Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1882, Page 2

bo THE GREAT TRIAL. —<$<—— =o | deeply involved. Luther W. Guitean. the father A REVIEW OF THE PROCEEDINGS, | of the assassin, who had been induced to join the . also suffered severely by Sco- — fa During this trial his earnestness A Glimpse into the Court Reom- | inanner and honest-looking face have alway: Chici Actors in the ‘Trial and ir | been sure to enlist the sympathy of the specta- Peculiarisies—Wiercim Mr. Scoville | tor. The ereater part of Disagrees wit Members of the BURDEN OF THE Guitcau Famiiy—The Members of has been borne by him. week Jury. | of the trial Mr. Leigh Robinson, of this city, was — | The Guiteau trial will be celebrated for its as for the extraordinary | arged to the prisoner, | ature of the defence and the strange pro- in court. The prisoner was taken from e court for trial on Monday, No- Thre | s before | averred their | impartially, and | tion to the | ve talesmen | twelve five Jurors we ‘ able jurymen ined on the third ¢ Mr. Joseph Pratl cepted. Corkhiil ma THE EXAMINATION OF WIT cun immediately, See ing ithe distinction of be the first wit- ness ealied to the stand. On Monday, Novem- ber 2ist. the government closed its evid ence in chief, hav in three day ed thirty-five witnesses. Dr. other witness in chief for the govern- tion having consumed an en- 3 spoke for nearly two » ease for the defence. He be- ion of witnesses for the de- aud between that date and the 6th when the defence closed it evinle i w not in by ac ernment | opened its evide ‘ aand Mrs. Scoville were each on the | etand a The prisoner was called to the stand just before the adjournment of the court on’ Monday, Novemb ih was not conclu y afternoon, On the 7th of b government opened its rebuttal — testimony, i ied the attention of the court until ast witness, stepped off the stand of January. During this time 59 wItN Including 13 expert witnesses, were examined. Nearly two da f the time were spent in the examination of Dr. Spitzka, a witness for the defence. The examination of the expert wit- | nesses for the government began on the 13th of December. On the 28th of December the pris- punished for his ‘al from the counsel table, where he had sat with his counsel ever since the opening of | the trial, to the prisoners’ dock. On Janu: Sul the defence petitioned the court for perm to introduce certain new witnesses, but the Petition was not granted. as the evidence pro- Posed was not properly surrebuttal in its ehar- The defence having called oniy three . uttal to the stand, the last of as Chief Brooks, of the Treasury secret rested its case on the 4th of January. INSTRUCTIONS To THE JURY. After a brief intermission, the arguments on rs for instructions to the jury began i were finished on the 10th, | December the when Judge Cox announced the lines he would follow in instructing the jury on the law invol- ved in the case. opened t On the 12th inst., Mr. Davidge ent for the jury and spoke for as followed by Mr. Ree gfor the def tt on Monda: he arguu s ¥ ne District ever occupied | @o long a time as this, and no criminal trial that ever took place inthe country has held Public attention so iong. The names of the | persons who have figured in the the trial have become as familiar as household words in every part of the count The busy pencils of the il colony of newspaper men engaged at the by the ieal power of the tele- daily filled the columns of the ers in every quarter of the civilized | ‘hose who have been in constant at- and there are many whose business has not required their presence at court, who have not been absent a day since the trial opened—will keep a most yivid recollection of the remarkable scenes of the trial. The faces of © connsel, and the jury, made fa- aily association, have been deeply graven inthe memory. A picture of the court Foo aud its surroundings rises in the mind without etjort. FIRST, THERE IS THE CROWD im the morning pushing and shoving at the doors, and importurfing the officers for admit- tance. Noone who was ever caught in that erowd, hopelessly separated from the door by a mass of struggling people who had arrived ahead of him, will soon forget the exasperation he experienced. The court room has always been filled half an hour before the opening of the court. The crowd as viewed from the bench, seemed to ocenpy the whole of the court room, from its center to the very walls, while at the opposite end of the room. owing to the arrangement of the temporary gallery, tier above tier, it appeared to rise almost to the ceiling- a dense array of faces, bonnets, over- coats and bald-heads. The space immediately in front cftie bench has been filled with tables, the inner row being devoted to the use of the reporters. and the outer row to counse first of those actively enzaged in the tri appear iu the court room in the morning, has generally been Mr. Scoville. Followi him would come Mr. John W. Guiteau and Mrs. Scoviile leading her little CONCERNE | LE. Mr. Scoville comesin carrying aleather sa tchel fm one hand anda book or two in the other. | He speaks to no one, unless first addressed, but taking his seat, at the defence table just in front of the judge’s chair, puts on his glasses, and applies himself imimediately to his books or scripts. The hairthat fringes the bald top | Of Mr. Seoville’s head appears to th met him when he firs the defen: i in-law to have @ shade whiter, face a shade more seri- ous. His counte ve, and his actions siow and urethodical. He dresses very plainly in & business suit of dark cloth, and his whol ap- Pearance is such that he might readily pass for | gome well-to-do farmer. He bas small hazel | eyes, that, though taded, possess the quality of | suzuesting that they once snapped sharply and | brightly. He wears a gr: shaped taft of beard cc Father sturdy in for Scoville makes no p ordinarily isa very slow,tedi to have motistache and a fan- ing the chin. He is ugh not stout. speaker, ne dilficulty in catching the words he se. It has been proved durin: 2 he Is no mean competitor in ¢ meets with opy the hesitation which marks his spee pears, and werds flow from his lips with ; Bess that an accomplished debater might SCOVILLE’S LIFE has been one of suc that, though he is probably not more than fifty-five, his hair is snowy white, and his face has the settled gravity of old age. When he wasa young man he taught school In Freeport, 1., im love with and married Frances Guiteau, the Sister of the assassin. WIS INK SPECULATION. At one time he rode high on the wave of pros- Perity, and accumulated a comfortable fortune. Being visionary and venturesome, his property ‘Was lost as soonas it was made, and he has since been buffeted by fortune. When at the heighth of bis prosperity he became deeply interested desires to u readi- envy. nd there fell | Vine subject of ink bottles. He brouzht experi- I believe, that because one member of the family enced potters home with himfrom England, but, | had cancer, another had