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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-16
1ItplSG QUESTIONS PITY TO MR.. a.
W. ARCHER

ILtuISG QUESTIONS PUg TO MR.. a.
W. ARCHER
The fourth bill OF exceptions Is 70
the action OF the Court IN permitting
leading questions to be put 70 Com
mouWealth's witness. says the peu-
tiou
Upon ms examination in chief 4. ".
Archer testified that BE- had gone down
L. the Jail. accompanied by others, to
identity the prisoner. lie then said
-' ha4 some conversation with him.
] hBd 4 ye-y -hort conversation with
han. did 10, charge nv memory
v'th II. / could not state II accu-
Taieiy"
And thcfeupoR the attorney for the
Comm0nN ealih Es4ed nm the following
questions
Did you or not asa him
And here the Cour, mte-poSed aud
ssi0 10 the attorney. - You had better
De-, TIM state tue conversation, %
hich The attorney replied Tie saws
he cannot recollect It." The witness
then said .' ] cannot recall the conver-
sauon. asked MN some questions.
but cannot rememb beT what / did ash
him accurately"
The Cour; then said to him " State
a. nearly ~ YOU can. The witness
replied q" 90 not like to do that, !
Wan, 10 be- accurate" and. after a
pause. said. '' cannot recall the con-
Versatlon.
The Court then said TO the attorney.
=. go on.
The attorney then asked the wit
Dess. - 10 you remember whether IN
the isil YOU asked htm n he had ever
seen you before " To this the pris-
oDeT. by counsel objected, bat the Court
permitted the question 70 be put. and
It was answered afirmAtively by the
witness.
And again, against the objection Of
the prisoner, the attorney was allowed
20 ask the witness
- Do you remember wbether al the
)sL you had any conversation with hIR,
OF bot about when be had last seen Miss
Madison -
Tins. witness said, he could net re-
cal.
i0Er petitioner Is advised that no
rule regulating the examination OF wit
Bosses As more universal than that
which 5orbids the asking Of ones own
Witness questions which are pregnant
with tbsir answers OF 70 which single
aye or DO is a reply which sufiices. IL
~ true there are some exceptions 10
the rule, bat tins witness comes with
IL none Of thea. On the contrary. he
went 10 the jail Of bis oxn accord to
see If he eoulc qualify himself as a
witness for the Commonwealth. He
a. net. therefore. sither reluctant or
adverse.
After giving his testimony rs to ideB-
ti'y. and sflsr protesting thai be could
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sxoKx rKrxY CIeARs.

CHKTsAsTHEsUEs and PKIxRosxs at
CATLIs's, Ninth street.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-16

GIT BOUQUETS, BASKETS. and ,crT-
FIOwxKs from H A. CArLIS. north Ninth
street. Phones, sI2 and SOS
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HOW THE Panel SHOULD BT
FORMED.

IUIN I'D.
Il was insisted by defence that the
Court should proceed with the exami-
nation OF the yenlremen upon their
roir DIR, until twenty-four persons free
from exception ha1 been obtained that
sixteen should Ice selected IN some man
neI from the twenty-iOur, and then the
list Of sixteen thus obtained submitted
10 the accused, 6c.. which the Court
oyerruled and defence excepted.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-16

THE DrsPArcH JoB-PRIxrTSo HoUBD
thoroughly equipped 10 dosn kinds Of Boox.
Axp Jos-Pnxxrrxs ~ the shortest n0eisa.
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RosEs and vIoLETs Al CArLHs. Ninth
gfrpet
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-16

PALMS. FEESs and DEAcEsEKs si Car
LIS's, Ninth street.
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sTnis note read ~ follows:
i viii be there ~ soon ~ possible. s0do
wsu for me-"
There WAS DO address or signature on the
a0ff. but there was most ample proof tba.
the note ~as Ia the handwriting of the de-
crEsed.
The ensei0pe wss addressed z. y. CsHvs-
ffts, ksfchm1fd. Ta4-f)i<pafcA.
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The Exchange Hssei.

Mean temperature
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-16
The WeatAsy IN R,chmond Yesterday
ros clear and comfortable.

