Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-04-10
MIR. Beecher's Testimony.


rect and square, and the answers are
clear, decided and unevasive. The
testimony of Mr.. Beecher embraces
unequivocal and emphatic denials Of
all criminal relations with Mrs. Til
ton; a concise statement of the re-
traction which that weak woman
made of her charge against him, and
minute and detailed account of the
letter of contrition and the methods
of argument and persuasion employed
by Mr.. Moulton to obtain Mr.. Bee
cher's signature to that letter. This
part of the evidence, stated in brief
is that Mr. Beecher was induced to be-
lieve that he had umwittingly aliena.
ted Mrs. Tilton's affection from her
husband, destroyed the peace of a
once happy household, and brought
upon Tilton irreparable disaster. The
Matchmaking element in the dra-
ma has not yet been reached. The
testimony denies and contradicts
Moulton IS testimony in several impor.
tant particulars, and wholly denies all
testimony adduced to establish guilty
intercourse between the defendant
and Mrs. Tilton, and all testimony
implying that Mr.. Beecher had ever,
directly or indirectly given the slight
est sanction to the idea that there had
been anything positively wrongful in
that intercourse. This battle is mar
rowing down to the final issue. and
the anxiety concerning it is sharpen
ed to the keenest edge. There lisa gil
gantic mass of perjury somewhere,
and whatever all the parties to the
cause hold most precious and dear is
at stake. If eX-Judge Fullerton do
not shake the testimony now III pro-
gress, ON croSs-eXamination, or deS-
troy it by witnesses called in rebut-
tai, Theodore Tilion and Francis ID.
Moulton will be placed in an attitude
from which the stoutest heart might
shrink in dismay. But ON the other
hand if the prosecution have in re-
serve, witnesses to show that Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher is foreswoIn he
will fall from his high eminence, a
mighty and mournful ruin, despite
the devotion and the unflinching con-
stancy of his church. Victory III this
means utter ruin to the defeated.
1t is cOnSoling to learn that Mr..
De Quatrefaces, a French scientist
has recently shown chat man is de-
Scended neither from a gorilla, an
ourang-outang nor a chimpanzee.
and quite as little from seal or a
fish OF any animal whatever"
The VISIBLE supply of wheat in this
country, including stocks in store
and at the principal points of accu-
mutation at lake and seaboard ports.
is reported at 12,11S,871 bushels on
the Goth Of March last, against H.
504 $50 bushels the corresponding
date last year.
The Cincinnati Commercial has a
fac SimiIe of the signature of Mr.. j
G. New, of the First National Bank
of Indianapolis, the appointed sue
cessor of General Spinner as Treasu.
rer of the United States. From this
it would appear that the country is
only to have a change from one re.
markable signature to another. 1t
looks like handful of fish hooks.
OUR RELATIONS WITH MENICO.-
The State department will, it is said
at an early date, call the attention OF
the Mexican government to the Of
fences lately committed on the Texas
border, and demand reparation. 1t
is claimed that the excitement has
been encouraged by residents of the
American border from desire to in
yolve the two countries in war for
purposes of annexation. Many of the
guilty parties, it is commended, live
alternately and exercise political
rights ON both sides Of the frontier.
Judge Nelson made a request that
the female portion of the attendants
on the Beecher trial remain away
from the court room for few days,
as matters We're likely to come up
which it would be better for them
not to hear. But the request was not