The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-17
A RELIGIOUS SCANDAL.
A Baptist Minister Under a Very Black
ClOud-A Daniel Come to Judgment.

Cloud-A Daniel Come to Judg 2 ment.
From the Springfield Republican. i19sf ..r.
One of the subjects quietly talked over by the
clergymen who met at the Sunday.schoOl Conven-
sion in Chicopee was the of Rev. E. ID. Daniels
OF Palmer who, IL half that s reported be true, is
greatly exercised the denomination at Palmer and
the vicinity for some time past Mr.. Daniels came
serve pastor or the Baptist church tasre for one ne
year. Il Iii Hfa FtrlI .,,.
with much ferv0r, securing aid from clergymen and
laymen from this city and from adjoining towns.
One Of the first fruits OF this awakening was Miss
lively engaging, fond Of the company OF the oppo..
site sex, pretty well educated and, as it seems fas
cinatiDg. A few Ohservant membersO of the congre-
cation thought at that time that Rev. Mr., Daniels
showed more tender solicitude for her spiritual
married man, but the matter excited no special
in the winter she began the study Of Latin select
ing him as her private tutor, and usual the first
word corrugated was asno. 1t would appear that
the lessen was learned very thoroughly in the nrst
ON a Friday in February he went to BAPTIST
clergyman in an adjoining town, much exercised In
tion for Mrs. Daniels, his wife, and passionately
loved another woman, and he asked the prayers OF
his brother In the ministry. The brother astonished
beyond measure, told him that II he had come to
that he was past praying for. -.
The next day Mr.. Daniels returned to Palmer to
find his wife corpse, or just becoming one. Mrs.
Daniels, quiet, dlident, and most estimable wo-
man, who loved her husband with all the devotion
to what was passing before her eyes. Preparing
herself with scrupulous care, she took In her hand
the picture OF her husband, and, having told her
attendant not TO wake her under any circumstances
swallowed dose OF chloral hydrate sufficient to kill
dozen persons, and slept the sleep OF death. -.s
Nothing more pathetic can be found In the range
OF romance than the death of this sorrowng heart
broken woman. 1t was stated at the time that she
died Of an overdose Of chloral taken as a medicine,
but there can be no doubt that the overdose was
taken purp0sely Mr.. Daniels soon after determined,
apparently, to defy public opinion, and appeared
often In public with the girl riding out with her and
making himself especially conspicuous In her COM
pany at lecture. This so aroused indignation
against him that tar and feathers were even talked
Of and since that time he has remained boarder at
the Graves, living IN seclusion and rarely
coming to the depot village, except under cover Of
night Miss Graves friends report that she Is mar
ried to Mr. Daniels; others say that she is not now,
but is soon to be. cftta
Mr.. Daniels is nervous, impulsive, and head
strong man, about twenty-four years Of age. AS
preacher he is fluent and earnest, sometimes rash
and impolitc. He has long had the reputation OF a
tyrant IN his family, and the citizens OF the town
even accuse him OF brualy beating his little boy OF
three years. native OF South Braintree, Daniels
ordained to the ministry a Coeraine and after
left under cloud. He there became enamored OF
the nurse hired to attend his wife; and under pre-
tense OF concern for her spiritual welfare, had long
interviews with her, which so depressed his wife
that she attempted suicide with belladonna. This
unfortunate occurrence places the recent one In the
light OF second grave oHenee, and strengthens the
opinion that Mr. Daniels great zeal IN the late reyl-
val was hypocrisy 1t is, OF course, unnecessary to
add that his usefulness at Palmer has ended.