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Monday, Dec. 12, 1881. 
The Guiteau Trial.— Eight doctors who 
have made a study of mental diseases have tes¬ 
tified as witnesses for the defence in the Gui¬ 
teau triaL A hypothetical question, in which 
the points relating to the prisoner’s mental 
condition as set forth by the defence, includ¬ 
ing the insanity in his family, and his alleged 
belief that he acted upon inspiration, were as¬ 
sumed to lm true, was read to them, and they 
were asked whether upon that state of things 
they thought Guiteau was insane. Seven of 
them replied that if the propositions were true 
the man was insane. Dr. Worcester, of Salem, 
Mass., would not express an opinion, because 
he wanted a clearer explanation of the word 
inspiration than Mr. Seoville gave him. 
Guiteau constantly interfered in the proceed¬ 
ings. He began by saying that he wanted 
the experts to pass upon the question whether 
when a man claims he is impelled to do an ille¬ 
gal act by a power beyond him lie is sane or 
insane. He showed a pretty clear understand 
ing of the testimony given, and once pointed 
out how well it fitted his case. As usual, he 
was sensitive on the question of hi.s meutal 
powers, and was angry when a witness spoke 
disparagingly of his Garfield speech, declaring 
that he would rather be hanged a.s a sensible 
man than acquitted as a fool, lie was also 
offended by a question implying that he w as a 
vulgar criminal. There was nothing vulgar 
about this case, he exclaimed; it was all high- 
toned. At the end of the day’s proceedings, 
when Mr. Seoville announced that he expected 
to have President Arthur as awitness, Guiteau 
insisted that General Grant, ex-Senators 
Conkling and Platt, ex-Governor Jewell, and 
others should be called to show what was the 
political situation before the assassination. 
Most of the witnesses for the prosecution 
were from Freeport, 111., and their evidence 
w'ent to prove that there was no insanity in 
the Guiteau family, and that the father of the 
assassin, instead of being a religious lunatic, 
was a sane and worthy citizen, much respected 
and trusted by his neighbors. 
Congress In Session.— Both Houses of 
Congress met at noon on Monday the 5th inst. 
The .Senate, having no officers to elect, pro¬ 
ceeded at once to regular business. Mr. Beck 
introduced a bid providing for the retirement 
of the trade dollar from circulation, Mr. Sher¬ 
man a bill providing for the issue of three per 
cent, bonds to replace the three and a half 
per cents, Mr. Logan a bill to place Gen. U. 
S. Grant on the retired list, and Messrs. Mor¬ 
rill ami Garland bills providing for commis¬ 
sion to raise the tariff. In the House the entire 
day was occupied in effecting an organization. 
Mr. Keifer, the Republican caucus nominee, 
was elected Speaker. The Democrats com 
plimented Mr. Randall by giving him their 
votes, and the eight Greenbackers voted for 
Mr. Ford. The two Mahone Congressmen 
from Virginia voted for Keifer. On Thurs¬ 
day the President sent in his first message to 
Congress which, on all hands, is conceded to be 
an able document. In opening he paid an 
eloquent tribute to bis predecessor, the late 
President Garfield. Secretary Folger who 
was recently appointed to the Treasuryship 
has submitted his report. 
In one respect St. Louis is almost twice as 
great as Chicago. Her debt, funded and 
floating, is $22,400,000, while that of Chicago 
is only $12,700,000. The balance in favor of 
St. Louis is $0,700,000—but it is on the wrong 
side. 
Mr. John Davis, nephew of Bancroft Davis, 
and son-in-law of ex-Senator Frelinghuysen, 
will be President Arthur’s private secretary, 
and Mr. Davis’s wife will be hostess at the 
White House. She is the daughter of ex- 
Senator Frelinghuysen. 
Judge Advocate General Swaim says he has 
completed his review of the Cadet Whittaker 
court martial case and wiLl submit the papers 
with his opinion thereon, to the Secretary of 
War this week. The report will not be made 
public until passed upon by the President. 
