The Grange advance., 1874-08-05
NEWS or the WEEK.

NEWS Or THE WEEK.
TUESDAY, July 28.-The revelation of
to-day in the Beecher-Tilton affair pur-
ports to come from E. Cady Stanton, and
to relate how Tilton and his wife, in the
presence of Susan B. Anthony, each con-
fessed to have broken their marriage vow,
and how, afterwards, Mrs. Tilton confessed
her adultery to Miss Anthony, which Til
ton had already told to Mrs. Stanton and
Mrs. .Bullard. A card is also published
from Tilton in which he complains that
the committee Of Plymouth Church, in
publishing its proceedings, carefully omits
his detailed charges against Beecher and
the proofs with which he accompanies
them. The sufragan Bishop Of Pozen
has been condemned to fifteen months i'm
,prisenment for violation OF
the new ecclesiastical law of
North Germany. {. John Mitchell is
to have grand reception in Dublin and
Mr. Martin, member Of parliament for
Meath, will resign his seat in Mitchell's
favor. Nicholas Staden's hardware
store, PIG North Clark street, Chicago, was
prepared for conaagration yesterday
morning as follows: A lighted candle
was standing in lot of kindling wood
saturated with kerosene, from which a line
of rags soaked in oil was laid to three
Aegs of powder, one of which was open.
The store being found insured for more
than its worth in the North British, ,staden
has been arrested for attempted arson....
The grasshoppers are working great harm
in Nebraska. In Dawson county they will
not leave enough corn for seed. The crops
of the Pawnee Indians are totally destroy
ed.
WEDNESDAY, July 29.-Theodore Til
ton was arrested yesterday on charges Of
having libeled Henry Ward Beecher. The
complaints were made by VIM. J. Gaynor
an editor Of the Brooklyn Argus, and are
doubtless intended in Tilton's favor-that
is, to bring the witnesses where they will
he compelled to tell all they know about
the matter. F. B. Carpenter, artist. of
Brooklyn, made yesterday statement
strongly corroborative of Tilton's story,
but reserved part of his knowledge of
the affair until the case should be brought
before court. Beecher's friends. though
acting apparently without concert, are not
idle, but their labors have chiefly resulted
in discovering facts illustrating Tilton's
free-love cliviies.-Evidences of
guilt seem to be accumulating against
Nicholas Staaden, the hardware dealer Of
Chicago who was Monday arrested for
having prepared to burn his own store, and
he has new been held to answer the charge
OF attempted murder. Two other attempts
at incendiarism were yesterday discover
ed in the same city and the
supposed criminals arrested
Germany is said to be
concerting measures for the suppression of
the Carlists and recognition of the repub-
lie in Spain.--1n the international
channel match, of England, yesterday, the
American yacht Enchantress came in first
but the English yacht Comanne, which
came in second, was awarded the race on
account of time allowance.--The bal
ance Of the five per cent government
bonds have been negotiated by the Treas
ury Department. They are taken at par
by the English Rothchilds and Seligman
& Co., who are allowed quarter of one
per cent. discount and are to pay for them
in gold and 500 bonds.-The old and
often exploded slander against Rev. J. F.
Chaaee. of Minneapolis, Of having at one
time, travelling in = railway car, consorted
with a woman Of bad character, has been
lately revived and is now to be gone over
again by Centenary N. E. Church. of
Minneapolis, before which Mr.. Chaf1ee and
others have CHARGED r. B.. Bryant with
slander and falsehood in publications con-
cerning the affair.
THURSDAY, July 30.-The Tilton libel
suit was yesterday postponed till Monday.
Mr.. Gaynor, who brings the suit, declares
himself not friend Of either party but as
citizen determined to have the whole
truth Of the Beecher-T -Tiltou affair made
public. miles from Yankton.
D. r., Tuesday night, the farm house of
Mr.. Shodhansen WA burned. He was ab-
sent from home. His wife VAS not aware
of the fire until the roof fell in when she
dragged herself aud baby out and walked