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Moulton's New Statement.

Moultons new statement was published
in full in Chicago Sept. 12, as special.
Aside from the arguments of Moulton to
sustain his former statement and to break
down that of Beecher, the most important
parts are the assertion that both Beecher
and Tilton made their confessions to him
in the presence of third party, whose
name he does not give, and the disclosure
of the alleged charges of Henry G.. Bowen
against Beecher, which Moulton AYERS were
charges of adultery with five different
women, including one charge of rape. In
regard to the latter charge, Moulton says
Beecher confessed to him the act of criminal
intercourse, but denied having used violence,
and alleged that the woman, though unnar-
ried, had had previous experience Of the
same sort. This revelation, Moulton says,
was made to him twelve days after the con-
fession of adultery with Mrs. Tilton, and
while he was engaged with II. B. Clafin
and others in settling up Tiltons difficulties
with Bowen. He told Beecher that unless
he wished to remain in Bowen's power, he
must get from the woman in question q
retraction of the charge. This lie (Beecher)
undertook to do, and he brought Moultona a
paper from the woman, which was not a
retraction but statement that she had
made certain charge against Beecher to
Bowen which she regretted, and that she
was now on friendly terms with Beecher.
This letter Moulton publishes without the
signature indeed there is none The Ian
guage imputed to Beecher in this narrative
is perfectly disgusting. Moulton says
Beecher declared to him his belief in the
doctrine of free love and professed to see
no sin in it. but nevertheless, when threat
ened with exposure, he made preparations
to commit suicide by poison. He says,
| also, that Beecher renewed his intimacy
with Mrs. Tilton clandestinely after he had
made, or supposed he had made, his peace
| with Tilton by confession and penitence,
and he introduces letter written by him
| to Mrs. Tilton subsequent to that event,
conveying an intimation that his wife was
away and that she could safely come to his
hons-. Many portions of the statement are
grossly indecent.
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| From the San Francisco Chronicle, August &C.
HoLLIsTER, CAL, Aug. 25.-A desperate
shooting afray took place here to-day,
resulting in the immediate death of one of
the chief actors, and the probably fatal
wounding of the other The scene of the
tragedy was Goodhue's saloon. At 10
| o'clock this morning man named Leander
i. Robson, more commonly called "Tod'
Robinson, entered the saloon and invited
all hands to take drink. Among those in
the room was man named Tony Harris,
between whom and Robinson some ILL
feeling was existing. Robinson had no
sooner finished his invitation than Harris
remarked chat he 50 wouldn't drink with a
-" using very obscene epithet
Robinson replied: "Well, always pay for
my drinks" Harris then rose from his
chair saying: "Well, this is an old grudge
between you and me, and we might as well
settle it right now,' drawing derringer as
he spoke. Robinson instantly drew his
pistol-a five-shooter-and both men fired
almost simultaneously. Harris shot struck
Robinson in the neck, cutting the jugular
vein, and the blood gushed forth in torrent.
Robinson's shot missed Harris. The latter,
Immediately after firing, threw his weapon
at Robinson, and having nothing else to
defend himself with, ran into the billiard
room, back of the saloon, hoping there to
escape from his antagonist. Although
mortally wounded, however, and with his
1ife-blood gushing from the terrible hole in
his neck, Robinson staggered after his
assailant, whom he had now cornered in the
billiard-room. Steadying himself against
one of the tables, he took deliberate aim
and fired at Harris, who was facing him on
the opposite side of the table, the ball taking
effect near the navel, and infiicting a wound
which is likely to prove fatal. Again the
dying man raised his pistol and fired, the
ball striking Harris in the hand, and tearing
off his thumb.
Some of the men from the saloon had, by
this time, entered the billiard-room, sup
posing the shooting to be fnished.-But
Robinson's vengeance was not yet satisfied,
and, though the glare of death was already
in his eyes, he again fired his pistol, and
then dropped dead. The last shot struck
the night watchman's trousers pocket, but
owing to the lucky circumstance of his
having bunch of keys and a police whistle
in the right spot, the course of the deadly
missile was stopped-the only damage being
the breaking of the whistle.
Coroner Black held an inquest soon after
the killing. The jury found a verdict in
accordance with the facts above set forth,
and Robinson was buried this afternoon,
which many people around here consider
rather quick work, even for California
town. The deceased was what is generally
known as a sporting man, and is sud to
have wife living in Merced. His age was
about thirty years.
Harris, whose real name is said to be
Calvin, is blacksmith, and has no relatives
in California. The formality of placing
him under arrest has been gone through
with, but from present appearances he will
not trouble the courts much.
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How Old They Are.