A freight train of thirty two cars, several 
of them loaded with live stock, was precipi¬ 
tated eighty feet into the Missouri River, 
through the giving way of a bridge. 
General Judsoa Kilpatrick, late United 
States Minister to Chili, is dead. He was 
born near Deckertown, New Jersey, Jan. 14, 
1836, and was consequently 45 years of age. 
A bill has been introduced in the Senate to 
admit Dakota as a State. 
The trial of Guiteau will be a very costly 
affair. The United States Marshal’s fees for 
one day amounted to $175 for summoning 
talesmen alone. Beside this he has fees from 
all the other courts, civil or criminal. The 
cost of witnesses will be immense. Already 
the Government has twenty-five witnesses 
present from other cities. They receive trans¬ 
portation fees of five cents per mile, going and 
coming, besides daily attendance fees of two 
dollars per day. They are kept at the ex¬ 
pense of the Government at any hotel that 
they select. The prisoner being a pauper, the 
witnesses for the defence are brought to 
Washington at the expense of the Govern¬ 
ment, paid and boarded. There are about 
thirty or forty asked for by the defence, and 
about thirty-five more will come. The con¬ 
tingent fund, as well as the other funds in the 
control of the court, is already expended, and 
Congress will soon be asked to make an ap¬ 
propriation to settle the bills. Of the ju¬ 
rors, six are Methodists, one of them a Metho¬ 
dist local preacher. They are all more than 
middle-aged, and but one has ever mixed in 
politics much or holds place under the Gov¬ 
ernment. 
Senator Saunders introduced a bill in the 
Senate Monday to extend the northern boun¬ 
dary of Nebraska to include 000,000 acres in 
Montana. 
A terrible calamity befell the occupants of 
a boarding house at Gibson Station, Pa,, seve¬ 
ral persons having lost their lives. The vic¬ 
tims of the five were exhumed and buried 
Sunday. The injured survivors are being 
cared for in the hospital, and a fimd has been 
set on foot to aid them. 
The Governor of Kansas has issued a pro¬ 
clamation offering rewards for the arrest and 
conviction of persons who may be found sell¬ 
ing intoxicating liquor; also for the arrest 
and removal of sheriffs, county attorneys, 
city marshals and policemen who shall fail to 
perform the duties imposed upon them by the 
law to prohibit the manufacture and sale of 
strong drink. 
It is announced that Mr. Seoville, the coun¬ 
sel for Guiteau, is about to deliver a lecture 
on the subject of the trial in Washington, 
and that he is driven to this course to secure 
meaus to support his family until he can 
resume the practice of his profession at 
home. 
The Prohibitionists of Mississippi are again 
active, and will try to induce the Legislature 
at its coming session to submit to the vote of 
the people at the next election a prohibition 
amendment to the Constitution of the State. 
Secretary Blaine has stated positively that 
he expects to retire from the Cabinet this 
week. It is intimated that the name of his 
successor will lie sent to the Senate to-day. 
The State of Iowa has nearly completed its 
new Capitol at a cost of $1,800,000. 
A new counterfeit silver dollar has made its 
appearance, which is pronounced by the sub- 
Treasurer to be the best counterfeit silver coin 
ever seen. It is beautifully made and has a 
slight appearance of iron, which is often found 
in a genuine standard dollar. It is silver- 
plated and acid does not hurt it unless the 
surface is scratched up. The weight is the 
marvelous point in the deception. The 
counterfeit, as it stands, would pass in size 
easily, and its weight would not be detected 
on any but a fine scale. The date upon the 
coin is 1878. 
The town of Augusta, Ark., on White 
River, was destroyed by fire recently. Only 
three buildiugs were left standing. The s-enes 
in the streets were reported as being terrible. 
Several persons were fatally burned and in¬ 
jured by falling walls. Loss $300,000. 
The commissioners appointed to inquire in 
to the feasibility of an underground railway 
on Broadway, New York, report that the cost 
would be $2,000,000 a mile, and the damage 
to property much greater. 
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Itcwtoratlon of Appetite. 
