The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-09-09
TILTON-BEEcHEB

EOIEiN6 uit lOE hIltluS luS LCdu
ing. but l can't help it. The fact is,
the air is full of Tilton and the earth
of Beecher. Elizabeth, Moulton, Su-
san B. Anthony, and all the rest of
them are revolving in everybody's
mind like the bits of colored glass in
a kaleidoscope, and you can't get
away from it. There is something
so interesting in wickedness that m
must dwell on it.
Since / wrote you last Moulton has
made his statement, and, presto, pub
lie opinion, which is about as steady
as the wind, has shifted to the Tilton
quarter, and to-day he is the injured
man and Beecher the injurer. To-
day ninety per cent. of the people of
New York are satisfied Of Beecher's
guilt in the matter. Moulton asserts,
in the strongest possible way that
both Beecher and Mrs. Tilton con-
fessed to him the fact that they had
been guilty of adultery-that the IA
nous letter to Tilton referred to this
adultery and nothing else, that it had
been discussed by them times with
out number. On this statement.
public opinion veered to Tilton and
against Beecher, and to-day the
great preacher is down and the great
writer and speaker is on the top
wave. But this is net all. Tilton
and Moulton are making a supple
mental statement, which they pro-
pose to publish in a week or two,
which those who have seen it assert
viii so clinch the matter as to leave
no lOophole for Beecher to escape. 1t
is said that Tilton and Moultou have
not exhausted their magazines of
ammunition in the shape of letters,
by any means, but that they have a
stock on hand sufficient to sink their
enemies. That something of the.
kind is feared by Mr.. Beecher's
friends is evident from the fact that
since Moulton's statement appeared
they have mellowed down wonderful
ly. Nevertheless, they keep a good
front on it, and aver that the. legal
investigation which Triton has COM
menced will completely fatten him
out, and leave the pastor in better
shape than ever. Let the whole
world hold its breath and wait. In
the meantime,
HENRY C. Bowen,
the proprietor of the Independent,
has got into it. The Brooklyn Argus
published G statement from a West
ern mar to the effect that Bowen
had stated hat his late wife had, on
her death-bed, confessed to a criminal
intimacy with Beecher, and that
Bowen accepted from Beeeher a sum
OF money in settlement of the matter.
Bowen and bis two sons sue the
Argus for libel. This will be remem-
bered as the old scandal which was
set aioat by Dr. Patton, of Chicago,
who received It from parties here.
What family is next TO be dragged
through this mass of filth
GLENDENNING,
the Jersey City pastor, who was ac-
eused of running Mary Pomeroy,
stoutly denies the charge, andremains
ct his home awaiting the legal inves.
tigaticR. What a pity it is that the
Beecher matter could not have been
so managed!
CHILDREN's CHARIrY-Sr. Jogs's
GUILD.
One of the curious sights of city
life nowadays is the sailing Of the
Floating Hospital of st. Johns Guild.
on its excursions for mothers and sick !
children. No n wbo has never
tried to raise children in q crowded
city, even with command of unlimit-
ed means, knows what unwearing
care it demands, and the children Of
poor seem literally born but to
die. How can it be any other way,
when the air they draw from their
first breath is thick with foulness as
he Mississippi water with silt, and
hey r nursed by overworked
mothers, worn to skin and bones with
care, drudgery, and miserable food.