Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — Mrs. Beecher. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Beecher.

y: Mra. Henry Ward Beecher is occasioning some anxiety toher friends, ,as she has been to her children, since the death of her husband. Though offered a home in the family of Colonel Beecher, her eldest son, she has preferred to occupy a suite of apartments in Water View flats, on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, where she lives with a housekeeper. Lately she has expressed a desire to occupy the parlors of Plymouth Church and to make her home there, but' atrthe suggestion of her sons this request has been denied her by the trustees, and it is alleged that the denial has caused strained relations to exist between some of the leading people of the church and Mrs. Beecher. ’ • To those who are familiar with all the facts this episode is regarded as one of infirmitioß nf ftdyfiPCOCi 8W find BR having no other significance. Tonker’s Gasetle: When a musician goes fishing dcei he castanet in the hope of catching a bassoon? :