Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1883 — Page 7

IliE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. VUVNEym DECEMBER liG, LtitiS

CHRISTMAS.

The Origin or the Beautiful Christian Festival. lha Jay cf Carol. Prayer and Gaiu-Gen eruui Hospitality Hobby BorM and tan til Clans. 1 George ffm. Curtis, In Harper.l "When Irving was reproached for describing an English Christmas which he had never seen, he replied that, although everything that he had described might not be seen at any single house, yet all of it could be seen .somewhere in England at Christmaä. He might Lave answered, also, that the spirit oi what he had described was visible everywhere in Christendom on Christmas day. 'Soma gay that ever 'rainst that reason comes Wherein our i-aviour's birth is celebrated, "The bird of dawning sinseth ad night lon-jj: And then, they say. no spirit dares btir abroa'k The nights are wholesome, then no planets strise, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So ha How 'd and so gracious is the time." This is the Christmas sentiment of to day, as it was of Shakespeare's time. It is the rnost human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which i3 the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of rose?. Santa Claus coining down the chimney loaded with pifia is but the symbol of the prac10C3 inlr.er.ce which at this time descends from heaven into every heart. The day dawns with a benediction; it passes in holiday hapj-'ncüi; and ends in sott and pensive regret. It could not l e the most beautiful of festivals if it were doctrinal, or dogmatic, or theological, or local. It is the universal holiday because it is the jubilee of a universal seiitii .ent. moulded only by a new epoch, and sr. buy adapted to never form- of the Old faith." THE OniüIX OF CHRISTMAS. Christmas looks out at us from the dim shadow of the growth of the Iruids who knew not Christ, and it i3 dear to those who now renounce the name of Christian. The Christmas loer, which Ilerrick exhorts his merrie, ruerrie boys to bring with a noise to the firing, is but the Saxon Yule-log burning in the English hearth, and the blazing holiday temples of Saturn shine again in tie illuminated Christian Churches. It is tOe jagan mistletoe under which the Christian youth k isses the Christian maid. It is the Lolly of the old Iloman Saturnalia which decorates Dracebridge Hail on Christmaseve. The huge smoking baron of beef, the lowing txeai.s of ale, are but the survivals of the tremendous eating and drinking of the Scandinavian 'Walhalla. The Christian and ante-Christian feeling blend in the happy season, and the Christian observance mingles at every point witn the pagan rile. It is not easy to say where the paganism ends and the Christianity begins. The carols and the wassail, the prayers and the game, the generous hospitality," Hobby -Horse and the Lord of .Misrule, Jlaid Marian and Santa Claus, are a curious medley of the old and the new. As the religious thought of all apes and countries, when it reaches a certain elevation, flows into an expression which makes the Scriptures of the most divergent rations harmonious, the history of this bappv festival is evidence of the common humanity of the earlier and later races; and the stronger in Braeebiidcre Hall, musing by the glowing hearth of Christmas-eve, as he watches the romping revelry beneath the glistening berries, and listens to the waits carolling outside in the moonlight, or as he is wakened on Christmas morning by the hnshed patter of children's feet in the passage, and the shy music of children's voices at his door, may well seem to hear a more celestial strain, and to catch a deeper meaning in the words, "Before Abraham was, 1 am." TUE ENGLISH CHSISTMAS. The English Christmas tradition makes good cheer the glory of the day. Forty years ago, when Leech was beginning his career, Kenny Meadows was the "character artist" of the Illustrated London News, and its chief holiday pictures were drawn by him. They were all scenes of eating and drinking, of games and jollity. They were full of bottles and smoking bowls, of roast beef and plum-pudding and mince-pie. of burning brandy and kissing under the mistletoe. ''Old Christmas" was represented as a How-ing-bearded satyr crowned with ivy and pouring huge flagons of wine, or as a rollicking boon companion stretching out one hand to the spectator over decanters and jugs and glasses, while the other holds an open tankard. The typical faces of the Christmas figures were those of the rubicund middle-class Jchn Hull, and his hearty daughter gayly resisting the ellbrts of the young soldier Irving"3 Julia and the Captain to draw her under the permissive bough; or of the buxom chain Kruiaid and greedy