Year: 1876

FROM OUR REGULAR coKR %-P"NDENT.


NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-The Beecher case
reopens in different spirit from that III
which it has been met before. There is
less disposition to search for sensations, and
Mrs. Moulton presses her right to fair
hearing in the church with tirmness and
dignity that promise her part at least will
be worthily performed. There is not one
sincere friend of purity and order who does
not long to see this ghastly scandal set at
rest, nor lift to be the mystery of modern
times, worse than the story of the Iron
Mask. Whether Beecher is innocent or
not, the course of Plymouth Church has
prejudiced it i'll the eyes of the world which
is not used to see innocence defending it
self by the tactics of guilt. The Church
finds itself at a disadvantage for the first
time. Mrs. Moulton demands her right as
church member to hearing before being
summarily expelled, and her husband IS
determined not to die without a struggle.
AS Beecher refuses to prosecute him, he
will prosecute Beecher, SO that jury shall
decide which of the two is perjured. so
YOU see the old scandal is still alive, and
will probably drag through another year.


TWEED


Is not in Havana, that any one knows of.
The man supposed TO be the great thief is
another man who is so unfortunate as to
resemble him. The theory now is that he
is in hiding in New York, waiting till
O'Conor gets well, that his troubles may
be arranged. Wherever he may be, one
thing is certain, the plundered city will
never get cent of what has been stolen
from it. No New York politician ever re-
funded dollar that he had stolen and
Tweed is not the man to begin.


THE OLD, OLD STORY.


Last night man, woman and two chill
dren were found dead in room on Fourth
avenue, with bullet holes through them.
1t was ghastly sight, and ghastly story
is behind it. Edward Minister, the son OF
wealthy man, fell in love with q woman
whose character was so bad that he would
not marry her, but he did live with her.
The old story was repeated She drained
him of money, estranged him from his
friends, and finally, when he had nothing
left, was getting ready to leave him. Mad
| with jealousy, he shot her, then the chill
dren. and then himself. There are twenty
Thousand men IN this city living in his way
| and every week NOR or less OF them make
tragical ending.


THE RIvIyAL SEASON


Is passing away. but there are no revivals'
| Moouy and Sankey did not succeed in crea-
tug an, great enthusiasm i'll Brooklyn, and
their failure chilled the churches to a de-
gree that preeludes the possibility OF
successful movement against Satan this
w,nter. 1t was intended to make a deci'
sive charge along the whole line, and ex
tensive preparations were made to thai
end. but it has all been Abandoned, and the
churches are colder than ever. The tenn
perance organizations are making little
headvay, but they are evidently discour
aued and are working with no heart De
preston IN bnsiness--the struggle for life
that every business man has to make
leaves little opportunity for purely benevo
lent or unseltish operations. The man al
to his eyes in debt has but little heart TO
work of this kind. There win be no re
yiyals worth speaking Of this winter i,
New York


BUSINESS


/ Continues horribly dublin fact there ism
any business. The hotels are empty, thl
wholesale trade il nothing, and the retaj