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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-08

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have reached the Rane opinion. Nevertheless,
ne doubt If another man could bs named against
whom the sanae kind and nmount OF evidence
would be pronounced incredible, worthless, and
unnvailing.
. DR.. Bacon, IN his last article in tho 1ndepend-
ent, Bays that, while "many OF US !" still thlnk
31r. Becchcr innocent OF the charge brought
against him, yet it is better for tho world,
better for Christianity, better tor Plym-
outh Church, that ho should be proved guilty
than that lie should push truth ont OF its
p lace and pass current in its etcad. VIC think
that the great 1nass OF Mr.. Beccher'a support
ers will concur with DR.. Bacon in this, for very
few persons will have the hardihood to say that
Christianity is to be- prodted by falaehood
and hypocrisy. Believing Mr. Beechor to be in-
nocent, they viii, therefore, welcome the issue
Of tho legal proceedings already commenced us
the surest yindication OF his character, however
much they may be nauseatcd by what has gone
BEFORE Mr, Bcechor's answer to Tilton'a COM
plant must be filed. under the laws OF New
York, within twenty days from tho time Of
service. Tho twenty days expire on tho 9th inst.
, 1874-09-06
TIE BEECHE ER CASE IN COURT.

While the public are sick and disgustcd with
TIC Decchor-1ilton case, there is geucrnl con-
vi.7n that tho end Of it will not bo reached till
it cones within the grasp of court Of Law,
wi,a-c vi:neEscs caa DO compelled to testify,
where re.jury can bo punished BY imprisonment
nnd uEcro the cxLaus;lcss resources OF cross-
examination can bo brought to bear to extract
tie truth from reluctant liars. i suit has bcen
begun b5 Tiltoa against Becctcr, and the papers
h"yo ben ec-ved on the defendant The actual
tr:a1 will probably bo postponed till December.
:: Meanwhile, it cannot bc said tnat anything has
ben absolutely proved except that Doccher
wrote feme extraordinary letters. and TINT Mrs.
Ti:tou las confessed her inability to tell the
truth. Tho pabhc have divided into two parties
OF tho question. Ore rarty, Judging 1Ir. Beech
er cs they would judge other men, conclude that
be is guilty. Another party. applying to him q
somewhat different standard from that which
t1c1 would apply to mankind generally. conclude
tLat he is innocent. When such q men as Noah
Porter, President OF Yale College, declares his
belief that Mr. Deecher ia innocent, We are
bound to conclude that he has reached this
opinion honestly.-and 30 Of most Of those who
, 1874-09-06
TIE KILLING OF MRs, WdGEER,

