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u.awi .rs^q^.gj^aia^fr.stri I , C ' A M ) J O U 3 m A l > T U E S D A Y . 8 E P T E M B E E 6 . 18 9 2 3 Tear’s - Assessment F o r ?9 2 I IS COMPLETED, AND THOSE WHO .*. ARE . ’, I IN TH E --- COOPERATIVE ■Will p lease call a t m y Store, 9 Port Watson St., And pay the same. Come early. JOHNSTON (205 til SEAMAI I CRAKE — t h e S e w — Sell R e frigerators, L a w n M owers, Oil Stoves, Ice-C ream Freezers an d every th in g in th e ir line a t low e r prices th a n th e sam e q u a lity of goods can be bought a t any oth e r place in th e county. Clive us a trial. > -OUR L IN E OF- STOVES . . . A N D PLUMBING, GAS -AND STE AM-FITTIN G A n d Repairing o f All Kinds done promptly by experienced workmen. SEAMAN & CRAMER, Successors to H. T. HOLLISTER, 3 1 9 tf t No. 19 Railroad St. N E W FIRM , N E W GOODS, S M A L L E X P E N S E S , LO W PRIC E S . o f ev e r y k in d from th e b e s t t o th e ch e a p e s t . O’LSm S McEVOY. 299tft Just Received at * I S Iff. A LARGE LOT OF Salt Fish, of All Kinds, BONELESS, CALIFORNIA LIZZIE BORDEN HELD SHE WILL BE TRIED FOR HER LIFE IN NOVEMBER. . . . R A N G E S A L W A Y S COM P L E T E . The undersigned having purchased the FUR NITURE AND UNDERTAKING ESTABLISH MENT of T S. Mourln, Located Between Cortland and Homer, will h e reafter c a rry on the FURNITURE rn UNDERTAKING B u s in e s s in a l l its B r a n c h e s . W e shall keep constantly o n hand a large a s sortm e n t o f F U R N I T U R E jgp— F u r n i tu r e D elivered Anyw here in t h e Towns of H o m er o r C ortlandville. W e own onr store p roperty^w e w o rk our selves, a n d w e will n o t he undersold. It wul pay yon to call a n d see us. We a re on the iine of the Cortland a n d Homer street railroad. -AND- State-Cured Hams! N e w M a p le S u g a r , DATES, FIGS, BANANAS, PEBNES, FLOBIDA ORANGES, LEMONS, &c SOOtf) A Strong Argum e n t Against the Accused Presented hy D istrict Attorney K n o w ! ton—He Says Lizzie Told Differeni Stories of the Tragedy W hen Testify ing and Tells W h a t They W ere—Lizzie Demanded to Ja i l . F a l l R i v e r , Mass., Sept. 2.— A ttorney Jennings summed u p fpr th e defense in the Borden case here. He said among o ther things t h a t the com plaint alleges th a t on the fourth day of A u g u st Andrew J . Borden was killed by his d a u g h te r . He said h e ap p r o a c h e d t h e sub ject w ith feelings widely different from any other case he had ever handled. Mr. Bor den w a s n o t on ly h is client, bqfc h is f r ien d , a n d h a d an y b o d y t o l d him fo u r w e e k s a g o th a t he should now be pleading for the daughter of his old friend he should have said it was b e y o n d th e b o u n d s of credibil ity. T h a t A n d r e w J . B o r d e n w a s m u r dered there waff no doubt, and t h a t tbe tim e of tlie m u rder has been esta b lish e d there w a s no doubt. Continuing, Mr. J e n nings said: Done in Ten or Fifteen Minutes. “ The alarm was given at 11:13 or 11:15, and we know so far as we can know from the evidence that the time between Mr. Borden’s last entrance to the house and the alarm was from twenty-five to thirty min utes, which covers the time fully. What t< n ;k place after he got there? Bridget Sullivan told her story, and she left him in the sit ting room reading a paper. Within h df \ hour Andrew J. Borden had to go into ; ..o house, have his talk with -, if L- I ?iu One, go up ststirs and down stairs and ho down on the sofa, unless he was killed and placed on the sofa afterward. The rn.o must be reduced to from ten to fifteen min utes for the commi-'?ion of the deed. It is found that after the alarm had been given the bodies ryere where they have been so often described as being, and any man <? > common sense would have said at once on seeing them that this was the work of an insane man or of one whose heart was as black as black could be. “Blow after blow cutting through the hair into the brain were rained on these persons, showing th a t the person who did the deed w a n ted to make sure. There was an unnecessary brutality t h a t suggests in fernal hatred and revenge or insanity. Every blow delivered shows its deep line , o f dem arkation from the other, showing th a t the hand t h a t struck those blows was powerful a n d t h a t the hand had experience in h andling a h a tc h e t. This case is one b f Circumstances, a n d if there a re those which Weigh against the defendant y o u a re bound to observe those which are for her equally as well. These wounds speak for them selves, and don’-t rest upon the statem e n t of those who m ay h ave seen them . It be comes the duty of the commonwealth to in vestigate a crime of this nature w ith the utm o st care, t h a t the g u ilty should h e found. The Strange Man H a n d y Saw. “The theory of the state seems to have been t h a t the crime was com m itted by in m ates of th a t house; all their w o rk seems to have been directed by t h a t one idea. I t is claimed t h a t nobody could get out of th e house w ithout being seen, because there Were people all around. The state knows the house h a s been broken into in the day tim e w ithin tw o years, and the barn broken into w ithin tw o m o n ths, a n d the facts are pot d isputed. • W e have shown som ething the police ought to have discovered, the stranger w ithin the