Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1878, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 187¢—TWELVE PAGES. 181ed, the Qovernor of Indis addresred & note to he Home Government on the same snbject. note I8 eccompanied by tables of the prices in silver fn Bomba/ articien both of {mport and export, covering the 73and coming down to February, 3 thesa tablea he observes in respect to ports **that tAs silver prices of ‘mporled qoode in India hare not rigen, and the circnmstance facoruble to wmpori- ria he obecrves that # o not appear o af the **manetary unit comea in #nch An Impene- trable disgnies that probably fetv minds are even repared to entertatn the fdea of anch an alteration nsing occnrred, This ‘The oceupants of rallroad cars of the lcading other, mav be carily mistaken, If t -iandmark to rovern thelr conclnsions, 8 to which car {4 movine. The occupants of each would bo sure that the ofher was In motion if the cars oy ed an slicatly ani insenribly o8 do valacs. If the cnre wece moving on caxt and west lhes, they wonid ne very apt to differ as 10 the process Ly which one bad reacned & point to the eastward 07 the other, and 1t might be true, In fact. con- trary to their concurring oninfons, that hoth had moved to the westward, the one having moved fare ther to the westward than the other, ‘onntlesa generations of men have lived and dled in the unhesitating helie! in the geocentric theoty of the universe and with tho fnliest confi- dence that the sun aiways had ana would always continte to revolve around tho earth onco in overy twenty-four honre. The rame rale appliea to any one single commod- §ty, to the valuc of which the ralne of all other things nre referred, This test by which chanzes in the valne of money are detectes of the incompleteness of statiatics and of the diM- cnlty of aecertaining the preciee weight of all the disturblng circumstances sarrounding the ©exact na the testa by which weighte, measure dintances are determined, 'l of thao valne of all other things, but cannot be the 1te valne §8 determined not by things, bat by the peat to have been nn, d in respect to e “*upon the whale these fa indicate any decrease in the value of miver,* OF the imports at Calcutta the only article which shows a riec of price in apelter (zfnc); to that ar- ticle are added in the llombnx tanies C!‘x‘lr:mu'c filllk "The fall in and coffees from Mocha and Malabar. the prices In imports at hoth cities has been gen- ind in the leading articies it has been great en 1873 and the beginning of 1877, gray shirtings it In 15 pet centat Bombay, and 18 £ cent In Calcutla. and In fron it ia abaut’ donule 1 need scarcely refer to the condition of the iron trade of thie country. forth In the columna of the Philadel of the Iron and Steel Aseoclation of The prices given ars carrency. for ‘the fall In the gold premium, cold prices dueing the year 18 shown. aithough the enormeus rednctions of pricos alrendy reached in 1870 had created a general be- Tiet that they conld not by potaibliity gaany lower. Tho deoression in nearly every industey In this country has been most severe, although ‘{n iron it ay bo exceptionally great. Thna in raphicaliy sct Bhll Bullelin ec, 20, 1877, er ale & redoe. 77 is still 1 not, by reaton Volumes might be 1dences of falling markets and of of the business dieasters since measare of itsell, the price of ong thing or many average price of all things, by the general relations which it bears §n exchanae, 1f the value of all’ other things ix measared by resacd {n the unitsof money throngh Drice, it follows that tho value of money can only be messured b and musg be expreseed In the unlte of property and if n bushel of wheat or 8 yard of #llk or & day's Iabor is worth n dollar, these three hingn only being constdered, the vaine of a dollar would be & bushel of wheat, ‘o yard of ellk, or a 1fa cup measures ‘o qoart of liquid, the quart of liquid determines the ca 1t money mensurcs all things, things _measure the universalit! 1873 Noanswer {s made to these exhibitions of the fa1) of general prices since shallow and deceptive one of selecting here and there some {solated article which may have risen in price daring that period from pecullar caoses, onsome {solated article which may have riaen in hat perfod, ench na swheat , trom the breaking out of the Rasso-Tarklsh war, or the rise in raw silk, which continued for ashort time after the fallure of crops in leading mik-pro ucing conntrles, Few will be deccived by snswers of that wish to be de- Tha broad general fact, that within five ycara the gencral prices of commodities have fallen rice of sliver during the 1 over the market quota- tions of evary part of the world, and 1s known (o everybody In the current experience of Iife, "The inevitable consequences of arise in the valno of money, or inother worls of generally failing_priccs, are stagnation of indusiry, de- creased amount of employment, and shrunken ‘The Inxnries of the rich and the comforts nssce Are at such times Iargely cur. y invtancos cut off but the wage clnsscs, oven whon they carn more than the neods of subsletence, rarelvy Indnige in suporfiuities or extrava; phrposs of zetting ahea 1872-'T1 oxcept the all other things prica during & part of fallen, durlng any piven period, 1t ascertain whether the quantities of allother on the average, offcred In exchange for it Are greater or less atthe commencement and end "This plain rule demonstrates how unrellable 8 mensure gold alone would be of the Men are ro accustomed, howorer, 1o refer the valuo of everything to moncy that they insensibly think and apeak of 1t as if its value wera riable, jst ns they think and_speak of the sun of the carih as Gxed, though on teflection that snch is not the fact. York Public of May 18, 1870, published tlaborate tables of the wholesale prices In New York City of the principal articles ‘of commerce, foreign and domestic, ns the of Mav in various years, and covering all the years Trom 1872 to 1870, botli inclusive, the chilef centro of the import and export trade of the United States, and as communication with {t from nll parts of ‘the country in unsurpassed in thenpnesn and canvenience, the sholesale prices uf any lucality must snbstantially correxpond with V' Anle wellknown, there is & diversity of opinion asto the true mode of deduct- ing the averare of prices from tables uf prices of a e number of articles at any one perfod #o s t tqualize satronnding conditions ann make a satl Inetory compatieon with the average of pricos, b ing regard 1o the articies only numerlcally and nithout taking acconnt of the relative proportions of the ordinary consumption of tho dlfcrent becomes neces | nore than hss the eama period Is written of such period. value uf silver. talled, andin_m altogother, For the In the world they pinch nnd rave and live in the most frugal manacr con. sistent twith health and strength, Hence during & period of mand for the actusl ncccesarles and tho demond for things not roquisition is impaired the most, Changes in the ? f necessaries and luxuries, rospectively, ¢ in correspondence with the changes in the A constantly increasing pro- R of lsbor and vropriated to the actual nccess|- ties of subsiatence, and conscquently the fall in their prices will be the least, gute of wayes will bo largely reducod re will bo no_incentive to the embloy- ment of labor hoyond that aecreasing atnount re. roduce the necessaries of life and to roduce also such & supply of comforts and uxarics as will anflico for the Tow who may still bs able to indulge in them;: tha theso kinds of to being maintained at all. stood on the 1st