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The but it hides de cot' 'long An Extraordinary Polsonlnc Case ;Sew York Suu Editorial Account. A beautiful girl of sixteen married to a nf forty-nine, his death by poison one ,,.nth after the weaaing uay, ana me r.i of the bride for his .murder, are the! tnkin" features of an extraordinary crim- j it. caR. which has just transfixed public I Attention throughout the West and South- i lll't. ! On the 22d of last July Miss Minnie. Wallace i f New Orleans was married at 1 loviimton. Kentucky, to Mr. J. 1 1. Walk- j up. a merchant and former Mayor of Em- j ,.1 in Kansas. He had already been j prosecution (daimed t1,,it! f;.,.t- Walkup had poisoned her husband with wrsenic. The evidence against her was purely circumstantial, but the links in the chain of evidence forged by circumstances afe in criminal cases often the strongest, ft was shown that the accused bought eight grains of strychnine of a druggist named Bates on Aug. 13. She signed the poison record in the shop, and said the drug was for a private formula of her own. On the following Sunday she sent a ser vant with a note saying she had lost the bottle of strychnine and wanted more, but the druggist refused to sell it. The next day she catlcd to explain, and said she had managed to get along without the strych nine, but she did not ask for more. This druggist's wife is a sister of the second wife of Mr. Walkup. Minnie tried to buy strychnine of two other druggists on Aug. 14, but one had none open, and she left without buying of the other, although she signed his poison record. Dr. Jacohs. by thin-1 who had an evident bias against the ac i cused, swore that the patient's condition on the first night, Aug. 15, was indicative of either acute indigestion or mild poison ing with strychnine. We now come to, the testimony in refer ence to arsenical poisoning, and upon that the whole weight of the prosecution rest ed. Mr.Kelly.adruggiBt.testified that Mrs. Walkup purchased of him on the Sunday afternoon before her husband died one-half ounce of arsenic. She. signed the poison record and stated she wanted arsenic as a cosmetic. Ben Whcldon, another drug gist, sold four ounces of arienic to her one Thursday before Mr. Walkup died. She said she wanted arsenic as a cosmetic, but did, not want people to suptiose she used he had mil Walktrp take arsenic on three separate occasion-. A fanner sw Walk up at 10 o'clock on Aug. loin bii own carriage way, when deceased said to him: "I came home from Topeka so sick I thought to God I would not live to see Emporia again, and when I got home in the carriage I could hardly get to the house. I got to my room, and my dear little wife pulled off my boots and rubbed me tiU she was exhausted." Walkup was in evident pain, and kept thumping his limbs and abdomen. A stock raiser said that i last June Mr. Walknp told him he had been taking arsenic. Dr. Filkins, who had been Mr. Walkup's con Bdential physician, testified thtft he saw him in the forenoon of Aug. 15. Walk up then said he had been sick in Topeka, and that his attack was similar to that of two years earlier, when the Doctor attended him, and he complained of vomiting, bur ning in the throat, and pains. One day Walkup ate cove oysters in the Doctor's presence.and was almost immediately taken sick. In his opinion deceased was almost always under the influence of liquor. Dr. Hamilton, of Topeka.swore that on Aug. ld.lwo days before the beginning oi tne. ia tal illness, Walkup called upon him and was treated for a pain in the stomach. The Doctor then advised deceased to stop ta king arsenic. Dr. Conway of Toledo, Kan., said that in 1880 Mr. Walkup toldfhim he was taking arsenic, and the Hon. Wil liam Jay swore that in July last, in his presence, deceased took a white powder and said, "I have been taking arsenic." - A great effort was made by the prosecu tion to exclude all this evidence as to the taking of arsenic by deceased, but Judge ENGLAND, FRANCE AND BURMA II. European Warring; In tne East. The Burmebc and the English have had a difficulty and all foreigners are refused permission to leave Burmah. A British force under Gen. Prendergast crossed the frontier of Burmah on Sunday last. The flotilla is now ready and comprises 45 stenmers, flats, and floating batteries, the latter being fitted out from six of the largest barges. Each of the floating batteries car ries two 60-ponnder howitzers and is at tended by armed launches. 12 25-poundcr siege guns are mounted on the steam ers. The force numbers 10,000 men, 7,000 camp followers, 5,000 mules and two ele phant batteries. King Theebaw has issu ed a proclamation declaring that he will not accept the absurd proposals of the In dian government, and therefore declaring war. He promises personally to lead his troops, and, calls upon his subjects to fight for the defence of their country and religion. What tne Trouble Is About. England is hardly "off" with one little war before she is " on " with another. The next barbarous potentate whom she pro poses to subdue if she can is King Thee baw, of Burmah. This time it is not a question of rescuing belcagured English men, or of making a counter-move against Russia. England wants more of rich and fertile Burmah thau she had obtained in previous wars. Burmah is not only a most desirable possession of itself, but it lies directly between the eastern provinces of India and China. It is the short cut and been known to cherish ambitious designs on that quarter of the globe. Though she I has been unfortunate in Tonquin she still holds Cochin-China, and from that point j of approach makes her influence felt in j Siam, in the Shan States which adjoin Burmah, and now in the latter country itself. The possibility of a collision of interests in Asia between two European nations equally addicted to the habit of "civiliz ing" by extermination lends an added in terest to the impendingconflict in Burmah. French sensitiveness upon the subject ap pears in the exaggerated statement of a Paris journal that " the British expedition to Burmah is really aimed at France." The declarations of the excitable French press must never be taken seriously. Yet it should be remembered that France has her own " mission" as a" regenerator, "and two of that trade never agree when aggrandize ment is the real object at which they aim. Without having any design near or re mote of wounding the susceptibilities of France, it is possible for England to bring on complications with that power by her threatened invasion of Burmah. ATew York Journal of Commerce. CONFEDERATE MEMORIES. Secretary Lamar