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4 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Programme of Services for Twelfth Sunday After Trinity, August 23. WINISTERIAL AND CHURCH MOVEMENTS, Interesting Sketch of the Late Arch- | bishop de Merode—Correspondence. Rey. Dr. Cordo, of Jersey City, will occupy the pulpit of the South Baptist churcu this morning. The evening service is omitted. | Rev. W. M. Dunneil will preach in All Saints’ Protestant Episcopal church this morning and evening at the usual hours, “Nothing Without Christ,” wilt constitute the basis of Dr. Deems’ discourse this morning in the Chareh of the Strangers. Preaching service in ‘he same place also tn the evening. | Elder James Bicknell will preach this morning | and afternoon for the Beulah Particular Baptist Church in Greenwich Hall, S. P. Andrews and others will address the Spirit- ualists fm Degarmo Hall to-day. | “The Seven Lamps Before the Throne” will be descriped and their symbolism explained this evening by Rev. James Kennedy in the Fourth Re- formed Presbyterian church. He will preaca also this morning in the same place. | Rev. F. C. Morgan will occupy the pulpit of Lex- | ington avenue Methodist Episcopai churcn this morning and evening. Rev. J. R. Love, of Georgia, will present the | claims and needs of the freedmen of the Souta be- sore the Church of the Transfiguration this morn- | Any v. J. W. Barnhart will preach at the usual honrs this morning and evening in Forsyth street | Mechodist Episcopal church. | Mrs. Catharine A, Soule will preach for the Uni- versalist Society, in Piimpton Hall, this morning. | Rev. Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, will preach morn- | ing and evening in Madison enue Baptist church. Dr. Hartzell will preach this morning in the Uni- | versalist Church of Our Saviour. Rev, Thomas Mitchell will preach morning and | evening in the Ventral Park Baptist church. | Dr. Sproie will occupy the pulpit of the Forty- | second street Presbyterian church this morning. Rev. J. W. Jackson, of the Philadelphia Conier- | ence, will preach in Seventh street Methodist Episcopal church this morning and evening. Rev, J. Wiluams wiil preach this morning in | Second street Methodist Episcopal church; Rev. | W. McAlister in the evening. i Rev. George D. Mathews will preach in the West- | minster Presbyterian church this moruing and evening at the usual hours, Kev. Dr. Prime, of New York, will occupy the pulpit of Tompkins avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, to-day at the usual hours, | “False Culture of the Emotions’ and “John the Baptist” are the topics of thought chosen by Rev. H. O. Pentecost to-day for the Church o! the People, Brooklya. “The Curer of Incurables” and “The New Birth’? will form the bases of Rev. 58. H. Platt’s discourses Uhis morning and evening in DeKalb avenue | Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn. i Rev. Mr. Hagerman wiil tell the congregation, in | Leffert’s Park, Brooklyn, this afternoon, “Why He and They Ought to be Christians.” | Rey. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., D. D., will preach, as usual, to-day tn the Church of the Holy Trinity. ‘The Rey. W. T. Sabine will preach to-day at the usual hours in the First Keformed Episcopal enure), Dr. Dowling, the eminent Baptist minister, will occupy the pulpit of the Fifty-third street Method- ist Episcopal church this morning. Preaching services this morning and evening at ‘the usual hours in All Souls Protestant Episcopal church, Elm place, Brooklyn. Preaching this morning and evening as usual in the First Baptist churct, Park avenue and ‘hirty- ninth street, Rev. Thomas D, Anderson, pastor. | “The Final Victory of Righteousness” will be presented this morning and the “Condemnation of the Ungodly” this evening by Rev. M. K. Beanett { in the Fifty-third street Baptist church, | The Rev. Dr. Flagg will conduct the servi this | morning in .the Protestant Episcopal Chirch of the Resurrection, Eighty-fitth street. A morning service will be held to-day in the | Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atouement, | Rev. C, C. Tiflany, rector. | Mgr. Xavier de Merode—The Career of | a Remarkable Man. | To THE EDITOR OF THE HERAL! | One of the most conspicuous members of the | Pontifical Court has been recently caliea to his | ong account. As I have had the honor of the per- sonal acquaintance of Mgr. de Mérode, Arcubishop of Melytene, permit me to give you a few details | concerning his life and career. He was of Belgian | birth, the son of Count Gisiain, Marquis of Wester- | loo, Prince of Ruvempré and Everberg, former Minister to the King of the Belgians, and was directly descended from the celebrated Mérodeur, | great warrior of the sixteenth century, whose — marauding habits evidently gave us the word “to maraud,” for says Menage in his etymological dictionary, “Marode or maraud ts a word derived from tne name of the Count de Mérode or M¢rodem, a Flemish nobleman, who served inthe army of Ferdinand IiJ., and who never encamped with his | troops, but always selected bis quarters detached | from the camps and obliged the proprietors thereof to entertain him free of expense, so that | the Marshal de Luxemburgh used to teil his soi- diers to do Like the Count and ‘go en Mérode.”” Mgr. de Mérode was born in 1820, and was the eldest of four or five children. He leaves a brother still living, Count Werner, ania sister, Mme. ia Comtesse Anna de Montalembert. A second sister ‘was the Princess Pozzo deila Cisterna, whose only daughter, one of the richest heiresses in Europe, | married King Victor Emmanuel’s youngest son, | the Duke of Aosta, Who subsequently reigned for | | took mine iu tis and said in a lust, | wrote several despatches on pieces of paper and | he handed to an ofticer. | in coi | Whue speaking with a French prelate, in response NEW Y svn vveriooking the Votonna Palace and its 1oveiy gardens, The drat hoor of the house was used as @ stable, and was (ali of horses, grooma and soi- diers. "The nts occupied by the Papal Minister of War were on the second floor, The frst time T paid a viait to this singular place it = eg roused with Irist, Canadians swiss, Unusually excited over some recently received rece of Hil news. I had to wait about an hour beiore ouseigneur came. When, liowever, he did ap- Kescorceqpoua ywith my tou om man thigh Fath my idea of a man of high rau and position. He war dressed in the shabbtest of priestly soutanes, This long robe had been origi- Rally Diack, but it was now &@ daniy-down russe brown, @ shade produced, doubtless, by constant wear and tear, A stripe of faded purple was the only distinctive ornament which indicated the high oMce of the wearer, who otherwise looked not unlike an old trooper disguised as a sacristan, for the walk and the manner of the eccentric pre- late and ex-soldier were decidedly martial. 