day niling prices the de- s impalred tha n exigent thoscin New York, e o o ortion of tno aggregato Eapital must bo The method nctually ndopted by the Public was 1o take quantitics of diferent artlcles, Droportion A 10 the relative quantitles produced or purchas- 1 in the conntry, and $o. compare the sgeregate 20+t of such auantitics In differént yer auantitles calcalated being of courso exactl 1ame i ench of the yeura compared. This methoa of deducting an average of prices bas the indorse- ient of recognized anthorites in this country "Che tables furnished by the J usutities of Lreadstufls, cot- roflts “of hoth be reduced conelstent with It 18 enay to percelve that a lony-continued riso 1n the value of money and fali in wenoral prices would destroy all credit, and the resulting sufferings of the people would Gnally drive them to seek rollef fn a direet oxchange of commodities. Tas price of tho raw material which euters into all kinds of manufacture falls in s grea‘er ratio than ao the necessarica of Jif Ciuse the manufacturcd article can be dispensed with, while the coarse food essontial to the ex- Istence of the laborer is indlspcnaable, ‘Tha waga classes lose he eatntngs through a reductlon of thele wa; more enpecially through nusteady smployme: lack of employmant aitogoth pensated by a correapundi; what feeds them. On the of «ers of luxurles as are silll n'a'e 1o commsnd them find » lario offset to the diminution of their in- comen in tha vory great fall In the pricos of what production will thelr 1 how thit tho san be- ugar and wmolasses, New York on May 1, 1872, for 1850, for 86D, This shows & fall in_ the averace pricoof ihe articles named Letween thoae dases were currency pri vremun on gold omed d bont 10 per cent, at both dales, but as the was almost exactly the same at the two dates, the fall {n gotd orices conld not yary much from the fall in cutrency prices, and wai In fuct a little groater, £old was three-eighttis of 1 per cent more in May, 572, than It waa |n 1870, The Londun Evonomis!, commenting, Sept. 23, 18706, on the tablen of the Public, saya: %, £62 wonld g0 as far (n © opinion of miost peaple i ‘This |8 not com- prices of or Liand such consame os the premium on ct to real estato, nothing {s saladle ex. cept what fs actaally snd’ immediately wanted, Touses to the extent that occupants arc ready to ay rent for thom, and stores and warohonses thy restricted and stille diminishing domand, will command a price, al- But with the epirit of enter- prise crushed uut as it Is now, Ly the striking down 11 a blow of one-half of the metall.c currency of the world, by the nbsolute shirinkage In this coun- try of accepted paper currencies, and by the still greater shrinkspo of such currencies relatively to advancing population and commerce, prospective _valuo 3470 s £33 In 1872, And Would go much furthier, 'The London Eeonomfst has never estimated the average decline In the wholerale prices of merchan- dise in England between 1872-'7 and 1870-'77 at Jexs than 20 per cent. ‘The Economtal maintains In respect to Diitish cxporta that the decline in thelr apgregate values {s the accurate mearure of the dechine In thelr prices, * und that no reduction In the tuken together, February, 1877, t The exports pomsess the chsracterlatics wo hava for paat._endeavored 1o hring ont, that the antitios of some of the chiet artl- iing a8 compared with the dimin thin the limits ot thouch a low one. property s ceased all, n forced uantity of exports, "l.llll‘- on the 10th of hulng merely to be regard It is whally -oi 1o tha suction-block sells for little more than the valuv of the paper on which the conveyances of it Unimproved lots in growing cities, undeveloped mines and wator-powers, bulldings for the momeat unoccupied, auricultural jands b- yond the -immedlate demand, are all in this cata. Unless under oxceptionable conditlons, they aro entirely unavalisble as wecurity for Joans, Money ¢ the oxygon of exchange, and when, h s deetuase in quantlty, it s rlsing in v-!xug. 0 hing und atifling tandaryd ubrinks 00, 1RT7S, L1815, us! fall was continued. The tables of the Economis! show that the aver- ace monthly export for 1870 was £10,714, 000, f tron and cool bave fallen very much por_cent, and very much more than 11n the prices of other commodities, 10 Great liritain sinco 1872, 1t appears from these roturns that during 1873 and steel, raw and manu- 07,81 tone, at a total 3, while during tne firat an 1,118, 183 tanm, ot a 4, The export of coals at'n total valua- whilo during the first alx LT 44,853 fone, at & tatal e s 0 during Inet year tye gy commerco and industry vecome asphyxiated., business of the world under the exhausted recclver of ags and shrunkon to gold alono, Savings-bnnks, tinst companies, and Insurance compunies are tumbling Into ruln every day iu all In tho greal wnnjority of cases the real-estulo securiifes, now slnking in valuson thelr hands, wera judiclously welected, Their worigages ara weak, fot becauan thoy wera dlshonostly o unwisely taken, but because pricea have been struck down by lealsintion impusaible to have been forescen a conditlon cxiatinz ed fu the_follow] surance Comnissluner of M on 8 inrse savings =1 e total expors of o perts of thoe country, fuctured, nmnounted to Auluation of £37, 7Y #1X months of I8’ valuation of £9, 70 guarsed againat, overywhera f falthfully describ- 0 of the Bauk and fu. Ileporting Jan, bank in Liangor, Ly ite depositors, he aald} 0 aware that a furced sale of the (me, when do- asa of property, nd Induco e real i market at tie presentand got much bove ona-balt of its sciual valug, Warner, of Onlo, In s collection of ely published, predicts that, if the prices of property wiil ird of tho valuntion uf 1874, and In raferenco to prescnt prices adda: part of the property of the count, o that Tevel, and notaliy tools and nia- ‘Tho fall In read estate {4 bardly groater in citicw whoto it has been the sublect of speculation, or in 1ha nower and more heavily Indebted soctions of Iu 10 the most etald For uxample, the bine-gram whero speculation in lan Tho valuation of £3,7715, 920, 1n order to brivg down this record of falls anid to the latest accessible dates, ollowlng trum an articleon **The vourse of Prices of Commodities® in 1477, to bo found tu the London Zconomist of Jan. b, 18782 1t wan to the end of July, 1877, that we carrled our rd of weekly prices, when Jast wriling upon the Depositara tnut b ana ally T ' gl i vy Gre iz off 1 exc! N ot e papulation a siicnd upon neces| chinery dealgied for Tey lode of U year affor, and comnforts of life. koud ooporiunity for uark th iodities o which the ehief trade of Lngtand cou- "ALHOuRN Uhe a1l In. Drices has becy Jone cone B0 ONe can pretund (0 93y that tho [t &0 end wnd (hat prices musts0on the country, than it wealthy regions, glons In Kentuek; Lewid o recover, "Tiho uverage fall in price of articles, taking them numerlcally und without ceference Lo'their relativa aquantitics, 18 233 ver cent. 1ne gold price of an o Trom 57 Tsd 1o 534, b Tue silver prices, \ named folt 18, 14 per cent, thin comparinon thut covered by the table of the New York Publio und tho articleu selocted for compurison ars some- Botl cumparison, howover, at- test the sume general fact that siiver risen rathier than fullen (n its exchungeabie value, ‘flie only grest country which exhibits any d wree of prosperity v Frunce, whicn muintuins & silver chreulation of 300,000,000, on & vuluation ol stiver equal to 400, inrteud of 41245, graine to the dollar, us proposed in the bill under considera- Aw s proot_and lluastration of this le the fuct, stated by the Moniteur des interets