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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-09
Markets BY TELEGRAPH.
New York Stock Market.

NEw YoRK, July 8--11 A. M.-The stock
market opened irregular, but in the main
firm, and fraction higher. In early deal
ings some shares recorded slight decline,
while others advanced fraction. Elevated
railway stocks were notably strong, Metro
politan selling up to 81, New York 2, and
Manhattan per cent.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-09
ENCOURAGING
Reports Continue to Issue from
the Executive Mansion.
President Garf1eld's Condition
More Favorable Yesterday
Than at Any Time Since the In
Fiction of the AsSassin'S
Bullet.
He Appears Entirely Comfortable
Taking Nutriment Frequently,
And the Symptoms are Of the
Most Hopeful Character.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, s. Is a. m., July 8.
The condition of the President continues
favorable. He is more comfortable than on
any previous morning. His pulse is 96,
temperature 95.2, desperation 90. The
wound is beginning to discharge laudable
pus.
[Signedl D. ". Bliss, J. K. Barnes, J
J. Woodward, Robt. Reyburn.
The next bulletin will be issued at IL
o'clock p. Ii.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-07-09

The following were registered at the
different hotels yesterday
tTRIN HOITSE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
The Fire at Old Orchard.

The brief notice two weeks ago of
the fire at Old Orchard Beach, Maine,
by which six hotels were destroyed,
hardly conveyed the idea of personal
struck many readers of these columns.
OF late Old Orchard has become the
most popular as well as common water
ing place for the people of northern
Vermont. Hundreds of people from
this section yearly spend greater or
less time at this beach, and at the very
houses destroyed. At point just east
of the railroad station, directly at the
waters edge, stood "A clump of summer
hotels, built close together, in some
cases only an alley between them. At
midnight fire broke out in n cottage
close by the Lawrence House, which
soon spread to this hotel, and hence to
the Blanchard, the Aldine, Ia new
house, opened last summer), the Bel
mont, st. Cloud, and was stayed after
it had made good progress in the Fiske.
All these houses were large, except the
Belmont, and were filed through the
season with hundreds of guests; and
had the fire occurred when they were
thus filled, loss of life would have been
almost inevitable. The loss on these
hotels was quite heavy, but in most
cases more than thirds of the loss
was covered by insurance. Doubtless
the ground will be covered by public
houses again before another season,
but it is to be hoped they will not be
finder boxes, and traps to catch the IN
fortunate guests.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
Public Opinion.
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE GUITEAU
TRIAL.


TRIAL.
The spectacle of the assassin of
James A. Garfield cracking jokes and
making offensive remarks in the court
room where he is on trial for the ter
rible offence grows more lOathsome
every day indianapolis News.
If Guiteau is so insane that he did
not know it was wicked to commit a
murder, he can hardly have a sane no
ton of the nature of an oath. If he is
capable of giving rational testimony,
the average citizen will wonder how it
can be possible that he is not rational
enough to know that shooting a man
down in cold blood was not an inspira
ton Of the Deity.-[New York Trib-
une.
The jury are not likely to believe
Guiteau man of ordinary mental and
moral strength, but sanity shades off
into eccentricity, and eccentricity into
sanity by such graduation of degrees
that it is difficult to draw the line be
tween the two, or to say, if the line be
drawn, that on the one side of it man
is responsible for his crime and on
the other not. We believe that close
analysis will justify the distinction that
the man is a cOnsummate fool, but
guilty Springfield Republican.
Guiteau is perfectly well aware of
the nature of the act. We might say
that Guiteau was crazed, just as so
many people are called cracked who
are yet acknowledged to be fit to con
troll their own affairs. If Guiteau is
declared insane Il vast number of peO-
pie like him, feather Drained, cOnceit
ed fools, will justly infer that they too,
may indulge in eccentricities and muir
der London Daily News.
SENSE ABOUT THE RACE PROBLEM.
Millions of black men are invested
with the right of suffrage, and white
men and black men must work out the
destiny of the Southern states. They
must live together and succeed or fail
together. How can they succeed
That is the difficult problem to be solv-
ed, and it cannot be solved by outsid
ers. 1t can only be solved by the good
men of both races in the South cooper
ating and working patiently, patriOti-
cally, and with perseverance. The
whites must put down violence, intol-
erance and fraud, and the blacks must
learn to guard the rights of all by re-
fusing to put incompetent or corrupt
men i'll office. In the great work be
fore the South, both the great political
parties can be of great service, The
Democratic party can work wonders
by securing to the humblest and most
ignorant full protection in all legal
rights and privileges, by putting down
the violent and fraudulent in its own
ranks. The Republican party can do
good service by refusing to aid any or
ganization in Southern state that de-
ponds almost wholly on the colored
race for support, and by refusing to
NEEDLE in the local affairs of any state
in any way Vicksburg Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
Our New York Letter.

