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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
Erarfs' Retainer.

The story goes that Evarts did not
wish to take any part in the case, but
that Plymouth Church deemed his name
and authority of too great weight to be
dispensed with. The leading members
urged him most earnestly; would not
take no for an answer, and finally secured
him, giving him a retainer of S25, 900.
Evarts," says one authority, " is as
able as any lawyer in the country, per-
haps the ablest; but he is out of his
element In such case, and feels that he
is, In all likelihood. His practice has
been in entirely different courts; his legal
atmosphere has been of another kind
more oxygen, less nitrogen, less carbonic
acid gas"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
Grosring Seriows.
New York Ixetterl

At last the unnatural demeanor in
court of Mr.. Beecher and Mrs Tilton
has been abandoned. Mr.. Beecher's
face expresses the anxiety which, guilty
or innocent, he could not help feeling,
and more than once Mrs. Tilton shed
tears while her husband was giving in
his testimony.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
PLEfS4NTRIES.

THURMAN is great snuff taker.
A GRKEN-GRoCER-One who trusts.
The father of all corns-Pop corn.
SURE to produce short crops-The
BARRIERS shears.
1T is no harm to shoot eat in Yer
mont, but if you happen to miss the cat
and kill boy the authorities make an
awful fuss over it.
GONE fortunate thing in being king,
says the Detroit Free Press, sis that
kings never have to get up nights and
lug the potatoes in beside the coal
stove"
"UNcLE JAMES, won't You perform
some of those juggling tricks for us, to-
night, that you learned in China" ''No,
my dear, I'm not in the vein.'' What
vein, uncle ?" "Why, the juggler vein,
of course"
BEN BILLINGS stole cattle and then
lied about it, so his friends took him out
and performed surgical operation on
him from which he never recovered" is
the way the death of Nebraska man is
recorded in local paper.
SERRANo was slipping his chocolate.
Z" Bad news, your highness, said a mes
senger, !" the Army Of the North will
proclaim Alfonso "Ah. the only
possible solution" said Serrano. And
he went ON slipping his chocolate. His
sun had SET His son had risen.
VIXEN wife who for the horsewhip's smart,
Ran to her father, begged he'd take her part;
" What is your fault ?" said he; 'come; state the
case"
threw some coffee N my husbands face,
/ For which he beat me-" "Boat you, did he
He beat my daughter, BOUNDS. III beat his
uifem
! CALIFORNIA item in Milwaukee Ne.rs
They got Wah Using, California heath
en-, on the gallows the other day, with a
rope around his neck, and he inquired of
William Nye, the Sheriff: Chokee
like h-ll?" "Yas." said William,
"chokee, you bet," and then they
dropped him.
A MOST shameful trick was played
lately upon a lover at Terre Haute by
his rival. The generous wooer had pro-
cured a package of gum drops to present
to his Angelina dear, but the other man
maliciously substituted therefor a paper
of white beans. 1t was not until 3
o'clock in the morning that matters were
explained and reconciliation effected
A NEAR-s1GHTED man was riding in a
Woodward avenue car, the other day
when lady opposite bowed to him. He
returned the bow, raised his hat, smiled
sweetly, and was just wondering who she
was, when she came over and whispered
in his ear "Oh I'll fix you for this,
old man. Then he knew it was his
wife.-DetrOit Free Press.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
WHITING.
years to waltz Don't do it,

''iFivc years to wait - Don't do it,
by innocent blue-eyed maid;
For the years may last lifetime,
While your youthful roses fade 3k
While your eyes are red with weeping,
And watching the treacherous sea;
TIL you sing the song of the lone one,
He never came back to me-
Five years to wait, while others
Are dancing the dance OF youth,
And the one, perhaps, you are trusting
Is breaking his vows, forsoothi
1 shall wait for my love, my darling,
Who has sailed far over the sea,
Five years, or ten, or twenty
said the blue-eyed maid TO me.
SO she wrote her love-letters,
Or tended her garden flowers,
Or watched the restless pillows
On the beetling cliff for hours;
While she turned her suitors pining
Away from the cottage door,
And waited, patiently waited,
One long year or more.
- lis very weary waiting"
said the blue-eyed maid to me,
Aud she glanced at her last new sutton
And then at the restless sea;
And she glanced at the roses failing
In her garden fair and bright,
sT--fea coma tuica raua siura he Iaff bar
Two years before that night.
And she married her last new sutton
Before the winter sped;
And she wrote to her absent lover
On the day that she was wed.
= she hoped he would not suffer.
That the shock would coon be oer,"
And the answer soon informed her
he hzd married year before.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25

- A CHICAGO man has invented a beer
keepers bell punch. 1t isn't dfinka-
BILE, but q machine 10 check defalca-
tions.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
that $1,000 of Beecher's money had been
paid to him through Moulton.