1 had already sent in my letter of introduction, but to my surprise I perceived it sti!) in Monseigneur's h&nd and unopened. He passed me by several times before he deigned to notice me. At last he | halted in front of me, and alter imspecting me Irom head to foot, said, in a joud, harsh voice, Bul, never make a soldier! What do come here for *"" He had evidently imagined I was a new volun. teer, and to disabuse him of this impression 1 answered timidiy, “I beg your pardon, Monsei3- neur, but——" “Monsieur,” he broke in, “you needn't beg my pardon; you will, | say, never @ soldier, 80 you had better go back to your mother."” “Monseigneur,”’ 1 again ventured to say, “I did | not mtend being a soldier, I have brougnt you the letter you bold in your hand, Please read 1t."” He did so, and then stretching out both his hands, voice, “Dear ust the map [ me, my dear sir, glud to see you. wanted to speak to. How i8 your family? Quite The Countess, how ts she +" ‘our Excellency is agaim in error, I am ‘so and so.’ Will you read the letter trom Cardinal Buliet againy’ “He paused and seemed to recollect himself, ana said :—*'l beg you a thousand pardons, 1 was expecting somebody else. Never mind. Come into my room, and we wii! talk about it.’” ‘Then he gave a number ol orders to the soldiers, adde4 up a long line of figures, the result of which Finally be seized me by the arm and ied me INTO HIS DRN, which was in a tremendous state of disorder. 1 was told to take a chair, but Monseigneur did not | sit. He marched up and down, now talking to me, now rushing out to give an order, then resuming the thread of conversation and again suddeniy bound- | in off to receive some messenger or to teiegraph | a despatcn. itis table resembled that of Mrs. Jel- lyby, and was ‘ta chaos of papers.”” His voice was remarkably tine and clear and he was surprisingly weil versed in European politics and literature. | For two hours | remained’ in my chair watching | him while he talked rather at than to me. Atabout five o'clock I got away, Monseigneur | following me to the door, talking all tae whiie in Spanish and German soldiers, wno were | | school for colored children. | the reverend gentleman is now on his second | | visit to the Kmerala Isie In search of candidates ORK HERALD, SUNDAY, ' spect and paid his memory many tributes a: au. miratvion, Ministerial and Church Movements. ROMAN CATHOLIC, | ‘The 7adiet this week pursues ite inquiries into the growth of Catholicism ip this State within the last eighty or ninety years. It gives @ list of eignty-eight charches and twenty-three colleges, asylums and other institutiona, besides parochial | schools, within this archdiocese, The Church of the Fourteen Holy Martyrs, Balti- more, was crowded to repletion on last Sunday | afternoon, when the ceremony of the blessing of | four statues occurred, They are of papler mache, and were manulactured at St, Mary’s Inatitpte, Paul, St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin. There is soon to be erected at Lake George, N. Y., a handsome church for the Paulist Fathers. The corner stone of another new churcn (Our Lady of the Sacred Heart) was laid on Saturday, August 15, tn Reading, Ohio. Poor a8 the Pope is sald to be, after paying all his household and other expenses he has money enough left to pay $2,000 a day in pensions. A correspondent of the Observer writes that ‘he | could breathe vaporized gold tt he chose.’’ The Rigut Rey. Bishop Martiv, of Natchitoches, La., has opened near the cataedrai a parochial | | ‘The rededication ot the {Immaculate Conception | church, Buifalo, will take place to-day. The Right | Rev. Bishop Ryan will perform the ceremonies. ‘The dedication of the new church at Fairhaven, Rev. P. J. O’Carroll, pastor, will take place on iday, September 8, annual Convention of the Catholic Temper. ance Societies o! Copnecticut will be held in Water- bury on Tuesday, September 1. St. Cecilia’s church, Louisville, Ky., was dedi- cated last Sunday. Rev. M. Connolly, the zealous pastor of Hudson, Wis., is building @ very spacious church, The cost | will be about $9,000. The Right Rev, Bishop Heiss, o1 La Crosse, will lay the corner stone to-day. The corner stone of the Church of the Immacu- late Heart of Mary, Chester, Pa., will be laid by Bishop Wood on tne 20th prox. ‘The Paulist Fathers are about to erect a large monastery in this city. Late advices irom Ireland state the mission of Father Butler, 5S. J., 0! Augusta, Ga, is prov- ing highly successful, 1 will be remembered that for the priesthood who will devote their labors to the Southern States of America. PRESBYTERIAN, Rev. Matteo Procket, of the Waldensian Church, Italy, makes an appeal to his Presbytertan friends in America to render pecuniary aid to his church the same excited and animated manner, His con- versation was often brilliant and exceedingly witty, but the feverish activity of bis wind avso- | lutely dazed mine, 1 was glad when I got out into the quict streets of Rome. 1 met him olten afterwards and learned to love him, I dis- covered that when much interested in a subject | he could completely lose nis usual desultory | manner and become eloquent, and display consid- erable poetical jecling 10 Lis descriptuve power. His was not a sweet temper, and | HE DID NOT SPARE THE POPE himself when they were of diflerent opinio: political questions, But the Hoty Father seemed | rather amused than otuerwise by his vehemences, | and would say, when the storm was over, “That is Mérode’s way.’ We must take people as they come.” | But beneati the rough surace of Monseigneur there hid the tenderest of hearts. Tnough pos- | | sessed of a gigantic iurtune he actuaily lived like a@ pauper, io order the better to supply the wants of un army of dependents—decayed artists, actors, | journalists, Engish and Americuu penniless con- verts, distressed governeases, &¢., 01 all nationali- | ties—who literally looked upon aim asa kind of | free bank, where they could get whatever they | wanted by a little skilful manceuvring. In conse- quence of this excessive generosity in relieving private distress during the last days of his life the doors of the Vatican Were besieged with odd-look- ing inquirers, anxious to kuow the latest news of their benefactor’s healt! HIS PUBLIC CHARITIES WERE PRINCELY. He rebutit and endowed several charitable insti- tutions of great utility which had fallen into de- | cay. Wishing to improve the condition of the prisons, he bought and converted the vast Vii Altiesi into a mode! reformatory tor prisoners and | criminals, whom he Visited :n person, and hun- dreds of them have owed a {resh start in life to his noble benevolence. He was siso an enthusiastic admirer of the fine arts, and devotea a great part orhis income toward their encouragement, and | his passion jor ancient Christian archeology in- duced him to undertake, at enormous expense, | the receut excavation of the ruined and -lost | Basilica of St. Petronelia, in which be entertained the American pligritus in a very princely manner | only a lew weeks ago. | He leaves \ N MILLIONS OF FRANCS | behind him, besides many splendid estates. His | property mand near Kome 18 bequeathed to the | dSovereign Poutif, aud his estates in Belgium and France to his sister Anna, Comtesse de Montaiem- bert; mis mece, Het Royal ignness the Duchess , | Victoria of Aosta, ex-Queen of Spain, and to his brother, Count Werner. He also leaves large | sums tu the Roman hospitals, prisons and other establisnments of benevolence and pabiic utility, | besides life pensions to all his servants, It was on Monday, July that Mgr. de Mérode was first