A correspondent of the Boston Traeeller
gives some figures showing the present
age of many persons now living. John
Quincy Adams is AL; George William Cur
It's SO; William r. Alger, 81; Edward Ev-
erett Hale, 50; William B. Washburn, 81;
Julia Ward Howe, 81; Harvey Jewell, 81;
james Russell Lowell, 55; Edwin p
Whipple, 55; George P. Loring, 57;; Nathan
iel P. Banks, 5s; Richard III. Dana, Jr., 80;
Henry Ward Beeoher, 81; Harriet Beech
er Stowe, o.; Andrew 2. Peabody, 65; Wen
dell Philips, 6s; James Freeman Clarke, O.;
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 81; George s.
Hilliard, 60; Robert G. Winthrop, 65; John
@. Whittier. GO; Henry w. Longfellow, &c;
Ralph Waldo Emerson. II; Mark Hopkins,
70; Leonard Bacon, ~; LYDIA Maria Child,
~; Catherine d Beecher, 73; George Ban
croft, II; Caleb Gushing, IA; Richard H.
Dana, ST., ~.
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b" POKER JACK. -
How Judge Mcclure Earned the Sobri.
quet.

Hot Springs Arkansas, Cor. of the ST. Louis Demo
crat.
In conversation with an Arkansan about
men and things, asked how it happened
that the presiding Justice of the Supreme
Court (McClure) obtained the sobriquet of
''Poker Jack" He said the name was
given to the Judge by the Little Rock Ga
gette, on account of an incident that OCCUR
red in that city year or two ago.
"What was the incident 81 I asked.
II will not vouch for the truth of it, but
will tell it as l heard it, One day-it was
before Clayton and Baxter fell out-Judge
Mcclure, Clayton, Baxter and Dorsey were
playing game of draw, and they kept it up
all night. They had drank ten bottles of
champagne apiece, and, as daylight ap-
peared, the betting ran pretty high. Up
to that time the chips were pretty evenly
divided, and nobody was out more than
fifty dollars. Mcclure and Baxter locked
horns on deal made by Clayton, and it is
said by some people that the troubles that
have since occurred in the State originated
in the cards they played that night. Bax-
ter drew to two pair and filed. The Judge
held three tens and drew fourth They
bucked at each other until they had plank
ed about $4,000 between them, and, of
course Mcclure raked in the pile. Baxter
accused Clayton of exposing a card to Nc
Clure, and some words passed, and there
has been GOODNESS between them ever
since. ...
"But there was another incident that
NAV have been the occasion Of christening
Poker Jack. He fell in among set of pro-
fessionals once on steamboat, and they
tried to swindle him out of several thous-
and. The Judge was drinking pretty free
ly, and had lost about SO, 1000 before he dis
covered that he was victim Of sharpers.
He kept perfectly cool, however, and waited
for his opportunity. When he became sat
isfied that one of his opponents held an in
vincible hand, he made large bet; the
gambler, of course, went pile better; the
Judge also advanced the stakes, and finally
"called'' the gambler when the pool footed
up about $5, 600.
"What have you got? ?'' asked Mcclure.
"A king full on aces" replied the black
leg, reaching out his hand to grasp the
stamps.
"What sort of q fellow are you," said the
Judge, ssto bet on such a hand can beat
it to death.
"pd like to know what you can beat u
! with ~
GA Jack full on sixes"' responded Nc
Clure, drawing a brace OF six shooters from
his belt, and planting his elbows ON the
stack Of greenbacks.
The gamblers arose in confusion, and two
of them attempted to draw weapons, but
the Judge split the ear Of one with slug
and knocked the watch out Of the pocket O
another with second slug, and the remain
ing two begged for mercy. The Judge
counted out his $4,000, and gave the bal
anee to the gamblers, and has never playet
poker with professional since.
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Reforming jenny Welch,

