Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-02-25
PIGOTT IN A PICKLE.
9th Sides Interested in Having
Him Arrested for Perjury.
SENSATION IN THE COURT.

me End OF the Gigantic ftkEie Near at
Hand-The Times Defeated by Its own
witnesses-Parnell Does Not Need
TO oner Amy Deccnse-Gossip.
LONDON, Feb 25.-There are divers rumors
If sudden and sensational ending of the
proceeding of the Panell commission. 1t IL
asserted that Sir Charles Russell will advise
he Parnellites not " offer any testimony, but
o rest their case when Pigott aud the chiro-
,raphic experts have finished, and appeal 70
he sense of the court for verdict
That the work of the commission is drawing
10 close there is no doubt, and there is now
possibility that Sir Charles Russell and his
associates win withdraw from the case and
allow the commission TO bring the proceedings
o final adjournment in whatsoever manner
he associated justices may choose. The YER
lict of the public has already been given, and
even the most pronounced Tories admit that
he whole affair has resolved itself into
gigantic fizzle. The Telegraph, which is usu-
ally rabid Tory organ, admits that the evi-
dence given by Pigott has been blown TO tho
four winds of heaven, and with it the case OF
The Times.
And the paper also intimates that the gov
eminent is correspondingly winged by the
shots of the ex-Gladstonian attorney general,
whose pointed questions punctured the Par
nellism and Crime" bubble The Chronicle
expects that Sir Charles Russell will demand
hat Pigott be arrested for perjury, and it is
iifficult for anybody 20 see why he shouldn't
be- He has played fast and loose with both
sides, and both sides are naturally interested
IN furnishing him for his pertidy.
Exciting scenes were numerous during the
croSs-examination. There was great sensa-
ton when Pigott's letters TO Archbishop
Walsh were produced, and CONSERVATION
spread among The Times people when COM
promising documents supposed to be inacces-
sible within the secret recesses of Dublin cas-
tie were Haunted in the face of the informer,
who quailed before the revelation. This incl
dent shows the vigor of the help given to the
Parne lites by Earl Spencer Sir George A.
Trevelyan and John Morley, and is looked on
as evidence that the Liberals have burned the
bridges behind them on the home rule ques-
ton, and henceforward stand or fall with the
Parnellitcs.
The cosrt was greatly amused at Sir
Charles Russell's jocular and bantering style
of cross examining the witness. 1t was the
playfulness of the cat with its victim and
there could be no installing the keenness of
the torture he inflicted. More than once
Pigott exclaimed:
1T may be all very amusing to you, but 1t
is most decidedly not amusing to me-
Even the judges had to cover their mouths
more than once to hide broad grin, while
the spectators gave free rein to their mirth.
Parnells personal appearance was strik-
ing feature OF the last two days He entered
the court on the first day of Pigotts cross
examination looking haggard and wan. AS
Russell drew one admission more damaging
than another from the witness aud the con-
viction that Pigott was himself the .forger
began to force itself ON all present. ParnelIs
face began TO brighten up and he left court
with face wreathed in smiles and an elastic
step that he had not known in years. On the
second day he was even more cheerful and
the effect produced on him made a complete
transformation in his appearance.
The Parnell defence fund now amounts to
G32, 900, half of which has already been paid
out for legal expenses by Solicitor Lewis. 1t
is said they will need nearly twice that sum
to carry them through.
NJ. Tirard's MINISTRY already giving dis
satisfaction to the Parisians The premier is
considered-an i'll hammered and surly man. and
it is doubtful If his ministry will last until
the opening of the exhibition.
A most discouraging reception has been
given to M. Tirard by the Partisan press, all
predicting brief and stormy career for il.
| Any effort to deal with a serious political
question would be fatal to it, The ministers
represent almost every contending section OF
the Republican party, and it Is wholly i'm
possible, in view of their respective duties to
their constituents and to their several fac
tons, that they should agree on any point.
Boulanger is personally delighted with tho
new cabinet The general still believes that
the government will try to force an adjourn
ment, and viii find itself face to face with
dissolution. lie doubts whether It will OBJ
tain majority on the estimates, and he ex-
presses his surprise that in so critical time
Garnet should not have a soul above q Tirard
combination. His journal and personal organ.
the Cocarde, says that Carnot has nothing
left him now but to resign il he wishes to es-
cape being turned out.
The Cologne Gazette observes that the
White Book on Samoan affairs has been ia
vorably received by the English, but not by
the American press, which is displeased at
the treatment of Consul Blackjack. The Ga
zette thinks that the American government
is solely to blame for the trouble in not hay
| ing called Blackjack to account for his illegal
acts. The paper expresses the hope that when
1.-THE Republicans come into power they win
be true TO the proved historical traditions.
and accept the German and English view of
affairs and restore the hitherto uninterrupted
friendship Of two nations Of allied blood.
Hnttenbcrg Stole . March.
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