The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tho East

busness houses is announced. The broken
firms are williamson, Griffith x Co., sugar
refners, and James Bishop 4 Co., importers
and manufacturers OF india-rubber.
Mr.. Thomas Kinsella, editor of the Brook
lyn Eagle, has promised to contribute
statement to the literature Of the Beecher
scandal.
The movement in New York for closing the
stores at 8 p. m. on Saturdays, begun by the
hardware dealers, is now strengthened by the
accession of the manufacturers OF jewelry and
plated ware and the fancy goods dealers.
The Grand Hotel at Saratoga was entirely
destroyed by fire on the 1st inst. At the time
of the breaking out of the flames there was a
heavy wind blowing, and it was with difficulty
that the Grand Union and Congress hotels
were saved. At one time the whole village
was seriously threatened Through fortu-
nate change of the wind and the aid Of fire
engines from neighboring towns the conha-
grafton was finally brought under control.
The Grand Hotel was estimated to be worth
$500, 900, and was insured for about 5000, 900
A collision between a passenger and gravel
train on the Utica and Chenango Valley
railroad, near Binghamton, N. Y, last
week, resulted in the killing of three persons
ON the passenger train, and the serious
wounding Of several others.
Booths Theater New York, will be sold I'M
der foreclosure Nov. s, and the friends of
Edwin Booth are making efforts to have the
theater remain in his hands They state that
the unsecured creditors will extend all the
leniency that he may require, and if enough
ba To az tha
amounting to 100000 the security for which
is good. the affairs of Edwin Booth may be
arranged.
A collision on the Allegheny Valley railroad
near New Bethlehem, Pa, last week, resulted
in the killing of James Esler, engineer; NJ.
Killien fireman, and Henry Doyle, passenger
on a mail train. Sevaral others were seriously
injured.
Mr.. Beecher's vacation having expired, he
resumed his pastoral ministrations in Plym-
outh Church at the regular Friday evening
prayer meeting held on the 81 inst. An inn
mense throng Of people greeted his return
with much enthusiasm. Among those present
were Mrs. Beecher Charles Beecher, Dr. Ed
ward Beecher, Col. Beecher, Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe. Assistant Pastor Halliday,
all the members of the late Investigating
Committee, Prof. Rosster W. Ray
mond, and the trustees Of the church. The
room was handsomely decorated with flowers
and banners, on which were inscribed :
"Love," His Banner Over Us Was Love-"
and similar inscriptions. After prayer by
Robert Raymond, Mr.. Beecher had his usual
fifteen minutes talk in which he alluded to
the troubles of the church, and counseled his
hearers to take the same as one of Gods
wise measures of discipline, after which
he took the Bible, read few verses, and COM
mented upon them at some length. At the
close Of his remarks, young lady sang
Home, Sweet Home, to an accompaniment,
which was followed after brief intervals by
the songs AUD Lang Syre," 1.-The Last
Rose of Summer" 1.-The Marseillaise," and
other well-known airs. Mr.. Beecher then
promenaded through the room and held brief
conversations with those present, which
brought the proceedings to a termination
Henry Ward Beecher went before the grand
jury OF Brooklyn on the Sd inst. and pro-
cured the indictment Of Moulton and Tilton
for SANDER and libel In his examination by
the foreman Of the jury Beecher swore to the
falsity of Tiltons and Moulton's accusations
as made in their statements, and that he be-
ieved them to be malicously intended to de-
fame him. Tilton, however, reiterates his
charges, and in letter to the New York
Herald calls attention to the fact that, in the
spring of 1873, when w. +. West, a
member of Plymouth Church, pre-
ferred charges against him (Tilton) for
slandering Mr.. Beecher, the latter gentleman
declared to his congregation that he had no
complaint to make against Tilton. Again, in
the Gaynor libel case, Mr.. Beecher had an
opportunity to prosecute, but did not and
now, as the report of the Plymouth Investi-
eating Committee has failed to command
popular credenee, District Attorney Winslow
who was the author of that report procures
this indictment, hoping to load him with OBJ
loquy by putting him in the position of an in
dicted witness. Tilton concludes his card by
demanding an immediate trial.
The verdict OF the Coroners jury on the
Fall River disaster is given to the public.
Nobody to blaze.
The shooting in the Bennett long-range
championship rifle match at Creedmoor last
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Rgby, Of the Irish team; the second by Full
ton, of the American team; the third by
Capt. Mason, of Canada the fourth and fifth
by Messrs. Wilmer and Hamilton, of the
Irish team
Fifty persons were more or less injured in
the streets Of New York city, few evenings
since, by stampede of Texan cattle.
fierce war is impending between the oil
men and the Pennsylvania railroads. The
recent conference of railway magnates at
Saratoga increased the freight rates on Pc
troleum to the se2board about as cents on the
barrel. The trunk lines not only agreed to
enforce this new arrangement, but induced
the pipe lines, the companies that conveyed
the crude from the wells through pipes to the
railroads, to join the combination, which thus
presents the unbroken front OF huge mo-
nopoly. Suit is to be brought at once
against the railway companies and their allies,
the pipe lines, and will be prosecuted to the
bitter end The charge is conspiracy, and the
constitution OF the State it liz claimed affords
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