The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1874, Page 7

PULPIT AND STAGE. Frothingham on the Ethies of Sabbath Performances. EUROPEAN VS. AMERICAN SUNDAYS. The Manager of the Grand Duke’s Opera House on Sinful Amusements, Mr. Stuart Robson in a Light Comedy Vein. Childlike and Bland Remarks by a Sexegenarian. BOSTON’S THEOLOCICAL THAW. ‘The sermon and sentiments of the Rev. Mr. Tal- mage, made public in last Sunday’s HERALD, are still the universal theme of discussion. Letters continue to pour in with great rapidity and gener- ally adverse to this now famous clergyman. Oc- casionally he finas an ardent defender, bat not im the ranks of the dramatic profession. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham, the most advanced leader Of liberal thought in vhe Protestant Church in America, gives weighty reasons for his opinions in the communication printed below. And “T.,’’ the correspondent who berated Mr. Talmage so hard & few days since, now returns to the attack and answers “C,,” who made a defence of the Brook- lyn divine. Mr, Stuart Robson, a well known co- median, claims Mr. Talmage as a brother actor. And the boy manager of the Grand Duke’s Thea- | tre, who was formerly @ bootblack, and whose nBame is Mr. Thomas O'Brien, attempts to castigate ‘the pastor who has succeeded so well in getting into hot water. Frothingham on Sunday Amusements. To THE EpiToR oF THE HERALD:— 4s you have printed some rather incoherent expressions of mine, elicited by one or your re- Porters, on the Sunday amusement question, you will, perhaps, be willing to publish a thought or two, better considered, on the same subject. The point presented vy your reporter was the expediency of encouraging or of discouraging Sunday evening concerts of the character recently offered by Mr. Strakosch and other musical di- rectors of character and taste, and I had no hesi- tation in cordially approving of such attempts to adorn and improve what in many cases are Idle, or worse than idle, hours. isut the discussion has already strayed far beyond that line, so far that the wnole subject of Sunday amusements is under | consideration. This subject is by no means a simple one. Putting ecclesiastical prepossessions aside, and looking at the matter with absolute candor, as @concern not of the Church, but of society, the diMculties it presents are neither few nor light. The questions raised are no other than these:— What is the best use to make of Suncay? How shall we improve a seventh part of all our time? How shall we rescue from waste or wanton abuse @ number of precious hours which are now by usage, law, common consent and ‘general prac- tice set apart from ordinary time and irom seca- lar occupations? At present the Sunday is merely secluded—shut off from the week by a wall guarded by police. Such human nature as tries to get in clandestinely 1s regarded with suspicion, and, if Practicable, hustled out. Religion claims the day, but does not, and from the constitution of the human mind cannot, use t At most it occupies but four or five hours. | Tet it be welcome to all it needs; but | what disposition shall be made of | the rest? In Europe the leisure hours are | | given up to social recreation, enjoyment in the open air, at places of entertainment, coffee houses, gardens, theatres; not without abuses and excesses certainly, but with no more of them | than may be complained of in communities where the day is kept under severe restriction. Sunday in Paris is probably no worse than Sunday in New York, if itisas bad. But the introduction of the | European Sunday here would be open to serious objections, It iv native there to the soil, and the genius of the people, usage and tradition favor tt. The French, Italians, Germans enjoy simple pleas- ures, and know how to spend leisure innocently. | They recreate themselves on holidays. The only sys- tem that is native here is tne Puritan. Our popu- | lation is mixed, and the foreign part of it Is largely composed of the passionate, uneducated and loose. We do not enjoy simple pleasures, and leisure time is apt to be vicious time. The adop- tion in America of the French or German Sunday ‘would probably be followed by a license that re- ligious people of every name would deplore. It is the duty, as it seems to me, for tnoughtful people to find a way, if they can, out of this di- Jemma. ‘To use the day without abusing it, eccle- slastically or otherwise, sanctimontously or ‘icen- tiously, piousiy or impiously, superstitiously or recklessly, is the problem, and a momentous prob- lem too. if we could assume the Sunday to be with- in the control of the right-minded portion of the community, so that alterations of its observ- ance nfight be made gradually and innovations adopted one by one as necessity, not as sweeping logic, suggested, the case would not present in- superable difficulties. Religion need not fear fatal encroachment on her ownterritory. The religious portion of the community will have their full rights to learn and teach. The demand that pub- lic Hbraries be opened for a certain number of hours on Sunday has been safely conceded. The | proposal to open galleries of art had been acted on and without detriment to any good in- | terest. Now comes the cry for music—the finest, subtiest, most cheering and enlivening of all | civilizing Influences. No harm can come of ailow- | ing that a place with suitable restrictions as to its , associations and accompaniments. Can the man- agers of theatres make their artists and arts available in the work of entertaining their unoc- cupied or overworked fellow citizens? Let per- mission be granted them to ao it, on conuition | that the entertainments offered shall be of a character to enliven and amuse, without degrad- ing. All this would be consistent with a strict moral and police supervision, even with a Parl- tanical determination to suppress rioting, drunk- enness and debauchery. Cannot the people in- struct and cultivate themselves without letting in @horde of savages ? Must they forego innocent | recreation and harmless amusements because vice | of every kind will demand permission to make victims if they do not ? Must they shut the door in the face of the good angels, because the evil spir- its will at the same instant knock loudly to come in? Practically this is absurd. We guard other @ays. Why capnot we guard Sunday? Socicty protects itself on secular days When its material interests are at stake, Whynot on Sunday, when its intellectual and moralinterests are at stake? At present public opinion protects religion against assault one day in the week. Why may it not protect culture ana decency and intelligence from assault on the same day, throwing the same de- Jence around several great concerns in place of one only? Our Sunday is too precious to be sacrificed either to the “world, the flesh and the devil,” on the one side, or to theology and the Church on the other. It belongs to man, to humanity, to culture, intelligence, the refresnment and invigo- ration of the rational faculties, and to the instrumentalities by which these are reached. | They who reiuse to make any terms be- tween the Church and the wor!d, who hold that | the old war between God and man must be fought | put till one or the other conquers, will naturally