The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-11

to Mr.. I1lton's sincerity and his asser-
tons OF anxiety to drown or strangle the
secret.
Theodore's Estimate of the Great Preacher.
lTilton's CROSSE xamnation.]
y. He (Beecher) was in his maturity
and strength of life then? A. 1 don't
know what you consider maturity.
.. What did you consider his age (?
A. About SO.
y. Was he a man of mature years and
settled position in his profession? A. [
always regarded him as big boy and
not man at all.
y. In what sense was he big boy?
A. His manner was large, hearty and
companionable.
@. Gnileless3 A. No, sir.
Q. Doesn't that come within the de-
scription of a boy? A. No, sir. The
craftiest people know are boys
O. You use the phrase in the sense of
generosity of demeanor9 A. meant to
say there was q certain bouncing air In
his manner, and he was fond of the
things that boys are fond Of, I thought
L
knew.
Q. You think you were right then
A. [ had not had the experience [ have
had since. I loved him next to my
father.
Q. Up to what period did you retain
these feelings? A. AS I mingled with
the world my idol became dim. I met
other men, his peers and superiors, as I
grew older.
q. These rivals of Mr.. Beecher's came
into as intimate companionship with you
as he did? A. I don't know to what you
refer. When [ came to know Charles
Sumner ranked him higher intellectual
ly, morally and socially than Beecher [
also ranked Horace Greeley higher in
tellectually and in every way. [ must
say | was never as intimate with those
men as [ was in my early life with
Beecher.
Q. Give us the dates when your opin-
ion began to change? A. In proportion
as [ enlarged my acquaintance, here and
there one rose above Mr.. Beecher. He
was still great man. There were great
men before Agamemnon, and there will
h be great men after him. The change was
imperceptible in its progress and begin
ming. -
Scandal Titbits.
YALE College denies that she contrib
uted $40, 900 toward Evarts' retainer.
Mr.. AND Mrs. BEEcHER are much
given to pleasant chats together In the
courtroom.
FRANK MoU1ToN, we learn from the
Brooklyn ArguS, is now principally adj
dressed as Sir Philip, and bushes like q
maiden about it.
THROWS testimony as to the news-dis-
seminating power of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Morse, will lead the public to think
his suit should be IN re-Morse.
ONE death has already resulted from
the Beecher trial. Henry Ford, of Bos-
ton, contracted an ear-ache in the court,
and taking an overdose of laudannm to
quiet 1t, he died from the effects.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent having
called Mrs. Tilton the Helen of the
Brooklyn "Iliad,' the Nashville Union
says Theodore called her Helen Blazes
when he first made the distressing dis
covery.
THEODORE Triton, in that poem read
in court, remarks =: "What did Adam
say to Eve? "Ainaer, ainoer, c'est a
viUre," but it's bosh to intimate that
Adam used French at all; his language
if memory fails us not, was merely q
sort of antediluvian patois.
BROOKLYN Argus: "There are $780,
600 white men in this country who can
not read-750, 900 immortal beings to
whom the Brooklyn bonanza is the very
arcanum of mysteries, and who can never
know of d" true inwardness," and ''parox-
ysmal OSCILLATION" and "soul trustful-
ness" except by the bewildering avenue
of hearsay."
DURING last Fridays proceedings of
the trial, hitherto unpublished letter
from Beecher to Tilton, dated June 3,
1867, was produced, in which the writer
says 81 find myself slowly but surely
going from those views of human nature
and Of divine government which have
underlaid for thousand years the Evan
gelical churches" No wonder, says the
Chicago Journal, this declaration, when
read In court, produced sensation. It
was coupled with encomium upon Her
bert Spencer. But, then, Henry Ward
never was regarded as a second John
Calvin In orthodoxy.