NEW YORK, November %, 1881.
bread, onions, etc, to make them sa-
worry gravy shed, many a turkey on
Thursday graced the groaning board,
which soon was into toothsOme frag
ments sawed, and suppose the great
majority of people had good time.
Some didn't. Charity is usually pretty
active about Thanksgiving time, but
somehow some folks seem always to
get left out. Prisoners Toasted, and
even tramps got square meal with
out lying for it, but some of the poor,
sick and wasted didn't come into the
sunshine to any extent. We didn't
have much practicable sunshine in
Gotham anyhow. In fact it was
kinder miserable most part of the day
in weather point of view. The boys
didn't seem to mind it, and as Radix
was looking out of the window in his
suburban retreat at gallant company
of quite too carefully, too very "Light
Guards" with a real target, buckshot,
slugs, and a great carriage to carry the
prizes, the small boys saw an old
woman in thin calico garment with
an old carpet sack picking up cinders
from an ash heap. She didn't get tur-
key, but detachment of small sympa-
thizing Samaritans helped the old lady
home with something more appetizing
than cinders for a lunch. Perhaps
poverty has its redeeming features.
It's very certain the doctors had more
to attend to on Friday in relieving the
Overfed than the underfed.
They say Jay Gould and Cyrus Field
have struck hands in a grand double
Samson Philistine smashing art and are
going to shatter the Stock Exchange
Whose recent actions have been disa-
greeable to them) by the establishment
of rival concern on the Battery, con-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
The Next Congress.

The Forty Seventh Congress con-
venes in regular session on Monday
next, and after that time will become
apparent the policy of President Ar
thurs administration. There are many
important measures to come up before
Congress which, for the
good of the country, should be acted
upon promptly and wisely. The Re
publican party will be in the majority
in the House at least, and probably in
the Senate as well, if Malone and
Davis vote as they have of late. But
the majority on either side, in either
branch, will not be so large as to war
rant inconsiderate legislation. The
death of President Garfield, and sub
sequent events, have combined to make
the meeting of the next Congress of
especial interest, and the eyes and
hearts of the people will be turned to-
wards the Capitol in sOlicitude for such
| Legislation as will make even stronger
and stronger the institutions OF which
they are SO proud. They will have nc
patience with strife for party capital,
and will not hesitate to rebuke it if il
appears. Among the important mat
tiers which will claim attention are the
question of national taxation, the ship
ping interest, the Inability" question,
etc; and Congress ought to see to it
that such an act as that which resulted
in President Garfeld's death is put
high enough in the category of crime
so that it can be punished as it de-
serves. But it is early to say what
will be done and what left undOne.
The Forty seventh Congress has yet to
make it's record.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
The Trial Of Guiteau.