inaist on the dividing line between the first day and the other six, and will strongly repel all in- trusion of rational elements upon the consecrated time devoted by the Lord’s appointment to His holy battle. Bus thay who believe that God and | leged that | a jewel. | might have a tendeacy to revive the | may be death to the weary periormers, NEW YORK msn Noid irendiy reiations, cherish a common cause and Nave at heart the same great interests— that religion has allies in science, literature, art, cheerfulness—will let in at least so much of the ra- tional element as will co-operate with the divine Purposes in elevating the condition of mankind, doing what they can, asin other departments, to distinguish helpful irom harmful things, In con- clnsion let me express my satisfaction that the ’ HERALD has opened this discussion and my belief that it will exert a beneficial effect on the popular mind. Faithiully yours, 0. B, FROTHINGHAM, “rT.” to “C.” To THe EpiTOR OF THE HBRALD:— In this mornipg’s HERALD “C.,”’ the champion of brother Talmage, pays his respects to various par- ties who have objected to cierical invective. This much is his right, especially if he ts wounded; but | why his assumption that because he ts neither an actor nor a preacher he is the only competent | judge m matters relating to elther? If not a builder why does he build? True, he says he is ery “fond of theatrical performances and spec- ', tacular exhibitions”—doubtless of the latver—and this confession, together with his correct descrip- tion of cancanism, makes him in reality what he . can only make me by inference—‘a hanger-on of } second rate theatres,’ or, it may be, of some sec. ond rate church, as his misstated excuse for the Brooklyn divine would seem to imply. Is he not himeelf “ridiculous” in citing, a8 some apology for the Rey. Talmage’s vituperation, that gentieman’s “excitement of the moment,” for what was really and deliberately planned, in answer to inquiries and which was elaborated in two or more consec! utive sermons? Is he not himself “absurd” in falsely stating that “T.” put “the theatre on equal footing with the Church of Christ,” when | what “1.” did do was to deplore the fact that there was so little of the Christian spirit left 1p the hearts of many so-called ministers and so great a negiect of ministerial duty. Mr. Talmage and hig champions make themselves “ridiculous”? when they proiess charity and practise hate. They make war and then wonder at the absence of ace. Give us more of that “ood will to men,’? you wish to reform, The weapons of bigotry and cant are no longer effective. ‘two preachers went to the deserts of Nevada, where they found a wide field for reform. One, a Puritan, abused everything and challenged the hatred of everybody. He sung his long metres to @ comfortiess few, and in time, in despair, gave all over to the wicked, The other, a liberal gen- tleman, spoke well of everybody, Visited the needy, comforted the afflicted, smiled on hu- manity, won the love oi the rude people around him, and had his reward in their love, attention and allegiance. The one revelled; the other con- verted. Meeting, one di the Puritan complained to the other, saying: rother, this is a heathen country, and I ieel the importance of preaching the Gospel to this people, but I have no success. Said the wiser man, in reply:—“The preaching is easy enough and success easier, if you will do as I do. Don’t drive them away, but go out and corral ’em.”” So, Mr, Talmage, if you will exercise good sense, good heart, good words, good method, you will ac- complish your purpose and have no quarrei with theatres or with theatrical people. ‘They have never presumed to be perfect nor (ree from the stains of the world they inhabit. They have never wished for more than their due, nor have they ever copied church practice in decrying all other institutions save thetr own. Nor has the bugbear of Sunday amusements any encourage- ment from actors. On the contrary, they are directly opposea to them and strongly in favor of Sunday for Sunday’s sake, and of the Sabbath Jor the good of the Church, But they rightly prefer to be enlightened by a Hepworth, a Houghton, or any of the great and liberal ministers tuan defiled by a Talmage or denounced by bis cohorts. “C.’? is just in saying that the “people will have amusements’ and correct in iis appeal to moral men “to uphold legitimate drama and encourage honest talent,” with a view to clevating the pro- fession to its “proper position.’ Amen, Mr. “0,” To make the best of what 1s is better than making | the worst of what is not, for to suppose the theatre, more than other resorts, is the cess- pool of vice, or to confound our many respectable establishments with the dives and cellars and can- can halls, or to denounce the good and bad alike, is only to let loose an impure stream of ignorance which, if the good people of the amusement world Tetain one particle of the spirit of self-defence, must be “turned backward to besmear the wretches who poured it forth,” The Manager of the Grand Duke Theatre is Excited. To THE EvIToR OF THE HERALD:— I understand that @ certain Dominie Tallrage, residing over the river, in the City of Churches, has seen fit during his last Sunday’s genuflexions to question the morality of the performances transpiring at this theatre. Let me squelch him, exfectually and forever! We have on our file of applications an epistie signed “T. D. T., a minister of the Gospel, looking for a bald sensation,” and asking us whether we were in want of a tight rope or trapeze performer; if 80, what were our terms? The writer of that epistie al- | he could doff the tights and spangies for the clerical robe and surpiice with the same agility that the iarlequin in the pantomime displays when he deftly trans- forms the dbiack prince into a piece of animated mosaic. They say, Mr. Kdttor, that consistency is It this is at ail true how many sensation | preachers are there who should even deny them- Selves the ornament of a plain gold ring So great | should be their abhorrence of jewelry. I! Dominie ‘Tallrage would oniy favor us with a visit during the 1orthcuming week we might be able to give him a few valuable hints that, practically app ied, | droop: ing fortunes of his Brooklyn establishment and raise his performances to the dignity of legit- imate business. He need have no leurs that his olfactory nerves will be Obnoxtously offended or that Wis morally sensitive ear (%) witl be assailed With immoral or profube cpitiets, since our estab- lishment is a paragon of cleanliness ina moral as well as sanitary sense. We preach the sublimest phitosophy, and moreover (and this may be a com- paratively new proposition to tae Dominie) we ractise What we preach. Wuring @ recent Sab- ath day visit tothe City of Churches we hap- pened into the Dominie’s lyceum and was as. tounded at the want of discretion and experience | shown by the manager. The house was dark and giuomy, the audience “a beggarly array of empty benches” and the whole surroundings such as would impress the stranger that (the Domine off the Stage) It was a church or place of worship. Under these circumstances we ask how does he ever hope to succeed? With the sincerest sym- pathy with the Dominie, THOMAS J, O'BRIEN, Manager Grand Duke Theatre. Box OFFICE, GRAND DUKE ise} NEw York, Nov. 19, 1874. Stuart Robson Claims Talmage as a Brother Actor. New York, Nov. 20, 1874. