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11 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1889. SIXTEEN PAGES. i n.n Biie lovos anu tno prints ana papier macne urouze bustB that represent her conception of art. At BUEDETTE'S MEVITIES. THE PULPIT AND THE PEW unless it is done according to a certain form.

To my mind all this tinkering with our church name and our prayer book ifl nothing but a re back of my head that I nover Baw bofore, and I never pass through Meiyon station without a shudder. And I never again will offer to extend the slightest helpful courtesy to a stranger. No; if the train Bhould jump off a bridge 4,000 feet high into a cataract fiercer than 10,000 Niagaras' I wouldn't offer to hold a lono woman's baby and get her hand bag out of the rack for her, while Bhe put on her goaBamer and hunted for her loat oheck in case she should want her baggage whon wo got to tho bottom. OCTOBER. By winding paths through woods of golden brown, Midst rustling leaves by loitering winds caressed O'er sun kissed fields, where, on tho lance weed'? crest, Flutterod the snowy plumejof thistle down; In glades brook haunted, whore its purple crown The iron weed uplifted; where at rest The mirrored clouds slept on the lake's calm breast, 'Neath skies of softeBt azuro, whore no frown Of long past Summer atorma left shade or trace: On the dead ash, by lightning scathed, a brand Of living flame, the woodbines interlace; While, vailing lightlyjall th' enchanted land, Octobor weaves hor spell of dreamy grace In happy ways wo wandered, hand in hand.

The woodB are leafless; spectral field and wold A ghostly mist enwraps in drifting shroud, And joyleBB raindrops from tho wooping cloud Drip on tho quiet loaves, so atill and cold, Dead on the dead year's grave; liko monrnors old Tho wandering winds go Blghing through the bowed And voiceless cedars. Dull and phantom browed Tho hill looms through tho shadows that enfold Calm lake and frottiug brook. And far away A mourning wood dove sobs in plaintivo tone That BmitcB the silenco tonderly. Tho gray Swoons slowly into shadow; sinking prone Into tho darkness dioa tho fading day, Whilo one in weary waiting walka alono. RonlSRT J.

BURDETTE. GOING AROUND THE WORLD. Lord's Love'; November 15, "Tho Golden Moan of November 22, "The Greatness of Mercy, The Measure of November 20, "Tho Father's December 0, "Our Fame Known and Frailty December 13, "A Contrast, a Promise and a Decomber 20, "Tho Prepared Throno and Established December 27, "Tho To Deum of tho Universe." A special musical servicowill bo arranged for the closing lecture. At Plymouth Church this morning a meeting will bo held to "consider our duty to tho Indian race." Goneral T. J.

Morgan, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and General Clinton B. Fisk, one of tho Indian Board of CommiaaionerB, will be present and speak. The reault of tho annual conference of friends of the Indian at Lake Mohonk will be reported by Dr. Abbott. The congregation of tho Protestant Episcopal Church of tho Good Sliopherd, MeDonongh stroet near Stuyvesant avenue, is discussing the advisability of erecting a new church building at an early day, owing to tho increasing demand of tho growing parish.

During tho past Summer thero has been built for tho ohuroh a new, powerful and richly toned organ, which waa used for the first timo three Sundays ago. For its accommodation a new organ chamber has been constructed at the chancel end of tho church. Tho Bov. Henry B. Cornwell, D.

is rector of this churoh. Thero is groat difficulty at Temple Israel, on Greene avenue, in providing numerous applicants with seats and pews, owing to tho inorease in membership. The probability that the society will erect a new synagoguo has already boon referred to in theso columns. This enterprise cannot well be begun until the trustees decide which of tho offers for the present temple shall be accepted. The introduction of Sunday services, thus making attendance a possibility for tho man of business, gave the first impetus to its sudden development.

Many Hebrows who never beforo affiliated with any Jewish houso of worship have of late joined Temple Israol aud are substantia contributorB to the rapidly Bwolling Building fund for tho tomplo of tho future Sunday services will roconmcnce in the latter part of October or tho first Sunday in November and are awaited with much eager expectation by tho regular at tondauts at such meotings. CATHOLIC CHURCH NEWS. This is tho seventeenth Sunday after PentocoBt and the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary. Tho lesson of tho mass is takon from EcclcBiastioUB 10; tho Gospel from Luke 28; and tho last Gospol from Matthew 40. The Feast of the Rosary is ouo of special devo.

tion, and tho present Pope haa mado soveral earnest appeals for tho welfare of tho church and aBked tho faithful all over tho world to join him in tho recitation of tho Rosary during the month of Octobor for this intention. In all tho churches of the world, on every evening of tho month, for the past two years, the peoplo assemble and recite tiio Rosary together according to the doBire of tho Pope. Then follows tho bone diction. Cardinal Nowman haB written thiB briof explanation of this ceremony: The benodiction of tho Blessod Sacrament is ono of tho simplest rites of tho church. Tho priests enter and kneel down; ono of them unlocks the tabernacle, takes out the BleBsod Sacrament, inserts it upright in a monstranco of precious metal, and sets it in a conspicuous place abovo tho altar, in tho midst of lights, for all to see.

