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OF my own personal volition, but on the
inspiration OF the Deity. never would
nave shot the President on my own per-
Sohal account. The Deiety inspired the
act and the Deity would take care of il.
The Deity furnished the money with
which bought the pistol. | was the
agent. The Deity Inspired me to re-
move the President and had tn resort
~ my own means to accomplish the De-
ity's will
Question-The only inspiration YOU
had was to use the pistol on the Presi-
dent?
Answer-The inspiration consisted in
trying TO remove the President for the
good OF the American people and Gmpa-
tlently) all these details are nothing to
the case. The whole matter was i'm the
hands of the Deity and (impatiently1 7
do not want to discuss it any further. I
appreciate the fact of the Presidents
long sickness as much us any person in
the world; but that is yery narrovv
view to take of the matter.
Questionable you contemplate his
removal otherwise than by murder?
.Answer-NO, sir, (petulently). | do
not like the word murder" [ do not
recoliect the actual facts in the matter
(excltedly). If had shot the President
of the United States ON my own person.
al account no punishment would be too
severe nor too quick for me; but acting
as the agent of the Deiety that puts an
entirely different construction on the
act, and that is what want to put To
the court and jury and to the opposing
| say that the removal of the
President was an act of necessity from
the situation and for the good of
the American people. That is the
idea want you to entertain, and not to
settle down on the cold-bloeded idea of
murder, because l never had the first
conception of murder in the matter.
Mr. Porter-Were yoa aware it was
against the human law9
The PrisOner-I felt the Deity would
take care OF me. / never entertained
the idea of murder in the whole matter.
never had any conception of the mat
ter as murder. Ny mind is perfectly
blank on that subject and has been.
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Is Cigar Sunday Necessity

Is a Cigar a Sunday Necessity?
Judge Woods of the Supreme Court of
Indiana, decided Sunday case recently
in which the plea was set npthat cigar
was necessity, and hence its sale came
within the exceptions of the Sunday law
On Is point the Judge said, with more
logic than will be acceptable to smokers
generally, that:
1t is hardly probable that the lawma-
ker contemplated that the cravings of a
morbid and unnatural appetite should be
deemed to create such an imperious
necessity for appeasement that the gen.
eral requirement for Sunday observance
should yield to it, while the supplying of
the ordinary necessities of life, like food
and clothing, by purchase and sale out of
the stores, should be forbidden. If it
can be said that cigar is necessary to
the smoker, it is no less certainly known
that drink is in the same sense need
full to the drinker. The law, however,
specially forbids the sale of Intoxicating
liquors on Sunday. Necessity, as used
! in the statute, does not mean an absolute
or physical necessity, but moral fitness
or propriety of the work or labor done
under the circumstances of any particu-
lar case. Generally speaking, it ought
to be an unforeseen necessity, or, il for
seen, such as could not reasonably have
been provided against.
The moral of this is thesmoker sheuld
lay in Sunday cigars on Saturday. The
Indiana decision goes to the extent that
hotel keepers and druggists are not
privileged to sal cigars on Sunday.
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The English the Language of the
World.

A writer In recent number of the
Atlantic Monthly predicts that by the
end of the twentieth century the En-
glish language will oe spoken by eight
hundred million peoples occupying, be-
sides England proper and its contiguous
dependencies, India, South Africa. Au-
stralia, North America, islands in every
sea and naval stations on every cape.
By that time, it is thought, so large a
proportion of the business of the world
will be done by masters of the countries
named that, as mere matter of social
and commercial convenience, the whole
world will devote itself to learning En-
glish. The language spoken by other
civilized races. according to this antici-
patton, will sink to the character of
LEGAL dialects, which will gradually lose
their distinctive differences and finally
disappear altogether. Many barbarous
races also would be drawn into the pre-
vailing current, so that-as is now the
case all over Europe-then all over the
globe the Englishman will be addressed
in his own speech.
The advantages to this end already
possessed by English-speaking people
are obvious. England now controls in
the four quarters of the globe, an area
of s.Sl1.OoO square miles, with a popula-
ton of about 2so. OO,OOO-English COM
merce, ideas, books and tongue profit by
this breadth of empire. Our apprecia-
tion of the future of the Anglo-Saxon
race and English tongue is heightened.
however, when We add to the English
speaking area the s,O24,494 square miles
of the United States, with their popula-
tion of 50,155,s86 souls. No doubt the
period isyet very remote, and may never
be reached, when English will
become the universal language of
mankind. The probability is that many
isolated races viii never be converted to
its use. But when an aggressive. ener-
getic, commercial people. possessing so
vast an area into which to develop, is at
the same time the wealthiest ON the
globe and the most enterprising and
practical, it is difficult to set limits toits
future. The Romans were able to i'm
press their laws and language upon the
whole of Europe, and Anglo-Saxon is
the Roman of the modern world. In
competition with the races of the conti-
nent the English and Americans possess
the advantage of beginning with 1885,
494 square miles of the sarth's surface
and the qualities which first gave them
this wide domain.
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Church Directory.