children in a frenzy of delight over the smoking plumpudding. Christmas, according to these delectable pictures, was all guzzling and gobbling, Iftve-making and other blindman's buff; and as the reader of to-day looks with amused enriosity at these hoiiday sketches of yesterday, he" too, like the stranger by the tire in Jlracebridge Hall, through all the fun and the feasting, hears the music of the old Christinas song; '"Twas Chrif-tmas broscied the mightiest ale, Twas Cbr.gtmas told the merriest tale; A Christu a cam hol oft would cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." This is the spirit of Dicken'a Christmas, and of Thackeray's, and, in a great degree, of Irvine's, touched in all of them by the modern humanitarian sentiment. It is the traditional English Christmas, when no man should go hungry. For there is no joy upon an empty stomach except, indeed, the tain ecstasy of the starving saints in old pictures, and they were already dehumanized. This is a Christian truth which asceticism has forgotten. To identify squalor, emaciation. and denial of nil human delights with especial sanctity was to degrade the rich and generous reliuious spirit which tanglit that all the world is fjr man's benefit and pleasure. It was Ceorge Herbert of whom Richard Baxter said that he sang as one v!io:-e ha-iriess in this world wa. most with' God, and- whose beautiful Hoes, "Sweet dar. so cool, so calm, sobrisht. The bridal ot the earth and as," are as fresh as when they were written; who also Faid, "Foru the windj ia blow, The esrth doth rest, heavens move, and fountains llovr; Nothing we see but means our good, As our delizht or as our treasure; The whole is either onr cupboard of food Or abiatt cl pleasure." Christianity does not decline any wholesome use or beauty of the world, and it would be a sorry preacher in the Church embowered and scented with Christmas greens who did not hold that Christmas good cheer contemplates body as well as soul. THE K3ICKEREOCKEB CHRISTMAS. "While their neighbors upon Massachusetts Tay were banning Christmas, the Dutch at 'ew A msterdam gladly welcomed and honored him, and nowhere has he been so truly at home upon the continent ia the Dutch city. The character of the inhabitan ts nat urally determined that of the day. It was less an ecclesiastical festival than a social and --omestic holiday. The glittering trees of gilts was its lighted and decorated altar and hearty good eating and drinking Mere its genial ceremonal rites. Hereditary Dutch prida sometimes looka askance and even nm'1v t Tlfpdrirh Knickerbocker's story. But it ia plain that the gay exaggeration of the old chronicler only emphasized the truth, nH thatVtia hnmnrnfn imaginative touch 1U4 W -- o produced a likeness as accurate as that of isradrord of the rilprims, or that of Winthrop and Swall of the Puritans. The tranquil. onntantiut bnrorV.or vhnm hA drew WeT8 IUT6 to make the roost of Christmas-tide, and their neighbors who cursed it must have seemed 4a thr n thm most whimsical Of lunatics. It wan natural that the genius which de Rcnoea inw ourgners witu iauu pa tii jAouIJ secza to be kindred with th?ra.

Indeed, there was so much of the true Knickerbocker spirit in Irving that he is usually supposed, by those who do not reflect, to be of Dutch descent. It is this quality, perhaps, this ready sympathy with cheerful and simple domestic enjoyment, which made the author of Knickerbocker's History the laureate of English Christmas. The holiday that he describes afTectshim as it atl'ected the citizen of New Amsterdam, as a day o pleasure consecrated by religious association. And .the enduring popularity of his charming essay shows that this is the Christmas of the English-speaking race. Even the New England air, which was so black with sermons that it saifocated Christmas, now murmurs softly with Christmas bells. The children of the resolute Godfearing men who did not rest from labor on that first Christmas morning now rest and rejoice in the harpy day whose dawn is a benediction . But it is SO I.OXGEK A SCPERSTITIOS of any scarlet woman, no longer a festival w hose observance implies perilous adherence to papal or prelatical errors. The purifying spiritual fire, historically known as Puritanism, has purged theological and ecclesiastical dross away, and ha3 left the pure gold of religious fath and human sympathy. "When the neophyte asked his confessor what was the central truth of Christianity, the old man answered "Charity." Then he exf!ained that charity meant love, and that ove meant the spirit of universal fraternity. The almsgiving which is the technical interpretation of the word is but a symbol of that giving of the heart and soul ana life to help others of which the supreme sacrifice of Christ is the accepted type. The day that commemorates His birth is tho festival of humanity, as the inspiring senimentof actual life. The lovely legends of the day, the stories, and the songs, and the half fairylore that gathers around it, the ancient traditions oi dusky woods and mystic rites; the magnificence or simplicity of Christian observance, from the l'ope m his triple tiara, bore npoa his probative throne in gorgeous state to celebra e pontilicial high mass at the great altar of Su l'cter's, to George Herbert humbly kneeling in his