The people then begin to sing; meanwhile tho priest twice offers incense to tho King of Heaven, before whom ho iB kneeling. Then ho takes the monstrance in his hands, and turning to tho people, bleBses them with tho Most Holy, in the form of a cross, whilo the boll is sounded by one of tho attondanta to call attention to tho coremony. It is our Lord's solemn benediction of His people, aa whon Ho lifted up His hands over the children, or when Ho blcBSod HiB chosen ones when Ho asconded up from Mount Olivet. As sons might come beforo a parent before going1 to bed at night, so onco or twice a week tho great Catholic family comes beforo tho Eternal Father after tho bustle or toil of the day, and He smiles upon them, and sheds upon them tho light of His countenance. It is one of tho most beautiful, natural, and soothing actions of the church.

The repairs on old St. Atiuo's and the Cathedral will bo finished about tho sarao time. Thero was a large attendance at the Forty Hours' Devotion at tho Church of Our Lady of Mercy last week, and tho pastor, Father McNa ino inuows nang ner itiYuiuu eriap, miiw.iauu curtains. Before tho fireplace lies a rug, on which a scarlet dog chases a royal purple bird There ib a center table with crossed books and a lamp with a tloworod shade. A perfect ideal of hideous domestic comfort.

Theso plays of Ib I son's generally have but one set, nover occupying a period longer than a day and nigut or two nays at the most, and having but three or four characters, with no situations, no climaxos, no spectacle aud scarcely any change of costume. And yet they aro enormously popular. Amborg'H is full to the doora when thoy aro on. This Hen drix lb Ben, it appears, is a Swede who has written somo dozen of plays, and having a new style, a new method having, in short, invented the naturalistic drama he, of course, had to fight every one, managers, public and critics, and finally had his first success in Russia, whero the naturalistic novel of Tolstoi and Towyen ieff had prepared the way for him. His Bussian success opened tho way for him in Sweden, and later Germany fell a victim to his new method, and la Bt season a few representations of his plays in London sot all the English critics to pulling each other's hair.

Here they havo mado almost no improasion on tne American, who likes his drama of tho Shenandoah and Bico's Beautiful "Evangelino" typo and goes to sleep under trials of this sort. But tho Germans like it in thoir incxpressivo way and sit under it with pleased patience, though nothing ever happens throughout the entire play and everybody gabbles unstintedly for half hours at a time, in German. The truth iB those plays, liko tho Bussian hovels, aro true to life, but life in its crudest, most brutal development But they aro, nevertheless, interesting and havo a wonderful artful artlessness that is refroahing onough after the' Fraulein Leithnor, ho does the leading female parts in theso plaj's and, by tho way, all tho masculine parts in all the plays subordinate to that of tho leading lady, is an extromely clever and sympathetic actress and rises Buperbly superior to the encroaching avoirdupois that liea in wait for all Teutonic leading ladies. There is a very Btrong flavor of Hebraic Teuton in these audiences, and taking careful stock of the countenances within eyeshot one is rathor inclined to believe that Germany was in reality tho promised land they wero encouraged to oxpoct. A well known Now York woman to lis mo that (die herself brought to Bohort Bay Hamilton from Norway tho knife with which his alleged wife atabbod Nurao Donnelly.

Mr. Hamilton had bought such a knife during hia own trip to Norway somo years back, but lost it on hia return. When tho woman who told mo this story waa about to leave for Europe Bobert Bay Hamilton camo to her and asked, as ho heard that Bho in tended to pass part of her Summor in Norway, that sho would procuro from one of the peasants just such a knife aa ho had lost, witli a loathor case set with rude bossos of silver, a short handlo and a long, half curvod blade. Tho peasants hbo them in hunting wolves in Winter and always carry them at their bolt. During tho Journey tho lady secured two of theso knives, reserving one for herself, but after her roturn sho gave hors away, because, so sho said, it was 80 ugly and deadly looking a weapon it gavo her tho shiverB to have it about the houso, and sho had warned Mr.

Hamilton when sho dolivored it to him that ho had better not leavo it lying about. Tho knife now is down in tho Bowery along with its victim and the flask from which tho tempestuous Eva got her murderous impulses that stormy morning. The nurse, by the way, is proving a valuablo attraction, and that the manager knew his busineas when ho hired her is shown by tho crowded condition of tho place, tho crowd having its attention first attracted by tho vibrant Btrains of a hand organ and then fixed by expansive oil paintings of Nurso Donnelly and Mrs. Hamilton, the stabbing affray, the sceno in the court roem and pictures of tho knife and flask. After lingering a moment the passerby succumbs to tho attractions offered within, and, filled with unappeaBible curiosity, ho drops his dime in the slot aud does not sec anything come out, but sees himself go in, and Nurse Donnelly when ho gets thore Nurse Donnelly lookingsomethingprimand supercilious, as becomes a porsou who has been ono of the actors in a tragedy and who can no longer feel at liberty to associate on terms of equality with one's neighbors.