The case Of the killing OF Mrs. Wagner is SEEM
ingly ono Of tho most remarkable that ever dcllel
police Investigation. Standing at the front door
OF her daughters house, inbroad daylight, plcas-
anty chatting, sho received bullet which passed
entirely tarouEhher body, and thence through a
paling Of the fence. No human being was in
sight at the time. In front Of the premises
stretched tho open prairie. The wound was
fatal, and Eho died in less than fifteen min
utes. There Was boy out on tho prairie
tending some COWS, and his attention was at-
tsacted bJ tho fact that two policemen were rrac-
ticing pistol-sAootinS ut G mark. The mark was
tue wooden stringcr of the railroad track ovc-
ditch. This bog, when ne heard Of the killing of
Mrs. Wagner, reported the pistol-praetice Of tho
policemen Tho officers we're hunted up, and ac-
knowledged tho fact, and one OF thom stated
that one OF tho balls fred bJ linn mad missed tho
target. The pistols used by tho ooicess wo.o
small revol7ers. The bail that killed Mis-. N4g-
ncr cannot be found, SO that no comparison c2n
be made OF it with the balls in the pistol.
Now comes tho extraordinary fact that ths
distance from the point where the policeman
stood when firing and where Mrs. Wagner stood
when killed Vas oTer GOO feet. This l. il
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dress all preaent inequalities between man and
man; When, in other words, I'll their views con-
ccrning this Life and the hereafter have changed.
and changed radically, will not tho views OF
what their aim 10 this world should be change
also? When they hold no longer that God has
prescribed their present sovore lot, will they
bear it as patiently rs they do now7 When they
conceive that not Gods fore-ordinatiou, but
money-powe1, has mado their employers greater
than themselves, will they keep their hands of
their employers property When tho laboring
clnsges hayo reached this point in their rejection
Of Christianity, there is evory reason to believe
that they will fall like ripe fruit into the aims
Of the Commune or tho International,
where most others whose views OF the here
after have changed have fallen nlrendy.
GUS because their eternal welfare is at stake are
told to be virtuous in spite OF tho fact that there
is no such thing to be gained as eternal salyaton
and only because tho bosom Of tho bad man is q
he'll Of stormy passions, the motive may not be
found adequate to produce the desired effect
Nothing has go contributed to maize the mnss of
men resigned to tho incouyenionces and miseries
Of their lot In the world Al tho Christian doc
t1ino Of compensation beyond; and nothing will
SO tend to change the whole faco of our clyiliza-
ton as fixed and firm denial Of the reality Of
that compensation.
Say what we will, tho foundation Of the pr eg-
Ont Engliah civilization, Of its laws, its whole
social systom, is Christianity, or the sanction
which they haro from Christianity. Tako away
the foundation and the system will most likely
come to the ground. And this remains true
whatsoever viow wo tnke Of tho character Of
Christianity whether We allow it to be Of di-
vlne origin OF not. What is true Of England in
this regard ia true Of every country in Europe.
It is true in u modified sense Of cur own coun-
try. That tho danger threatens is plain ns
tho sun in heaven; but is there no remedy?
Can nothing be dono to break tho fall? Some
thing may be done; aud yet, considering tho
stage Of average human development, it may ba
doubted whether anything Till be done effectual-
II. Efforts may be mado to convince oil men
that virtue il ita own reward. and should be fol-
lowed for its own sake; and to mako tho inoqu.l-
itios Of human fortune less than they nre and
have been. These measures, however, will not
prevent the ultimate crash consequent On 4 total
change among men in their views Of what they
arc, why they aro here, and whittier they aro
going. They mar help to build up after the
ruin. It is vain to hope that they will prevent
it. How soon the great revolution will take place
it is idle to speculate upon. It may not como
for centuries; but its sisns are oven now all
ahQut rs
, 1874-09-06

| claimed ia such an extraordinary performance
on tho part OF the pistol as to render it wholly
improbable that the lady was killed BY the bullet
fred by the policeman. Tho policeman when
firing was pretty nearly on level with MIS-
Wagner Yet she was shot in tho body, and
with such force that the bullet passed through
her, and then through board in tho fence. 1t
is claimcd that the natural depression Of the ball
would have brought it to tho ground
long before It could hare gone GOO
fcot, even supposing it could have been
projected that far at all. Il these phys
ical facts are such as to render it improbable
that tho victim ras killed BY the policeman's q
bullet. then arises the question, Who killed
her and whero did the bullet como from7 E1-
cluding tho theory that she WAS killed by the
policeman, then tho killing ia wholly unaccount~
ed for. There is not circumstance Of any
kind pointing to shot from any other
direction. The matter, therefore, becomes one
demanding u thorough investigation, It ought
certainly to be susceptible OF proof whether that
particular pistol could project bali at any
elevation GOO feet, and whether bullet at that
distance could have force enough to pass
through human body and q fence-board. These
important points ought to bo, az TIC suppose
they can be- definitely determined II tho affirm
atiyo DO established, then the circumstances
leayo little doubt that the lady killed by the
officer. II the negative be established, then 1t
follows sho was killed by pisto1-shot fred by
some other person, who ought to be hunted up.
II it be ahoWn that Mrs. Wagner
WAS shot by tho policeman, then it
indicates skill in handling pistol hitherto
wholly unknown among the police force. It is
no uncommon tmng for policeman to empty
tho six barrels of his revolver at q dstance Of
ten or twenty feet at burglar, and fail to hit
him. Ninety-nine shots out OF hundred fred
by tho police fail to hit tho person fred at; and
now comes tho fact that policeman can kill At
600 feet, without seeing the person whom he
killed. This homicide ia q most deplora5lo
affair. The lady was an excellent woman, and
her death sudden and shocking. The least that
eau bo done is to havo the case thoroughly in
vestigated. It is duoto justice and to the Off
Ger that the truth be elected, and the RESPONSE
bi1ity p1aced whoro it belongs.
, 1874-09-06
ALL ABOUT 4 Tom B3ToFE.