Ranqe OF Thermometer Tesfevddy.
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:
trial. They scout the idea that any
motive for The crime was established.
and earnestly insist that nowhere wa
il shown that accused Eeduced de-
ceased.
Ii i contended bv counsel that Joe
never did identify the key. but. OF the
contrary. said that he could not do so
without taking II to pieces. and that
this the Court, upon motion Of pri-
soner. refused TO allow 10 he done.
Further on says the petition
But, OF the other hand, there Is posi-
tive proof, furnished by Common
wealth's witness, that this key was the
key Of the deceased, and was in her
possession on the morning Of March
18th. Hunter Hunt, the witness re-
ferred TO heretofore, who went TO the
room Of the deceased on that morning
with the note already treated Of, stated
before the CoroBer's jury, and before
the name Of the accused had been men
toned IN connection with the death o.
the deceased, that be saw on the bureau
Of her room key similar to the key ID
question, which key was then exhibited
TO him and identified by him.
There was some contention a.
to his precise words. These had
been recorded Is EXACTLY ike -
the key exhibited to him. and the
scrivener testified these were ms
Hunts words Dr. Taylor, the cOro-
ner, said while he could not recall wit
Dess's exact words be stated IN sub
stance that the key bore q very
strong resemblance to the key he had
seen lying on the bureau of the lady IN
81" And Police-Justice Richardson,
who Was present, reeellects him a. say
ing that the key shown him then
looked like the key be had seen on the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
same way,

LA FRANCE, a Conservative paper in Paris,
goes for the Orleanists alb radius, and claims to
have documentary evidence that the present
claimants have no right to pretend to heirship to
the diaphanous throne of France. M. de Saint
Felix, LII. D., an eminent member of the Paris
bar. received the intelligence from Gambetta
before his death. since which time he, Saint
Felix, has been busy substantiating the story
until now he has it established to his ~satisfac-
ton. 1t appears that away back in the last CEN
tury-in I773, to be exact-Philippe Egalite,
then the only Earl of Joinville, was travelling in
Italy with his wife, who, during their tour, gave
birth in Florence to a daughter, who was named
Maria Stella. The Earl, fearing that no male
heir would be born to them, gave his infant
daughter to a fisherman named Chiappini in ex-
change for a lusty boy infant, which he at once
adopted without the formality of legal proceed
ings. In fact. like 'Buttercup" in 'Pinafore,"
they mixed those babies up. The descendants
of this boy, who afterwards became Duke of Or
leans, and in 1880 King Louis Philippe of France,
are legitimate enough as individuals, but have no
claim on royalty. The fate of the daughter
turned over to the fisherman has been traced,
and it is made to appear that she subsequently
married an English peer, Lord Marlborough, and
afterwards an actor. AS might be expected, the
Orleanists are greatly wrought up by this story.
Here's a pretty howdy do.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
The State Press.

There are fiatterlng prospects that Curry will
prove to be a good enough Burchard. -Terre
Haute Express.
The Democrats know when they have had
enough, but they might favor as with a few pre-
dictions about New York Review.
Private Secretary Lamont says Mr.. Cleveland
is still a Democrat, but it will take afdavits to
convince Brother Hendricks Washington Ga
Zette.
If Sim Coy and his gang are not able to have
the ordinance repealed, the saloonists of Indi-
annapolis will pay 500 a year license, just as they
do IN kokomo and almost every other city Of any
Importance in the State.-Kokomo Gazette
Tribune.
Nobody has any idea how terribly low and dis
reputable the editors of the Enquirer and Ga.
zette really were until they commenced to tell on
each other. It's all right; keep it up; the public
has the most implicit confidence in your state
ments. indianapolis Independent.
Andy Johnson's private secretaries are bob
bing up on all hands with valuable information.
One of the most notorious facts concerning
Andy's career in the White House was that he
had more private" secretaries than any other
President, and that many of those secretaries
grew rich by reason of their valuable informa.
ton, that is information for a rebel who wanted
a pardon. Nearly all the pardon brokers in
WashiI cton called themselves private secretaries
during those days when pardons were issued as
fast as the President could attach his signature
to the documents. -Terre Haute Express.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

