Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-01

take any action on the scandal. The witness
was cross examined at some length by Mr..
Fullerton, relative chiefly to the action Of
Plymouth Church, but nothing OF great
moment was elected.
The aosd in the susquehanna River con.
tlnued on the 10Th, and immense damage was
being done in many localities. At Port De-
posit, Nd, the water was from five to fifteen
feet deep in the streets.
OF the Governors Council in New Hamp.
shire the Democrats have elected three and
the Republicans two members.
Bessie Turner began her evidence in the
Beecher trial on the 10Th. According to her
statement Mr. Tilton was addicted to suiien
moods, during which he would make himself
very disagreeabIe to all In the house, espe-
cially his wife, whom he would scold Tor hours
at time. She (witness) never saw anything
improper take place between Mr.. Beecher ana
Mrs. Tilton, and on his frequent visits TO the
house she (Mrs. IT, treated him the same as
other gentlemen visitors. Bessie repeated
the story Of having awakened one night and
found herself In Mr.. Tilton's bedroom alone
withhm, whittier he had carried her while
she was asleep, and she Indignantly left the
apartment at once She also repeated con-
yersations which she alleged Mr.. T. had
had with her regarding affinities. On one
occasion, when Mr.. Tilton was shaking his
clenched fist in his wife's face, witness inter-
fered in her behalf, and Mr.. +. ordered her,
with an oath, to leave the house, which she
refused TO do, and he struck her (witness)
with his fist and knocked her down.
Gen. Butler has expressed the opinion that
"the Civil Rights bill does not give any right
to colored man TO 90 into drinking-saioon
without the leave Of the proprietor" and that
ga barber-shop is private business in which
the law does not interfere"
The Elizabeth Life Insurance Company OF
Elizabeth, N. j., has failed.
A resolution was recently introduced into
the New Jersey Senate requesting the SEN
ators and Representatives In Congress from
that State to use their influence for the re-
peal of the amendments to the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill doubling the rate OF post
age on transient newspapers, etc. The par
tial restoration OF the ranking privilege Is
also condemned as granting free use OF the
mails to a favored few at the expense OF the
many.
In her direct examination on the 22d Bessie
Turner corrected some OF her previous state
ments regarding dates, and identified several
letters which she had received at different
times from Mr.. Tilton while he was absent
from home. She said Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton
sent her to boarding school, but nothing was
ever said about her going away in connection
,,St nl,a az Nv Rpnr a
letter was then read, written by wit
ness to Mrs. Tilton in January, 1871, stating
that Mrs. Morse had endeavored tc procure
her to circulate stories injurious to Mr.. TIL
ton, and also a second letter stating that the
story that Mr. Tilton carried her from her bed
was a wicked lie, which second note witness
said was written at the earnest solicita-
ton of Mrs. Tilton. Witness was
cross-examined as to her statement before the
Church Examining Committee and stated
that she had made some mistakes in her
story there which she herself had subsequent
~ discovered. She would have then told all
she had sworn to on the trial had she remem-
bered it at the time. She could not be GER
tain as to the exact dates Of sew
eral occurrences sworn TO by her.
Up to the time she came on the
stand she had told her story sub
stantially to stcnographer, Mr. Sherman
and Judge Porter; this was some time dur
ing the week OF her first evidence on the wit
ness stand; had previously told some of the
particulars to Mrs. Ovington.
James Brown was hanged at Pottsville, Pa,
on the oath for the murder, in February, 1872
of Daniel s. Kreamer, his wife, her mother
MRS. Machemer) and Annette Kreamer.
Tn the Rhode Island Legislature on the Gath
a special committee report was made on the
recent conflict of authority between the
United States Marshal and the State Consta.
bles over the wholesale stock of liquors at
tached by the Marshal and aftcrward seized
by the State Constables because the
sales were made from the stock in viola
| ton of the State law. The commit
tee censurc the Chief OF Police Of Provi
dence for refusing to obey the State
Constables, but aiding instead the United
| States Marshal, and recommended the adop
| ton OF a resolution requesting the Governo
! to transmit to the President of the United
| States statement OF the facts relating to thu
interference of the United States Marshal TO
the District OF Rhode Island with Thu
State Constables in the discharge of thei
duty, in the city Of Providence, on the 23d o
February, 1875.
| Bessie Turner's cross-examination was con
cluded on the oath. Several corrections a
to dates were made, and she admitted t,
having made mistakes in her evidence befor
the Church Investigating Committee Sh
reafiirmed her testimony as to Mr.. Tilton'
conduct in his family and toward her
George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn, testl
| fed that he saw Mr.. Beecher in the train OF
the Boston " Albany Railroad, en- route TO
Boston, on the 4th of June, 1878, the dat
fixed upon by Mrs. MouHon as the day MI
Beecher confessed to her. Mr.. Geo.
sedgwick and Mr.. G. G. Higgins, lawyers, ties
tilted to having seen Mr.. Tilton In the com
pany OF Mrs. Woodruff and Miss Clafiin in
communistic procession in 1871. John G
Southwick testified that Mr.. Tilton had denie,
| to him the truth of the Woodruff scandal a
far as 1t related to Mr.. Beecher and Mrs. I'll
ton. He (Tilton) had pronounced Mrs. Wood
hull to be fine woman, and gloried in hayin!
written her life.
West and South.