Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-12
STILL GOING ON.
The ssPaI Mall Gazette'' Will Continue
Its Work, Undeterred by Threats
or Bribes.
Letters Received from All Over the King.
dom Offering Aid aud Assistance,
III Needed.
The Bishops aud Clergy Unanimous In
Their Approval Of the Papers Course
What the Women Say.

LONDON, July 1.-THE Pal Mall Gazette,
in leading editorial this afternoon on the
subjec of its revelations, says: awe are
| going on undeterred by the wall of the
| r.. Hon. Mr.. BeBtinck, and the much
| more serious menaces of personal violence
| by the more frankly brutal conspirators of
| silence. 1t is only natural thst the latter
should seek to silence our Unweicome
voice by the simple and eficacious meth
| DDS of the bludgeon and torch" The
editorial concludes by appealing TO the
| pulpits to speak out tomorrow, and asks
church goers to send the Gazette postal
| cards detailing their opinions of the re-
| suits of the GazeIe's work, snd promiees
to publish these verdicts next Monday
| afternoon. The paper also asks prosti.
| tutes and others possessing information re-
specting the subj ect of the revelations, to
send statements containing what they
| know to the Gazette, promising to treat al
such corres poDdsnce confdentislly.
cFFERs OF AID FROM ALL QUARTERS.
The Pail Mall Gazette, in late edition,
commenting on the result of its revela-
| tions, says: "No little sympathy arrives
| those who write promise to subscribe
sums varying from five shil ings to &if0
| to defend the Gazette in the event of i!s
prosecution by officers OF the law. 1t will,
| however, be time enough t) think of de-
| Tending ourselves when anybady shall be
| foolhardy enough to attack US"
LETTER FROM THE BISHOP OF CHESTER.
| The Bishop of Chester writes to the
| Gazette urging that paper to use its best
| influence on members of Parliament to
| induce them to hurry through the amend
| ment to the criminal law designed for the
violation Of females, by raising the age at
which they can give legal consent to GRIM
| inal intimacy.
BISHOPS THANKS
DR.. Gregg, Senior Bishop of the Re-
| formed Church OF England, writes, as
| minister of the gospel and physician: 81
thank you for your heroic treatment OF
| Lonaon's social evil. Speak, and hold not
| thy peace. Lift up thy voice like trum-
pet for exposure of wickedness and in do
| fsnss of It's victims"
ASKED FOR SUGGESTIONS.
Sir Frederick George Miner, haronet,
| liberal-conservative member of Parlisment
/, for York City, asks the Gazette to issue to
| the public a staten ent, on Monday next,
expressive of its views as to the most eff
| cacicus amendments pos sible to the pres
ent criminal law OF England. He ssys he
| thinks the Law should protect girls from
| the awful results of ability to consent to
| sexual crime uutil seventeen years OF age
| at least.
INDoRsED BY CLERGYMEN.
| Great numbers of magistrates, clergymen
4 SNf ntnfto toQ "a
| warmly thanking the Gazette for its sx-
posures, and promising to do all in their
/ power to assist the paper in its crusade.
| One prominent clergy man writes thus:
| II an filed with toaming indignation
| bless the zeal with which the Gazette pours
| the light of day into the foul and cruel
recesaes where innocence is tortured
/! and childhood ruined. You have ample
scriptu al warrant for your course, and
need not mind the objet tions OF men,"
| Another Clergyman urges the Gazette to
persevere in the work of exposing the in.
famous iniquity which it has already re-
vealed, and says: "The masses of the
country will support you. How is it pos
| sible for Almighty God to bless Us as a
Christian nation if we allow such enormi-
| ties to continued"
"wIDoy WITH YOUNG DAUGHTERS"
" English mothers," and other ladies
l write, calling upon God to bless the Ga
/ sette " for breaking the awful silence that go
| long shrouded these horrible Crimes" and
suggesting that the Gazette open subscrip-
ton lists for the general benefit Of rescue
| societies ard similar charities.
An ther lady writes: "Pray accept my
! heartfelt thanks for the noble, courageous
battle you are doing in behalf of my down
| troddeh, morally murdered sisters, and
| therefore in hehalf of Our Eek "
1he Gazette publishes thifty-ive letters
| similar to the above, and says the batch is
INT a small proportion OF the vast number
of the same kiad it receives every day.
one of the British Mobility Figuring in
Chicago Divorce suft-
CHICAGO, July IA genuine son of
| European nobility was the defendant in a
| divorce case heard here to-day. Edith L.
Coventry, an English lady, about forty
| years old, daughter of the Rev. Edward
| Arthur Lytton, a cousin of Lord Lytton,
was the pl aiht,f in the case tried be-
| fore Judge Gardner. Her father is dean
OF one of the colleges of Oxford U University.
| In 1877 she welded Capt. J. w. Coventry,
nephew of Lord Coventry, an officer in
the British navy. The marriage was dis
approved of by the noble lJrd, and the
car ain soon made off to Canada with his
| bride, and settled with her, on al an
nuity, at Neuville, in the French prov
inces. HIS conduct to her, as evidenced
by her testimony, and corroborsted by
that of Mr.. Leblanc and Alex Clair, two
FreLch-Canadian neighbors, was cruel.
The testimony shows that he was a very
hard drinker, and sometimes knocked
her down, stamped on her, s1d then
fuTcad her with RAZOR to her throat,
to get up and sing ribald songs to him.
They had servant girl, but he made his
wife scrub the floor because it was too
hard work for the GIRL" the captain said.
He also made his wife shine his boots and
perform similar menisl offices for him,
all in plain view of the girl. O.her
alleged fendish tricks of his were ex-
posed, but the worst only needs
mention. In the winter of 1879, while
the snow was high on the ground, he
had an attack of drunken delirium, and
told her he would lock her up in the attic
and then set FIRE to the house and burn
her up. She fed, clad in nothing but her
house robes, pursued by him and
"a brace of pistole. 1t. was half
a mile to the nearest neighbours
house, and in the middle of the road she
! stuck in the snow and would have perished
bu, fer the timely assistance of some pass
ers-by. Mrs Coventry now resides at North
Evanston, IL, and wants to make that her
future home. ehe was given a decree.