consumption and for some reason, never could master the secret SOME OF ITS NOTABLE FEATURES. | of burning a bottle on the inside. All of his ex- | associated with h She has small ey ) under Mr. John | | his frame is stronyly built and well knit. © I | used to work as a carpenter witen Iwas young,” obstreperous conduct | 4 | trial. He came here with his own theory, which | | not hesitate to use only a part of the truth to | Sustain your opinions of my futher, and the fear | Were for inany years at issue. | father, you will not est | [have no doubt } Inthe manutactare of tn ‘royal road to wealth through that much-used fail He invested his money in the enterprise He concluded that the business could be ren much more profitable if the earthen-ware bottles used for ink could be made at his place as ‘gts Lethe He, therefore. laid out Mouey in ¢ ny & pottery, but discovered that he could not glaze the bottles on the in- —_ 80 as to render them impervious to the HEB BOTIER. Mr. Seotilte ABOUT ROTTLES. it Weat'to'Bar | © it toveatignatet and thought he saw | C! periments cost money, and Seoville became m by assignment of the court, | but was excused from fyrther service after it | became apparent that be and Mr. Scoville could | not agree upon a line of defence. Mr. Charles . A, of Chicazo, who was recognized as an | adviser of Mr. ville at an early st: of the | associate when the prosecu- uu (he examination of expert witnesse y says, however. thai he has only ren- | dered saeh stauee to Mr. ilie as hk in the court room, All the toil of preparal and the weary hours of study required by the | have fallen to the share of Mr. Scoville, MR. SCOVILLE'S WIFE, who sits next to him, is a plump, comely woman her fresh face appearing in strang set closely together and rather a sharp nose, in which particulars, as well asin her well deiined chin, she resembies her brothers. It is due to Mrs. Scoville’s tender ude for her <1 8 brother that § ‘i kk his detence. All the tenderest_ tions of a heart 1 with sisterly affec were stirred by fhe thought of tie fate that hung over her erring brotier. She came to his | aid, and in her solicitude for him it is a matter of | little wonder that she should ha solici oner. MR. JOUN W. GUITEAU, who has sat at the defence table since the trial opened, bears sufficient resemblance to his brother to establish their relationship. He is forty-eight years of age, but one might easily mistake him for a man of thirty-five. Though several years the senior of the prisoner, most every one who has not inquired his aze sets him down as the younger of the two. He has not had so hard a time as I have,” said the prisoner TAK Fe} toa the c porter one day, in explanation of y In their personal appearance. is brother, is small in stature, but he 1 toa Star reporter, “and that is wiat gave me my good health.” He studied law, and settled when a young man in Davenport, Iowa, bat finding a more con- genial and lucrative employment in the life insurance business he gave up the practice of law. He did not think, as he explained to Tue Star reperter, that he had education enough to quaiify him for success as_a lawyer, and he did not like to undertake anything that he could not do well. His success in the insur- ance business was so marked that he was called to the home office of the Mutual Life company. of New York, twelve or fourteen years agi Here he chie isti ished himself as a writer of inst ct rs and documents. ‘rom ent to Boston, where he has since Ain the insurance business. He is & very forcible writer, and bas contributed much to the insurance journals. nty-five y roof t a nd a niece of the late Se The lady is still living, and on with her two child 24 years of aze, and a dauchter 19 yeai Mr. Guiteau has occupied a singular piace in the he added to a case already pat theories. He has refused pe his theory conform with defene, chel over with istently to make that presented by the and consequently there has been MUCH UNPLEASANT FERLING between him and Mr. Scoville. Mr. Guitean de- nounces Mr. Scoville’s course in attempting to prove the late L. W. Guiteau, his father, insane, as a slander upon the dead. Still, inthe midst of their differences, Mr. Guiteau frankly praises Mr. Seoviile for his devotion to the cause of the y, and quickly ta anything said in disparag nt of Mr. Scoville’s efforts. Before was a sharp correspondence be- jitean and Mr. Scoville in relation to the effort of the latter to prove that the pris oner inherited the taint of insanity. Two of the i written by John Guitean at that time 4 recently fell into the hands of Tux Star reporter, confain declarations which go far to- ward sustaining THE THEORY OF TOTAL DEPRAVITY raised by the prosecution. The first letter was written October 20th. and in it Mr. Guiteau de- clared, “Ihave believed that Julius was mor- ally responsible for the assassination of President Garfield, and that he had sufiicient mental capacity and will power to have con- trolled his footish and wicked purpose if he had so chosen, and that the crime was the legi ate ending of his former vicious life. I have always credited him with enough natural ability and a sound mind, except as it has become perverted by excessive egotism, wilfulness, Just and lazi- ness. * * Still, if all the circum- stances of his life could be got together befure thejury and the public, it would be such a mess of unreasoning and senseless work and effort as to almost force the conclusion of his actual insanity.” Mr. Guiteau then gives evidence in his letters of the youthful excesses of his brothe1 advises Mr. Scoville that there is no chance of | success in the “inherited tendency” theory, and expresses the Christian hope that there may yet linger in the brain of his assassin brother some impression of tenderness or love, put there in his childhood, of sufficient power to restore his faculties to their normal condition, so that he can see his guilt, receive power to acknowledge it and re- pent. The second letter was written November 6th, after Mr. Guiteau had received and exam- ined various old letters written by his brother, which, he says, convinced him that HIS BROTHER WAS ACTUALLY INSANE. The letter shows the strong aversion enter- tained by John and other members of the family to Mr. Scoville’s method of conducting the defence. It says: “I would gladly send you the letters, except for #he belief entertained by myself and the family in Freeport that you will we have of placing in your hands the complete evidence of his soundness of intellect, heart, and judgment in matters upon which you and he oi As to ablish that he was a gious ‘monomaniae,’ and for the benelit of the prisoner I advise you not to try it, for if you attempt to show only a part of the trath—which a will—it will danx: you and hi The writer, after ass we that he thinks Scoville will damage his case by attempting to create sympathy for the prisoner, by arousing public sentiment against the Oneida Community, pays a hi tribute to the char- acter