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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
Aceording . an inlervlew wilh

According TO an interview with re-
porter of the Memphis Appeal. Fred
Douglas, the colored marshal OF the
District of Columbia. is reported as fol.
lows concerning Guiteau's insanity and
Judge Cox's conduct in permitting him
the wide latitude which has been so
much criticized by the press and public.
Douglas says:
"Judgc Cox has been censured cohsid-
erably for allowing the man TO parade
himself and his antics before the
Jury, The judge Is a very upright,
honorable man. and think his only OBJ
ject In allowing the assassin so much
liberty, Is to let the Jury make up their
minds whether he Is really insane or
only feigning. have had considerable
experience with prisoners and witnesses
during my service as marshal OF the dis
trict, and l don't think there Is a shadow
OF doubt that Guiteau is mad. For a
week observed him. In court he
ssems 10 he absolutely unaware of the
danger In which he stands. He has n
remarkable memory, and whenever any
reflection Is cast upon him he promptly
Tesents e" st
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
OVER THE STATE.

WEN 4hE GAA1Es
The Howard literary society is sue
cess.
There is to be contest over the sher-
iHaity of Shawnee county.
LeaYenworth fined saloon keepers for
selling whisky last Sunday.
The Fifth Avenue hotel, at Topeka,
has been sold for $21, 900.
Topeka has killed 75o dogs Let the
good work commence in Emporia.
Prairie chickens must not be shot
after this month ill next season.
The State Historical society has a
piece of genuine Plymouth rock.
The paper. are already speaking of
him as ''DanJorth." SIGH is fame.
The Pratt county 'ring' is said to be
'busted." This is obviously important,
if true.
A whisky trial against F. c. Jones, OF
Holton, resulted in verdict of acquit-
tai for the defendant.
The iron is being placed in position
for the bridges on the LeavenwOrth, To
peka and Southern railroad.
The Leavenworth Times says that
grading has commenced on the Missouri
Pacific extension in A,chison county.
The Santa Fe is shipping potatoes &c
New Mexico in box cars with stoves in
them TO keep the potatoes from freezing
The state agricultural college has est
students, 234 of whom are from As
counties in Kansas and II from ten ctheI
states.
There must be an "onpieasantness'
between the-Arkansas City Traveller ant
the Winfield Courier, because the Trav
eles speaks of the Courier editor as ont
"whose ancestors ran violently down
steep place into the sea.1
Wiley Welsh, convict sentenced
from Woodson county, in March, 1880
for seventeen years on a charge of grand
larceny escaped "Wednesday from tn,
penitentiary at LcaYenworth. He wa
pursued by twenty-five mcn but at til,
latest accounts had not been heard OF.
Capital: Advices from Empor1a
Wichita, Ottawa and other cite
throughout the state. indicate that til,
prohibitionists are making it sultry TO
the whikeyiies, and that there isn't 81
much fun in violating the law as Their
was few weeks ago. The longer thes,
fellows live the more they'll find out.
Mr.. Fred Welhonse, of Fairmount
Leavenworth county, is one of tn
largest fruit growers in Kansas. He ha
40 acres in fruit on land owned by Law
yer Wheat, near Fairmount. He ha
10000 apple trees out. HIS crop thi
year on 100 acres of five year old tree
was $500, and they net him on tn
trees 81 % per bushel. He gatheret
over lGO bushels from some three oil
trees. He is making the fruit CROWN,
business profitable.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

A moonshineT tells, this mgrvtlous
story to aIe Athens ca J Courier: I Rev.
,nue Officer James Davis has horse
that can scent out distillery two miles
and all,alf or Wien Che Iofflecr,is in
the neighbOrhood OF one OF These Illicit
aGsiEs, -hss- horse throws up his head
and shifts the air with all the relish of
topper; then the officer drops the Bride
reins on tho animals neck and allows
him t0fDllow his nose, which Invariably
brings him TO the desired spot"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

One OF the best things Kansas ever in
vested in was biennial sessions of the leg
islatnre. so well pleased are the people
with the workings Of the biennial sys-
tenn, that We doubt not a proposition TO
have q session once in three years would
be very popular. So popular are bien.
nial sessions that but few states now pro-
vide for annual meetings of their legis-
latures. Wisconsin, Al tlc last election,
adopted an amendment to her constitu-
ton providing for biennial instead OF
annual sessions. Only four counties
voted against the proposition. One Of
the evils to the country has been too
much legislating and too much law
making. The reform which does away
with half Of Il is hailed rs good one
everywhere.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
PERSONAL AND poLIrInAL.