taken serious; . He was attacked | with pneumonia, and on. Wednesday was aiready | siderable danger. He first felt ill on the | day he entertained the American pilgrims, and | to a remark that he looked ill, said, as ne observed | some flowers growing at ms ieet, “Why are we not like these pretty flowers? Tbey live with their | Jaces looking always up to God. If we did as they | do we should at least look well.” His sutferigs | were terrible, but he bore them with astonishing | patience, and prepared for death in a manner | whicn pune to be an example for us all. Every | morning he received the blessed sacrament, and us lips were coustantiy seen moving, as if in | rayer. e When the news of his danger spread throughout | Rome much sympathy Was expressed and special | prayers w aid for him in all the churches, Atseven o'clock on the eveuing ot July 8 the | folding doors of his .sleeping apartments wefe | thrown open and | THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF | entered, followed by several cardinals. He ad- vanced toward the bed with a singularly erect car- Tage, in curious contrast with the feepie figure of his dying friend, who had iittle more than half his rs, Pius LX, took his seat by the side of the | Archbishop. At first the Holy Father endeav- | him by assuring him that he hoped and believed death was suil distant, but Mon- seigneur reiused to be persuaded that he was | i extremis, and Baid to his august visitor:— | “Your Holiness wiil survive me and mauy | y, y, | ‘The committee who investigated the charges of | others, both iriends and enemies.” Alter a few moments’ conversation tne Arch- bishop made a sign, and ali witherew, leaving tim alone with the Pope, who, about hall an nour atter- ward, passed out of. the room, weeping bitterly, During the day previous to his death Mme. de Montalembert, his sister, arrived in Kome, and | took ner station as chiei nurse. To her he gave the scrap of paper about which so much has been | said. Some are of opiuion that he had originally made his will entirely in favor of the Pope, bat v during the interview with His Holiness he was advised to revoke it. for shortiy afier the Holy Father left him Monseigneur DESTROYED WIS WILL and wrote ont his last wishes on the paper in question, At ten minuces past twelve o'clock on | the might of July 9 he expired, in the presence of allthe prelates and officers of the Pontifical | Court, He was in dis filty-tourth year. The next | | The Kev. J. W. Porter, of Phoenixville, Pa., hav- | ter)to appomt @ committee to prosecute the | Baptist charch, Long | camp ground among the Thousand Islands, Alex- | church at Hammonudsport, in the evangelization of his native land, M. Pro- chet will be remembered as a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance which met bere last October. Messrs. Booth, Vermilye and ide are @ committee to receive funds for this cause. ing been slandered by ‘“‘comimon fame,” after the manner of Mr. Beecher, got his Presbytery (Ches- charges against him, since no one else would, The result Was his ampie vindication. ‘fhe Presbyterian Church gathered into its fold | last year 36,971 converts—the largest ever gathered in one year since Presbyterianism Was established on this Continent, Rey. Dr. Van Dyke, of Brooklyn, is “vacating” | among the Thousand Islands and prepariug biw- | self s0r his fall campaign. ‘A new Presbyterian society 18 forming on Sixth | street, above Cumber! Philadelphia, to meet | the demands o! the increasing population tn that section, BAPTIST. Rev. J. W. Putnan, iate of Governeur, accepts a charge at Watertown, N. Y., the first Sabbath in september, During bis three years’ pastorate at the former place over 100 souls Were added to the church, mainly vy baptisin, Rev. C, H. Johnson, of Madrid, N. Y., has ac- cepted a call to Camden, N. J., and will enter on bis labors on September 1, Rev. L. F. Moore, of Flatbush, L. L., is enjoying his vacation at Preston, N.Y. He will be back on September 6, ‘The Memorial Baptist church, of Philadelphia, whose corner stone was laid on August 5, will be amphitheatre in form and Will cost $85,000, Rey. W, F. Benedict, fwd of the Kast avenue sland City, has accepted a cali to the pastorate of a church in the toterior of the State and will ciose his lavors in Newton in two weeks. Several recent converts are to be baptized to- day by Rev, H. O. Pentecost, pastor of the Church of the People, Adeiphi Academy, Brooklyn. Kev. Dr. Ball, of this city, dedicated the Free Baptist churca at Great Valley, N. Y¥., yesterday (Saturday). Rev. Ernest Weslay, @ Methodist preacher from Piermont, applied for baptism im the Lee avenue Baptist chareh last Friday evening and was ac- cordingly baptized. He had previously requested Mr. Knapp, or Paterson, to baptize him, which he was quite ready to do, until Le found that he be- lieved in free communion. During the year that Rev. J. C. Grinnell has min- istered to the German Baptist church m Brooklyu, E. D., seventy-one persous have been aaded by | baptism and twenty-three by ietter, The present memtersbip is 176, EPISCOPALIAN. The resignations or Rev. Thomas G. Williams, of St. Stephen’s church, Beverly, N.J.; Rev. W. Boardman, of St. John’s cbarch, Camden, J, aud Rey. M. M. Benton, Jr., of Calvary church, Summit, N. J., are announced, Rey, A. Buchanan, 0! Cincinnati, has become rector of St. John’s church, Bayonne, N. J. ‘The Rev. 8, Seymour Lewis, of St. Peter's church, Bainbridge, N. Y., has been elected rector of SU, Munich, They represent the saints Peter and | | as a place of AUGUST 2%, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. THE LUTHER FESTIVAL. Martin Luther and Johann Tet- zel Recalled to Life. The Pardon Mongers of the Sixteenth Centurv. A SERMON OF THE REFORMATION. A German Fair of Two Hundred Years Ago. An Interview with His Histrionic Highness the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. SONNEBERG, IN THE THURINGIAN FOREST, August 4, 1874, Thuringia, connected with the representation (in costume) of a village fair 350 years ago, wherein the Dominican monk, Johann Tetzel, and the reformer, Dr. Martin luther, were to take an active part. This was what induced me a few days ago to visit this interesting lrtie town of toys and marbles and wax doils. Some time ago | received from Sonneberg a very attractive pro- gramme of the festivities that were to take place, together with a brief narrative of the historical incidents inducing the people of Sonneberg to attempt the representation of old German life and manners. About an hour’s drive by carriage from the little eityof Sonneberg there exists on the crest of a long mountain a very straggling moun- tain village called Judenbach, celebrated for noth- ing in particular now but the poverty of its inhabitants and the great nomber of children there annually born, though it once played quite an important part as a resting place for the merchant caravans on their way from Augs- burg and Nuremberg to the North of Germany. It ‘was on the direct road trom Bamberg and Uoburg to Leipsic and Erfurt and the entire North, and, As we'are informed in @ little book presented to us by the community of Sonneberg, very many persons of standing | in the German Empire— princes and preachers, nobles