gate, as told by Mrs. Manley. The state attorneys have spent night and day following up clews to con v ict Lizzie B o r d e n , b u t k n o w n o thing about Mrs. M anley a n d the m an she saw. W hy? Because they are not looking for anybody Outside. The extraordinary thing is th a t th e police can’t find the m an Dr. Handy S w, b u t they can find the a x or axes Lizzie >rden killed her fath e r w ith. “There’s the fact t h a t strange m en have been there and haven’t been seen; those jnen got there and the neighbors d idn’t see them , and doesn’t it follow th a t others m ight h ave gone in and yet not h ave heen seen by the neighbors? Miss Collett did Hot see F rank W ixon, b u t h e w e n t over the fence while she was right there; neither Orowne’s m an nor the Frenchm a n saw him until h e got into the yard. Lizzie has told about seeing a m an dodging about the house a n d i t h asn’t been c o n tradicted; isn’t it e n titled to some weight? Miss Cha' on heard somebody m aking a noise a t the fence on the division line the night before. W e say t h a t this goes to break down the governm e n t’s claim t h a t this d eed was com mitted by somebody in the house. So far a s w e k n o w , M o rse, L izzie a n d B r id g e t Sul livan were the only persons m the house a t the tim e w i t h t h e m u r d e r e d persons. M r. M o rse h a v i n g acco u n ted f o r h is t im e leaves the others alone. Lizzie Breaks Down. “The y o u n g est daughter and the servant can alone he accused of the crimes, and right here I w a n t to call attention to the words ‘youngest daughter.’ She is the p e t of the family, the one whose fingers were last clasped by the dead father, ands the one whose head last rested against his breast.” Lizzie wept violently at this point, and Mr. Jennings was himself almost in tears. Continuing he said: “I do not believe that either Bridget Sul livan or Lizzie committed the deed. An drew J, Borden could not have got into the house before 10:45, and there are twenty m inutes of Bridget’s time unaccounted for, and nobody has asked her on the. side of the prosecution what she was doing all that time, but if Lizzie doesn’t explain every thing as she goes along, if she trips in her testimony, then she must be the guilty party, according to the state. “If Lizzie had an opportunity to commit this murder, Bridget Sullivan had an op- lortunity. Bridget says she was out doors, mt who else saw her out there but Mrs. Churchill? I do not desire to show that Bridget was guilty, but I am only trying ta $how the extraordinary course of the state toward Lizzie. Now if Lizzie did this, when did she do it?” Tlie K illin g of Mrs. Borden. Following Mr. Borden from his house a t 9i80, counsel b rought him bach at the time testified to a n d said t h a t if Lizzie killed bar m o ther she m u st have done i while her fath e r was out of the house, but she has told her story about her movements at that tim e, and the telling of th a t story, counsel $aid, was in the line of an outrage, as he had told the district attorney a t the time. The inquest was taken for no other purpose b u t to p u t Lizzie on the rack. Over aud over again she was asked the same questions to see if she could b e m ade to change her iBtory. Many of the witnesses could not tell straight stories, which was very natural, b u t Lizzie Borden, who had been subjected to a m o st severe strain, was condemned- Irfmply beoause she couldn’t rem ember some fif th e slightest details in connection w ith Ijer m ovem ents t h a t morning. I t was s tated t th a t Lizzie laughed a t Bridget w h e n she m ade t h a t exclamation a t the ftbor, b u t t t was beyond the bounds of h u m an belief t h a t any person could laugh over such a simple thing when she h ad ju s t come from killing her m o ther. Only an insane person could do th a t, and Lizzie Borden was not insane. No Motive Shown. “ No crim e,” declared the attorney, “is ever com m itted w ithout a m otive, and the state is hound to show Lizzie had a motive, and w ithout t h a t they have g o t to fall. I t has been published t h a t this g irl was on the m o st b itter term s w ith her father and m o ther, a n d t h a t was the m otive given by the governm ent, b u t the evidence does not back th a t up. There is only one little item —th a t five years ago Lizzie ceased to call h er Stepmother “ m o th e r ,” but Lizzie says her relations were friendly with her mother in every way, and that her parents were on * g o o d term s . “You hear of m u rders c o m m ittedby those who are spendthrifts, who are pressed by th e i r cred ito rs, o r b y th e i r m istresses, b u t never in the case of a person wllo has §2.500 recently paid her, who has no w a n t of money, a n d where there was n e v e r anything b u t the kindliest feelings b etween the per sons. And y e t w ithout a single thing to Suggest the cause, the s tate holds to i t th a t Lizzie Borden is a murderess.’ i F a l l Riven, Mass., Sept. 2.