The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-01-26
LATER.

In the Guiteau trial on the 2Oth ScO-
vile resumed his argument by saying he
would confine himself to the examination of
the testimony of experts against the prisoner.
Taking up that of DR.. Hamilton he endeavored
to show the witness was strongly inclined
against Guiteau; that his answers TO questions
showed intense feeling to make every SEN
tence aid in hanging the prisoner. He pro-
ceeded TO show that DR.. HamiltOn's assertion
that Guitcau's head was symmetrical was in
correct, and claimed difference of three and
a-hah cubic inches between the two sides of
his head. Dr. Kempsters diagram of
Guiteaus head was no more like it than
cube. HamitOn's Testimony cOrrobOrated the
theory of the prisoners insanity ScOvile ar
gued that the jury should apply the maxim
that 1t Is better that ninety-nine guilty men
should suffer. If they were not entirely con-
Ytnced Guiteau was nOtguilty, by unsound mind
they should give him the benefit of the doubt.
Porter would undoubtedly claim that the fact
that Guiteau refraincd from shooting Garfield
when he saw him with his sick wife leaning
on his arm, was proof he was not actinP under
irresistible impulse, but the fact was there may
have been sufficient human feeling left in Quit
eau's head to force him to say, THE Lord can
wait and the great act which God re-
quires of me can be done at another time. SEQ
vile closed as follows: "All that is reuuired
for the faithful administration of Justice in
this case ls that you shall bave honest hearts,
calm, cool heads, and disposition TO do what
is right But above all that you have that
courage, that stability OF character and fnteg-
rity of purpose that Notwithstanding what may
be said you will do what is just and right be
tween your fellOw-men and i'm the sight OF
God" Scoville closed his address at two D.
M, and the court adjourned. All objections
TO GuitCau's addressing the jury We're with
drawn, ana he will speak on the Dist Ad-
jouned.
N. RADLEY and Ed. Wilson were killed
at Pullman, H., on the 2Oth by being caught
in belt which runs a wood machine They
were both horribly mangled
SEVEN buildings were entirely com
sumed by fire at Belle Plsine, Iowa, ON the
18th. Loss $4,000; insurance $4,000
THERE are 10000, 600 standard dollars
in the Treasury at Washington and s62, 900, 900
Of silver certificates outstanding.
THE Executive Committee of the Ma
tional Board of Health, at Washington, on
the Goth, declared smallpox epidemic in the
United States, and directed the inspection OF
several Of me most important quarantine sta
tlOns 10 determine II the rules and regula-
tiOns are properly enforced. An appropriation
preventing the introduction into the District
Of Columbia.
DELEGATE BRENTz, from Washington
Territory, presented bill on the 2Jth and got
It referred TO a subcommittee Of the House
Committee on Territories, for admission into
the Union Of States Of Washington Territory
and three counties in Northern Idaho. Mr..
Ainslie, Delegate from Idaho, Is fighting the
bill because II takes IN part Of his Territory,
and he Is backed by other Territorial repre-
sentatiyes who do not like the precedent this
bin viii establish
A MOB surrounded the jail at ronton,
Ohio, on the 10th, and eiecting an entrance
took therefrom John Wagner, one Of the
murderers Of Paymaster Beggs, ON the 30th Of
November last, and hung him 10 a tree In the
court house yard. They also took William
Zeek, an accOmplice, and swung him up, but az
he made a confession duplicating others he
was cut down and returned to the iail The
prisoners bore bad characters There Is not a
trace or clue TO the perpetrators aud public
opinion apparently approved Of the act.
r. G. DUNN & Co IS Mercantile Agen-
cy, aud their ninety branches, report the busi-
essfailures for seven days, ending 18th, as
H. Eastern States had l8, Western 81,
Southern 57, Middle 33, Pacific coast and
New York CITY 8. The failures IN the country,
particularly in the South and West, are among
the more important class traders than usual,
and indicate that the unreasonable weather
which prevailed during the most of the winter,
is beginning 70 tell both on sales and c0llec-
tiOnG.