of his fat man, and sa ras 4 Christian and a basiness He opposed Julins’ going there uw his real object was the free exer- unbridied !ust, He went there under father's protest, but left when restrained. Your theory of father’s influence on Julius is a very fort to sustain ‘hereditary tendency to | y which does not exist inthe Guiteau | family. Julius went to the O. C. with both his moral and physical health sadly impaired from ses and wrongs, and he left because he was unable to gratify his lustful desires, and was required to work as the rest | did. He had for years before been disobedient, wilful, egotistical, gross, and I haye no doubt was on the verge of insanity long before father suspected it, for he believed that insanity was ‘THE RESULT OF SIN. D SATAN’S POW! another had corns, that it indicates a tendency to insanity. The next person connected with the case to arrive is | MR. CHARLES H. REBD, MR. SCOVILLE’S ASSOCI- ATE. Mr. Reed isa Chicago lawyer, and served in that city as states attorney for many years. He 4s about 40, of medium height and slender figure; has blue eyes and light hair. The outline of his front face forms almost a perfect square, the | line where the hair and forehead meet and the , lower line of his firmly set jaw constituting the upper and lower parallels. He wears a mo us- tache and along goatee. His face is a pleasant 0 came into the case originally as a witness for the defence, to testify to an experience with Gui- teauin a Chicago court some years ago, and to an interview had with the prisoner in this city before and after the shooting. For many day’ he sat at Mr. Scoville’s elbow inthe court-room, and aided him with suggestions. When the ex- | amination of the government expert witnesses } Methodist bewan he eniered the court, as the He by permission of the vowed assuciate of Mr. Scoville. in eurnest and forcible speancr, but his is unpleasantly sharp and shrill. He has never sat at the di » table, but has always placed his chai Messrs. Scoville and Dayidge, occupyiag the neutral ground betweea the two tables. THE GUITEAU JURY. Mr. Reed has hardly had time to greet his as- sociate before there is a bustle in the witness- room. The yoice of a bailiff can be heard ery- ing, “Make way forthe jury!” The next instant the door is opened, and the twelve jury ushered into the court-room by the dep’ shals, They remove their hats and o hang them upon the row of hooks on the v it the jury-box and compose themsely their seats. The first evidence that the offic of the prosecution are aware that the hour for openin court is near at hand is the appearance 1, the colored inessenger of the district attor- ‘y's office, who is short, round and joily—a sort of chareoal cartoon of the district attorney him- self. Sam comes in carrying some books and es- corting a bevy of ladies who have enlisted the good offices of the district attorney to secure them seats. He deposits his books on the district at- torney’s desk and gallantly conducts his iair charges to a row of chairs behind the district attorney's seat, generally reserved for “GUESTS OP THE PROSECUTION.” These guests have included many distingnish- ed people and nearly every actor or actress of prominence that has visited the city during the trial—Rossi and Lawrence Barrett, the tragedi- ans; Robson and Crane, the comedians; Lotta. Miss Genevieve Ward and others ot lesser note. vformed his mission before Mr. Porter’s secretary, steps in carryinzaclosely packed black leather portmanteau, which hesetsonthetable. Almost simultaneously with Judze Cox, Messrs. Cork- hill, Davidge, and Porter enter the room and take their seats, Mr. Davidge sitting at Mr. Corkhill’s right and Mr. Porter at his left. MR. CORKHILL, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY, is about forty-five, and just rotund enough to suggest that he is a good liver. He had the management of the case, unassisted, until a few days priortethetrial, when Messrs. Davidge I thim. The ask of collecting evidence a he in- dictinent therefore devolved upe He opened the case for the government and took an active part in the examination of witnesses. When it came to the discussion of law points Mr. Corkhill a med the responsibility of sus- taining the jurisdiction of the court, and he presented the results of acareful study of au- thorities in a concise and conclusive argument, advancing the views which w substantially adopted by the eourt. Mr. Corkiull has beea the chief object of the venomous abuse of the prisoner. MR. DAVIDGE, OF THE PROSECUTION, is recognized as one of the best lawyers in the ry. He has a head and face of patrician and a graceful presence. AS a cross- examiner he is arch, slu d and witty. As a speaker he has few equalsat the bar. He possesses a keen legal acumen and a precision of tho that renders his arguments clea 1 The deep, me: a a particular ch Davide has taken active it des yy of the pr guments. paring tion and opening the closing ar- JUDGE PORTER, who was summoned from New York to enter the case, Is one of the most prominent members of the New York bar. He gained espe prom- inence through his service as Mr. Beecher’s counsel in the famous trial in Brooklyn some years azo, but in New York city he was known long before that_as one of the most accom- plished lawyers of the country. He is about 60 Years of age, small of stature, but neatly propor- tioned. He has gray hair and moustache, and wears glasses. He is most unassuming’ and gentle in ordinary discourse. When he is called to his feet in the court room, however, he can, at will, be as flerce as a tiger or as mild asa lamb. He uttered hardly a word during the trial until the prisoner was put on the stand, when he conducted the cross-examination, which formed such a memorable episode of the case. THAT TERRIBLE FOREFINGER, retributive justice, must still play a part in the uneasy dreams*of the assassin. Mr. Porter's style of speaking is highly impressive. He can invoke the greatest solemnity to his aid, and with a rare command of words couples a dram- atic power, which he employs with much effect. Beside being assigned to close the case for the government. he has argued many of the juestions that have come before the court. But udge Cox has come in, stepping quickly to his seat on the bench. Mr. Donaldson, the veteran crier ot the court. bobs up into the witness box. He gives a warning note by calling: “Be seated, ladies; sit down, gentlemen,” and then, rapping on the desk with a ferule, proclaims ‘“t! hon- erable court” now open. With his voice the busy hui in the court room dies out. CONCERNING JUDGE COX. the famous assembly. Jude Cox is small in stature. It is a rather remarkable fact that none of the chief actors in the |, excepting Mr. Reed, would pass an examination for ap- pointment on the police force. They are all short men, from the jude down to the prisoner. Mr. Reed. though scarcely above the medium height, seems tall in contrast with the other lawyers in the case. Judye Cox has a large and