Beach.
A correspondent compares Gus Beach
to an anaconda, and Beecher to the
victim writhing in its coils. The same
correspondent says 1t is said that
Beecher breads Beach more than any
other element in the case. He had an
intimation of the latter's incisive style in
a few minutes speech which thrilled the
audience like a stroke of lightning. This
plainly suggests the terrors which are in
store. Beach and Beecher are much
alike in stature and weight. Had Beach
been preacher he would have rivaled
the orator of Plymouth Church in mer
curial wit, brilliancy of thought, and
originality of expression. On the other
hand, had Beecher been a lawyer, he
would have been noted for that pictorial
display of words and ideas, that COM
mingling of law with wit, satire and
scathing Remuneration, and that flexible
and majestic utterance which mark the
famous advocate. AS the case stands it
is one Beecher let loose on another"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25

mire his superior ability as writer, and
believe in the justice of his case, like to
get together at lunch and canvass the
of his chances in the trial.
Here one may CLEAN many an incident
unknown to the general public in the
life of the plaintiff. The question being
started as to the merits of Tilton as a
poet and the quantity of his poetry in
print, an old scrap was fished up from
the pocket of one of lunch party, con-
tanning the following lines by Theodore
Tilton
Az other men have creeds, so I have mine
keep the holy faith in God, in man
And in the angels ministrant between;
hold to one true church of all true souls,
Whose churchly seal is neither bread nor wine,
Nor laying on Of hands, not holy oil,
But only the amounting of Gods grace.
haze all kings and caste and rank of birth;
For all the sons of man of God;
Nor limps beggar but is nobly born,
Nor wears a slave yoke nor Gar crown
That makes him less or more than just man.
love my country and her righteous cause,
80 dare not keep silent of her sin;
And after freedom may her bells ring peace.
love woman with holy fire,
Whom 1 revere priestess in my house;
stand with wondering awe before my babes,
Till they rebuke me 10 a nobler life.
keep faithful friendship with my friend
Whom Loyalty serve before myself;
wash my hands too white to touch bride
lock my lips too close to tell lie;
owe no man debt cannot pay
Save only of the love men ought to owe.
Withal, each day, before the blessed Heaven,
open wide the chambers of the soul,
And pray the Holy Ghost to enter in.
Thus reads the fair confession of my faith;
So crossed with contradictions of my life,
That now may God forgive the written lie
Yet still by help of Him who helpeth men,
face two worlds, and fear not life nor death
o Father, lead me by the hand. Amen.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
Theory Of the Defense.


Thus far it is difficult to foresee what
the theory of the defense in the Beecher
case will be. In the early stage of the
proceedings before the church commit
tee, the theory was that Mr.. Beecher
had advised Mrs. Tilton to leave her
husband, and that out of such domestic
interference came the trouble. That
was the explanation SO long as Tilton
stood alone When Moulton came ont
squarely on his side, the charge of black
mail was pu. forward. Judging from
the cross-questions asked by Mr.. Evarts,
that line of defense will not be presented
to the jury, or, if it is at all, it will not
be with prominence. The magnificent
conduct of Frank Moulton in the wit
ness chair, and the simple grandeur of
Franklin Woodruff, pretty effectrlally
exploded the idea that the firm of Rob
inson & Woodruff were conspiring with
Tilton to rob Beecher. What seemed
somewhat probable before the trial be-
gan would now seem too absurd to talk
about. We doubt if the defense has
fully settled upon any plan yet Much
more testimony is yet to come. Car
penter, Robinson and others are vet to
be heard from. In the meanwhile the
court CT public opinion is gathering data
for verdict of its own, and there is a
growing disposition to deal justly in the
premises, let the blow fall where it must.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
Hard on Sherman.
from the BROOKLYN Argus. !


