The Grange advance., 1874-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS Vf lHE NEEh.
TUESDAY, Sept. s.-Henry Ward Beech
er's answer to Theodore Tilton was receiv-
ed yesterday by the attorneys of the form
Ell, and was at once served on the plain
tiff. The defendant ans ers to the COM
plant by denying all its charges as utter
ly false. The trial begins Sept. 2l.....
The third district court met yesterday at
Salt AXE City. Ann Eliza's suit for
divorc- and alimony comes up on Thurs
day. An exciting time is expected. 80.
The decision by the Supreme Court Of
Wisconsin in the application for an in
junction to compel the railroads to obey
the Potter law, will not be delivered until
the 18th inst. go. The steamer City of Pc
kin arrived at Boston yesterday, and was
visited ty thirty thousand people. She
return. to New York 10 day.. .. John L.
Nutter Of Jersey City appeared before
Justice Aldndge yesterday and charged
that persons connected with the Rev. Mr.
Glendennin's church had tried to induce
him by threats to swear that he was the
father Of Mary E. Pomroy's child. 900.
Fires in the woods near Hamilton, N. J.,
have burned over 1900 acres of valuable
timber lands and cranberry bogs. The
flames are still raging. The buildings
Of the New Haven (Conn.) Wheel Co.
were destroyed by fire last night. Loss
S5OO, 600. {. i. At another small fire in New
Haven yesterday two boys were burned to
death. =. George N. Donnelly, street
railroad officer of >uisville, was shot and
killed by J. N. Cole, night railway clerk.
The Boston and Albany freight houses
at East Albany, N. Y, were burned last
night. Loss CSC, 600. .... In the Supreme
Court at San Francisco yesterday, the ha.
beas corpus case of q Chinese women,
brought on the steamer Japan, was decid-
ed that the State law is constitutional
which regulates such emigration, and re-
manded them to the master of the steamer
Jaran. They will be returned to China.
The Arkansas Constitutional Conven-
ton a! Little Rock denounced violence
and outrage, and discountenanced all
quarrels between the races. The work
OF laying the new cable from the Irish
coast to America has commenced. >. The
French government has suspended Tor two
months, the newspaper tl'U nivers for bit
ter article against President Serrano....
Jules Simon, in speech at Rheims yes.
terday, urged the: dissolution of the Assem-
bly,, and he declared monarchy in France
to be an impossibihty.. Victor Hugo has
written letter declining an invitation to
the peace congress at Geneva. He says
peace cannot be established until another
war has been fought between France and
Germany. He points to the.existence Of a
deep and sndying hatred between the two
countries, and declares its end will be q
duel between the prinoiples'of monarchy
and rspublicanism :. The secret service
is to he recognized. Col. WHITLEY has
resigned his position as chief of the
'bureau. Members ofPlymouth Church
:are contributing to fund for the relief =:
AIRS. Tilton, and already 81 200 have been
collected. p. ...AgriculturA fairs opened At
columbus, O.. Logansport. Ind, ard lndi-
annapolis, Ind. yesterday ~...At Mystic
Park, Boston, yesterday, Goldsmith Maid
heat Judge Fullerton and Americac Girl
in three straight heats; time 2:ls, AIS l-2
and 2l9 IL. go The Newha4 House, Mil
wsukee, was sold by the sheriff yesterday
Soreee, 600. .. "A dispatch from Rome an
nounces that two new Roman Catholic di-
oceses have been created in Texas.
WEDxEsDAY, SEPT. 9.-Tilton, in lis
suit against Beecher. will subpoena Susan B.
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Joseph
H. Richards, Frank B Carpenter, Thos.
Kinsella, Mrs. Morse and Meulton. Mrs.
Stanton said to Tilton that Miss Anthony
had repeatedly informed her of Mrs.. Til
toms confession made to Miss Anthony
while guest at Tilton's. She will testify
to this in the courts. Indications Of
speedy renewal of the scandal are visible.
Tilton's statement is complsted and will
occupy ten colur.ns of small type. The
sonth Carolina Republican Convention met
yesterday At Columbia. A new man will
probably be nominated for Governor. 49,.
The Democratic and Literal Convention oy
New York State meets to-day at Albany.