A Physician w r rites in regard to one of his 
patients : “ The effect of Compound Oxygen 
was to give him an appetite. Within three 
days from his first inhalation he was obliged 
to get his dinner tw'o hours ‘before the usual 
time.” Treatise on Compound Oxygen, sent 
free. Drs. Starkey & Palkn 1109 and 1111 
Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa.— Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Monday, Dec. 12,1881. 
Here are some items of agricultural news 
condensed from telegrams received here be¬ 
tween Friday noon Dec. 9, and noon to-day : 
Portland, Me : Weather still mild. Country col¬ 
lections are excellent, showing farmers are in 
easy circumstances. Lumbering active ; and 
all artisans are fully employed affording good 
markets for produce.Boston, Mass; 
Provision trade good : demand for export in¬ 
creasing ; prices tolerably firm. Flour stiffer 
on account of advance in wheat at the West; 
a further improvement in the market is looked 
for. Steady demand for most kinds of wool, 
and no change in prices—bales of the week 2,- 
250,000 pounds of all kinds including X and 
XX Ohio and Penn., fleeces at 42)£@44c. 
with 50,000 choice at 45c. Michigan and Wis¬ 
consin fleeces 41@42c for X. Medium and No, 
I, 55@48c. Fine unwashed 25@33c ; medium 
grades 25@35c. and choice medium 30@35c. 
Combining and Delaine quiet with sales at 
40(<i49c. for fine delaine. Large business in 
pulled wools, sales of 35,000 pounds at 33^@ 
5le. largely at 40@43]-£c........ Philadelphia, 
Pa ; Cotton has declined 1-16 since Wednesday: 
wool dull, a weakening in prices reported in 
some grades. Feed stiffer : Winter $2l@21.50 
against $21 last week. Spring w'heat bran 
goes from $18 last week to $19(&20 now. Pri¬ 
ces of wheat about lc. per bushel higher. Rye 
dull. Com firm and in good demand. Pro. 
visions Steady at last week’s rates. Apples, 
chiefly inferior lots, freely offered ; choice 
lots high. Home supply of potatoes light; 
but heavy shipments from Canada have a 
tendency to lower prices.... 
Cleveland, Ohio.— Grain has ruled firm for 
several days, No, 2 red winter wheat is soil¬ 
ing at $1.37. Provision market a trifle weak; 
mess pork $17.50. Live hogs active at $6.20 
for medium. Collections good.Cincin¬ 
nati Ohio,—Little or no change in farm pro¬ 
ducts. Grain, provisions, flour and hogs re¬ 
main about the same. Cotton trade for the 
year the best in the history of this city; re¬ 
ceipts have aggregated 325,371 bales, against 
312,319 bales for the previous year. Ordinary 
cotton lias averaged 7.59c during the year, 
against 9.64c last year; good ordinary 8.99c, 
against 10.50c; low middling 10.75c, against 
II. 27c; middling 10.97c, against 11.68c; good 
middling 11.50c, against 12.06c; middling fair 
12.81c. agaiust 12.66c; fair 12.94, against 13.62c. 
The Price Currunt from 88 per cent, of the 
pork-packing points estimates there is a short¬ 
age of 1,000.000 hogs in the hog crop this year 
—the popular estimate put the shortage at 
1,726,000 hogs. Compared with a vear ago 
live hogs here are worth about $1.60 per 100 
pounds higher or 35 1 tor cent.; mess pork is $4.15 
higher, or 81 per cent.; lard 2%c per pound 
higher, or 3'2*>f,' per cent,; sides, 2.20c per pound 
higher, or 33 per cent. At such an advance the 
supply is expected to be ample.Louisville, 
Ky.—Pork packing willbe closed (?) to morrow 
(Saturday) with about 100,000 hogs less than 
last year, and prices from $1.75 to $3 per 100 
pounds higher. Receipts of leaf tobacco in¬ 
creasing. New crop hurleys bringing extrav¬ 
agant prices. Cotton receipts liberal; demand 
brisk; but offerings scant, as holders want 
better figures.Chicago, Ill.—Consider¬ 
able improvement in hog trade; receipts for 
week foot up about 90,000 more than for the 
corresponding week last year. Quality now 
about the same as then. Fair speculative 
trade in grain with unusual excitement. 