1t is asserted that the Virginia Read
justers will vote for every Republican
candidate in the House
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, and
Senator Joseph Brown, of Georgia, each
live at home in one-stcry house
Mrs Lincoln will soon return to
Springfield, Illinois, from New York to
make her home with her sister, Mrs.
Edwards.
1t is stated that Cyrus W. Field pur-
chased the New York Express with the
intention of making it the organ of the
present administration.
Senator Ingalls, was made permanent
president of the Missouri River Conven-
ton at st. joe, and upon taking the
chair made a fine address.
Guiteau places Mr.. Beecher's virtue
in the past tense. There is some ques-
ton as to what effect this will have upon
the insanity plea which has been set up
in defense of the assassin.
Mrs. Garfield has sent, through the
state department. to Queen Victoria a
photograph of the late president for
which her majesty asked after his death.
1t was suitably framed, and was for
warded this week. 1t was cabinet
size picture.
A Washington photographer says that
there is great demand for the photo
graphs Of President Arthur Tue sales
of Mrs. Hayes picture used to average
$50 week. The theatrical fayorites, so
far as concerns The sale Of their portraits
at the capital, are Lolita, Mary Anderson
and John Mccullough.
The position of Sara BeInhcrdt, who
is at present starring in Odessa, is any
thing but enviabIe. Mods insult her
whenever she ventures out, on account
of her Jewish origin, AID it has been
found necessary for ten Cossacks to serve
her ss guard. Numerous arrests have
been made In connection with this Gu.
rious affair.
| Gen. Ranm has put forth a scheme OF
ciyii-service reform which provides for
the establishment of four-years'
term of Office for employees in the de.
partmcnts, etc, examination as prelim.
mary 70 appointment, a temporary ap
poIniment on trial, eligibility to
reappolntment, increase of salary fol
marked efficiency, and small retiring
allowance to faithful employees The
scheme is curiosity in its way.
| The Caldwell Commercial says the
liabilities of Daaford's bank at Caldwell
foot up about $64. OOC, the assets not oveI
$4,000 There were some sixty deposit
tors, gentleman by the name Of w. HI
Lawrence being the largest, he having
5000 in the bank when it failed. The
Denman who figures in the matter il
Fred Denmap, Of Usage City. F. A
Tanner is a druggist, at Caldwell, but
| formerly Of Kansas City.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
The InterIninabie Guiteau Business
Emory StOrrs and Others on the
Stand

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-The interest in
the Guiteau trial is undiminished. The
fret witness was Col. J. o. p. Burnside,
disbursing officer of the post Office de.
partment. He formerly lived ia Free
port, Illinois, and knew the prisoners
family. Mrs. Guitesu was an invalid.
Charles G. Allen, of Missouri, lived
in Freeport in 1639-4O; knew the Gui-
teau family; Mrs. GuIteau was in feeble
health.
Emory A. Storrs, of Chicago knew
Guiteau in that city by sight as
young lawyer, saw him perhaps a
committee rooms in New York during
the late presidential campaign. The
prisoner came up to him gleeiulIy and
patting him on the shoulder said: "You
are on the right track" The witness
said he never saw Guiteau doing any
thing at the committee rooms other
than reading the papers. He seemed
to have no especial employment
In April he saw the pris-
oner at Washington; he said
he was going 20 have the Austrian mis-
sion. The witness told him the place
was an important one and in BlaIne's
line. The prisoner replied he was solid
with Blaine. The witness thought the
COhVcISdtlOH was lcdulng up 10 request
for him (the wItness) 10 visit Blaine in
Guiteau's interest and forstalIed it by saw
ing his relations with Blaine were such
he could not possibly aid him (the pris-
Oner) any. The witness had formed an
opinion as to Guiteau's mental size but
could not express an opinion as to his
sanity or insanity. His impression was
Guiteau had an lily balanced mind-iu
common parlance, he did not have good
common sense.
Upon cross-examinatiou the witness
said he never saw anything In Guiteau
to indicate that he could not determine
between right and wrong; never saw
anything In the conduct Of Guiteau that
would indicate he did not know the
difference between guilt or innocence;
never saw anything to indicate he would
not be responsible for crime.
Scoville noted several exceptions 10
the rulings of Judge Cox in favor of the
admission of these replies. The evidences
created quite stir In the court room
and seemed 10 stagger those about the
defense table. The sister OF Guiteau was
particularly effected and in tones dis
tinctly caught by the reporters said !:
HE has perjured himself; that is all
there is about IT.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