—As soon as I Judge Blaisdell had taken his seat at 1 hi afternoon session of court iu the Borden hearing, Mr. Knowlton for the state opened his side of the famous case by say ing he could duly appreciate the court’s feelings of relief that the end was so heal” that he liad found it 1 he most trying epoch of tlie cuiiri\; long and honorable career. In 1 he crime of murder, justly esteemed th.' line-t awful, there is that feeling oi horror tluii brings to man the deepest thrill he eMp.u'ienees. Not women ami weak men alone, but the sin mg man need not be tt-d:u'ued to confess the secret ter ror he leds at the t nought of assassina tion. Tlie district attorney then detailed the ciremnstain es of the crime, the evidence produced at the hearing, aud continuing said: I EXA M IN E D C L O S E L Y . i Lizzie Borden was exam ined as closely as anybody, but w h a t w as th e r e to grum b le about? W h y should th e innocent oi ject to that? I defy anybody to say t h a t in all my, tw e n ty-five years’ p ractice I ever used a fe m a le w itne-s other th a n courteously, aud w h e n L i z z i e B o r d e n te s l i i i e d she told different j stories she contradicted herself. W h e re were ■ M rs. Borden and Lizzie w h e n B ridget came into the house th a t m o rning a f te r she had gone into the yard? They w e re u p s tairs alone; before t h a t M rs. Borden h a d told h e r to w a sh th e windows: M rs. Borden h a d gone aw ay, an d w h en B ridget cam e to th e screen door Lizzie appeared an d w a s told by B ridget th a t she need n o t lock th e door; t h a t she w o u ld he in th e y a r d and could see anybody going or com m a ; t h a t she w o u ld get h e r w a ter in the b a r n i f Lizzie s a id so; all th e house w a a clear b u t o f Lizzie an d h e r stepm o ther, and when M r. B o rden w a s dow n tow n , w h e n M orse waa aw a y , w h e n B ridget was a t w o rk in th e yard, th e n th e deed w a s done in th a t upper ro o m , and w h e n M r. Borden w a s le t in by B ridget, Lizzie a n d Abbie B o rden are alone in th e g u e st cham b e r, one dead, th e o ther a live. SHE BEGAN TO IRON. W h e n Lizzie w as a t th e h e a d of th e s tairs an d B ridget w a s a t th e door, 6he w a s w h e re a w o m a n w a s so killed t h a t w h e n she fell w ith h e r m a ss of flesh to th e floor, she bruised her face and nose and m a d e s u c h a noise it m u s t have been heard. Then she tak e s ou t her things to begin to iron; B ridget w e n t up s tairs leaving Lizzie ironing a t th ree m in u tes to 11, n e a r e r to h e r f a th e r th a u I am to your honor; in five m inutes h g r fa th e r w a s dead. She could n o t have been dow n stairs because she w o u ld have h e a r d th e noise; n o t up stairs be cause she w a s ironing. I t is now m o re diffi cu lt t h a n i t w a s to im a g ine th e im p robability of the s to ry she told about t h a t barn. W h e re th e m a n w h o m Lizzie th in k s did t h a deed w as alii th is tim e we don’t k n o w . W h e re w a s Lizzie betw e e n 9 an d 10 w h e n h e r step m o th e r wasi k illed? “W h e re w e re you w h e n your fa t h e r re turned?” I asked h e r an d she said, “I w a s dow n in th e k itch e n .” No situation a t all; again I asked her and she said she “ was on the stairs when Bridget let him in.” WAITED FOR FLATS TO HEAT. I asked h e r w h ich statem e n t I should ac cept a s tru e . T h e n I asked h e r to account for th e tim e h e r f a th e r w a s a w a y —n e a rly an hour and a h a lf —an d “w h a t w e re you doing, Liz zie?\ an d she tells m e she w a s w a iting for h e r flats to h e a t; w a iting an h o u r an d a h a lf for h e r flats to heat; t h a t ’s only one thing, b u t I have not h e a rd a n y a d e q u a te e x p lanation from h e r as to how she spent th a t tim e . T h e n she said she brou g h t th e slippers for h e r . f a th e r an d he p u t th e m on, b u t th e p icture show s the hoots on h e r f a th e r ’s feet; th e y w e re never tak e n off. She first says, and it is h e r own v o lu n tary statem e n t to Officer F leet w h e n he asked h e r if she could give h im any idea of how her mother was killed, and she says at o n c e : “She is h o t m y m o t h e r ; she is m y s t e p , m o th e r.” T a k e the statem e n t of h e r bosom friend, Miss R u ssell, t h a t she w e n t out to get ! some iron or lead to fix a window, w h e n she i h a d told others she w e n t to get some irons, | and again, lead sinkers. A n d she stay ed in j th a t b a r n tw e n ty m inutes whore no w o m a n t w o u ld have s tayed five m inutes. , j SA ID SH E A T E P E A R S . | I gave h e r all th e chance in th e w o rld and j asked h e r to account for th a t tim e and she said she w e n t up there and ate pears; there, of all places in tli : w o rld, and “she did not feel w e ll a n d could not e a t any b r e a k f a s t.” I have seen all s o rts of alibis, b u t th is is the m o st labored one I ever s a w or heal’d of. The com m o n w e a lth has never said these people w e r e p o L o m d by prussic acid, but i t does say th a t t h a t w a s th o first proposition because there was a suggestion of a m o tive in Lizzie’s going to th e drug store; prussic acid c o u ld not he had, law s a re strictly against it and she gave it up, but not u n til she w as recognized, n o t by h e r trem u lous voice, h u t . hy h e r pres ence and h e r voice. Prussic acid out of the way, how was th e schem e to he carried out? By pistul? No, because t h a t w o u ld m a k e too m u c h noise, and so the. steel w as used. The fa c t is ap p a ren t th a t th is w o m a n w as a t tem p ting to buy an o th e r weapon to do this deed. H E R R E M A R K A B L E DEM EANOR. The dem e a n