Talks of hts Mission. SECRETARY LAMAR. A dramatic scene occurred in the room of the dying man the day before his death. Mr. Bill, his partner, talked with Mr. Walkup about his wife's having bought poison. Minnie came into the sick niau's room after the interview. Miss Lizzie Walkup was there. Minnie was crying, and she asked the daughter if she had n.!:'.rrieil twice, and was the father of two i heard the story, and exclaimed: Oh, jWhters and a son older than his bride; j my God!" She then got up and sat on but lie was still full of energy. Mr. Walk- ! the side of the bed. Mr. Walkup asked im was of handsome presence, being over j his wife to sit on a chair. She said to -fx feet in height and well proportioned, i him : " ou think I am guilty, and don't The liaj py p'r arrived at Emporia, where want me near you." To which he answer tiieCitv Council gave them a reception, j cd : " I do not say that, but the evidence 3r.ij all went well until the night of Aug. j is strong against you." Minnie wasexcit :ri when Mr.iWalkup was taken ill. One j ed and crying, and finally left the room ivitk from that time he died. I upon the statement of the daughter that Tlie il.atli i.f Mr. Walkup created in- it would excite Mr. W alkup. lhisUaugn Tt 1 .U.. V: . At:..- TV-It,., .... ,1 tlti ,-.,r.r -t'jise rXCltemcni. It was rruwu iuri ma j iui, iuii9 iininup, ouuiutuiuti unuguii., w ,. U:l h-.ii.rVir nrsenir at drusr stores husband. Harrv Hood, paid two ot tne O I . . Graves very properly held it to be part of j the most practicable route for commercial i the re gettct. Abundant testimony as to i intercourse between those two countries, j the dissipation of Walkup was given. One Of alt the lands which Eugland covets, How He Surprised "The Boy s." World Washington Letter. Mr. Lamar has surprised all of his friends by developing the fact that he is a good business man. No one would have suspected this scholar and student of be ing underneath a sound man of business. He has completely reorganized the Interior Department. He has completely divided up its work into divisions, so that he can take in a complete picture of the service without beinff fretted or bothered with I medical witness refused to state the reme- ; none seems likely to be more easily won i tGO much detail. He reads all the decisions dv he had Drescribed. The CoUrt at once ordered him to be committed for coutempt, and the witness turned pale and stammered 'Leptandrin and jwdophylin, to be used internally." Mrs. Wallace, the prisoner's mothcr.who had been at her side since the second day of the trial, testified to show that she had done nothingjto further the marriage of her daughter, and thus to refute the theory of the State that a conspiracy existed to mar ry Walkup and then to get his property. The medical experts called by the de- than Burmah. The invasion of the coun- ! made. His health instead of breaking try involves no such difficulties as those i down, as some of his friends thought it encountered by British troops in Abyssinia, j would with the work of the departments Afghanistan and the Soudan. The Bur- j improving under the excitement and stim mesc army is reported to be wholly undis- uiU8 0f it. cipiined and miserably armed. King Thee- ! Secretary Lamar, in his fight with the baw is a drunken tyrant, with a love of j rinEr influences of his department, doubt- fNew York Times Letter.l An anonymous paragraph going the rounds of the press is attracting consider able attention. It says that the Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, now Secretary of the Inte rior, returned from Europe in 1864 bearing assurances from Lord Palmerston and the Emperor Napoleon that if the Confederate Government would abolish slavery its re cognition by England and France would be possible. It also asserts that Mr. La mar diligently sought to impress upon the members of the Cabinet of the Confederate States the importance of such a step. It was intimated that he had probably urged Mr. Davis to take steps in the matter by asking the Confederate Congress to pass an act for the gradual abolition of slavery. This paragraph has been read by many persons with much interest, and it being believed that Mr. Lamar could tell some thing of interest about it and give a cor rect account of the facts which led to the publication of the statements concerning him, his attention was directed to it to day. He read it over carefully, and then said: "Well, there is something in the story, but, as told, it is very erroneous. It brings up some interesting reminiscences of my stay in Europe as the foreign agent of the Confederate Government. While I was abroad I saw the Emperor repeatedly, but I had no conversation with him. Na poleon made no siiggestions.as to what the course of the Confederacy should be. He was with the South in sympathy, however. So was Persigny, and so was DeMorny, the prime minister. The Count DeMorny was the man who is really responsible, origin ally, for the appearance of this story about the abolition of slavery by the Southern Confederacy threw me across the room. On our return to Boston we gave three receptions at the Revere House. On the night of the first reception, after the guests had retired and we had gone to our apartments, Mr. Loud said that I had committed a breach of eti quette in shaking hands with a gentleman. He became very angry, grasped me by the throat, threw me across a cot bed and choked me. I scieatned, and my sister, Mrs. Dusenbury, came in and pulled him away. He then struck me a severe blow on the right breast, and I was unconscious two hours. When 1 came to I was in bed. I suffered greatly from the blow for sever al weeks.. I consulted a physician, but did not tell of the cause of my suffering. One of the results of the blow was the for mation of an abscess under my arm, which the doctor lanced. I have never recovered from the blow, and periodically suffer greatly, even now. The second reception was on June 24. My husband struck me a severe blow in the abdomen just before it, and I fainted dead away. After the first reception Mr. Loud struck me on the nose so hard that it made the blood flow. My father was present and interfered. The night of the third reception bis treatment left marks on my limbs. I showed them to my sister. He forbade my going to see my father, and would not allow me to go when he was ill. Mr. Loud pinched my arms, making them black and blue, almost eyery day. Because I did not want to w'ear a low-necked dress to the Tigers' ball Mr. Loud struck me a violent blow. My sister-in-law was present and saw the blow. One evening, at the Revere