The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-03-17
Mr. Nelson went 10 a Mr.. Herring

al. NELSON went lO4a .hf-alierflnl
and purchased o block Of lots FOL
$40. 600. When the deed was beina
made he requested that The price
paid should hu stated at $3.50 O0O
and as there could he no objection 10
it, it was 50 done. The papers were
perfected aud placed iGthe hands O.
a third party till Mr.. Nelson shonld
lpav the $4,000. Then Mr.. Nelson
went IL IA Zig life insurance company
and said he wanted,to borrow seven
liy thousand dollars an a block Of
lots in Brooklyn which be had pur-
Of Mr.. Herring. The insurance com
pany investigated the east and found
that the deed represented a consider
alton Of 500, 600. They had the
property appraised. aud wee willing
To take a loan Of $70,000 on il. and
instructed ;heir lawyer 10 draw up
the papers. A mortgage of the
property was assigned I o the com
pany. Mr.. Nelson received $40, 600.
lie paid Mr. Herring SIS, 900 and
had S25, 600 to use IN his business.
which be needed. Mr. Nelson ought
to be Immediately made Secretary Of
the Treasury. He would pay OF the
National debt in three years.
An ACC, DENT At \ THEATRE.
\ most painful accident occurred
at one Of the principal theatres Of
this city the other night. A Young
and very beautiful girl in the ballet
corps. who, daring The run Of a
spectacular piece had peFsonated an
angcl, died suddenly ia the theatre
in her stage dress. She was array
ed 10 all the spsBgles and gauze Of a
stage-angel, and when struck with
death was about 10 take her place in
The scene. The excitement was in
tense, as may be Supposed behind
the scenes. There were two hnn-
dred peop'e in the place, aud in Eve
minrtes the entire company was as
sembled around the inaaimate form
Of the girl. The women cried aud
wrung their hands. and the men
"albei, unused to the melting mood, F."
cogld u0t restrain their emotions.
But the piece had to 20 on al the
same. Another angels dress was
%improyised and put upon another
girl, the bell rang, up went the
curtain, crash went the orchestra,
and on went tie piece, the audience
never dreaming that the smiling
faces before them were wet with
tears, and that in the dressing-room
lay a corpse. The girl died Of absolute
Starvation. Her salary was the regu-
lation one Of IS per week, on which
she had to support five persons. She
was beautiful, and could have sold
herself for a high price high enough
to have had all the comforts of
life and even Its Injuries, hut she
preferred hunger aud cold to shame
AID sin, and so died. She had been
sick for weeks, but had not had a
physician, for she could not pay for
The services Of one,
EEEoHER-FILTON.
There has nothing new been
developed il the ease which calls
for special comIent, The populace
have ihus far been horribly disap-
pointed because Beeeher has not
been pu. Oh the stand. The appc-
tite grows on wha, it feeds on. At
ter such high seasoned dishes as
Tilton, Moulton and Mrs. Moulton,
the Ovingtons were aat and iasipid.
The spicy Beechcr was required to
keep up the strain. The Chairman
of the lecture commit e at Winsted,
Connecticut, swore that the young
lady in Tilton's room who was de-
scribed by Tilton as "a mere school
girl Of H." was a mature girl Of 81
or so, and that the condition of dress
in which be found them was not al
together so proper as it might have
been, though what that has to do
with the question as to Beecher's
guilt with Mrs. Tilton, | am unable
to see. Possibly the idea is hat
if it eau be established that Tilton
strayed into the forbidden paths, his
wife and pastor had a perfect right
to do the same.
A prominent membtr Of Beech
er's church told me that the trial
had affected Beecber's Church seri-
Ously-that over oHe-half of the old
stand-bys had gone out, and that the
immense attendance counted TOR
nothing, as it was made up largely
by strangers who went from sheer
curiosity to see the man. There is
some truth in this, but how much |
am unable to say. ! know person
ally very many families who have
been regular in their attendance at
the church fer years, who have with
drawn under the belief that whether
all that is charged is true or not,
enough is true 10 make him an unfit
man to keep his place ii such a
church. And yet the pcws sold
than ever Probably the new
in Brooklyn were those who
made the investments. There are
seventy.Gye witnesses yer to be ex-
amined, 50 the trial viii probably
last a year. The testimony thus far
makes g closely printed octave vol
ume OF coo pages,
BUSINESS
continues dull, generally speaking,
some branches show an i'm
provement. The merchants, how
ever, are hopeful, and the feeling that
a good spring trade must be bad, is
general. The weather is terrible.
PIETR0.