Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-03

was no one to direct or manage for the chill
| dren, and finally the oldest boy, having torn
| the sash from the windt w, threw himself out,
| leaving the four CHI ldren to their mise iable
| fate. Their four corpses were found the next
morning charred to cinders. But, as though
| this was not enough of horror, still another
tragedy has to be chronicled in connection
with the affair. When the boy jumped
| from the window, he had only a
| short twelve ffet TO fall. and might
| easily have expected to get off with a
few bruises; but as it happened. a picket
fence ran along under the window about two
feet distant from the house. The palings
were of hard wood split thin, and sharpened
to long taperlng points. In his terror the
boy had blindly cast himself upon this brst-
ling fence. The sharp points pierced his I'M
protected sides and lmpaed him. The
mother and sister lifted him from his fixed
position, but life had forsaken him. The
fathers injuries are so severe that there is
little expectation Of his recovery. In fact,
and before this time is probably out of his
! misery The calamity is one of the most ex-
traordinary and appalling that 1t it possible
to conceive as happening to a family living
In small, low building. In the city in lofty
tenements there is often danger that famI-
lies will be cut off, but it is almost an unpar-
alleled occurrence under circumstances like
this.
The Last OF the escher.TiIton Scan
dal.
New YORK, June 27-The charges that
Mrs. Barbara Walton made to the examining
committee of Plymouth church against Mrs.
Elizabeth r. Tilton, the summons to Mrs.
Iilton to attend the meeting of the examining
committee and reply to those charges, and
the pointed reply of Mrs. Tilton to the sum-
mons are gwen below in full. The last named
document, which has been the one most
eagerly sought for, has been jeaiously
guarded by the examining committee, and it
was omitted from the report which they made
to the church on last Friday night, when
Mrs. 1ilton was communicated. 1t con-
talns the reaffirmation of Mrs. Tlton that her
acknowledgement of adultery with Henry
Ward Beecher was the truth and nothing but
the truth. The action OF the church on Fri
day night is deemed final, anG Mrs. Titon is
hereafter to be enrolled on the small list of
the excommunIcated members, with Henry
e. Bowen.
BROOKLYN, May 30, 1873
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton:
MADAM-ln pursuance of a resolution
passed by the examining committee of Ply
mouth church, at meeting held last even
ing, inclose copy of the charge and speci-
hcatlons made against you by Mrs. B. Walton,
and which the committee have voted to en-
terrain. / am requested to inform you that a
church parlors on Monday evening, June 10th,
at eight o'clock, at which time they will re-
ceive any reply you may desire to make to the
charge and specifications, and will proceed
with the trial of the same.
THOMAS ]. TILNEY, Clerk
To the Examining Committee of Plymouth Church;
L have before me copy of the charge and
specifications made against me by Mrs. b.
Walton, and signed by her, under date of
May %, 1878, and also a letter accompany
ing the same, wherein you express unwilling
ness to receive any reply | may desire to
make. Therefore | answer first, that in my
house on the evening of the fifteenth day of
April, 1873, [ did say, in the presence of
Mrs. Walton, that the statement contained
In certain card, which she held IN her hand,
was true; correct copy of the same beng
appended TO the charge and specIfca TONS
Second-l did authorize the card 10 lie pub
llshed in several newspapers in the city of
New York the following day And ! now
repeat and reaffirm that the ackno v led = ment
OF adultery with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
pastor of Plymouth church, was the truth
and nothing but the truth; and that having |
previously published false statement deny
ing the charge, desired to make the truth
as worldwide as the lie had been. | have
no further or other statement to make to the
committee. ELIZABETH r. TILToN.