uateriols of Liruercls, ‘the highest s cta, that the total new inv i duytrial undertakiugs, east known, have not the eucral collupse. A recent number of xington (Ky.) Z'resn says that tweaty-live years has iand in low, aud that farms heretofure selliug at from $100 10 6160 yer acra will not now command more than from $40 to 300, city In the Unlon—(rom Gslyveston to Banyor and {rom New York to 8an Fransiaca~we have but vue reporl. Of Han Francisco, where buwi- nces husniwnys from personal kuowledgo, O tho cltles Las ceased tu ben o ull of sale and has very no time In Daring the name time ctiun been o of miver in London fell ug o fall of 7,11 per cont. of tne commoditics riod covered by difiercot from on done on a coin baste, | can speak jo property 1 sl while rgely c Tae columns of the local newspapers are tilled ceclosures of morigaj . More proporty Is being for, than wus ever before known history of this couutr, what iferent. with notlcea of f and of ficed s place In the price of real estate undor the nienacu and approachuf gold pay» mentu lv not conflued to the United States, Wherover the gold standard Lias been or s being estabilubed a sinmilar depreesi ol Thu fall In the wages of Iabor, mea has extended to every part of the Woatern Wurld, and over all flelds of fndastry, eut, a8 always at porlods of stazoatlun. in the great in all carcely an exaggeration to d fn gold, bave 13 Ixourialnly no ch (menta in all Eal includlny railrosde, Wil $215,000, 000 waw And cven In France there are now unmistakuble premonitions of appruachtni stagua- von n trade aud Industry, cavsed, douotiess, wise suvpension for s year snd a half of ‘The invasion of ** hard thnes, " et reacned the uliy met and re by o reiurn without reserve to ita 01d policy of une rertrcted coluage of o %old, 1t has been great. " un::- 4l wince ‘l'” o exaggeration to sy that th receipte of the wage clavecs havo dimiuidhod 10 & uch ruater otent 1f to the full iu wages sre added the losses trom enforced idieness. ployes on thy Bultimore & r, cannot be overthrown ., that tho fail in silver relutively line nuver beou s great a rice uf commodities ex- ! em- Llo lallrosd who com- ast summer did not complaln s imuch of the reduction of thelr robauly would not uave fieew lo rlutous assemblage it their employment had bees constaut.. Tho number of daye fn the wouth the: wure unemploycd was to theus o much uiore gries ‘This reductiou uf empl conined to railroads, but extends trial deparimenl, ‘Flie most devlorable accounts of the conditloy of 1abor In Euglund and Germany reach us constantly. 1u Yerlin revolutionary outbreaks b the bayvuet uud the rge groups uf laborerd are ou thy that catastrophe has thus cn staved o ouly b strainlng the resours of public and private clisrity o the utwost, ——— TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. GaLvestoN, Tex., Feb. 15.—8mall-pox (s rag- log In un epldemic form at Brewond. Nine tenths of the {nhubitants have lelt the place, sud the business houses are all closed, Bostoy, Feb. 15.—Iu the Malus Houws of Represcotatives to-day a bill was reporied to give cqual political rights, irrespective of sex, und grauting women the sight to vote at muni- elpal tlm:l‘l:nll A orateh to The Chicagn Tribi Nel 3. Tus case of Douglas ucific, to test the valldity the couuty for the Uulun waba, bus been dismlssed, the watter buving been satisfuctorily settid. Swecial Disvaich 10 The Chicign 2ribune. Detnoir, Mich., Feb. 15.—Tae Board of Trade to-day accepted wu otfer of purtics to rent for ro, at $1.600 4 year, u lall o the vew six- iy Lo b “viected at the coruer of Jellerson avenue sud Griswold street, been the full in the gola cepl on ube single day, black Frday fu the Londul i the laoguuge of 8 eircu Lundon bulliun excepsionul sale at 4y Iy peneral range of dehrediation Of silver os measored fn golid has bovn uliwut 10 per cent, whereas the guld prices of the sehenm) ruuge of commuoditics has fallen at least 20 the facts cited & to the condi- te cun be overthr #ioa cannot be uvolded that the Ser, Which 18 messured by ita p ciingeable power, lustead of huviy arery conalderable derew rlven within tho fat Bve recent so-catled overy lodus- Vian uf the warl bevn ket ch-loader. of starvetlon, earn ‘Tue conelusion that silver bas not fallen fu valu §4 furtlicr furlificd by the fact, of which the mul: cec declenve, that [ Lndis, contalowug so fudus- trivus povulation of 237, 000, 00, standard, thero hus been u suthicr thuh & rlue: dul the pricee of comm cludlig butn lmyorts and exports, Nor have Dricca Oac 1 eny other portion of Asia. L Luw, & leadig werchant of New York, eogege viba Trade, teatiticd ‘before tife Uulted ietary Lommivion to the fact, which ¢ isc well netabllsbed, tiay since’ 1872-'73 Atiere bun oven o fall in the silver prico of Lew, the priucioal exort of Caina, purtica of that Giue there w price of ruw aitk, ¢ ks lwportunt but skl pot un- 1mparant kricls of vaport from China, Lunever, 18 well knowi W Lave been stiributable k crop of Itaiy aud France. it is true 1hat dur risc in the silver County vs, the of bonds fssucd by 16 tuo fuilure of thy Pacllle brideo st BUL L since then " cices uf the sasne urtic] Aud v the bth vl Febroury, 1o verused it in hopes of finding coiffirmation of his susplcions. Abuat two or thres hours ofter the two men were seen golng tp the guich, Ables called at ‘Wash Dillon's, on the ereck, alone and mounted on Lane's horae. He was returnming to Fine- ville. At Dillon's he partaok of dinner, and during the meal same one sugwested that he to pames and dates, his account | concluslon of Dr. Hughes' evldenco the prose- Yywas correet. Rande read a verse from Tyron's | cutlon announced that thelr cave was closed. #Vision of Judgment,” It was s vorse which After some debate the Court adjourncd unt(i 4 oth 1d half-past 1 o'clock tb-morrow, when Btata's- went to show how ho aod jothers would g0 | Artorney Tannicliff will apen_for the people. hand-in-hand “*in tha place which has somo- | The acfense will take up Monday, and the case times been termed Hell.” will probably go to tho jury that night or Tucs- At this point there was another * bobibery** | day moruing. 2 YENGEANC CUSTOMS FRAUDS, The Livos of Two Murderers Taken Away Yes- Some of Anton Moeller's Transactinn; at the New York Custom- terday. “queased hie would o up Granny's Branch a- | gon “Chde tmoression” was conveyed to the — House, huntivg._ Ables stivered pervcptibly, and fm; | witnces' by laodo's’ conduct, Bradshaw ob- MISCELLANEOUS, Porthaith. 110 crosed the creek, and while an | Jected; and the proveedings went on. coINERS, How the Crookedneas Was Winked at Exccution of John T. Ables, at Carthage, Jasper Coun- ty, Mo. Dr. Rilbourne said Rande's memory was good, Avectal Dixpaten ta TA» Chicage Tribuns, ahd there was no noticeable pecalinrity i his | Apriax, Mich., Feb, 15.