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— { Is tt not time for the adherents of the theatre to leave off abusing poor Mr. Talmage? If his intel- lectual equals were simply engaged in replying to the comical charges of this clerical comedian it would afford us all some little interest and no end | of fun; but, to quote the Evening Telegram, “Why use @ big sledge hammer to crack a filbert?” If good Mr, Beecher, who has often said some of the cleverest things in denunciation of wicked stage plays, could find time to give the drama an elabor- ate rap, there would be some reason for the theatre folks to get mad and bring their best warriors to fight him; tor, in spite of his misfortunes, belis a great man, an has yet strength euough to hit the actors some hearty cracks, As for myself, I c .nnot find itin my young heart to say a single unkind word to Brother Talmage—he has long been regarded as | a member of my profession—although an actor of limited abilities, He is rather hasty, I think, in saying til-natured things about his Lrother play-« ers; but even in this he has unconsciously brought some advantage to our cause, for the theatres of Brooklyn, which before the performance of the | first act Of his Sanday farce were comparatively deserted, are now flied to their utmost capacity, and to Brother Talmage more than any other ac. tor Is to pe attributed the improved fortunes of the rival managers. Truly, STUART ROBSON, An Old Man’s Complaint. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Having read the discussion between the “pul- pit” and the “stage” on Sunday amusements it Occurs to me there tg a third side to this question— while every man bas aright to amuse himself in any way he may think right, provided he docs not interfere with the rights of others, In view of this, I would ask if performers in theatres have | any rights which Sunday amusement seekers are bound to respect, What is amusement to them | Those ministers who profess Christianity and are 80 anxious about the Sunday amusements of the un- terrified (lor they speak of the frequenters of bar- rooms on Sunday) ought to extend some of their Christian sympathy to the wearers of the “sock and buskin.” Are they to be compelled to work on Sunday like the employéa on the city railroads ? | These men have no Sunday; they have no choice; they must do it or starve; the sin of Sabbath breaking is on the corporations, i! they had any souls, ‘The sume law Which says, ‘Chou shalt not | seal,’ also says, “Remember the Sabbath Day,” &c., and, while binding their employes not to ateal, these corporations My in the face of the Almighty by ordering tneir servants to break the Fourth Commandment. Can they expect them to keep the Eigutn? The weary stage horses and their drivera have one day in seveu to rest; a man May go to hear a sensational preacher jor the same purpose tnat he goes to a theatre; bat no Man or men have any right to compel the per- formey in the pulpitor op the boards o/ @ theatre | | winter evenings are over. | to | takin, HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET, to break the Sabbarn day. One of your correspon- dents quotes Arisiotie about choosing the least of two evils and distorts the philosopher's meaning. No maa is compelled to choose either of them; he cap avoid both by choosing ueither, manded by tue apostie to avoid the appearance of evil; but perhaps the reverend writer don’t be- lieve in the New Testament. Such is the impres- sion conveyed by his letter. I once heard of a clerical “Don Juan” who rejected Paul’s teachings because, he said, Paul was inimical to women, Bat, after al), whether a man goes tochurch on Sunday or stays away don’t amount to much ifhe poaiects, those duties which are incumbent on all en. means, to teed the hungry, clothe the naked, speak a Kind word to tne talien and inebriate and succor the helpless. “Go and sin no more, lest a worse thing betall thee ;” asmiuch as ye did it not to onejof the least of these ye did it not to me,” are the words of Him who ‘spake as never man spake.” I do not condemn theatre-goers; many better men than I am patronize the theatre. I don’t go because | never acquired the habit; con- sequently 1 have no taste for that Kind of amuse- Ment; but it is very injurious to a young man to waste his time by constant at tendance at @ theatre when he mignt em- ploy it more profitably in improving his mind and fitting bimseif to succeed in life, which can only be achieved by sell-denial, perseverance and economy. This 1 know from experience and ob- Rervation. Young men wno waste their time at theatres mever achieve independence, but even- tually, in too many poke a become a burden to their friends or the city m which they hve. Ask any of the self-made men of New York how they attained their present position, and they will not tell you it was uy frequenting the theatre in their youth, Young men should acquire independence first and go to the theatre afterward when they can afford it AN OLD MAN OVER SIXTY. The Young Man Who Likes “Macbeth.” To THE EpiTOR OF THE HERALD :— In your tssue of yesterday is a letter from Miss Clara Morris, in which she asks for the name and address of the “young man” referred to by Mr. Talmage last Sunday morning in his denounce- ment of the stage. In answer thereto I will say (with your permission) that I am well ac- quainted with the aforesaid “young man,’ “Now it 18 barely possible that such a dis- course by ® man calling himself a Gospel and know his love for theatres 1s so | minister” may be salutary and becoming great that he will sometimes negiect his | the Sabbath day and the cause of religion. business in order to gratity it, and I belleve—in- deed I know—that nis morals are not as pure a8 they were. But 1 can assure Miss Morris, upon the strength of bis acknowledgments to me, that it has not been through seeing ‘‘Macbeth” or any like play, and although he has seen the former thirty times or thereabouts, it has not been in one theatre, nor even in one city ; anc his opinion of it ig such that, if it is put upon the stage of any theatre in New York or Brooklyn this seavon, he will most surely go and gee 1t in spite of all Dr. Talmage can say or do, 1 say further that, owing to the fact of his having seen “Macbeth”? periormed so often, he has acquired a love of elo- cution and oratory, and can vo longer stand Dr, Talmage’s biustering, but is a regular attendant at H. W. Beecher’s church. I vouch on my honor for the truth of the foregoing. iT. QO NOVEMBER 21, 1874. “Stage and Palpit.” To THe Epitor or THE HRRALD:— “Consistency is a jewel,” and perhaps it may be justly said there are but few who exercise that attribute to any considerable extent; but we have recently been treated toa fresh ijlustration of the inconsistency between words and actious by the Rev. De Witt Talmage, who invites his audi- ence to listen to the sweet strains of Arbuckle’s cornet on the same evening in which he so se- verely denounces tne evil influence of the stage. SUNDAY CONCERTS. The following programmes have been prepared at some of the places of’amusement for this (Sun- day) evening’s recreation:—Grand