Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-01-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
BEECHER AGAIN-TWEED-M AND
SUICIDE-THE REVIVAL SEASON-BUsI-
NESS-FHE NEW YEAR.
New YORK, Dec. 81, 1915.
BEECHER AGAIN.

New YORK, Dec. 81, 1915.
: BEECHER AGAIN.
The Beecher case reopens in different
spirit from that in which it has been met
before. There is less disposition to search
for sensations, and Mrs. Moulton presses
her right to fair hearing in the Church
with hrmness and dignity that promise
her part at least will be worthily perform
ed. There is not one sincere friend of
purity and order who does not long to see
this CHASTITY scandal at rest, nor left to be
the mystery of modern times, worse than
the story Of the Iron Mask. Whether
Beecher is innocent or not, the course of
plymouth Church has prejudiced it in the
eyes OF the world which is not used to see
innocence defending itself by the tactics of
| guilt. The Church finds itself ut disad
vantage for the first time. Mrs. Moulton
demands her right. as a church member TO
bearing before being summarily expelled,
and her husband is determined not to die
without fight for life. As Beecher re-
fuses to prosecute him, he will prosecute
Beecher, so that q jury shall decide which
OF the two is purjured. So you see the
old scandal is still alive, and will probably
drag through another year.
TWEED
| Is not in Havana, that any one knows of.
The man supposed to be great thief is
| another man who is so unfortunate as to
| resemble him. The theory now is that he
is in hiding in New York, waiting till
O'ConnOr gets well, that his troubles may
be arranged. Wherever he may be, one
thing is certain, the plundered city will
never get cent Of what has been stolen
from it. No New York politician ever re-
funded dollar that he had stolen, and
Tweed IS not the man to begin.
THE OLD, OLD STORY.
Last night man, 4 woman and two
children were found dead in a room on
Fourth Avenue, with bullet holes through
them. 1t was ghastly sight, and a ghast-
ly story is behind it. Edward Minister, the
son of a wealthy man, fell IN love with
woman whose character was so bad that
he would not marry her, but he did live
with her. The old story was repeated.
She drained him Of his money, enstranged
him from his irie nds, and finally, when he
had nothing left, was getting ready to leave
him. Mad with jealousy. be shot her, then
the children, and then himself. There are
twenty thousand men in this city living in
this way, and every week more or less of
then make a Lragical ending.
THE REVIVAL SEASON
Is passing away, but there are no revivals.
Moody and Sankey did not succeed IN crea-
ting any enthusiasm in Brooklyn, and their
failure chilled the shurches to degree that
precludes the possibility of successful
movement against Satan this winter. IL
was intended to make decisive charge
along the whole line, aad extensive pre-
parati0ns were made 70 that end, but it
has all been Abandoned, and the churches
are colder than ever. The temperance or
CARNATIONS are making little headway,
but they are evidently discouraged and are
working with no heart. Depression in bu-
siness-the struggle for life that every bu-
siness man has to make, leaves little oppor
tunity for purely benevolent or unseliish
operations. The man up to his eyes in
debt and bad business has but little heart
for work Of this kind. There will be no
revivals worth speaking of this winter III
New York.
BUSINESS
Continues horribly dull-in fact there isn't
any business. The hotels are empty, the
wholesale trade is nothing, and the retail
trade is not half what It ought to be. The
longest faced man in the world just now is
the New Yorker who has store on his
hands for which he is paying $4,000 rent
per annum. His expenses go on mercilessly
and his business out of which he is to pay
is nothing. 1t is the worst season ever
known, and no one feels certain of i'm
provement. Happy is the man who is
well out.
NEW YEAR TOPICS.
New-Y Year calls will be paid with less
ceremony this year than for many years
before. In fact the flshionables mourn the
small and quiet ways in which everything
is done. They are afraid that the world in
its exaggerated reverence for everything
old fashioned in the centennial year may
90 back to the custom of doing without
wedding tours, and that the brides of next
season will be unceremoniously marched
to their new homes and begin married life
without so much as trip to Niagara, and
take their Paris tour out in round OF tea
parties through the honeymoon, their
as grandfathers and grandmothers did n
hundred yey ago. Truth eompells me to
say that thfParis trip would be the cheap
er in the end, for their used to be deep
complaints OF old that these festivities
preyed heavily on the pockets of all con-
cerned, and more than one good trades
man was ruined by having too much COM
pany. But spite of the money pressure
and the fancy for simple ways, we hear oil
ladies receiving in blue and maroon velvet
gowns, that the fashionable gowns for re-
ceiving calls on New Year day will be of
blue and maroon velvet, with trimmings
of the new Genoa point which is sort OF
fine honiton lace with net ground, which
my lady readers viii recognize as new
departure in lace. Yellow and Blue dia-
mouds, and canoes which require tbs most
exquisite creations of art in their subjects,
will be the approved jewels to wear with
these elegant toilets. The fine world is
pretty well divided on the question OF sup
plying wines and spirituous beverages to
callers. Not few of the best families Ill
the fashionable world discountenance 1t en-
tirely, while others are abandoning the, eau
tious ground they have always held on GSe
subject. Apropos of this L see that Har-
Ders' Bazar in a late editorial on Christ
mas, proposes the use of Punch, Eggnogg
and kindred drinks, and speaks of them