influence the Republicans who, it is supposed.
he may control, to defeat the Republican
ticket headed by Ira Davenport. and again
give the State to the Democratic party. We
do not think Mr.. Conkling can effect his OBJ
ject; and if the Republicans can carry their
ticket in spite of Mr.. Conkling's sneers that
gentleman will receive an access of informa-
ton and badly needed modesty. With the
greatest respect for Mr.. Conkling's ability,
and regard for his past services to the party
and the country, it is as true now as it was at
the time when Mr.. Conkling resigned his sem
atorship and held the Legislature for weeks in
the effort to re-elect him, that the party is
greater than any man in it, and whenever any
body becomes possessed of a different idea, it
is a duty the party yves itself and a kindness
to that individual to teach him better at the
earliest opportunity. We believe the New
York Republicans will do this next week.
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placed him where he is, and / think / answer
for a great many when I say that, if they
thought Hills defeat would. annoy the Presi-
dent, they would freely vote for Davenport
This is about as much as one issue OF
a Democratic paper should stand, but the edi-
tor takes a whack at the Buffalo man in the
following vigorous fashion: whenever the
President turns from this broad highway of
truly Democratic ideas into the dark and dan
gerous path of experimental mugwumpery;
whenever he adopts the doctrine of the es-
teemed Harper's Weekly, viz, that the more
he disregards his honorable obligations to his
party the greater his virtue, and the more he
ignores and weakens the best elements Of his
own party the greater his craftsmanship, the
World does not support the President at all. ("
This kind Of treatment may be called ''tuf'
without violating anybody's confidence, and
it is hoped that the World is not read at the
White House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. FRANCES HoDesoN BURNETT, the novelist,
is i'll again.
FERD WARD has changed his baby's name from
Ferdinand Grant to Clarence.
THE State of California is spending $40, 900 for a
travellers inn in the Yosemite.
MRS. JOIN c. GREEN, widow of the Princeton Col
lege patron, is worth $40, 600, 600,
THE name of a mare rescued from a burning stable
at Manchester, N. H., turned white.
WHY is a ~balletgirl something of a philosopher
Because she believes in gauze and effect.
THE meeting of the Gar and the Kaiser Franz
Josef, at Kremsier, lasted only thirty hours, but it cost
the Austrian Court treasury 1925, 900.
DIR. PALMER, the husband of Emma Nevada, gave
up a large medical practice in the Black Country,
England, to follow the fortunes of the singer.
AN old lady recently told Margery Deane that she
was once invited to lunch at Windsor Castle by Queen
Victoria. She, with the other guests, was on arrival
p laced at q sumptuous table. but there was no Queen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
Abolition and Prohibition.

Rev. DIR. Henry Graham, In troy iimos-
There is a large class of prohibitionists evil,
IDENTIFY misled By an analogy, and who point to
the Abolition party as the model after which the
prohibitionists are working. This ~fanciful ANAL
ooey is thus disposed of by DIR. Graham:
THE analogy is a very unfortunate one, as the
facts of history will show. The record is. that a
large part of the Abolitionists of the country
never thought it wise to run an Abolition partys
and those who favored a party organization kept
candidates in the field for only a short time. The
'Garrisonians. as those were called who con-
trolled the American Anti-slavery Society. led by
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Oliver
jackson, and others of like views, steadily OPP
posed the formation OF a political party, but con-
fined themselves to moral agitation outside OF
all political organizations. There were many
others who thought it wisest to remain in the
old parties. and agitate until q sentiment OPP
posed to slavery could be secured, and such men
as VIM. II. Seward. Charles Sumner, Joha
Quincy Adams, Thaddeus Stevens, Ben Wade
and William Pitt Fessenden do not need TO
apologize for the attitude they took on the
slavery question:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

SENATOR SHERMAN goes into Virginia for a
week, and will be joined by Senator Logan
and Governor-elect Foraker. We are glad to
see these leading Republicans engage in the
Virginia canvass, and hope to see them and
others go into every Southern State when the
opportunity offers and occasion demands. 1t
may be that the Republicans will not be per-
mitted to carry the State of Virginia this
year, though they undoubtedly have the
votes; yet the presence of these leading Re
publicans will do much to insure a free ballot
and a fair count, if not now, certainly in 1888.
They are sowing seed which will bring forth
good fruit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
Trying to Gust Fred Douglass.
Philadelphia Press.