~The nrrest of Elmer u_v?ls. x!ll"m Rande Icancd over to the reporters | Dunean, by the Sherift of this county, and the O TIIAT FELLOW'S NONS ory 1N HRLLY | Previous capturo of Lenfleld and Braddock by He Also {nformed your reporter that he referred | tho Bherlff of Hillsdale County, has broken uy to the fifty-third atunza of the “Viston of Judg- | a dangerous gang of coln-connterfeiters. Yes- ment,” which are hera quoted, with comple- | terday a Deputy-Sherlf found threo peefoct mentary stanzas: molds under a sidewalk fronting Lenflell's the boat it was obscrved that he liad two revol- vers, Some time after he triad to dispose of oue of them. ana it was discorered as the mur- dered man, Lane’s, and suspicion now pointed toward Ables ns the murderer. Ables munared to elude arrcet and get mway to the Cherokee Natiun, but he TAB 500N CAPTURED and placed In fail, nud an indictment was found and Alded by the OMelals, Also, How the Operators Wera Tripped Up by the Detoatives, Details of the Crime—Hanging of John W, Beavers, at Mad- L housa tn Hudson Village, and last night the | Interestin Information Fur- ison, Ind. Soaliat hiin In ',’\"g,‘,’m{g‘c“;,‘,";:“{g','_';“,‘:‘,‘l',{‘@f,' Then Batan tarned and waved his swarthy hand, | officers dug un closs to 4 Kencoop &b Dincant nlahgd by Appralser L and in March, 1933, the trial began in the Jmm' Which stirred with Its electrio qualities abscure cabin in the countryall the nccess Y County Cireait Court; verdiet, wuilty; scu- Clauds fariher off than we can nn ;-hnd- molds and materials for voining halves Ham., Tenth D f the Trial of Rande > b 2 Althongh we find them sometimes in our skies; | quartors. Thelr counterfeits were composed en ay of the Trial of Rande, | tence, hanging. Infernsl thunder shook both ses and land at Galesburg, 1l A stay of proceedings by tho Supreme Court | “Inall tne pianete, and hail's batterien Seblocklin) Wi an nlusion of gless, gl wers Soectat Disvatch ta Tha Chicage Tribune, T et adas 10 10y the Btafes uthorities, Duncan will bo tried hero | Mocller, o Mocller & Co., Custom-fonso L1, under Stato Iaws on the 21st, brokers, is tho subject of oxciting interest D“‘;"" l""‘“ Know a :‘lll“'ks from a :“'”ér“‘l';g’":;‘fl;{"';"":fi“:“}gfis}’:;l‘l“:‘ilmfflg This wan & tignal anto ich damned sonle. roretor EILLED Wit & ovun, among _ihu trequenters of the Custom-House, andsaw Prononnce liim Sane. sentence of hanginig was suspcndod over Ablea’ | gRenicd far heyond the mero controls ar, oois, kob, 1o A heere, namod Harry | 81d the questlon, * Whero will tio blow next head, The Supreme Court granted o respite uutil the 33th of December, for the purpose of hearing the appeal, which eventuated [n con- firmatfon of the seutence on the 20th of Decem- ber, Gov. I‘hnl})l respited tho ‘doomed man until the 18th of January. ‘The trial caused much comment and notorlety fo the State, and the prisoner’s attorneys were able, assiduous, and energetic in bis cause, 1lis lswyers ot the first trial were James . Hardin, McPherson, Robinson, and Haughawoiit; at the second, Robinson, Haughawont, and W. H. Phelps, The prosccution was conducted in the first trial by State’s-Attornoy Thomas ahd B. T. Uarrison, and {n the second irial by Prosceuting- Attorney Speucer and A, J. Harblson. Both trials have cost the State nearly 82,600, Ables was a man verging towards 00, with a stolid, expressionlesa face and figure. Durlug the long period of his confinement he preserved a perfect fmpassibilivy, and evinced no concern as to the fssue of his trial. IE PERSISTED 1N 1113 INNOCENCE, and asserted that, were the opportunity only eiven bim, e could still prove it to the world, He never attemnpted to escape, even when hav- ing a chance, and performed the duties of jan. {tor at the Inll for the past two years. Ilo pre- tended to no education, affecting, until after lis lust trial, toan inabliity to cither read or write, It 1s evident that he did not fully con- flde all to his attornoys, for nothing of tho facts implicating the murdered man with tho faithless wilc was brougnt before the jury. Ables' father is still living and restding In D ubols County, Indiaon. His wife fs liviug in Arkansas, with one of his children, and ove of the men with whom she cloped. BEAVERS. CAPITAL PONISIMENT VISITED UPON MM, Mavisoy, Tud, Feb. 16 —The exccutign of John W. Beavers took place hero to-day. This mornlog the condemned man took o lit- tle ap, but rested very unecasily. On wakiog up, he shaved and partook of avery hearty breakfast, and secmed fn good spirits. The Jall and Cuurt-ITouse yards sro guarded by thirty deputics armed with muskets, Largo crowds began to gather carly this morning. Beavera’ spiritual adviscrs and a number of ladies held a prayer-meeting fn his cell this morning, commencing at 8 and continuing #ill 11. He tovk a short nap at b this moraing, and on awakening heknelt In prayer with the baillf and barber, who shaved him. 1E WAS LROUGUT TO THE SCAPPOLD ot 11:55. Beavers did not say a word, but tooved lus 1ps while the minister wus praying in his behalt. Just as the clock had struck three thnes out of 12, he was swinglog between heaven and earth, e died without o struggle. At 12:13 the doctors pronounced him dead, The fall broke his neck. ‘Thousands of people were aroung the Court- Huuse and jail, on the housctops aud in trees, but could not sce anything, as he was huog in- sldc of o constructed Iuclosurd. Beavers wade A PULL CONPESSION of hin guilt to an old army comrade fome weeks ngo, which was made public after his exceution to-day. o concelved the Ilea of murdering Sewell about a year ago, and Induced him to meet him at North Verpon under the proteuse of buying a farm in Boutbern Indlana, The murder was committed fn a small chureh four~ tecn milcs from Madison, in the country, where Beavers and 8ewell entered during the night. The latter tell aslecp, when Beavers struck htm ijhf billett of wood, killfug him instantly. ¢ then Dresent, or to come; no station Is theirs pari lr|{’ln the rolls Of hell assigned: but where thelr inclination Of business carries them in search of pame They may 1ange freely, being damned the same. strikei" fs frequently beard. The facts to bo developed upon the trial promise to be rich, and will show how cleverly rascality {s con- ducted fn tho very portals of the Govern- ment boilding. For withont the aid of the employes of the Government, Moaller could not have succeeded in his frauds. A proper Inspectlon and appralsement would have brought. to light the kid eloves and “silk umbrollas which Moeller entered aa glass, and would hiava resulted in the broker's arrest and mprisonment. But he found his aids among the customs offlcers, and has for years been defrauding Government and importers with singular impartiality, §am as. sured by one who has scen it that the corrg. spondence, which is In German, 18 quite free and unreserved in surgestions of how beat to suce ceed in the fraudnlent practices. In ono letter Moeller acolas tho Vienna Benedict for being so clumsy ln shipping the goods. Thus lho saya: **I have told you distinctly you should class A. M. O. 415 together with 0 to 447 as glassware, and now you send certified fnvolce for these cight cases with elzht others and lcave out 415 altogether, [ ennunt understand you. Firat, you ould have A. M, C. 416 as glasswaro on ‘the same lnvolce; and, sccond, they should ail have mark,” which the rascal gives with great particularity. o saysthe umbrellas andgloves should be shipped na glassware, the cases numberced conaccutively, and then no certified invoica shouli be sent, Certlfled Involces were troublesome, and ho found no diflicuity fn explalning the sbsence of acertified Involce to the complacent customs Qwens, residing in an_alioy in the vicinity g% the Four Courts, died at an_early hour this morning from the elfects of a blow with a club given him by another negro named Jerry Pope last Bunday night. Owens was in.tho act of making an finproper proposition to Pope's wife, & white woman, when Pope scized a big bllict of wood and struck him on the head with it. Heseomed to recover after a while, but took sick agala and died this morning of con- cussion of the brain, Pope is under arrcst on the charge of murder, FORGEIL CAUQHT. Mesris, Tenn., Feb, 15.