Half the nurscB in this city would bo willing to tako tho stab to bo able afterward to earn $100 a weok by simply sitting still; but when ono aces tho knife one's only wondor is how a woman who has onco had it thrust into hor intCBtincs ia here instead of. being iu her coffin. A funny incident occurred tho other day on hoard tho annex boat that runs from the foot of Wall stroet to the Long Island Depot to meet the morning trains that bring in brokers from the country who aro in a hurry to get to their business. A certain noted infidel, who lives out on the lino of tho Long Island Bailway in Summor, has boon in tho habit of taking this boat every morning and of improving the shining twenty minutes or so by discoursing freely and not altogether privately upon religious questions. All his noted eloquence has been brought into play to prove the position he took with somo flourish concerning spiritual beliefs, and tho brokors havo gathered about with much interest to hear his arguments to prove that Jonah waa never swallowed by tho whale, that Moses never existed and that tho Beheme of salvation was a vain and foolish thing.

Somo of these men, who had faintly pious leanings, have found themselves deeply aggrieved by the publicity of the attacks upon the Christian faith, but stood too much in awo of tho famous infidel's well known powers of ridicule aud invective to venture upon any remonstrance. There is a certain elderly and profoundly Presbyterian littlo Wall street lawyer, who has beou in the habit of traveling on this boat, who has listened with undisguised disgust to theso assaults upon a religion ho loved, even if he didn't practice it. He boro tho daily attacks grim Calvinistic patience for a great while, and then the other day ho rendered tho brokers dumb with delight and astonishment by walking up to tho great infidel and saying boldly: "Look hero Colonel, wo havo had enough of this religious discussion. No ono objects to your believing or disbelieving what you pioase, bnt some of us do object to your attacking our beliefs. You would consider it extremely bad taste if I wero to monopolize the attention of the boat ovory morning with tirades against infidels, and I'll be sir, if wo don't look upon your conduct in tho same light.

Theae attacks upon the Christian faith in thiB public way can't go on upon this boat." Tho littlo lawyer was very much excited by this time, and was shaking his finger very emphatically in tho faco of our great American infidel, who is a large, powerful man. aud who had much tho expression of a Newfoundland whom a plucky little fox terrier flies at and seizes by tho throat. He gaped for a minute, got red, and then, with a contemptuous "pst," turned on his heel and walked away to the other end of the boat, but all tho same the campaign against the Christian faith camo to an abrnpt end and has never yet beon resumed, and the small lawyer has been allowed to meditate in peace and comfort on "Tho Four Last Things: Death, Hell, and Judgment, and tho World to Come," in Presbyterian calm. Speaking of religious inattors recalls tho fact that in tho last two or three days I havo como across three or four very irate Episcopalians, who are anything but satisfied with tho course being taken by tho general iconvention now progress in this city, which haa daily meetings at St. George's Church and is presided over by Bishop Potter.

Saiil one of these gentlemen, who is ono of the most prominent laymen of that denomination in this country and one of the most generous contributors to all its charitios and church enterprises: "It is quite beyond my comprehension how men of as much ability as the delegates to this convention presumably are can spend tho valuable timo that should bo given to matters of importance in discussions as to tho name of tho church whether we aro to bo called tho Church of America, forsooth and whether cortain unimportant words in the 'Te Deum' and litany shall bo changed. What earthly difference these trifles make I can't understand. Meanwhile such important topics as tho means of raising our great cathedral, how to bring ourBolvcs in closer touch with tho people, how to widen the effectiveness of our charities and what position to tako regarding many of our vexed social questions are left untouched, though they are all most vital to the well being not only of the Episcopal Church as a church, but to our own consciences and Christian lives. Tho trouble is tho ritualists are just now on top, and thoy would, I believe, refuse to answer Gabriel's trump unless ho stood in the correct attitude and it toward tho east, as proscribed by the rubric, aud nothing any meaning to them ligious form of Anglomania. That anything is done in England is held to be sufficient reason by the ritualistic folk that we should do exactly tho same, regardless of the great ly differing conditions in America, whero the church is not established, iB not even the leading denomination of tho country and where all tho surrounding circumstances aro as unlike aa possible.

