Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-03-26
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from TsIcnams Of Accompanying Dates

than usual severity occurred In North
ern Mexico. The little town Of San
Cristobel was almost entirely destroyed and
seventy dead bodies were taken from the
ruins. AN English surveying party, com
manded by a British Lieutenant and con.
sisting Of sixty-three sepoys and coolies, has
been massacred by the natives Of Assam.
For Governor Of New Hampshire, Cheney
(Rep) received 1926 votes; Roberts Dem. y
39,16S; White (Pro), 7b4. No choice by the
people, but the Legislature will elect
Cheney. In the First Congressional District
Jones (Dem.) is elected by plurality of 3s5;
In the Second, Bell (Dem.) by a plurality of
147; and in the Third, Blair (Rep.) by plu-
rality Of 207.. In the Beecher suit, on the
18th, John Harmon, Archibald Black and
Jackson s. Schultz testified, and the deposit
tion OF j. IL. Drake, now in Europe, was
read. The two former testified 10 the
effect that the original charge against
Mr.. Beccher, as told them by Mr.. Til
ton, was that OF improper proposals. The
evidence OF the two latter went to show that
Mr.. Moulton had denied that Mr.. Beecher
had violated the seventh commandment, and
that lie (Moultoh) had asserted on more
than one occasion that Mr. Beecher
was pure man. Several witnesses
were examined on the 10th, who also testified
that Mr.. Mouton had denied to them the
truth Of the charges against the defendant,
Mr.. Beach said IL was not necessary TO call
30 many witnesses, as Mr.. Moulton did not
deny having used the alleged expressions,
and Judge Nelson suggested that Mr.. Shear
man should limit his witnesses, which he
promised to do. Thos. NJ. Cook, Journal
ist OF Detroit, was sworn, and testified
. that he had several interviews with Mrs.
Woodruff and Mr.. Tilton prior to the publ.
catiSn Of the Woodruff story, and that Mrs.
w. had, in the presence Of Mr.. T. urged
him to write up the Beecher scandal. On the
cross-examination witness said he had cor
responded with Mr.. shearman relating to the
trial, and had received $3.50 to defray the ex-
pense Of two trips to the city made in connec-
ton with the suit, and that he had been en-
gagged as a sensational writer for New York
papers. Samuel p. Halliday testified that in
October, 1872, Mrs. Moulton had stated to
him, in answer to question, that she did
not know why her name was men
TONED in connection with the scandal She
said Mr.. Beecher was her pastor and she be-
lieved in him. By an ex plosion at the Austin
powder mills, five miles south of Cleveland, on
the 10th, the works, composed Of ten or twelve
buildings, were completely demolished.
Of the eight or ten men at work in
and about the mills at the time of the acci-
dent three were killed, the rest escap-
ing with slight injuries. Much damage was
done to houses in the immediate neighbor-
hood Of the explosion, and buildings in Cleve
land were considerably shaken; people
rushed into the streets, horses were fright
ened, and many windows and large plate
glass fronts were shattered, the damage in
the city amounting to $4,000 to $4,000.
THURSDAY, March 1s.-In compliance
with the demand OF King Alphonso, Don AL
phonso, brother of Don Carlos, has been ex-
tradited from Germany. Difficulties have
arisen between the Indian Government and
the King of Burmah in relation to
boundaries and the latter's claim TO SOW
ereignty over several independent States
The King has occupied the disputed territory
and refuses to withdraw, and British troops
are moving upon British Burmah Great
disasters have been caused in some portions
OF the East by spring floods and ice gorges
Several bridges on the Susquehanna, Della
ware and other rivers have been carried
away, and much damage to properly is re-
ported. Before the gorge broke at Port Jer.
Wis, N. Y, the lower portion OF the city was
inundated to the depth of ten feet, some
houses being submerged up to the second
stories. No lives lost. The new and
magnificent railroad bridge crossing the
Susquehanna at Pittston, Pa, was car
ried away about ten minutes after the
passing over OF passenger train. At Ger
mantown several small houses were de.
stroyed. Danville and Wllkesbarre, Pa, and
other towns in that and adjoining States suf-
fered severely by the foods. The Judiciary
Committee Of the New York State Assembly
have reported adversely on the bill to allow
wives to testify against their husbands in
civil cases, and the report was
adopted, thus killing the bill, which was
intended, it is supposed, to allow Mrs. Tilton
TO testify in the Beecher suit Old man
Bender, under arrest at Florence, Arizona,
admits his identity, but says he did not com.
init the Kansas murders with which he is
charged, but that his son and daughter, John
and Kate, did. He declines to state the
whereabouts of his family, but says they went
from Kansas to Texas and there separated.
FRIDAY, March 19.-The lower house
OF the German Parliament has adopted by
overwhelming majorities the main clauses OF
bill withdrawing State grants from the re,
calcitrant Catholic Bishops =. The Spanish
Government has requested Austria not tc
permit Don Alphonso TO reside in Austrian
territory -. The President has withdrawn
the nomination of ex-Con gressman David P
Lowe, Of Kansas, as Commissioner O
Pensions, and nominated him for Chef-Jus
tice OF Utah Territory, in place of ex-Con
gressman Isaac G. Parker, of Missouri, who
was previously nominated for the position
but is now nominated United States Distric
Judge for the Western District of Arkansas
Among other late nominations by the Presi
dent is that OF Henry B. Brown to b,
United States Judge for the Eastern Distric
of Michigan. b. Mr.. Halliday continued hi
evidence in the Beecher case on the 18th, anC
said Mr. Tilton had stated to him, in tn,
presence of George Bell, that the Woodhul
scandal was entirely untrue, and that his wifi,
was as pure as the light Mr.. T. spoke o
Beecher's ofiense as being quite venial in IL
character Mrs. Lucy w. Mitchell, anurse, VIII,
had been in attendance upon Mrs. Tilton OF
different occasions, testified that while in MI
ThtOn's household Mr., Beecher was a fire.
quent visitor, and she had never seen any i'm
prophecies between him nd Mrs.
She was Mrs. T.'s nurse at the tim
of her illness, when Mr.. Tilton and Mr.. Moul
ton were together in the house about the tim
the alleged letter Of confession is suppose,
to have been written, and on the evening whel
the letter Of retraction was furnished to Nj
Beecher, and her evidence is TO the effect tina
Mrs Tilton was very weak and III on thes
occasions. Mr.. Tilton had always treated hi
wife well so far as witness had observed. Tn
Rev. John L. Gay, Of Bloomington, Ind
testined to the liberal doctrines on marriag
and divorce promulgated in a lecture at tn
State University, in that place, by Mr.. Tilton
in 1S62i james Taylor, General Superlntend
ent, and Charles Forester, Clerk, of the NeV
York Postofflce, were sworn on the 18th, an
testified that Mrs. Woodhull's Steinway Hal
lecture in 1871 or 1872 was mailed in conner