Guiteau's attorney, Mr.. ScOville, Oc-
cupied day and IA half in his opening
argument before the court. His add
dress is described as a very able one
and its favorable effect was very no.
ticeable. He was perfect in candor,
and the family "reminiscences which he
was able To give, from his own person
al knowledge, were of considerable
weight according tn special newspa
per correspondents convincing the
audience that Guiteau is not sane in
the strictest sense of the word. Gui-
teau was like .iack-in- the-bOx during
ScOville's remarks, and annoyed the
court and counsel exceedingly
much so that Judge Cox threatened to
resort to stringent measures. SEQ
ville's speech was finished at noon of
Wednesday, when the testimony for
the defence was introduced. The first
witness, reverend gentleman, thought
Guiteau's mind was not deranged, but
very badly arranged.
On Friday another dense crowd was
in court. Guiteau informed the court
that he understood his divorced wife
was present to testify, and he threat
ened an exposure of her life if she tes-
titled against him. The day was Oc-
cupied with hearing of testimony re-
garding Guiteau's father. During the
examination of one witness, Ammer-
ling, Guiteau informed the judge that
this one was "the worst we've had"
The theory of the defence with re-
gard TO the insanity OF the prison
er's father seemed to rest mainly on
his acceptation of the peculiar tenets
of the Oneida community and his eff
forts on certain occasions to heal the
sick by faith-which the prisoners
counsel thought were signs of an un-
sound mind.
On Saturday Guiteau was, on the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

ers of the crew were found disabled
under the broken boom. That same
night was a time of awful suspense for
all on board. The captain reported
the ship as in critical condition, but
assured the passengers that everything
possible had been done for their safety.
''The ladies were invited to camp out
for the night in the saloon instead of
going to their sleeping cabins, which
suggestion was responded to by all,
and they passed the night in the saloon
accordingly. The behavior of the pas
sengers, one and all, was admirable,
for though they mostly knew of the
critical position of the ship, not an ex-
preston of undue fear escaped from
any, but quiet resignation to a seem
ingly inevitable fate reigned supreme.
Rev. DR.. Evans, Baptist minister of
Franklin, Pa, who had on board with
him his wife, seven children and serv-
ant, quietly told Captain Cheyne that
he should collect his family circle i'm
mediately around him in corner of
the saloon and seize as many together
as he might be able to grasp when the
fatal crash might come. No repining,
but an innate sense of Gods protecting
providence and manly idea of relig-
ion pervaded the minister and the man,
and his cheerful example exercised the
very best influence upon all"
During the whole night the vessel
battled with the waves, which threat
ened to engulf her but she conquered
at last, and towards the morning of the
next day the passengers were assured
of safety.
A sad tale of shipwreck and loss OF
life comes from the Panama coasts and
elsewhere. The steamer Albion found
cred in heavy gale, carrying with hen
thirty-twO out of forty passengers, and
cargo valued at 100000. The steam
er Culzean, while being towed from
Dundee to the Clyde, was wrecked
and seventeen persons drowned. From
the Virginia, New Jersey, Massachu-
sets and New Brunswick coasts come
reports of vessels foundered and driven
ashore, with more or less suffering OF
the part Of crews and passengers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