Aa regards tho absurd and preten tions name they aro trying to commit us to the difficulty ia that Protestant Episcopal is what Bticka in the crops of tho ritualists, as If that interfered with tho work the church could do, or was significant of anything that tho world in goneral did not perfectly understand. Another thing that makes mo very disgusted is this strong leaning that is manifesting itself in tho church to monastic life and orders, another result of ritualism. Monasticism is utterly opposed to the whole spirit of America and is nothing but an attempted revival of Medievalism. Why anyone is better capable of doing thoir religious dutios for renouncing the natural relations and affections of life is not plain to tho averago American mind. No man is forced to marry who doo not wish to, but why ia it necessary, not wishing to, that ho should tako a vow that he won't.

Simply not to wish to do it would seem to be protection onough to tho unritualistib mind. My only consolation businoss is that theso extremes will tend to right themselves before long by the natural laws of reaction, but meantime ono of our moat noted divines confosBOB that our chursh has but little hold upon the poorer classes." A Southern lay dolegato to tho convention informed mo tho other day that there was littlo leaning towards ritualism in any part of tho South, but as the church was there much less wealthy and powerful than the church in tho North and Wost thoy had very little weight in questions of thia nature and could not alter the result of a general vote. An electrician who was on tho other side with Edison tells me that the wizard of Menlo is extromely anxious to got back to his workshop to experiment with an idea bosido which the telephone and phonograph aro as trifles. It holds tho same relation to the photograph that tho phonograph does to tho telephone, in that it transmits sight for long distances by means of electricity. Edison mot a number of the Frenchmen of Bcience, particularly tho electricians, and a certain chemist who has also dabbled extensively in electricity, M.

Coni'ton by name, talked over with him some ideas ho had on the subject and suggested that Edison should endeavor to give them practical shape. Tho wizard was deeply impressed by his suggestions and said that though he had not yot perfected a definite plan for the experiments, he Haw no reason why tho end might not be achieved according to tho lines laid down by the Frenchman. Tho theory is to transmit light vibrations by wire as sound vibrations aro transmitted on the telephone, and M. Courton'B plan for arriving at this offect is said to bo very ingenious and astonishing. After all, since wo photograph Bound and transmit it and photograph sight, why may not light also be transmitted? This electric age produces Buch marvelB that we are absolutely losing tho power to be astonished.

D. New York, October 5, 1880. PARIS SUITED "BUCK" FARLEY, But The Ex Sheriff Thinks frenchmen Arc a Crazy liOt. Ex Sheriff Farley is looking better and says he feels better than ho has done in years. Ho has just returned from a two months' visit to Europe and when I met him on Fulton street tho other day ho waa more than willing to relnto aomo of his experiences.

Nearly all his vacation was spent in France and if ono pays special attention, it will bn noticed that ho has acquired just tho slightest of Gallic accents. "I went over on La Gascogne," ho 'said, "a very firio boat, and belonging, as you are probably aware, to La Compagnie Generate Transatlan tiquo. I had a royal timo on tho passage. Everything waa put up in a manner which would havo gratified tho tasto of hor gracious nibs, Queen Victoria, and I only miBsed two meals. At Havre, whero wo landed, I atayed ten days.

Havre is not much of a place, but it did to rest in for a while. Tho peoplo there aro a sleepy lot, and don't seem to catch on. Do you understand "Did you not havo some difficulty in getting around, owing to your ignorance of the French language I asked. At first it waa a littlo embarrassing," replied tho ex Sheriff, but I soon got over that, and could make myself understood as well as the best of them. A persou who has seen a little bit of lifo iu New York and vicinity can get along any where.

Do you understand "But Paris ia tho place, my boy," continued Mr. Farley, as a new light spread itself over his good humored countenance. "That's tho spot for a man to live in. Thero existonco is indeed a pleasure that is to a man who has a wad. If ho is not well heeled ho had better stay home.

Do you understand? What struck me particularly was the easy way iu which the French people, those of the upper classes I mean, take thinga in goneral. They never hurry and know nothing of seriousness. I must confess that 1 soon fell into their ways. After dining at the table d'hote at the Hotel dea Amerieains. whero I stayed, I would stroll along, tho Boule vard dea Italians and perhaps drop into a chair outside some cafe chantant, as they call tho sing song places there.

With a good cigar, costing 25 centimes, aud a derai tasso of cognac in front of me, I would watch the beauty and fashion of tho gay Capital roll by. New York has nothing liko it, and as for Brooklyn, why, she's not in the race at all. Do yon understand "In the evenings I gouerally took in somo one of the theaters. As a rulo they give you a good show for your money, but, being an American, I could not, of course, get onto all the gags. I went to the exposition several times and was proud of the display made by my country.

Be fore I had seen half of Paris1, however, I began to got homesick, and when a Frenchman asked me ifl would not liko to stay in the Capital for good, I told him I would sooner bo a lamppost on Broadway than the owner of all tho jewelry stores on the Rue do la Paix. These Frenchmon, most of them anyway, are a crazy lot. I used to get them away off in the cafe's by asking them how it was that they came to allow the Dntchmen to beat them so badly and get possession of Paris. They hato to be reminded of the licking they got, and many a timo they have left me in the middle of a conversation just because they fancied I was guying them. Do 3'ou understand They were always talking politics, too, and as I eared nothing about their kings and queens, or jacks either for that matter, they gave me a paiu in the neck.

