Show GOTHAM GOSSIP A frenzied frenzie d frenchman beecher belief dy by our Correspondent EDITOR IlE EAiD tho readiness with which the authorities send people to insane asylums has lia been illustrated during tho the past five or eix six months when ho the number of persons released on habeas corpus proceedings was BO so startlingly lly large aa as to make timid people u utmost most shudder at the easiness with which so called frienda friend if ir it gaited their purposes could have them examined PACKED OFF TO A MAD and then buried alivo alive for years and last fast however a case occurred which aou would d indicate a seri remissness in confining people to insane asylums elioso liberty is a constant and serious dun danger r to society for ye years I two named e fa father t b r and son were familiar sights on of new york they had no visible means mears of subsistence they nover never worked and they were never seen to beg they spent their days parading through the principal thoroughfares each armed with two largo tin plates on which was written a long incongruous story in which tho US govern eminent anent was charged with having defrauded them of their inheritance the father died this spring and then the sou son continued his perambulations a alone lone while his father was alive both were peaceful and quiet t but traveling alono alone seemed to have hu le made the son morose somo some montha months ago he became engaged in a quarrel with a iceman whom ha he assaulted ajo a ana STABBED IN till AKU ARM with a huge pair of rusty compasses in self defense the policeman drew hia his club and beat him into submission young Dubourg ne was discharged and tho the officer was placed on trial although ho be proved pretty retty conclusively on hi ins s trial that IN his assailant was a dangerous maniac yet nothing was dono done to rid society or of bis his presence on tuesday Dubourg ne seemed to be seized with some sort of a violent mania which takes hold of f tho the malay when he lie runs amuck abut four he lie suddenly appeared in fourteenth street near broadway broad way from no one knows where the street was as usual crowded with ladies visiting the stores armed with his compass lie darted darted through the street like a madman his ilia hair was wits dishevelled dishevel led and his eyes eves were bloodshot blood shot like those of a wild animal a lady whom he lie was approaching started back in terror guided by a blind sort of impulse he lie plunged the compasses into her right breast then fired by A EX OF IAIN rain he attacked lady be hornet met an and d thus in a few minutes lio lie had cubed stabbed no less than six ladies before a courageous gentleman could overcome him and pin him to tho the ground p pending andin t the h e arrival of a policeman the scene scene was a terrible one and the description of or it would have been worthy of the morbid imagination of edgar poo one of tho the ladies will probably die while the others are fess less seriously injured no ne is now awaiting trial but there is not the slightest doubt that lie will be cent sent to the insane asylum the city however can baand probably will bo be made liable for tho the injuries indicted inflicted and I am informed at least two suits for damages will be commenced as soon as alte condition of some of the ladies permits their appearance in public the sensation of the week was undoubtedly the secession of henry ward beecher from the congregational church it came LIKE A and everybody was astounded to hear bear of it mr beecher cannot bo le said to have inc increased reasel his admirers by this step f far or while his blind fol and lay laymen menas as well may inay praise him for his action laud his eo so called intellectual and moral honesty and insist that they have held the identical belief that mr beecher now says he lie holds yet tho the better class of ministers who are deadly I enemies of f sent sectional sensationalism ional ism are deeply grieved over his conduct I met a venerable clergyman who has been an in active worker in the vineyard for well nigh thirty years and asked him what ho be thought of the matter said he be mr beecher may be perfectly honest in liia his convictions perfectly but u t the way be lie picked to pieces the doctrines which lie was supposed to have taught for years at plymouth church admitting chis tin s and ref refusing usim that was to my mind chocking shocking and but LITTLE OF s when he be generously admitted tho the divinity of christ and was applauded for ins hi s largo by his fediow ministers I confess I was ashamed beecher patronizing natron izing christ it is awful to see ingersoll era cracking C king over our most sacred belief is akes bad de enough ough but to see a minister of the lord condescending to believe this and deny that is sad indeed but this is but tho the direct outcome of that sensationalism in which lie hotal tal mage mageland and a number of others lave havo indulged I noticed today to day the cartoon in a comic paper representing talmage as an ape up a cocoa nut tree ace and mischievously throwing co coa nuts at a band of gamblers and abandoned women beneath he ile seems to havo have the intention of injuring them but they are encouraging him to throw more as they are anz anxious to secure TUB gitlic OF FREK advertising from the cocoa nuts it is enough to make ke one blush and all tho the more so m because tl the I e ls so painfully like truth people say eliat this is an irreligious age ago and that people acknowledge no sort of moral restraint I ahsu assure ro you th the e mi ministers n aisters of t the lie lo 10 lord rd when they leave the path of duty decency and earnest belief are solely re responsible for this nn NEW YORK oct 10 |