Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-25

the resolution to postpone till the second
| Monday of December next the question
of the admission of P. B. S. Pinchback
~ Senator from Louisiana were as fol-
/ lows: "a ~
Yeas-Acorn, Allison, Boutwell,, Bruce. Burn
Conover, Cragin, Dawes, Dorsey, Ferry Mich,
/ Frelinghuysen Hamilton, Hamln, Harvey, Howe.
ingalls,, Jones New, Mcmillan, Mitchell, Nor
! rill (Me.), Morrill, (Vt), Morton, Oglesby, Pad
West, Windom-33.
Nays--Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Caperton, Chris
tiancy. Cockrell Cooper, Davis, Eaton, Goldth-
waite. Gordon Hitchcock. johnson, Johnston,
| Jones (Fla.), Kelly, Herman, McCreery, Nc
1 Donald, Maxey, Merrimon, Norwood, Randolph,
I Ransom, Salisbury, Stephenson. Thurman, Wal
| lace, White, Withers-30
! Serious disasters have been caused in
the East by floods and ice gorges. NJ
merous bridges on the Susquehanna, Della
4 ware and other rivers. have been carried
1 away, and property greatly damaged
At Port Jervis, n. Y, the lower portion
of the city was inundated to the depth
of ten feet, some houses being sub
merged up to the second stories. The
new railroad bridge across the Susque-
hanna at Pittston, Pa, was carried away
about ten minutes after a passenger
| train had passed. Several small houses
were destroyed at. Germantown, Dan
vile and Wilkesbarre, Pa, and other
towns in that and adjoining States had
also suffered severely.
The Judiciary Committee of the New
York State Assembly have reported ad-
versely on the bill to allow wives to
testify against their husbands in civil
cases, and the report was adopted, thus
killing the bill. 1t was intended, it is
| supposed to allow Mrs. Tilton to testify
in the Beecher suit. ............. e..
The man under arrest in Arizona adj
mits that he is John Bender, but says he
did not commit the Kansas murders with
which he is charged, but that his son
and daughter, John and Kate, did
Isaac G. Parker, of Missouri, has been
appointed by the President Chief-Justice
of Utah Territory. . a...
The German lowe house has adopted
the main clauses of the bill withdraw
Catholic Bishops. "t". f.
A Frenchman named Berman, editor of
the Carlist official Journal, has been cap
tured by the Alphonsists and shot.
Mr.. Halliday continued his evidence
in the Beecher case On the 18th, and tes-
titled that Mr.. Tilton stated to him, in
the presence of George Bell, that the
Woodruff scandal was entirely untrue,
and that his wife was as pure as the
light. Mr.. T. spoke of Beecher's ofense
as being trivial in it's character. Mrs
Lucy w. Mitchell, a nurse, who had been
in attendance upon Mrs. Tilton on differ
ent occasions, testified that while in Mr.
Tilton's household Mr. Beecher was a
frequent visitor, and she had never seen
any imprOprieties between him and Mrs.
t. She was Mrs. T. nurse at the time of
her illness, when Mr.. Tilton and Mr.
Moulton were together in the house about
the time the alleged letter OF confession
is supposed to have been written, and on
the evening when the letter of retrac-
ton was furnished to Mr.. Beecher, and
her evidence is to the effect that Mrs.
Tilton was very weak and i'll on these oc-
casions. Mr.. Tilton had always treated
his wife well so far as witness had OBJ
served. The Rev. John l.. Gay, of
Bloomington, Ind, testified to Tilton's
liberal views of marriage and divorce as
promulgated in lecture at the
State University, in that place,
in 1862. James Taylor and Charles For
roster, of the New York Postoffice, we've
sworn on the 18th, and testified that Mrs.
Woodhulls Steinway Hall lecture, in 1872,
was mailed in connection with the Golden
Age. Mr.. Halliday continued his testi-
mony, and said that Mr.. Beecher had
nothing to do with the decision by the
church Deacons in October, 1872, that it
was not expedient to take any action
on the scandal.
Gen. Sheridan has issued instructions
to Gen. Terry at ST. Paul and Gen. Ord
at Omaha, directing them, in the event
of the mining companies organizing at
Sioux City and Yankton trespassing on
the Sioux Indian reservation, to use the
forces at their command to burn the |
wagon trains, destroy the outfit and ar
rest the leaders, combining them at the |
nearest military post in the Indian
country.