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Middletown transcript., 1874-10-31
NOTICE

WE, the undersigned, merchants of Mid
w dletown, do agree to close our respec-
tive places of business al o'clock, on and
after November I'd, 1874, and continue until
March 25th, 1875:
8. M. REYNOLDS.
CHAS. TATMAN, JR.,-provided all the
signers live up to their agreement.
W. b. MOORE L co.
J. H. SC0WDRICK l. co.
J. F. ELIASON.
G. W. w. NAUDAIN,-provided all the
signers live up to their agreement
October I7-2t
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-31

MAssEYs, MD., AUG. 1874.
Messrs. r. K. Foeke 4 Co. Phitadd:
SIRs: used your SoIuable Pacific Guano las
fall on my wheat along side of Turner's Exc
celsior in the same field and rs near the SAINT
quantity of each rs could drill them, and il
there was any difference it was in favor of the
Pacific Gnano. 1t has done we'll for me and
pronounce it a good fertilizer. want
more this fall. Truly, &C.,
(Signed) B. F. J. SPARKS.
cheerfully endorse the above statement.
(Signed) c.. J. SPARKS.
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-31
F. KARTHAUS FOCKE & CO.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

MAssEys, Nd, Auc. 18th, 1874.
Asssrs. r. K. Focke 4 Co. Philada
DEAR Sin: have used your Pacific Gusno
for number of years, with various othe,
phesphates, and was well pleased with the re-
suits can recommend It as being good
fertilizer. Very respectfully yours,
(Signed) D. G. BLACKISTON.
Middletown transcript., 1874-10-31

Persons making engagements, can rely on
he purity Of these trees. One man. budded
he whole lot. and was careful 10 make no
mistakes, and the utmost care will he oO-
.rved in taking up, bunching and labelling
hese trees for delivery Send in your orders
oon. SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, Del, Sept. 10, l7s4-3m.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.

st. Paul Produce Market, Sept. II.
Wheat unchanged. Oats scarcer at
SOC per bushel. Corn 80c. Rye 80 t.
85c. Barley Csc to $1.l0.
Bran $l1.00 to $l2.00. Feed $35. 90
to $4,000.
Flour, xxx $3.50; xxx $500; Xxx
$3.50. There is prospect of an ad--
vance before long.
Pork unchanged.
Beans $3.50 to $500 per bushel.
Apples $3.50 to 1915 per BARREL.
Peaches 25 to 75c per crate, and very
plenty. Pears $3.50 per l.3 bushel
box. Grapes to Sc per pound.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16

increase Of wages .. Julius l.. Mendels-
shon, who claimed to be son Of tie great
composer, was FRIDAY convicted of for gerry
in New York, and sentenced to state pris-
on for FIVE years. That night he killed
himself by poison in the Iombs. The
claim Of being son Of the great composer
was generally looked upon as fictitious.
His right name was thought to he Julius
Lesser. . There were $4,000 visitors at
the Louisville exposition Saturday and as
many At the Chicago exposition. The
great strike Of cotton operatives at Bolton,
England, has begun. 1t stops "a mills,
employing 5000 hands, while 48 mills
employing 1000 hands, continue opera
tons. Subscriptions for the strikers have
been opened by the trades unions through
out the England manufacturing districts.
The amateur oa1smen Of Great Britain
are called to meet in London to-day to ar
range for sending one or more ere VS. to the
Internal o,,al regatta at Philadelphia in
1876. -. The U. s. government has COM
rnenced suit against James Watson Webb,
ex- Minister to Brazil, to recover money
collected by him from Brazil on what is
alleged to have been an unjust claim. ....
The grand jury at Washington has brought
eleven indictments against parties said to
have had part in the robbery Of safe con-
tanning papers wanted by the district in
vestigating committee last winter. .. "A
number Of old gunboats were sold at New
Orleans Saturday at prices ranging from
$1,000 to 9l0,o75. They cost an average
Of $3.50, 900 each, and the navy depart
ment will probably disapprove the sale.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16
MouLTon'S Statement.
what He Hoped from Beecher.-A
Letter from Theodore,s Amiable
Mother.in-Law to Son Beecher--
B0Wen,s Accusations.