and emperors—had sometimes to pass the road, and whenever they did they did not forget to halt and get retresh- ment for horse and man at the little WOODEN VILLAGE INN OF JUDENBACH. | In all probability the little wooden hostelry would never have possessed such an interest for the people of Sonneberg had Dr. Martin Luther never passed that way. But in the traditions of Juden- bach the legend still lives of Luther having visited the place and the inn on more than one occasion. ‘Thus the old hostelry was, or perhaps should have been to the Protestant people of Thuringia & kind of historical landmark. It was certainly a very interesting specimen of the ancient style of peasant arcnitecture in Luther’s day, and was the only relic of those times preserved in the village. But @ few years ago it was threatened with destruction, the proprietor having decidea to build @ new house on the spot of the old one. Tne matter came to the ears of a rich merchant ot this charmingly situated but slow little town of Sonne- berg—a retired merchant named Fleischman, who purchased the old eaifice and had it removed, minus the outbuildings, to a site on the hillside of | the Schénberg, or Beautiful Mount, which forms the background of this place. The little wooden hostelry, which 1s now formally inaugurated refreshment and point of view for the Sonnebergers, under the new title of “Zam Dr. Martin Luther,” is charmingly situated, and from its site we enjoy a prospect extending immediately in front twenty miles, as far as the Jortress of Coburg, and to the east the Franconian hills and the summits ot the Fichtelgebirge. Well, under the leadership of Herr Fleischmann and a committee of Sonneberg citizens, it was decided to hold along with the inaugural ceremonies a fes- tal dramatic representation of life such as took place in and around the little inn 350 years ago; and a Very attractive programme was issued, in which we were promised, besides the representa- tion of an old German annual fair, the enacting of SCENES FROM THE REFORMATION ERA, Thus, while the Jairis in full swing, Tetzel and his | monks are selling indulgences to the people, when Dr. Martin Luther arrives in the suite of Mary’s church, Yonkers, N. Y. Bishop Lee, of Delaware, ts spending his summer | vacation at Atlantic City, N. J. A petition is in circulauon among the Anghcan clergy lor signatures, asking that the archbishops and bishops be relieved irom their duties in the House of Lora: St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal church in Colea- town, near Camden, 18 one Of the oldest in New | Jersey, and is the mother church of many of the } parishes around it. it was erected before the | evolution. | St. James’ church, Atlantic City, N. J., has been | doubled in size to accommodate the increasing number of summer visitors at that seaside resort. | From the ecclesiastical complexion of the deie- | gates thus far chosen to the Generai Convention, | itis believed that ritualism will receive its death | biow next October, METHODIST, American and Canadian Methodists are prospect- ing in the St. Lawrence River jor an interuational ; H ander Bay. It is to be a permanent piace of gath- | ering for such as met last wonth at Rouud Lake, | immorality, impiety and inefficiency against Rey. Rev. Dr. Dandy, of Chicago, spent three days to- gether hearing testimony, They had the accused and accusers face to face and the charges could | not be sustamed, The investigation furnished a complete vindication. — The third camp meeting of the season at Sea Clit opens on thursday next. Distinguished min- isters of diferent denominations are to participate in the services. it A new Nethodist Episcopal church was dedi- | atea at Bushnell’s Basin, N. Y., on Friday last. The corner stone of anew Methodist Episcopal | Y., was latd on Tues- day last. ‘ihe Baltimore Episcopal Methodist a in mourn. ing this week jor its editor, Rev. W.S. Baird, who ated on the istu ins » Isaac J. Lau-ing, of New York East Confer- A Re a short ume as | morning the various papers related the sad news | to the people ot Rome, and almost without excep. KING OF SPAIN. tion the press testified its admiration for the From these two alliances it is easy to perceive that the social position of the iate preiate was ex- ceedingly influential, and his death has thrown several of the great houses of Kurope, as well asa part of the Italian Court, into mourging. He began his career as an officer in the Belgian army, and served under Marsiiai Bugeaud, who decorated him with the cross of the Le- gion of Honor for speciai bravery in the field. When still @ young man be fell in iove with a French lady, whose good fame was, it is sail, ve- nied by one of his brother officers. A quarrel en- sued, and @ duel, which proved fatal to his adl- versary, resulted. This sad event cast a gioom over the mind of the young Xavier, ana he | abruptly quitted the army and turned ecciesiastic, Aimost the Orst place he went to after his entry | into holy orders was Rome. and nere ne was cordially welcomed by Pius IX., who evertaaliy | vecame exceedingly attached to tim. both hat been soldiers, both were ecclesiastics, both had studied deeply and had visited foreign couatries, 80 that a mutual sympathy sprung up between | ‘them which was so great that tue other day, since | his friend’s deatn, the Holy Father exclaimed, “I | have lost a man I loved as much agit he tad been my own brother !"? | De Mérode, soon after his arrival tn the Eternal City, received from the Pope the position of Minis+ | ter of War, It Is neediess tere to record how well he filled bis high station. In consequence of the events of 1870 he was obliged to relinquish nis position and retire to apartments provided for him by the Pope in the Vatican, where he died, Jn person he was exceedingly tail and thin, with an unpandsome face. It would be uiMcult to imagine | @ more restiess individual, He was ever in a siace of effervescence, and his gesticuiations, rapidity of specch and the incessant motion of tie hands anu pe were haga bewildering, 1 rememver | ‘well pay! aebtd MY FIRST VisiT, in order to oresent a letter of introduction 1 had received trom the late Cardinai Billiet, Archbishop of Chambery. EF de Mérode wan they 44866), living ia Piazza (lelia Pilota ina mag. blameless live of tue deceased and for his great munificeace. | THE FUNERAL. The funeral of Mgr. de Mérode took place two days after bis death in the Basilica of St. Peter's, | in the Chapel oi St. Simon and St. Jude, which 1s | opposite to the one in which the Council of 1870 | Was held. High mass of requiem was chanted by | Mar. Vitellesclil, assisted by His Eminence Car- Borromeo, Arctpriest of the Vatican Basilica. | ral ambassadors were present and a bost of | ngnished persons, among whom | noticed be Liszt, the great musician, Who Was Weeping | itterly and iu evident distress, He read b breviary devoutiy, and rarely raised his nead fro his book Uniess it was to wipe away his tear Every one appeared much overcome with geuwine surrow, and irequently sobs broke the silence, Toe enitdren or the orphanage founded by Mgr. (le Mérode Siled an adjacent chapel. ‘ihe procession tu the cemetery was large, but it had not far to gv. Monseigneur is buried