DRESB1TERIAN CIIURCH-Rev. r.
l. Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 800 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NARev s +. Minor, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; pm. Sabbath School:
2:50 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday .
pm; general prayer meeting Thursday p m.
Strangers are cordially invited 70 all our
services.
TINTED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School 10 am Public worship: IL am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday 5 pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
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Masonic Directory.

DELMONT LODGE, No. 16, F. & A. N.
ID Meets every Wednesday night, on or be-
fore full moon.
JAMES MELLOR, w. NJ.
JESSE B. MEYER, Sec'Y.
CT. CLAIRSVILLE CHAPTER, Ne. II,
- Royal Arch Masons. Stated convoca-
tions, first Friday of each month.
@. W. CARROLL, Fl. P.
JESSE B. MKYER, Sec'y.
DELMONT COUNCIL, No. "a. R. & s. M.
Id Meets second Tuesday of each month.
H. R. BUMGARNER, T. l. M.
F. D. BAILEY, Sec'y.
HOPE COMMANDERY, No. 26, K. T.
Ii Stated conclaves, first Tuesday of each
month. II. r. BUMGARNER, E.. g.
L L. 5EDwIoK, Rec.
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Farm at Private Sale.

THE undersigned offers at private sale his
Il farm containing So acres, situated one
and half miles northeast of Belmont, on the
Loydsville road. The soil is excellent with
plenty of limestone and coal-dwelling com
Portable, with good stables and other out
buildings-water and timber in abundance,
"a good orchard on the farm-couvenien to
church, school, and railroad station. This is
desirable property to person wishing a small
farm. But small part of the purchase mon
ey required in cash. Purchaser can have his
own time on back payments.
20 3ms) VIM NIoHoLa
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Belmont Co ur,y onlcIaI Directory.

Common Pleas Judge-Wm. Okey.
Probate Judge-Thomas Cochran.
Clerk of Courts-Alex. e. Darrah.
Sheriff-Samuel Hilles.
Auditor-William N. Coffiand.
Decentralization Eaton
Prosecuting Attorney-Alfred Fl. Mitchell.
Recorder-W s. Hobbs.
Commissioners-ewenA Aehan, Morris Cope,
[. J. Potts
Surveyor-Chalkley Dawson.
: Coroner-Thomas Garrett.
lnfrmary Directors-Joseph Bailey, WE.
Parkinson, James B. Ritchey.
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Cafarrn-

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breath, perfect smell. taste and hearing, no
cough, no distress; these are conditions
brought about in Catarrh by the use Of SAM
ford's Radical Cure; one bottle Of Radical
Cnre, one box OF Catarrhal Resolvent and one
Improved Inhaler, in one package, for 81.
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GcC Q week iu your own town; terms and 81
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1882. HarpGr'S Young People.

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A WORKINGMAN's THANKS.