" North CarolIna. South Carolina and
Georgia are all ripe for revolt from the
solid south. A fair vote aud an honest
count would show heavy anti Bourbon
majoritles in all threen states to-day.
Whether they have the leaders capable
of bringing about a successful revolt by
next election day Is q Doubtful question,
bat sooner or later tho change will come,
and he Is avery sangaIne Democrat who
thinks it can be delayed till after the
next presidential election. :. 4. y
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
Thc nrst indiclmrnts

The first indictments in The star
route cases have been found
by the ..granA ,Jary---one agninst
Coniracior Brati TOR bribing eov
ernment oaicials and drfrauling the
govesAmsnt aadsth0 0sIIes a ,.ainss4Der-
utY Auditor Lillry for accepting The
bride. 81 far 81 good. Uncle sam, in
starting out. baited and 'lhrew in" for
whale. but even minnows are better than
a water haul. Let the sport procced,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

A craze prevails Tor autographs of the
assassin. Guiteau, and the guards near
him are kept busy passing cards to and
from the spectators. 1t isa sort Of a
mournful consolation 10 know that the
utmost limit of disgrace has finally been
reached in the most shameful proceeding
that ever scandalized the name of jus
tice.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
Moro of GuIteau-The Assassin Again ON
the Witnese stand

the witness Se010.
WARRINGTON, D. c., Dec. 2-Imme-
diately upon the opening of the criminal
court Guiteau was placed in the witness
box. He. glanced at the papers mo-
ment and then said: al desire, Judge
Porter, to state to you and the honofa-
bic court that decline TO answer any
more questions which are mere repeti-
lions of what we have already been
over"
Judge Porter Immediately resumed
the cross examination, with the Ques-
ton: "Was one of your purposes in re-
moving the president TO make q demand
for your book 81
The witness became excited, and ges-
ticulsting wildly, insisted upon his in
spiration, and that the Lord had selected
him to remove the president. He
was no fool. The Lord never
work. He had inspired him to remove
GARFIELD and left him, the witness, 10 use
his own judgment, in selecting the
means. Continuing excitedly he said !:
"And the Lord has taEea care of me.
I've neither been shot or hung, Judge
Porter, and you did not expect me to be.
decline to discuss the matter with you.
did not have any thought on the sub
ject; left it all to the Deity" The wit
ness repeated: Il refuse to answer the
| question or 10 discuss the matter under
inquiry" At one time he appealed 10
the court for protection against the man.
ner of cross-examination. Judge Por-
| ter said:
81 have not attempted to force a reply
from you, Mr.. Guiteau; if you will al.
low the jury to understand that you re-
fuse to answer, it viii suit my purpose
just as we'll"
The witness at once turned 10 Judge
Porter and inquired: well, what was
your question, Judge%'
The witness was then asked if his en.
tering the Oneida community was in
SEPARATION and If his leaving Ii was inspi-
ration He declined to discuss the sub
lject. Judge Porter then produced Gui
teau's book, Truth" which the witness
had claimed was the work oG the Deity
ana inspiration from the Deity, and com
pared it paragraph by paragraph will
/ THE Berean," the Oneida book writer
by John II. NOyes-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
AI#T-TEl

