New-York tribune., 1883-11-03
STEALING MR.. BEECHERs THUNDER.

STEALING A1, IlONDEh'
WHERE TIE oBERLIN CLERGYMAN GOT THE
LIBEL THAT HE POINTED AT MIR. RONsON.
A dispatch in THg TRIBUNE yesterday stated that
the Rev. James Brand, of Oberhn, ONO, had heen
sued for libel the damages beng placed at S3o'GgHO
by druggist of that town VINO sold liquor The
attack was made III January, 1857 ana is Us
follows:
The shadows Of death are the golden haze which
Heavens light makes when 1t meets the eaTth ana
mingles with its shadows. But to thee meanlng Bron-
son il is allegcd) there shall be shadows full OF phantom
and beckon thee The ghasty deeds of the past shall
stretch ont their skinny hands ana push nee % hs
agony shall tender to thy parehed lips her ney cup re
men shall breathe freer thy death and utter thanks
giving when thou art gone. Men shal place my grave
stone as a monument and a testimony that plague Is
STAYED and AS borne on the blast thy guilty spirit whis
toward the gates Of He'll the hdeous shreks o. hose
whom thou hast destroyed shall pierce thee, Hells first
welcome
= MIR. Beecher was seen at his home in Brooklyn
yesterday afternoon and was asked II he recognized
q Ii is something from me-" he replied and either
appeared in letter / wrote to DIR. = lId rather
you wouldn't give his name now III 1919, or IN my
'lecture to young men delivered in indianapolis IN
1913 or 1874. Ii is stolen bodily from one OF the
two places. If the first it was personal and con-
.royersal matter. was then living IN Indianapolis
and DR.. = was living in Lawrenceburg He was
Ii the milling business, and added liquor TO II, ana
also used to distribute Bibles He had the poor
taste to attack me for something SAID or wrote
half in Jest and half in earnest and went about say
ing what he going to do with Mr.. Beecher
believe he published a card, and went into the office
where was acquainted and talked about IT. lie
threatened to me and he did so much couldn't
let il pass without some notice. thought If he was
going to sue wOuld give him something to sue for:
The letter. if the words are from that was published
in The Indianapolis Journal, and 1T made the land
ring out that way. i never heard any more of the
suit. DIR. - left the State soon after, went East,
studied medicine, and, think, published paper.
He afterward returned to the West, and is now one
of the most respected hhen there .,--,
ADO Won think that the fact that the words are
not original with Mr.. Brand will make his use OF
them less libcllOusf"
~ do not. A person might quote Shakespeare OF
lob and apply their Ords to a personally, and
they would be libellOus. I'd sue man that applied
such words those to me" meanlng those used by
So It seems he stole another mans thunder"
Yes. and if the article is not from my letter to
Dr. -, it was thunder that was not allhed at any
one in particular but went roaming around the
heavens and he stole it and Tammcd 1t INTO his own
gun and fired it at man for personal attack I'm
not quite certain in which place the words appear,
but they are mue-l recognize the ear marks. i
don't write as ripping and roaring now" .
Ii was found later that the words used by Mr.
Brand were taken from Mr. Beecher's Lectures to
Young Men" They are in the lecture entitled
Popular Amusements" and can he found on page
PSI of the volume published thirty-two years ago.
PREFERRING A NEW WIFE TO THE OLD.
John Kaunch was married eleven years ago to an
orphan girl in Pawaiowitzh, Hungary, VINO had
saved few hundred giilden which she gave TO heI
husband to start in business. -Four years ago
Kaunch came TO the United states and went ia
Minneapolis, Mnn, where he bought a farm and
promised to send for hls wife and her three chll-
started for this country, arrived at Pmladelpma on
October 1S, and they were forwarded TO New-f Ork.
Secretary jackson sent to kaunch Tor money 10
received yesterday from the selfish husband :
Send the children but don't want the modheTiI ;oi
as Pve got another wife" Mr.. Jackson, replIed
that the family could not be separated, and dis
I've P' rot a wife and child here /" Mr. jackson sent
the discarded family back 10 Philadelphia.
MRS. DIR. MARRs TESTIMONY.
Coroner Tice yesterday con, ,'nued his investiga-
ton Of the death of Mabel C,.ITie, age eleven
months, at the Mount Vernon branch of the New
~ Caroline G. Mari, at her own request, was
permitted TO testify. She said: 81 did not exam
inc the mouth of the child Mabel Cur'e, nor pre-
reported to me by any one that teaspOOnful OF
ammonia had been given to the child by mistake
for quinine. The only, examination of the child
made by me was the feeling Of its pulse Noticed
that the child was free from any indication of
pain and did not prescribe any antidOte for it as
it was perfectly quiet"
The inquest was adjourned until Monday.
PEOPLES TELEPHONE COMPANY ELECTION
the Peoples Telephone Company, yesteT-
day. the trustees were peSddeG eGGtef
Frank Jones, Mortz 10th, George, A. Watrous
Parker G. Chandler, Edgar w. Chellis, Frederick
O.Prinee, Marcus Marx, Lysander Hi, julius Blen
Frank Phelps aud Edward A. SeccOmb. The
changes from last year are few, Messrs. WatTous,
Chandler, Phelps and Seccomb being new members.
The board was organized By the reelection OF the
yice-president, Frederick O; Prince; treasurer,
Moritz 10th; and secretary, A. S. solomons
A NEGRO MILLIONAIRE IN COURT.
Edward ID. Hesdra age seventy three, the NEGRO
m, v onnairev was n complainant in the Jefferson