When tho Pope publishes bull against such a
comet rs he 6olcnnlJ believes this nineteenth
century to be, q sensation Of amiablo dezision
Protestant public mind does not fonl called upon
at this day to exert itself beyond TINT Leaving
This etill somewhat powerful potentate over
spiritual ignorance. re might trace this Haunting
Of prepostecous prctension al the way down,
by short and increasingly amusing steps, until
no como to tho accredited 1unntic in tho Pcnn-
sylyania asylum, w1o dons his crown
Of thorns, malcs sceptre OF his boot
jack, md secs in luis ecclesiastical minds
ego the kingdoms Of the earth crouching at his
feet. In this descent Of tho scale Of graduated
arrogance VIC could contemplate ST. Michacl's
Cricket Club OF Englandmaking . rulo, " in obe-
dicnco to their clerical director not to play ball
with dissenting club" and accordingly backing
out OF their engagement With tho Ando7cr Club,
although how that jolly lot Of base-ballers are
identified with the sin of non-confofnity has not
been made to appear. Then re would pause to
mediate upon tho Rev. hlr. Heard. who, accord
doing evil that good may come, by preaching IN
q Non-ConformiEt pulpit. Nor would We find
this spectacle any more d;verting than that of
the several American fragments of tho church,
every one repuda:ing the credentials Of every
o.nac, and perpetually ''Rcsolving" that they
viii not exchange pulpits, or join in the
Supper, With one anothc-, lest in aome unguard-
ed moment they should do 80.
But nobody OF this species will ITO find quito SO
entertaining just nov as tho Vicar Of OTston
Ferry. The Vicar Of Oxston Ferry denies the
right Of 3 Wesleyan to say in An epitaph that it
refers to the "danghter Of the Req. T. Keet,
Wesleyan Mlrister.' Tho Vicar ot Chsist-not
, 1874-09-06

| The Sabbat=rian laws of Massachusetts and
| Pennsylvania have recently been before the
courts Tho decision in each Of the two cases is
an argument for the repeal OF amendment Of the
law. In October 1872, Michael Connolly, OF
| Boston, waa out Of work. He heard Of man
| living in South Boston WHO might give him Gil
! plovment aud started to SEQ him It Was the
evening OF tho 9Th OF October. The "draw " Of
tie bridge was swung open. It was undergoing
repairs. The city officials. with most culpable
negligence, had not barred the way, OF put up
any notice of the condition OF the bridge, OF
ercn lighted the lamps The night was
very dark Connolly walked of into tho water.
He came very near drowning. and Was seriously
injured by tho shock Of the fall md by the des-
perate c1ertions necessary to save himself from
death. He was sick for long hmo. On his
recovery ho saed the city for the expenses Of his
sickness, and for damages for the loss Of en-
ploymcnt, acd for permanent injury to his
health. This seems like plain case, but Con-
molly los: his suit. The 9Th OF October Was SUM-
dey. Tho counsel for the city plead that tho
Sabbath lav Of Massachusetts forbade all travel
ing upon the first day Of the week, except for
" charity OF as stwork Of necessity" and
that Connolly could not claim damages for an
accident which happc1cd IN consequence Of his
violation OF the law This plea could not DO lo-
gally o1erthrown. The Superior Court gayo
decision for tho city.
In Pccusylyaaia Judge Pie1sou Of the HAr-
risburg district, has just decided, test case,
TINT q man who sells any article Of merchandise
On Sunday can be fined for each and every sale.
It ia said that q 6abbatarian organization is
about to try, under this ruling, to close every
shop that is open on Sunday in Harrisburg.
These cases, and especially the first, can have
no good result. They viii only breed bad blood.
Tho Sunday statutes aro relics Of an age which
believed in more strict observance Of Sunday
than tho great mass Of Christians would now in-
dorse, and which held to a quasi union between
Church and State such as ninety men
out Of q hundred would now 1cpudiate It ia
natural that there should be some objection
to their repeal, because they involve verbal rec.
osnition Of tho Christian doctrine. It is
question worth considering, however, whether
tho somewhat imaginary good Of such recogni-
ton is not much moro than counterba!anced by
the substantial harm done in putting people who
shocked By the manifest injustice dono in cases
like that Of Connolly, into entire opposition to
the Church that upholds them.
, 1874-09-06