-Samuel Adler, ins J. Koch, wlio was arrested here yesterday for attempting lo swindle scveral merchants by means of forged bills of lading, ia also wanted in New Orleans snd Chieago for similar t actions, An olficer has left New Orleans witha Of worlds rl c Demonstrations of His Diabolical Deprav- {ty—0lose of the Proseoution, LIV. They are prond of thla—as well they mav, 1t being n sort of knighthood, or gilt key Stuck 1n thelr lvine. & b key, Mng from helow the of ARSI PR, b o Mit, BRADBIIAYW OROSS-SXAMINED AS TO_FACTS, the witness' testimony a8 to belief In Rande's sanity being reserved. Dr, Kilbourne sald that e pald 25 conta for the photograph, and that Rande did not know in what, capacity the wit- uess went there, On some polnts Rande was not communicative, The witnezs had sufliciont conversation with him to form a clear impres- sion a8 to the stato of his mind. He told the srholo story of his life, and gave the dates of hils marriages and other events, The other cxperts then left thd room, aod the prosccution bexan the examination of Dr. Kilbourne as to his opinlon of Rande’s sanity, ‘The witness claimed to bo an expert, and com- me to judge of o man's sanity. e had lenrd the testimony of prisoner's relatives, and other witnesses for the defense. From tho tes- thinony, from the actlons of Rande, and from what “the witncss saw and heard of him, the witness could say that Randc was sane. Mr. McKenzlo—You can take the witness, Mr. Bradshaw cross-examined. Tho witness had heand notilng in the evidence for tho de- rcn?c o warrant any suspiclon of Rande's in- sanity. ¢ Ste. Bradshaw wanted to know 1t bls fnco- lierence, his wild oyes, and his murder of the hen went for nothing, B The witness replied that they did not prove insanity, nnd pretty clearly expressed his opin- fon that the witnesses iled, Mr. Stubbs protested. The witness, as an exvert, must believe all the testimony, and ar- uo from it as I It were true, howoyer he might doubt it. TIIE COURT INSTRUCTED THE WITNESY that he must tako {nto consideration all the cvidence, direct and cross-cxamination, Iu reply to Mr. Bradshayw, tho witness sald ho recolved his patients qn the strangth of orders from n competent Court. 'When it came to dlscharglug them, he passed on the question of their sanity; when they were admitted, he did not. The fact that a man who had been brought up regulnrly and attended Suoday-school and h become at onco desperately viclous and monstrously wicked {mmedintely after tho death of his wife, would not neces- sarlly bo evidence of insanity., Buch a foct might create a susplclon, eapecially if there had been fnsanity In the family, ~ Incoherence, wiliness of the eyes, and incapacity for con. 1=nulmru conversation would creato a susple clon. : Mr. Bradshaw asked if tho witness know that onc ot the prisoner's ancestors hud been in an asylum, or bad been insane for twelve ycars, und died 1osane,—would that Increase tho sus- plclon, taken In conjunction with the other evie dence, and with what he saw1 My poodness! ™ {nterpolated Mr, McKenzie, 13 there avy susplcion that this man’s uncle was ouu of his ancestora (™ i TIIB BROUOHT DOWN TIR HOUSE, and knocked the wind out of Bradshaw, He nmr(«l bravaly, though, and tried hard to get Dr, Kilbourne to give bis judgment on isolated facts,—If the atatements made by tho family n bo considered in tho” light of facts, The witness refused to walk into the trap, and _ persiated in explaining his onswers, He didn’t betleve that Raude’s olleged abrupt change from & good, re- lglous, peaceable citizen to a thief, burglar, 5“11 murderer riubewdcmin n'.lh humhnuyi and lu; n't apparently belicve in the abruptness of | s ey Whate St S ) L owarticn, Ky, B 162, Moy was u settiod rulv laid down by Maudsley an “tho eat nuthiors ¥ that sane men did nyt | ferent eases of forgorles by the Grand Jury. boust of having commitied great crimes. [t might be so s a gencral rule, but the witness STATE ATFFAIRS. d uot know that a slngle author had mode ABLES. IS SUDDEN DEATI YRSTRRDAX. Special Dispaie) tn The Chicaga Tribune, CARTIIAGE, Mo., Feb. 15.—John T. Ables was hanged hero this afternoon at twenty minutes past 2. The crowd from the surroundlog country began to arrive at an carly hour, and, before the hour of exccution arrived, a motley mass of humanity surrounded the Jail butlding. At seven minutes past 3 the Bhierlff caused the office to be vacated, Ables' fricods remaining to say good-by, and at vine minutes past 2 the prlsoner was brought from the jall supported by Bhoriff Beamer and Deputy Grubb, sod walked with a firm step to the gallows. Before being led to thic scaffold, Ablea sald to those around him that ho was Just as sure of golng to Heaven as thut hio was about to dle. IIe asked that there should be NO RXERCISES ON THE BCAFFOLD except the legal forms, and that these should beas short as possible. He also oxpressed re- spect for oll the officers who lad had his In charge, ond requested that his body should be taken carc of and burled beside that of Jim Harding. He sald tbat If he had hid the money ho could havo been saved. He bad bad chances to run, but he did not avall himsclf of them, and_would not do so If an opportunity was offered right then. He stated that bo JAD DEEN NAISED AS A GENTLEMAN, and that his father was on _upright man, and that, if he could unly sco his fatber and Lis little_boy, he would be all right. Ho stated that W, 11, McCown gou 875 sent him by his father, that a man named Wordmansee saw himn take it from the letter on tlle o the Sherifls office which contained it. Having thus deliv- ered lamself of all he wished to say, his arms were plnloned with o hempen cwrd, he was scated on the scaffold, and the Bherllf procceded to read the death- warrant, which occupicd elght mioutes, Oun be- fng asked by the Sherif it e swished to mako any remarks, be replied: * No, sir.? He was then placed on tho fatal trap, aud Sherlfl Beam- er in pesson procceded to pinion hislimbs, Ables Temarkine thnt ho might just o8 well bo leb down with them free. At twenty minutes past2 TR BLACK CA¥ was drawn over his head, and the ropo placed about bis neck, and the iatal trap drawn. ils neck was broken by the fall, the victim not making 8 strugeld, there beinz acarcely a tromor after the full.” The first hall minute his ulso was at the rate of 124 beats per minuto; n une and a balf migutes the pulse begun to intermit; at two and o half mintutes sixty beats were counted; at four minutes only occasional vulsations were perceptible. The pulse in- creased to sixty at seven miuutes, and then res cedod, the Inst traco beiug felt dt ten minutes after the fall, and, in half a minute after tnls, woa FRONOUNCED DNAD by Physicians Brooks aud Matthewe. The body was cit down at 2:80 p. m.and placed f o pluin black-walnut cotlin, The medieal oxamination showed that the neck had been dislocated. ‘The dead man will be burfed by the authorities. Everything passed off in order, JOIIN ADLES bad resided {u the westorn part of the county for several years, His reputatton was guod, and he pussed his thne in monaging his farus, the proceeds of which, after all his toll an troubie, varcly furnished him with more than a muderate subsistence. Yet the even tenor of his davs might hove ghided down lnto the vale of age,—~be was then 65,—but ho was unfor- tunately wmarried to o wife who was much requisition for him for lor:cr{. In his trunk were found the stamp of the Honston & Texas Central Rollway Company, . Mackey, ngent, Fertls, Texas, and a lotof blanks. = Hia dence_is Chieago, but he formerly figurcd in New York a8 o lawyor, AN OFPICER KILLED, 3 8r. Louis, Mo., Feb. 15.