Eleven persons, Including an attorney,
were recently convicted of bribery in
connection with British parliamentary
elections, and sentenced to six months
imprisonment. 1t seems tina the app.e-
kension existing among the Tories in
England regarding the rapid progress
which is being made in that country in
the direction of a Republican form of
governments nnt wholly without foun-
dntion
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

{ The President has promptly approved
Of the finding OF several courts-martial
which have dismissed officers convicted
OF drunkenness from the army. The in.
dications that Mr.. Arthur isconsiderably
more than an average-sized American
continue TO multiply with grateful
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
Omeial Canvass OF slas Rsearns % tie
Late zcIeeftcn.


TOPEKA, Nov. 29-Ths state board of
canvassers met at the state house yester
day afternoon 10 canvass the returns
of the late election. Gov. ST. John,
Secretary Smith, Auditor BOnebrake,
Treasurer Francis aud Attorney General
johnson were present They declared
the following gentlemen entitled TO Ger
tidcates Of election. w. R WagstaH,
judge of the Tenth district; Clark A.
Smith, judge OF the Fifteenth district !;
j. G. Strang. judge Of the Sixteenth dis
triet; w. II. Plat, Judge Of the Seven
tenth district Wsgsla6 Vas elected
as Democrat, Smith e an Independent
Republican and Straeg and Piatt as reg.
ula- Republicans. The other certificates
were issued 70 j. n. Venard, 70 All the
vacancy in the representation Of the
county Of Ness censec BY the reefgnar
ton Of Representative HoFatio Gstes,
and to Simon Motz, senator elect from
the Thirty seventy district. TO Gil 8 "a
cancy.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

A large party of Saxon immigrants
passed through ST. Louis last week on
their way to Arkansas. They formed
the third instaIlment of a colony of
5000 or 5000 that is being planted in
the vicinity Of Little Rock by colonial
ton society in the old country.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

The South Bend Tribune makes this
point on the GnIieau case as conducted
by Judge Cox "The court, In giving
Guitean the priSilcgeof speaking in his
own defense, must take the ground that
he Is not insane Il would be tiavesiy
on IAN and justice fora Judge 10 permit
q crazy man TO address the court and
jury. This is a point the jury want to
bear in mind when making up their
verdict. That dilemma We Should be
glad to sec the court get out of if it
can" -f..A asaFg sAt - rras
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

Paris Consulship afGer the first of june
if had been appointed to il. and the
president and Secretary Blaine had both
beseeched me on their knees to take it.
| had at that time resolved to remove
the president for the good of the Amer
lean people"
RaNcSc
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
ESTABLISHED IN 1857.

St.Louis Globe-Dcmocrat "The pres
ident and cashier Of Georgia bank
were indicted yesterday for receiving de-
posits when they knew their bank was
iHsoivent. A general move of this kind
all along the line would be a good
-fhin0
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

George w. Martha saysTy There nrc
other sins in this world besides iniem.
perance, and among them intolerance is
not the least, nor the least nIischirvo,fs. -
In the column adjoining, George says
the advocates of prohibition are all
-'cranks." George is noted for the ex-
preston OF mild and tolerant opinions.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
Probably wrecked.

CuIcAso, III, Dec. 3.-An Inter Ocean
Owen Sound special says, the pro
pelleg, Jane Miller. out since November
sd, Is several days over due, and that
some Of her cargo has been washed
ashore and Is is feared she has gone
down.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
WASHINGTON.

An evening paper commenting upon
the disgraceful proceedings in the trial
of the assassin of Garfield says: ave
think we echo universal sentiment
when we say that the time has come for
this miserable business TO stop. The
threat of the court to gag the babbling
devil would be far better in practice
than IN prospect. We firmly believe
that il Judge Cox does not shut the
felon's foul mouth with gag, some
drawer man will close it forever with q
bullet, and that, too, with not merely
the appreciation but the applause of
mankind. 1t is all very fine to talk of
law and order, but there is limit TO hu-
man patience. Guiteau has crowded
that limit, and if Judge Cox does not act
somebody else will. Let the Tabid cur
be muzzled.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
The voice Of tho peonle.

