Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-06-08
The VanderbiIf Estate-WOOdhulIan
Clanin-DeeOratiOn Day-FIeteher
Harper-PO1ifIeaI-B at Auction
Business.
TIE YANnERBnr Estate.

The muddle increased. William j. has
gone off to Europe, no one knows Why'
Mrs. LIE Bau, one of the daughters, has
commenced the contest over the viii, and
Cornelius has sued him for million. And
to add to his trouble, Tennie Clafiin and
the Woodruff come up and sue for money
which they claim the old Commodore owed
them for commissions when they were
brokers. It is a well-known fact that the
Commodore did furnish them with money
on which to do their business, and that it
was his money that run that scandalous
sheet. Woodruff and Clafin's werkly
which precipitated the Beecher scandal.
They now claim 100000, and have com
meneed suit for it. Cornelius is about the
best abused man in America, just now.
His affectionate brothers friends and
man with hundred millions always has
plenty of them; are spreading stories that
he is drunkard, spendthrift, gambler
and addicted to women. Probably at one
time of his life this was partially true, but
for years he has been as correct as any
man in the world. He was in his child
hood struck with epilepsy, and only recent
ly recovered from it. he did spend some
money, and he does now owe the Greeley
estate $15, 900, which his father refused to
pay. But he is a kind, well meaning man,
and. in spite of his long continued i'll
health, man of much more than ordinary
ability. Everybody here hopes he viii sue
ceed in getting what would seem to be lit
tie enough out of so great a fortune.
Speaking of
woODHULL AND CL.AFLN,
this is their first appearance for some |
months. They lost their grip upon the epub-
lie, about two years ago, and have never
been able to regain it. Once they were
very rich, but they did not know how to
keep their money, and they went down,
down, till they are living now in abject
poverty. Woodruff makes spasmodic at
tempts to lecture, but the public take no
in her, and Blood has deserted her,
his notion of standing by an sf-
Unity only so long as it is pleasant to him,
md Tennie was always disagreeable per-
ION without point at all. Thrown off
rom very nasty surface, they lived about
IS long as such flies usually do, and have
Sone as such flies always do. They have
lad their very short summer
vas generally observed in the city, Busi-
less was entirely suspended, the stores re-
naming closed all day. The procession
7as very fine, comprising all the military,
he police department, all the societies.
nd vast host of citizens who took this
ray of testifying their respect for the mem
ry Of the fallen braves. 1t seems but yes
erday that Lee surrendered, and yet that
ears have flown was shown in the aspect
fthe orators and survivors of the war, who
ook part in the exercises. Men who went
lto the war, boys, and came out young
len, are now gray-haired, and the middle
ged soldiers of 1865 now moved very slow
7 in the procession. The increased age of
hose who made orations was especially
Oticeable. One whom knew at the be-
inning Of the war as a bright, quick, &C
Ve-moVing man of thirty-fve, who wore
is shoulder-straps as proudly and gaily
) a cavalier, and who came out of war, a
lther portiy, but still active and hand
'me brigadier. There was more silver in
IS hair, and his figure had lost the clean
-mmetery Of youth, but he was still a
'lendid-loOking man. Yesterday he read
poem at monument in Brooklyn, an
d, decrepit, gray-haired man who looked
though he might have been veteran of
ie war Of '1s, instead of the great rebel @
on. We have lived at a killing pace for
e last twenty years.
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