in the litte German cemetery which is close to St. Peter's, and which is one of fhe most beauttiul spots in Rome. It ts surrounded by arcades, the walls of which are Jrescoed by the iiustrious painter Overbeck with pictarea representing the stations of the cross, This cemetery was iounded by Constantine the Great and was originally filed With earth broughy from the Holy Land by ais mother, St. Helena, It is Jull ol beautiful trees and exquisite Nowers. A | Jovely spot to rest in, where the green sward is | overshadowed towards evening by the shade of | the great dome which rises over the toind of the | apostl It was here Monseigneur wished to rest. Another fanerai service Was olfered up for the re- pose of the soul of the deceased on July 14, ip the chapel attached to the Altiert Pal at the ex. pense of (he members of the Arcadiau Society, to which association Monseigneur belonged, Alter mass THE CELEBRATED PORTESs, Theresa, Countess Guoli Gualandi, went up to | Mine. de Montaiembert and presented her wita a beautiful sonnet, written in memory of her be loved ovother, Signora Gualandi is one of the most distinguished and learned women of Italy and a member of the Arcadian Society of Rome-— perhaps the oldest literary sociation in the world, The death of r, de Mérode has greatly affected the Pope, who has irequently since men. | dt may be truly tioned tim with evident emotion, but said of him that “the rich, indeed, mourn hi | the poor are inconsolabie, tor their loss bas been exceeding great.” Many persons here are in mourning tn consequence of the good death, aud even bis Worst political er. do ‘hem ‘astice, gave sooken of nus demise wi | next for a tour winong several of the Western Con- | ence, stationed at Embury church, Brooklyn, nas | been’ elected President of Clark University, At- Janta, Ga, Le accepts, and will enter upon his duties in September. Bishop Janes will ve this city on Wednesday ferences, where he is to preside during the coming month. Dr. Dashiel, Missionary Secretary, ie{t this city on Friday ior a five weeks’ tour among Western conferences. Dr, Eddy, his colleague, wiil follow next week on the same track. MISCEILAN£O! The London Israelites have a rabbi, Hirsh Dainon, who rivals Spurgeon in tie earnestuess and jervor of bis eloquence. Zetlaud Hail, where be preaches, 1s crowded every Lime he appears to pre and Gentiles a3 well as Jews flock to bis mfnistry. The Mariners’ enuorch in Boston—built by the Unitarians, bat occupied for so many years by Father Taylor, a devout Methodist—is ‘to come down, The commerce of the city requires the re- moval. The Uviversaliats are doing a missionary work | in Maine on a somewhat novel plan. Preachers | announce a series of meetings and alow the con- gregation to propose any questions or state any objections to the system (hat the objector may entertain, A Christian assoctation, comprising 462 of the 1,000 inmates of the Ohio Penitentiary at Colum- bus has been organized in that institution by the chaplain, Rev, O. H. Newton, during the past three 246 of these have gone out, a majority of whom still remain faithfal. The Israelites of Buffalo dedicated the Synagogue Beth Elin that city last week Kev, Case has resigned the pastorate of the Universalist church at Pittsfield, Me. ‘The installation of Rey. I. P, Booth over the Coiversalist church is toe next thing in order at Huntington, 1. 1. Kev. Mr. Lamb, @ graduate of Yale Theological Seminary, las accepted a from the Congrega. tonal church of Maywood, Lil, and wil! commenc his labors tn September, The Rev. Wn. H. Steele, D. D., of Newark, hi been elected President of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Cnurch, in the piace of Dr. Thomas DeWitt, deceased. ‘The two weak Universalist societies in San Fran- | cisco Nave agreed upon a basis of union, so that hereafter one strong chureu wiil take the place of the feeble ones. Dr, T. W. Chambers has retarned to the city from voyaging On the Nile and eisewhere, He has al- ready resumed his pastora: duties, Rev. Baldwin Brown, the well known Congrega- tionai minister of London, ts seriously indisposed, ond it is stated that he has been probibitea (rom ‘Sli public Work (or jhe nex, wheee months, the Elector John, and, alter being greeted by the Scholars Of the village, addresses the people, who thereupon attack Letzel and the monks, and drive them ignominiously out of the village. This was to be enacted, together with an ancient German shooting festival and a contest of Minnesingers before the Elector and his princely retinue. 1t is to be regretted that the latter part of this pro- grawme was not carried out, the reason being the Jack of the necessary organization in the matter and the magnitude of the sete proposed. How- ever, the play was periormed in a satisfaciory ana | successiul manner, and will perhaps be repeated | in the course of a year or two on a grander scale. SONNEBERG AND AMMRRGAU, Having visited the justly celebrated Passion play of “Ober-Ammergau” in the year 1871, I natu- rally ielt@ very great inclination to see the new Protestant play of “Dr. Martin Luther,” but I must admit that I left Frankfort with many misgivings, Jarrived in Sonneberg on the Friday betore the Sunday's performance, coming by way of Eisenach and visiting the Wartburg and the room wherein Luther lodged as Junker George and threw his inkstand at the devil, in order to become more im- timately acquainted with the great reformer’s life. | From Eisenach Sonneberg is reached by way of Covurg, a ride of two hours, and then a short branch line takes us to our destination in halt an hour more. ‘Though Sonneberg lies within sight of the fortress o1 Coburg it nevertheless belongs to the duciy of Meiningen, whose ruler’s tame will not be unknown to you alter his wonderful successes with his dramatic troupe in Berlin last spring. Duke George of Meiningen is one of those few petty princes of Germany who, acknowledging the fact that there is nothing for them to doin military matters or_ politics, which are all nicely arranged by Kaiser William and Prince Bismark tn Berlin, devote their attention to other matters, such as art and drama or education or religion. ‘The King } of Bavaria devotes his means and energies to the | aeveiopment of opera, and Duke George 0! Meinin- gen 18 the princely provégé of THE CLASSIC DRAMA IN THE EMPIRE, Not only does he take @ passive interest in bis Court Theatre, but he 18, in fact, the director in chiet, guiding the rehearsals himself and even fur- | nishing the drawings for scenery and stage furnt- ture, Which must in all cases be faithful to histort- cal tradition, With a dramatic troupe which ranks at the highest as second class, with no stars, and with only one actor of more than ordinary ability, the Duke invaded Berlin, and after six weeks’ so- journ returned home loaded witn spoils and iau- Tels. 1 shall have occasion further on to speak more of this ducal dramatic manager, having had | the honor of an introduction to him and his charm- ing Duch—no, not Duchess—lady, the Frei- frau of Mildburg, when 1! conversed with | him on the subject of his dramatic | successes, Fretirau, of Hildburg, tie Duke's wile, was formerly an accomplished actress, and now takes a deep interest in theatrical