House, young Mr. Goodsell called on my sister. Mr. Loud opened some champagne and asked me 10 drink. I refused, and he threw the wine in my face. When I was sick I was locked in my room all day without any thing to eat. He attempted at one time to empty a bottle of vitriol in my face. I Advertisements will be (userted for One Dollar per square (one Inch) for tfae first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office j of the i RALEIGH REGISTER, Second Floor of Fisher poilding, Fayetteviile Street, next to Market Ilouse. THE BALANCE OF PARTIES In Congress and In the Country. "DeMorny," said Mr. Lamar, " was a L d an(j sister came in and took cruelty worthy of Nero. He is hated at home, and has escaped overthrow only be cause uo man has appeared competent to head an insurrection. Surrounded by fawu ing courtiers, he imagines himself a mighty monarch; and, iu his haughtiness, has now trom a Ifioii twice during the week of his fatal sick An inmiest was at once held. A Micfui analysis showed a considerable 4i::;ii:i:y .f "arsenic in the stomach and . vir . f the dead man. and the attendant pbvsici.m testified that he died from arsen ical pniming. The Coroner's jury ren tLreii a verdict against the wife, -who was vent to jjiii. She hud, in fact, been in the -hi -rill'ustody since her husband's death, i-l on the day'of his funeral, which she iid not attend, she gazed at o the crowd the Court House steps, where, clad white Mother Hubbard dress, she the Sheriffs side. he wns subsequently indicted. On the r.; .rriing "f Oct. 19 she" was arraigned for :r:i! at Krr.pori.i before Judge Charles B. Graves :md a jury composed of citizens all living outside of Emporia. The Hon. Wil im. Jay, formerly of New Jersey, a dele te to the National Republican Conven tion of 1856, and now a prominent Prohi bitionist, had been appointed her guar- ::an. The nrisoner wore a as-l here unflinchingly the stare of the densely packed throng. She is described as a woman of rare beauty, with long black L-ir. large, expressive black eyes, a finely cut noeT -and exquisite mouth with lips - rnf-what full. Her complexion is of wax . :. clearness, while her cheeks are tinged ith the perfect rose color, black silk dress, Her senior counsel was William W. Scott of imporia, who was graduated at the Columbia Col Iru'c Law School in this city in 1863. He ! assisted in the conduct of the defence b- Thomas P. Fenlon of Leavenworth.said to be the most prominent criminal lawyer j :n Kansas, and by the iion. ueorge l.. IXm;1!s of Mississippi, a distinguished ora : -r and lawyer, w'ho had known the accus "1 from childhood, and who volunteered : aid in her defence. The prosecution wis ltd In- Col. Feighan, a native of Buf falo and h veteran of the war, now the uiitv Attorney, and he was assisted by tiie lion. Jay Buck, Mr. Lambert, and Mr. terry of Emporia. By 4 o'clock on the rirst day a jury had been obtained, and ti.t court adjourned until the following wo ruing. The jury was composed of farmers from I .:tv to sixty years of age, men who, ap parently, in a doubtful case would not itan tirw-a-rtrtbe side of youth and beauty. T!ie accused appeared on the second morn ing in a black cashmere skirt and black sfk Jersey, trimmed with silk chenille fringe. She wore no hat or bonnet, and her l.tark hair contrasted well with the wondrous beauty of her complexion, about the naturalness of which there was no doubt, as was shown by the recurrent f.u-hing of the cheek. Mr Walkup first met her in December i ;-t. at New Orleans, whither he had gone t attend the World's Exposition.. He then io'ljred at the house of her mother, Mrs. Wallace, and fell in love with Minnie. He a li t again to New Orleans in April, and h:u offered himself and. was accepted as ii'-r affianced husband. She visited . Mr. Walkup's home at Em poria subsequently, v. ith her mother, and on their return the Carriage took place. In his opening the prosecuting attorney i' d his theory, namely, that Mrs. Walk "I' had murdered her husband in order to fcnj' v the widow's portion of his estate; ''tit tin- only evidence of such a motive, if 't (Ml) be called evidence, adduced, was 'hat shi- bought 340 worth of goods at a !' M".ods shop.and that she told a carpen " i t hi- day after her husband's death that married Mr. Walkup supposing him to ti'h. hut had found since his death ''re was a mortgage on his furniture. Mr. Walkup was first taken sick late on turdav evening. Auc. 15. with severe iins in the stomach and bowels. He re " V( red on Sunday morning, went out 'riving in the afternoon, and on Monday tended to business and presided at a IMI.'tillg Cl f the Common Council in the 'veiling;-- He drove about on Tuesday "" niing. but at noon was taken violently i;l again with terrible pains in the region "f 'lie stomach. Dr. Jacobs, who had bei-n called in at the beginning of the at ' " k on Saturdav. and had prescribed sub- ''itt it.- of bismuth and morphine, contin ""1 the same treatment. On Thursday norning Mr. Walkup was so much better 'hat lit- seemed to have conquered the dis '' hut that afternoon he ate some cove oys ' f- with vinegar and drank some pop.and i he evening he became. again terribly ill i'h the former symptoms, was in a state "1 collapse on Friday, and oo Saturday morning he died. h prosecuting lawyers to aid in procuring a ! conviction. i On the same afternoon Minnie talked about the matter with Mr. Bill and with a j Mr. Severy. She admitted to the latter the purchase of strychnine and arsenic, but said she bought the strychnine to mix with wine to take the stains out of cloth ing, and the arsenic for her complexion. She said the arsenic bought at Wheldon's was unused, and agreed to send it by Dr. Jacobs to have it weighed, aud thus show that none was missing. She went up stairs for the arsenic, and as she came through the front doorway the wire door pressed against her and knocked the box from her hand, spilling its contents over the door and the porch floor. She stood surprised, then procured a table knife, scraped up some of the powder, and gave it to Dr. Jacobs, who admits that "her attitude as she stood after dropping the box was fixed. as if in surprise. On this same Friday evening Mrs. Walk up told Mr. Severy that her husband, a few days earlier, had tried to kill himself, that she heard the report of a pistol, and that she found him with a revolver in his hand. Walkuo told her that he had tried to shoot himself through the head. Severy, to test j the truth of this story, went up to the room, and, seeing a bullet hole in the wall, asked Walkup for an explanation, and the sick man told him that he was loading a i levolver and it went off accidentally. 