weil shaped head, and a characteristic face, with well cut features. He wears a moustache and goatee of military trim. He is recognized as one ot the clearest headed lawyers of the Dis- trict. When he talks he speaks so rapidly that the stenographers are often put to a severe test. In deportimnent, Judge Cox is dignified, and hi commads at once tite respect to which his posi- tion entitles him. GUITEAU COMES INTO CovRT. There is a short pause after the judge takes is seat. Then a policeman appears at the door of the witness room. A buzz goes through the crowd. Then the prisoner, handcuffed, is led in. The crier has to vociferate loudly to keep the crowd quiet. Those in the back part of the room invariably arise in their seats to get a good view of the prisoner. He is led, handcuffed, and shambling in gait, past the jury box, and through a narrow passazeway kept open in the crowd, to the dock. There the gyves are re- moved from his wrists. He stretches his arms out as if glad to find them free again, and gazes over the multitude with an air which seems to say “Lam Guiteau; look af me.” Mr. Williams, and this idea is. unquestionably the teaching of the Bible, in both old and new Testament. * * Trespectfally submit that the theory of his insanity, being caused by his own rebel- lious spirit and gross excesses, makes a stronger ease than if based principally upon the presence of twoor three cases of insanity in recent years.” The proceedings of the trial haveshown that Mr. Guiieau’s suggestions were ignored. Mr. Reed arzued before he ee that this assas- sin led a pure and blameless life up to the time he was thirty or thirty-tivayears of age. because no facts had been elicited in testimony to indi- cate otherwise. Mr. Scoville has also repre- the clerk, having called the roll of the jury, the business of the day is opened. THE JURY IN THE CASE. The persons, who, however much they may have been slighted heretofore, now come for- ward as most important participants in the trial are the members of the jury. The Jury occupy two rows of chairs in the corner of the room, at Judge Cox’s right hand. Mr. John P. Hamlin, the foreman, sits at the end of the lower row of chairs, nearest the Judge. He is forty-seven years of age, and has a pleasant, sensible face. His hair and moustache are gray. He always carries sented the prisoner to the jury as aman of ‘uristian associations and pure habits of thought. who had been terribly wronged by the pernicious influence of John H. Noyes, the head wile adopts of the Oneida Community. Mrs. Seovil her husband's theory throaghout. WHAT JOUN SAYS ABOUT HIS SISTER. Speaking of this one day John said: “She is a glorious litt® woman, and my brother owes acane. with a curved, ivory handle, and the favorite occupation of his hands, wh! sitting in has been to twirl the cane, age juryman there was some comment by the de- tate oun Relate ae Coh bia Command No. 2, K.T., of which President Garileia ‘smémber OY e,and his manners are very sociable, He | nd just a little benind | ii | dark hb which pointed at the prisoner like the finger of | To pass Judge Cox by without further notice t would be neglecting one of the chief figures in tache, and hollow eyes. He sits with arms folded, and has appeared to pay the strictest attention to ail the proceedings in court. He is a German by birth, bat caiume~here early in life. He is by trade a carpet man, and carried on that business at the corer of Pennsylvania avenue | and 17th street for many years. In recent years however he has been engaged in the tobacco business. He is a Member of the German Lath- j eran charch. One of his sons was inarried so: alter he was secluded from the world asa Gui- teau juryman. Henry J. Bright, Mr. Brandenburg’s next neighbor, is a picture of a man who has retired from bu: in easy circumstances, and is bent on enjoying the wholysome pleasures of life. He is about fifty years d has a round, goc natured face, with just a suggestion of a double chin, merry and closely-cropped side | | temporal bone. He learned his trade as ablack- smith with the McDermotts, and was subse- quently employed for many years In the navy yard. Afterwards he engaged in the shoe bnsi- hess on 8th street east. and met with such suc- coss that he was enabled to retire about four years azo with a competency. He attends the rch. Mr. Bright has been thi object of more curious attention than any othe member of the Jury during the latter days the trial, owing’ to the report that he is con- firmed in his belief that the prisoner insane As this report was coupled with the w nded statem that’ his father now supposed th: t is Mr. Charles Stewart, a ne here many years az hinan, who during recent y ron Capitol F wears a brown-z1a3 ough the upper lip 1 | de ty years, round his whiskers extending alittle way down over the | ti adopted the insanity theory in Gui- | aad | Thomas H. 1 ight hand, is forty-eight 5 ir and short side wh with gray. His keen dark eye: | with shaggy eyebrows. Mr. Langley carries a cane, with « black handle, and. during the trial has generally sat with his hands clasped before | him over the band! He is a eabinet mal trade, and soine markets, but of late years has kept a grocery | store at the corner of 8th and P si 3 northi- west. He was formerly a member of < dree chapel (M.E.), but has been connected with Hamline M.. church since its organization. Next to Mr. Langley, at the extreme end of lower row of chairs, is Mr. tiael She a native of Ireland, who has_ re quarter of a century in thi been engaged in ‘the grocery business. He is forty-seven years of age, has a fair complexion, and fine features, wearing side whiskers. The first man’ in the back or upper row of chairs is Mr. George W. Gates, the younsest member of the jury. He is 27 years of age, and a machinist, empioyed in the ordnance depart nent at the navy yard. He has dark eyes an dark brown hair and moustache. Thos. Heinline, next to Mr. Gatea, is over 50 years of age. He i He wears an iron gray moustache and long beard. Next to Mr. Heinline is Mr. Ralph Wormley, the only colored man on the jury. He lives in Howardtown and is employed as a laborer in the Pension Office, and in suifrage days figured somewhat in local politics. He Is inclined to be corpulent. Me. Wm. H. Brawner, a member of the firm of JH. Semmes & Co., grocers, sits next to the colored meniber. He is a mii aged man, with a round bald head and gra served as clerk fora long time to th which he Mr. Brawner’s neighbor, Mr. the juror, the death of who ie termission in the trial a few weeks | the oldest member oi the jury, being was born in Baltimore, learned the trade of plas- terer, and eame liere before the war, takin: his residence in the northern section of th He is a member of Grace ME. churei, Sine death of his wife, Ir. Hobbs has looked c worn and troubled. Mr. n Prather been a resident of Washington nearly life, and was a well-known butcher in the mar. kets for many ye: During late years been a witolesile dealer in