matte: Weil, Sonneberg ts a little town belonging to this dramae | loving Duke, who, very paturally, attended the play. Its name will be known to most readers as being the place which sends us s0 many of our children’s toys, their barking dogs and inewing cats, and pretty wax babies that open and shut their eyes and cry ‘‘papa”’.and “mamma” just like the natural ones. It is a busy, prosperous little town, delightiully planted at the toot of hign Thuringian hills, but rarely visited by travellers, except the purchasers of toys and dolis irom Eng- jand and America, The trade of Sonneberg mith the United States is very large, and our American Consul here, Mr. Henry 1. Winger, has promised me statistics, which { will send you, with au count of the toy and doil industries of the place, tu a few days, SONNEBERG AND JU! ACH. Tartived at Sonneberg on Friday, and since the festivities did not commence antl the evening of Saturday I devoted the evening of my first day to @ visit to Judenbuch, the original site of the Luther inn. The village is distant irom Sonneberg about eight miles, and 1s situated on the crest of a high mountain, and, like the two villages which we passed on the way thither, has notuing particular 1o interest as, except the poverty of its people and the abundauce ot its children. The chief occupa- uon of the people is making parts of tors, which they deliver over to the manufacturers of Sonne- berg. A man does wel ceeds in earning two and a half dollars @ week, out of which sum be could not possibly sapport the invariable numerous paneo saetee ie eny if these numerous hands with mouths to feed were not put early to work tn assisting bim at his lavor, and thus increasing the weekly income. Familles of ten, twelve and more children are as olten the rulée ag the exception im these villages, and their living costs aimost next to nothing, being almost entirely bread and coffee and potatoes. The an- nual shoe vill for # lar, family of children amounts to lust @ gill. uae everrbody Ko es A‘“Luther festival” among the lovely bills of | | barefoot, summer and winter. The girl children are clad in nothing more than a ry chemise, of a dirty white color, while the little bers. run about dressed merely in a pinafore, open behind to permit of free circulation, winter and summer in many families the same. The young girls up to the age of filteen or thereabouts and the old women do all the outdoor and fleld work, m the grass on the mountain Sides and carrying it home in high baskets on their backs. girls above this age get employ- ment in the manufactories of Sonneberg or be- come servants and in time wet nurses in the larger cities of Thuringia, Altogetter the villagers are about in the same condition as they were ven- turies ago, when Luther preached to them, THE FESTIVITIES IN SONNEBERG commenced on Saturday evening by the welcom- ing of pete and of the Duke of Meiningen and the Jestal inauguration of the little inn on the htil- side, under its new name of “Zum Dr. Martin Luther.” The latter ceremony was of a very simple character, consisting only of tue builder of the structure handing over the keys to the pres- ent occupants. Very curious, however, was ceremony performed as in the days of Luther, ol elevating a journeyman toymaker of Sonneberg to the rank of a “master” in his guild, said journey- Man naving distinguished him greatly in the manufacture of imitation articles irom the Luther- Judenbach era tor the Sonneberg festival. The collection of ancient household utensils, dresses, armor, Luther beer mugs exhibited within the quaint, one-storied, overhanging-roofed house was exceedingly interesting, and reflected greav credit upon the arranger of the festival. Even the ancient sign of a deer jug witbin a star, suspended forgotten, and, to increase the iliusion, @ im coarse white smock and felt hat, with an ancient rusty spear. Very curious were the inscriptions inside the house, some said to be fiction 1do not know. Luther, as we ail know, Takes him say:— Each land mast have a devil of its own; ‘The German devil must a beervat be, And must be called *swilly,” for | do fear That this will be a plague to Germany Until the last great judgment day. THE FESTAL MORNING bro! ut cool and nicely clouded, and we early guests and Villagers pilgrimaged.to the Lutheran church to listen to the singing o! the Catholic ser- vice, given in order to show the religious condi- tion of Thuringia before the Keformation. At evening, alter the fete was over, the German ser- vice was given in the same edifice, to show the change wrought by Luther in the ex- ternal forms of faith. Then all mornin long special trains from Coburg disgorge their long a until by noon at least 6,000 strangers had arrived from the neighboring capi- tals of Coburg and Meiningen, while hundreds of quaintly dressed peasants, Irom the neighboring mountains and valleys, came irom distances of fil- teen to twenty miles on foot. At two o’clock, wnen the dramatic portion of the /éte commenced, at jeast 10,000 persons stood on the bill around the Luther House and the numerous booths that had been erected around it, in imitation of a village fair, or jahrmarkt in Judenbach about the year 1630, 1t was a unique, curiously interesting scene and enacted with a great amount of spiritand good humor. Each booth had its properly costumed at- tendants. ‘There was a suoemaker’s stand, with a veritable liie copy of OLD HANS SACHS, cobbler and poet of Nuremberg, who sold ‘‘shoe- work” in leather and wood, of patterns such as doubtless were offered to the train of Elector John, There was a wandering Dr. Eisenvart, with pills and potions and the elixir of life, by which pie dead men could easily be brought to ite again, diery and horsenaiis, ol sickles and scythes and jJarming implements, of cloth for the lanz- knecht2, and tinaily a “menagerie,” ornamented with nuge pictures of elephants and ugers, and with two enormous carved negro heads crowning the two posts of the front; above the doorway half a dozea boy musicians, clad in old German costume, were endeavoring to make as much noise as possible on trumpets aad drums from the time of Luther, while inside was a collection oi stuffed owls and bats, miniature wooden elephants and lions and ugers, magic serpents and Noah's ark. The attendants at all the bootus were clad in old German costume of ‘fhuringia of the sixteenth century, the gairets of Judenbach and the collections of the German Museum at Nuremberg having been thoroughly rausacked by Herr Fleiscnmanno and his co-opera- tors for models. It was a very interesting and picturesque scene, full of color and lie and humor. TETZEL AND THE INDULG 0 The great attraction of the fair was immediately infront of the Luther House, where a large red cross and @ Papal standard, with the triple crown, had been planted on: either side o/ a temporary pulpit, wherein stood a swarthy-featured man, Clad in the monastic garb and cowl, who gesticu- lated and shouted with powerful iungs. Tis was Tetzel—represented by a bookbinder of Sonne- berg—who was exhorting the people in coarse ian- guage and with rade jests to purchase indulgences: and secure to themselves rooms in the heavenly mansions. By his side stood a peasunt, holding aloit the Papal