There's a fellow over there, too, called Boulanger, who is all tho time raising somo sort of a rumpus. I told them they ought to turn a hose on him, but tliey did not seem to tumble. I returned on La Bretagno, a sister ship to La Gascogne, and had just as good a timo as on the outward trip. Shall I visit Paris again Well, it's a good deal more than likely." A CHEAP PlECli OF PROPERTY. Neither Brooklyn Nor the Government Will Claim It.

At the lujad of Howes street ia a triangular piece of ground, about fifty feet wide at. tho baso and, perhaps.twenty feet deep through the center, which for years has beau knoivn as No Man's Land." The namo fits it exactly, for it has no legal owner. It is bounded on two sides by tho walls of the Naval Hospital grounds and of tho Naval Burying Ground. The baso fronts on Hewes street and tho Wallabout Canal. Iu 180!) the city ceded to the Government a road which divided tho hospital ground from the burying ground and which was known as "Dead Man's Lane," receiving in oxchange that part of Washington avenue which runs from Flushing avenue to the bridge.

When the survey was made Man's Laud" was taken in neither by tho city nor the Government. How this happened no ono knows, but it was most likely due to somo mistake on tho part of the surveyors. Before vory long an old fellow who worked along tho canal found ont that tho triangular strip was free to the first comer and, without delay, proceeded to build himself a a shanty upon it. He remained in undisputed possession, paying no rent or taxes, until a few 5 ears ago, when he was turned out by death. Then tho Hudson River Ico Company pounced upon the plot, tore down tho old shanty and erected in its place an office and stables.

These buildings still occupy the corner and in course of timo the company will gain a title to the property through what is known as adverse possession. Tho triangle is worth at low estimate $5,000, and yet neither tho city nor Government seems disposed to claim it. It certainly belongs to eithor one or the othc A Poet Who Wants to Stop the Angel Band's Music. How tho Defeat of the French by the Germans Is Accounted For Prom Chicago Nearly Two Days Ahead of Time. Ho, ho! The Germans think thoy are all killing smart because thoy havo invented a "smokeless powder" that will render a battle visible.

The French havo beaten them clean out of sight. Long ago the Paris duelists invented a pistol that can't hit anything and a bullet that doesn't hurt. Maybe tho difference between the German and French inventions partially oxplains the outcome of tho late Franco PrusBian war. TH1T ONE BEFORE O01NO TO BED. When you happen to read in a Pennsylvania paper the notice of tho marriage of Lena Auber gestehemutterhauser and Heiurichs Koontzch leiohter, by tho Rev.

Klaas Holzhauzen, don't be too fresh aud think you aro reading an account of a German wedding. Tho chances aro that tho contracting parties and witnesses Bpeak better Engliah than thoy do in Boaton, and that thero wasn't a soul at the wodding who could speak or understand a word of German. Theae names aro hoirlooma in Bonie parta of Pennsylvania, and the old families cling to thorn fondly long aftor Bpeeeh and accent havo departed. They'ro mighty good thinga for tho babios to out thoir teeth on. THEY'LL HUSH WHEN HE BEGINS.

Good land) Tho yard wide eheok of some people. Hore'B a poet iu Memphis who thinks ho is dying, and bogins a poom describing his entrance into ParadiBO in this way, 'Hush, hush your muaic, angel band, List while I speak tho thoughts that riso," etc. Well, wo expect tho band will quit playing whon they seo a man from Memphis como in thero; it will bo enouah to take away tho breath of any angel; but just think of the gall of a man who has spont his lifo in that sort of a town asking tho angels to hold their noise and listen to him talk tho minute ho gota into heavon. SO IS THE 8UHPLB8. Tho Flortaa Stunal mourns over tho sad fact that "the old negroeB of tho ante helium dayB aro pasaing away," Well, it's about time.

Moat peoplo who were old thirty yearu ago will bo signaling for a pilot thiB Winter. A man can't expoct to timo things so neatly that ho will bo too old for tho draft when tho war breaks out and thou bo young enough to join tho "sons of veterans" after tho war ia over. By the way, in thia connection, wo noticed in a paper two or throe daya ago a statement that "the rod mau was pasaing away." Can thia bo poaBiblo? Wo trust there is bouio mistake about it. Wo can find no mention of tho fact, if it be a fact, in either tho Constitution of tho United States or Webster's Dictionary, and wo cannot think that an evont of such goneral importanco would havo eacapod tho notice of either of theso lynx eyed coutemporarioa. If tho Indian really is passingaway.it is very strango that no ono Bhould have remarked upon tho fact before this time.