From the Detroit Free Press Court Report
I" / am lone woman, = said Jenny Welch
as she was brought around to face his hon.
or. ~. 3543s A53sa@5'ta
'I cant help it if you hayn't a friend in
America, y he answered, motioning for the
officer to come forward and swear. ~
."Twas just a little drop-just little
tonic, she urged, as the officer went on to
say that it was a bad case of drunkenness.
He found her sitting on a doorstep, SWING
ing her bonnet and singing: sss@
2 g Fazzer. dear fazzer, e eom wiz me now
Clock in 'er zecple strikes wun.r G z@9&4I4s
And she couldn't tell him where sine lived,
who she was, how many tomatoes she had
canned this fall, nor anything else. Fsa
II was just fooling, you honor, esput
in, trying hard to laugh. III
1T is my solemn duty to warn you, Jane
Welch, 7 he said, that you are on the high
road to degradation. This COURTS a hedge-
fence, as itwere, standing between you and
misery, seasoned with sobs for breakfast,
and hashed up with tears and groans for
supper. @A o.
us that sop she asked, greatly surpris-
I ed. Z
| The solemn truth, madam, he answer
ed, This court--tlais hedge-fence is going
to send you 10 the House Of Correction for
sixty days, but with only q feeling of kind
| ness. You will have time to reject; Your
nose will lose its rosy hue; youth have i
chance to comb your hair and make pour-
self d hustle, and haven't doubt that
before you come out you will have .slcll
high aims that y policeman can't get witli-
I'M ten rods Of you. y 8 isssss
She said she'd 10 II he thought i'll sswss
best s7ta aaks8
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The Deepest Well IN the World.

About 90 miles from Berlin is situated
the village Of sperenberg, noted for the
deepest well that has ever been sunk. Ow-
ing to the presence OF gypsum in the iocali-
ty, which is at a moderate distance from
the capital, it occurred to the government
authorities Of the mines to obtain supply
Of rock salt. With this object in view the
sinking OF shaft or well 10 feet in diane
ter was commenced some five years ago.
and at depth Of $50 feet the salt was
reached. The boring was continued TO the
further depth of 900 feet the diameter Of
the bore being reduced to 1S inches. The
operations were subsequently prosecuted 9
by the aid Of steam until a depth Of 194
feet was attained. At this point the Dor.
inc was discontinued, tile boring being still
IL tile salt deposits, which thus exhibits The
enormous thickness Of I, 9o7 feet.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-09-26
A Curious Statistical Fact.

There are i'll France five millions six hun
dred and seventy-one smokers of tobacco.
The consumption of each smoker is an
nually, upon an average, nine pounds and
a half, English weight, which, at one dol
lar pound, amounts to $53, ,873, 500. This
large sum is exclusive Of the cost of the
snuff and chewing tobacco, the retail sale Of
which, as well as of the smoking tobacco,
constitutes monopoly and belongs to the
French government. 5.ls
OF every fifteen smokers it is computed
that eight smoke the pipe, five cigars, and
two cigarettes. W 8ii@ =fezA e
The whole annual consumption of cigar.
cites for France is estimated at 294 thousand
millions, Or so5 million every day, 33 mil
lions every hour, $4,000 every minute,
and 9, 323 every second. atf~ +
Finally all these cigarettes, being placed
end to end, would extend 2,057, $40 kilo-
meters, that is to say 514 times the circum-
ference of our globe. 4stss' zs,g7 ssdta5H
+ Zeg sSa @*a Louis A. BERTRANp.iN
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

A Miss with an ugly mouth-the Missis-
| sippi.-Los0eU Courier.
They tell of an Arizona girl that owns
| $4,000 cattle. This doesn't include her
ealves.-B0ston Post.
Eight Connecticut young ladies have just
taken the veil. They were hopelessly
freckled.-Brookzyn argus.
The Courier-Journaz says there is no way
to vindicate Beecher except to elect him
president of the United States.
The Connecticut tobacco crop of 1874 is
said to be looking well, and cabbage dealers
are sad in consequence Neaos.
The fly which was SO promptly rescued
from the cream jug by Mr.. Bergh last
Monday is slowly rccovering.-Neao York
Herald
IF Beecher ,oas blackmailed by Tilton,
we would suggest that the Golden Age be
hereafter known as the Golden Fleece
Boston Courier.
Milwaukee Meas: There are very few
men in this world who can find sealed
bottle floating in the ocean and read the
message, without first having smelled the
bottle.
Not every young man in this country can
afford to go through college, but none is
so poor that he may not part his hair in the
middle and loaf around cigar store.-Rome
Sentinel.
The handsomest men in the Union are
Kentuckians and the preservation of their
good looks is said to be due to the fact that
while all the Burbon whisky is manufactured
in Kentucky, the great bulk ofitis consumed
observation-disclosures.
The Cincinnati Commercial begs that the
Associated Press won't bother the Western
papers with any more of Moulton's scan.
mag, unless lie says something to the point.
The request is a reasonable one. If Frank
knows anything, let him tell it. If DR..
Bacon knows anything, let him waltz it
out. But if neither Of them know anything,
let them sit down on each other and keep
quiet.-Argus.
A great poet, now doing business in the
spirit land, has been engaged by Boston
circle to execute the poetry for their seances.
This is the latest: "Those owning rich
sofas, And golden-topped cane, Don't act
as tho looking for Jesus again. While
dressed in gay colors, Like blossoms in
June, Some drink from gold goblet, Some
have pewter SPOON" There is a spiritual
flavor to this, but alas it is of the earth
earthly, and of the demUohn demijohnny.-
Inter Ocean.
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POETRY.
CLoUD-PICTURES,

