The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-13

them being ladies-have been dismissed from
Gen. Spinners Office.
! The Postoffice Department is still engaged in
adjusting the salaries of Postmasters under the
! law of the last Congress. It is discovered that
the appropriation was not large enough for the
purpose, and such of the Postmasters have
not already made their application for increased
/ pay will be without it.
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
upon the national banks for report of their
condition on the LIST inst.
The Secretary of the Treasury, with view to
retrenchment in his department, has very prop
erly set on foot an investigation as to the pro-
priety of abolishing some of the many interior
ports of delivery which are source of consid-
cradle expense to the government without COM
| pensating revenue.
/ Douglass states that the Internal Revenue re-
ceipts for the fiscal year will certainly exceed
! his estimates He had estimated the receipts
at $1O5 900, 900. They will certainly reach
$107, 600, 600, and probably SIP, 100000.
The South.
| Judge Brooks, of the U. S. District Court at
| Wilmington, N. c., in charging the Grand jury,
said the Civil Rights BILL in it's criminal aspect,
which was the only shape in which it could
come before the Grand Jury, was unconstitu-
tional and void
Two New Orleans editors Isaac N. Stoute-
meyer and L. III. Finley recently quarreled,
and challenge was given and accepted to fight
with rifles at forty PAGES but as they were both
| frst-class shots, friends interfered, and the
duel was averted.
Ben Hill has been elected to Congress from
the Ninth District of Georgia, in place of Nc
MILAN. deceased.
At Paris, KY, on Saturday of last week,
Jacob Almond, aged 80, quarreled with his SON
in-law. named Allen, aged 65 and knocked the
latter down. Allen arose and plunged a knife
into Almond disemboweling him. The latter
died instantly.
Col. Richard HI. Gaines leading New Or
leans merchant, recently shot and killed D. R.
VIM, prominent hotel-keeper at Hope,
Hampstead county, Ark.
General.
statement Of the losses of the insurance
companies by the Oshkosh fire, prepared by q
committee appointed to adjust the same, shows
the total to be 1859, 300.
! The boiler of the steamer Senator exploded
at Portland, Oregon, last week. killing the
Captain, Purser, and a number of the crew.
The Portage bridge on the Erie railroad, said
to be the largest wooden bridge in the world,
was burned last week.
The Tilton-Beecher Trial.
EIGHTY-FIRsT DAY.-Mrs. Tilton's letter to
Judge Nelson was q declaration of her own
innocence and an appeal to be heard in her
own behalf. Judge Nelson replied that Tilton
was competent witness against a third party
because there is 0 express statute in the way;
but Mrs. Tilton as not allowed to testify
against her husband because the New York law
of Nav 10, 1867, declares wife to be incom-
petent as witness for or against her husband.
However, Mrs. Tilton derives all the benefit of
having her appeal published, while at the same
time escaping the perilous pitfalls of unsympa-
thetic cross examination.
EIGHTY-sECoND DAY.-Stephen Pearl An
drews and Henry G. Bowen were the with esses
who testified in rebuttal. Andrews testified
that Mrs. Woodruff derived the facts in the
scandal case from Mrs. Cady Stanton before
Tilton was introduced. John Wood, the printer
of Mrs. Woodhulrs paper, testified that the
scandal article was not set up until long after
the colored witness, Woodleigh, swore he saw
slips of it with Tilton and Mrs. Woodruff. An
drews wrote the article, and his information
came from Mrs. Stanton. Bowen was then
called, and contradicted Beecher on several ma
terial points. He swore he had discharged
Tilton before the latter demanded the preach
ers abdication that Beecher had no hand
IN the removal of Tilton, and that there was
no cause for remorse on the part of Beech
Ell for Tilton's downfall Witness remembered
the tripartite agreement, and the payment Of
the $1,000 check, and there was no connection
between these two matters. Bowen also testified
point blank that the letter from Tilton to
Beecher demanding the latter's abdication of
the Plymouth pulpit, of which he (Bowen) was
the bearer, was delivered at Freeland's where
as Mr. Beecher swore that the note was de-
livered at his own house.
EIGHTY-THIRD DAY.-Mr. Bowen resumed the
witness stand. He was subjected to 8 severe
CROSSE examination by Mr.. Evarts, but adhered
to his story with remarkable pertinacity. His
amendments to the tripartite agreement, as ex-
planned by him, showed that he shrewdly avoid
ed committing himself to an avowal of Beech
ers innocence of the charges laid at his door.
He simply withdrew" them and in place of
declaring the innuendoes false, he regretted
having made them" His settlement with
Tilton was simply business agreement and
was not promoted or retarded by what Beecher
did, nor did it have the slightest relation to the
matters in controversy between Beecher and
Tilton.
EIGHTY-FoURTH DAY.-The day was princi-
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