rustic Church at Bomerton, or to the bare service in some missionary chapel upon the .merican irentier; the lighting of Christ mas trees and hanging up of Christma3 stoeKings, the profuse giving, the hapny family meetings, the dinner, the game, the dance they are all the natural signs and symbols, the flower and fruit, of Christmas. For Christmas is the day of days which declairs the universal human consciousness that peace on earth comes only from good will to man. A Very Strang Mory. On the ISth of April. 18G8. in the prison of Vellarica (province of Minas Gevaes), in Brazil, two men named Aveirs and Cannes were executed at the same time. Jn Brazil executions take place with closed doors, in the interior of the Prison. Dr. Lorenzo y Carmo. of Rio Janeiro, wellknown bv savants for his remarkable works on electricity applied to physiology, his surgical skill, and his success in autoplastic operations, obtained permission to proüt by this event in order to expound on the power of electricity and illustrate its analogy with some of the phenomena of life. I he numerous experiments hitherto at tempted had been made on the bead and on the trunk separatel v. Dr. Lorenzo y Carmo's design was, if possible, to unite the head to the trunk after decapitation. J he heads of the two criminals fell within a few minutes of each other in the same basket first that of Cannes, then that of Aveirs. Immediately after this second execution a compression was effected by a pupil of Dr. Lorenzo on the carotid arteries of one of the bodies so a3 to stop hemorrhage. The body was then placed ou a bed already prepared, and Dr. Lorenzo stuck the head as exactly as possible on the section and kept it in that position, lhe ceils of a powerful electric pile were applied to the base of the neck and on the breast. Under this inliuence, as in former experiments, the respira tory movements were at once perceptible. As the blood which pepetrated in abundance through the surface of the scar, threatened to stop the passage of air, Dr. Lorenzo had recourse to tracheotomy. Inspiration then ensued regularly. The head was fastened io the body by stitches and by a special apparatus. The physiologist wished to ascertain for bow long a time this appearance of life could thus be artificially maintained. HU astonishment was great when he saw at the end of two hours not only did respiration still continue under tho influence of the electric current, but that circulation had even resumed a certain regularity. The pulse beat feebly, but sensibly, lhe experiment was continued without intermission. At the end of sixty-two hours it wa3 evident, to the astonishment of every one, that a process of cicatrization had commenced on the lips of the section. A little later signs of life manifested themselves spontaneously in the head and limbs, till then deprived of motion. At this moment, tnednectorof the prison arriving, for the first time in the exinrimcnt soon observed that, by a singular mistake, due to the haste of the operation. the head of Cannes had been taken for that of Aveirs, and had been applied to the body of the later. The experiment was continued notwithstanding. Three days later the respiratory movements reproduced themselve?, and electricity was suppressed. Dr. Ijrenzo y Carmo and his assistants were stupified. frightened at a result so unexpected, and at the power ot an agent which, in their hands, had restored life to a body whose right to exist they had forfeited. lhe learned surgeon, who had only had in view a simple physiological experiment, employed all his skill to continue this work which science, aided against all expectations by nature, had bo singularly commenced. He assisted tho process of cicatrisation, which progressed uuder the most favorable conditions. Bv means of an a sophagian probe liquid nourishment was introduced into the stomach At the end of three months tne cicatrisation was complete, and motion, though still dimcult, became more and more extended. At length, at the end of seven months and a half. A veirs-Cannes wp.