Here in these mellow grasses the whole morn,
love to rest; yonder. the ripening corn
Rustes its greenery; and his blithesome horn
Windeth the merry Wind, with fervent throat.
And ont-puffed checks, as he doth lightly float
Down a fair picture in a hall remote
Of ancient Genoa! At calm length lie,
Fronting the broad, blue spaces of the sky,
Covered with cloud groups, softly iourneying by:
An hundred shapes, fantastic, beauteous strange
They take as DER these airy waves they range
AT the Winds will, from marvellous change to change:
Castles, with guarded roof, and turret tall
Great, sloping archway, and majestic wall,
Slapped by the breezes to their noseless fall.
Pagodas vague above whose towers outstream
Banners that wave with motions of a drean1~-
Rising or dropping in the noontide eleam:
Gray lines of Orient pilgrims:-a gaunt band
On famished eamels, DER the desert sand
Flooding towards their Prophets holy Land
'Mid-ocean-and shoal of whales at play
Lifting their monstrous frontlets to the day.
Thro rainbow arches of sun-smitten spray;
Followed by splinted icebergs vast and lone
Set in swift currents of some arctic zone,
Like fragments of Titan's world o'erthrown;
Next measureess breadths of barren, reeless moor,
Whose vaporous verge fades down glimmering Shore
Round which the foamcapped pillows toss and roar
Gains of bright water-like fairy's wiles
Wooing, with ripply cadence and soft smiles,
The golden shore slopes of Hespcrian Isles;
Their inland plains rife with increase
OF plumed grain and many snowy fleece
Shining athwart the dewitt hills of peace;
Wrecks of gigantic cities-to the tune
OF some wise ar-god but!-oer which the Noon
Seems shuddering: caverns such as the wan Moon
Shows in her desolate bosom; then, crowd
OF awed and reverent faces, palely bowed
Ger dead queen laid in her ashy shroud-
A queen of od--her pallid brow impearled
By gems barbaric her strange beauty furled
In mystic cerements of the antique world.
Weird pictures, fancy -gendered!-one by one,
Twixt dazzling sheen and vagrant shadows dun,
These transient visions vanish in the sun.
close mine eycs,--still stretched at angnid ease
While, like dreaming Dryad, the low breeze
Sighs thro the lush, long LEAKAGE of the trees
Sighs--as in rhythmic murmurings of strain
Whose sweetness. blest of yearning joy and pain,
Wells the hushed spirit as sunset rain,
Falling in scarce-heard music from affair."
Girds the slow waning slopes of hill and sclur
'Twixt the last sun-flush and the earliest star!
-Aldine.
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

Nothing ON earth can smile but human
beings. Gems may flash reflected light,
but what is diamond flash compared with
an eye flash and mirth flash? A face that
cannot smile is like bud that cannot
blossom, and dries up on the stalk. Laugh
ter is day and sobriety is night and smile
is the twilight that hovers gently between
both, and more bewitching than either.
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The boys Of Pittsburg htve held q mass
meeting and resolved: We win go in
swimming whenever we darned please, and
won't come any extra shenanigan about
getting our hair dry to sell the folks at
home, md that we will have shirts to wear,
80 that the big fellows went laugh at us
when we are undressing that sswe are
willing to. do the square thing to our par
ents, but amt cut for tendin to babies.
and we won't do any labor about home that
does not properly come within boys sphere
and not that If it interferes with the hours
OF play, which health demands boys should
have, viz: Between o'clock in the d. IN.
and Q Id the p. M, with necessary internis-
sion for meals that straps and taws, nor
cowhides nor slippers viii have any effect in
tliis rebellion. It they Try that gafne it will
be goodbye John for errands, and We shall
ever pray. That's the kind uf hair-pins
Il Il srga
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1874-09-26
Are Indians Citizens ?