Peoria, Ill.: Grain trade good; receipts and 
shipments average better than last week. 
Prices for farms and real estate generally are 
better than at this time lust year.Ev¬ 
ansville, Ind.: Pork packing has begun and 
bogs are coming in quite freely. Buyers are 
paying 5,f£@6c gross and 7,'8c. net. 
Detroit, Mich.: Weather more settled and the 
iuterior movement good. Considerable calls 
for money to handle pork products. Prices 
for all staple goods are firm in spite of the 
prospect of a mild Winter. Lumber and other 
building materials are firm, with contractors 
still pushing w r ork. Navigation is practically 
closed; the season’s shipments of wheat have 
aggregated 1,990,000 bushels. Farmers not 
selling wheat freely; interior mills are buying 
here. The average price of salt in the Sagi¬ 
naw market this year has been 95c.; the 
lowest previously wore 75c. and 85c . 
Milwaukee, Wis.: Prices of grain and pro¬ 
visions have declined considerably. A per¬ 
ceptible increase in wheat receipts and some 
of the local mills are again grinding. 
Minneapolis, Minn.; A week of fine weather: 
good country roads and free deliveries of 
country produce, except wheat, which is held 
back for higher prices. The loss of the flour¬ 
ing mills by fire will not materially affect the 
wheat or flour markets, as the capacity left is 
enough to grind all the available good wheat. 
The mills will he rebuilt. I^ess than 10 per 
cent, of the total capacity was destroyed. 
Flour stronger. Full returns of cut lumber 
of mills for the season, show 235,000,000 feet; 
stock in yards, 82,000,000 feet. Collections 
satisfactory.St. Louis, Mo.: Provisions 
for cash and immediate delivery are higher 
and hard to obtain. Grain unsettled and 
higher for future delivery. Flour and meal 
unchanged. As to live stock, local buyers 
have offered to sell at a sacrifice.Kan¬ 
sas City, Mo.: Local wheat market weak and 
lower. Com, ditto. Cattle market dull; 
prices unchanged. Hog receipts for week 
ending Tuesday 30, r 66; market quiet with a 
downward tendency. Prices range from 
$5.30@6.10. 
Omaha, Neb,: Open Winter yet. Collections 
much better. Prices of produce and poultry 
have dropped since Thanksgiving, and no 
shipments of the latter are being received 
owing to very low prices. Corn has fallen 
off a few cents, but sells at 45@50c., and 
farmers are generally taking advantage of 
good weather and prices to market their 
crops. The probability of a mild Winter 
tends to lower the price of corn, as not so 
much of it will be needed for feed.San 
Francisco, Cal.: Wheat weak with a falling 
market. Orders for the delivery of wheat 
overland at New Orleans have been received, 
and if this first shipment turns out a success 
much grain and other produce will seek a 
foreign market by that route. 
Baltimore, McL: Cottou trade grown enor¬ 
mously. Storage facilities crowded: a new 
press constantly employed. Inactivity in the 
grain market has restricted exports. Southern 
wheat 1 m 3c. lower and demand moderate. 
Western wheat slow but steady; prices un¬ 
changed. Southern com active; prices steady; 
arrivals liberal. Western com firm, with a 
slight advance in prices. Owners of vessels 
arc firm as regards freight rates, in the belief 
of the early resumption of groin shipments. 
Receipts of potatoes very light; good sorts 
bring $ 1.10@l 20 per bushel, Canned goods 
firm.Norfolk, Va.: Cotton receipts large; 
market firm hut quiet. Peanuts coming in 
freely; prices rule low; quality ordinary. 
Collections fair; weather good....Wil¬ 
mington, N. C.: Weather cooler with occa¬ 
sional rains. Receipts of cotton have in¬ 
creased 2,000 hales. Rice and grain firmer. 