- able to rise and walk, feeling only a slight stiffness in his neck ami limbs. So ends the remarkable story. Who can tell the results of scientific investigation eairifd so far? In families natural effects may be remedied by readjusting heads and bodies not originally proportioned for each other, and human beings, dissatisfied with their sex may, under the benevolent system of Dr. loreuzov Carmo, repair the error of their origin, it will be a question for lawyers to dtterruine to what nationality these future beings are to belong if head and body have previously owed a separate allegiance. But it' this sys-tem holds good in violent deaths, surely it may be applied to deaths ensuing, as the coroners jurie3 have it from natural causes. Ia this case we might preserve our statesmen and celebrities forever. Opponents of this system would, however, be found in heirs apparent. Can Wcraeu Yforkersiupport More Than Themselves. fDcmorest's Monthly.! A curious statement was copied from the Springfield Republican not long since, to the effect that the best test of the difference in capacity between a man and a woman lay in the fact that a man who supported him wlf vol vmawlorad fn Via Ari r rr hAhinff whita a woman who supported herself was thought to be doing a good deaL Surely this is a very unfair statement of the cla33 woo work for money. As a rale women begin this kind of work because they have others besides themselves to support: while the number of women who assist in the support of the family, in addition to the work they do in caring for it, is greater than those who are supported without such work. There are very few men dependent on the labor of their hands who wholly support the wile and family, while there are many women who sup' port the family and give it all the care it re ceives besides. More young girls stay at home ana uo nothing, than young men, an dubtedly; but that is the fault of their narJ cut, Yho cncom&i Iadepea4euce U oue

and repress it in the other. Where boys and girls start out together, one is as likely to make headway and achieve rewards as the other, provided the chances and compensations are equal; in fact, if a man does not marry it is rarely that be ever takes upon himself any responsibilities outside of himself, while evtn a moderately successful woman, working with the disadvantage of inferior pay, can never be satisfied to work for herself alone, but adopts a child or works in societies if she has not relatives who need her aid. Individual cases may be considered exceptions, but hundreds of them could be cited by any one conversant with the history and habits of women worker?. It is a common remark that a woman left penniless with a family manages to support and keep it together, while in the case of a poor man left with children upon bi3 hands, they are nearly always scattered, and the family broken up. ifarried women frequently conceal the extent to which they aid in the acttual support of the family because it is considered more "respectable" for the man to be the responsible head of the house. It is true that the lot of supporting a family more frequently tails upon uneducated than educated women, because of these last other duties are expected, and they have been aad are excluded largely from the sources of money making open to men. Sons are forced into business which daughters could only enter at the sacrifice of every social relation. Notwithstanding this, it is a pleasure to note the energy and ability which women show who have never been trained, who have had no business experience outside family lifo, when thrown at all this disadvantage upon their own resources. If a true census co lid be taken throughout this world, it would be discovered tiiat there were more figureheads ann-ng men, more actual workers among women, LITTLE FOLKS.

I'ncie John looked into the bed-room where Ilarrv bad been put into his crib a half-hour before. "Are you asleep. Harry?'' he asked. "Yeth," whispered Harry. Grandma and Dot were looking at a book of engravings. "Battles of Bull Bun," read grandma. Dot studied this picture very earnestly. "I don't sec any bull!" she said. Little Trot wa3 making an observation the other day while her mother was making some old-fashioned crullers: "Bears to me," she exclaimed, "they'd go down easier if yoH didn't tangle 'em in such awful knots." "George." asked the teacher of a Sundayschool class, "who, above all others, shall you wish first to see when you get to heaven?" With a face brightening up with anticipation the little fellow shouted "Gerliah!" A little boy, in giving an account to bis brother of the Garden of Eden, said: "The Lord made a gardener, and put him in the garden to take care of it, and to see that nobody hart anything or pasted bills ou the trees." The prayers of little children are not very Buggestivel A little girl on Leng Island, a few nights' ago, closed her