The decision Of the Supreme Court of
New Mexico that the Pueblos Indians of
that territory are citizens may bring up the
Indian question in new shape. The Mex
ican government at no time recognized an
Indian title to the soil except where the
title had been granted, but treated the In
dians merely as a peculiar class Of citizens.
By the treaty of 1848 all citizens of the
territories transferred were entitled to all
the privileges and rights which they pos
sessed under the Mexican government.
The court therefore decided that all the In
dians within the territories acquired by the
United States are, by virtue Of such treaty,
citizens of the United States. The Pue-
bios Indians, in whose favor this decision
was given. number, according to the re-
ports of the Indian Bureau, 5000. They
live in villages, cultivate the soil, and are
said to be remarkable for sobriety, indus
try, and doeility, as having but few wants
and simple and moral in their lives. There
are some nineteen villages of them. They
can scarcely be considered as Indians, and
but for the reservations patented to these
bands in confirmation of ancient Spanish
grants they might be considered part of the
ordinary population of the country. Chief
Justice Slough, of New Mexico, in 1867,
gave an opinion to the same effect. Mr..
Rainey, the colored member of the Com
mittee ON Indian Affairs, is said to be pre-
pairing speech on the subject, in which
he will take the broad ground that the In
dians are citizens of the United States, and
cannot be considered or treated otherwise.
This opinion, it is well known, is enter
tanned by many members. They say that
our whole system of managing the Indians
has been wrong from the foundation of the
government; that treating with the Indians
as a separate sovereignty within our own is
| absurdity and has been the cause Of all our
trouble with them. The only way to do is
to recognize them as class of pauper citi-
zens, amenable to our laws and punishable
| for their offenses, as are other citizens.
Should this view of the case prevail the
WHoio eys1eiH Vi stSeHcscs may DC aooilsitsi,
and the Indians left to take care of them
selves. Many of those who have had most
experience with these people seem to think
that this is the only way the Indians can be
| taught civilization. Give them fair start
in cattle and farming utensils, and let them
know they cannot beany longer vagabonds,
| depending upon the Great Father, but, like
other men, must work or starve.
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Poor old Guizot has halted forever at the
eighty-seventh milestone. There they
found him lying prone this morning, before
the birds had begun their songs-the good,
kind, great old man-an emperor without a
crown-an unmitred bishop of the fold of
Knowledge-one of .a.-.-
1.-THE dead, but sceptered sovereigns, who still
rule
Our sprits from their urns "A r0Hs
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A Schedule of the Beechers,

A correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican gives the following schedule of
the Beeeher family: "Miss Catharine
Beecher is the oldest child of DR.. Lyman
Beecher, and row nearly seventy-four years
Of age, having been born in September
1900. Rev. William Beecheris seventy-two,
and DR.. Edward Beecher about seventy;
both were educated at Yale College, and
settled in New England before they went
west. These three, with Mary Beecher
(Mrs. Perkins), Mrs. Stowe, George, Henry
Ward and Charles Beecher, were all children
of DR.. Beecher's firsts.wife, Roxana Foote,
while Isabella (sIrs. Hooker), Thomas and
James Beecher were children Of the second
wife, Harriet Porter, Of Maine. There is a
third wife, a Mrs. Jackson, who left no
children by DR.. Beecher-James being his
youngest child. Neither Thomas nor Mrs
Hooker, therefore, are full brother or sister
to Henry Ward Beecher, or to Edward
Thomas was the fayorite son of the doctor S
later years, it would seem; he was either
born at Boston or went there when mere
cllild-but he graduated in an Illinois COL
lege, and only studied divinity a short time,
if at all, in New Haven. In commencing
him to his old friend, DIR. Taylor, in 1910,
DR.. Beechcr spoke of him as raised under
the mlnistrations of Edward, and possessing
a mind not inferior to any of my sons. and
quickness, depth, and comprehension of
discrimination surprising almost any mind
1 have ever come in contact with. = sa