10 the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: In your issue of to-day the article on
fents lie very timely. and, although do not belong 70
khe class mentioned to that paying from $50 per
month downward, beg to offer INV sincere thanks 1t
b not the first time that THE TRIBUNE has sded with
the working class There might be some reason for
raising rents IL our wages had increased. On the
Eay work has been much harder to obtain and wages
n general have increased am not patron OF the
knshOp; but have four mouths TO NIL beside my own
Enee times have been good" have been oO ged TO
10 without many Injuries amOnE the rest my daily
paper mention almost necessary clothing. Please
keep knocking at 1t. TENANT.
4 Httc- York, March Is. 1881.
( iWell-tOdo landlords are too apt to assume that
Working people get on very comfortably in flush !"
fmes The reverse is often the case. This is
period of urexampled prosperity, yet living ex-
penses have not been as high in ten years as they
have been during the past winter. temperate,
industrious workman will find it easier to get on in
" hard than in Flush" times. simply because his
wages remaining the 1t will cost him much less
10 Gye.-h1
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OBII IA RY.
GENERAL z. 5. CROOKE.

General Z. 5. Crooke, of Flatbush, L. l., who
dIrd yesterday at 5:l5 a. born Hyde Park.
Duchess County. n. " in 1910. He studied law before
majority and entered upon the practice Of his profess
sion In this 1881. In 1886 he married Miss Susan
CarOu. and his residence III Fabush. L. l. nee
then he has practsed law in both this city and Brook
ln For twenty-five years he represented the town Of
Flatbush in the Board OF supervisors OF Kings County
General Crouke received his military rank commander
o the Fifth Brigade OF the state Militia. In the his
brigade was summoned the o. part OF reserves
1T the battle Of Gettysburg in 1865 General CrOOke was
al that member NJ the Assembly of tins SiaIe and
left his legislative duties to the field to
tab" any part He enthusiastic Rtpublic1n
In lS72 General CrOuke elected the first member
of Congress- II ON the WITH District now rUpeen ed ~
A. ". Bliss, WAC succeeded INN.
Among the lawyers of Brook yn Gcaera CrOOke held
high rank. ana he had been employed upon many i'm
p0itant eases. He The member of the bar
thai cty lie had always been nOed for his close atpn-
non 10 business. AMI figure OF the most con-
4pruods in OF Brooklyn. H. sSessed very
strong constitution. and until Tins illness
sick fmll consists II three and three daugh-
erS MIS- CruOkc died In iSjS The funrTal Will take
Lace tomorrow afternoon ~ ST. Pauls Church, Fiat
bush. Al a meeting OF the Brooklyn Bar Association
Yesterday "a committee was appointed 10 DRAFT suitable
resolutions OF respect The courts were adjourned IN
he n
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RECEPTION TO HANNIBAL HAMLIN.

BANGOR, Me-, March 1.-THE complimentary
reception TO ex-senator Hannibal Hamlln proved very
enthusiastic EXPRESSION OF the esteem In which be 10 held
by his fellow-citizsns. Music Hall was haDdsomely
decorated aud the auditorium aud galleries were
Giled with the friends OF Mr.. Hamln, including
fhs most prominent citizens. Chef-JuStice
App'stco, Of the Supreme Court delivered on address
OF weeeme, citing the leading Of his honorable
career and crowning him with tue love and confidence
oi LIS fellow citizens Mr. Hamlin was much affected
win evident emotion and expressed his appreciation
OF this spontaneous tribute from his friends and said the
Incident would be the most gratifying Of his life. He
referred briefly to some Of the experiences OF his long
public life, and feelingy said he could ask
no richer reward for any service he might ba We
than ese warm greetings and approval a. he pat the
Brief but earnest tributes 10 Mr.. Hamn's sterling
qualities and eminent services then paid by the
Rev q. ": Field, the Rev. +. T. RazelWood the Hon
Abraham 6enborn and the Hon Joseph g. WheeIwrlcht
her which coneratuat0ry etters and kilograms were
read from Secretary Blaine, Secretary Window and
Dthere. 49,
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LOCAL DISTRICT MEETINGS.