Tho ladies' Of this city who have in charge tho
various departments of tho Charity Fair which
| they propose to give in November for the benefit
| Of the Uahnemann Hospital, arc already tusily
at work, and their reports Indicate that the Fair
will DO ono OF tho most novel rs well as sacccss-
full entertainments ever given in Chicago. Tho
committees arc composed OF the most pzo-ai-
nent ladies OF the city, who hare accepted their
position without reference to their predictions
towards any particular school OF medicine, and
they are working together in generous rivalry,
actuated only by tho common Impulse OF charity.
Tho purpose OF this Fair is to enlarge the
facilities Of tho Homeopathic Hospital in this
city and to open ts doors FREQ to a1i tho desery-
ing poor rho may need medical ard surgical
treatment. At present tho hospital has rocu
for 120 beds, one-haH of which are already fur
niRhcd. Tho managers desire to supply the full
quota, inasmuch rs patients aro turned away
daily for the simple lack Of the mems with
which to take care Of 70 many applicants. Dur
ing the existence Of this hospital, short as
it has been, it hns donc q great work
~oAAsAANAsAoAo
friends, tho help Of tho Relief md Aid
Society, and resources derived from public
and social entertainments, as we'll as from
such patients as could afford to pay for
q home, with nursing and proper care. These
contributions, however, are not sufficient to carry
out the liberal and generous purposes of tho
managers. and this November Fair has been de-
vised to moet tho emergency by tho charitable
ladies Of the city. who have organized the work
into departments, US follows: Fancy work, Mrs
H. J. Willing, Chairman plain sewing, Mrs n
T. Merrill infants and chi1d1en'e department.
Mrs. Gen. ". E. Strong toys aud amuscments
Mrs. A. N Eddy; floral department, Mrs John
buckingham ]; household art. AIRS. Franklin Mac
Veagh; books, magazines and stationery, Mrs.
G. F. Harding tho country etoro, Mrs. II. F.
White the patients table, Mrs. N. NJ Wheeler;
1ofreshment department, Mrs. r. D. G:ny.
The Hospital Bazaar, paper of six
teen octavo pages, will DO Issued daily during
the Fair, under tho edtor6llip Of Mrs. kato.N.
Doggctt. The Executive Committee and tho
ladies' at the hoads OF departments will probably
mako special ApPtiA1s " tl4e luU4lc 1Or 0CQluOG6
and contributions, and they ought to meet with
most liberal response This hospital is IN in-
stitution which should not DO allowed to laa-
glah in its operations for want Of funds, when
tho calls upon it are SO constant and imperative.
There is no nobler or more humane object to ill.,
epiro the human hoart than FREQ hospital for
the SICK poor. Every one ought to lend q help
ing hand to tho phi1antlropic Indies WHO have
entered so nobly into this work,
, 1874-09-06

tho ono at Rome, but the one st Oxston Ferry
declared that no such damage should ba done to
the escutcheon Of the Church OF England aa to
allow tombstone in her church yards to confcr
tho title Of "Rov." upon Methodist e1hortor.
And the Bishop OF Lincoln ipdorscd the Vicar Of
Owston Ferry. And this Wears name ia Smith,
the Rev. G. E. Smith. h1r. Keet appealed to
the Primate, who, not knowing tho position
Of His Lordship Of Lincoln, replied that he
would be surprised il that Bishop did not con-
cur with him (the Archbiahop) in " consider-
ing the Wears objection one that ought not to
Bishop Wordsworth, vino maintained, in reply,
that " the title OF Rev. should not be conceded
to n1r. Keot on tombstone by ministers Of the
Church Of England. who aro the responsible
guardians Of " tombstone literature. And Hls
Lordship was quito right, il ho thought by SO
doing he vas running tho title into tho ground.
30 tic dead little girl is doniod the right Of be-
ing designated rs having been the P" daughter Of
4 Wesleyan minister" Ecclesiastical Ch1istiani-
ty smilod not on hor humble birth hence no
animated bust-except that Which will o7ertako
the Church Of England all the sooner for such
acts as these Of her Bishops and other
clergy" This Wesleyan Conference has resented
the insult and ID following it up With
committee, which isurged BY the London Times
to bring their grievance into court. Tho
Times indulgcs in tho invcctiro which it knows
30 well how to uso upon undignifcd dignitaries,
and declares that "nothing but a mysterious
pleasure, only to be understood By actual expert
once, can induce men of ordinary intelligence
and taato to parade the world il the grotesque
garb Of m English Bishop" This will be dis
heartenng, to say the least to that ecclesiastical
party in this country which is understood to
have designs upon the ''grotesque" parapher-
MALTA OF tho Mother, not to say the Grandmother,
Church, and threaten to fight it ont On
tho c1othes-line, il it takes au the rest Of the
summers. As is generally the case with those
bumptious eccleziastica who throw stones, His
Lordship OF Lincoln is found to be living in q
glass house himself as respecta his titular ds,-
Grafton. His signature Of "Linco1n" is chal-
lengod- It belongs, not to him, but to the
Duke who was to that particular manor born.
Nor should re fail to add that this Right" Rev.
erend Father recently deduccd an Argument
against cremation from the premise that it would
embarraes, it not indefinitely postpone, tho
Rosurrectiont
, 1874-09-06

