Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-06-16
BEACH FORENsIC ORATOR.

BEzANh As n OhAAOhs
He is a man little past the prime of
life IN appearance while IN repOse, of
medium height, with broad, slightly
STOPPING shoulders. His face is notice
able, especially for its eyes, which, be-
ing large are made cavernOIs by the
black lines of the eyebrows and lashes
contrasted with the snowy white of the
hair in front and the tufts of white
whisker on the cheeks and chin. If
Mr.. Evarts has the wisest look In the
courtroom, Mr.. Beach's face carries in
1t a solemn and melancholy earnest
ness that would beit Sterne's Accusing
Angel on his way up to Heavens High
Chancery with peculiarly unfortunate
oath. This look his plain black dress
and gray hairs support to the eye, and
to the ear his voice, which is low and
rotund, and borders sometimes on
hoarseness, fully answers 1t. There is
more in Mr.. Beach's tones than IN the
tones of any Of his associates or oppO-
nents in this case. They pervade the
whole of what he may have to say, on
a trivial matter or 4 grave one, with an
imposing and aboUnding candor which
paints perpetually the picture of a So
Der, downright honest man, not so
much a partisan as a searcher after
truth, pretty sure that he has found It
all the time, but open to conviction that
he has not; q man who for all this world
and the glory thereof would not color
one fact beyond its truth, and could
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unless it was a bad fly, and then would
do it with grave pain 20 himself; meas
uring everything and everybody with a
stately Justice that Is continually mel
anchOly because 1t wants TO be mtrcIful
and really cannot. That is about the
effect Of his voice. The face which fits
1t extremely well Is mobile, although
stern. The eyes look straight out of it
with an OverpOwering directness and
eamestnezs, and fairly shine with the
impetus OF argument or defamation
which hushes his face as well. His
speech is a blessing to reporters, who
don't lose any Of 1t. 1t is slow, mono
syllable IN large measure, and every
word comes out plumply and definitely,
dropping IN the snow. fake fashion that
Homer credits 10 the speech Of one of
his heroes. There are some Of the tricks
of mispronunciation which lawyers get
and seem to be proud Of and occasional
misuses Of words of a popular charac-
ter, but there Is no misunderstanding
the man, even by the jury.
A MODERN RAPE OF THE LOCK.
Pitts5urg Gazette.
She was a guest at her friends house,
at Oakland, and after a dinner nap
arose to find herself as destitute of hair
as an infant. Frightened at her own
appearance, she alarmed the household
with her screams Of terror and lamen-
tatiOu. A thorough search of the
dwelling was fruitless, nor was any
trace discovered Of the stolen hair.
The affair is involved in mystery. No
stranger was seen about the premises
that day, and the girl was entirely IN
conscious of the malicious theft until
the discovery Of her loss was made. 1t
Is EOnjectured that she was drugged,
and that no Impractical hand perform
a6 tbe operatiOn. 4 singular feature
oF the MYSTERY Is that whatsoever COM
mitted the theft seemed only to cOVet
the golden ringlets, as a. abundance of
valuable jewelTy and small sum of
money on an uncovered table IL the
room remained untouched. This latter
circumstance leads to the further con-
lecture that some jealous girl sought,
in this more despicable than romantic
wav. to deface the beauty of the at
ficted damsel by robbing her % ITS
conspicuous glory.