1 The medical evidence was striking. Dr. Jacobs held the post-mortem examination in the presence of five other physicians. The stomach was red and inflamed, and the inner coat of one of the larger intes tines was eaten away. The corrosion was of recent origin. The liver was fatty, a condition which arsenic might well pro duce. Dr. Jacobs admitted on his cross examination that until Mr. Bill told him on the day before deceased's death of the purchase of poison by Mrs. Walkup, he supposed the sick man was suffering from acute indigestion, and also that even after his suspicions were aroused he gave no antidote. Most of the other physicians examined for the prosecution testified that under like circumstances they would have given an antidote, but all agreed that it would not have availed. rr Gardner, a chemist, analyzed part of the liver and stomach, and his analysis demonstrated with certainty the presence of arsenic in the liver. Prof. Jones of the Kansas City Medical College analyzed a fence swore that arsenic, w as a remedy for given i.ngl:ind a capital occasion to cnas- disease superinduced by excesses, and that i Use him, and, if occasion .serves, to put an ' arsenic could become eucysted iu the stom- , end to his rule. ) ach,and remain there inert for an indefinite The immediate cause of the present ! time. But the best witness for the defence j trouble was the recent peremptory order of ! was the fair nrisoner herself. She took her i King Theebaw upon a rich British corpora- i seat with composure.and frequently turned j tion called the Bombay-Burmah Company, portion of the remains.and found two and a half grains of arsenic in the stomach.liv er and blood. It appeared that about half of the contents of the stomach had been lost in the transfer to bottles. Dr. Page, who was called in the day before the pa tient's death, thought the cause of death was an irritant poison. Ten physicians, including those already mentioned, were asked a series oi ten nypomeiicai ques tions embodying the facts in evidence, and they united in the conclusion that arsenic had been given ou three occasions during the illness, and that the fatal dose of arsenic which caused death was administered on Thursday, as the o0;r found in the stomach could not have been there longer than 36 or 48 hours before death. Here the prosecution rested. It was the theory of the defence that Walkup was a man of depraved and licen tious life, addicted to arsenic eating as a tonic to relieve him from the pains caused by his excesses, and that ins aeam was me natural result of dissipation and the arse nic habit, while Mrs. Walkup had merely bou"ht the poison for her complexion. Eben Baldwin, the first witness for the de fence, had also been the first witness for the State. He said that while going to New Orleans in December last with Walk up the latter had severe griping pains in the stomach for two days, and that he said he knew what was the matter with him The clerk at the Emporia depot saw Walkup on his return to town f mm Toneka on Auff. 15, and the deceas ed then told him that he had been sick at Trubn and had come home sick. Dr. Scott, of Kansas City, testified that about December 1, 1884, air, naiitup called on him accompanied bya friend,and said he was suffering from an old difficulty, and that he had been taking arsenic and mercury, but strychnine was his favorite remedy. He asked the Doctor if he had fh. rormrt of the Royal Commissioners .Hnudncr that arsenic eaters had strong vi tality and powers. Nathaniel Morton, of Louisiana, the publisher of the Vidalia Sentinel, was ldentinca as uie companion of Walkup, and he stated to the jury that her face to the iurv when esulaininc her statements. During the latter part of the terriDle ordeal of cross-examination, how ever, she was almost in tear. She was educated at the Vrsuline Con vent in New Orleans, she said. She told Mr. Walkup, " I like you very much, but I don't love you ;" but finally, some months later, she consented to marry him. Her husband came home very sick early in the morning of Aug. 15. She testified at length in regard to her purchase of strych nine, which she bought to remove stains, and arsenic. The latter she bought because she had heard it would clear the complexion, and in August an eruption had appeared on her face. On Thursday morning Walkup gave her $2, the only money he ever gave her, and asked her about her complexion. She told him that a friend of hers in I ew Orleans used arsenic and had a very nice complexion, und deceased told her to get some and use it. On cross-examination Mrs. Walkup was asked, " Did you ever administer strych nine or arsenic to him?" The accused half rose from her chair and said, "None, so help me God!" with emphasis. She was on the witness stand for over eight hours, but left it after having brave ly held her own under the crucial ques tions of Ler examiners. During the whole trial she conducted herself with great pro priety. The court room was crowded, and many oi tne auauors -were lasnionaoiy dressed ladies. The prisoner's cell was besieged by visitors, but she bore herself with modesty, courage.acd self-possession. The jury on Friday last brought in a verdict of acquittal, which was received with ap plause by her friends. She herself said, "My God, is it so?" and burst into tears. The jury at first was evenly divided, but those for conviction finally yielded. Was the verdict right? We think it was. While the evidence showed that arsenic had killed Mr. Walkup, and that his wife during the week of his last illness had bought nrsenic,therc was a conflict of opin ion as to whether the arsenic must have been administered shortly before death or could have lain encysted iu the stomach. The medical evidence in favor of the for mer view the theory of the prosecution was given by teu of the prominent physi cians of the county, and men doubtless well known to the jury, and it alone would have infiuen6ed a weak jury to convict. But the defence proved beyond doubt by many witnesses, first, that early in the morn ing of Aug. 15, the day on which it was asserted Mrs. Walkup gave the first dose of arsenic, her husband came home from Topeka a very ill man, and, seendly, that for years he had been in the habit of eat ing arsenic. These two facts entitled the prisoner to the benefit of the doubt, and made it prov able that her husband's death was the re sult of his own folly. He did not realize the day before he died that dissolution was impending or he might have spoken out. Damning as the purchase of the poison by the wife otherwise would have been, in view of the arsenic eating habit of the hus band it lost much of its force; and the ex planation given that it was bought for her complexion was corroborated by the fact that at the time of purchase she signed the poison record readily. On the whole, all the facts proved were reasonably con sistent with the possible innocence of the accused, and it would have been w rong to convict her. The case was tried'with rare ability on both sides, and was most credit able to the Court and to the distinguished lawyers engaged. How Puff's are Made. Paper and Press. ' For years, half the editorial columns in amateurdom, roughly estimated, have con tained at .the top, in small type, " Amateur Journalism'!