—An officer named Coflman was killed lnst night at Cedar City, Mo., while trying to quell a disturbance at'a tall, Ho had "arrested Willlam Ollver, and was attacked by Henry Oliver, a cousin of thicpris- oner, and his pistol taken away. Coffman ran into n saloon and leancd against tho door. Henry Oliver followed and fired through tho door, killing Coftman instantly, the ball pene- trating the heart, . A MISCALOULATION, 8t. Louts, Feb. 16.—A special from Macon, Mo., m{uru a fatal affray in the Western por- tion of Macon County., Wiillam Abbott and Jobm B, Merrill, brothors-in-law, had o dispute overa plece of land on srhich Mernll lived, and from which ha refused to muve at Abbott's re- uest. Abbott ralsed s shotzun and struck Merrill with the breeeh, The sliock caused the {mn to go off, and Abbott recelved the load in us side, cansing instant denth. soectat Dieoaich 17 Tne ghi b jat Disvatc! e Chicag une, AT e, e ottt Tocal editor of the Daily News, was fired upon last cvening on Broadway by somo person scereted {n an alley which he had to pass in golog home. ‘The ball made a acalp wound au inch and a half 1n length, and cauzed concusslon of the brain, but the young man !s not seriously hurt. iis assailant esenped, and no clue to his {dontity has been obtalnod, . A FOOLISTI GiRL. Spectal Disvateh 1o The Chicaan Triduna, QnAND RAPIDS, Mich,, Feb. 15.—An old man named Kunnm:{ arrived in this city to-day, searching for a daughter, nged 14, who, ho de- clared, had eloped with o marricd man named Herbert Murray, from Sparta Centre, on Wednesdoy last, They stered at tho botel under the nama of Georgo Luther and wife, and left the city at 6 o'clock to-uight. FORGED CHECKS. New Yong, Feb. 15.—Forged checks to the amount of $14,000 have been discovered on the Corn Exchange Bank, and checks agoregatiog ,000 on tuo Firat Notlonal and Chase Na- tloual Banks. Tle criminal, who has dlsap- peared, was the clerk of a depositor in tho first- nnwed bouk. officers. It secma that this cnse was worked up at Chi- cago by B. If, liinds, 8pecial Agent at yaur Custom-tionse, and the matter was kept pur- scly from the officera of the New York Cus. om-£{ouse until it was thought safe to make romo of the facts known. There was & good deal of delay alter the matter was put into the hands of Bpeclal-Azcut Curtls, and It was to ush forward the work and get more authorit; hat Collector Bmith, of Chicago, went to Wasfi- In{zlon to confer with Stcretary Sherman. The wliole correspondence was conducted botwcen the oflicers at Chicago and the officers at Wasli- fnuton. Chlet Tingle Envu the matter his per. sonal attentfon, and he hes done well, The aim of tho offlcials now 1s to catch the men luside who wero alding Mueller. Thero looks now as it nu.:lmn of tho rascals would get thelr just re- Wi INTERVIEW WITIZ APPRAISER JTAM, A Tmwnuxs reporter called upon Appralser Hain to fearn lus views r?:nnllng the alleged customs frauds, when the following information was gleaned: Reporter—~Have you read the New York dis- Ynnn, published in this morniog’s TRIBUNE, de- ailing the clreumstances of the arrost of ono Anton Mocller, 8 Custom-House broker of that city Mr, Ham—Yes, Reporter—The fnformation upon which the arrest was mado Is stated to have been given by ane Hernhard Benedict, of thia city. Do you know anything about tho casei Mr. Ham—Yes, Tho caso originated here. Benedlet did businesa bera untll ashort time ago under the flrin namo of Benedict Bros, In July last ho entercd threo cases roods from Humburz,—one _casa kid gloves and tiwo cases Boliemlan glassware. A casunl examination of both the gloves and the Eluuwurn showed an evident undervaluation In oth cases. Upon this discovery belng made, [ {nstituted a critical investigation, calling to my ald al} the expert information “I'cruld obtaln among merchants familiar with tho two classes of goods, Theresult was, I advanced the gloves B0 por cent and the plasawaro 10 per cent. At the re(‘uun of Beoedict, merchaut apprafsers were called to review wy action, They roduced tho sdvance made by me sightly, olacing it at 40 per cent on the gloves and at about 13 per cent on tho glussware, In the cou of tho investization I examined cdlct under oath, as the regulations TWO TRARS, 8r. Louid, Mo., Feb, 15,—Peter Meyers, an insolvent banker of Carthage, Mo., was tried ot Neosho yesterday and convicted of felony inthe manageinent of husiness, and sentenced to two vears [n tho Penitentlary, TO DE HANGED, Monnistown, N. J., Feb. 15.—Calvin Stowart hns been sentenced to be hanged April 8, for fl"’ murder of Ira Cole, a rallroad flreman, at over, TOO GOOD A WRITER. SET PIAR TO THE CHURCN, hoplng to destrov all evidence of hia crime, Lut tho fire was dlscovered and suu out. e stated that his only object iu murd permitted mo to do. He answored all ques- youngar,—g n‘acllflnltng‘mbuxflu. vllm‘n.lohltlm,e TAkE R e oriog Sowell wus to 1t g0, WISCONSIN. tions frankly, admitting that the 0l et -hlc"l'x{::h ru:\ru; ll:."lzlllllhz‘!l;l.t lcx:"lh‘:a n'flpu‘:ru.l The witucss wanted to say that practicing Svecral Disvateh to The Chicago Tridune, consigned to bim by a relative, I belleve ‘s , phyalelans, n deating with the lusane, did not MaDIsoN, Wis., Feb, 16.—Both Houscs, after act uuder arbitrury bouk-rules, but excrclsed | oo 5oy L i ) gard ys' work, in four of which they have held :lvll\::”:l‘.‘umnm thioy SaNWIth re totadus evonlog sceslons, have adjourned till Monday DBHADSUAW GOT MAD, cvenlug, and most everybody has gone home to o "lmow ynlu are u m‘fin; m:q‘ll.lbut I don't | gpend Bunday. D i o iunnraee fhe o Court trled | In the Assembly a resolution approving the Bradshaw, McKenzieput fn oceasionally with | 8ction of Wisconsin'a Representatives in Wash- a sarcastio romark which would scarify the | fngton involing for tho Matthewa silver resolu- € [¢ RANDE, A PRELIMINARY INCIDENT. Horctal Dispatch ta The Chicago Trhune. Gavrsiusa, I, Feb, 15.—A cholco assort- ment of scoundrelism flled lutocourt this morn- 1ng under charge of the Sherifl's deputles and the city potice. 'This delegation were granted rood seats right in front, near the Judge, for they had a Jittle pressing matter of busiuess to attend to, Certeln (irsod Jurors hed found agulnst these men certaln lndictments, to whizh they were required to plead, They were o hard 1ot to luok at, and the Slerifl's officers say that the County Jail has never held such a bad gang at any time as it shelters at present, An hour or a0 was occupled over this basiness, and jt was 10 o’clock before Raude was brought in and TUE TENTI DAY'S PROCEEDINGS OPENED. As usual, the court-room was crowded nearly oll day, The gallery has been given up to tho ladics, who, though they rertainlv cannot hear brother, and that they wors not Involced at thelr market value, claiming, however, that the ln- voleo price represented the actual cost of tho goods to the maoufacturer, To use a detect- ive'a term, Yie ** ravo himself away " conplete- 1y; but bo did not appear to reallze that be was, on his own confession, qullty of a violation of the law, I becamne convinced that Benedict was comparatively fanocent la Ingent} that he was only. s bhalf-rorue, From my office tho case went to tho Col- lector’s office, where tho merchants’ ugnrummunt referred to was had, with the result alrcady mentioned, Tne gumf- were selzed and the penalty of 20 per cent linposed. Benedict pald the penalty and cleared the woods. Meantime Mr, Hiuds, the Special Treas- ury Agent referrod to In your New York dis- atch, had lataly been stutioned at this port. 'ho affale was brought to hls notice, and, through tho aid of fipectnbl)cpuu-(:ailmnr tlitt, ha was piaced in communication with Bonedlct. He talked a8 fraukly to Mr. Hinds a8 he hod testiicd before me, and finale lv placed In the hands of tue Bpecial Agent o mass of evidence fully implicat- direction. 