In the days of President Andy john
son, and shortly after Mr.. Beecher's
Cleveland letter (which, by the way.
caused intense feeling among his Re
publican brethren in his church), during
a Friday evening prayer-meetlng, the
pious Brother Thomas G.. Shearman
prayed fervently, not for his pastor, but
at him. He dwelt particularly upon his
political wanderings, and prayed earnest
ly that he might be brought back to the
true political faith. After meeting, and
while group of friends surrounded Mr..
Beecher 1.-THE writer of this among the
number), Capt. Duncan, or Charlie, e"
as Mr.. Beecher used to call him, APP
preached, and, throwing his arm famil-
iarly over his PASTORS shoulders, said,
Well, how did you enjoy Brother
Shearman's prayer" "Oh," said
Beecher, "that's all right /; there's no
harm done. The Lord don't care any
thing about Shearman's prayers, and the
devil can't make anything out Of them -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
The audience.


The audience at the trial, say the re-
porters, changes each day to the extent
of about one-half. The reporters are al
ways there, and the lawyers and the prin-
cipals In the case. Then there are two
or three dozen monomaniacs, who have
Beecher and Tilton on the brain; who
sleep on the scandal, dream of it, divide
interest in it with their bread and but
ter every morning, talk Beecher and Til
ton ON the cars and ON the ferryboats,
and everywhere, in and out of place.
Next to the reporters and lawyers they
know most of the literature of the trial
and the points of the evidence. They
have each a separate theory of the case.
One insists that Beecher's letters are
based ON a singular psychological phe-
nomenon; another attributes the facts in
the case to hallucination; third thinks
the theory of the plaintiff natural enough
in latitudinarian age like this, in which
the precise limits of the marriage rela-
tions are indefinite and free-lcve philos-
ophy has crept into the church itself.
Some of these old fogies are quite
learned in Aristotle, Ovid, and the host
Of modern imisators who treat of love,
matrimony and obstetrics. They prefer
Swinbune to Tennyson, Swift to
Arbuthnot, and Rabelais to Montaigne,
Monday was one of the days they relish
most Tilton's story, with its nauseous
minuteness of detail, Was exactly in their
line. All of them are not old. A few
are young men of leisure, who take in
the Beecher trial with the one expecta-
tion-of gratifying depraved taste.
1yltom's Greed.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25
ErCs.fs.

Evarts is described as " an interroga-
ton point in good health" He does not
speak with reference to ear effect he
"goes for the mind. He does not GEES
ticulate ; he simply uses his finger as a
pointer to indicate the functions of his
propositions. He coins no words and
wastes none. He uses them in their re-
ceived, not III their rare meanings. He
is never thrown off the course, and the
mind does not have to regard him with
the help Of the eye. He can be under
standingly listened to without being
looked at. Matter is the one thing with
him. Manner so far has been dispensed
with. Merely the physical effort clearly
to articulate his words is all that he has
put forth. He strikes no attitude, he
poises himself on no hypothesis, he poses
with reference to nothing, and but for the
strength of his reasoning, the unexpected
vigor of his perceptions, the vastness of
his learning, and the fresh, original way
he has in statement, he would pass for a
very commonplace person.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-02-25

OLD scquaintances of Tilton, who sd-
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-04-30
y. GALDRAITH's
soFner FANNY Grocery
sTO R Il,
''"er Of Buei and Clark Sts..

nyland's Fire proof Building, oppo-
site Masonic Hall.
M cons,sas,, uuh, WHICH is ALL NEW AND
SmckaMaa Maasn, y, Bacon, Lard, Boneless Codiisb eb
MsSer Macserraio salmon. Herring, Butter Iy Chnasn
riss. p;ss.I Ir,sd Apples, Peaches. blacI ber,
Currants tva " rlams. poalcd Peaches Zant
Buckwhss,a3t 30mn ana Honey, Raisins Figs, Corn %
Cabbage, potatooo.o sho oatmeal, Syrup, Coal Oii,
snt @snt q canned soo2s 12nQns and good assort-
aines, Oysters psponns, fichles, Sauces. sar-
mention nsasl,ety Of articles too u, num.r uanaies
cash Or snns M Of which will sell cbeen fop 20
nhJ-u u'''0'sa credit. "
J. D. GALBRAITH.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16
FALL SPORT.

