THE OUTCROP OF A SCANDAL.

Colonist, Volume XVII, Issue 1929, 19 June 1875, Page 4

THE OUTCROP OF A SCANDAL.

The Beecher scandal has had a fearfully de- | moralising influence on public morals in the United States.. It crops up in every form. The manufacturer of a truss publishes Beecher's picture and a fac-simile letter of indorsement. The patentee of a collar calls it the " Tilton Favorite" ; another " Bessie's Necktie." A prominent restaurateur on Park Kow hangs out hisprize cod and salmon with the label, " Theo. Tiltou" and " Henry Ward Beecher" ; another small place on Ann-street placards its front with " Tilton Stews," " Beecher Pot-pica," and " Morse Dumplings." Then we have " Moulton Hats," " Bowen Bitters," and " Halliday , Cough Drops." The bar-rooms and restau- ' rants are posted with cartoons, and the street corners crowded with urchins selling ballads on the scandal. In the possession of the men about* town are seen obscene pictures descriptive of some incident brought out in evidence. " Indeed," sa; 8 a writer, " the Bcandal has utterly demoralised the community, and if it continues much longer the filth will be apt to corrupt every family circle into which the daily papers find an entrance. The divorce courts also feel the effects of it, and a prominent clerk of one of the Courts assures me that since the publication of it, applications for divorce have increased fifty-fold. For the sake of society, for decency, it is to be hoped that something will soon occur to shut off the flow of scandal in Brooklyn."—New York paper.