Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-09-01
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Outrage In Alabama-Have the Ku'
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CHICAGO. September Ia Washing
ton special says: Authentic information
wss received BY the P. o. Department
to-day. to the offSct that on last Friday
q train on the Albemarl & Chattanooga
Railroad was stopped by means Of q
false signal nsar York Station. Ala;
that Immediately upon its hating II was
boarded and taken possession Of by q
band OF armed men, who shot down the
colored mail agent without p%rovocation
and in cold blood, Congressman Hayes,
Of Alabama, who arrived here to-day con-
firms this story, and adds much more Of
the same sort. Official dispatches rscsiv-
cd to-day state that ysstsrday = body OF
armed white men surrounded . colored
church in Los county. Ala, while ser
vices were in progress. and without the
slightest provocat ton fred into the con-
grsgatiOn, killing 4 persons outright.
In addition to these things, the Alaba-
mians have srsriss to tell OF the .intimi-
dation Of both white and colored Re-
publican speakers; the whites being
visited at their homes by armed men
and warned not to speak, and colorsd
orators being driven from the platform
in full view Of their audiences by the
same mesns
The Christian Union en- ths Brook.
Ign scandal.
Nrw YoRK. Sept. 1.-The Christian
Union, Mr.. Beechsr's paper, has an ar
ticls on the Brooklyn scandal, in the
the course Of which 1t says: "Mr. Til.
ton. Mr.. Moulton and Mrs. Tilton have
each, on their own admission, or on
ample and incontrovertsbls proof, tsld
two wholly different stories OF the whole
matter. Mr.. Bescher alone has said
always the same thing. The
burst OF self reproach in which
he carelossly set his hand to q pa
per which he had neither written nor
read, which prevented his expression, the
tsmpestuous self.rsprosch and sorrow
which he has describeain which, II seems
he permitted himself to pursue . mis-
taken course in the affair, is surely easy
to comprehend. Mr.. Bsechsr's well
known and long affection for Tlton
strengthened rs he has graphically told
by the great service which Tiltou had
done him, his profound desire springing
from n sentiment which is the deepest in
his life to reclaim and save one who had
erred. The stern reckoning to which
he held himself. for errors that had ag-
grsvatsd the trouble, that after forgive
ness which he gave TO offsnsss against
himself, the dread OF disaster not to
himself only. but to Mrs. Tilton and
to public morality and dscsncy in the
storm Of vile scandal which has at last
been let loose. the utter WEAKNESS Of
life at the time under the burden the
and heroic ministry to others
never oncs interrupted by his own trou-
blss in these things, though they may
DO forgotten or misunderstood in the
Of the present. will n day
out clear and ennobling in the
Eyes Of the world. A man who made
many mistakes but never erred ignobly.
who held himself through all sure and
the friend Of men and the scrv-
ant Of God. In q note to q friend
lust after the Woodruff attack.
Henry Ward Beechsr wrote: "Liying
or dying I am the Lords he knows II,
and I know IL. After that II matters lit
lie what happens to him; indeed 1t mat
tsrs little; his noble work will 60 on, and
his Master will care for him and for II,
and sooner or later the world will know
the truth, but such OF II A. concerns us
is that We do not wrong our
by misjudging in this issue be-
tween = truth and a lie.