cattle. He is aged man has a well-defined nose and sharp eyes, and wears a beard of soft and luxurious growth, just flecked with white ee THE WASWING TO: N MARKETS. Prices and Supplics—Whe Scarcity — Meats From the West—Potatoes From Europe, &e. trict has been more than usually quiet the past week, owing to the unfayorable weather wii has generally prevailed. Especially has this been the case so far as meats and farm produce are concerned. The beef consumed in this Distriet is generally supplied from the Virginia valley, and is dri to the stock yardsof Drover’s rest, above Geor town, and the yards at Queenstown, on the Bal- timore and Ohio railroad, a few miles north of ¢ city. This season, however, some of the butchers are receiving considerable quantities of beef from Chie: frigerator cars. The beef coming this way is principally the ribs and loins with some rounds, audis sold in jobbing lots at from $10a$12 per hundred pounds. Most of this beef is of excel- | lent quality, and, the butchers think, compar favorably with that slaughtered here. Quanti- ties of niutton are also brought here in the same way, and sells at #3 per hundred by the carcass. This trade, inaugurated last year, is becoming quite successful for winteg supplies, but does not answer so well for the warm season. Cattle are now selling on the hoof at the stock yards from $3.50a%6.50 per hundred, and when dressed from $10.50a$12.50. Virginia sheep and lambs are now worth from 4a5!¢ cents per pound live weight, and from 8a11 cents when dressed and quartered. Live calves continue to arrive from Virginia and Maryland, some of them of poor quality; yet the price ranges at 7a8 cents on the hoof, which is un- | usually high, Good lambs are worth from 53a | 6g cents alive, and choice ones are rather scarce. There were three car loads of western stock, mostly beeves, at the Queenstown yards Wednes- day, all of which sold at rather higher rates than cattle brought from the Virginia valley usually command. Most of the fresh pork sold in our markets comes from the farmers of the adjacent states. | The ruling price for good dressed pork is €8 per | hundsed. Soine very choice lots have sold for | more. It is stated’ that considerable pork of rather poor grade is coming forward; the farmers not having corn to feed their stock, The same may be said of poultry. Nearly all | the poultry now offered is from the country | hereabouts, very little arriving from the west. | Turkeys are worth from 1021214 cts. per_pound, and chickens 8a10 cts. in jobbing lots. The mar- ket has been well stocked with poultry and game this season, and prices have generally been low. Potomac river ducks and other game nave | been and continue to be abundant. ! Butter has been unitormly high for the best | grades, and will probably continue so until new spring grass appears. The best now received is from the west, and known as “Creamery.” Some ; excellent roll butter and in tubs comes here from Towa, Mlinois, Ohio and other western states. The wholesale price of the best grades is 30a35 cts. per poand, and the same is soldfrom. market stalls and shop counters tor 59a55 cents. The ordinary prime lots from Virginia, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania now sell in lots at | 25a30 cents, and Jobbing lots of cooking from 16820 cents. Eggs have been more than usnally abundant for the winter season, and the market is now pretty well stocked. Fresh country eggs are worth 20 cents per dozen jobbing prices. Small lots known as ‘limed,” are arriving from the | west and sell at 16a20 cents wholesale. Lard is quoted at 9211 cents for Baltimore and western. Much of the lard consumed in this District is put up by the pork butchers here, and is generally regarded as the purest, and meets with more reatly sale. Flour continues to be high. The highest grades of Minnesota patent sells for $9.50 per barrel and for the winter wheat patent for $8.25a¥9.25; best grade Baker flour, $8; extra, 36.25, and super, $5.25. Medium Virginia and Maryland sells at. 2727.25 tor fam $6826.50, extra; $5295.50, superfine, and €4a$4.50 for fine, and it is said holders are. willing to sel! at these rates. The mildness of the winter is rather against the hizh speculative rates which had been anticipated early in the season, as the pinch for breadstufis bas not been so keenly felt as was feared. Some of our dealers re- ceive large quantities from-the west and sell only at Jobbing rates. Othersmaller dealers de- nd largely upon the local mills for supplies. rn and corn meal at 72278 cents per bushel is consideréd a high figure, but higher are anticipated before spring opens. quay Oak, wecten ce nie setting $1. per bush western, 54 cents, jo rates; bran, $23. Ped ‘and middlings s the twelfth juror, has | iL Trade in and about the markets of this Dis- | go and St. Louis, sent in re- { | 5) | ars ago Was a dealer in tie | f; { | | ‘#2 per bushel. by countries. from New York and Baltimore, rive from Canada, Prince Edwaru’s Isiand, Seot- land, Ireland, and some cargoes from France. The Washington dealers can sup- | Through you, will long t! The French potatoes are not li very little rot among those stored by dealers. )hi | nargin on them, and | these and the j toes in our markets are those put up in this Dis- | good lots arrive dai | these mountain slopes. The indications thus the crop generality, and were it not for the im- portations frem aoroad, they would command ‘The prices have been kept down shipments from @her potato bearing Dealers here supply themselves where they ar- have arrived ply their customers from all the places named. Some prefer the Irish importations, but the Canada and Scotch are fast coming into fayor. dso well. The prices range trom $1.10 to $1.35 cents a bushel | in lots, and as the season advances, they will advance in price, as much seed will be wanted in the spring. A scarce crop is generally fol- | lowed by a desire to plant more on the part of | the farmers, and good seed potatoes will be in @emand. As a general thing there has been Good white beans are worth $3033.50 per bushel and are scarce at these figures. The rop was a failure last year, the dry weather | ving dwarfed and blighted them. The result | many ordinary kinds are put on the t. The onion crop, though rated as one of large | yield last year, does not seem to have been of a | size to affect the prices, which remain high. | Chey now sell from $2 to $3.50 per barrel in this market. Large crops were raised in New York | state, but ow kinds of farm produce no made by dealers in the The apple trade has been quite li to the short crop. This was anticiy dealers here, and some large lots were laid in store, As ageneral thing, however, the fruit | was of alow grade, especially as to size and good development. The winter stock put in store by des! forced into them at $1 to thro the str “ possibly to the high rates of all | seems to be ket and the ped perbarrel and haw! ets in wagons. idom that barrels of ood nit can be fonnd, and when