The Grange advance., 1874-08-26
FAITH. HOPE,

provisions OF the Geneva convention, with
out limiting the rights Of beligerents. 49,.
It is announced from Washington that
the administration will not permit the
! transfer Of Porto Rico by Spain to Germa-
ny. The bush fires in Ontario are still
raging and destroying much farm proper
ty. Monday the village of Washington
near New Hamburg was half destroyed
| 80. 1t is reported that messenger has
arrived at Fort Rice bringing news that
Clusters expedition was attacked on the
| 18th b., 1900 Indians, who were repulsed
with heavy loss. The whites lost SO
killed and wounded. -. The Chinese gov
ernment has given Japan ninety days to
withdraw its troops from Formosco. Mean
time China is making extensive prepara-
tions for war with Japan, which is gener-
ally expected. Minister Jewell, who
comes home to be Postmaster General, ar
rived at New York yesterday from Europe
| .... The Republican State Convention of
Pennsylvania, in session at Harrisburg yes
terday, adopted a rosoluti n recommend
ing Gov. Hartrauft for Pres; ..ent in 1875.
FRIDAY, Aug. 21.-Geo. C. Harding, ,edi-
tor and proprietor of the indianapolis Her
aid, shot Moritz, a prominent merchant of
Indianapolis, yesterday afternoon. Nor
itz, who is a Hebrew Of about forty years
of age, and married, had seduced the
daughter of Mr.. Harding, young lady of
eighteen. Miss Harding, after confessing
the facts to her father, took her own lite
by swallowing dose Of opium. 1t is
thought Mor.tz will recover. .... At Red
Oak, Montgomery county, Iowa, Wednes-
day hight, Tom Mcclellan, desperate,
shot twice, it is supposed fatally, Miss Full
ler, whose daughter Mcclellan had been
courting, but who, at the request of her
mother, discarded him. Mcclellan was
arrested and sent to JAIL. Carl kissel-
bach, a German saloon-keeper, at North
La Crosse, Wis, attempted suicide yester-
day morning by cutting his throat with
a razor. He will probably die....
At Saratoga, yesterday, Fellowcraft, in the
four-m race, beat Lexington's time by
making the four miles il 7:l9 1-2. .. The
Commissioner of the General Land Office
has directed that regulations respecting the
final proof of Homestead settlement in the
grasshopper region of Iowa and Minnesota
will be SO modified as to permit settlers to
go before their county court to make their
dispositions intsead of before the local land
officers. :. Moulton's statement concern.
ing the Beecher,Tilton affair is promised
for Saturday.
SATURDAY, August 27.-The news ofthe
day is limited to the long statement by
Frank D. Moulton, concerning the Beech
er-Nlton STAIR, which was prepared
ior the Plymouth Church committee, but
was reserved on advice OF Moulton's per-
sonal friends. Under the provocation OF
Mr.. Beecher's reflections upon Mr.. Moul
ton, the statement is now made public,
having been printed yesterday in the nai-
ly Graphic Of New York, and having since
occupied the telegraph wires to the exclu-
sion of any othe.: news. The statement,
Mr.. Moulton says, is the same, without
any alteration, which he prepared for the
committee, but is prefaced by letter to
the public explaining his connection with
the case, as arising from his long friendship
for Tilton, his early knowledge Of the at-
fair, and his earnest desire to spare the
families Immediately concerned and socie-
;: ty from the injuries which are following
the making the scandal public. This de-
sire involved him for four years in great
anxiety and labor; and the Only reward
he could have hoped for, the preservation
OF the interests of innocent parties and Of
society has now failed him, while an at
7 tempt Is now made to throw on him a
part of the shame and disgrace which be-
, long to the actors alone. The present ex-
posure he attributes to the folly, insincer-
ity and wickedness Of Mr.. Beecher's late
counsellors.
The statement, SO far as yet received,
consists chiefly Of copies of letters, memo
randa, etc., consecutively arranged and
explained by the briefest possible
narrative. From these it appears that the
} Nlton demand of December, 1870, th.t
Beecher should quit the ministry Of Ply
mouth Church and leave Brooklyn, which
was conveyed to Beecher by Bowen was
made at the latter's suggestion and on his
, promise that he would sustain it. Two