o r of th e d e f e n d a n t is r e m a r k a ble; w h ile everybody is filled -with anguish she has never yet expressed e m o tion. I t tak e s aw a y from tlie horror we have of bringing our m inds to th in k this th in g has been done by her. I have never h e a r d b u t one expression from her yat. She w a s annoyed th a t F leet should a sk h e r questions a b o u t th e fa c t of th e m u rders. W e k.ive never yet found th e w rap th a t covered Lizzie Borden a n d took th e blood from those bodies; we have, n o t y e t found th e h a tch e t w h ich ilid th e w ork. This th in g w as conceived in the head of a cool-lioaded, delib erate women. If yonr h o n o r should yield to th e eloquent argum e n ts of m y b ro th e r and allow th is w o m a n to go, t h a t w o u ld n o t b e th e end of th is m a tter. The rew a rd th a t atten d s d u ty done is w h a t should be considered. Ju d g e B laisdell said th a t sym p a thy should be laid aside a n d duty, stern duty, requires upon this evidence b u t one thing to be done. Supposing th a t a m a n was seen in the cham b e r of Mrs. Borden, the uest c h a m b e r of death* and th a t he was the room of th e fath e r when death came; suppose t h a t a m a n should tell as m a n y different stories as Lizzie had done, th e w a y w o u ld be plain. “I find t h a t she is probably g u ilty .” She was ordered rem a n d e d to th e county ja i l a t T a u n ton for t r i a l a t the Novem b er term. He Say§ He Will Do So Regardless of the President. HENDRICKS TO INTEBPEBE. The Collector Declares That the Presi dent’s Instructions W ill B e En forced, Jenkins or No Jenkins. K o jtfore M o ravia Cases. N ew Y ork , Sept. 3.—The officers of the transatlantic steamship lines in this city have not y e t recovered from the consterna tion into which the proclamation of a tw e n ty days’ q u a rantine threw them. The effect of the proclamation will De a total suspen sion of all im m igrant traffic for a t least one month. Although no formal notice has y e t been s e n t to the agents here, the officers of every company, w ith the single exception j of the Cunard line, sent cable dispatches to their superiors in Europe, requesting them ! to receive no more im m igrant passengers. A suspension of im m igrant traffic is neces sary for economical reasons. The cost of keeping the passengers for tw e n ty days a t quarantine, the agents say, would he g reater than the am o u n t of money paid by the pas sengers for transportation. T h o u s a n <1 s W i l l B e K e p t O u t . “In addition to the loss which the c arry ing of im m igrants would entail in itself,” said one of the agents, “ the cabin passen gers would soon desert our line when i t be came known th a t im m igrants were carried on the steamships.” Emil Boas, of the Hamhurg-American Packet company, said th a t while the agents regarded the orders as v ery stringent, they said t h a t they thought they were no more severe than the situation demanded. They all declared th a t they would co-operate in every w ay w ith the a u thorities in the work of keeping out the cholera. The assertion made hy Superintendent of Im m igration W eber th a t the companies m ight try to evade the instructions by re ducing the rates and carrying immigi’ants as second cabin passengers was resented by every one. Th© suspension of im m igrant traffic means th a t fully 2,500 foreigners will he k e p t from entering this port for every week t h a t the proclamation is in effect. From 2,000 to 3,000 im m igrants are received a t this port under n ormal conditions each week. T w e n ty-five Su s p iciou s Ships D u e . U p w a rd of twenty-five suspicious steam ships are due from now on until the ex piration of ten days. W ill there be cholera among them? is the question asked here and speculated upon not once h u t h u n d reds of tim es daily, and the quarantine officials have become tire d of replying, “W e hope not,” to the questioners. The Staten Islanders are in a state of fright over th e ir nearness to any coming trouble. The situation is shown by the ex perience of a lady living a t a h o tel n e a r the quarantine boarding station. She drove to St. George and there attem p ted to call on some friends, but they practically quaran tined her b y talking to her through a screen door. * The Staten Island police are co-operating w ith Dr. Jenkins, and those on South Beach a re keeping a keen lookout for small boats from the hospital islands and suspi cious ships, including the Moravia. D r . J e n k in s and th e P r e s id e n t . H e a lth Officer Jenkins says th a t he has pow er to d eterm ine h o w long vessels should remain in quarantine, and, notw ithstand ing the president’s proclamation, he pro poses to use his own discretion, a n d if nec essary, or as the case demands, suspicions ships will be h eld a longer o r s h o rter period than tw e n ty days. His actions will be taken, he said, w ith the understanding only t h a t h e is respon sible, a n d the president will n o t be consid ered. So t h a t now, as the situation stands, President Harrison’s proclamation will be practically ignored a t q u arantine. “I shall be governed by the state laws entirely,” said Dr. Jenkins. “A n d Presi dent Harrison’s proclamation does n o t apply to this p o rt. I am invested w ith full p o w er to hold a n y vessel as