There is funny gamo going on in
Washington at present. and while great
deal Of il is secret. occasionally an actor
in the mimic drama comes out in propria
person@ and without his mask. A few
days ago the electric intelligence was
flashed across the continent that General
Babcock and Orville Grant, the Presi-
dents private secretary and brother, had
been found guilty of completely in the
st. Louis whisky frauds. The discus
sion this statement ELECTED is not done
with yet, and it seems as though the
Washington authorities are as much ex.
ercised over it as anybody. The enemies
Of Grant claim that he himself just es.
capped from the contamination, while his
friends are of the opinion that the whole
thing was cooked up by Secretary Bris
tow, to cast oiium on Grant and further
his own chances for the next Presiden.
tial nomination. They further say that
Bristow was in a measure grieved and
disappointed because the President did
not at once remove him, it being alleged
such was his aim; and in the event Of
that happening, the Democratic and
anti-Administration papers would treat o.
Bristow's suspension as direct showing
Of Casarism. At last accounts Bristow hat
. little the best of the argument, and thu
whole thing goes to show what strategic
games are being played at the Nationa
Capital, besides being sad commentar.
on our American system of politics ant
| civil service.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16
The Boston Transcript says

Emigration to the Pacific Coast States
has been very large during the last seven
months. For the period beginning on
the LIST OF March and continuing until
the LIST of November the Union Pacific
Railroad Company sent West from Oma-
hs, on emigrant cars alone, $1,000 emf.
grants. During October they sent out
l76 cars containing 5,025 persons. The
travel on the first and second class cars
has also been very large. From Kansas.
Texas and Missouri 5000 wagons, aver
aging two persons each, have crossed the
plains and mountains for the State OF
Oregon. Railroad men and station agents
report the overland travel with teams
larger this year than any since the rail.
road was built.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16
RELIGION AND POLITICS.

Just now we cannot pick up paper
without seeing something in 1t about
church and state. The two words
achurch {" and Estate" sound very
we'll in newspaper article, and are used
as an argument against the dominant in
fluence of religion, said influence being
detrimental to liberty. progress, intelli-
eence, and 50 on. Right hero we would
premise that it is true--taken in the
abstract-that all religious influence is
most certainly detrimental to the cause
OF liberiy-taken in general way. But
to particularize. Drop the terms
" church " and state and take up in
their places the words religion =" and
"politics. We find the very journals
most eager in denouncing the attempted
intermeddling OF church and state at
tempting to make political capital out Of
an appeal to religious sympathy by cre-
atinR an antagonistic feeling in relation
to this matter. II this is mt living in
glass houses and throwing stones. we
confess to know nothing about it. We
read an article condemning priestly in
reference and agree with it in general,
but suddenly come on appeal in behalf
of the opposing political party. The
writer's sultify themselves. they decry
the attempted union Of church and stat,
III such union is attempted) and WRIT
up and hold their own fluctuations al
an example Of the advantages of unior
between religion and politics. The!
make political capital out of the matter
and while apparently in. the throes Q
anguish at the audacity of stated meas
ures. are really delighted at having sucl
an opportunity to arouse base and sens
less passions. Such is the action Of q
incendiary journalist, ono who could 81
this country plunged into religious W
tomorrow, aud stand by tuning
organ like Nero fiddling over burnt
Rome. All true patriots are unanimo
In opposition to having any meddling
any religious body with our political n
ohinery, but are likewise against stirri
up bad blood by an appeal to sectari
luminosity.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16
SheriRs Sale.
UNDER ORDER OF SALE.