TIME PMES OS PAST DAI'. "Well," said tho young man, for it was ho, as ho sprang from the train in New York, wo're half an hour late, but I've got hero nearly two days ahead 'of time." "How iB that aakod the old man, who was expecting him. "Pawnod my watch in Chicago," replied tho aud tho silence was so deep for a moment that you might have hoard tho bod tick. LIKEWISE TO OUR PEUULEKS. "Wo aro all subject to our rulers," said Mr.

Holliday, as ho road a letter from a cousin in Indiana who had just been bounced out of the post office, "oven the ytiungeBt. of us." "I am," said Rollo promptly, "nearly every day: would havo been twice thia af tornoon, but tho teacher didn't catch me the aecond time." HANDED IN BY SLUO NINE. Whon I think of the towol, the old faBhionod towel, that UBOd to hang up by tho printing house door, I think that nobody in theso daya of shoddy can hammer out iron to wear aa it wore. The tramp, who abused it, the devil who used it, the who got at it when these two wore gone, tho make up and foromau, the editor, poor mau, oach rubbed somo grime off whilo they put ahoap on. In, over and undor, 'twas blacker than thunder, 'twas harder than poverty, rougher than sin; from the roller suspended, it never was bended, and it flapped on tho wall like a banner of tin.

It grow thickor and rougher and harder and tougher, and daily put on a more inkier hue, until ono windy morning, without any warning, it fell to the floor aud was broken in two. A BITTEH SIISANTUllOPE. People who havo met mo on the train say that I am of all men most moroso, unsociable and unaccommodating; that I never offer to open a window for anyone, never close tho door aftor tho brakeman has gone out and taken tho end of the car aud a crashing noiso with him, nover offer to turn a seat for two ladies who wish to monopolize four sittings with a trip pass and a scalper ticket; never, in abort, offer any of thoBe little attentions to my fellow travelers which tho freBh young man and the simplo old one are so ready and so glad to extend. I plead guilty. I never do.

I will do anything I am asked to do, if I havo time, and feel Just like it, and thero seems to bo no good reason why I shouldn't, but I won't volunteer to do anything on the train. I uaed to: Bonie; I am older now, and know bo much leas than formerly that both my neighbora of tho road and myself get along much moro comfortably. Yeara and years ago, I ouo day picked up a shawl which fell from a lady's lap into the aisle of the car. As I picked it up, such a miscellaneous assortment of articles, moBtly of an odible naturo, fell out of that shawl that I waB paralyzed with amazement, aud nothing but the lurid language of tho owner brought about tho reaction that waa ncccBBary to save my life. For the largest fee I ever was paid, I noror affordod a ear full of peoplo ao much amusement as I did for nothing by that littlo act of kindueaa.

With the exception of the lady whoao Bhawl the lunch baaket waB, and myaolf, I think everybody in tho car was pleased. And passengers iu the other cars, all the way from the Bmoker and tho aleop ors, hearing the souuds of mirth camo into our car and asked about it. And tho people who had the loudest aud clearest voiceB told the incident, referring to me as "that man" or to avoid tautology, as the Btory had to be repeated many times in the comae of 145 miles, "that fellow," or "that chap," or "that man settin' there." I sawed wood very conscientiously for a long timo after that, but on another evil day I entertained another traveling audience by tugging at a car window which had never been opened since tho car was built. I wore a porous plaster on the plinth of my spinal column for a couple of weeks, and reformed again. I burned tho old resolutions on tho tablets of memory, and engraved them with a pen of iron on my heart.

I alao made up my mind that I would endeavor to remember them. Well, a week or two Bineo I was thundering along through the miles of exquisite landscape gardening that mark the suburbs of Philadelphia. A young gentleman sitting just in front of me left the train at a local station, and Just as wo started again half a dozen excited female voices shrilled out upon the startled air: "Oh! Oh! Oh! That young man has loft hi8 umbrella! Ohl He'U nover see it agaiu Call him quick Oh throw it ont to him do iio DO throw that young mau hiB umbrella And aa they pointed at the young man and shrieked at me I hastily 2 aisod the window, the powera of darkness assisting mo, yelled at the young mau, hurled the umbrella at him like a javelin, and we were gone. In about two minutes a young man two stories and a manBard taUer than any member of my whole family camo down the aiale of that ear with a darkened brow, and looked long and earnestly iifto the vacant Boat whence I had Just fired a Bilk umbrella with a hammored silver head. Ho looked under the seat and then he looked into the rack.

Then he looked at me. I didn't look up, but I felt his eyes go clear through mo, as I gazed fixedly out of the win dow aud tried hard to think of the form of prayer to be used for a man who expects to spend the rest of tho Winter in the hospital. Beforo I could remember it the athletio looking stranger said kindly, but very firmly: "I left an umbrella in this seat a fow minutes ago." For ono moment the ghastliest silence you ever heard settled down on that car, and then those shrieking women giggled, as though it wero a light thing to die when you had a return ticket in your pocket that would bo waBted. I tried to tell tho stranger that tho young man who was sitting iu the seat took it with him, but I thought I had done enough wickedness and folly for ono trip. I owned up and told him tha truth.