WASHINGTON, Nov sS.-Judge Cox
IS daily receiving letters, most of them
anonymous and some inclosing newspa-
per clippings, rejecting on his conduct
of the Guiteau case. Following are
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

Wilhoff's Fever and Aaue Tonic, The
old reliable resnedy. now sells Tor 81.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

ga friend of justice and the law" in
Brooklyn, New York, writes: at
would be a very easy way for criminals
to go scotfree if the law permitted them
to explain their actions by divine inspira.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

graded with a facility of descent unal-
terable by the skill Of the engineer. II
" yiaducts of massive masonry. There
is no right of way to be secured by
avaricions proprietors of the soil; no
barrier to be pierced by tunnels or TO
be assembled by laborious engines drag
ging their reluctant trains. No expen-
sive appliances of machinery are re-
quired to provide the power to move
the vessels that require transportation.
Nature has furnished the motive power
in the momentum of the irresistible cur
rent that flows from the melting SHOWS
of the north, gathering force and volume
as it descends through thousands of fer
tile leagues, its waves ln0w almost IN
vexed by a keel from the mountains to
the sea.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08

but for Justice.
The valleys of the Missouri and the
Mississippi, with their tributaries, from
the Yellowstone 10 the gulf, form mag
nifcent empire that must have homo
genious population and common dcs-
tiny.
These great communities that were
only separated by the system of slavery
have, since its destruction, been alie1a-
ted By factions that have estTanged them
only 10 prey upon them, and 70 main
tain political supremacy by their
separation. Unfriendly legisla-
ton has imposed inioierabIe bur
dens upon their energies; invidIous dis
examination has been made against their
products; unjust tariffs have repressed
their industries. While vast appropFia-
tons have been made TO protect the
harb0rs en- the Atlantic and the lakes,
and 10 improve the navigation Of the IN
considerable streams, the Mississippi
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-12-08
\ WASHINGTON LADY

UOHlpIAlnS That Tue paIate OF Lnt CON
temptible wretch is tickled with s;ewed
oysters, eggs, juicy beefsteaks and other
dainties.
PARTY OF PHLADEIPHIANs
write: moral imbecilIty, when it leads
men are hanged for in we'll regulated
communities. If we will only punish
saints who commit murders We shall
have few executionsn
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-06-22

by large majority, but by
enough to carry it. You have no
idea of the way we have been an
noyed by this thing in North Caro-.
lima. Men would come and open
small groggeries on the outskirts of
large plantations. The negroes and
farm hands would resort to them,get
drunk, and neglect their work, and
invariably did so at the very time
they were needed most. This has
been so general that even men Of
drinking proclivities are ready to
protect the interests of their BUSH
ness by going to some such extreme
in the law. The influence exerted is
without any display or parade, but
is all the more powerful on that &C
count, and I can assure you that the
whole State is torn up over the ques-
ton. As I said at first, there is no
politics in the question whatever and
the result will be no index of the
political outlook, but it would be
singular to see this sort of proscrip-
tive business flourish in Southern
State. It would be phenomenon,
and might be enough to convince
the people at the North that we are
in the line of reform.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-06-22

parties have been diligently engaged,
in Eastern Tennessee and Southwest
Virginia, in collecting and shipping
black walnut logs. There is a great
scarcity of black walnut, which is SO
largely used in the manufacture OF
furniture, and it is believed that in
ten years the supply, in some States,
will be so far exhausted as to make
it equal in value to mahogany and
rosewood This accounts for the
industry with which it is being
gathered up in this country.
Hundreds of Car loads have
been shipped over the Norfolk
and Great Western Road to Norfolk,
and from thence to New York and
Europe, where it is doubtless sold at
a good price. The price has greatly
advanced within the last year, and a
still further increase may be looked
for. Furniture manufacturers are
already looking about for substi-
tute for walnut, and are puzzled to
know what it shall be. There will
be greater demand for mahogany
but maple, ash and oak will doubt
less come into use.