Opera House, Italian Opera, ‘‘Il Trovatore;” ‘Verrace Garden Theatre, “La Grande Duchesse ;” Germania The atre, “Uitimo 3” Stadt Theatre, jermaur 3?” Bowery ‘Iheatre, sensational dramas; Tivoli Thea- tre, concert. PURITANIC ICE MELTING. Sunday Amusements for Boston—The Theatrical Managers Watching the Experiment in New York—Harum- Searum Views of a Sensational Di- vine. Boston, Nov. 18, 1874. The Sunday amusement contagion has reached Boston, and it is not smong the improbabilities | that there will be full-blown dramatic entertain- ments here on the sacred «ay before the jong see the managers of the different theatres, and I find allof them are rather shy of expressing an opinion at present. They seem to be awaiting the result of the experiment now going on in New York before they can gather sufictent courage to introduce the innovation here. Mr. Cheney, the proprietor of the new Globe Theatre, which is be opened about the Ist of December, frankly admits that he nas given the matter con- siderable serious attention, but he is not yet pre- pared to express himself defiuitely. Mr. Field, the manager of the Museum, is also “on the fence,” or at least he don’t care to say any- thing at present. Until within a year or two the | Museum was so radically Puritauicai that it ad- hered to the old orthodox creed of closing up Sat- urday evenings. Mr. Kimball, the owner, finally fellinto the line of progress, and the Museum is now open Saturday evenings the same as the other theatres, The manager and the owners of the Boston Theatre, while they are reticent in ex- pressing their opinions, have very quietly and shrewdly SOUNDED PUBLIC SENTIMENT by giving Sunday evening concerts, the sacred na- ture of Walch is at ieast open to criticism. They were inaugurated last Sanuay evening, and it is given out that they are under the auspices of Mr, Napier Lothian. THR 1DEAS OF A SENSATIONAL DIVINE. Among others whom | have talked with on the all-adsorbing topic of the period is Rev. Henry Morgan, the well Known pastor of the Morgan Chapel. Mr. Morgan, it is well Known, is the very essence of pulpit sensationalism, a fact which he does not deny, but rather seems to glory in. The g tities of some of his lectures—“Fast Young Men,” ‘The Ratlroad of Lue,” “speckled Bird,” &c.—are indicative of the fact that he is a man of the period. MORE EARNEST PREACHERS NEEDED. “My idea of this matter,” said Mr. Morgan, “is that the preachers are not wide awake enough for the times. If they would be more earnest and hearty in their work Sunday amusements would not be needed.” Referring to his own novel style of enforcing the Gospel and attracting the atten- tion of bis hearers, he showed me an attack which had been made upon him by Professor Christheb, when in this country, and aiso by Rev. Dr. Prime, of | the New York 01 er, The attack was made over ayear ago, but it had only recently met the eye of Mr. Morgan, and when | called upon him he had just prepared a reply. The attack consisted of @ letter written by & conversation with Professor Christlieb, said he asked the Professor to give him his first im- a ye) of the New World to whieh he had come, elieving that among all who were brought here by the Conierence of the Evangelical Alliance none possessed more learning and morai worth | or stood higher in the esteem of Uhristian people. The Professor, \t seems, nad been to Niagara and to Boston, and what pleased him most he had heard and seen at the Falls, and what grieved him most he had heard and seen at the Athens of America, The Professor said he spent A SABBATH IN BOSTON, and was there a stranger. Arriving ata hotel on Saturday evening, aud having no knowledge o1 the churches, he worshipped in one in the morn- ing, at another tn the a!ternoon, and hearing that a@ remarkable preacher was to speak in Music Hall he turned his steps thither in the evening, A vast crowd thronged the house, thousands on thousands, one of the largest religious assemblies | he ever saw within a house. The subject was “Speckled Birds,’ or something of that kind, and the speaker professed to be aiming at doing good and promoting religion, “But,” said the Protessor, “it was a Wretche ing the most serious things into ridicule; con- vulsing the audience at times with laughter, and giving them no tdea of the serious nature of the great subject to which their thoughts should be di- rected. Projessor Christteb dwelt baad and earnestly on this discourse, which he evidently regarued as @ type of the sensational pulpit of the United States, and he frankly deciared that the lowest German theatres are not so demoralizing as the | preaching he heara that night in Music Halli, in the city of Boston. Dr. Prime assured bim of the preaching in Boston or any other city; that the man who thus took a public hall and drew a crowd by his eccentricities did not have the coun- tenance of tire intelligent and judicious Christian people of any denomination; he wason his own nook entirely, and no just {mpression of the Ameri- can pulpit was to be formed from a performance such as he had described in Muste Hall.” Dr, Prime continues, “The Professor went back to Germany. Bat when I saw in the daily papers of this city an advertisement that the same man | would speak on Sunday evening in Cooper Insn- tute | went to hear him, and if I give you a brief description of what 1 saw and heard it must be in the shape of confession, for I was never ina place betore where { was more heartily ashamed than when ! satin the hail of the Cooper Institute on that Saboath evening, listening to what pro- Jessed to be a religious discourse, “At tic door | was informed that the price of admission was twenty-five cents, Handing threo ten-cent stamps to a man standing inside, he returned me five cents change, and at the same time 4 uthograph likeness of the preacher; and We are com- | We are commanded, according to our | Ihave been arouné to | Jo! it was the portrait of the man himself, who took My mouey and gave me the change and pic- ture! This was @ curious beginning. The nov- | elty was certainly amusing; @ preacher peddling | bis portraits for pay at the door of his lecture | room on @ Sabbath evening. It dia not promise | weil Jor the discourse, bat] was now jiterally ‘in for it,’ and took my seat with 2,000 others, “Presently the speaker entered upon the plat- form and announced his subject for the evening, “Why Bachelors Ought to Marry.” Preliminary to the discussion he gave a bistory of bis own career in Boston, where he said he ow the confidence of the best and most distinguished pastors of all denominations, No newspaper, secuiar or reli- gious, had ever spoken a word against nis course, which was Lo reach the masses with the Gospel; to bring religion to those who will not go to the churches to get it; to give it to them tn a manner that diverts them—makes them laugh now and | then—nd so induces them to come again and again. His audiences advertise him, He had made several thousand dollars by such preaching, and had bought a church, which he should give #8 the Young Men’s Christian Association, And when he bad sufficiently exhibited his object he went at his subject, and gave the reasons, first, why men do not Marry, and then why they should, “As 1 LOOK no notes it is quite Out of my power