UNDER OhDEh Of BALE.
DY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE 49,
ID SUED out of the District Court in and
for Lincoln county, and to me directed and
delivered. for Judgment rendered in said Court
on the 14th day of October, A. ID. 1875, in favor
of John Dahl. VIM. o'Brien, Patrick Melon.
ough and Michael 0'Brien, plaintiffs and inter-
venors, and against the Washington Creole
Mining Company. for the sum OF $4,000, gold
coin, with interest thereon at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum from the 2lst day of May. A.
D 1875, with the cost herein to be taxed in
like gold coin.
And also for Judgment rendered in said
Court on the l4th day of October, A. d. 1876
John Dahl and Michael O'Brien, and against the
Washington l. Creole Silver Mining Company
for the sum Of $4,000, gold coin. with interest
thereon at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum
from May 2lst, A. D. 1875, with the costs here
after to be taxed in like gold coin.
And also for further decree rendered in said
Court on the l4th day of October A. D. 1876 in
favor of M. F. Tarpey, assignee Of Martin Tar
pey, and against said Washington Creole Min
ing Company, for the sum Of $4,000, gold coin.
with interest thereon at the rate OF 10 per cent.
per annum from the 29th day Of May, A. d.
1876 with costs and disbursements ut date of
Judgment taxed at $l25.50, and all accruing
costs all in gold coin.
! have levied upon the following mining
property, to wit: The description and particu.
lar boundaries Of the property authorized to be
sold under and by virtue of this decree, so far
as the same can be ascertained from the COM
plant filed in this action or otherwise, are as
follows: That said mine and mining claim
known as and called the Washington Creole
mine, consisting of 1900 feet of mining ground,
more or less, situate on the northwest side Of
Spring Mountain, Ely Mining District, Lincoln
County, Nevada, being that mining property
worked through that certain shaft formerly
known as the Mazeppa shaft and works, now
worked by said defendant, together with all the
!enements and sppurtenances to said Washing.
ton Il Creole mining claim belonging or in any
ways appertaining.
Notice is hereby given. that on
Tuesday, the 10th day OF November,
A. ID. 1875,
At the hour Of IL o'clock m, at the front door
of the Courthouse. in Lincoln County, will
sell the above described property at public auc
ton, to the highest bidder to satisfy said judg
ments and all costs and accruing costs all IL
gold coin.
Dated Phoebe, Oct. 25th, 1875.
A. FIFE, Sheriff.
Lincoln County, Nevada.
BY q. BIBDsALL, Deputy Sheriff.
o26-td
The above sale is hereby postponed unit
Friday, November 26th, at the SAM
hour and place. -
A. FIFE, Sheriff,
| By G. BIRDsALL, Deputy.
Dated Phoebe, Nov. 18th, 1875. nl6-t,
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16

J. Tobin, of San Francisco, writes to
the Salt Lake Tribune to the following
effect :
am the sole survivor Of Mormon
butchery, and Brigham is fearful lest l
should visit Salt Lake and explain how
three Gentiles were butchered in Santa
Clara Canyon, in January. 1857. Brig
ham Jr., the aspirant to his fathers
throne. and Stephen Taylor, the present
Sheriff Of Salt Lake county, were promi-
nent actors in that terrible tragedy. l
lost one eye and the sight OF the other
is nearly destroyed, and l still carry two
Mormon bullets in my body. l am the
only survivor Of party of four attacked
by those Mormon villains, and was left
on the ground for dead, after which they
stole our horses and went away. God
spared me, and am ready to expose
this massacre to the world.
Brigham is still conveniently sick.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

Snow at Macky & Fairs mill, in
Washoe county, il ten inches deep.
The Leopard Company at Cornucopia
shipped last Tuesday five bars OF bullion.
valued at s9.9l7
Captain Curtis, Superinte ndent OF the
Opbir. expects to be hois.ing ore by De-
cember from that mine.
On the 10th inst, the Hale & Norcross
Mining Company levied an assessmsnt Of
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16
Brigham is still conveniently sick.

A New Orleans dispatch Of the 18th
instant says
Jefferson Davis has accepted the Pres
idency OF the American department of
the Mississippi Valley society of Lon.
don, rendered him by the parent organi-
cation. The object Of the movement is
to direct attention to the development of
the commercial, agricultural and mineral
resources OF the valley of the Mississippi.
Davis will devote his entire energies to
the working Of this country and Europe.
making his headquarters at New Or
leans.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16

Meteorological intelligence OF the most
intensely thrilling nature is telegraphed
to US from various quarters. The last
dispatch received Saturday night said
the Julia hosting works we're on fire,
We can only hope that the rain and
general dampness that the telegraph so
kindly aprrises US Of has reached Vir-
ginia and snbdued the action OF the fiery
element.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16

It's now about two years since Presi-
dent Grant told his party they must "un-
load. They have at length commenced
to do SO by throwing some of their load
onto Democratic shoulders. II the lat
ter but realize the situation and discard
ing all Bourbon tendencies clear away
for next Springs action they will retain
the prestige they have just lost.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-11-16

Like gloomy pail over the horizon Of
the dying year comes the sickening in.
telligence that the Beecher case is about
to be fully ventilated before Brooklyn
Congregational Commute.