| Show investigation CALLED TOR vo FOR R a time timo the press generally let tho beecher scandal severely alone but with its recent revival and the publication jf f the whitewashing compact bentiv between een three of the tho principal parties showing that there vias was something in it the public has become more and more excited aver over the matter not thinking the close silence of persons accused so very brave as their admirer ers era beem to think many of the country papers speak in no very complimentary terms of the whole affair and not being altogether willing willin c ald implicitly nide fide er simplic in the I 1 immaculateness in ma e of even great reputations tat ions though supposed by others to be above suspicion and almost possibility of taint faint are calling pretty loudly for a full and fair investigation vesti gation gatlon they say so something methin g in must b 6 it be done to satisfy the public mind and that the demand for investigation increases in loudness anio insomuch much that it will be foun found d impossible to put it off with covenants retractions or any other friendly device short ot of investigation that justice to the innocent as well as the guilty requires that the affair atair be yon xon ventilated bilat ed ardd arid straightened out mr beecher has a great almost unrivaled name and influence if he be prove unable to endure investigation gation thousands who look up to him im as a great religious light will be sorely disa disappointed appointed and sharply tried if it he come out triumphant he llo iii will ill be undoubtedly exalted in the public estimation As it is many do not know what to think and to believe in his untainted pu rity fries tries the faith of thousands SHARP adjudication considerable interest has been excited in england bya by a recent case of judicial leverity severity in Oxford shire the men wo working irking on the farm of mr hin hambridge hamo bridge 0 of Ascott struck after due notice and ceased work because he declined to pay them them the wag ethey tasked twp tap other la borei borers jv yvere ivoe from a distance e seventeen of the women of ascott ase ott oti assembled at a gate and dared these two men to pass to work in mr ha Ham in bridges field no blow was struck but the women offered to escort the men back to the village i nd fill give them a drink the men inen le ie fused walked to mr aire ham liam J rid 1 Os 1 and subsequently went to work protected by a policeman the women were summoned to appear before the magistrates at chipping norton charged with an offense under a recent law jaw cre relating to violence threats and molestation the magistrates rev thomas harris and itea rev W V ED idi carter presiding discharged one woman but pou fou pound found ad sixteen guilty and after a L lengthy consultation sentenced need seven of them t to 0 imar imprisonment Ison lson ment with hard labor labo X for ten days and the remaining nine forseen fon for sewn days This sentence sta staggered 0 o rea rca the women the village and the county and excited the country the act did not allow the option of a liner lines nine fine but it did allow 1 I the magistrates the option of diser hig the women on their own recognizance to comer up for judgment when called upon the pub subsequent sequent scene is thus portrayed vil vii jil all the the w working people copie cople of this district rose on the thi bame same nh flit the local employers pl appeared on the scene and tried to 61 calm in the indignant multitude the multitude battered the doors of the police stat aLms smashed the windows and pelted belted t h e til A vitan load of police was dispatched arom from rom oxford aa as fast as telegram could rould summon and four fonn horbes horses jeon vey rcy them 2 ji v vehicle between two and three in the maa mma maming g stealthily hur back with mth the pil ers to the coun conn ty i roal oai oal a distance of rim nineteen eteen miles th the e morning rw raw and cold aud ald two of the women bac idin in infants cants 31 tiie tile the two foolish reverend justices wore were heavily by the more outspoken portion of the press while a nu number aber of policemen yero yere werm were sent to the tile village to quell luell any further faither disturb disturbance aneo anco that might arise A london daily sent a special correspondent to the scene denunciatory communication s were sent to parliament took cog the trades trade got sot of London haj had a lango large mooting in hy hyde park about it and altogether reva harris nna and carter found themselves objects of unexpected and unenviable notoriety |