to | repeat the points he made. His mapner was bold, | blatant, impetuous, and his language coarse, reck- 7 CORONER CROKER’S BAIL. Application for the Production of the Minutes of Evidence Taken Be- fore the Grand Jury. | ARGUMENT ON MOTION TO BAIL by the Court Reserved. Opinion It was rather an unexpected move in the tactics of counsel that brougnt the application for the bailing of Coroner Croker before Judge Barrett in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. ‘The less and oiten very irreverent. [His aim was to | Taise @ laug’, and in this he was armen suc. | cessful. ‘The stalest anecdotes—especially at | the expense of women—were received with | rounds of applause; and, whenever a hit was | made so near to the indelicate that the a'lusion ‘was apprehended, the delight of the assembly was | to that of the pit in @ theatre when the | re compelled to get behind their (ans. | n argumentin favor of marriage it was of | no account. Had he been employed to turn it into | ri¢icule and give young men an idea that they nad | better Keep oul of it, he would not have succeeded betier; and when, toward the close of bis periormance, he announced that he was himself, though fifty years oll, a@| bacheior still, he was moré loudly applauded than ever. ‘Do you ask,’ he then cried out, *Why don’t you taxe your own pill?” Which question is precisely the type of his argument—be recom. | mended a pill, something to be taken, altiough | | Not agreeable, but on the whole necessary and ex- | | peaiens under certain circumstances, But it joes not strike me so It sprinkled with flings at respectable pulpits, rich congregations; it was fitted to inflame the laborer against his employer, aud unblushingly advocated something very like communism of | roperty, 8nd if there was a word or thought | ikely to reach conscience 0} men as Sin- ners, or to enfor mors! obligation on man as a creature of God anda subject of His law, Ihave forgotten it. Yet I would not do mm | any justice, and it may be that his manner and bis matter are so abhorent to my tastes, and con- trary to all my ideas of what religion requires in its teachers, that I may have been disgusted with what others approve. Professor Christlieb ex- | essed my wind exactly when ne said the lowest Borman theatre was better shan such preacning. “Are the masses to be reached and saved by such measures? My heart and my fesh cry out, No! a thousand times, No! “Tlove fun, and laugh as much as any other man who has as much serious work to do, sut there is a time to ifugh. And a place. “Burlesque—Worcester’s dictionary defines the word: ‘Tending to excite laughter by contrast between the subject and the manner o! treating it; comic; sportive; jocular.’ This is precisely the description of the performance | attended, and ugainst which I have here entered an earnest and siocere protest.” MR. MORGAN'S REJOINDER, | “This is my reply,’”? said the sensational divine. | ‘Progress is the watchword of the hour! <I | will overturn, overturn, overturn, saith the | Lord.’ The worship that has heart in it need not fear the assaults of scepticism. Heart- legs preachers are the moths and grubs to the church hive. Honey bees cannot expel them, but | they can seek a new hive. Heartless preaching is | making more infidels than all the scientists com- | bined. The religion that can meet the wants of | mankind, take the vices out of a man—the swear- | } ing, the drinking, the licentiousness—end make i | him honest, noble, upright, Godiike!—that re- | ligion need not tremble at scepticism; it can stand against the combined infidelity of the world. ‘There is great prejudice against what is called ‘sensationalism ;’ yet live retigion must be sensa- tional David was sensational when he danced beiore the Lora. JESUS CHRIST WAS SENSATIONAL when He wept over Jerusalem. Angels are sup- | josed to be sensational; they rejoice over repent- sinners. When the 1oundations of the world were Jaid the inspired poet says, ‘The morning | stars sang together and the sous of God shouted | for joy!’ Laftirm that the pulpit snould be sen- sational 2nd not a tombstone, Tombstones preach | | to dead folks. Want of heart has already killed | the Reformation in Germany. Yet you quote, sir, | 4 German theologian as my censor—a man know- | ing nothing of the American idea. His condemna- tion of the applause of ‘thousands upon thou- | sands’ im Boston Music Hall ought to be to my | honor rather than discredit. You say I was ‘BOLD, BLATANT, IMPETUOUS) | the same wight be said of Knox, Luther and Whitetield—greatest of preachers. You speak of ‘burlesque in the pulpit.’ What can be a greater burlesque thau the insincerity of many men of your prolession? You proiess that the salvation of asoulis worth everything—worth more than | a kingdom; that a jiost soul is the greatest Of all losses, Yet bow indifferent! What | wealdo you exhibit? What agony tor the lost? What groans, sighs and bitter tears? An! sir, 18 not this burlesque indeed? You hint at ‘some- thing like communism, flings at respectable pul- pits and rich congregations.’ 1 confess to the charge. Christ was thus charged. We worship not the God of glory, but of gold. Not tne king of heaven, but the money king. Wealth holds the pew ;it muzzies the pulpit. With a carpenter for its founder, fishermen jor its discipies, a tent maker for its chief apostle, gospel preaching has now become aristocratic and exclusive. Where is the church that would welcome the workingman in his blouse? Hear it, oh ye preachers! Unless the laboring man finds a gospel that will give him soctal equality and unloose the heavy burden, and pronounce for imanhood sovereignty, soul recog. | nition and soul equality belore God, irrespective Of Class, caste, Cioth or gold, ke Will stay at_ home; churches wil be deserted. Now 1 ask, What ts your sect or Charch dotng for the masses—‘‘hete- Togenieous masses,”’ called in deriston’ Where are the great congregations of the poor? Does your manner of preaching reach one out of twenty of the population? Where the once great revivals? Great anniversary occasions? Where the zeal, the deep conviction, the noble self-sacrifice, humility and charity? | | SHADES OF THE PURITANS! has it come to this? When a man is found to attract now-church goers and gather iwo or three thousand persons On Sunday night in Cooper In- stitute, rigntin sight of open shooting galleries, dance halls, lager beer concerts, “Black Crooks,’ and a thousand drinking saloons, ail in full blast, | and constrain that audience to respond, aimost to a man, to every noble appeal of moral sentiment for temperance, religion, humanity and God, then, | sir, alas! there is not wanting an editor | and orthodox divine to stand against the tide; to throw iimself into the breach and cry, with all the lamentation of Job, “My was at sudden adjournment of the Court on the previous day, when it was intended that the application should have been made, and necessary argument | had thereon excited considerable comment in Political and legal circles, It was @ surprise, | therefore, when it was understood apout the City Hall and the Court builaing that Judge Barrett would open the Court at eleven and hear motion of counsel on the question of bail, At the opening the attendance was very slim, but it being