Mr.. Moulton begins his statement by
An apology for its production, in which
he says he had hoped Mr.. Beecher him
self would ere this have made denial
Of any intimation, insinuation or aver
ment in his statement that he (Moulton)
had acted in any way dishonorably to.
ward him. Failing in this hope, it
seemed to Moulton and his friends that
the question of veracity made by Mr..
Beecher ought to be settled.
The statement, so far as it relates to
the Beecher-Tilton matter, is an argu.
ment based upon the alleged acts al
ready published, and comparison Of
his (Moulton's) previous statement
with that made by Mr.. Beccher. In
the new documentary evidence is let
ter from Mrs. Morse to Mr.. Beecher,
reading as follows:
MY DEAR SoN:-You must pardon
me for the request l now make. Can
you help me in any way by the first of
November. I am still alone. with no
prospect of help from any Ole, with q
rent of 81 500 and an income of 81 900.
The consequence is that with my other
expenses shall be by the first of the
month terribly behind hand, as l
agreed to pay in monthly installments.
| know full we'll that I have no claim
upon you in any way, sir, excepting
your sympathy for my lonely and iso-
lated condition. If l could be released
from the cause, l should gladly do so;
for I'm convinced it is too far off. All
who have been to see my rooms say so.
My darling spent most Of yesterday
with me. She said all she had in the
way Of money was forty dollars a week,
which was for food and all other house
hold expenses, aside from rent, and this
was given her by the hand of Annie
lilton every Saturday. If you know
anything of the amount it takes to find
food for eight people, you must know
there is little LETT for clothing. She
told me he (T:lton) did not take ,anv
meals 1t home, from the fact that
she could not get such
food as he liked to nourish his brain.
and SO he took mis- meals at Moulton's.
Just think Of that! I am almost crazy
with the thought. Do come and see
me. / viii promise that the secret of
her life. IS she calls it. shall not be
mentioned. I know it is hard to bring
it up, Is you must have suffered intense
II, and we oil will, I fear, till released !
By death. Do you pray for me! If not,
pray. never felt more rebellious than
now; more in need of Gods and human
help. Do you know / think it strange
you should ask me to call you s.Son,
when ! have told darling / felt If you
could. 81 safety to yourself and all con-
csFned, you would - "a me III this en-.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16

ST.. LOUIS, Sept. ll.-Postmaster
General Jewell advertises through the
papers here to-day reward Of $1,000
for arrest Of the parties who COM
mitted what is known as the Gad's Hill
robbery in this State last January, and
So, 900 reward for arrest cf the robbers
of the San Antonio stage in Texas in
April last.
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Money and Stocks, Sept. 14<
ASSOCIATED Press Report.1

Money Loans to 2K per cent:
Gold lO9x. Governments active and weak:
State bonds quiet. Stocks active and strong
er. Western Onion 80x; Pacific, Mall
48x; Adams 106; Wells Fargo n; Amer;-
can COZ; United States 81; New York
Central l04x; Erie 34x; preferred, 81
Harlem 1861; preferred l25; Panama ll2k;
Union Pacific 34x ; Lake Shore
75K; Pittsburg g.: Northwest
ern 37I; preferred. SAX; Cleveland
Il Columbus 63; Rock Island l0l:
Milwaukee & St. Paul 32x; preferred, 81 \;
Erie |; l. c. 8x; st. Jo PAX.
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dearing name implies. Am mistakent
[Signed MOTHER.
The concluding portions Of the state
ment relate to accusations against
Beecher said to have been put forth by
Bowen, are Of grossly indecent char
Qcter.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16

Fa1DAY, Sept. ll.-The liberal Demo. J.
cratic Constre, ,sioual Convention fol tie
second district Of Wisconsin yssteard.y atsar
nominated Hon. 4. G. Cook, Of Columbus.
for Conreag Baxter having declined
The rsnon.inati I'm lor tlhs Goysenor1hip Of
The Grange advance., 1874-09-16