devotions with these words: "I do thank thee, Lord, for all my blessing?, and I'll do as much for you some time.'" A three-year boy of a clergyman, watching his mother making biscuit one Sunday for tea, asked her if it was not wicked on Sunday. Of course she said it was, and the logical little chap continued, "Oo'll catch it when 'oo get to heaven " "Mamma, what's a book worm?" "One who loves to read, study and collect books, my dear " The next night company called. Miss Edith, who wears rings innumerable, was present. "Oh, mamma, look at Miss Edith's rings! I guess she is a ring worm, ain't she?" Teacher, to a little girl to whom he is endeavoring to explain subtraction of frac tions: "If you kad a pie and I shoulda.sk you for a quarter of it, and you should give me what I wanteJ, how much would von have left?" "I wouldn't have any left," said the little girl. Little Frank "I saw a rabbit at the store to-la7. But it could not bite me." Mamma "Was it lying still with its eyes shut?" Little Frank "It way still, but its eyes were open. It could not see, though." Mamma "Then it was dead, of course."' Little Frank "I guess so. ItlooKedjust as if it was having its photograph taken." It happened manv years ago that Cornelia, when a very little girl, created a good deal of merriment at the table when out one ev ening taking tea with some of her mother's friends. "Cornelia dear," said her hostess. "won't you have a slice of cake or something mure?" "Yes 'm, I think I will," said Cornelia, frnnklv, "it somebody lt please unhook my dress. A little girl attended Churchand listened to an elegant sermon from the text, "An anpel caaie down from Heaven and took a live coal from the altar." On reaching home, her mother asked for the text. The child gave it as follows: "An Injun came down from New Haven .nd toox a live coalt by the tail and jerked it out of its haltar." The mother fainted away aud was still uncon scious at last reports. lUKlOCS.CSEFDI. AM) SCIENTIFIC. The dryest Hour contains from G to 7 per cent, of water, and the average percentaga would be from 17 to IS. as from 11 to 12 per cent, can be driven out by heat of about iA) lahr. Nature reports that Naiba. an isolated mountain more than 2,5x feet high near Bona, is slowly sinking into the bosom of the earth. A deep ditch has beeu made ail around the engulfed mass. Herr Krupp s great gun establishment at Essex has its own water and gas works. It contains 25,000 gas burners in addition to the electric lamps. It has its own chemical laboratory, photographic and lithographic establishments and printingand binding shops. There are about fifty miles of telegraph wires and thirty live telegraph stations belonging to the works. I IThe London Lumber Trade Journal states that a new method of tree-felling by dynamite has been successfully introduced. A cartridge of the explosive substance is placed in a channel bored directly under the tree to be operated upon, and when exploded the tree is simply forced up bodily and falls intact on its side. If this system works as well as it is represented to do. and the tree is not fractured by the force of the explosion, a large proportion of valuable wool at the base of the trunk can be utilised which is cow lost. The Chevalier Frederic Franchetti, engineer at lghorn, says the Nature, has referred M. de l'arville to a curious passage in Galileo's "Dialogues " touching a possible early origin of the electric telegraph. In tho dialogue Sagrado says that he calls to mind a man who wanted to tell him a secret which would give him the power by means of a certain sympathy of magnetized wires to speak to any one 2,000 or 3.000 miles off. The bargain, however, fell through, as the inventor would not try any shorter distance, and Sagrado declined to go to Calroor Muscovy to try the experiment. The story is told in the last number of the Kerne Scientifique. The reference given is page ninety-seven of the First Day Leghorn edition, l7-i Powdered asbestos is nsed by M. Erichson, of Copenhagen, for making a special enamel or coating. It is mixed witn soluble salts, such as silicate of potash and mineral or other colors, which combine with the silicic acid SO as to form a product which withstands the action of oxygen, heat aad atmospheric changes. Thia substance furnishes a refractory glazing, which protects porous materials, and which can be applied to wood, to gas or water pipes, to brick walls, and to constructions of stone or cement. When it is employed on masonry or on wooden articles the surface is first washed with soap and water. In the manufacture of this enamel or palut it is only the refuse of the asbestos which is employed, and this refuse, it is sail, would ba wtHtale tor aujr vtUer urptta.

THE SOUTHERN PRISON.

