The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-06-19
A Senatorial Scandal and RO-
nance.
From the Philadelphia Press.

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There is new and not particularly fra
grant scandal linked with the United States
Senate. This time it is not a charge OF
bribery nor of any political crime. Inc
offense is a social one, and the story OF it
quite romance. Some twenty or thirty
years ago there lived in Franklin, Butler
county, this State, an intelligent and Indus
trious young man, John Nipple, who COM
bined the profession of school teacher and
LAWYER and who met with much success in
their practice. Growing prosperous he
abandoned school teaching, which is not
associated with prosperity, and becoming a
junior partner of the Hon. John Thompson,
devoted himself entirely to the law. In
the same village there lived young and
pretty maiden, between whom and the
Young pedagogue in the days of his adver-
sity there existed an intimacy which, as
time heightened, ripened into affection on
her part. Whatever might have been the
young mans earlier feelings and intentions
toward the maiden, they underwent
change as he began TO grow rich and re-
spectacle. Ills sweetheart was pretty, but
poor and ignorant, and he played her
false. There was the usual scandal and
nine days' village talk, and perhaps other
moral and physical forces brought to bear
upon the young man, for, so the story goes.
there was soon after marriage ceremony
in franklin to which he was one Ofthe par
ties. but not of his own free will.
This affair brought the young man under
a cloud, and put an end to his brilliant
prospects. He was gifted with large am
bitiOn, and naturally became depressed UNI
der the circumstances. Consequently no.
body was surprised when it was discovered
one bright morning that Joseph Nipple
had abandoned his wife (his practice had
already abandoned him} and shaken the
dust of Franklin from his feet. From time
to time letters reached his old friends, Civ
ing his whereabouts in the far West, and
informing them that he had resolved to be-
sfa into lie fnrn
he remitted small sums of money to his
wife. Soon both his letters and his remit
tances ceased and nothing was heard of
him till 1867. when the wife was called upon
by Nipples former law partner, the Hon.
John Thompson. a politician of some note
in the western part Of the State, and an
elector upon the Republican presidential
ticket last year. Thompson told her that
Nipple desired a divorce but that as he had
no grounds upon which TO ask for ii, she
would have to make the first application.
He offered her $500 to do this and to release
Nipple from all claims she might have
against him. She consented, and in course
of time the divorce was granted.
Now comes the senatorial scandal and
the romance. John II. Mitchell, who takes
his seat in the United States Senate AS a
representative of Oregon in December next
turns out to be the Butler pedagOgue law
yer, faithless lover and truant husband. At
all events he signs his name John HiDple
Mitchell, and acknowledges that Franklin
was his birthplace. The people of that
town, and, indeed, of all Western Pennsyl-
vania, believe that the two are one and the
same, and Mrs. Horn, formerly Nipple, is
entirely convinced on the point Senator
Mitchell has thought it worth his while to
deny the story, but has done so in a vague
and unsatisfactory manner, promising to be
more specific at some future time. What
the Senate will do about it, can only be
surmised, but it contains greater sinners
Mifchall Chnnld ha
that he is guilty of everything his old
friends allepp AGAINST him