Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-03-25

! Mr.. Beach said 1t was not necessary to call so
many Witnesses, as Mr.. Moulton did not deny
having used the alleged expressions. and
Judge Nelson suggested that Mr. Shearman
should limit his witnesses, which
| he promised to do. Thos. NJ. Cook,
Journalist, Of Detroit, was sworn, and
I testified that he had several interviews with
Mrs. Woodruff and Mr.. Tilton prior to the
publication OF the Woodhull story, and that
! Mrs. W. had, in the presence OF Mr.. T., urged
him to write up the Beecher scandal. On the
| cross examination witness said he had cor
responded with Mr.. Sherman relating to
the trial, and had received $3.50 to defray the
| expenses of two trips to the city made in
connection with the suit, and that he had
| been engaged as a sensational writer for New
York papers. Samuel P. Halliday testified
that in October, 1872, Mrs. Moulton had
stated to him in answer to question that
| she did not know why her name was men,
| toned in connection with the scandal. She
said Mr.. Beecher was her pastor and she be-
| lieyed in him.
The Judiciary Committee OF the New York
State Assembly have reported adversely on
the bill to allow wives to testify against their
husbands in civil cases, and the report
was adopted, thus killing the bill, which was
intended, it is supposed, to allow Mrs Tilton
to testify in the BeecLer suit.
The old man under arrest at Florence,
! Arizona, admits that he is John Bender but
says he did not commit the Kansas murders
with which he Is charged, but that his son
| ard daughter, John and Kate, did. He de-
! clined to state the whereabouts of his family,
| but says they went from Kansas to Texas and
| there separated.
| nomination Of ex-Congressman David p
! Lowe, of Kansas, to be Commissioner of
| Pensions, made the day before, and nom-
| mated him for Chief-Justice of Utah Territory,
! in place Of ex Congressman Isaac c. Parker
Of Missouri, who had previously been nomi
mated for the position, but who was subse-
quently nominated United States District
Judge for the Western District of Arkansas
Among other nominations by the President on
the 18th was that of Henry b. Brown to be
United States Judge for the Eastern District
of Michigan.
Mr.. Halliday continued his evidence in the
Tilton had stated to him, in the presence of
George Bell, that the Woodruff scandal was en-
tirely untrue, and that his wife was as pure
as the light. Mr. T. spoke of Beechers of
Tense as being quite yenial in its character.
Mrs. Lucy W. Mitchell, nurse, who
had been in attendance upon Mrs.
Tilton on different occasions, testified that
while in Mr. Tilton's household Mr.. Beecher
was frequent visitor, and she had neye~
seen any impropreties between him and Mrs.
T. She was Mrs. It's nurse at the time of
her illness, when Mr.. Tilton and Mr.. Moulton
were together in the house about the time
the alleged letter of confession is supposed
to have been written, and on the evening when
the letter of retraction was furnished to Mr..
Beecher, and her evidence is to the effect that
Mrs. Triton was Very weak and Ill on these
occasions, Mr.. Tilton had always treated his
wife well so far as witness had observed. The
Rev. John L. Gay, of Bloomington, Ind,
testified to the liberal doctrines on marriage
and divorce promulgated in lecture at the
State University, in that place, by Mr. Tilton,
in 1852.
James Taylor, General Superintendent, and
lHarItS toflcottf, tItTh, VI Tue New lOTh
Postotlice, were sworn on the 18th, and tes-
titled that Mrs. Woodhull's Steinway Hall
lecture in 1871 or 1872 was mailed in connec-
ton with copies of the Golden 4 ne. Mr. Tay-
lor says he talked with Mr.. Tilton about it,
and objected to the mailing of the speech in
this manner, as 1t was not a supplement to
the Golden -igs and subsequently re-
ceiyed note from NJ. r., containing
500, to de(ray the extra postage, after
the Postofliee authorities had decided
the speech could not be mailed MS supple
ment Mr.. Halliday continued his testimony,
and said Mr.. Beecher had nothing to do with
the decision by the church Deacons in Octo-
Der, 1872 that 1t was not expcdient 10 take
any action on the scandal. The witness was
cross-eXamlned at some length by Mr. Fuller
ton, relative, chiefly, to the action OF Ply
mouth Church, but nothing of great moment
al,