Annual Report of the Hoard of Directors. General Condition of the Prisen, Inmates, Finances and Needs. The annual report of the Directors of the Southern Prison has been filed in the Governor's office. As Horace V. Äorvell and W. D. II. Hunter were elected by the last Legislature as members of the Board, and the reorganization took place in March, 1SS3, the Directors say that the necessity of a lengthy report is precluded. Since the last report a most excellent cell house with all modern conveniences and improvements has been ccmpleted and furnished, containing 200 cells of two beds each and capable of containing 400 convicts. The cell house was occupied first in November and is now occupied by 320 convicts. This has enabled the management to remove the convicts from the corridors and other places not suitable for sleeping, and to place the convicts in airy and wholesome cells, and this fact has aided greatly in the improvement of the sanitary condition of the Prison, as well as the safety and comfort of those confined. The discipline of the Trison has not deteriorated during the past year but has greatly improved, which may be attributed largely to the workings of the new time law, which has given tho Warden a means of discipline not heretofore available. The results of this system lias been to make the use of the lash greatly lessened. The condition of the prison averages well with that of past years, and though the number of convicts confined daring the past few years has been reduced, the cost for maintaining them per capita has also diminished, the discipline improved and the death rate reduced, notwithstanding the deaths in the past year were larger than the the average. This is accounted for by the fact that most of the deaths were from consumption and other chronic diseases. The buildings are in such condition that special appropriations must be made in time for their repair to secure them for the uses for which they were built. With the present income from convict labor the expenses of the Prison can not be met without aid from the State. The Board ex presses the hojie, however, that in the future they may be able to place the institution on a better paying basis. To that end adver tisements nave been made in the papers for letting the labor of 175 convicts, the bids to be received and opened in Januar The food has been abundant wholesome, and given in variety, to secure good health, and the Board are of the opinion that the condition of the convicts prove this assertion. At this time but two insane convicts are in the mad house, and one of these has been confined for eleven years There is no suitable building on the grounds lor the separation of these persons from the prisoners or of taking care of them. A building for the purpose of caring for the insane is a necessity. The l-oard make special meniion of arden Howard for theetlicient manner in which he has administered bis office, and also of Deputy Warden Craig and Captain Huettc. lhe total number ot convicts in Prison at the beginning of the fiscal year was ö'.tO, at the close of the year Ö4S, the daily average 57S. The daily average in lb"y was 2l: Lowing a decrease in live years of 4;. The total number received for each year from 1822 to 1S:; was T.Sfö; discharged, 7,:513. The death rate during this period was 4 1-7 per cent , while the death rate daring the last eight years under the present management was 11-10 per cent. Of the 518 in Prison 211 were born in this State, eighty in Kentucky, 183 in other Statesand thirty-nine in foreign countries. At date of conviction seventy one per cent. were thirty years of age and under htty, nine rer cent, could read and write; eighteen per cent, could read only, and twenty-three per cent, could neither read or write. Fifty-seven per cent were single and thirty-iive percent, were married, aud eight per cent, were widowers. At the time of entering Prison twenty-one per cent, admitted that they had been intemperate in the ue of intoxicating liquors. Forty six ol the present convicts were sentenced for life, and the average period of con finement below life is four years and eight days. Four hundred and ninety-five men are now working under the contract system with manulacturers. The receipts during the year were 2! -0,03; the expenditures, ?!1, 121.15, and the balance on hand, 52,8(4.51. KEI.IGIOC3 INTKLLIGKifCK AND INCIDEJil. A wee little cherub of Bismarck sat for a while attentively listening to a Scandenavian minister last Sunday and then whisperbd: "Mamma, if Dod tan understand zat. He's a dood one!" A fond Cincinnati father tells of his 4-year old boy who was presented with a trumpet. witn wlm-n ne was greatly infatuated. All day the boy tooted away delightedly and at bedtime when his grandmother told him to put the trumphet down and say bis prayers the little fellow said: "Oh, no, I'll tell you