venient to Coney Island and the eleva-
ted railways, to which will be surren-
dered the major part of the grand COM
mercial palace | mentioned as project
ed in my last. Some of the interested
are much incensed, and in purely jocu-
lar mood, of course; the proposition
has been made in select circle to Gu
chre the giant stock gobblers by care
fully training small army of deter
mined "cranks" to kidnap them for an
particular little dogs meanwhile. The
results would be somewhat upsetting
no doubt.
Bank cashiers seem to be getting
imbecile- and from recent develop
ments it would seem as if they ought
never to be allowed to go about with
out nurse to keep them out of mis-
chief. Another has come to grief and
complains that he was seduced into
gambling by some ancient faro sharps,
whom the bank has sued with IA view
to recovering the losses of their weak
minded emplOye. The virtuous sports,
on the other hand, declare they only
want to play with gentlemen of for
tune that they were deceived and
| if they only knew a bank cashier was
among them to get f1eeced, would have
kicked him out with physical force
and righteous Indignation. It's a
queer world we live in.
George Law is buried-latterly bur
led in comparative Obscurity as presi-
dent of the Eighth Avenue railroad /;
people heard but little about him, but
he was "a big man on change once up
on a time-the pioneer, we may say,
of the great development of American
shipping before the war, protector of
Pacific mail enterprises, Nicaragua
canal cutting, Walker the tilibuster's
friend and hacker, and i'll a hundred
ways mixed up with projects that other
men have since got very rich on, most
of which, by the way, left no incOnsid-
cradle grist with his own mill. He
died rich.
Two strikes have lasted quite a long
| time. | don't know why | said moth
ing about them last week but the in
convenience resulting from them has
been intensified by another week of
them The hack drivers have struck
for one thing, and the district tel
eSraph boys for another, and peO-
| PIE are So uStu W Illt
dations provided by both these
necessary evils that the cessation of
their industry has been quite annoying.
DIR. Storrs, the great ecclesiastical
and scholarly orator of Brooklyn,
whom many people think superior to
Beecher i'll elOquence, and who by the
way is the foremost antagonist of the
Plymouth pastor and his methods, was
presented the other evening with a
nice little cheque for 49, 900 in the
presence of Il very distinguished com
pany of his congregation and friends.
These things make people feel good.
They are IA sign among Others of bust
ness prosperity, for nobody will chip
i'll to any neat extent to such princely
testimonial unless he feels his bank
account is in a pretty comfortable con
ditiOn. Truly business is booming
The dry goods and grocery trades
make more show than others, and the
streets devoted to them are almost
impossible from early morn to dewy
eve with boxes and bales coming in
and going out. RADIX.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

F. ID. Moulton, in Il recent address,
pays high tribute to President Arthur,
and predicts that he will be faithful to
the interests of the republic. He hopes
we "may never again witness the sad
and notifying spectacle of Senators
resigning their high offices on the mere
question of patronage. Senators, he
remarks, ''are not elected for such pur
poses" But he forgets to hope that
we may never again witness the ''sad
and notifying spectacle" of ii Vice
President of the United States lobby
ing for the reelection of Senators re-
signing their high Offices" One is
about as "sad and notifying a specta
Gle" rs the other.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
Perils of the Sea.

A tale of disasters comes following
on the rough sea weather of the past
two or three weeks, and thus far some
fifty or sixty lives are reported as lost,
besides damages to vessels. The Vic
toria, of the Anchor Line, had a very
rough passage from London to New
York. Commander Cheyne, of the
Royal Navy, was passenger on this
vessel, and gives graphic description
of the Vietoria's voyage and the dan
gers she encountered. One morning a
heavy sea broke over the deck house,
sweeping three men overheard. 9th
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

Mrs. Garfield is reported a. over
whelmed with letters begging for mon
ey, from all parts of the country, and
from people OF all classes and condi-
tons. 1t is said that she receives from
thirty to sixty of these letters every
day, and it is impossible for her even
to reply to them. This is not cred
liable state of affairs in fact, it is sim
ply disgraceful, and reveals phase of
human nature which is unpleasant to
contemplate.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

The scandal between ex-senator
Christiancy and his wife, which has
stirred Washington circles for some
time past, has assumed Il sad phase.
Mrs. Christiancy was found on the
street the other night in a demented
condition, and it is suspected that the
troubles resulting from the divorce
suit now pending against her have
driven her mad. The scandal is a la
inevitable affair. There seems to have
been indiscreet action on the part of
both parties in the case, and, from the
prominent position ill which they
have lived, the matter seems doubly
disgraceful.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

Washington Matters.

