Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-08-08


together with the cargo. The crew was
saved.
Hinder the recommendation of the Board
of Physicians, Frank Walworth, the par
ricide has been removed to the n. Y.
State Asylum for insane conYicts.
the Great Scandal promises to get into
the courts after all. Tilton snubs the In
vestigating Committee and says he is in
the hands of his lawyers and ready to go
into court. The Investigating Committee
may as well collapse.
The Mayor, Chief of Police and many
other officials of Salt Lake, were arrested
on Tuesday last, by the United States
Marshal for violation of the election law.
Evidently there is purpose to punish the
intimidation of electors and corruption in
Utah. even though it be in the service of
a holy religion and there seems to be no
doubt of the fact of intimidation and cor
ruption.
The negro cadet, Smith, was discharg-
ed from West Point after the last exami-
nation, for alleged deficiency in philoso-
phy. 1t is claimed that this was a mere
subterfuge to get rid OF him. He makes
a strong case for himselfin Fred Douglass
paper. On the other hand, Secretary
Belknap refuses TO reinstate him, believ-
ing that he had fair examinations and
failed TO pass.
A lunatic named News, attempted to
shoot Bishop Whipple. in Fairbault,
Mimi, Sunday, because the bishop would
not make this insane divinity student
priest on account of his unsound mind.
The unreliable News advanced TO the
chancel Just before the sermon but before
he could shoot he was arrested by the
bishop, forced into chair and disarmed.
Frank Moulton, the mutual friend of
Beecher and Tilton, is now said to be the
guest of Gen. B. F. Butler, at Bay View.
Gordon Gordon, the bogus British Lord
who has figured in a thousand and one
swindling operations, and has been q
nuisance 10 himself and to the public for
years, has again escaped earthly justice.
He was arrested few days since in Man
itoba and blew his brains out with pis-
tol.
The extraordinary statement made by
the Ways and Means Committe of the N.
Y. Legislature, which has been holding
special session at Saratoga for the pur-
pose of considering the finances of the
State, that real estate to the amount of
$340, 900 900 in the cities of New York
and Brooklyn, is not at all liable to taxa
ton under the existing laws, because
classified as the property of religious in
stitutions," Savings banks" and "insur-
ance companies"
A cable dispatch from Berlin says that
the Roman Catholic Bishops have for
warded the German Government pro-
test declaring that they cannot submit
to the one sided laws of the Government,
and claiming that the Legislative power
in matters concerning the Church be-
longs to the Pope alone. 1t is not very
doubtful how Bismarck will respond TO
this. In fact, he makes a response every
week by imprisoning some obstinate
priest.
INTERVIEW WITH Mr.. SAGE.-Mr. h.
w. Sage, Chairman of the Investigating
Committee was called upon Sunday af-
ternoon, at his residence, on the corner
of Brooklyn and St. Marks avenues
He told The Times reporter that be had
nothing to give to the press in regard 10
the proceedings of the committee in Mr..
Beeeher's case. He hoped. he said, that
their lAbors would be brought TO a close
within the present week. 1t was their de-
sire to have Mr.. Beecher's statement as
early as possible, and they wanted to be
through with it the first part ofthe week,
and then if Mr.. Moulton would not come
forward they would not wait for him.
The Scientific American publishes full
description of the new Postofice in New
York, which illustrates the great progress
made in the postal business of the GOV.
ernment. Among other improvements
introduced are the pneumatic tubes run
ming from all the daily newspaper Offices
to the paper mailing rooms, great ad-
vantage TO both the newspapers and the
postofice. Railway postal cars will soon
run from the Forty second street depot to
the basement of the postofice building |
over the track Of the Broadway under |
ground railway. The American adds
that every improvement that invention
can suggest will be introduced in the
departments to make the New York post
Office model of Its kind.
The Beecher-Tillon scandal does not
come up to the expectations Of the public
II lags behind expectation II started off
well with Tilton's statement, and ell gos-
sipdom was on tiptoe. But Beecher does
not come to time. He hangs fre-dissp- !
pointing every hope by his reticence and |
procrastInation. he denies all that Til
ton has affirmed, and seems to control ey-
ery one who is so connected with the
matter as to have anything to expose
Mrs. 1ilton, who in her weakness, might
reafRrm some Of her previous admissions,
is held submissively quiet; and Moulton,
who is supposed to be able TO bring out
the truth, is absent, and shows little dis
position to take the stand, while Beecher,
himself, who has promised to give his
statement to the world, Notwithstanding
the intensity of his tortures, fails to sub
NIT his statement, and the investigating
committee bring nothing to light that sat.
isfies the public. Thus the public interest
is tagging. The efforts ofthe reporters
to keep the thing aliYe by their inter-
views, is not having the effect, as all their
pretended or real interviews amount TO
and have nothing satisfying
about them. The whole affair must, at
this rate. die out, and only be remember.
cd as g nine days wonder.