The XIIlth Assembly District Republican
Association held ITS regular monthly meeting Monday
night at No 292 Eighth Justice Hugh Gardner pre-
sAed resolution was adopted approving the appoint
ment OF Thomas l.. James Postmaster General. ana
the appointment OF H. e. Pearson Postmaster OF New
York. A number Of members elected, and "a
long liza OF names presented for membership.
The XVIII Assembly District Association held its reg
Mar monthly NEE ing al No. AT Second-aye Monday
night NJ Crecan, tue president, made an address, ana
spoke favOraby OF the new Administration. SIX new
names we've added to the roll, and the Membership
Committee reported a large number OF prOpOeals.
AL the meeting OF the Republican Central CluD last
ovenng OF G. arendOn Hall. Sheridan Shook president
A. j. Often hOefer reported that the Executive Com,
utter organized on the evening Of February 20 ana
made arrangements attend the inauguration OF Pres
dent Garfield Nearly $50 members OF the club went "a
Warrington Henry G. Robinson presented resolutions
snnroying OF the policy outlined IN the inaugural al
dress of the President and recognizing the Gaolnet as
cor pUsed OF men OF eminent AFFINITY. Ihey were
I'D, pied. 49,, ,---.A,. pi.,.to, u anuhIJcan
Associaon WAS held last night IN the COncordla Assem-
hiv Rooms No % AVenueA. julius Hamburger unereu
sasnunons whtch were adopted, concentrating the
connfry because the Senate aud House OF Represeh's
,ives are aRnn under Republican control approving Oh
The courre of Senator COnknR IN the senate anu COM
Inendpg TO the people Prrsidenl oaFheluS "o"S IA IL
lation TO tue education OF tue mAsseS
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DIED.

BLUNT-In Brooklyn. Thursday March II, Emily wife
Of John Blunt and daughter Of the late Daniel +. Bacon
funeral services nj ~ LukeS Church, CnnLOnave Brook
Ign saturday at 2jU II IS kindly requested That NJ
flowers be sent.
KNIGHT-In Brooklyn on Tuesday 18th inst Mabel only
chld Henry H. aud the late Amy c. KNIGHT IN the 9TH
of her
Funeral from the residence OF her grandmother Mrs NJ
Knight No lS} HArrisOnst, Brooklyn. on Friday, 18th
inst. at 23O D. IN.
LYON At Boouton y j. March Is 1884, Edward z. Lyon
MILLS--At EnglawoOd. n. J.. on Wednesday March l6
Rachel NOung4 widow OF tie late Andrew Mills, in the 65th
Relatives ami friends respectfully invited to attend th
funeral sivicrs at MlddetowD. y. w. from the Second
oLIVEEGILCHRISr-On the 9TH inst at LoDgwOod Mass.
Leslie Oliver. VIE Of James Gilchri5L
brooklyn and Washington papers please copy.
QCINN-suldenv. on "Wednesday the 10th inst. Lille p.
Relatives and the funeral services
St Jersey CITY. Please omit AOwerA
Cincinnati papers pleas' copy.
sMALFS-On WcdDc day. March lG nolbert Smales,
sell0Y atL4w In The 77th Sear Of bis age.
invited To attend his funeral at the Church Of the
TRANSFORMATION East 2Sfhst between 9Th and Madison
aVes on saturday morning, 18th INST. at 10 O'Clock
SCFFERN-OD "Wednesday 10th INST. at Hayerstraw NY,
AndTew Edward Sufcrn. aged 90 years
Funer at aVerstrA" on saturday 18Th inst at IL O'Clock
Rta ives respectfully attend Please
omit flowers.
SrLLIYAN-Of apoplCxy on Wednesday March I6 John
". sullivan. aRet 50 years AMI 10 months.
fq4erG on fAy oTe gJ"1 p SI mr. y le
Friends are respectfully invited Please omit flowers.
WALTON Thursday evening, March H. Fanny 81 sccond
daughter OF William b. and PheGe j. b. wait aged ii years
and months.
Funeral services residence OF parents 9have
3ith.st. sunday. March 20, at p IN.
WILLETS-On 9th day l7h inst. Ann NJ. Wieis wife OF
Late George NLiets
are invited meet at her late residence
2l 9Th st. Jersey CIV. on fst day, 2OLh insL att