long as I deem i t neces sary, as p e r section 22 of a c t 11 of the s tate laws governing quarantine, a n d no vessel w ill be detained for tw e n ty days unless the occasion requires. I shall hold them six m o n ths if necessary, but to hold a vessel for tw e n ty days, w h e n she h ad no sickness aboard and when a few days’ fumigation would destroy a n y a n d every disease germ, would be the height of folly. “However, I shall co-operate w ith the state authorities, a n d do everything in m y pow er and take all necessary steps to pre ven t the cholera from getting by q u aran tine.” Dr. Jenkins’ deputies are much pleased over the president’s proclamation for one reason, as is Dr. Jenkins himself, for i t will have a m a te rial effect upon the steamship companies who bring over so m any steerage passengers. They will now have to exer cise more care and he more thorough in the inspections held at the sailing ports, and m ay stop altogether receiving steerage pas sengers until the danger is over. Mayor G r a n t’s Proclam a tion. A t 11 o’clock the transfer steam b o at \William Fletcher took a big load of immi grants from the Gallia for Hoffman island for disinfecting. They passed close into the boarding station w h a rf and shook h andker chiefs in the direction of a big crowd of re porters. The imm igrants were a peculiar looking lot, and they appeax-ed to be badly in need of a h ath. A t noon five b ig ocean steamships were anchored off quarantine, and if th e y con tinue to a rrive a t their p resent r a te the bay above the Narrow s will he ei-owded w ith them . .There were 203 first cabin, 232 second cabin a n d 658 steei’age passengers on the Oity of Berlin. They were all well, but were much excited over the cholera scare. She left Liverpool on Aug. 24. Mayor G rant issued a proclamation ap pealing to the public to co-operate w ith the authorities in every possible way to keep the cholera o u t of the city, a n d to prevent its becoming epidemic should i t g ain a n en trance. H e n d r ick s H o ld s a Club. H e a lth Officer Jenkins is more hopeful and less anxious than he has heen any tim e since the unfortunate steam er Moravia ar rived here w ith her pitiful story of death. The fact t h a t no new|cases have developed among the passengers of the pest infected , vessel gave the quarantine officials reason to hope t h a t they had the dreaded plague Well in hand. They a re beginning to hope t fc the scourge has been effectually oked, a t least so fax as the M oravia is concerned. The plague stricken vessel lies on the outer edge of Gravesend hay at a safe distance from the shore, and she is given a wide berth by all vessels passing in th a t vicinity. Dr. John W. Byron, the instructor of bacteriology of the univei-sity of N e w York, has finished his examination on the germs from the M oravia cholera case and s e n t his report to Dr. Jenkins. He intim a tes th a t he found none of the cholera germs tha* he was looking for. He said this did not sur prise him as the m aterial he h a d to work on had no im m ediate connection w ith the cholera cases. A representative of The United Press called upon Collector Hendricks in regard to the stand taken by H e a lth Officer J e n kins in the m a tter of the president’s q u ar antine proclamation. The collector said: “Our instructions are dear as \ to vessels coming from cholera ports. W e will bold them under these or ders tw e n ty days unless a modification is received from W ashington, w h e ther the health officer says they may come up or not. Passengers w ill be held w ith the cargo, and none w ill be permitted to come on land. “ A s to vessels already in the harbor and not yet eiitered, although passed hy the health officer, I have telegraphed for special instructions, and until received they will he detained. I repeat the customs authori ties will hold vessels from quarantined p o rts the required tw e n ty days, health officer or no h e a lth officer.” A BRILLIANT CAREER ENDED. George W illiam Curtis Dies at His Horn in Livingston. N e w Y o r k , Sept. 1.— George W illian C u rtis died yesterday a t his hom e ii /Livingston, Staten Island. Mr. C u rtis was conscious to the last and his death was a very peaceful one. MR. CURTIS’ CAREER. George W illiam Curtis has long been know n to th e w o rld as a u thor, lecturer a n d journalist, reform e r and politician, yet w h en his serious illness was announced the th in k in g public suddenly discovered th a t i t had no t really know n him . N o t of late years, a t any rate, for only th e older class of readers rem em b ered h is c o u rage in trying tim es, his self sacrificing devotion to ideals in governm e n t and society, a n d the p atience w ith which he toiled to pay debts for w h ich he was not legally boi^nd, b u t for which he held him self m o rally ac countable. H e was stigm a tized in t u r n as a “social ist,” “abolitionist,” “negrophilist” and B T A W A L L OF Q U A R A N T IN E . Tho United States Shut Out from A ll C h o l e r a I n f e c t e d P o r t s . Washington, Sept. 3.