SATURDAY, Sept. IL Marshal Bazaine
has written long letter to the New York
Herald, defending himself and attacking
MacMahon with considerable lnalignity.
1.-THE international law association,
which has been in session this week, at
Geneva, closed its proceedings yesterda.
with public meeting at which over 5000
people were present. The meeting was
addressed by David Dudley Field Of New
York, Henry Richards, and Father Hya-
cinthe.. ..All apprehensions Of second
year Of famine in India are ended. . . AT
the Beacon Park races, Boston, yesterday,
Bed Cloud won the first heat, time 2:22
81; Gloster the the second, time 2:l9 l-2
and Nellie the three last heats and the
race, time 2.18, 2:l9 "a and 2:22 H.. 90.
Moulton's promised supplementary state
ment appeared in the New York Graphic
yesterday. It adds very little testimony
ofvalue to the case, contains numerous
letters from Beecher, and the concluding
portions relate to the accusations against
the Plym Iuth pastor said to have been put
forth bv Bowen, and sre
of a rssly indecent char
acter. In the U. S. Circuit Court at
Philadelphia yesterday bill in equity was
presented in behalf of Jay Cooke, McCul-
loch & Co., London, and N. g.. Taylor &
Co.. an assignee Of Jay Cooke & Co., claim:
ing balance Of 22,e7s. pounds due the
London house under letters Of credit. (. /. A
new line of steamships or the Pacific ocean
to run exclusively in the interests of the
railroads and their European connections,
is prejecte l....A terrific collision occurred
yesterday morning on the Gres Eastern
railway near Norwich, England. Twenty
persons were killed outright, and fifty
wounded, some badly. The railroad line
Is completely blocked by debris Of the
wrecked trains: =. Senator Carl Schurz
addressed the Peoples Party ratification
meeting at St. Louis last night. He gives
the Peoples ticket his support. The
Kansas State Temperance Convention at
LeaSenworth yesterday nominated D. c.
HASKELL for Governor. The September
returns Of the Department Of Agriculture
show q very heavy decline in the pros.
poets Of the cotton crop in all the states ex-
cept Virginia. AT Fort Wayne, Ind, yes
terday, Sleepy George won the pacing race
in 2:29 l-2. Cleaner, the horse injured by
! collision day before yesterday, died yes
terday. He was valued at e12,O00. :.
Taylcr's gin house and mill, near Como,
Miss, together With lot. + cotton, was
burned yesterday BY spark from = gin
saw: Loss @lo, 600; no insurance. :. "A
large quantity of arms. have beea seized in /
New Orleans BY the police. .s'sl s',t z, e1s
i 20 81 - =. "a. $, .8ss' >:
!. hosDAY, Sept. IA Madrid dispatch
ssys !, ,0o0 troops lesve spsin for Cuba the
psssent manth, and tyOoo IN Oetober. I
Ths masons, bricklaye.s, bod carriers and
1,elDGxa in jefaev Cts Rescay, Hnf1a1.,,
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Milwaukee Produce Board, Sept. II

Milwaukee Produce Board, Sept. II.
1920 A. M-Wheat unsettled at 81. .O5 for
No. l; $l.OO4 for No. 2; 97Xc seller Sept.
and 94xc seller October. Receipts 81 900
bushels; shipments 5000.
100 P. M.-Wheat 81 .05 for No. l; 81. l.O0x
for No. 2; 97xc seller Sept. and 81 Xc seller.
October. Market quiet aud firm.
Chicago Produce Board, Sept. II.
11:4O A. H.--Provisions irregular and
strong; $23.5O bid for pork for September;
nominally 81 so seller the year. Lard held
higher; asking l5c cash llxc bid seller.
the year. Meats in good demand and held
higher; 1870 bid and IS xc asked for short
ribs; shoulders nominally 9Xc.
1850 A. M.--Bran firm and saleable Il
1850.
~ M.--Flour quiet and nominally un--
changed; shipping extras $4.75; family
brands $500 to $3.50. Whisky quiet: sales
at $1.Ol.
1910 P. x--Wheat irregular at 9sc cash;
Txc for September and 5xc for October.
1855 P. M.--Pork irregular; held higher:
sold at $23.76 for October held at $24 cash;
nominally el7.60 seller the year. Lard lax
to 16c cash; nominally IL Hc seller the year.
l:20 p. N.--Wheat steady at SIX to 4xe.
for September and 95 xc for October. Corn
steady at 75xc for September and 73xc for
October. Oats irregular in fair demand at:
7xc cash; AK to 47Xc for September and
46xc for October.
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Arkansas, the Littl. Rock Convention
unanimously nominated Hon. A. H. Gar
land, OF Pulaski. -. The Michigan Demo-
Gratis have nominated Henry Chamberlain,
o. Berrian, for Governor. In the Sixth
Missouri District Convention Thrasher has
been nominated and H. E. Havens
squelched on account Of the salary grab
Washington Heising, son OLA. c. Heising,
of the Chicago Stats Zeitung, declines to
run for Congress because he
lacks the necessary age and funds. ..
The National Pork Packers Convention
st Louisville adjourned after deciding that
a barrel of mess pork should contain 100
pounds instead Of 1876 pounds as hereto
fore. The prisoners confined in the
county Jail at Toledo, O., to the number Of
26, made bold strike for liberty yester-
day. Having effected an entrance to the
main stair y ay and hall Of the prison, they
watched until the door was opened to
admit the prison physician, when they
rushed for the street, and all escaped.
About 20 have already been retaken. A
similar attempt was made by the inmates
Of the city prison, but was discovered in
time to prevent its being successful. 80.
Extensive bush fires are reported
from New Jersey and the vicinity Of Otta-
wa, Ont. An immense amout OF property
has been destroyed. The former is now
under control.
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Watertuun gep,abliear1.
SUPPLEM EMIT.
nrrnTTrn,O Or 4 mrNFrKTm
NNI IIUIUN