- the noblest institution ever engaged in by the American youth." Spealer Randall. This expression origi nated curiously. One day a delegation of amateurs waited upon the Speaker to se cure, if possible, his aid in obtaining for them second-class rates. He was busy, and all the boys could get out of him was; "I don't know anything about amateur journalism. - "Well." persisted one of the visitors, "don't you think it is the noblest institu tion ever ensrased in by the American youth?'' "Hell, yes! I suppose so; I am busy, answered the statesman. for the payment of about $1,000,000. The company holds valuable leases of teak for ests in Burmah, grants from Theebaw 's predecessor, and employs thousands of men and hundredsof elephants in removing the precious timber. The company has a good thing in Burmah, and Theebaw, who is always in want of money, saw no easier way of getting it than to tax at discretion the lessees of his magnificent woodlands. He was not obliged to consult a Parliament or Congress in determining to violate the agreement under which the Boinbay-Bur-mah Company was working. On his own responsibility he broke the contract as it had been previously construed. In other 'countries repudiation may be attended with more formalities. Legislatures coop erate with executives in nullifying laws and setting aside bargains. Theebaw did nothing worse than many civilized govern ments have done. But he did it in a pe culiarly despotic and offensive way. The company refused to pay the $1,000,000, apd snap judgment was entered against it for that amount in some burlesque court of Burmah. Appeal whs taken to the British Government, which promptly interfered. King Theebaw was diplomatically request ed to suspend the enforcement of the de cree issued against the Bombay-Burmah Company, to submit the matter to arbitra tion, and to abide by the decision of the arbitrator. No name for arbitrator was proposed in this communication, and the rejection of its terms was assured in ad vance by the well-known obstinacy oi the King. In his dense ignorance of the out side world, he had probably never heard of arbitration as an alternative of war. If heTiad hear! of it his boundless conceit and confidence in his nondescript army, and, above all, in the tall brick wall that surrounds his capital, Mandalay, would not have affected his decision to reject the British proposition. His Minister for For eign Affairs sent back word that on no ac count would the decree be suspended. He was then favored with that particular vari ety of ultimatum which England keeps on hand for instant use with obdurate (small) powers. The Earl of Dufferiu Viceroy -of India was the medium for submitting the new demands. They required that all proceed ings against the Bombay-Burmah Compa ny should be suspended pending an investi gation, and that a British Kesidcnt with a sufficient guard should be received at Man- da'ay with all the honors and have free access to the King. The latter has not kept .Lord Dufferin waiting long for an answer. He has responded that, if the Bombay-Burmah Company will humbly petition him, he will reconsider its case, and that Eng land is welcome to send auother Resident in place of the one who has voluntarily quitted Mandalay; but he docs uot pledge the safety of the newcomer or a royal re ception when he arrives. This reply being deemed evasive and unsatisfactory by the Government of In dia, we now learn that war has been for mally declared against independent Bur mah. It is within the power of King Theebaw to avert hostilities by a graceful surrender. But, if he happens to have heard of the exploits of the Soudan war riors azain6t the flower of the British army, he may feel encouraged to fight. In that event Lord Dufferin will have his first chance to use the increased British force still retained in India and the native sol diers who have been thoroughly drilled for the ad iourned campaign in Afghanis tan. With plenty of such materials and unbounded gold, the Viceroy of India may be expected to add the conquest ana an nexation of Burmah to the long list of his successes. Such, at least, is the confi dent belief in England and in the Indian peninsula. But since the reverses oi tne K. . . . - . , a J . Soudan it is not wise io oe over-conuueut of the prosperous issue of England's lit tle wars. Wherever England tries to get a new foothold in any part of the world nowa days she is apt to run against some Con tinental rival who is-imitating her favorite game of annexation. She cannot proceed very far in her triumphant march across Burmah without hurting the feelings of France. It is already suspected that French men who are said to be influential at Mandalay have instigated the imposition of this huge tax on the Bombay-Burmah corporation. Frenchmen want the rever sion of the splendid monopoly of the teak forests which John Bull has enjoyed so long. France is undoubtedly represented at the Burmese capital, for she has long less finds inspiration in the study of a great local character who was the ngnter oi 3ir. Lamar's neighborhood when the latter was a mere boy. This fighter was a planter by the name of James B. Zackery. His dialect and exploits were happily described by Mr. Lamar at n recent dinner. Zacke ry, in his best days, whipped everything before him. One day young Lamar asked the fighter to give him the secret or his success. He said : " Zackery, it can't be i that you arc bigger nnd stronger than eve rybody." Zackery replied: "Well, Lu cius, I jest explains it this yer way : When i I iroes into a fieht I takes a good swar that I'me goiu' to stay right thar! My, Lucius," added he " tightin' is, I reckon, the most tiresomest business there is. When the other feller begins to get his tire on, then your stayin' right thar will beat him shore." It was Zackery who, in condoling with a neighbor who had lost a good and fatihful wife.said, "I