— The United States is surrounded as if w ith a Chinese wall by a quarantine cordon against the cholera. A t every port on the A tlantic coast a n d all the princijtal ports on the Pacific coast, and ports of eut:y along the Canadian border and Mexican frontier U n ited States officials Stand sentinels g u arding against tlie plague. All inform ation received a t the treasury de partm e n t is to the effect th a t the regula tions h ave been strictly enforced by U n ited States officers and state officials who are working in hearty conjunction. No case of cholera exists in the U n ited States so far as the treasury departm e n t knows. Every official of the great govern m e n t has been advised of his duty in the premises. The state departm e n t tele graphed the president’s circular to Ameri can m inister# abroad, who in tu rn notified the U n ited States consuls, custom officials, etc. A ssistant Secretary Spaulding said th a t an ocean steam er arriving now w ith both im m igrants a n d cabin passengers on board would be detained tw e n ty days a t q u aran tine. The im m ig r a n ts would be k e p t on the vessel for tw e n ty days, b u t the cabin pas sengers, in the discretion of the health offi- •cials, would be perm itted to land in a rea sonable time. Secretary Foster says, “Vessels not car rying im m igrants will not necessarily be detained tw e n ty days a t quarantine, but they will b e h eld from all foreign ports long enough to assure officials th a t there is no danger of their introducing cholera. Any p o r t a t w h ich cholera has appeared is an infected p o rt.” _________ Philadelphia Preparing. P h i la d e lp h ia , Sept. 3.—M ayor S tuart sent a communication to the city councils suggesting th a t they allow the board of health $50,000 w ith which to defray the ex penses of p recautionary measures necessary to prevent the introduction of cholera. The steam ship British Princess, detained a t the quarantine station, would, J t was said, be allowed to come up to the\ city. John H. Clark, a Philadelphia attorney and ex- m em b er of common councils, who was a saloon passenger on the steamship, was quietly taken ashore. R a ising the Price of Sugar. P h i la d e lp h i a , Sept. 3.—The cholera epi demic is raising the price of all standards of hard sugars and a fam ine in the m a rket is likely to occur. The board of h e a lth inspec tors here have heen. through the district from F ifth to Sixth, South and Bainbridge Streets, m aking a house to house visitation. Notices will be served on all parties who do n o t imm ediately a b ate nuisances. B a r r e d O n t from C a n a d a . S a r n i a , Ont., Sept. 3.— A car containing th irty im m igrants on the m o rning express for Buffalo w a s detained a t the tunnel station here owing to the refusal of the U n ited States authorities to allow the car to en ter their territory on account of the illness of several of the occupants from w h a t i t is feared m ay be cholera. A P a n ic in P o lan d . V ien n a , Sept. 3.—Many w e a lthy families from Lubin, Poland, are crossing the Aus trian frontier to escape the cholera a t home and a re settling in Galacian towns. A t the 1 points where they cross n o m ilitary cordon ! has been established. Their arrival has ! caused grave fears, as some of them are j thought to be infected. j The Scourge at St. Petershurg. S t . P etersburg , Sept. 3. —The city re tu rn s give a total of 144 cases and fifty-foui deaths for Thursday. This is a increase of tw e n ty-one new cases and fourteen deaths compared w ith Wednesday. The Scourge Spreading in Germany. B e r l i n , Sept. 3.—The imperial sanitary office reports deaths from cholera in many towns of Silesia, Schleswig, Luneberg and Posen. The Hamburg-Heligoland steam ships h ave been suspended. Cholera Suspects in Spain. M a d r i d , Sept. 3.—-A medical inspector on the French frontier a t Trun has sent to the hospitals several cholera suspects who ar rived on a train from France. _ « Ballot Box StulFers Sentenced. J e r s e y C i t y , Sept. S.—Twenty-one of the Jersey City ballot box staffers were- sentenced here. Their sentences ranged from six to fifteen months. Counsel for the defense .moved for an a rrest of judgm ent, h u t it was p rom p tly denied a n d the prison ers were a t once taken to jail. Failed to K i l l H e r Lover. K a n s a s C i t y , Sept. 3 . — Maggie Jonas, eighteen years old, a domestic, a ttem p ted to shoot William Sw artz, to whom she was engaged to he m arried, b u t failed. She th e n fired a bullet through her heart. No m o tive for the deed is known. Sum mer Guests Aronnd Fires. K ingston , N. Y., Sept. 3.—In various parts of U lster county there was a h eavy frost last night. All the summ er resorts in , the Catskills have s tarted grate fires, and guests sleep u n d e r blankets. Arnold at Winnipeg. W innipeg , Man., Sept. 3.—Sir Edw in Ar nold, accompanied b y a Japanese lady, Mrs. Sarow a ra, has arrived here. He has re cently returned from Japan. He will leave for the e a st tonight. ____ I t m a tters little how the head liefch.— R a leigh on th e Block. I resign m y soul to God; m y d a u g h ter to m y c o u n try.