High Court OF Justice. The High Court il tn ;.
divided into eections, each acting with ,r,,
Jurisdiction, and sitting independantly: p,,,
ness viii ba assigned under rules Of ths cor,.
Tho new law abol!shes the distinctions !.
tween proceedings at Law and equity, 80 that II,
samo Court may administer 10th simultaneous,
Parties to d suit at law may obtaia the re,;.,
which at present would have to be sought hv.
bill in equity. In quits ut law, the Cont M.
enforce equity just rs it msy now in q chsncer,
case. Forms OF pleading arc in like man,e,
substantially abolished. Plaintiffs fle th.,,
complaint, and the Court has full power oyer ,n
1orms and processes, and can administer iusti..
without reference to any technically Of p!e,d
ing Or distinction, Of suits. All the incen;o,x
devices for delay or evasion arc swept .r,,
leaving tho Court unembarrasscd By the lsxp =,
pleading.
It will be considered somewhat remarkable :.
this country that these two Courts will perYorn,
the entire buaincss Of England, tho population
Of Which is msin1y engaged In manufactures .,d
commerce, and numbers 1000, COO. The vho1.
number OF Judges in the two Courts viii h.
thirty; while in Illinois alone wa have, inclnd,r,
the 6upremo Court, about forty judges h,7in,
tho Same jurisdiction Of rhese English Courts
II we take the whole United States, tho numhsx
Of courts, compared with thoss Of England il
startling We have a Federal judiciary cepn.. ,
posed Of over fifty District Courts, nine Ercn;.
Judges, and nino Justices Of the guprr7,.
Court. We have thi1ty-se7en State SnpYsm.
Courts, composed OF IN average OF ays
members each, with Circuit Courts, Or th.i,
equivalents, numbering many hundreds. Ye. al
our courts have all the business they can attend
to; tho dockets aro crowded, and the Judzt3,
whole time occupied AL OF which eoes to
prove either that va arc far more Gtzioo, i
people than tho English, or that our system ot );
Jurisprudence can bo remode}ed with are.f
saving Of time and expense. :~'4
, 1874-09-06

L singular breakdown in polite al nay '':sa
that Of the Hon. n. Fl. Ray, member Of cifr
gress from the Tenth District Of this Sta!e. alf'
naJ was elected in 1872, by Beyeralthouaana a.
jority, was i good Representative, tool, cara tss'
tho right mcn were mAdo Postmas@ers,a ,aud fties"
was no possible reason why he sho1ld not 70 r.
nominated for tho second term by hia party: -
election Of delegates waB progressing fa7a1oe'- =
for him, when he Vas so indiscrees as to uas'
his own sen caast to West Point Mf. ha' =
banker and a man OF intluenco, aa2
certainly vas tho most arailab1o Republican Il
tho district. Bu. s1cA wag the upiTersal diega9
at the use OF his oaico to promote hi5 own fafnl9
interests, to tho exclusion Of all othors that rnea
tho Convention met even tho faithful fo9<
masters deserted hin, and ha had bur feT &C.,
te-ing votes
It may perhaps be consoliug to nr hay~ -
know that there is but little prospect Of 1n'
election OF tho gentleman selected By tue w
vention in preference to himso1f. Tue c1s'1'
is composed Of Mercer, Hancock, AcDonoaea'
Henderson, Schuyler, aud Warren Counties
1873, the Farmers had 500 minority in ae'et
900 in 3IcDonough. 800 in Henderson, ~hue =
Hancock County tho Democrats had 400 m1]".:
t.: In Schuyler County the vots stood: ta11 -
Au- 9a: Dap1bGcan. iS2; nazaoczafa. ssA