am sorry for you; I know of nothing that ungears a man so as to lose his wife." Towards the close of his life Zackery experienced relig ion. As he was lying upon his death bed a neighbor came in and said, " Well, Zack ery, you will have to go soon, I am told." "As is agreeable to nater," was his polite and conservative reply. When asked if he thought his Rins were all forgiven, he said, with even greater conservatism : " I reckon the heft of them are." Mr. Lamar's good "swar" to stay " right thar " is working the needed revolution in thei In terior Department. T. C. Ctiawford. Boycotting Explained. Sew York Journal of Commerce. New York, November 7, 1885. Please inform me what the word "boycotting" means and from what the word comes. Any information you can give will be ap preciated. H. C. R. Reply. Captain Boycott, an Irish land lord, was the first victim of the new sys tem. His tenants, and all their neighbors. and every one in the vicinity, bound them selves willingly or were coerced into an agreement to have no intercourse of any kind with him. They were not to sell any thing to him or buy anything from him, or to have anything more to do with him than if he had the leprosy, or plague, or small pox. , This system has been carried to such an extent that some of the persons selected as victims have almost perished in the midst of abundance. It has been tried in this country, but cannot be carried to the same extent as in Ireland, where the mass of the people, partly through a com munity of feeling and partly from a dread of abuse or assassination, arc brought to act together for this purpose. Here, for instance, a brewer gives offence to the trades unions by declining to accede to terms imnosed by his workmen, who have . . .7, i .ii i left him on a strike, tie anu an uu pro duct are " boycotted." All who belong to any branch of the trades union are forbid den to purchase his beer or to enter a sa- , i " r : i.l ..... A nnn loon wnere nis oeer u uiu, ui m uok auj dealings with any other person who has any dealings with him. The Tribune had a disagreement with its printers. The unions denounced it and attempted to boy cott, not only the Republican party, whose organ it is, but every dealer of whatever kind who advertised in its columns. Many persons were kept from inserting their ad vertisements in that paper for fear of in curring the enmity or losing the patronage of these bitter, unscrupulous men. In Some Families It Is so. f Chicago Herald. "There are some queer couples in this world," remarked a Dearborn street real estate agent. "The other day a man and woman called to see about renting a flat on the north side. The woman did all the talking and turned to the man for confir mation or corroboration. He always agreed with her, and he did it very meekly. " ' Well,' said the woman finally, ' I will give you $25 for the flat, won't we, John?' " ' Yes'm,' replied the man. And I'll pay my rent promptly, too. won't wc, John? ' " Yes'm.' " ' But. I inquired, as is usual in such cases, are you man and wife? ' "'Man and wife !' exclaimed the woman, sharply, 4 indeed we are not, are we, John?" "No'm." " 4 What!' says I, 4 not man and wife? ' 44 4 Not much." I'd have you know that in this family wc are wife and man, ain't we, John? ' 44 Yes'm." Dr. Geo. O. Warner, of Leicester, Mass., died last week of malignant diphtheria, after a five days illness. The disease was contracted from a patient, a fragment of diseased membrane falling out on the doc tors mustache during an examination. It was removed, but this was of no avail.. Dr. Warner has practiced medicine in Leices ter for twenty years. bright man, and he understood France, the' sentiments of nobles and common people, and the disposition toward the Confeder-j acy of all political classes in the Empire. 1 He told me that the voblegse Emperor, Princes, the Guizot faction, Imperialists, and Bourbons alike were for us. If the desire of those classes the wealthy, aris tocratic nnd powerful was alone to be consulted they would declare for the Con federacy at once. But the peasants, V e cltirage the' were against the Confeder acy. To them the idea that a cause was to be espoused that was not favorable to liberty was intolerable, and not to be har bored for a moment. If the Confederacy, seeking independence not alone on the ground that its cause was one of resistance to oppression, could also appeal to com mon France for its support" in an effort to enlarge human liberty, then the Emperor, who had great regard for V esdavage as well as the nobles, could extend assistance with the assurance that he would be up held, fersigny was of the same opinion, and so were others about the Emperor with whom I conversed. DeMorny was confi dent that the populace of the French Em pire were more intensely opposed to us than the people of England, and that their repugnance was to be attributed to the fact that we were contending for the mainte nance of slavery. j " While I was in England," said Mr. Lamar, " I did not meet Lord Palmerston to talk with him on the subject of recog nition of the Confederacy. Dickens. Thack eray, Carlisle, were all with us. Of that I am fully certain. Disraeli might have been with us if it had not been for an un lucky mistake made by Mr. Mason, who was then with me. We were both invited to jdinner at the same house, the house of Col. Greville, where many Southern men gath ered, and were to meet a number of prom inent men of the time, among them Mr. Disraeli, as he was called then. Mr. Ma son was a good deal of a Virginian in his notions about social etiquette, and, it ap pears, did not know that it was enough for two or three gentlemen to be invited to dinner by an Englishman to remove all bars to conversation between them. An introduction was unnecessary under such circumstances. When dinner was served, it so happened that, as the ladies and gen tlemen paired and passed into the dining- room. Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Mason were thrown together for the first time. Mr. Disraeli was all grace and suavity. He bowed to Mr. Mason. 44 Have you heard from Vicksburg recently ?" he asked. Mr. Mason drew back and fixed his great black eyes wonderingly on Mr. Disraeli. The American and Virginian could not under stand how so great liberty could be taken py one gentleman wmi anuuier geuuemuu when there had been no introduction. They got along very badly, never speak ing, in ;fact, and it was impossible after that to attempt to approach Disraeli on recognition. 