what let . s do, gran ma: ou pray and 1 11 keep on blowing." The Church of England Purity Society is one of the interesting new movements in that powerful ecclesiastical body. The objects are to promote puntv among men. a chivalrous respect for women, rescue work, and a higher tone of public opinion. The objects are certainly commendable, and the work has begun with very encouraging results for its extension and usefulness. "Wonder what's become of the revised New Testament?" said Brown; "'pon my word I haven't seen a copy of it for a year." "Have you seen a copy of the old version within a year?" asked Deacon Textual. "By gracious!" exclaimed Brown, "it's funny, but come to think of it. I haven't set eyes on a Bible of any kind for I can't tell" you how long. Pernpivj the new version ain't any more of a failure than the old one, after all." A Southwark (London) bootmaker has sued the rector of St. Savior's Church, in that borough, for fö'X for services rendered during his election to the chaplaincy, and the disclosures made are remarkable. He packed the church Sundays when his candi date preached, and kept people away wnen the other candiatc preached. It says a great deal for the liberal views of the rector that that this good electioneering agent was a Catholic. If halt the plaintiff says is true St. Saviors ought to be without an incum bent. The New York Observer quotes Fere Hyacinthe's statement: "I am not a Protestant. 1 will never be one. I regard all Christians, of whatever faith they be, as my brothers. At the invitation of my Protestant brothers I come to peak of God, of Christ, of the Christian faith, but I am not in communion with them. If I scandalize any Christian by this statement I can not help it." The Ob server then adds: "This defines the gentleman's position, and the avowal that he is not in communion with those Christians who have been the most demonstrative in his behalf, leaves them iust where we suppose they would be left. Pere Hyacinthe is no Protectant, and we are not aware that he has been converted from Itomanism." In rare lace the demand is for Duchess point. Admirable effects are gained in lace which combines the Duchess with medallions of point Venise, rose point and point gaze filling the interstices. The lace described is patronized especially for full dress and bridal toilets. Hon lton gui püre is also worn; indeed fichus and scarfs of Honitou promise to bo very fashion sole this winter to wear over velvet ureses, itfw cpuiu tace, tu

black and white, remains in favor, and there

is an occasional demand for vallencinnes lace. In cheaper lace are the antique linen guipure in ecru, with heavy linea threads Land run around the designs. OU11LK MIRDKR. Two Men Killed at a Dance at Winchester, III. Wixchestkr, 111., Dec. 21. A few months ago the residents of a school district in the Bottoms, six miles west of this city, had a very hot contest over the location of a school house in the district. They divided in two factions, and waged war on each other, and not until after there were three contests at the polls and as many fights did they fix upon a permanent site for their school house. This contest, however, created such a bitter feeling between the rwo factions that it was feared by outsiders that there would soon be more blood shed. This tear was fully real ized last ednesday night. A. J. Davis, an old resident of this district. had a dance at his honse on that night, hnd Charles Sutton, John Sutton and Press Sut ton, brothers, and Ike Whit worth, members ot oue faction, repaired to the house of I)avi3 fully equipped for war and with the avowed purpose of raising a fight with certain members of the other faction the McKeevers brothers, two in number, and their friends. The buttons succeeded in their mission, for it was not long after they arrived at the house before they started a general fight, and in the melee they succeeded in killing Adam Hill and George Snyder. Hill's throat was cut by Charles cutton, and be died instantly, buyder was killed by John Sutton shooting him "from behind with a thirtv-two caliber revolver. Both Were dastardly murders. Hill had taken no part in the fi 'ht, and was onhr an idle spectator, and had his back to Sutton when be (Sutton) cut bis throat bnvder had been fighting John Sutton in a band to hand fight, but bad his back to Sutton when he fired the fatal shot. The tragedy has caused a great deal of excitement in this County. The Suttons and Whitworth are lodged in Jail awaiting a pre liminary examination, which will be given them next week. AKIiKSTEJ. A Gang of Counterfeiters Taken 111 Out of the Cold nt Vincenne. Special to the Sentinel : Vixcexxes, Dec. 21. A great deal of ex citement was created this morning by the arrest of two counterfeiters ar.d two shove rs by Sheriff Kackley, Marshal McBride and Officer Hall. They are James Summers and