buil, signed and sealed, authorizing Tetzel in his iabors. Immediately in front of the were beer jugs and a large tron-vound money chest, ornamented with a number of little tures representing souls tormented in purgat and with the well known inscription in Germal The moment the money in the box doth ng ‘The soul out of purgatory to heaven doth spring. MONKS A LA MODE. Before the treasury were seated two other monks, the younger one of whom was busily em- ployed in writing and in receiving the money, while the other dealt out indulgence formulas to the score of monk assistants who were continually plying the people, shouting “Buy indulgences; buy |!” Tetzel had even enlisted some dark-look- ing peasauts, armed with thick sticks, into his em- Roe. 80 great being the demand for his wares. ‘etzel addressed tne crowd every now and then, telling them to hasten and purchase remission for their sins; that they were going tast to the devil, being in the habit of cursing and quarreling, biaspheming and decetving, backbit- ing and getting drunk, ana doing things they ought not to do, and leaving undone what they ought to do. But al! these sins could be pardoned— if any one had kilied another, he said, it will cost him twenty gulden; if any one has stolen any- thing it will cost twenty groschen; if he has set fire to fis mother-in-law he can get free for five groschen; then he will become as pure as a diamond or as a newborn child. So he went on, picturing the dorrors ot kept their groschen mist ana the joys of heaven to such as possessed themselves of the magic letters. Fearing the tortures in watt- ing—such as the devil entering the body and “cut. ting out the thick parts in order to get fat for torches to light the way to the bottomless re- gions,” and very desirous of securing a seat among the “little angels dear, who sit up in Heaven and sing and make music all day long,” A RELIC OF TETAEL, I purchased two of the letters of indalgence of- fered, properly made out in my own naine, oue for eight days, the other for life, lor a small consider- ation, Here is one of the documents, absolving me for ely days:— May G.4C fot gun APPMHA WC Yjojay gam Won f AS Ne 2 2 Gann a ‘abo yy 6; SD 1% 12. gu gu sayo ‘@ § 13 bsqu- | suv majery alas 04133 aly Ang “40 fyerg anmetiog = THE ARRIVAL OF LUTHER, At four o’clock in the aiternoon, while Tetzel and bis assistant were doing a thriving business, the news spread among the crowd that the Elector, Supe and nobies and armed men Were on the road to the village, and with them were Dr. Martin Luther and Melancthon and many other of the religious reformers, Every eye was turned toward the village at the foot of tne festal hil, where Luther's party was expected to emerge. Suddenly @ mounted herald dashed rapidly, Up the hill, followed by mounted lancemen and biuuder- buss bearers, Clad in the quaintest of old Germ costumes, The herald rode through the crowd up to Tetzel and informed him that Dr. Martin Luther and his friends = were coming, and that te had better make himself scarce as quickly @3 possible. With the greatest cuolness and impertinence Tetzel lifted up the big beer jug from the taole and offered it to the herald, then pee to the pulpit im order to harangue ti people. By this time, however, more mounted {mem of tye @lectaral escort nad ed on she orrly' on @ long spear over the doorway, had not been | veritable sixteenth century lanzknecht, or peasant | lance bearer, had been poated at the doorway, clad | and armed | from Luther, Whether the following 18 poetry or | did not despise good beer, and yet tue inscription | Then there were booths for the sule of sad- | pulpit a long table had been planted, and on it | | nid and half way up the bf was seen a lum reome peasant wagon, drawn by two hi horses, and tn {t were seated four persons clad Diack clerical gowns and ca) There waa RO mis. taking the one seated on the front seat. The big round face with its honest, confident expression Was that of Dr. Martin Luther, as if \t had beem copied from THE PICTURE OF LUCAS CRANACH. Tne electoral escort had no sooner arrived om the ground than they began to attack Tetzel and his assistants. For a time the sellers of indulg- ences held their ground, but finally they wera hard pressed, and Fetzer seeing that resistance Was no longer of use, bade his assistants to secure the maney box and the other paraphernalia, while he himself seized the immense red cross and, defending themselves as well as they could trom the blows of the lanzknecht peasants, made pre- cipate flight through the crowd down the hillside. At last the cry was uttered among the escort to seize the money chest. A serious fight then ensued and Tetzel and his assistants made 3 final stand, fighting with staff and standard, while the | large iorm of Tetzel was seen above the rest, brandishing the huge red cross above head and evidently inflicting serious injury to the heads of some of his foes. But the escort proved too strong for them and they were compelled to flee the ground, leaving their treasure in the hands of the Lutheran party, who retarned up the nill im triumph. ‘The last thing seen of ‘Tetzel's party Was the red cross and the Papal standard still vorne valiantly aloft amid the defeated monks om their way tO more congenial peoples. The mélés lasted at least ten minutes and was carried out ; With such @ degree‘of earnestness that several of the escort received some ugly blows and our poor friend Tetzel had @ Ginger nearly cut of from the blow of alance bearer, LUTHER PREACHES TO THE r Tetzel deteated, Luther now owned the, ground and he at once seized the opportunity of addressing the people on wicked- ness of the sellers of indulgences tne Papacy. He occupied an elevated position near the Judenbach bostelry, and armed with a good-sized pewter beer jug’ before him, from which he paused occasionally to refresh him- sell, he proceeded to address the immense crowds who lett “agi Sacns and Dr. Eisenbart and the menagerie keeper “e benches.” bieid Luther, clad in his black gown and baret, gave | US @ fair address, such as he might bave uttered in Judenbach in 1530, but somewhat too weak to correspond with our ideas of the monk of Witten- berg. who would have used somewhat stronger and less refined language on such au Occasion. A very effective part o1 ls address was his reference to Thuringia and the support he had found among | {ts princes and people. ‘There, in the West, #. | eaid, was Eisenach and the Wartbur that had sheltered him while he made als translation of the Bible; there, in front, full in view stood the high fortress of Coburg that had offered him 4n asylum when his foes pressed hard upon him. He urged the people to be strong inthe support of the new faith, and to deiend it when the time should come with lfe and wealth, And when he had finished bis discourse, the friends who stood about him and the school chil- dren who had come to greet him, struck up THE OLD LUTHER CHORAL, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott Ein gute Webr und Waite: and then the immense crowd before him, and the | Reformer himself, joined in the soul-stirring strains of the wonderiul old battle hymn which Luther had pimself composed in music and word | there in Coburg’s “iortress