The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-24
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age. He is not yet thirty-two. He is
native of New York city, and was
educated ut the Free Academy or COL
lege. His attention was carly directed
to the press. He hogan learning short
hand in his twelfth year, and reported
for the Tibne before he left the Acad-
envy. Hereportcd the Forrest divorce
case. The case of Mrs. Burdcll Cum
ningham and her bogus baby, he re-
ported and wrote out ut Il single sitting
to the extent of six and half col
umns. Since he was boy, Tilton
has belonged to Plymouth Church,
and made himself famous some years
ago by boarding the non in his den,
or rather Bccchcr in his pulpit, taking
issue with the pastor on the question of
contributing to the American Board of
Missions, Tilton holding that the Board
was pro-slavery. Tilton has been for
some years editor of the Independent,
and has besides busted himself in writ
ing books and poems, and delivering
lectures and addresses. Further the
Gazette SAYS: clifton resides in Brook
lyn, near Bccchcr's Church, owning Il
very comfortable and pleasant house in
Livingston street, which is said to con-
tain more and finer cngravings, mostly
artists proofs, than any other residence
in that city. His dwelling and its
contents cost him about S25,000; and
as his salary ON the independent il
$4,000, and his income from lectures
and other sources considerably more
than that, he may be considered be-
yond lupinc peril. Mrs. Tilton is II
very plain, pleasant faced little lady,
not so young looking IA her husband,
and cstccming him us the greatest man
of the age-which is as it should be.
Anna, his sister, is Il tall, good looking
girl, just out of boarding school, said
to be possessed of very fine talents, and
sharing Mrs. Tilton's faith as regards
Theodorc--which is also as it should
be. They are a very happy, lively,
intellectual family, always full of joy
Gus little enterprises of one kind or
another, and very popular socially
THE Republican party has become
power in the Southern States. Every
day the disposition of the white people
to act longer with the democratic
palpably diminishes. The Richmond
Why, edited by cx-Confedcrates, says:
"Rcccntly there was no organized
Republican party, in the extended
sense of that term, in Virginia. Now
there is, and it is powerful and grow
ing party, that has the countcnancc
and confidence Of Congress, and is in
sympathy and afiiliation with the do
minant party of the North. Much of
the best material in the State is CO.
operating with it. a large portion of
the best intellect, as Of the virtue of
the State, is already pledged to this CO.
operation, and every day new acccssions
are made to it from the rrnks of the
solid people of Virginia."
The Abingdon IIyinion says:
"The Democratic party ought to be
disbandcd, and never more named in
the South. 1t ought to be disbandcd
everywhere"
These may be taken among the latest
inclinations of the change that is going
on.
The Kansas City A1ce,tiscr of the
18th inst. says: We learned ycstcr-
day that the iron for the Fort Scott
and Kansas City Railroad had been
secured, and that the work of laying
it would begin in the course of
month also that the most of the heavy
grading upon this road will be com
plctcd in sixty days between this and
Paola, distance of forty miles, so that
when the work of laying the iron be-
gins the light grading can be rapidly
completed. We may not be surprised
to hear of pleasure trip being given
by this road to Fort Scott on New
Years day, 1868.
SPEAKER CoLFAx has received tIrc
petition of ono hundred and seventy
colorcd men, lately United States SOL
diers, residing in Kentucky, stating
that the State laws deny them the
right to testify in court. that they can
not, therefore, obtain redress for mur-
der and outrage, that colored men have
been murdered in cold blood, and not
having the right to testify the criminals
go UNPUBLISHED, and asking Congress to
grant tbm the right of suffrage. The
petition will be laid before the house.
THE Somerset Wig makes the fol-
lowing good point: AS the Connells-
willie Railroad has no more bitter
enemy in the State than Judge Black,
and he is laboring with all his energy
to prevent the restoration of its char
ter, and as quo warronto against the
company is now pending before the
Supreme Court of this State, the friends
of the road can judge what its chances
will be, if Sharswood-whse pure law
Black ind6res--is elcctetla a Judge of
that Court.
Ex-CoNFEDERATE Chieftain Jeff.
Davis attended the Montreal Thcatcr
on Thursday night, on occasion of Il
performance for the benefit of the
Southern Relief Fund. He was greet
ed with tremendous cheering, the band
playing Dixie, and the audience rising
in his honor.
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