Mrs. Lizzie Sanders, of Sullivan old in the business, and James Hart and John Kilfoil. Several saloons were made vic tims. Kilfoil bears an excellent reputation, and claims he can clear himself of all crime. Hart and Summers are eld Penitentiary birds. Commissioner McCord bound them over until to-morrow morning for a preliminary trial. One hundred and thirty-five dollars were found on Summers and Sanders. The woman claims respectable connections in Sullivan, and repudiates the charge of belonging to the gang. Public sentiment i3 with Kilfoil, who claims the money was passed on him and that he passed it ignorant of its being counterfeit. Ilevolvers were freely displayed. Summers applied for a license to marry Lizzie, but was refused. hen arrested they Mere occupying the same room. nothing here preventing, their trial will take place to-morrow. Murdered and Placed ou a Uailruu.l Track. t-peeial to the Sentinel: Jasi'ER, Ind , Dec 21. The mutilated re mains of a man were found on the Air Line Bailroad, near the town of Boston, Crawford County, last Wednesday morning. To-day the body was recognized as that of William L. Golden, a resident of Birdseye. Ind. The nature of the wounds and position of the body indicate thac he was murdered and his body placed upon the railroad track. Wl"KNEl AT SKA. Los of the Steamer St. Augustine Un known Fate of Many Fansengers. LoxiKix, Dec. 20. A portion of the crew of the Spanish mall Eteamer, St. Augustine, from Mauilla for Liverpool, has arrived at Dartmouth. They report that the steamer toek fire Sunday last, in the Eay of Biscay, and that eighty-two of the crew and passengers took to boats. The first boat reached en English trig, the second returned to the burnins vessel, and the third has n t been heard from. The fourth, containing fourteen persons, landed at Dartmouth. When these left the burnlnj steamer there were thirty people on board. It is thought they were retcued as steamers were seen bearing aown towards the steamer. A Corunna. Spain, dispatch says: A brig has landed here with a portion of the crew of the neamer M. Angustine. This is probably the br!g which picke 1 up the people in the first boat. o Confirmations. Washington, Dec. 510. There was a whole batch of nominations before the Senate to-day including Lutterworth for Commissioner of Patente, a number of Consuls, Indian Agents and 200 Postmasters. All were favorably acted upon. The Indiana and Illinois Postmasters are as follows : Caroline K. Apliimton. Polo, 111.: Aaron J. Jaofcson, De Kalb. Iii.; Charles 1'. Course. 1'eeatonica, 111. ; Francis M. Wright. Urt-ana, 11L: Warren N. Wheaton, Wheafon, 111.; Francis B. Jeanport, Kureka, 111.; lluch 15. Kisbet, Chester, 111. : Eli lWMvyer. Oitipy, ill.; Sarah Pearson. Nashville, liL: Henry K. Insaham, Tuscola, 11L; Eli X. McCallister, Champaign, 11L: Richard Butler, Clinton, 111.; Philip P. CorkJns, Fr-rltr, Ind.; Joshua L. Sims. Edinhur?. Ird. ; Uriah Coulson, Sullivan. Ind.; WiIühdi 11. Clark, Rising Bun. Ind.; Stephen Lowley, Tipton, Ind.; ShatFer Peterson. Deestur, Ind.; Charles L. Howe, Savannah, 111.: Eugene A. Brownell, St, Charles, 111. ; Charles M. Lyon, Mc-Iarnt-sbronph, 111.; Cieorge It. Little. Carmi, lit.; JIary A. Camp. Dixon, 11L; Archibald D. Edwarls, I'rineeville, 111. ; William B. Jcnkinp, Winainae. Ind. : Alfred P. Bone, Shelbyvillc. Ind.; Sarah E. Jlackleman, Kushville, Ind.; John Peters, Michigan Cttv, Ind.: Henry S. Bennett. Evansvillo, Inh: VUlliam M. Hull. Fulton. 111.: Franlt W. I.yon. Soulon, 111 : Dennis 1. Brophy, Notomis, 111.; John Koadhouso. Koadhouse, ill.: Jesse R. Johnson, Newton, I1L; Kobert T. Wilkinson, 2dount Carmel, 111. The Fitzgerald Indicted. Washington, Dec. 20. The Grand Jury of the District has handed Tnited States District Attorney CorUhill presentments against N. W. Fitzgerald, S. C. Fitzeerald and A. B. Webb for fraudulent use of the mails in delivering pensions. The indictments are being drawn up and will be pre sen ted to the Court to-morrow. A Revolver Goes off Accidentally. Special to tbe Sentinel: LooANsrouT, Ind., Ic 23. Frederick Crumner, a resident of Walton, this County, was accidentally killed about 9 o'clock this evening in that viliaee, while looking at a revolver with a companion named Keeser, ia a restaurant, the latter pulled back the hammer, which slipped from his hand, exploding the pistol Tho ball striking Crumner in the temple killing him instantly. Crumner was thirty-five years of a?e, a prominent citizen of the County and leaves a family. The Czar Hurt. Bekuj, Dec. 20. Information has just been received that the Czar, while hunting, was thrown' out of a wagon and injured in the rieht shoulder. Grave fears for time were entertaiued, but the lvsii r has received a special telegram that the injury is not serious. k A Valuable Medical Treatise. 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