bruited abroad that Mr. Croxer had been brought to the Court from the Tombs‘in a very brief time the Court room was crowded, Judge Barrett promptly came on the bench. | District Attorney Phelps and Mr. Croker’s counsel werealso in attendance, and as soon as an order was given by the Bench that Mr. Croker should be brought into Court the proceedings commenced. A PRELIMINARY MOTION, Mr. John R, Fellows, addressing the Court, sald :— Your Honor, in the matter of the application to admit Coroner Croker to bail we desire to submit a@ preliminary motion for the production of the minutes of the Grand Jury and a list of the wit- nesses before them at the time of finding tne in- dictment. We are not aware of what the min- utes disclose; they may be unimportant, and the hast of witnesses may be enough for our purpose. Dut it is important that we should have that ligt, as certain omissions of testimony before the Grand Jury—the method in which the indictment was found, and irregularities attending it, will form part of our argument upon the motion, District Attorney—It is not necessary or proper that the minutes should be made public for any purpose. I suppose if, for any purpose of his own information, the Court desires it, they will be at his service. Mr. Fellows went on to cite a decision of Judge Pratt in The People vs. Lowden, in which a list of witnesses agatnst the accused before the Grana Jury was ordered; and The People vs. Hyler, in which the principle was laid down that the ac- cused 1 entitled to such list where there was no preliminary examination and when motion to ball is made, District Attorney Phelps said the Court was on- | doubtedly entitled to the minutes, and would con- sider nothing else after the indictment. If that ts | suMcient to warrant the indictment of course the Court proceeds on that assumption, where the Court finds the testimony sufficient to | warrant the indictment in a serious case like this that the Court will admit to bail. As to the minutes Mr. Phelps said:—I have not examined the minates. The District attorneys of this Court do not Keep minutes of the testimony taken before them. Mr. Fellows—I suppose the munutes taken merely give the names of the witnesses and the tact that they appeared and what disposition was made of the case. Judge Barrett—That seems contrary to the statute, which says that the Grana Jury may ap+ pomt a clerk and keep a record of the minutes ot evidence belore them. Mr. Phelps—The practice has been as [ suggest, whether proper or not I will not now discuss. It seems now impossible to com- ply with the request, or to ask the Grand Jury What took place beiore them, How these pro- ceedings can be disclosed by the list of witnesses 1 cannot see. The object of the application seems tobe to make some comparison between those proceedings and tbose belore the Coroner. Iquestion whether the proceedings belore the Coroner can be considered by the Court at all, | Lam correctly advised, what purport to be the | depositions taken before the Coroner were not re- | duced to writing or subscribed until the jury were discharged and the Coroner's jurisdiction over | them at ao ena, | Mr, kellows—We say the testimony before the | | Grand Jury was wholly insuMicient in law, and did not JUSTIFY THE GRAND JURY IN FINDING AN INDICT- MENT, and that on such evidence the Court would ve compelled to direct a verdict of acquittal, and we Want tne list of witnesses to make that Jact appa- rent. stenographer, and tind it impossibie to take down the evidence, so that our application is virtually for a list of witnesses. Mr. Clinton—We want the minutes, such as they are. | entirely agree with Your Honor, that it 1s the duty of tne Grand Jury to keep minutes of evidence. Judge Barrett—My present impression 1s that the prisouer is entitied to a copy of the minutes, The Court may, of course, of tts own motion, in- spect tue records of the Grand Jury, and in the reise of its discretion, on proper cause shown, furnish a copy to the prisoner. But whether it ts a matier Oo! absolute right in ail cases, on de- Pa mand, to have a copy of these minutes, 1 would | prefer to look inte before aeciding. But 1 con- cede you have a right toacopy on good cause shown. ARGUMENT ON THE MOTION TO ADMIT TO BAIL. Aiter some turther discussion It was decided to g0 On With the motion, the Court to decide on | Monday. Mr. Clinton then produced the minutes of evi- dence pelore the Coroner, and Mr. Pueilps objected to them as beiore, and after a long discussion tt Was decided and admitted that the minutes as written out by the stenographer were correct and. proper ground for the motion, but the Court had no doubt it was the duty of the Coroner to have the ininutes reduced to writing and read tu the witnesses before the proceeaings closed, and that the practice of having a stenographer was not contemplated by the statute. Mr. Clintop then went on to cite authorities. Mr. Pheips said to save time he would concede It ts only | The Grand Jury have no provision fora | heart and my flesh cry out! Saved by such meas- | the inherent right of the Court to admit to bail @arations of the deceased, they were not made im presente of the defence, and such de- clarations were excluded on the Stokes trial. Again, the Grand Jury bad no evidence that this man was dead, or that he came to his | death at the hands of Richard Croker. The sur- geons were not examined before the Grand Jury. All authorities agres that the Grand Jury cannot indict unless the evidence, as uncontradicted, would convict. Judge Barrett—If on examination of the evi- dence | find that the testimony of the witnesses who claim to have seen the prisoner fire would Jnstify no higher verdict than manslaughter, then it is a case for bail, but it the Court be of optnion that on the evidence a verdict of a higher rade, it rendered, would be sustained, then the fact | that a host of other witnesses satd they did not | See him fire would not weigh with the Court, but | would be for the jury. The proceedings then termiated. THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FIR. ae ae | Last Day of the Exnibition—The Close ing Exercises. Yesterday was the closing day of the American Institute Fair, and the announcement attracted @ very large concourse of visitors, It hag been noticed during this exhibition that tne school children flocked to it in great crowds on every Saturday in order to gain the amusement and instruction afforded by the sight of every imagine able American product of nature and art, and yesterday this merry assemblage of little folks was more Dumerous than ever, and the vast halt resounded with the peals of their merry voices, The children were generally accompanied by their parents or teachers, and they gazed with wonder and delight at the ingenious inventions of modern Science and the dainty fabrics of American manu- facture. 