Previsions quiet but steady. Lumber wanted 
at an advance. 
Savannah, Ga.: Merchants seem uneasy at 
reports from the country and do not like to 
risk selling goods there. Cotton is not over¬ 
brisk, but factors are cheerful, selling on a 
basis of like, for middling. Rice market 
dull; demand light.Augusta, Ga.: 
Farmers and store-keepers are holding back 
their cotton expecting au advance in price, 
selling only enough to raise money to pay 
pressing debts. They are buying only such 
goods as they are obliged to have. Jobbers 
are making greater efforts to collect than to 
sell.New Orleans, La.: Cotton in de¬ 
mand and steady. The latest estimates of the 
total cotton crop vary from 5,014,170 to 
5,700,000 bales. Receipts of sugar and mo¬ 
lasses small; demand moderate. Rice quiet.... 
Memphis, Tenn.: Cotton receipts heavy so far 
this month and prices satisfactory to produc¬ 
ers. Provision and produce markets well sup¬ 
plied; demand moderate. Collections fair_ 
_Nashville, Tenn.: No change in quotations 
of grain and flour. General produce market 
steady. Eggs quite active at 29@80c. Collec¬ 
tions good. 
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A Maryland exchange refers to Mr. Thos. 
G. Forw-ard, of Blair, that State, who was 
cured by St. Jacob’s Oil of rheumatism.— 
Rochester, (N. Y.) Sunday Morning Tribune. 
Ado. 
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Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound 
will at all times, and under all circumstances, 
act in harmony with the laws that govern the 
system. Address Mrs. Lydia E. Pink- 
ham, 233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass., for 
circular.— Adv. 
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The Yo nlli’s Companion, 
of Boston, is a sprightly, entertaining paper, 
deservedly popular, and is, without exception, 
the best of its kind published in America. It 
is filled to overflowing with the choicest origi¬ 
nal matter, of so diversified a character that 
it never fails to interest, instruct and amuse, 
and is welcomed in the household by young 
and old alike.— Adv . 
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Don’t Get Die Chills. 
If you are subject to Ague you inusf be sure 
to keep your liver, bowels and kidneys in 
good free condition. When so, you will be 
safe from all attacks. The remedy to use is 
Kidney- VVort, either in dry or liquid form.— 
Adv. 
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A Flue Hair Dressing;. 
Cocoaink dresses the hair perfectly, and is 
also a preparation unequalled for the eradica¬ 
tion of dandruff. 
The superiority of Burnett’s Flavoring 
Extracts consists in their purity and great 
strength.— Adv. 
Vi}c fttjftrkfls. 
Chicago.—Wheat unsettled but generally 
lower, closing firm; No. 2 Chicago Spring, 
$1.28(8)1.28^ cash; $1.28, December; $1.29@ 
1.29>jj, January: 1.30ji, February; No. 3 do. 
at $1.15)^@1.15 % ; rejected, 85(a 90c.; sales No. 
2 Chicago Spring at $ 1.28®l,20ji£, January. 
Corn unsettled, closing Ann at ul%@6l^c., 
cash and December; 61 , January; 
0ii£(gXM%c., February; May; 
sales at 66(^66^©., May; rejected, 59^0. Oats 
strong and higher, especially for cash, at 
46|^'c., cash; 46>g'o., December; 45)£c., Janu¬ 
ary ; 4‘U4 (#44JLe., Feb. Barley easy at. $1.06. 
Flax-seed dull at $1.35<g 1.37. Dressed hogs 
firm at $G.80@7.05. Pork in fair demand but 
lower, at $17, cash and December; $17.10® 
17.12 m, January; $17..32)£®17.85, February; 
$17.55 March. Lard in fair demand but lower 
at $11.05, cash; $11 22^, December; $ll.22>£, 
January- $11.37>$@U.40, February; $11.50® 
$11.52>£, March. Bulk-meats in fair demand 
but lower; shoulders, $6.50; short rib, $8.95; 
