Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-07-19
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Tiiton, Aieulton and Deecher--The Meat Bnsi-
ness--Lnger Beer--PoIitical--The Dogs.

Theodore Tilton sailed for Europe
last Saturday, with his son and
daughters, who are to remain in Ger.
many to be there educated. And Til.
ton and his fast friend, Moulton, have
quarreled Think of that! Think
of Frank Moulton's saying that he
was "a blasted fool for throwing over
so good friend as Beecher, for such
a id scoundrel as Tilton!' What
it is all about no one as yet knows.
Tllton denies it, but there is no doubt
but that there is GOODNESS between
the men, and one that cannot be
warmed into the old-time friendship.
Moalton suffered terribly by his
staunch standing-by Tilton, for it not
only threw him out of the society
that he SO much delighted in, but it
ruined him in his business. He was
compelled to leave the firm in which
he had q controlling interest, and was
idle during the entire time of the
fight. And now, to build himself up,
he has commenced business again as
the agent of a Liverpool salt house,
and is working like Turk. After
making the sacrifices he did for Tilton
he was entitled to all the gratitude a
man could show, and il there is a split
Tilton must have been, very COLI
blooded toward him. Beecher's sal
airy as editor of the Christian Union
has been cut down from $4,000 to
$4,000, which is still too much, COM
sidering the work he does. And
while Theodore makes his $4,000 a
year in the lecture field, and Beecher
gets $4,000 from his church, 5000
from the Christian Union and $50.
600 from lectures, Mrs. Tilton weeps
over her struggles with boarders ir a
small house in Brooklyn. She is the
real sufferer, and always win be. She
has lost her husband, the man for
whom she lost him has abandoned
her, and the society who protested to
believe in Mr.. Beechers innocence
treat her as though she were guilty.
It's queer world
The Meat Business
has been temporarily checked by an
advance in the price OF beef on foot.
Il ere was but very slight margin
when the steamers were fitted up
for tho business, and ralso of two
cents pound spoiled il. The steam-
ers have been for several trips car
rying butter to Europe, on which
there Is . profit made, Add, by the
way, America exports an enormous
amount of cheese to England. The
Johnny Bulls have discovered that
tho American cheese is finer in fla.
Vor and very much cheaper than
their own, and they take il in large
quantities. A cheese dealer in the
city told me that ninety per cent.
of the supported" Swiss and Ger
man cheese was made 90 the West
ern reserve in Ohio and western
New York, and thai tho only differ
enco was, the native product was
better than the genuine imported,
And 7poaking Of German products,
America produces better
Lager Beer
than Germany In this city the con-
sumption is enormous, aud is in
creasing every day. Whiskey and
the stronger drinks arc being
thrown ont Of tho market, and the
Americans are consoling themselves
with the favorIte drink Of the Teu-
tor. New York does not make
good beer. as her manufacturers
fpd it to their profit 10 make a
cheap beer for the working classes.
The beer that is drunk by the better
classes, or, rather. the more wealthy
people, is shipped from Toledo, Ohio,
Cincinnati and Milwaukee, the beer
Of the three cities ranking in the
order Ihavo set Lhom down. One
brewer in Toledo ships three car
leads day, to this city alone, for
city consump tion, and as much moro
for suburban use. The effect upon
the morals Of the drinking people
has been good. One can't drink
enough Of the foaming lager to in
toxicate him, very well, and if he
does, the intoxication is not that fu-
rious, frantic kind that whiskey
produces. If men will drink, it is
good thing that they prefer the
mild beer to the fiery whiskey. Beer
is driving whiskey out of use. The
beer from tho west is clipped here
in refrigerator cars, so that it lands
in IA good order as it left its brow
cry. Tho business is increasing
every day; oil bars keep it bottled,
and thousands of whiskey bars now
draw it from the wood, the same as
the exclusively German saloons.
Political.
The Presidents order compelling
federal office holders to abstain from
political management is creating q
vast amount Of trouble in this city,
where tho federal Offices have been
held as rewards for political work.
Several republican organizations 10
the city were Differed exclusively
by custom-house appointees, and they
have all resigned their positions
not in the custom-house out in the
clubs-and are now high privates.
The Times growls about this, and
predicts all sorts of trouble in the
fall. Boss Kelly processes to see in
1T an opportunity to carry the repub-
ican districts in the interests oil
Tammany, and boasts that he will
control the next legislature. They
will all find themselves mistaken.
The citizens who are not Office hold.
ers will take the leadership, and
they will do the work moro effective.
ly than the political bummers ever
did. In fact, the impudence and
arrogant control of the custom house
has done the party moro harm than
good, from the beginning. It was
not pleasant for good republican tc
90 to his ward caucus, and find the
machinery oil set up by paid Hes
slams, and ticket arranged which tc
him was as distastoful as though it
had all been made of democrats. Fol