if is open hich as $5.50 per barrel. When the rs re disinclined to re- 1 the northern and east- Kets, and it is for this reason that many are not arriving as in past seasons, Dealers do not care to handle them, as they say there is no y few of the dealers who ore will come out whole, It is i the fruit dealers in Boston and other principally confined to these ped- | apple trade will be | ; : - j the same tothe United States; and payment therefor shat] be made to the respective ow on the requisitions of the Seeretary of the Iute= rior, upon the release and conveyance of sald sto the United States by good and enffi- in due form of law: Pro- no money hereby appropriated shall d for the purchase of «aid land, or of, or for the erection thereon of anti} the written epinion al shall be _ in fayor of r the Interior able to purchase the whole of sald ent with the respective owners after the passage of this act, xpiration of such period of | thirty days, make application to the Supreme | Court the Distrtet of Columbta, at a general er spectal term, by petition, containing par- ticular description of the property requined, with the name of the owner or owners thereof, One work there !s that far excels the rest S their resid as faras the Wrougut by your hands,and fails pot ail to please: | SAME can 1¢ asee) i »urt is hereby A domicile, wheretn, on lowly knees, authorized and required, upon such application, Without delay. to appoint five missioners, freehol the District of Columbia, who re entering upon their duties, take . before some officer in d to admin- are entirely disinterested | in the purchase or sale of snid real estate, and | that they will well and truly discharge their | Sas such commissioners: and they shall jthen proceed to make a just and equitable appraisement of the cash value of the several ch andevery owner of the real ate and improvements thereon necessary to (aken for the public use in accordance with the provisions of this ect, which appraisement, Hobe to ratification by sald court; fat the expiration of tnirty days after the assage of this act said court shall met be in ) Sesion in general or special term, a special term. shall be held, commencing on the day next there wthe purpose of making the ap- nd raty ma herein provided for: |. That written notice of the time and v of appraisement shall be pitel grounds, has written the fol- | commissioners te each owner of lowing letter to Senator Rollins, chairman of the + emaplated by this act, committee on public buildings and grounds: | # ing to ap- Str: L respectfully ask your consideration for the righ neaib — in the case of 9 nenene- | the alrof the Capitol is always, during | sp Beer eg ; the larger partof the year, cl 'S | circulation publi: y of Wash | Mlasma. Ifthe fact ts questioned I will submit | and if it.ghail appear that any owner « | Teasons for asserting It For the present I assume | otherwise interested in any portion uf sak {t, and also that no seston of Congr in be car / estate be a minor, or otherwi Tied into the spring. or held during the sum’ id court shall, before proceeding to the ap~ I. without a distinct fiapairment, because of | pointment ssioners, appoint soe a ae be an id uy zs ise pe} | suital Tson as guardian ad litem to repre- ability for c nembe nile, | Sent such person in all further proceedings in Usual interval between the sessi of Congress, | race sucl i fall who are employed in the bush. rence to such portion of said pitol is lessened by it, For Tar Evesine Sram. To the Phitanthropist, . C. * Religion, Art, ond Learning—these fair Three | Are dear to you, as your good deeds have shown, Which the metropolis, more beauteous g1 But you love also lovely Charity, And acts more gracious, to yourself alone, To cratefi hearts, and t 10 Will yield your spirit joy ete: What, while he Hives, man benfficent Does for his fellows, is nore nobly done ‘Than if he leave it 1H his Ufe be spent. ‘To hoard bis wealta he deems it wise to shun, And butids, himself, his worthiest monument. ‘There are not many such, but you are one. i. ir lo do What likes her best; for your Loulse ach breast. Never could’graceful Greece, or lordly Rome, Even In the palmiest days ‘Mong loftiest mansions det 2 Single plie that as t ‘a we to you and to your daughter owe, s and so touch the heart. | WLS. tos DO TREES KILL MALANIEA? Opinion of Landscape Architect Olm- stead. Cities east are erecting storage houses especially for apples, with thick walls, with the view of keeping up a uniform dry and cool temperature during the fall and winter season, so as to pr serve them from the spring rot. - The disadvan- tage of bad storaze has long been felt. and the subject is receiying more attention than for- merly. ‘The Bostoniona are about to commence the érection of an immense storehouse for the benefit of farmers and fru By this means they hope to pres ly until it is shipped. As was stated in a former article in Toe Star the Virginia and Maryland crop of apples were the best raised in the country, and have eom- manded the highest prices here. The moving | of apples by rail, e quality, does great dam ined to rot, they will shrink in bulk and pre- sent a bad appearance when opened. trade will be a brief one, and is already far advanced, and further shipments here are not anti Foreign fruits are arriying quite freely, arute the quality is yood. The by foreign crop hasyetto be received.and prices will cially when of a poor probably drop some. ad Palermo oranzes are worth from $2 to $3 per box of donble O of 300 in packages, at same pri Flori i) per 109, or $4 to $5 per bo: Lemons are $3a34 per box. The Florida oranges are among. the best inn y a 5a86 per pack- are selling at 3 of 400 and Choice are worth # ease, marked holding 420 to 520. or: each, Lemons range from #8a%4 per package of 450 | to 500 e: Asa general thing there has not been a great demand for foreign green fruits. Dried apples (Virginia) are plentifal at 5 to 7 cents per pound, and dried peaches (peeled) 16 cents in lots. Canned goods are selling readily and the con- sumption of this class of goods is sajd to be in- creasing annually. Tomatoes are worth © per dozen (three-pound cans.) The best toma- trict and meet with the most ready sale. Canned corn is $1.85 per dozen; peas $1.50 per with stock in store rather lunited. Cabbages are seldom_geen in market. dry season and cabbagel@&gs almost utterly de- stroyed the crops. Quite a good substitute for them is found in the winter kale and spinnach, the crop of which is of good quality and qnan- ity. This is bronght in fresh from market ‘ms about the inity of this city, and some rom Norfolk. It sells in lots at $1a$1.75 per barrel. Malaga grapes are the only ones now to be found in market, and are selling for $7a#8, and fancy lots $12a315 per package. see LESURE IN THE UNITED STATES. Mr. Wm. Saunders’ Paper on “ Grape Climates”—Favorable Kegions for the Vine—The Mountains of Virginia Among Them—Phyloxera, Etc. In the paper read by Mr. William Saunders, superintendent