2 FRAILTY, THY NAME 1§ WOMAN, and Mrs. Ables was only another lustance of this old saw, Indeed, it appears that she lav- fshed her affections with an unsparing hand upon the sterner sex,and transferred thewm from una parnour to auother with a ¢ lightuess of heart” that, at lesst, indlcated her lucapebility of feellug the unseltish devotion snd deoply- cherlshing love of o wife. Men marked her ways, and many were tho comments thero anen and only one sccmed —unaware of her frailty., * Love," they say, *is and her hustand, the more he w sgulnst, only yielded mors and mors to his in- tatuution, and nover dreamed that that heart whereon b bad pillowed his bead could betray ita trust, He belicved the sky to ve sercne, unil did not dreain of storni, but passad bis life in placld calm. Suddenly, as Il atruck bv a thunderbolt, bis wile stood revealed to him, and 1t was lier act aloue that caused the scales to tall from his eyes, The community around were a‘artled by the news that Mrs, Ablcs had Fldermll of anythiog lesas thick-skinued than a | tion was adopted, 47 to 41. - overnment mulo, but Bradshaw went on like | _ Bills passed amending the lnw creating the Tennyson's * Brook.” Men came, und men Munlcl‘vnl Court of Cbippewa Falls; smending went, the girls in the gallery rutiled out thelr | a0 act for tholmprovement of Embarrass River{ foathers and utilized thelr upern-glssscs, but | and providing for a more efiicient government Bradsliaw nover weakeued, fe wanted to | of the llouglul tor the Insane, know, you know, worse than the felluw who iu the Senate a bill was Introduced bya stirred up the clreumlocution office and dis- | Joint Committea appropriating $10,00 for tha turbed tho rest of the Tite Barnacle family, ond | enlargement of the north wing of the Capltol he was bound to get the answers tho way he | building, for the accommodation uf thoBupreme wanted th Court and library. . But Dr. Kilbourne would not acknowledgo | The Assembly sliver rosolutions were mados that Haude's shipping express packsges to olt | apectal order for next Wednesday, oiuts of the compass were evidences of Insan- |~ Resolutions prssed memorlalizing Congress ty. *Take it In the concrete,” platutively im- | for postal savings banks. piored the Irrepressible one, * would it not thew d il ELOPED WITH A MR. DODARON, one word of the testimony, enjoy the inestiina- | be evidencel” 'The Doctor thought nut, and so MINNESOTA. . ing the New York broker Moelter lu an orieuns but, with & shrug of tho shoulders, they intl- | ble blessings of scelng snd being acen, They | the weary story went on, Special Dispatch ta The CAleago Tribune, {z¢d mystem of robbing the revenuc. With tho mated it was ooly what could be expected from come early, and they come to stay, determined to get the full wortls of thelr monsy out of the show. Galesburg Post of the (1, A, R. uses the Opers-House In the evenings for the perform- anceof & regular old-time blood-and-thunder Battle-of-8hiloh kind of a drams, and thesoldier At nov the Court adjourncd, tho probablil 3 Mton, . 18, —" ¢ fl.\rn. ;-‘.::n:x: t.‘l:'al‘f) w“{’ L}l‘ .‘fm“' “’J“ wiuationof | 4 5111‘1 r‘:&zmz "l‘:l‘:n'ufif o!1 urulan';sntgmung:fi% Ay 0f Jusmnen charges it not scnt thereon criminal accusationa; datalls of the {uvestizgation carrled on by Mr. , Mr, Collector 8mith sud Mr, Deputy- Collector Hitt ars more familiar thau am. Itissutliclent for me to say that it has taken hlu slx months to bring the affair to a head, which statement of fsct may convey to the public some impreasion, of the” mainltude her, But une strouy man's heurt was plerced with o dugger by this news, and now Lor the first time did the betrayed husband seo his wifa s others saw her, Not only the man with whom atie had eloped, but the dark suspicluns und convietlons of ber futidelity with other men, cursed his agonized soul. AFTEUNOO] Dr. Kilbourne touk the stand acain atthe | alsoa bill indorsing o proposed compilation of afternoon sesslor, Uradshow resumiug the | the statutes. ¢ wxaniuation, Tho ravages which tho wite The ITouse spent the forenoon on the Beott % n nade in thu defense’s insanity dodge were of tho task of reforming the New York Custom- 1iis griet, however, was hls own, boys have draped the galleries with old battie- 1 ting. He polnted out th County Seat Removal bill, sud the afternoon = wardly uis stolid nature displayed it statned flags, Owlug to the complaints mado :."!:":,.’.,‘:‘l’,fl"‘.-.,.}‘ ‘.fom :1?:,“;?“.1331 .ylin;‘mfl’z on the 8chool Text-Book blll, Test votes on the Heusy mluuLm*—— 4 leretofore unsitspecting nature ors suddenly than the chumeleon's ubtlety wore than Machiavelllap, e disposcd “of his farm, and made prevarations for the pursuit of his faithlcss wife and her be- trayer, But hie resolved, in the inuermost ceascs of his soul, that he would be torgettiug the cry, ** Veogeancs Is in the Lurd; and, if he could not wreak his geance on the gullty pair, ou tho destroyers of Lis conjugal felicity, st all hazarde, bis’ wrath stiould fall. Ablen remernbored with demontue glee, now tnat as o clalrvoyant he could read the post In its true light, that . ONB JOUN LANE lmlll been one of Lis wife's wmost ardent ad- mirers. Dissembling his purpose, he pronosed to this sune Jubn Lano that heshould ald him iu ll:rlulm: thy runaways, sgrecing to hire bim, ue fell readlly into the tmyfi. and so the avenger and his “victim departed to follow up the tralt, Lauc was owoer of horse, aud, as this was the unly auimal they had, one would walk and the other ride ulternately. 'They were Jeach arined with & revolver, earried (o & belt. "They reavhed Pineville, the county-seat of Me- Douald County; thence traveled to the porthe eastern part of tha county, about seven miles by the citizens and through ‘Tz TRIBUNE, ADDITIONAL GUARDY ‘have been sceured for the noted prisoner. The city authorities, becoming alarmed at the num- ber of tramps and susplelous charactors in town, have added six men temporarily to the police foree, and are keeping a strict watch on the suspected Individuale, 1f there should he any trauble In court, ur elsewher, it is likely to go very hard with the visitors who have no visivle wcans of support, Ti18 MORNING the prisoner came {nto court with efght attend- anf nd Deputy Bberiff Blood has determined that It shall not be his fault if the guard is not strong euough aud watchful enough to deal with any emergoncy which may arise, ‘Ihe drst guu of the dsy was fircd by Brad- shaw. That lrrepressiblu individual wanted the mcdical uxperts put In separato cages, ‘The Court said it was not the practice to sep- arate experts, State's Attorney Tuunicl(f ex- plained that one of the doctors had visited Rande fn the fail, and it was necessary that the sume or all of which always sccompany mauia | latter showed a good working majority for tho of uuy kiud, Thers wus uo insanlty in the fam- | Merrill contruct, ily excent in the case of the uncle, ~ The prison- ‘The Houso Judiclary Committee will'report of bud shown no tendency to insomula or | ita conciusions on the Page impeachmunt peti- epllepsy, and his hatred of police ofiicers was | tions next Tucsday, Twenty days will by re- only to be considered as ong of the natural de; | quired for trauscribing and printing cvidence yelopmcuts of a depraved and vicious character, | taked, so that, should Impeachment oo ordured, hY which is not probable, an extra sesslou of the mony, carcfully weighed, and a personal | Seuato would have to be had, observation of Rande the witness bolieved hitnsane, killing bevns and sinashlog crockery LOUISIANA, to the L«uumr noiw“h ul:dlll:llb 'l'hlhwum:u NEWw OnrEANS, La,, Feb, 15.