 2Sth ult.
A VIGOROUS fight will be made against
Mormonism this winter. Governor Neal. of
Idaho Territory, is already in Washington
| City, and will remain there a portion Of the
| winter. his mission Is to urge upon Con-
gress the necessity for legislation in this di-
| rection. He says the Mormons are gradually
| bringing Idaho under the same influences that
| now control Utah, and that they are retard-
ing its propress and paralyzine its enterprise