1t was the desire of some of the exnibit- | ors and a considerable portion of the public that | the exhibition should be continued another week or two, but the Board of Managers were unable to comply with the request, Owing to the arrange- mee ene had already been made for tue close of the fair, THE CLOSING CEREMONIES esterday were simple but highly interesting. A band was in attendance and performed a varied programine, embracing selections from Balfe, Au- ber, Strauss, Gounod, Rossini and Lecoeq. The leading feature oi the occasion was, of course, the | announcement of the award of prizes, which had | been looked forward to with great anxiety by the | more ambitious of the competung exhibitors, The list of the principal prizes is a long one, and 18 & substantial recognition of the enterprise and | ability dieglaree by American producers and man- ulacturers. Mr, Nathan C, Ely, the President of the Board of Managers, delivered a brie! and neat | address, giving an admirable résum o1 the re- | sults accomplished this season, and pointing with pide to the fact that it was a gratifying success from every point of view (including the most im- portant, the financtai) and an improvement apom | every previous exhibition, both in the character | and excellence of the goods displayed as well as in the number of visitors. The Board of Managers are to be congratulated upon the growtug use- fuiness and {nterest of these American In- stitute fairs, which have now become a pleasant feature of New York life, and whose absence in the future would be missed by many lovers of science | and industry. Asan exponent of the steady and | daily advance in American manulactures they are certainly of especial vaiue. INTERESTING DATA. Afew gleanings {rom the memorandaof tne | Managers may be mentioned to this connection. | The daily average of visitors is estimated at 10,000, | but on some days it has been as high as 20,000, ‘tne Jair opened on the 9th of September. Not a pocket has been picked since the opening (certainly an extraordinary fact, which wlone should cause the exhibition to ve gratetmlly remembered by all its wealthy patrons), atall events none has been re oried at the office of the Superintendent, ne prizes were only announced yesterday, but | will Lot be delivered for perhaps sixty days, as the medais have yet to be engraved, &c, | ‘fhe following are the names of the Board of Managers, as divided into their respective de- partments:—Fine Arts and Education—vharies | Alien and Charles 5. Arthur; Dwellings—Alexa | der M. Eagleson and George Whitefield; Dress and | Handicraltt—James H. Sackett and James Knight; _ Engines and Machbinery—Walter Shriver and | Rovert Weir; Intercommunication—A. J, Hale | sey and William Rutter; Agriculture and Horti- culture—Nathan ©. Kly and Frank D. Curtis, FUNERAL OF A BANKER, The funeral of Mr. Josepb Stuart, the well-known ¢ | banker of this city, took place yesterday morning | from bis late residence, No. 11 East Thirty-sixth | Street. The remains were enclosed in a hand- some black walnut casket. A silver plate bore the following inscription :— eance rere ncsers ee. g rf 3 born November 25, 1803, died November 18, 1874. | Qavcranmrnvnnee rane neeene nese ne neeeee TP OODE TELE HE. Rev. Dr. Thomson read the opening prayer of the regular Presbyterian burial service, and de- | livered an address eulogistic of Mr. Scuart, in which he characterized him as a man of the , highest integrity and honor, and spoke of his fine business character, his benevoleuce in his relations with the community, and nis worth asa member of the Fourth Presbyterian church, with Which he was connected for a number of years, Rey. Dr. Hail read the closing prayer and pro- nounced the benediction, A simple wreath, formed ol tuberoses and violets, was the floral jtribate with which the casxet was decorated. r ~ Among those present were Mr. A. T. Stewart, Mr. L. P, Morton, Mr. George Bliss, Mr. William Lee, Mr. Wilham H. Webb, Mr. John Elliott, Mr, F. T. Walker, Mr.G. W. Burnham, Mr. Jonn D. | Jones, Mr. Join A. Stewart, Rev. Dr. Ormiston, Mr. Allan Hay, Mr. William Scott and others, The folowing named gentiemea acted as pall | bearers:—Norman White, Philo ©. Caihoun, Thomas B, Eldridge, John B. Hall, William Latt- mer, William James Quinlan, Peter Ponian, Wil- lam S$, Eakin, Eugene Kelly, David Morrison, Wil- | liam Nagie, James Drummond. ‘The remains were taken to Greenwood Cemetery | for interment. MUNICIPAL NOTES, | The Board of Apportionment met in the Comp- troller’s office yesterday, Mayor Havemeyer, Tax Commissioner Wheeler, President Vance and | Comptroller Green were present. The only busi- hess transacted was the giving of authority to the Comptroller to issue $200,000 of assessment bonds. @nd $100,000 of Museums of Art and Natural His- tory stock. | The new Board of Aldermen have definitely de- | termined upon their principal officers. The matter | Was tn doubt for the past week, but the candidates may now sleep easy, Mr. Samuel A. Lewis ts to be President of the Bourd, Mr. Frank J. Tuomey, Cierk, and Mr. William H. Maloney Deputy Ulerk, OLED ERO LEDO DOLE DO RELE LODE DO LEO D> \ JSEPH ST T, ir. Prime, in which he ceed | e | caricature of religion, the most | horrible tirade, disgusting by its vulgarity; turn- | “thatit was nota type | ures so abhorrent to my tastes? No, no! a tuou- sand times 10! Better than such preaching ts the lowest German theatre,” On teil it not in the streets of New York; pablish it not im the Bowe: lest the Five Points rejoice, and the enemy cry “Ha! hal” You speak of the , “andelicate ;” of ladies covering their jaces and ed irom the pit. I pronounce the insinua- | | tion false and a slander upon the audience, | “EVIL TO HIM WHO EVIL THINKS.’” You repeat, with seeming surprise, that ‘‘no pas- tors, no newspapers, secular or religious,” had Spoken a Word agatnst me in Boston. My answer is this:—"They know me.”? You do not know me, aud I fear you are incapable of comprehending my | motives, Now, sir, I make tnis proposition:—If you and the ministers of vhe denomination you represent will forone year curtail your expenses, divide | your salaries, give up Watering places, spend your Vacations With the poor and for the poor, and give the Gospe! a hearty trial for one year, then will I do it for @ lietime. 1 will not lecture; I will reach the Gospel—the whole Gospel and notning ut the ba te long as life and health are spared me. Furtnermore, i you will honestly and conscientiously promise twelve months of faithful, zeulous iabor lor a genuine revival o1 God’s work | in the hearts of men, then I will make a still greater sacrifice. I willimmediately seli the church ob- tuined by my lectures, and all alte! t have, except the Gwelling L live in, and witn the pro- ceeds place fifty evangelists in the field for mis- sionary and revival work, Yea, | will gladly do it ata cost of $50,000, Now let us try the experi. ment jor one year. Who will say “Amen?” If | 300 preachers will do it for one year then their example will be contagious; tue flock will follow the shepherd, A general awakening will be the result, New hands will enter the fleid; the 300 will increase to more than 3,000 the first year. It they Increase in the same ratio for ten years then the world’s population willbe met, What fruit from the eXample and toil of one year! What fruit from tue efforts of 300 men! One year of faith, of sacrifice and prayer! One year ol sowing in tears! One year ol vitier struguie! One year tu threading the janes and alleys aud treading the thorny paths ot the Saviour! One year—only just one year!