—-Jefferson. C u rtis considered h im self m o rally respon sible for a share of the indebtedness, re fused to a v a il him self of legal technicali ties a n d resolutely toiled till he had paid every £ollar. For th e n e x t ten years he labored as no literary m a n had done since t h a t wonder fu l a c h iivem e n t of W a lter Scott in paying the indebtedness of the b a n k ru p t firm w ith w h ich he w as connected. He lectured as often as 100 n ights in a season, traveling w ith only such rests a s he could seize up on th e ears, a t the sam e tim e w riting the “Easy C h a ir” a rticles for H a r p e r ’s M o n th ly and the “Lounger” articles for the W eekly—the form e r begun i n 1853 a n d the la t te r in 1857. The physical and m e n tal strain was terrible, h u t a splended con- stitutiqn, good habits and a cheerful dis position—the c apacity to rest thoroughly whenever r e s t w as possible—carried him through. A ll this tim e his earnings on phe platform and p a r t of his salary as a w r iter w e n t to pay his debt, nor was it till 1873 t h a t he suffered the first serious Sickness of h is life. In 1856 he m a rried Miss Shaw, who is Unknown in the literary world, b u t great ly loved in th e social circle. T h a t year also he gained a g r e a t reputation as an orator, speaking for F rem o n t in various states. In 1860 he w a s a delegate to th e convention w h ich n o m inated A brahamJLin- eoln, and by a clever stroke secured the Insertion in the platform of the opening clauses of the D e c laration of Independence after J o s h u a R. Giddings had been de feated in the same attem p t. In 1863 he became tbe political editor of H a rper’s W eekly a n d soon m ade it the pow e r it has ever since been. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. “m iscegenationist,” then as a “snivel s e rv ice reform e r,” “political d u d e ” a n d “anglo- m aniac,” and, as the last e p ithet of infam y , ! as a “M u g w u m p ,” y e t defended his p o s i tion on each issue by the same axioms a n d compelled respect a t the last. He was al- . ways tru e to his ideals, and w h e n they . came to sum m a rize his life’s w o rk m a n y j people found t h a t they had loved him all l along w ithout k n o w ing it. j H is e a rly utterances in favor of freedom have become classics. They were so com- I pletely absorbed into the popular w e a lth , of th o u g h t t h a t m a n k ind had forgotten to whom they owed them , and the younger generation learned w ith s u rprise t h a t th is genial essayist and conservative scholar w a s once th e very incarnation of fervent radicalism . H e was bom in Providence Feb. 24,1824, and after obtaining a common school edu cation there passed four y e a rs a t an acad em y in Jam a ica. Plains, Mass. S trictly speaking he never took a college course, yet h is scholarship was unusually sound and thorough. H is m o ther h a v ing died in his early boyhood, his fath e r m a rried again, and in 1839 renfoved to New Y o rk city. Of this second m a rriage w a s born Joseph B ridgham Curtis, who w a s a youthful p rodigy in science and engineer ing, w as a p p o inted captain of engineers a t th e beginning of the Civil W a r, entered active service later, obtained the ran k of captain in a Rhode Island regim e n t, and w a s shot d e a d while leading a charge a t the b a ttle of Fredericksburg a t th e early age of 26. ^ George W illiam w a s d e stined to a Slower grow th. H is f a th e r decided on a m ercan tile career for h im a n d p laced him as c le rk in a G e rm a n im p o rting house. W e need say n o m o re as to the judgm e n t of the elder Curtis. H is son’s year in t h a t office w as decidedly th e unhappiest period of th e lad ’s life. H e “cu t the shop,” as they said in those days, in sheer desperation, and w ith an older b rother joined the noted Brook F a r m com m u n ity in W e st R o x b u ry, Mass. The w o rld has had its lau g h about Brook F a r m and m o st of those who joined in th e experim e n t have, since the first Bmart of d isappointm e n t was eased, joined in th e laugh. I t w as an idealistic, com m u n istic, opti m istic e x p e rim e n t—and a flat failure. Mr. C u rtis says of th e commune: “I t was a com p any of h ighly educated and refined persons who f e lt t h a t th e im m ense d ispar ity of conditions a n d opportunities am o n g m e n was an injustice full of peril to 800 iety; * * * th a t every person is en titled to m e n tal a n d m o ral c u lture, * * * and were th e necessary w o rk of the world shared-by a ll, all w o u ld find opportunity for h igher c u ltivation.” Jo h n Quincy A d a m s said t h a t “nonre- sistan t abolitionists, M a rat Democrats, < phrenology and anim a l m a g n itism came in, each furnishing some plausible rascal ity as a n ingredient for the bubbling cal dron.” A n d N a thaniel H a w thorne thus states the results: “I w e n t for poetry, and I found m u ck; I w e n t to drive th e horses of the sun, a n d I s a t in th e m a n u re m ilk ing a kicking cow.” A fter Brook F a r m the C u rtis brothers rem a ined tw o years in Goncord, Mass., and vicinity, w o rking on a farm , s tudying and w riting, and a t the end of th a t tim e George W illiam had acquired a standing as a w riter w h ich enabled him to go abroad. He w e n t in 1846 and returned in 1850. The r e s u lt appears in his fam o u s w o rks on Syria a n d Egypt, which caused him to be know n for m any years as the “H o w a d ji,” o r Pilgrim . H e was e x trem e ly fo rtu n a te in traversing Egypt im m e d iate ly a fter travel there was first m ade safe, and before m o d ern research and the sci ence of archaeology h a d m ade the c o u n try fam iliar. M R . C U R T IS' STA T ffN ISLAN D HOME. H e h a d w r itten for the New Y o rk Tribune a n d The Courier and Enquirer, and