Sketch of Tiltcn and His
Vagaries.
History Of Beecher's Intercourse
with the Tilton Family.
He Visited Them at the Earnest
Request of Tilton Himself
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operations upon me and against me.
So long as he was, Or thought he was,
on the road to 4 new success, his con-
duct toward me was as friendly as he
knew how to make it. His assumption
of superiority was magnanimity, ana
his patronizing manner were tritles at
which I could afford to smile, and
which bore with the greater humility
since I still retained the profound
impression made upon me, as ex-
planned in the following narratives,
that 1 had been cause Of
overwhelming disaster to him and
that his complete restoration to public
standing and household happiness was
a PREPARATION justly required OF me, and
the only one which I could make, but
with peculiar genius for blunders, he
fell, almost at every step, into new
mplications and difficulties, and in
every such instance it was his policy
to bring coercion to bear upon my
honor, my conscience and my affec
tons, for the purpose OF procuring his
extrication at my expense. Theodore
Tilton knew me we'll. He has said
amin and AGAIN To his friends that If
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fully believed, had been the cause OF
all this wreck by continuing that blind
heedlessness and friendship viii III had
begniled her heart and had reused her
husband into fury of jealousy,
although not caused by any intentional
act of min, and should I coldIy de
fend myself; should pour indignation
upon this lady should hold her up
to contempt as having thrust her atfec,
tons upon me unsought should /
tread upon the man and his house.
hold in their great adversely / gave
vent to my feelings without measure.
I disclnimed, with the greatest earnest
ness, any intent to harm Theodore, in
his home or his business, and with in
applicable sorrow [ both blamed and
defended Mrs. Tilton in one BREATH.
MIR. Moulton was apparently affected
by my soliloquy, for it was that rather
than conversation. He said that it
Tilton could really be persuaded Of the
friendliness of my feelings towards
him he was sure that there would be no
trouble in procuring a reconciliation.
[ gave him leave to state to Theodore
ny feelings. He proposed that I
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under any circumstances SO wicked
a faIsehood to her husband was
the browning blow of all. It
seemed to me as il she was going to
die; that her mind was overthrow;
and J. was in some dreadful way mixed
up in it and might be left by her death
with this terrible accusation hanging
over noe. | returned like one in a
dream to Moulton's house, where [ said
very little and soon went home
Tt has been said that I confessed
guilt, and expressed remorse. This is
utterly false. Is it likely, that with
Mars. Tilton's retlaction in my pocket
7 should have thus stultifed myself?
On the next day, at evening, Moulton
called at my house, and came up to my
bedroom. he said Mrs. hilton, on
her husbands return to her, after our
interview, had Informed him what
she had done, and that I had her re-
traction. Moulton expostulated with
me. Said a retraction under the cir
cumstances would not mend matters,
but only awaken fresh discord between
husband and wife, and do great injury
to Mrs. Tilton without helping me.
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III the rem0nstrauces addressed to
Bowen concerning the course OF his
paper under Mr.. TlitOn's management
1t was understood that Bowen agreed,
In consequence of proceedings arising
out OF this remOnStrance, to remove
I1lton or suppress his peculiar views,
but instead OF that, Theodore seemed
firmer in the saddle than before, and
his loose notions Of marriage and d.
vorce began to be Swallowed editOrjally.
This led TO the starting Of the Advance
III Chicago to supercede the lndepen
dent, and Mr.. Bowen was made to feel
that Tilton's management was seriously
iniUring his business, and Iilton may
have felt his position was being under
mined by the opponents of his views,
with whom he subsequently came to
believe [ was in league. Vague init
nations of his feeling hard towards
me [ ascribed to this misconception.
had really taken no step to harm
him.
After Mrs. Tilton's return from the
West in December, 1870, a young girl
whom Mrs. Tllton had taken into the
family. educated ana treated like her
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the hopefnlness and courage which I
experience in ordinary times, that none
but those intimate with me would Bus-
poet me-, SO full Of overfiowin,y spirit
and eager gladsomeness, to have with
in him care Of gloom. Some of my
letters to Moulton reflect this marked
ly. He understood this, and at times
earnestly reproved me for md rllging it.
With this preliminary review [ pro-
ceed to my narrative: Mr.. Tilton was
first known to me as reporter Of my
sermons. He was then youth Just
from school, and working on the New
York Observer. and from this paper he
passed to the independent and became
a great fayorita with Mr.. Bowen.
When about 1861 Drs. Bacon, Storrs
and Thompson resigned their places, [
became editor of the Independent, to
which [ had been from its start con-
tributor. One Of the inducements
hello out to me was that Mr.. Tilton
should be my assistant and relieve me
wholly from routine office work. La
this relation became very much at
tached to him. We used to stroll to
galleries and print shops. and were of.
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been, III times Of university, refuge
from storm and q tower Of defence.
Besides a generous suffering, I
should have had q selfish reason for
such if / had recalled that I was about
to become an instrument by which Mr..
Iilton meant to fight his way back to
the prosperity which he had forfeited.
1t nov appears that on the Goth of De
cember, 1870, Mr. Tiiton, having
learned that [ had replied to bis
threatening letter by expressing such
an opinion as to set Mr. Bowen finally
against him, and bling him face to
face with immediate rum, extosted
from his wife, then suffering from a
severe illness, adocumentincrimina
me, and prepared an elaborate attack
upon me. On Tuesday evening, De-
cember, 1870, about 7 o'clock, Francis
D. Moulton called at my house, and
with intense earnestness said: Il wish
you to go with me to see M. Tilton."
I replied that 7 could not then, as 1
was just going to my prayer-meeting.
"You must go !; somebody else will
take care OF the maeting." I went
with him, not knowing what trouble
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-06-20
Treatment of a Bad Horse.