of the Experimental Garden, on “Grape limates,” before the National Agri- cultural Convention, Wednesday, he said:—If we plant several varieties of grapes anywhere and give them good cultivation, they will show great difference in growth. Some will grow well and hold their foliage through the season; others will lose their leaves entirely. Next year those that lose leaves will be very feeble, and in some cases will die. In any case the growth will be feeble. If we cover these vines in part with anything that willshade the foliage, we see a fresh foliage preserved during the whole season. ‘This seems due to a drier condi- | tion of the leaves, No dew is condensed; tremes of temperature are prevented. This indicates that the soil is covered by moisture condensed in the leaves. Some varieties sufter very little. Now, if we go over the country there are found ne climates where nearly all varieties do equally well. Such are the true grape climates. These climates are especially noticeable as being along the lake shores and | larger streams and on the slopes of the Blue Ridge at an elevation of from 1,400 to 2.000 feet. ay dews and frosts are rare in such localities. On the hillsides of the Southern Alleghanies the thermometer does not rise in summer above 80, and the winter is mild. The season is two to three months longer. We find the Chestivolis family of grapes doing ex- ceedingly well there. The finest wines yet made have come from these varieties and on The GRAPE C far show that a grape and wine interest, equal to anything in Europe, is destined to grow up in this favored region. There canbe no doubt of | the ultimate success of this entire region in the growing of both market grapes and wine of the very finest quality. The foreign varieties can- not be grown there, of course. The native grapes, however, like the Northern Virginia ge to them, and if in- | f the polson is the low ground Ly! from half & mile to a mile south of the Cay from this locality, iL is Neated nortaward by | Miner Wiids to the The evil may In | di ne be Cui OH aLItS origi nd | Ze, but ad That the fee-simple of all premises ao jated for public u: han appratse- ent shall have been m: id court shall, upon pay the owner or owners respectively, er to such person as shall be authorized to receive the same for any appraised value, or case the said owner or owners refuse or ne- | pary prolons: diate effect will h The movement of the | ations tort are likely to be S Uneir imu Won OF the evil. While in pro | an we poison Trestod by ineuns, which | glect for fiteen days after the appraisement of i wil x, BE costly, of pl a the strip of hoa ands and improvements Low held by the United States along the Dase of tiie ; | Copitol Iii on the south. ‘The situstion and the | gece preemie Scope ot Ube plaitiug rered are in ticateat on he | upon depositing the said Subjoined tap. Shoud there be doubi with | @Ppratised value in said court to the credit of esr committee of the value or the purpose of the | #UCl owner or owners Tespectively, Le vested Im expedient t pro) the United terior is here! to the several to such person praised value fied in the app; | into conrt by «i s hereiubefore provided the said appraised values, Sec. 7. That said court n and manner in which possess condemmed shall be taken or delivered, and if nec force any order or issue process for giving possession. The cost joned by the inquiry and assessment shall | tates: and the Secretary of the In- authorized and nequined to pay owner oF OWRETS Tespectively, oF sthorized as aforesaid, the ap- eral premises as speci- i said court, or pay ot | { position originated In a Ine In 1879 by M he Capitol, m b jon ade | quest mC more Tully deft Iwill’ add bere that U robably be obt how in the nu of the District of Co- he proposition ts tn all respects a nd Uist ib would have very desirable tages, which, should your com- tee be pleased ‘to entertain the question, I ask the hoor to be allowed to explain {rou lows Of The committee . ¥ respectrully, your ot t serva: nity RED K Law OLMSTEAD, Lendseape Architect of the Capitol Grounds, 'Y direct the time n of the property be paid by the United States; and ax to other cysts which may arise, they shall be charged or ed as rt mnay direct. at no delay in making an assiss- tion, or in taki taxe ment of shall be 6c , | arise as to the ownership of the property, orany | part thereof, or as to the inverests of the re- spective owners; but in such cases the court | shall require a deposit of the money allowed as New York, May 23, 1879, Epwarp Ciark, Esq., acdamen CL OF He Capitol, Washingt AR SIRI—Scfentitic st a |x | sitions S to the m Lupon it, but the following pro auisty cltber theory, and their soundness | Compensation for the whole property or the | 4s, I believe, nnquestioned. part in dispute. In all cases, as soon as the 93s, [Ee malarial poison originates tn a particular | United States shall have paid the compensation ment Of alr be- a locality, and there isa free m v 1 assessed, or secured its payment by a deposit of money under the order of the court, possession of the property may be taken, Sec. 9. That before payment shall be made for any part of the grounds herein described, the terms of all contra pre FE summer move, the polscn ts. i fel. | upon the Upper part of that hill than in the inter- riediate vath zd. But if there ts a belt of trees crossing the dl- rect Hue betireen the two lceslities. the entire higher “ground to leeward 4s of Pn found to be | wholy, and nearly always partially and in an tt | portant degree, protected from the action of the | poison. If, therefore, there was a body of trees along the'base or Capitol HM, the grou mn being well drained and bot in ttse1 prodiction of malaria, it would In e an eflicient nu fromm President for his approval: and if in his j pent the sum to be paid for any parcel, cither under contract or judicial proceedings, shall be unreasonable, he shall, in respect to the |same, suspend all further proceedings under | this act till further action by Congress: Pro- | cided, That there shall not be taken or paid for under this act less than the squares numbered 729, 730 and 731, on the south side of East pitol street, or (he squares numbered 726, 727 and 728, on the north side of said street;' but whatever portion may be taken shall be paid for only in the proportion the part so taken bears in value to the whole of the real estate men- tioned in the first section of this act. And the President of the United States shall determine and fix the site of the library upon the grounds herein described, if the same shall be taken and paid for under this act. Sec. 10. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to Congress, at the com- mencement of each session, & detailed state ment of all the proceedings under the pro- visions of this act. ———-e- —______ The Ex-Trustee Delegation. To the Editor of Tux Evextne Sta: Tread with great interest, and no little curi- ority, the address to the President of the United States prepared by “ Ex-Trustees of the Public Schools of Washington,” and indorsed by well- known gentlemen of the District of Columbia, I was interested because the address sets fort certain imperative necessities as to public school instruction which the petitioners had in vain sought to meet, and which the Commissioners | of the District were absolutely incompetent to answer, or, what was even worse, for which, though often appealed to, they were positively unwilling to provide. J was ‘jous to know how the petitioners, disavowing any political or personal significance in their act, could expect an improvement in the matter whereof they complain without naming the gentlemen or Com- missioners at whose inands, when appointed, remedies for evils complained of were vo be de- manded. Now, Mr. Editor, I believe in the rijli of peti- tion, but that it ought to be exercised with sin- gular discretion, based upon facts susceptible of complete and irrefutable demonstration. An attack upon personal and official character is equally and absolutely unjustifiable, and a state- ment in The Srar of Saturday seems to show that this address to the President has been just such. The writer has never souzit a favor at the hands of the present Commissioners, and. never expectsto. He believes, in many respects, reform might be in place as to many things warked by their official conduct, and yet he did not sign the address referred to because not asked, nor would he have done so if applied to. “The best of men are but men at best,” and as the present Commissioners are gentlemen of at least_a remote dezree of intelligence as com- pared with some of the “E: hames are intended to give force to the address, the attempt to cloud the mind of the Executive in the discharge of one of the most important duties to which he will be called is without ex cuse, at least in the yery humble opinion of “AN Ex-TRUsTER.” Washington, January 16, 1882. 5p aaa A River Side Park, To the Editor of Tue EveNtxe Stax: ato all probability 8 Of protection to the Caplict poison originating on the banks of nd in the low grounds between whe Your suggestion that _a plantation for this pur- e could be tormed upon the government prop- Hong Ue ine of the old canal scems to me an ent one, attem pted to give it a more definite form compenylog map, by which tt will be seen sintaining with unimportant excej Uons the existing and Intended lines of public communication, & continnous velt 160 feet wide could be planted so as to connect the existing plantations of the Botante garden with another to formed upon reservation 17. [have proposed a Walk Uwenty fect wide Unrough the middie of the belt, as the branches of the trees standing at its sides would scon meet overhead and form an un- broken body of follage. I think it desirable to avold so large a gap a3 Would be needed for a cen- tral drive and walks. ‘The desired result would of course be much sooner and more effectively obtained If the plin- tation could be extended over the space between the proposed belt and the Capitol grounds, and this would give a much needed opportunity for enlarging the collections of the National Botanic Garden, and add greatly to the ¢ignity of the itol Itself. But the suggestion should be car ried out as indicated on the map without the purchase of any land, at very moderate outlay lor soil, trees, and planting, and witn — confi- dence in results of value to Congress and to the public. Respectivily, Fuev'k Law OLusteap, Landsezpe Architect, [Extracts from Volume IV of reports and papers presented at tie meeUngs of the American Public Health Association, in the years 1877-78. ‘Malaria seems to be arrested in its transmis- sion from the site of its genesis by forests and tree bells. * * * ‘The Romans recognized at an early day’ the value of rows of trees and masses of forestsas a barrier against the diffusion of febrife- Tous poison, und that such defences misht never be disturbed, they Were placed under the protec- tion of thelr gods. So many facts have been res corded, and 86 many more exist in the unrecorded experience of medical observers residing in malarial regious, that this effect may assumed as proved.’ Prof. Flint says: ‘Malaria has on attrac- tion for trees and other organic materials. is found to be perfectly practicable to prevent the aevess of malaria to dwellings by. planting lance trees or thick shrubbery in the immedinte vicinity between the originatig points and the house 10 be protected.’ Professor Metcalfe 1s of opinion. (Monograph on malaria, U.S. Sanitary Comuntssion, 1862) | * in pr eeats ahd twee are of undoubted value reventing the disseml- nation of malaria.” a THE PROPOSED NEW CONGRES- SIONAL LIBRARY Full Text of the Bill Prov; x 1 i iding for its The following is the full text of the bill now perding in the Senate Providing for the pur- chase of lots and erection thereon of a new con- gressional library: Beitenacted, &c., That a fire-proof building, for the accommodation of the Library of Congress, shall be erected on squares numbered 726, 727, 728, 729, 780,and 731,east of the Capitol, and between B street northand Bstreet south, and 1st strect east and 2d street east; and the construction of said building according tothe plan adopted by the joint Cynthiana, Derbmart, and the whole family to which they belong, are equal to any grown abroad for wines. THE PHYLOXERA. There can be no doubt that this little insect, that works upon the foliage and roots of vines, has wrought great damage, But it is not true that it is the cause of mil or the disease which has been for many y the terror of the grape growers of Europe. The phyloxera ap- Peas in great numbers about the year 1852. ey will completely destroy vines of feeble growth. Sherry growing les may become enfeebled and succumb. The effect of drouth or excessive moisture may be to injure the vine, and this is often put to the account of the phy- loxera, All sorts of injuries may be laid at the door ofthe phyloxera. We must be careful to Petia 2 poorer the are 0] ve in producing Partienlarly we must not edy adapted to the one to meet caused i It is very gratify’ select committee on additional accommodations for the Library of Congress, shall be in charge of a commission composed of the Secretary of the Interior, the architect of the Capitol exten- sion, and the Librarian of Congress, who shall be authorized and directed to make contracts for the construction thereof, after proper adver- tisements and the ea napa of bids; and the sum of 1,500,000 is hereby ap; any money inthe ‘not otl iated, le pregen! the construction g moneys building shatl be disbursed the Interior. Section two for the of the | M mind. descaibed in seesion charters ote | a he library, said 455,190 supérficlal feet, exclusive of aver ive of avennes and River Side Park (as the grand feature of the Washington of thefutarg) naturally suggests it- es nee self. This park should be a continuation of the and extend from the Ws £55 i =e iii e]FE : i fl Hi il