Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-07-03
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LATER FROM THE ATLANTIC SIDE.
AmdavIt Of MRS. Triton.


AmdavIt Of MRS. Tilton.
New YORK June "a Mrs. Titon will to-
morrow publish an affidavit written in her
own vindication, in which she says no person
was employed in laying carpets at the time
specified by Lees, Loeder and Price, and to
the best of her knowledge they were never in
her house, and their narration relating TO her
self and Beecher is wholly and utterly false.
She says there never was improper relations
between Beecher and myself, and all charges
OF adultery or improper conduct or any at
tempt on his or my part to have or solicit any
improper relation or acts are utterly, abso-
lutely false. No act or word ever passed be-
tween Beecher and myself that could not,
with equal propriety, have passed between
clare, in presence of Almighty God, that
am absolutely innocent of all offenses charged
against me witk relation to Beecher, except
through the influence of my husband, which
was impossible to resist. l have made
charges against Beecher which were false and
entirely uufOunded, and which / well knew
to be false. left my husband willingly and
without solicitation, especially OH the part of
Beecher, but as far have any knowledge to
possible for me, SO long as | lived with my
husband, to resist his demands or to speak
truth when he requested me to deny it.
tSigneD ELISABETH r. Triton.
Sworn to before Judge McCuc, of the city
court, Brooklyn.
Lady franklin Hopelessly Hi.
LONDON, June 24-Lady Franklin is hope
lessly i'll. She bid farewell yesterday to the
commander of the Pandora, which went in
search of relics of the Franklin Expedition
and other exploring voyages
The Terrible Asiatic Plague Spreading.
NEW YORK, June 25,-The Levant Herald,
of tho 2ed inst. says: A telegram has been re-
ceived from the sanitary commission, sent to
the district of Messopotamia-the district
stricken with the botanic plague. The tele-
gram was sent the 22d of May, from Bagdad,
whittier 1t had been sent by special courier
from Cutellaumara, where the commission
then was, and states that this fearful malady
has spread beyond the country of Montefik,
Arabia, injecting on immense, district, and
destroying large number of lives. In three
localities mentioned in the dispatch the mum.
bers were 500, 800 and 1000 respectively
Those who were struck down with the dis
ease generally succumbed on the second or
third day after the premonitory symptoms
had set in. In some districts the epidemic
was disappearing, but it was breaking out in
others not visited by the commission.
The Earthqake in South America
Worse than First Reported.
NEW YORK, June pa letter from Mar.
acaibo, May 20, gives an account of an earth
quake at Circuita, on the 18th. The first
shock, levelled every wall in the city, burying
in single instant 5000 people out of pop
ulation of 10000. Several who were not
killed, subsequently died from injuries, and
many were murdered by robbers, who plum
dered in bands. Shocks continued and fires
burned much property. Those saved fled to
the neighboring country and encamped.
When the news reached Maracaibo two
steamers were sent with food and clothing to
the sufferers by the American consul and
people; also corps of physicians and a COM
soldiers to protect the people. Reports from
San CarpentinO, San Diego, Gramalate, Ar.
belda, Concula and San Christabel, aggre-
eating a population of 10000, confirm the
previous account of destruction of life and
property in these places. The shock was felt
at Bogota and other places, and In Nfaracaibo
there have been light quakcs every day since
Violent storm I'm the Northwest.
| CHICAGO, Jnne 25.-Dispatches from Wis
consin and Northern Iowa say that section
was visited by violent storm yesterday,
| blowing down houses and fences, washing
away railroad bridges and damaging grow
ing crops.
Liabilities of Postns asters.
| WASHINGTON June 25.-Judge Spence,
| assistant attorney general of the postoffice
| department, has furnished an opinion to the
postmaster general, taking the ground that
postmasters are liable on their bonds for
| losses OF government property while in their
possession The occasion OF this decision
was the loss of a registered package contain
| ing $500 worth of stamps in transit through
the Boston postoffice. 1t is the first time that
an opinion has been given holding postmast.
ers responsible on their bonds for the loss of
! property passing through the postoflcc. -.
Damage and Loss Of life by she Ca
t3 rome Overflow.
PARIS, June %. damage to property and
loss of life by the flood in the river Garonne is
greater than previously reported At Tou-
louise the bodies of hundred persons drowned
ed but left standing. Many other people
persisted and their bodies were carried off in
houses that were swept away. a
PARIS, June 25.-2 p. M.-The devasta.
ton by foundations is widespread. At Tou.
louise nearly oil the.houses in the st. Cuprian
quarter are destroyed. At Verdun, in the
department of Arriege over fifty houses have
fallen and many persons drowned. From
Montaubau report comes that all the crosp
Oh tut UauhS VI tuC luiue anu ddFOunG are
| ruined. The Garonne, in some places, is
four miles wide. A bridge of seven arches
at Taber, has been carried away. The inun-
datiohs are general in the departments of
Aube, Haute Garonne and Tarne If the
| rains continue another day all the wheat
crops of these departments will be destroyed
The railroads are interrupted In all directions
throughout the Inundated districts.
Plymouth Church Prayer Meeting. j.
| New YoRK, June 25.---At the Plym ,uth
church prayer meeting tonight Rev. II. W..
Beecher created sensation by referring to the
tfiaisfot the first time since II came into court.
| He said he would continue to act as the pastor
of Plymouth church, because hefelt that no
matter what the verdict of the jury in the
case might be, bis, congregation would still
have faith In him and stand by him. ..
Terrible loss OF Life on the Garonne.
| LONDON, June 27.-Special kilograms to
the Times say 900 person persisted In the
flood At Toulouse alone - The rrthreak