Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-14
MRS. L T AT HONE.
Declining 20 speak CONCERNING a
Rumored RECONCILIATION.

RamOrsd decentralization.
The New York World says: The
rumors about a general reconcilia.
ton between the parties to the
T1lton- Beecher sandal seem to
have the vitality which character
lied that noted case in all its
branches. One story has it that
Mrs. Tilton took q great interest in
and was Of great assistance to her
daughters in preparing them for
the European tour upon which they
started in company with their father
last week - and, therefore, etc.
TiltOn doesn't appear as telling
anybody anything on the subject,
and no more does Moulton. Mr..
Beecher says there can be no recon-
citation, There certainly can't be
unless he is in it. Mrs. Tilten, who
has been almost wholly lost sight Of
since the trial, is living at No. 22S
Madison street, Brooklyn, with her.
mother, Mrs. Morse, who will be
remembered as a witness of some
asperity of temper in the days of
the long trial. Mr.. 0yington, at
whose house she stayed during the
trial, did not seem to know exactly
how to reach Mrs. Tilton's abode,
and the directory was not much
help. Finally, however, after a
ride of more than an hour, during
which time he changed cars three
times, a World reporter was put out
on a corner and told to walk two
blocks straight ahead and to turn
to the right. The locality, Madi-
son street, near Nostrand, is on the
outskirts of the city. One side of
the street is vacant lots. Opposite
the lots, across an unpayed street,
about three inches deep with red
Jersey-like dust, is now a row CT
three-stOry frame cottages, painted
ashes of roses with brown trim
mings. Along the fronts of the
modest dwellings runs an orna-
mented piazza. As the visitor rang
the bell of No. 22S the sound of a
piano touched by a practiced hand
came floating through the half
closed window-shutters. In a mo-
ment the door was thrown open by
the lady in person, clad in cool
muslin.
Mrs. Tilton?" said the reporter,
inquiringly.
II am Mrs. Tilton," was the
reply, accompanied by an invita-.
ton to walk into the tastefully but
inexpensively furnished parlor.
The cool room, half lighted, was a
relief after the hot glaring red dust
OF the street, and a bird sang
sweetly from his swinging cage in
the rear window. Mrs. Tilton is a
trim little woman, even more plump
and rosy than she appeared when
she stood up in court on a notable
day in the trial, demanding per
mission to testify. She is placid
and contented in manner, and
smiled when the reporter made
known his busine8s-namely, to
inquire about the reports of a gen
eral reconciliation.
81 have nothing whatever to say
in regard to it" said she.
Absolutely nothing?"
ono; | have resolutely kept my
self out Of the newspapers, SO far
as | had any control over the mat
ter, always, and l can't break that
rule now. They seem to get along
very we'll without me, and to keep
this thing going. l have no con.
nection with it, except, perhaps,
that | am the innocent cause. |
suppose as long as people haven't
anything better to talk about they
will not let this matter drop"
The youngest boy, Paul, lives
with his mother and grandmother.
The two eldest children, as said.
with their father last Satur-
day, and will be placed at school
ahrnad