Robert Purvis, who was associated with Luz
cretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and other
energetic anti-slavery workers, returned to-day
from a visit to President Cleveland. made to Sc
cure the dismissal of Fred Douglass as recorder of
deeds for the District of Columbia. He said to-
night: Douglass must go. He is an offensive
partisan who made fiery speeches for Blaine
before the election. and now is trying
to curry favor with Cleveland. Ina
speech, the other day, he said that nothing
that Washington, Garfield or Lincoln had ever
said surpassed the words of President Cleve-
land in his inaugural address. The President
listened to me earnestly and took the papers l
had. He has said that if a colored man of suit-
able attachments could be found-he need not be-
a Democrat, because colored Democrats are few.
bat Independent in politics-he would appoint
him. So we felt pretty sure of success. I told
the President that this was a golden opportunity
for the administration to win tho colored man -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
N AND OPINION.

It begins to dawn upon the country that The
Republican party as a corpse is a failure. Fargo
Republican.
The greatest and most needed prison reform
is that which will keep men from deserving to
go to prison.-Boston Herald.
AS between the superauous young man and
the "Super1uous" young woman, give us the
latter seven days of the week.-Washington
Critic.
Such men as Downes, with their demoralizing
social ideas. do more harm to the church in a
year than all the Ingersolls and Bradlaughs in a
lifetime. PHILADELPHIA Telegraph.
At only one point can the President be charged
with direct responsibility for the Ohio result. but
that is an important one. namely, the pardon of
Mullen.-Springfeld Republican.
AS the preiudices engendered by civil war re-
cede. General Grant is coming more and more to
be recognized with Lincoln and Washington as
one of our great national heroes.-Albany Ex-
press.
1t is not the sentiment nor the policy of the
Democratic party to count the negro vote. 1t is,
however, the sentiment and policy of the party
to see them have Justice and fair p~lay.-Dayton
Democrat.
When an Ohio politician urges his hearers to
advance their standard, nobody applauds until
the audience is assured that no reference is in.
tended to the Standard Oil Company.-Boston
Transcript.
The workers who contribute to the marvellous
growth of the country in wealth and prosperity
have a right TO share in the benefits. The work
ers everywhere have a right to share in the adj
vancement and progress of the race. They do
so share, in this country more fully than any
where else, and yet it is always a fair question
whether they are receiving such q proportion Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
The Value of the Work-House.

indianapolis Independent.
Until the completion Of the work house. Jail
life has been anything but irksome to a large
percentage of petty larceny criminals and va
grants. They were herded together and allowed
to have a genuine picnic at any and all times in
the body of the Jail. They could hold progress
i've euchre parties. surprise parties, banquets, to
the extent of their money, and generally enjoy
themselves at the rate of several miles an hour.
Now, things are savagely changed. They are
dressed in convict earb, and kept at work,
which, if 1t does not pan out great profit to the
city, will make their confinement quite unde-
sirable, as a ~violator of the law, as a 0enerrl
thing. don't take kindly to labor. Ii will, in all
probability, drive away from this city a large
per cent. of its tramp population, at least, will
put them on their good behavior.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

SENATOR SHERMAN, in an interview in New
York, says the clamor about his Mt. Gilead
speech caused him to re-read it. After having
done SO, he says he would not change a word
of it if he could. He thinks free elections,
North and South, and honest returns are the
foundation of the Republic. He purposes
keeping up the fight for them until they are
conceded. The infamous effort to defeat him
by fraud will hardly serve to cool his ardor in
this direction, or that of any other Republic
an in the Nation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