He was a magnanimous man, and ho spared me. But it was a moment of agony, and to there are white hairs on the Some Distinguished Clergymen to Preach in Brooklyn. Should There be a More General Exchange of Pulpits Hard Words for Dr. Fulton Catholic News. For two or three Sundays the pulpits of many of the Episcopal churches in Brooklyn will be occupied by bishops and distinguished preachers who are attending the Goneral Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

It is usual for the bishops and deputies to be invited to preach in the prominent churches during tho session. The Bev. Reese S. Alsop, rector of St, Ann's Church on the Heights, has been ablo thuB far to make arrangements aa follows This morning Biahop Hugh Miller Thompson, of MisaisBippi, will preach, and in tho ovening the pulpit will bo occupied by Bishop T. U.

Dudley, of Kentucky. On Sunday, October 13, Bishop Ruli son, of Central Pennsylvania, will preach in tho morning, and Bishop Boyd Vincent, of Southern Ohio, in tho evening. For the morning of October 30 tho arrangements have not yet been made. In' the ovening the Bov. H.

M. Hart, dean of tho cathedral at Denver, will preach. As to Bishops Thompson and Dudley, each in his own way is remarkable for dopth of thought and philosophical acumen. Bishop Thompson has few superiors, while lor eloquence and all that goes to make up an orator BiBhop Dudley ia, perhaps, tho most striking man in tho Houso of Bishops. The Union Clerical Club, composed of ministera of all denominations, ia an important addition to the intellectual and religious force of the city.

The club meets monthly at Dilliard's, Bedford avonue, and after dinner disciiBBea themoB theological and literary. Tho membership now numbers about twenty five. Tho officorB are Bov. S. Giffard Nelson, of Trinity Baptist Church, presidout; Rev.

Charles William Turner, rector of St. Matthew'sEpiscopal Church, vico president; Bev. William J. Bridges, of the Greono Avonuo Presbyterian Church, secretary and treasurer. Tho club waa instituted about tho beginning of the year, through tho efforts of the Bev.

Josoph Reynolds, late of St. Stephen's, now rector of St. Mary's, Now York City, and of the Rov. William J. Bridges, both of whom still tako a vory activo interest in tho organization.

Tho Bev. R. B. Whitehead, the newly called pastor of Trinity Methodist Protestant Church, South Fourth street, corner Roebling, was given a reception in the chapel the other evening by tho members of tho congregation. Mr.

Whitehead is a native of Pennsylvania, having spent a largo share of hia boyhood days in the coal minoa. Ho graduated recently from tho church college in Adrian, Mich. Thoro is only ono other Methodist Protestant church in Brooklyn. "The average city clergyman of the wealthier churches is very careful not to say things in the pulpit that will seem unpleasantly personal," said a gentloinau who has traveled oxtenaiveiy. Brooklyn has aomo exceptions to thia rule.

The preaching of tho Roy. Wesloy R. Davis at the Reformed Church on the Hoighta ia a atriking illustration of plain pulpit talk. Thero is a directness and personality in hia preaching at times that, even if a trifle uncomfortable, is remarkably refreshing. Perhaps it isn't so much what he says as tho way he says it.

Ho looks directly into the faces of his hoarers when ho tells them they are sinners. The Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuylor is another bold man in tho pulpit.

The averago church goer likoa pulpit independence and doesn't mind a littlo abuse now and then if it is of the right sort. Many clergymen are afraid of offending a liberal contributor in tho pew. During the Rev. Dr. R.

S. Pardington's long pastoral career in tho Methodist Church ho has sought to get each society of which he haa had charge in a healthy prosperous state. Such was tho history of his pastorate in thB Woat and such has been his experience iu thia city. Tho old Fleet Street Church seemed to wake up so that it realized that even if it was located down town, its work was not yet done. A year or two ago Dr.

Pardington left tho Fleet Street Church and went fo another old society in tho business portion of the Eastern District the Central M. E. Church. South Fifth street, noar Driggs, and thore his pastorate has been equally prosperous and of a substantial character. Two Sundays ago thirty five were received into membership.

Tho congregations aro larger than thoy have beon for several years. Many improvements havo beon made on tho church property during tho Sum mer. The parsonage lias just oeon rehired and refurnished at a cost of $1,500. In connection with the church thero is a largo Young People's Associatiou under tho presidency of Mr. Frederick Kellog.

a flourishing mis sionary society and a Sunday school with a staff of fifty teachers and haa over 800 scholars. The church haa a membership of between 400 and 500. The seating capacity of the edifice ia 750. Dr. Pardington preaches extempore, though ho makes a careful preparation for his sermon.