EN-Spcaker Ranuail Is Salu To he
meeting with a good deal of opposition
from his party in his candidature for
the Speakership.
The estimated annual consumption
of gold i'll this country in the arts is
eleven millions and of silver six mill
ions.
Director Burchard of the United
States Mint estimates that at the close
of the present fiscal year there will be
in circulation $40, 900 in gold and
Sl7I 800, 900 in silver coin.
President Arthur, it is said, proposes
to prevent the possibility of the pre-
mature publication of his message. He
will send it to Congress i'll manuscript.
1t is reported that the grand jury
have begun upon the star route cases.
1t is alleged that the policy of Secre-
tary Folger will he to put ont of the
treasury all the surplus revenue that
can be spared beyond the necessities of
the government.
In General.
Another severe gale prevailed on the
British coast last week, and much
damage was done to property.
Rev. DR.. w. l.. Gage, Hartford
clergyman, found Il burglar in his resi-
dence Sunday evening. He clinched
the fellow and was dragged into the
street, where the burglar was thrown
and held until aid arrived.
Runaway horses attached to fire
engine in Philadelphia Sunday evening
ran into horse car and killed two
young men.
Lower Austria is infested by rinder-
pest, and thousands of cattle, sheep
and goats have been destroyed.
The English government are holding
to their methods i'll settling the Irish
question, and the ministers of the
crown declare that they will be "firm
as rock The landlords want work
under the new land law pushed rapid
ly.
The american Book Exchange"
which has been selling fne-print books
at low prices, has passed into a re-
ceiver's hands, with liabilities amount
ing to Sl40,00O.
An Arkansas couple got into dis
pute the other day about the Bible,
when the husband mOrtally shot his
wife and tried to kill himself.
Another plot to assassinate the Car
of Russia has been unearthed. 1t was
intended to send up balloon loaded
with dynamite, etc, so it would fall in
the palace yard, where it would ex-
plode and set the palace on fire. In
the confusion the Gar and his family
were to be seized.
One of the issues at the coming mu-
nicipal elections III Massachusetts is
'1icense or no license"
The Union Fire Insurance Company
of Toronto, Canada, has suspended.
A Spanish steamer with all on board,
supposed to number fifteen, was re-
Gently lost in the Bay of Biscay.
At Galena, ILL.,, a rock weighing 40
tons fell upon a freight train loaded
with grain, completely wrecking it.
Guiteau was burned in effigy at At
tleboro, Mass, Thanksgiving day.
Columbia college, at New York, re-
ceived S50O,0OO by the will of S. w.
Phoenix of that place, besides his large
library.
Richmond, Va, is suffering from a
small pOx visitation.
Three men were horribly burned by
rush of molten steel, at Harrisburg,
Pa, the other day.
A panic was created i'll the London
theatre, New York, the other night by
a false alarm of fire, and several per
sons were trampled ON and badly in
iured
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

A young friend in California writes ::
"My little brother having heard the
barren spots in the fields called 'alkali
spots came to mother one day, while
an old bald-headed man was visiting
here, and said, in a loud whisper,
Mamma, that man has an alkal spot
on his head ~ Fitzgerald's Christian
Advocate
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

Impartial-New curate (whO wishes
to know all about his parishiOners)-
Then do / understand you that your
aunt is on your fathers side or on your
mothers Country lad-Zometimes
on one an sometimes on the other,
'ceptin' when father whacks 'em both,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

1t might be offered as proof of Gui-
teau's sanity that on one occasion he
dumped" board bill to the amount
of forty dollars. Such a performance
is generally the result of due delibera-
ton.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

The British government does not toy
a great while with convicted murder
er-even though there is some evidence
that he is monomaniac. Arthur Lee
Foy has just been hanged in England
British methods in this line might
proftably be adopted in this country.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02

In the last article penned by DIR.
Holland, he said he believed it to be
demonstrably true that, of all the add
vantages which come to any young
man, that of poverty is the greatest.
This is probably true, but there are
two classes of young men who will
hardly believe it, viz I: the wealthy and
the poor.