44 It does not at present seem to me that I had any further talk about the proposal to abolish slavery by the Confederacy. In 1864, on my way home, the blockade run ner on which I had sailed made an effort to pass the United States ships at Wilming ton. The steamer was attacked and sunk, and I got off in a boat with my officers. But. as fate would have it, in attempting to go ashore, the boat was also sunk, and my diary, kept during my entire stay abroad, floated off upon the waters. I have never heard that it got ashore. The water where we were upset was only about five feet deep, and the bont's company waded to the dry land. "Did I speak to anybody in the matter about the abolition proposition ? i cs, 1 did. I was younger then than I am now, was more enthusiastic, and I was full of the force of DeMorny's suggestion. Ispoke to Mr. Judah P. Benjamin, to Mr. Mem minger, to Mr. Clay, and to others, but never to Mr. Davis. I knew that it would be useless. Slavery was the thing for which we were, contending, and I knew that to propose to Mr. Davis to secure foreign suc cor by abolishing 'the institution' would result adversely. Nothing ever came of it in the way of legislation or attempt at legislation. So the honor of having pro nosed that the South should abolish slavery in order that the Confederacy might live does not' belong to me. Whatever of credit there is in the suggestion belongs to De Morny, whose advice was not followed." New York 8un.J There is no change m the relative posi tions of parties in the present Congress as compared with the Forty-eighth. The Republicans will have ja majority of eight in the Senate, counting for them the Sen ator from Oregon whos yet to be chosen, and for whose election the Governor has summoned an extra session of the Legisla ture. The Democrats will pave a majority of forty-one in the House-of Representatives, including Weaver, tic Fusionist from Iowa. No legislation jupon which the two Houses radically differ can be passed with out a compromise. Npr can any veto of the President having political significance be overruled by Congrpss. One party checks thje other in Congress, and the President is confronted by an op position majority in (the Senate on ques tions respecting the approval or rejection of his nominations. ! The Democrats have nineteen, or exactly one-half the number; of States, in the Ho'use of Representatives by decided ma jorities : Louisiana, Ohio, Maryland,, South Carolina, Michigan Tennessee, Missouri.! Texas, Mississippi, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, West Virginia, I it away before he could get the cork out. He threatened me with a pistol. He struck me on the head before my mother. I was locked three times in the bath room all night at the St. James Hotel because I would not comply with certain wishes of his. I was in my night clothes. I slept in the bath tub. It was so cold that I shivered all nisrht. The reason he save my sister for locking me up was because I had disobeyed him, and he said that he should continue to punish me until I did as he wished. It was for this that I left him. On the Monday following I went to his office and asked him if he really insist ed on his proposition. He said he did and would give me a worse punishment than he had given me when I came home. I had taken his keys to get my clothes. I told him I never could go back to him. I cried and fell on my knees begging him not to compel me. His mother then came in. She and I were not on very good terms. She asked what was the matter. He told her, and she said to my husband, 4 Why don't you strike her?' He then raised his hand and struck me across the face, knock ing my hat off. I then ruRhed from the office almost insane and went to my sister, telling her that I had left my husband. This was on June 12, 1882. I went to my mother's home and told her why I had done so. Aftei I left him he wrote me two letters. One of them was very loving, but I knew it was from his pen and not from his heart. The other contained ver ses of poetry. Subsequent to June 12, I went to Europe with my lather ana re mained a year. I have seen Mr. Loud since my return. He passed me by on the street without speaking. I have been sup ported by my father since then." On cross-examination Mrs. Loud did not materially change her testimony, but she added other details of her husband's treat ment of her. She said that before her marriage she look lessons in violin playing from Ole Bull. She continued. 44 When I was married my husband forbade my playing. One evening I picked up the violin, and he said he could not bear the scratching noise. I went from the room and played in the next room. He came in, saying he would smash it. He took it and threw it into the fire. On one occasion there were some friends invited by Mr. Loud to his rooms in the Revere House. My husband asked me to play. I had an abscess under my arm, which gave me great pain, and I said I could not hold the violin. Mr. Frank Loud took up the violin, and, when I still refused to play, cut the strings with his penknife. I cried, and my husband ordered me to my room, saying I was a baby. He frequently gave me what he called 4 the Grecian bend kiss,' which was performed by taking me by the arms and bending me backward and strik ing me with his knees. He did not want me to kiss my father. He said it was not proper for a married woman. He was very immodest in mv presence, vr nen i was in I asked Mr. Loud for a physician. He re fused, and said, more than once, that it was net rjroner for a married woman to have a physician. No one, except my sis ter. Mrs. Stewart, knew of his striking me a blow in the abdomen on the evening of the second reception. He kept mc in the bath room four hours the first time. There was a window looking on to the street. made no effort to arouse any one while I was locked in there. Neither did I make any effort on the two subsequent occasions, when I was locked in all night, to arouse any one. I weighed 128 pounds when I was married, and 90 pounds when I went to Europe." "Western Insane Asylum. The Republicans haive sixteen States: California, Minnesota, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraskaj, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Nevada, ; Rhode Island, Kansas, New Hanjpshire, Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, Wisconsin. Massachusetts, . Three States are equally divided in' rep resentation, as follows : Connecticut, Illinois, Xew York. In the Senate the situation is almost re versed. The Republicans have nineteen States, if we include the new Senator from Oregon: Massachusetts, Oregon, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Rhode Islam). Nebraska, Vermont, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, Wisconsin. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, j The Democrats have fifteen States: , Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, Missouri, West Virginia. Four States are divided : Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio. Turning to the popular vote, Mr. Cleve land's majority over; Mr. Blaine last year, in an aggregate of $759,351 for the two candidates, was ony 62,683. Counting the St, John, Butleq and scattering votes, Cleveland was in af minority of 234,313, but he had twentyf of the thirty-eight States. These figures show that parties are close ly balanced, and that the long ascendancy of the Republicans by crushing majorities is a thing of the pastj Old issues are dead, and any attempt to revive them means de feat, f THE POLITICAl. ATMOSPHERE Cleared by the New York Elections. World Washington -Special. The general impression among the Re publicans is one b of discouragement. They believe thatj the Democrats have entered upon a long lease oi power ana that it will take yejirs of hard fighting to dislodge them. The Republicans are be ginning to realize the enormous advantage to the party that is in. The result in New York has so knocked out the Republicans that they have stopped talking about can didates for 1888. Before the election there was so much said upon the subject that one might have thought the country was upon the eve of another Presidential election. Less and less is heard about a war in the Senate. The Republican Senators are in a measure subdued, while the Demo cratic Senators wh were talking about a revolt are now very poyal again. For whether tne A.aministrai,ioi i eunncu wouj won" or not the fact remains that the result of the elections has hid the effect of tempo rarily strengthening the President, because the statesmen nowilook to a freer distribu tion of the offices aipd under the spur of this hope have becomexcessively conservative and loyal. One indignant Democratic Sen ator, who gave me (the glowing details of a hot dispute a personal quarrel with the President had before the election told the story, to be held subject to his final ap proval. When he saw it written out his courage failed him. Although he had sworn to never, j never see the Pres ident again, nor to ask any favor of him, he yet within a very Jew days was back at the White House again and soon obtained the office he desired k-Now to mention the publication of hjs'story of his row with the President would fairly paralyze him with terror andj call , from him most indignant denials. MASSACHUSETTS MANNERS Very Far Surpass Plantation Manners. An astounding story was told last week in the divorce court before Judge Devens in the hearing of the contested case of El len G. Loud against Thomas J. Loud of the firm of Loud Bros., well-known State street bankers. Mrs. Loud, who is not vet 21 vears old. and is a remarkably hand some woman, was the first witness. She said : 44 Mv name before marriage was Ellen G. Mack. I was married to Mr. Loud on May 26, 1881, at St. John's Episcopal Church in East Boston, and left him on June 12, 1882. Our wedding tour extend ed as far as New York, where we stayed at the Windsor Hotel. While there Mr. Loud kicked me out of bed one night and Charlotte Democrat .J On the second Wednesday in December the Board of Directors of the Western North Carolina Insane Asylum, near Mor ganton, will elect a second Assistant Physi cian for that Institution. Persons desir ing the place will forward their applica tions to W. J. Yates, President of the Board, Charlotte, N. C, or to Dr. P. L. Murphy, Superintendent, Morganton, N. C. The North Wing of the Asylum will be completed by the first of June next, when accommodations for the insane will bo in creased double the present capacity. When the Institution is finally finished accord ins to the plans adopted by the Legisla ture eleven years ago, it will be one of the finest and handsomest in the United States. Dr. P. L. Murphy, the Superintendent of the Asylum, and Dr. E. M. Summerell, the Assistant Physician, have been quite successful in their management and treat ment of patients, while Dr. Murphy has shown that he knows how to manage finan cial and business matters, as well as physi cal and mental ailments. How a Lion is Tamed. Boston Courier. I He felt like a lion when starting for home, And a lamb when he entered the door, For his wife was up waitjpg until he should come, And grim was the look that she wore. " I'll see who's the boss," to the boys he had said, , As he staggered ont Into the gloom, I'll see who's the boss of the house," and he did, When his shoulder she fanned with a broom. Some Common-Scliool Grammar. New York Journal of Commerce. 1 New Yohk, ifovember 10. You are kindly requested to pass upon the follow ing: 44 It smelly sweetly." 44 He looks nicely." 44 He feels badly." It is con tended that each of the above sentences ia incorrect. PleasS decide, though it seems to mc the old rhyane I was taught at school, 44 Adverbs, not adjeetives, tell how things are done, as slowly,' quickly, ill, or well," answers my opponent fully. u. u. Renlv. The Verbs tool; teem, appear, feel, taxte, tmell and tound, when a quality of the subject is to oe expresscu, snouiu uc , followed by an adjective relating to the subject, and not by an adverb. Quacken bos's grammar, (sec. 404. The reason will be obvious to every thoughtful student. 4 -The garden looks handsome," not hand somely. The garden does not 44 look " in the sense of exercising its vision; the be holder 44 looks "and to him the garden presents a handsome appearance. "Rosea smell sweet," noi sweetly. Roses have not the sense of smell, and the following word only shows the .quality of the odor to one who preceives it. A man looks bad when he presents a bad appearance; he looks badly when his vision is imperfect or he fails to use it .psoperly. A man feels bad I when he is ill or uncomfortable ; he feels badly when his -sense of feeling is not per fect, or he puts it to an improper use. A man smells had when he gives out an offen sive odor ; he smells badly when his sense of smell is irafserfect or improperly exer cised. He looks nice when he presents a nice appearence ; he looks nicely when he uses his eyes to look accurately. In short, when the following word is descriptive of some quality ott the subject, and does not qualify the action of the subject as ex pressed by the "verb, it should be an adjec tive and not an adverb. The pot-metal pictures that appear in some papers nowadays are little better than daubs of ink thrown at a mystery.