Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-03-12
of the Treasury. he would pay of the
NStiOual debt in three years


A. most painful incident occurred at
one of the theatres of the city the other
night. A young and very beautiful girl
in the ballet corpse, who, during the run
of a spectacular piece had personated an
angel, died suddeRly in the theatre in
ner stage dress. She was arraVed IN all
Ine spangles ana gauze ofs stage-angel,
auu When struck with death was about
10 take her place in the scene. The ex.
/ cItement was intense. as NAV he sunnos-
ed behind the scenes, There were two
hundred people in the piece. and in five
mlEtueS the entire COMPANY voc ossor,
! bled around the inanimate form ,F ~.
girl. The women cried and wrung III.
hands, and the men, "albeit unused to tha
melting mood" could not restrain their
emotions. But the piece had to 90 on
all the same Another angels dress was
improvised and put upon an other girl,
the bell rang, up went the curtain, crash
went the orchestra, and on went the
piece, the audience never dreaming
the smiling faces before them were wet
with tears, and that in a dressing room
lay a corpse. The girl died of absolute
starvation. Her salary was the reguls-
ton one OF SO per week, on which she
had to support five persons. She WAS
beautiful, and could have sold herself
for high price high enough to have
had all the comforts of life and even its
luxuries. but she preferred hunger and
cold to shame and sin, and so died. She
had been sick for weeks, but had not had
a physician, for she could not pay for
the service of one.
BERCHER.TILToN.
There has nothing new been developed
in the case which calls for special COM
ment The pOpulace have thus far been
horribly disappointed because Beecher
has not beer put upon the stand. The
appetite grows on what it feeds on. AT |
ter such high seasoned dishes as Tilton, |
MoulIon and Mrs. Mouiton, the Ovingtons |
were fat and insipid. The spicy Beecher
was required to keep up the strain. The
Chairman of the Lecture Committee at
Winsted, Connecticut, swOre that the !
young lady in TIlton's room, who was |
described by Tilton as ga mere school |
girl of II" was mature girl OF % or 30, |
and that in the condition OF dress In /
which he found them was not altogether
so proper as it might have been, though |
what that has to do with the question as /
to Beecher's guilt with Mrs. Tilton, am /
unable to see. Possibly the idea is
that if it can be established that Tilton
strayed into by and unforbidden paths,
his wife and pastor had perfect right TO
do the same.
A prominent member of Beecher's
Church told Inc that the trial had affected /
Beecher's Church seriously-that over
one-half of the old stand-bys had gone
out, and that the immense attendance
counted for nothing, as it was made up /
largely by strangers who went from sheer
curiosity to see the man. There is some
truth in tins, but how much am unable
to say. l know personally very many
families who have been regular in their
at the church for years, who
have Withdrawn under the belief that
whether all that is charged is true or not,
enough is true to make him an unit man
to keep his place in such church. And
yet the peWs sold higher than ever. Prob
ably the new corners in Brooklyn were
those who made the investments. There
are seventy-fVe witnesses yet to be ex-
amined, so the trial will probably last
year. The testimony thus far makes
closely printed octave volume OF 500
pages.
BUSINESS
continues dull, generally speaking though
some branches show an improvement
The merchants are, however, hopeful,
and the feeling that good spring trade
must be had, is general. The weather is
terrible. PETRo.
New York, March 10, 1875.