The New York papers offer coincidence over
the death of Miss Gregory, the victim of over
work as a school teacher. They say that at
the end of twenty-five years work she was a
wreck. Most anybody would be in any ardu-
nous work, kept at as she did, without losing a
day during that time. Yet it is a fact that
the school of to-day, with all its red-tape and
s~enseless requirements, is a machine of tor
ture, and death to all it's victims not fortified
with steel nerves and constitution of iron.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

THERE never was a more characteristic in
terview than the one with Mr.. Hendricks
about the Grant, epew-Johnson matter. Our
7amiable fellow-citizen announces at least
twice that he knows nothing whatever about
the subject; but that does not prevent his in
ordinate egotism and vanity from airing it.
self. The sum Of his contribution to history
is that Mr.. johnson wanted to get rid of Mr..
Stanton. Indeed!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
To many Democrats Mr.. Cleveland seem:

To many Democrats Mr.. Cleveland seems
to have been a pig in a poke when he was put
up for election. He was elected, but until he
took his seat many of his admirers didn't
know what they had drawn. And even yet
many of them don't know what to do, though
doing "a power of thinking" The New York
World of recent date contains two cards from
as many Disguised Democrats, one suggesting
the following question to be added to the list
by the Civil service Commissioners: eff
President Cleveland receives a denomination
in 1883 from the Democratic party, how many
disguised Democrats viii vote the Republican
ticketT' This is bad enough, but the threat
is postponed three years for its fulfllment.
The other comes at him right from the shout
der, and says: ''There are thousands of Dem
ocrats WHO would like to get a whack at the
President for his treatment of the party that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

The Journals second letter on the func-
tons of government, written by p. s.. Heath,
our Washington correspondent, deals with the
way the currency and banking of the country
are conducted. It will be observed that Mr..
Heath reveals a significant bit of information
when he says that the government does not
sanction the practice of banks, notably in the
West, of discounting a government note if a
portion of it be Hrn off and missing. 1t pays
its face value if it redeems it at all. Many a
man has suffered loss in presenting mutilated
bills at our banks. According to this showing
the banks must have been gamers by the
amounts they deducted from the face value
of the notes. Another thing not generally
known is that individuals may make deposits
of money in the national treasury or in any of
the sub treasures, and receive a certificate
for it, just as at any banking institution. The
money is payable on demand, but bears no in
terest. Our readers will find this series of pa
pers of very great interest, dealing as they do
with matters so familiar that no one thinks
of explaining them to the people. They will
be the source of valuable information to the
reading public, however well posted it may
regard itself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

In one precinct of Cincinnati, by mathe-
NAUTICAL demonstration, sufficient fraud is
shown to control the election of fourteen
members of the Legislature. The fraud will
be rendered of no avail, and the perpetrators
and instigators should be put into the peni.
Tertiary. No such colossal crime, in its re-
suits, was ever before attempted in q North
arn State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

Mr.. JOHN SHERMAN said, in Washington,
that he had no doubt of his reelection to the
United States Senate. And neither has any
one else who Las any confidence in the exist
ence of common honesty among men elected
to the Ohio Legislature as Republicans.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26
THE Denver News, the Democratic paper of

The Denver News, the Democratic paper Of
Colorado, says:
"Several attempts have been made by ignor-
ant or designing demagogues to import the
boycotting folly into this country, but without
any marked success. The failures of these
attempts is mainly due to the high standard
Of intelligence which prevails in the United
States. Only the lowest classes of immigrants
can be induced to adopt that relic of barbarism
in dealing with their %neighbors, and there are
very few places in this country where these
classes are in the majority"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

REPUBLICANS everywhere will read John
Sherman's speech, made at Washington on
Saturday night, with pleasure. He defines
the issue which will enthuse the party and
carry the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

H arrangement whereby the League and
Association purpose keeping base ball salaries to
So, 600 and below hereafter is a blow at our insti-
tutions. Where are our men to come from to
pose as United States senators in the hotel lob
bies during the winter? Their salaries as bar
keepers will not be enough to tide them over.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

HUNG be the Chicago heavens in black. The
st. Louis base ball club walks off with the
championship of the world. The lake city
will at once take another SO, 900 from the
estimated population OF 'the town at the
other end of the bridge"