The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-18
Pies and Ice-Water.

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Pies and Ice-Water.
DR.. Syntax in Chicago Tribunel
Two or three days after the curtain had
gone up, pieman dawned upon the
smothering congregation. cannot per-
sonally testify to the quality of his wares,
but I can conscientiously affirm that this
once altogether supernumerary and gratu-
itous person has come to regard himself
as one of the indispensable functionaries
of the court. From condition of bare
liberation he has successfully aspired to
the standing of necessity, and, directly
the gavel of his honor falls to proclaim
recess, straightway does the pieman lift
up his voice, and chant, in the very temple
of justice, the excellence of his deceptive
pastry. During the process of the trial,
his dyspeptic manufactures Turk in some
undiscoverable retreat but, the moment
the jury have been escorted out of the
building, that moment the pieman hur
riedly drags them into daylight, and with
the voice OF town-crier, announces the
episode of lunch. Muttons, of hard
yet tallowy consistency, are his specially.
At least two hundred regular customers
fall, In ravenous haste, upon his basket
and, when they retire, the pieman's table
cloth is as bare as Kansas orchard after
descent of grasshoppers.
Shortly after the pieman and his basket
had been established in the court an
enterprising person of African descent
took it into his head to supplement the
eatables with something to wash them
down. So, during recess, he circulated
among the people who wait rather than
lose their seats, and shouts his war-cry,
"ice-water!''' Some of his patrons give him
dime, some nickel, and some nothing
at all. Yet the child of Ham is always
happy, and bares his worries in per
petual grin.
! That Famous Interview,
IN WHICH TIIroN TOLD BEEcHER OF HIS
WIFE'S CONFESSION.
Extract from Tilton's testimony
On the Both of December, 1870, I had
an interview with Beecher. Moulton
brought Beecher and retired I did not
salute Beecher, nor he me I crossed the
room, locked the door, and went back
and sat opposite Beecher. I began in
this way 1 think said, I presume you
received from Bowen the letter demand
ing your retirement from your pulpit in
Brooklyn. He answered, / did, sir. I
told him he need not fear that letter. He
thanked me. I said he need not do SO.
Elizabeth deserved his thanks and not
ME. lie said he understood the object
OF this interview only in general terms,
and asked me to tell him what Bowen
had said. L told him it would be better
to go to Bowen himself. I told him
Bowen said he was intimate with mem
bers OF your congregation for the past
twenty-five years. That you were not a
safe man, and had ruined many family
households. That you were wolf in
the fold, and should be extirpated, and
that Bowen had said that he had it in his
power to drive Beecher out of Brooklyn
In twelve hours.
told him that after [ had this inter
view with Bowen [ told it to my wife,
who was distressed and reminded me
that said in the previous summer that I
would not break my promise not to hurt
Beecher; for that, if he were driven from
Brooklyn, it would be her shame and
that Of her children. Beecher asked me
what L meant by her shame, and I read
to him Elizabeths letter of confession.
This confession was destroyed by Eliza
beth two years after. A copy of it was
destroyed on this evening.
Iilton then testified that Beecher at
tempted to speak, but witness said
" Wait, hear me through, and then
speak. Witness said to Beecher that
Mrs. Hilton had come unexpectedly, and
said to her husband that she wanted to
communicate secret that had long been
on her mind and that she wanted to
throw off that she had been at the point
several times, and once particularly
when she was on sickbed Before
telling the secret she extorted promise
from her husband not to tell any one and
not to injure the person concerned. She
said it was secret between herself and
her pastor. She said that for long time
a friendship had existed between them.
more than friendship. 1t had been sexual
intercourse. 1t began after the death of
her son Paul She went to her pastors
house, and on the 10th of October, 1868,
she surrendered her body to him in
sexual embrace. On the Saturday fol-
lowing she repeated the act at the house
OF her husband, and on several other
occasions at his house and at several
other places. It had occurred all through
the fall. In the month of July, 1870.
she had written letter to witness telling
witness of the facts. She had been
greatly distressed owing to rumors as to
the condition of Beecher's moral charac-
ter. She wanted to demonstrate the
honor and dignity of her sex. Until he
told her, her love was innocent She
said to Tilton that for long time
Beecher's home had not been q happ1
one; that his wife had not been salts
factory one, and that he wanted Eliza
beth to be wife to him, but she always
refused. Beecher's solicitations to her
were oftentimes violent. She had gone