The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-09-01 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

MARK LANE, Tina Day.
Wheat mold slowly, at the late decline. Buie, dull and
dro,opina. Maim sixpence and inferior Oat. one 'killing
lower on the week. Beane and Peal quiet. Flour
unaltered.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE. —THIB DST.
About 3,000 English and 2,500 foreign beasts. Trade
roo,teraze. Inferior, Is to to. 6d; prime, et,, & 4A.
About 24,000 sheep. Active demand. Inferior, 4a, gd. to
ed. prime, 5a 44. to 5a fkL Calves sold at 4a. to 5s 13d.
3s. SI to ls.

MONEY MARKET, THIS DAY.
Discount demand aid. Three months' bills charged
is to I. Cunolau

TRAFFIC RETURNS, TBIA DAY.
Great Western of Canada, 011,406 decrease ; Brighton,
ESsli increaxe ; South Pastern, /I,OIZ increase.

ILLNESS OF MR. GILPIN, M.P.
Mr. Gilpin, M.P., has pared • quiet night, but his
condition remains unchanged.

THE EVANGELICAL CONFERENCE AT
OXFORD.
The Evangelical Conference commenced at Oxford this
(Monday) morning, prayer, conversationaL and public
meetings heintg held. The Right Hon. Cowper-Temple,
Viscountess Haberton, The Hon. Thomas Pelham, ana
Admiral Fishbourne are among the late arrivals.

COLLISION IN THE HUMBER.
The steamers London and Emily_ were in collision in
the Humber yindenlay (Sunday). ThellY scli-4 cut in
two, and half sunk at or.ce, the other half floating some
hours. No liefes were lest.

DOUBLE EXELVTION AT LIVERPOOL
Henry Flanagan, for murdering his aunt, and Mall
for hooting a man, were executed at Liverpool
th 6 (Monday) morning. Both remained tirm to the Wt.
The man wee apparently in a state of stupor, and the
woman praying.

FATAL CASUALTY AT A RiIIiATTA.
At Whitby regatta this (Monday) afternoon, a small
craft contesting in • race was capsized and gunk, her
waster Frank Clarke. baing drowned.

GREAT SE.
Sir Arthur t Miness's porter stores at Shannon Harbour
wen: completely destroyed by Sr. on Saturday.

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TIIE SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE
WORLD.
Till KNOLIMMAN ICTOILIOLS.
A Reuters telegram from New York states thst IMILOSW4
the Engliah champion, has won the swimming unit:hes
et Long Branch away. =Trust; the American, for
the championship of the

