The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-01
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
fsHdc1sed lrem Ielegraas Of Accompanying Dates,

TUESDAY, March 23.-Madrid adyices
state that Gen. Cabrera. in going over to
King Alphonso, took with him eight of the
~ LariisL chieftaiHs. CASTELAR, has resigned his
protessorship in the university inconsequcnce
oi the Government re-establishing in the
SCHOOLS and colleges the textbooks pre-
seribed during Isabella's reign and otherwise
changing the mode Of public instruction
The United States Senate has con-
- fsrned the nomination OF John Parker as
United States Marshal for the Western Dis
trict Of Michigan The Elizabeth Life In
surancc Company of Elizabeth, y. j. has
failed "A resolution has been introduced
into the New Jersey Senate requesting the
Senators and Representatives in Congress from
that State to use their influence for the repeal
Oi the amendments 10 the Sundry Civil Ap-
preparation bill doubling the rate of postage
on transient newspapers, etc. The partial
restoration Of the franking privilege is also
condemned as granting free use of the mails
10 favored few at the expense of the
many. By recent tornado in the Qua
chita Valley, in Louisiana, the loss of life
and destruction Of property were very great
Smithlaud was leFtled to the ground, and at
Rays Point plantation buildings, fences,
mules, horses and cattle were scattered for
miles. Tile track Of the tornado was 800
yards wide and extended for fifteen miles.
The solni Carolina Legislature refused to
adopt an address demanding the removal of
State Treasurer CardOza. The vote in
uie senate was yeas. II, nays Is; House
yeas -, nays 63.. In her direct examination
OF tle'2d Bessie Turner corrected some Of
her prevlons statements regarding dates, and
identified several letterswhich she had re-
-~seived- at different times from Mfr Triton
whilc he was absent from home. She said Mr.
and Mrs Iilton sent her to boarding school,
but nothing was ever said about
her going away in connection with
the charges against Mr.. Beecher
letter was then read, written by witness to
Mrs 1tllon in January, 1871, stating that
Mrs. Morse lad cndeavO.ed to procure her
10 circulate stories injurious to Mr. Titon
and also a second letter stating that the
story that Mr. Tilton CARRIED her from her bed
was wicked lie, which second note witness
said was written at the urgent solici-
iatOn Of Mrs. Tilton. Witness was
cross-examnCd as to her statement before
the Church Examining Committee and stated
that she had made some mistakes in her
story there which she herself had subsequent
iy discovered. She would then have told all
she had sworn to on the trial had she remem-
.bered II at the time. She could not be GER
tain as to exact dates OF several occurrences
sworn to here by her. Up to the time she
came on the stand she had told her story sub
stantially to stenographer, Mr.. Shearman
and Judge Porter; this was some time during
the week of her first evidence on the witness
stand; had previously told some of the par
10,
WEDNESDAY, March 24-Whitelaw
Reid, of the New York Tribune, has been in
dictcd by the Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia for libeling ex-Gov. Shepherd "
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cidcd that dividends and profits earned in the
last half Of the year 1870 are subject to the
income tax of 2J2 per cent. In a re-
cent charge to the Memphis Grand Jury
Judge Emmons, of the United States Cir
cult Court, instructed them to the effect
that the Fourteenth Amendment 20 the Unitcu
States Constitution applies to States and
not individuals, and that the denial to a negro
OF the fun and equal enjoyment of the accom-
modations and privileges Of theaters and inns
Is n matter that the State Government alone
controls and can only be reached by a civil
action.
THURSDAY, March 25.-Don Carlos has
issued decree calling into the military
service all the males in the Navarro Provinces
over eighteen years old. =. Louis kossuth has
been defeated in a parliamentary contest in
Hungary. Over IL, 900 people attended the
funeral of John Mitchell, at Newry, Ireland,
on the 23d. 1t seems that the late John
Mitchell, who was elected a member of the
British Parliament from Tipperary, ireland,
as a subject of Queen Victoria, was in fact a
citizen of the United States, as appears from
transcripts of the records recently made in
the Office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia for the British
Minister. In the Rhode Island Legisla
turc on the oath a special committee re-
port was made on the recent conflict o
authority between the United States Marshal
and the State ConstableS over the wholesale
stock Of liquors attached by the Marshal and
aftcrward seized by the State Constables be
cause the sales were made from the stock in vi
olstionof theState law. The committee censuro
the Chief Of Police of Providencefor refusing &c
obey the State Constables, but aiding in
steadthc United States Marshal, and recon-
mend the adoption of resolution request
ing the Governor to transmit to the Presi
dent of the United States statement of tn
facts relating to the interference of the Unitet
States Marshal for the District of Rhod
Island with the State Constables in tn
discharge of their duty, in the city of Proyi
dcnce, on the I'D of February, 1S15..
Bessie Turner's cross examination was con
Cludcd on the oath. Several corrections a
10 dates were made, and she admitted Il
having made mistakes in her evidence befor
the Church Investigating Committee. Sh
reaffirmed her testimony as to Mr.. Tilton'
conduct in his family and toward hel
George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn, test
fed that he saw Mr.. Beecher in the train o
the Boston & Albany Railroad, en- route fc
Boston, on the 4th Of June, 1873 the dat
fixed upon by Mrs. Moulton as the day NJ
Bceeher confessed to her. Mr.. Geo. !
Scdgwiek and Mr.. c. G. Higgins, lawyers, tcs
titled to having seen Mr.. Tilton in the con
pany of Mrs. Woodruff and Miss Clalin in
conmunistic procession in 1871. John {
Soulhwick testified that Mr.. Tilton had dcnie
To him the truth of the Woodruff scandal
- far as it related to Mr.. Beecher and Mrs. Ii
ton. He (Tilton) had pronounced Mrs. Woo,
hull to be fine woman, and gloried in hayiu
written her Lie. ..-.Goy. Kellogg has issue
a call for an extra session or the Loiiisiar
n Legislature to meet on the l4thiof April,
e. curry outtle adjustment Of the political di
ticuliicS and for other purposes In rep
~ 4 telegram from one OF the miners wi
recently came out of the Black Hills as
whether he would be permitted to return wi
rrinforcements and provisions, Gen. Ord
reported as saying: Troops from Fo
Laramie and hostile Indians have both gol
for you miners. For their sakes hope t
troops will reach them first, as the militia
orders are simply to bring in the party, co
fine the leaders, burn their wagons and d
stFoy their outfits"
FRIDAY, March 26.-Another defeat h
been inflicted upon the Carlists at Huguet,
which they lost 500 and the Alphonsists sixi
eight killed According to the latest adve
from Estells, Gems. Mundera, Sahalla and Tr
tany have united in protest against Gen. {
brcra's manifesto in favor Of Alphonso.
In the Beecher trial, on the 25t
James B. Woodleigh (eolored), former
in Mrs. Woodhun's employ, testified Ii
- he had frequently seen Mr.. TIlton at {
- house and also at the business Office of NJ
Woodruff. He (Tilton) was at the office We
often in the summer of 1871. The qu
ton of the publication of the scant
was discussed in witness presence. Mr.