returned to New Y o rk to find h im self in the f ro n t r a n k of young w riters. Y e t his first independent v e n tures were disastrous. A fter three years on The Tri bune and after publishing his “Lotus' E a ting,” in 1852, he joined w ith P a rke Godwin a n d Charles F. B riggs in the edi to rial m a n a g e m e n t of P u tn a m ’s M onthly. I t was too good for th e times. Or, p er haps, i t h a d too m a n y good m anagers a n d lacking th e controlling energy of one dir^ recting m ind. A t a n y r a te i t failed, after th e b u siness m a n a g e m e n t h a d passed into th e hands of Messrs. D ix & Edwards. Mr. MR. CURTIS’ HOME A T A S H F IE L D , MASS. H is subsequent career is know n a n d read of a ll m en, b u t a critical review of it w o u ld bring us into current politics. H is s u m m e r home a t Ashfield, in w e stern Massachusetts, was long a sort of rural Mecca for literary men, and his home on Staten Island, w h ere he lived for over thirty years, was a sort of m u seum of relics of the anti-slavery agitation. H is books a n d pictures were so wisely Belected a n d a t the sam e tim e included so m a n y varieties t h a t an invitation to pass a day a t'h is h o u se w as accounted b y young journalists a g r e a t piece of good fortune. In one of th e last interview s he ever sub m itted to Mr. C u rtis said: “I wrote articles on ‘O u r B e s t Society’ for P u tn a m ’s and out of those grew th© ‘P o tiphar P a p e r s . ’ I had p l e n t y of fun, b u t some of the articles, it strikes m e now, were r a th e r im p u d e n t. I was o ften c h a rged w ith p u ttin g real p ersons in th e pillory, b u t there w a s no foundation for th a t charge. ‘P r u e and I ’ began w ith a little paper o n ‘D inner Tim e .’ I had prepared th e m a terial to w rite M ehem et Ali, the fam o u s conqueror of Acre, b u t on m y re tu r n to Am erica w o rk came upon m e so rapidly t h a t I never had tim e. I have a ll ways believed t h a t there is a chance for a g r e a t oriental study in th a t rem a rkable m a n . The ‘Easy C h a ir’ in H a rper’s was begun by m y delightful friend Donald G. M itchel (Ik Marvel). Since I took it there has been h u t one interruption, a n d th a t was during m y only serious sickness, in 1873. “From February to October I did not touch a pen except to sign checks. The ‘Easy Chair’ was during t h a t tim e m o st charm ingly filled by Thom as Bailey A l drich, b u t he w a s so m o d est th a t few people k n e w th e fact. In 1867 w a s s tarted the H a rper’s B a z a r, for w h ich I w rote ‘M aimers o n th e R o a d ’—as popular a s a n y aeries I ever wrote. The g r e a t d ays of th e lecture platform were from 1850 to the close of the w a r, a n d we who were on th e road h a d tw o favorite jokes. One was b y W endell Phillips, who alw ays answ ered th e queries of lecture com m ittees thus, ‘I will lecture on ‘The Lost A r ts ’ for $50 and m y expenses, on ‘A jiti-slavery’ for n o th in g and pay m y o w n way. ’ The other was hy Dr. Chapin, who answered, ‘I w ill lec tu r e for F-A-M-E—th a t is, F ifty and My Expenses.’ “I left th e platform in 1873. W h e n I began new spaper w o rk I lived in W ash ington place, New York. I was m a rried in the au tu m n of 1856 and located here in 1860. I t is an irreverent t r u t h th a t the Creator did m u c h for Staten Island, b u t Erastus W im a n has done more by bring ing i t w ithin a h a lf h o u r of N ew Y o rk.” Such were some of th e last outgivings of the genial “H o w a d ji” and refined and scholarly “Easy Chair.” Mrs. Curtis, a daughter of the em inent philanthropist R o b e rt G. Shaw, is a hand some and agreeable lady. Dr. Francis C u rtis of Newton, Mass., is th e ir son, a n d there is a n unm a rried daughter. TH E BODIES COMING ASHORE. Three of th e Western. R e serve’s Victims Recovered. S a u l t S t s . M a r i e , Mich,, Sept. S .— A dispatch from Deer P a r k says t h a t three bodies a n d a traw l from the steam er W est ern Reserve, which b roke in tw o a n d sank, causing the drow n ing of tw enty-six persons on Tuesday night, were cast up by the waves near there. One of the bodies is th a t of Captain Minch, the owner of the lost steam er. He was identified hy a watch found on his person. The tw o other bodies are unidentified, one being t h a t of a dark haired woman. The W e stern Reserve was a steel steamer of 1,965 n e t tons a n d was built in 1890 by the Cleveland Shipbuilding company. She was owned by P. G. Minch and others, of Cleveland, rated A l, and was valued at $ 220 , 000 . __ Fennsylvania Veterans Meet. S o u t h B e t h l e h e m , Sept. 3 . —The Grand A rm y posts of the middle district of Penn sylvania held their annual reunion here. Fifteen hundred veterans, sons o f veterans and cadets were in the line of parade. Allentown was chqsen as the place for hold ing next year’s reunion. A very enthusi astic campfire was h eld in the opera house a t night, Colonel Thomas J . Stew a rt, secre tary of internal affairs, presiding. Ad dresses were m ade by Colonel Stew a rt, Auditor General Gregg, State Treasurer Morrison a n d others. A H o m e for U n fortunate C h ildren. P h u ja d e l f h i a , Sept. S.—Secretary J, Lewis Crew, of the Society to Protect Chil* clren from Cruelty, is agitating a plan fox th e erection of a large foundling institution. \