The New York Commercial Advertiser
says:-"A beautiful and high-spirited
horse would never allow shoe to be put
on his feet, or any persons to handle his
feet. In an attempt to shoe him recently,
he resisted every effort, kicked aside every
thing but an anvil, and nearly killed him
self on that, and finally was brought back
TO his stable unshod. This defect was Just
on the eve Of consigning him to the plough,
where he might work barefoot, when an
officer in our service lately returned from
Mexico, took cord about the size Of
common BEDFORD, put it in the mouth Of
the horse like bit, tied it tightly on tho
animals head, passing his left car under
the string, not painfully tight, but tight
enough to keep the ear down and the cord
in its place. This done he patted the
horse gently on the side of the head and
commanded him to follow, and instantly
the horse obcyed, perfectly subducd, and
as gentle aud obedient as well-trained
dog, suffered his feet to be handled with
impanity and acted in all respects like an
old stager The gentleman who thus fur
nished this exceedingly simple means Of
subdaiug very dangerous propensity,
intimated that it is practised in Mexico
and South America in the management Of
wild horses
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-06-20
Selett Storp,
RIGHTED AT LAST.
A SEA SIDE ROMANCE.

Dusky shadows driitcd upon the world,
hanging over the sea, stealing upon the
land, settling among the trees, and growing
deeper as they brooded, with hints of a
darker night yet to come.
Two ladies sat in the gathering dusk
which betrayed nothing of their youth and
fairness, and looking out upon the sh ,dowy
world, listened to the hollow monotone of
the ocean waves as they broke upon the
beach, and talked or were silent at their
own free will. The long window of their
room opened on the piazza, for this ocean
hotel was provided with piazzs to the last
story, aud even now the tread of many
feet could be heard upon the floor below,
and at last from the hall two men passed
out and came by the window where they
sat. Some one came To light ticir room,
but they sent him away, 10th to disturb
the lazy calm they were enjoying by the
glare Of gaslight,
And who may Mrs. Evensman bc?'
said the voice Of one of the men outside
They were now promenading up and down
past the windows, the tips of their cigars
glowing rcd in the dusk.
"A widow well provided as to this
worlds goods, young and fair, If report
speaks true, tarrying at the seaside for her
sisters health, and"
To snare number two" finished the
second voice quietly. 81 am glad I'm of
tomorrow. Above all created beings ]
detest widow 'young aud fair" There
is something venerable about genuine
widow, one Of those whom the apostle
calls ''widows indeed" who go about doing
good and rearing their families but deliver
me from the young, childless creature who
has worn her bonds just long enough to
have mans nature and internal mechanism
turned inside out for her inspection, and
then is tossed upon society with money,