The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-08-11

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take about week yet to get q verdict In
the star route cases. Some OF the leading
local lawyers who have watched the trial
closely do not anticipate that the jury Will
find the defendants guilty, but rather that
q verdict just the opposite Will be rendered:
was surprisingly weak, but was materially
strengthened by the testimony, of some or
the witnesses put on the stand by the de-
Tense. 1t is the general talk about the
courtroom that the defense would have
been stronger and the side of the govern
ment weaker IL the former had allowed the
case TO go to the jury without calling any
witnesses. The tits between the opposing
counsel have engendered a very bitter per
sonal feeling between three or four of the
lawyers employed, and IL one of those en-
ployed by the government carries into S ex *;
Robert fngersoll Is going to get good
thrashing, and will be knocked out of time
in two rounds of three minutes without
gloves.
DR.. Bliss, who was in charge of the medi-
cal attendance upon President Garfield, has
been taking measurements OF the room In
the railroad depot in which the president
was shot, his object being to show that his
diagnosis was a correct one from the in
formation he had received as to the relative
positions of the parties when the shots
were fired. He also wished to settle def
nitely which shot had inflicted the fatal
wound. His conclusions proved without
doubt that 1t was the first one. 1t was
found that the president had a slight Craze
on his left arm about two inches long and
extending longitudinally and parallel with
the arm. Now, after the first shot was
fired, the president threw up his arms, as
would be natural, and the second shot,
the flesh wound, and, without being much
DETECTED, went on its passage and lodged in
the GLACIERS box, where il was subsequent
ly found. Had the first shot struck the
arm, from the position it was then in by the
presidents side, 1t could not have produced
that wound.
A bulletin giving the statistics of the lum-
bering interest Of the United States for the
census year ending May 81, 1880, just is
sued, shows that in Ohio there were 1889
establishments devoted to this branch of in
dustry, representing capital of 81, 944, 412
The maximum number of hands employed
during that year was 1927, of which num-
To pay this help, wages to the amount of
81, 7OS, 800 were required. The total value
of the annual production Is placed at 3d.
1854, 400, which places Ohio sixth in rank
among the states, according to the value of
products. Kentucky has geo establishments,
worth of timber manufactures annually,
and stands No. IA in the list Indiana has
2,022 establishments, employing 1929
hands, produces S14, 260, $50 worth of lum-
Der. laths, shingles, and other stock an
nually, and ranks fifth among the states.
5,5S7 hands, produces S3, 744, 945 worth an
nually, and ranks No. 49, Michigan leads
all the states in this industry, with an an
nual production of $50, 500, 600 worth. Maine,
which formerly stood at the head of the list,
now comes after Ohio and Indiana as No. z.
The next state to Michigan in the value of
production Is Pennsylvania, which turns
out So, SOC, 900 worth of wood manufactures
annually.
THE COMING NATIONAL FAIR.
Colonel Corbin, Secretary of the Garfield
Monument Association, has sent out the
Army of the Cumberland, through its Gar
field Monument Committee, have deter
mined to give, under provisions of joint
resolution of Congress on Aug. 8, 1882, a
National fair and bazaar industrial and art
exposition to be holden in the rotunda of
Washington, ID. G., commencing on the
18th day of November 1882, and to continue
until the Sd day of December, 1882, its OBJ
ject being to raise the greatest possible
amount of funds to aid in the erection of q
statue at Washington to the memory and
honor of the late President, James A. Gar
field. The general plan of the project will
be inaugurated and carried forward under
the following management: A board of
control, to consist of the Garfield Monu-
ment Committee of the Society of the Army
Of the Cumberland as now organized, and
they shall be charged with the general or
ganizatiOn; board of direction, consisting
of thirty, from which there shall be an ex-
ecutiye committee of seven members, who
shall have immediate control and direction
of the fair during its organization and con-
tinuance, with power to determine and
nominate tho narcnnnaI nf cnah Srh-onn-
mittees as may be required; board of COM
missioners, to consist of six members
from each State, three of whom shall be
resident in the District of Columbia
and three in each of their respective
States, the three resident commissioners
to constitute quorum for the transaction
of business. 1t shall be the duty of the
State Commissioners to solicit exhibits and
contributions from their several States and
to invite and awaken a lively interest
among their people in the success of the
work, and to look after the interest and
well-being of such of their constituents as
may be interested. Timely arrangement
will be made at general headquarters for
the receiving and forwarding of such ex-
hibitiOns as may be offered and when plac-
ed on exhibition will, excepting perisshable
articles, remain from the opening to the
closing of the fair, and shall, when 1t Is so
desired, bear the name Of the maker and in
all cases will he disposed Of by sale, or such
other process as the Judgment of the Board
of Directors shall decide, for the benefit of
the monument fund; board of award,
whose duty it shall be to examine and re-
port upon the various exhibits, awarding
medals, and such honorable mention as I'm
their judgment may be desired, and give
suitable engraved certificates of the same,
according to the rules and regulations
adopted and observed at the Centennial Ex-
hibition of 1876 at Philadelphia.
ANYTHING for an Excuse.