THE BEECHER-TILTON SCANDAL
New York papers contain the text of Mr. Beocher's
statement to the Plymouth Church Investigation Ginn.
iuiucv' In anower to Mr. Tilton's charges. It fills nine
columns. Ile begins his defence as follows:—In the
statement addressed to the public on the 2tnd of July last
I gave an explicit, comprehensive, and solemn denial to
the charges made by Theodore Tilton against me. That
denial I now repeat and reaffirm. Ills a sad history, to
the full meaning of which I have but recently awakened,
entangled in • wilderness of complications. I followed
until lately • false theory and a delusive hope, believing
that the friend who had assured toe of his determination
and ability to control the passionate vagaries of Mr.
Tilton, to restore his household, to rebuild his fortunes.
and to vindicate me, would be equal to that promise. His
self-confewed failure has made clear to me what for a
long time I did not suspect, the real motive of Mr. Tilton.
My narrative does not represent a single standpoint only
as regards my opinion of Theodore Tilton. It begins at
any cordial intimacy with him Indio earlier career, shows
my lamentation and sorrowful but hopeful affection for
him during the period of his initial wanderings from truth
and virtue, it describes my repentance over evils befalling
him of which I was made to believe myself the cause,
any penavering and finally despairing efforts to save him
and bin family by any sacrifice not absolutely dishonour
able, and growing conviction that his perpetual follies and
any blunders rendered his recovery impossible . . . . .
W. Beecher proceeds to give an account of his relations
with Tilton, who first, Meanie known to hits as a
reporter of his sermons. Afterwards Tilton became his
imamate on the Independent, and Mx. Beecher say's he
became very much attached to him. Passing on to
his relations with the Tilton family, Mr. Beecher says,
my labours confining me to the city, I took any meals in
the families of friends, and from year to year became
so familiar with their children end home that I went
In and out daily almost as in my own house.
Friendly relations continued until lOW, when the
violent as.saulta made upon me by Tilton in the Indepen-
dent, on acc..uut of my Cleveland letter, caused the tem-
porary discontinuance of the publication of my sermons in
that paper, and broke off my connection with it : although
Mr. Tilton and I remained peroonally on good terms, yet
there was a coolness between us in all natters of politics.
Our mond relations were very kindly, as as late as Neill
at las request I sent to Page some fifty times for a_portrait
It was here that I first met and talked with Moulton,
whose wife was a member of Plymouth Church, although
be was nut a member or even a regularattendont During
the whole period I • received from Mr. Tilton or any
member of his family the slightest hitt that there was
any dissatisfaction with my familiar relations with his
homehold. Children were lam children died, they
learned to love me and frolic with we as if I was one of
themselves. I loved theta, and I hal for Mrs. Tilton •
true and honest regard. She seemed to me an affectionate
mother, a devoted wife, looking up to her husband
as one far above the cututuon race of men, and
turning to sue with artlew; familiarity and with entire con-
fidence. Childioh in appearance, she was childlike in
nature, and I would so MARI have misconceived the confi-
dence of her little girls as her unstudied affection. So far
trout oupposing that my Presence and influence were
alienating Mrs. Tiltssu from her family relations, I thought,
on the contrary, that it was giving tier strength, and
encouraging her to hold fast upon a man evidently sliding
Into dangerous associations, mid liable to be ruined by
unexampled oelf-couceit I regarded Mr. 15Iten as in •
very critical period of his life, and used to think. it
fortunate he had good 11111111111111111 l about bin,. Con.
eerning all soy other visits', it is sufficient to say that at
no interview which ever took place between Mrs. Tilton
and myself did anything occur whnh might not have
occurred with perfect propriety between • brother and
sister and a father amid child, or between a man of high
honour amid the wife of his dearost friend, nor did any.
thing ever happen which she or I oought to conceal from
her huoland. In the remaining portione of his staitenient
Mr. Beecher touches again upon Mr. Tilton's eccentricities,
refers to the advice he gave upon the question of separation,
and e x prCSACS lIIS own 11111•U•piti011 of Mr. Tilton's meaning
when th•• Litter demanded that he obould leave Brooklyn.
lle speaks aLio of Mrs. Tilton basing told him of her
husibsunlo laxity in religion and morslacind then goes on to
notice the tint explicit charge made asfainot hint, and
attempts made to bully him
Mr. Tilton in his reply contradicts many of the
material points of Mr. Ikrncher narration • in particular
he insists that his wife's coulowien was freely made when
elm was in robust health, and on her return home after
several week's abance. He descriln•s Mr. Beecher's
account of his remora as "a simple absurdity."
If Mr. Tilton "condoned his wife's fault," there was •
fault to be condoned. That word applies to but one
wrong. Why should Mr. Beecher live on the "rugged
edge id' remora, for three and a half years for advice
:Ai, ell that was not followed / Why should he have years
of sorrow fee breaking up a home which was not broken
up, as Mrs. Tilton's letters clearly show I "Moulton
must now speak ; he must come to the front ; he can no
Imager keep silence."
Silence was broken by lam a few days alter this was
puhliohed, and Mr. Moulton charged Mr. Beecher with
being familiar, not only with Mrs. Tilton, but also with
five other ladies. . .

As was expected, the report of the investigating com-
esittee fully exonerates the Rey. H. Ward Beecher from
the charges brought against turn. The report has been
accepted by the members of the Plymouth Church, who,
moroover, have adopted a resolution expressing confidence
in Mr. Beecher—the onl dissentient vote proceeding
from the "mutual friend.' Mr. Moulton. At the date of
the last steamer from Now York, Mr. Beecher was at
l'eekshill, suffering from his annual attack of hay fever,
and there was no prospect of his early return to town.