—Quito an excit- was not avery irm believer nthe moralinasnity | g congest §s woing on In the Loulsios Legls- doctring, and; in conclusion, sssured the Cou " and jury that e cume to ‘the examination en- | Jaturabetwoen the extremistaand Conservatives. tirely unprojudiced, and desirous ouly of estab- | The Extremists demand s Comstitutional Con- Mabing facts and tefllnu' thetruth. Theevidence | vention, but a large Couscrvative majority pro- of Dr. Kilbourne created a profound lmpression, | pase smendments to the Coustitution covering and was Jooked upon as settling the insanity | the reform questions and avoiding race lssues, dodge beyond s peradventure. Buveral of the proposed smenduients hayo been CUARLES A, HUGIIES, adopted, and it {8 expected others will Cure a former Supcrintendent of the State Lunatic | ried to-morrow, Asylum at 8¢, Louis, listened for balt an hour while the Stute's-Attorney read a question of UTAIL, Imuicuse leagth, recapitulating all the evidence Bavr Laxm Ciry, Utah, Feb. 18.—The Legis- glyen vy thy famlly of the prisoucr, and do- wanding to kuow whether, lu;‘n’ wing ul thesa lative Comulttoeto whom was referred tho be true, the M B! cg | recommendation ‘In the Governor's message y. sey Bty comtifulaliuny evidence "““F legislation againat pol,vglm{‘ report og THE WEATHER, Orrics or Tum Cuise BioNar Orrioem, Wasuinarox, D, C., Feb, 15—1 g, m,—Indica- tions—For the Upper Lake Heglon, Upper Mis- elsulppl and Lower Missourl Valleys, partly cloudy weather, with arcas of light rain or suow, warm soutberly winds, falllog barometer, fu:lnw&d by rlalug barometer, aud colder northe erly wi the TOOAL ORSERYATIONS. 110400, Feb. 18. Time, _{Bar, [P | Wind. | Val.| Rn,, Weaiher oudy. 0 |Fuir, vle 0 Fair. HIA3 3, BBAL UBSBAYATIONS, Cu0400, Feb. is-Mldoght, Railons, | Bur, | Thre ) IVind, Pombina .. o3| a1 1 2 things of jusa a1 23 an ‘;fl, S:ll.:ll-l Exf:.“hud It‘t‘xl: ufixtfiztr,{ufierxct:pwl:;l' &n;x othier experty should near bis testimony on thia ‘.vf.'n“’ deleuse objected to the question without fxl[lh‘]fl; % dhl::upgly x::lu{el.l I:L‘l‘.?ll:: S ubv’c:ll’: 2 L ) ) - covered with thnoer, Bettlers there wers luws X:::!I.ul'rhefi u::: Jobe::;ru ‘:‘l“l?-w mn:::- ‘fho witness replied that, taking all the polots | not leglsl gaiaet religious bellefs and prac- a )lul:u‘l‘ml W slinost 8 solitude, and weemed u ] ¥ - ihod (o + | given i the hypothictical uueation as true, ko | tioes 2 ty fitted for the perpetration of Au sgveement was reached by counsel—Brad- | would not belicve they indlcated lussuity on the o The bouks ot I:n‘u ;::u: "J:‘ Lk were resched :hh:' iyt Bl;"bl: :Inlfllb“ ot ey {'K"J’fln‘féfie"r’?f‘.‘fi'&" l[fi:l;.mul?'n y%‘:“;‘:‘ifi‘ Naw Y T gwuéflyg wd e fi i 2 &, o t the doctors shoul owed to hear ur, | JUEB ! Sucll § Derson was fns =W Yo! ‘eb. 15.—Tlo Star an ferald, b Cree vate ver, we 4 7 . x f W. ¥. Watkins, of Covington, Ky, The by creek. ‘The waters, bowever, Were 89 bigh aud LR. B. 4, KILEQURNE, visuul forulshed the ouly imethod by which | 26 O h # daugerous that Ferguson refused. The wan- Medical Buperiutendent of the Northern | puysicisus could distinguish betweou depravity | Interment took place in the forelgn cemctery, Fril derers could flud o furd, so they were o'en | Hospitsl for the Insase at Elgin, wav ‘l"‘ n:?m!J nn‘:l depravity uvimued by lbm:;m'lv. snd the rcmalus were followed to the grave by ‘sculianitics of mauuer or 1ifo gave uo basis for . Wi Rl A iiaual st 1 St ateesc | SLiipstblaing. coulévanin, L.‘f,;.“z::'flfl'r. a1 of evideuco of discase, s lecturcr. Howasa memberof the Callforula ECCENTHIOITY AND INDIVIDUALITY WEER NOT L‘A"“'““"’ In 1550, T, INaANITY, Louts, Ma., Feb, 18.~The Hou, G. W. because they had not diseaso for their basis, | Jouzn, fathel alscase of tuo bratu of oer orzuns belug re- 15|°.‘l.‘§5‘u'[‘;lluil‘l:\l;0(‘.'£|‘|‘:l: '::X‘:':;‘::J-‘::-fiu':fifg ferved to. Tho crosé-examinstion resulted very o : at logal Turuinary ;':‘l.. llulrl‘flt;_\-m, dicd at bis howe {o Jeifersou City cotitent to rest that uight, By 10 o'clock nexy moruiug the waters bad so fur fallen that they «ould continue their narch, They crossed the creek, proceeded s mile eastwurd, struck off up Gruouy's Braoch, s swall stream, for about two wmifes, foto & glovmy, weird-looklug bollow, the fiuu leadiy to which is rurely cver used. Hers thers ——————— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Lowpoy, - Feb, 15.—Steamships Alsatis, Abyasluls, wad Wisconaln, from Now York, sud Folynesian, from Baltimore, bave arrived out. NEw Youk, Feb. 15.—Arrlved, steamsbips Caltle, from Liverpool, Neckar, frum Brewen. Nxw ORLEANY, Feb. 15.—Sowe uueaslucss sworn. He had eigbt years’ exoerience with lusaue people, snd bad been Iu chargo of the Asylum since 1871, The lustitution had s eapacity for 500 persous, and there wers 501 (mates. The Doctor did not explain how they crowded the pdd ope In. Witnuss vislted Iando at the juil lass Friday evenivg, aud bad snotbier ruvine, wuch smaller and even gloom- ier, about Lwenty puces Ou Thursdi e interview of from su bour to unhour sud a dh"“o‘:lfl for ";.ld.l‘lnv«’l‘ L d, felt for the steamship Geu., Whituoy, of Lo ery ces wross. Ou 'Thursdsy, ropounded vne of his ludicrous questivus,und, Special cagn Tribune. 3 Al " L Feb. B i Apri 10, the avenger and bis viecdm were soen | balt with bim. For the purpose of fntroducing | i reply, the witnew said: *1¢ the Court SasmieL o e e e i wut. | Morwn Line, from New York Feb. for g slowly wendiug thielr way towards tbe cotruuce | pimgelf the witness purchased 8 photograph | bles L want to glv- an snawer intelligible 10 | fam Goodell dled fast night, uged 83 years. | POty now threo days overdue, of this suinbre ravive. No huwan oyy ever be- held Jobu Lune ulive agatu. The next day, Frnduy, Avpril 17, some bunters passed throush the ravive und bebicid a ghastly sigut. Neur the cutrsuce wus thy LIFELESS BODY OF JOUN LANE, perforated with two bullets. No revolver was ou bis persou, but & few yerds off Ly u note- buvk wlhich shiowed the bloudy lmprint of the wurderor’s ugers, who bid probabiy hurrledly 3 wen, sud don't wan's to suswes pec- | Hiis lifu bas boen an eventful one, sud from the ple who know no more about tusapity than this | carlicet years aovoted to thu welfare of bu- attoruey.” The witncss believed o mau could | maulty ccensed wos & color-bearer with bu saue un sowe lub{cvn sud insane on others. | Qepritt Bmith, Charles Sumuer, und other Eucl & form of fusanlty {8 kicptomania. noted Abolitionlsts, aod st ono time rau for A HOMICIDAL MANIAG BLAYS INDISCEIMI | Goveruor of New York on the Abolition ticket. NATELY, Of lato vears Lls labors bave becu devoted to sud for the sake of Lillliz, He would kifl a | the Fewberancs causy. Tho fuberal scrvices friend as qoon as an cneiny, snd would not wait | will bo beld at the Cougregationd Church ju Wl be was puroued ur bunted down. At the | th's clty ou Sunday. from tbe prisoner. [Bradshaw, plalntively, % We aro objecting to all this”] At tho {oter- view other pessons were present part of the time. In couversation the witness tried to briug out auy evidences of wental fwpalrwent that migbt be fouud. He yuestioned Randw wbout iz Jifv fo Peuusylvunia wnd Iows. sad lu every particulsr, both ——————— CAPT, ANKERS' DENIAL. New Youx, Feb. 18.—Capt. Aukers, of tbe lost Mutropolls, churacterizes as @ fabricstion the Pisladtlphia story that he had been told by one of tho owners that {f be had auy secldeute not to make & ball busluese of ft; that, L made s wreek of th ship, be should wake it ® good o