Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-02

have made myself. He has not made
but one against which | would have
advised. so upon that last count
am confident that the President wall
direct aolte pros. to be entered
Flat Scandal.
The press has for some weeks
been regaiing readers with another
scandal in high life The scandal.
lied man Is no less man thar Bish.
op McCoskrey, Of Michigan Tor 4o
years 40 Episcopal Bishop Of that
State. The female in the case Is d
young woman, his former ward row
tho wife ofanothsr man. The sllrg
is that the young woman was taken
into his embraces 10 utter abandon,
and letters full Of ascivious phrasts
are published purporting To have
been written By the "a years old
wedlocked lover to the young and
luscious schoo.-girl mistress. 1t
was mace pubic by young man, q
former lover Of the girl but not the
one she chose to marry. He repre-
sents thar the letters fell into bis po-
session by accident, or rather that
he found them liz the house of the
young lady's mother and stole them.
When the affair becams public Bish-
op MeCoekFey was 10 New York or
| Boston about 20 set sail for Europe,
having offered The resignation of bis
church charge. The scandal had il
that be resigned because Of this La
ison, and was going TO remain in
Europe to be away and have his
wife away from the noise of the
scandal should it ever come out.
But the papers that thrive on that
kind of stuff were too eager. They
published before the Bishop was
gone The woman sent dispatches
demanding lhnt he come back and
face the music. He has returned has
withdrawn his resignation and says
the matter shall be thoroughly in
vestigated aud il he is guilty the
church may remove him and the
courts punish him. Ii looks now aa
il it were al gotten M On the sup.
position thatit would be reaay sale
With patrons of such papers as gbe
| Chicago Times. The nastier the
! filth thrown and The finer the broad.
cloth thatis despatched the more
ready the sale TO such customers.
As sampls Of the deleotabie stufl
the ISmes repor or says he
twas informed by one who professed to have
seen it that the bishop, in letter to Fam,
Richards, accompanied by parcel, said sub.
etantialiy that during his last visit to her room
| he had noticed that certain useful piece O
erookery in her possession was not of ma
| teiial worthy to be used BY so much 'diseov.
cred" loneliness, and begged her acceptance
from him of the one accompanying the note
| the same being costly and gorgeous article
with a broad gold band around t. The not,
further requested that its first use be reserved
until his next visit. in order that he might b,
present and witness the episode
/ We insist that any petsc ofin
teliigenco and average Judgment O.
men ana their natural ralatiana II
civilized life viii know without 9th
er evidence thau its facs hat such
note never passed between tho par.
tics named. But presuming tha
there was . large pubiio really L
bay, No Tines bad hirteen column
| in fine print Ct bis mAerial. II hae
4 been offered to but refused By othel
papers. The Baecher SCANDAL mac
Increased the ssle OF he Timfs a.
average 81 IL 600 copies per day fog
six m0nthy A. six dollars per COPY
tho reader MAJ figure on ita iaerees
ed income aHd probable PIT fs Tht
Tribune and hirty other papers wer'
IN iiSe harvest But frcn some cause
scandal ID MOI 60 marketabl8 q pro
d0ct 10 il was three years ago Ii
log rs arc not 50 plentiful or theil
money has given cat. They arc Of
fected by he hard times The Nc
Coskrey affair is so dull he will bard
81 be able TO excite sufficient oothu
sissm to get up respectable iupes
ti4ation. And Mrs Titon's COMES
sion is even fatter. We are no
willing to believe here is IN SO sbor
time such remarkable improve
mont IN the taste Of readers as tbi
change suggests. What pit 0
Wretchedness ara seandalnongarl
whiting to see people fall into next