strong.” And the | mountains about us seemed to take part tn the tri- | Umphant choral, echoing it back to us with solema | and wondrous effect. The play was over. Some of | us went to hear the German service in the village | church; Others remained to see the popuiur iea- tivities that theu commenced, to watci the peas- ant youth and maiden execute some old German dances to the strain of old German dance music of the Luther-Judenbach era, performed by play- ers in the garb of Saxon miners, such as Luther's jather might have worn, Later in the evening a play, entitied, “In the Village Inn of Judeubaci in } tue Year 1530,” written by a certain Herr Rickert, o: Sonneberg, a nephew of the poet Friedrich Rickert, was performed, Thus ended the Sonneberg-Luther Festival. Some parts of the ormnal programme were untor- tunately leit out, The characters of the Elector and the princely retinue were not represenced, and the battle of the Minnesingers before the electoral party is postponed for a future /éte—tor the sonnebergers have the intention oi repeating the Luther festival a few years hence, anu making it @ feature in Thuringian life. They have some idea of competing with the Ammergauers, but am afraid they aim too hign, Though the Luther play was given with considerable success, it can- not be compared with the wonderful religious dramatic representation of the ‘Passion of Our Lord,” as given every ten years in the valley of the Ammer. The Sonnebergers lack that devo- tional spirit which so characterizes the people ot Ammergau; and then, again, the subject chosen is as entirely diferent as the manner of representa- tion. The Sonnebergers had to go even tnis time to Coburg for the delineator of Martin Luther— found in the person of @ certain theatre cashier, Albrecht. The Ammergauers will not permit a stranger to take part in their play. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DUKE OF MEININGEN. The festivities closed last evening with a ball, given in the **Erholung” ciub rooms, in honor of | the Duke of Meiningen. It was a pleasant affair, | and the dancing was kept up to a late, or rather early, hour in the morning. Through the kindness of Consul Winser your correspondent had th pleasure of an introduction to the Duke and joyed a pleasant conversation with this = theatrical intenaant, Tne Duke ts @ tall, statel man, With a iong dark brown beard and bald head, aignified, but ireely approacoed, and Lappy when he can Cast off the restraints of court etiquette. ‘The conversation was principally on dramatic matters and ran something in the following style :— s Stem ry how did you enjoy the Luther Fes- tival CORRESPONDENT—Very well indeed. The actors took their parts with consideravie suécess. Did Your Highness visit the Passion play at Ammer- gau? Duxe—Yes, and enjoyed the wonderful drama exceedingly. But you must not make any com- parisons between the two plays of Sonneberg and Ammergau. CORRESPONDENT—No, that wonld be an injustice to the Sonnebergers, Who have certainly done won- ders considering that this ts their first trial. Dukse—I am glad you seem to have enjoyed sour visit. Your people seem to take a great interest in all that goes on in Germany, CORRESPONDENT—Yes, Your Highness, we have a large German population in America, aud then Luese German dramatic festivals interest us all. Your Highness’ land is already famous arong as prodacing the Meiningen dramatic troupe. JUKE: you have heard of us in America? eu | trust Sonneberg will increase our dramate fame, roaring out to THE SECRET OF MUSICAL SUCCESS. CORRESPONDENT—Yes, We followed the triumphs o! Your Highness’ dramatic troupe in Berlin, and were surprised to heur that Your Highness could produce such extraordimary resuits with a com. pany of actors having hardly a single memoer of nove. May I ask Your Highness to tell me the secret of your success ? Duke—That ts not dificult to say. You see we are compeiled to content ourselves With ordinary material for our theatre. Berlin, Dresdea and Munich pay enormous prices for “star” actors, and we must make the best of the material leit to us. CORRESPONDENT—But even the companies with brilliant “stars” have produced no such results as Your Highness’ troupe, Duxe—The reason | can give is that my company has been with me a long time; and, since the om sion of the actor is subjective, anu not creative, 16 is essential that each actor give up his own per | sonality, and that all should work together for the | good of the drama in its entirety. e work hard, | all of us, and @ careiul training enables us to gras) | the spirit of the drama we expound. But my wile can tell you more about our dramatic affairs than Ican, I wiil introduce you. The Duke led me to one of the further rooms and introduced me to the Freifrau of Hilaburg, his wile, a ludy of charming presence and excellent conversational powers, I must admit, however, that she led the conversation her own way, end when the banquet was announced and the Duke came to lead her to the table I found that we had not conversed on dramatic subjects at all. At four v'cioek, just @ streak of light opened over the Schlossberg, | found myseiuf again in my room at the hotel. 1am invited to see the doil industries. of the town, and will tell you about them in my next, WORK OF THE CORONERS. John Ferguson, aged thirty-five years, while sleeping yesterday morning on the piazza of nis father's residence, No. 459 West Forty-third street, and veing startled by the whistle of a Gre engine | which was passing by at the time, jumped ap sud- ; deniy and tell back wards into an ares and received | a compound fracture of the spine, from the effects of which he died four hours after. Coroner Kessier | was notified to hold an inquest. | Mrs. Cairns, aged twenty-five, of No. 123 East | Forty-fourth street, died very suddenly yesterday | alternoon at the above place. Coroner Croker bas been notified to hold an inquest. Frank Wenk, aged twenty-tour, single, employed at the stables of the Tenth Avenue Kaliroad Com. pay, was drowned on Thursday evening, while athing at the 100t of Filty-second street, North | River, The body was recovered last evening and removed to No, 872 Tenth avenue, oy order of coroner Croker, ‘ne druggist, James A. Waring, who, on Thars day last, ere Kovert Sands, of No. 522 Kighth ave. one, @ mixture of laudanum and lavender to sober him, and who died from the effects, was admitted to $1,000 bail Jessercar by Coroner Kessier, Mr. Charles Kelly, of Port Chester, being his surety, alexander helter, aged twenty, ‘ated suddenly at No. 211 Third street, yesterday morning. Coroner Croker has been notified to hold an tnques Ab inquest was heid yesterday by Coroner Kesa- ler in the cage Of Jacob Tinkauf, aged seventeen, A varnisher at Hall’s piano factory, No. 619 West ‘Thirty-fifth street, who fell shrough the hatchwag on the 16th tnst. and was instantly killed. The jury, after being out for over an hour, rendered a verdict accordingly, and further found that, aithough the builder had complied with the law im pucling Op suitadle rails or guard the _ egioot. ppeniae oi the hatches were provid y ing to keep the traps closed @uring 3 L a Rie 1B suck mee Oo doors, the law was evaded or avoided { ‘tae Rolas was aok in acc