—when He has suffered 80 much—sutfered, bled and died for us. One | short year '—while He stands interceding forever at the right hand of the Father. One year of earn- est planting, then cometh the harvest. And what a harvest! What blessings on the faithiul three hundred! What mourners will be comforted; what tears will be dried; what prisons will be opened; what families united; what orphans | made glad; what inebriates reclaimed! What a millennial of peace on earth! Every coun- | tenance shall smile with joy; every wind whisper peace; every sunbeam sparkle with | dengnt! Salvation will be in every song. The tides of redemption shall sweep into every corner, cleausing every pollution, rising higher and | higher with every Mood of time, dashing against | the citadels of sin, sweeping them trom their | foundations, and, striking at last upon the Rock | of Ages, echo as they Jali, “Not unto us, not unto | us, but unto Thy name, be all the glory, alielujab, | allelwah: The Lord God omnipotent reigneth |” “These are my sentiments,” said Mr. Morgan to hearty preaching and bet fi all hear nothing more avout Sunday amusementy,”? " When the indictment is tor murder. | | Mr, Clinton—As tuere are thousands of authori- | tles in favor of it and not one against it, we thank the gentleman for his generosity. Commissioner Van Nort makes the sollowing statement of pudlic moneys received by the De- | partment of Public Works during the week ending | an early one. nesses before the Coroner testified the prisoner | Mr. Pheips—Not geuerosity, but humanity, to save the Court from a long argument in favor of a proposition novody ever dented, Mr. Cliuton argued that the presamption was the prisoner would stand his trial. He demands Twenty-seven disinterested wit- haa no weapon; six, including the O’Briens, said he had. On these facts he was entitled to batl, In the course of his argument counsel quoted the following extract from an opinion by Judge | Pratt, in the case of The People vs, Naughton :— “This body” (tne Grand Jury) “was formerly con- sidered to be one of the bulwarks of liberty. If so, its day has surely passed; for it has come to be | regarded as a mere adjunct to public prosecul- ors, & cumbersome machine tor the grinding Out of questionable indictments, a vast political power, and, in bad or unscrupulous hands, an eu- wine Ol Oppression, wrong or outrage, Witness the spectacle, neither impossible nor infrequent, o1 a Grand Juty in secre’ session in one room and @ petit jury impanelieg in another, & public prose- cutor hovering over the two, and perhaps infla- encing both; citizens indicted by the one and brought to trial on short notice before the other— all this with or without the incident of but a sin- gle appeal to the judge who tries them. Here is a Spectacie! With such action angels might per- haps be trusted, but with mortais alone appear- ing upon the scene, how fraught with danger to our liberties and subversive of our dearest rights!’’ District Attorney Phelps, in reply, called the at- tention of the Court to the well settled rules in such cases and cited the People vs. McGowan, Wendel, 565, and the People vs. Collins, New York Courts, He dwelt on the fact that even on coun- sel’s Own showing at least SIX Witnesses testified the prisoner fired the shot or heard the dying dec- laration of the deceased to that effect. It was not for the Court to weigh the testimony of the Coro- | ner’s jury, on Which they exercised their discre- | tion and acquitted him on that evidence, which ne | (Mr. Phelps) admitted to be conflicting, though ne had littie time to examine it, as he only received it at eleven o’clock that morning. Mr. Clinton said he wished to add, tn conclusion, the evidence was that Richard Croker never knew the prisoner before; that it was a sudden affray, and that His Honor would see, on reading the evidence, that there coud be a verdict Jor nothing lugher than manslaughter, even if the evidence were true, and, moreover, that it would be physi- cally impossible lor the prisoner to have fired the pistol betind him. Mr. Phelps—I have not tne slight feeling in the matter, but I desire that the orderly course of justice be followed tn this as In every other case, and Whateversconclusion Your Honor comes to wili be, I know, in this, a8 10 all other cases, one in which we shall all acquiesce. Mr. Fellows—The Grand Jury minutes will help Your Honor in considering this testimony before the Coroner. If the proceedings before the Grand Jory did not warrant an aporounenh wee Court may ball the prisoner. I submit that the minutes of the Grand Jury, and the names of the witnesses betore them, will show two extraordinary facts :— your correspondent, “Give us more earnes: and | One, that the evidence received there tenaing to r no circumstance criminate the defendant un | yesterday (Saturday) :— | For Croton water rent and penalties. For tapping Croton pipe: For sewer permit a For sewer pipe sold to contractors.. Total..eve | THE EXCISE DEPARTMENT, The records of the Excise Department show thaw since the lst of May, 1874, there have been 2,14 | licenses to sell liquor apptied for. Twenty-one of these applications nave been refused by the Com- missioners and 2,123 granted. For the licenses gtanted $150,862 88 have been received, which shows the average price of a license to nave been $71 63, During the past week twelve licenses have been applied tur, the sume have been granted, and $430 have been received. The Commissioners fave been asked, but have reiused, to license the keepers of concert saloons where = giris are employed as Waiters, alihough the places of several persons who have calied upon them have uever | been reported as disorderly. They say that they intend to dv all in their power to close up such re+ | Sorts, and that, after they have iretused to license | them, the question whether the salvons shail con | tinue in existence or be slut up will await the de~ Cision of the police. THE KEROSENE FIEND. Terrible Burning Accident in Trenton= | A Mother and Child Consigned to an Untimely Grave. Early yesterday morning in Trenton another evidence was given of the risk which attends the careless handling of kerosene oll. The wile of & poor but honest laborer named James Riley, with | her little babe but fourteen months oid in her arms, fas In the act of pouring some of that in- flammable jiquid from @ can upon the fire, when the can exploded, causing @ tremendous noise and scattering its ignited contents over the poor vic- | tims and all around the room. In an instant the apartment was transiormed into a blazing fur- nace, enveloping the human occupants with sheets | Of fame. Several workmen rushed to the scene, | and, after the most persevering efforts, succeede in subduing tue fire, but not until the poor crea- tures within were literally roasted alive. The: | were taken to a neighboring house, where medi- | cal aid Wag summoned, but it proved of no avail, for death claimed the inant im a short time after | the occurrence. The motner sustaiped terrible in- | Juries tn all parts of her body, and she lingered | but a few hours aiter the death of her beloved omf- spring. ‘Through the prompt action of those who hastened to render sugcor ® dangerous conflagra- jon was prevented, The uniortanate famiiy have been In this coup- Would pe admisajble on a legal tial; ag bo the de- | try but a alors tliat