His style in the pulpit is enthusiastic and he appeals to the sympathetic side of his audience. The music of tho church ia congregational in its character and is led by a quartet, consisting of Mrs. K. Johnson, soprano and musical director; Mrs. Howard Baker, alto; Mr.

Frank L. Jones, tenor; Mr. II. La Moroe, basso, and Mr. Charles F.

Searlj organist. Dr. Pardington ia now delivering a series of Sunday evening sermons on "Immortality." 'The habit of pnlpit exchanges betweon clergy mon of Brooklyn should bo encouraged and more generally practiced than it is," said a well known uptown Presbyterian minister. ''Every clergyman should avoid, as far aB posaible, being ab aent from his own pulpit on Sunday morning. Ho should give his peoplo to understand that they can donond upon hearing their own pastor in tho morning and in tho ovoning let a stranger bo heard.

This would make it necessary to prepare but ono sermon. Tho pressing domands upon a city clergyman's timo make it almost im possible to grind out two good sermons every weok. Tho offort in producing ono sermon a week would conaume tho beat there is in the average clergymen. In pulpit exchangos, for instance, my congregation would hear tho sermon delivered by tho visiting ministers to his own congregation in the morning. I believe the timo will como whon thia practico will bo generally adopted." Groonpoint Baptists are interested in tho movement looking to a union of the Noble street and Union avenue Baptist churches.

Neither of theso societies is numerically or financially as Btrong as it might bo and it is believed that in uniting their forces they could bring strength and prosperity to the two as one organization. Green point is not a Baptist stronghold. Work on the now German Evangelical Lutheran Church, on Marion stroet, noar Reid avenue, is being pushed forward aa rapidly as possible and it is hoped to have the edifice roady for occupancy somo time in Docembor. Tho Rev. Thoodoro Heisclimann will be the pastor.

The editor of the London Truth, in his vigoronB language in the following paragraph, no doubt refers to the Rev. Justin D. Fulton, D. formerly of thia city: "I rejoice to find that the Bishop of Chichester has fallen into line with mo in my recent attack on 'R eligioua One Dr. Fulton an American divine, if I mistake not has delivered a lecture at Brighton which would appear, from the Bishop of ChicheBter'a rebuke to ono of his clergy who was present, to have been not only obscene, but blaaphemous.

Now this Fulton is (unless there are two professors of religious obscenity answering to this name) the author of one of the most filthy and disgusting works in Mr.JohiiKeusit'a abomniablo collection. Tho Bishop of Chichoster appears surprised that tho Rov. J. G. Gregory should have allowed Fulton's observations to pasa without protest.

To my mind it is oven more astonishing that a clergyman of tho English Church, knowing, as ho must havo known, something of Fulton'a character and writings, ahonld havo appeared at the same meeting with him." Announcement ia made of a course of Friday evening lectures in the chapel of tho Reformed Chinch, on the Heights, by the pastor, Rev. Wes ley R. Davis. The first lecture was delivered on Friday evening, the subject being "Tho Ministry of Gratitudo and Memory." Tho other lectures will be as.followa: October 11, "'The Soul's Forgiveness and October 18, "Redeemed and October 25, "The Mouth Satisfied and the Lifo November 1, "Divine Ways and November 8, "The Face of the A 30rt. Hamilton Stabbed Wizard of Menlo Park IT tho Photographers? at Delmonioo's these ovoninga around and regard with curioaity who drops in about 8 o'clock for his eaU He iB a very striking looking per fect four in height, with a breadth of er and length of limb of a Hercules.

A andwhito blonde, ho holds himself like a asian Uhlan, and walka with a gronadier'a itride, BO that ordinary men look liko pigmies eside him, and people pause with their forks alf way to their hps to Btaro aB ho makes hla ay to his favonto corner or BtandB in tne door ay gazing about for a vaoant table. It is young EBaron Eckbardatein, of tho Gorman Legation, (who has been a conspicuous figure at Newport 'thiB season, and about whom there have been all of remarkable tales told by tho aoeioty jjossipa. The women have raved over his beauty, but like moat of those huge fair men ho in not to put it mildly exactly a Dei esprit, a wit or a conversationalist. He rides well, getting himself up in that flamboyant German faBhion that bo horrifies tho soul of a good Anglomaniac, in tan colored, close fitting breeches, velvot coat and shiny top boots, Jbut has a good seat of the military sort and knowing how to hold his hands. Ho knows good wino from bad, a pretty girl from an ugly one, how to play ecarto and baccarat, and how to speak ifcad English.

Ho may know a groat many other 'thingB, but he has great reserve in speaking of thorn. Ono iraio American informed him not long ago that ho didn't know beans when tho bag was open, upon which the big diplomat haughtily replied that agriculture was not part of the education of a Prussian officer. Tho American opened liia month very wide, thought a niimito, and then shut it up and walked away. The yellow haired Gorman, however, has taught oven tho fast set at Nowport aomothing in tho way of recklessness that even they never dreamed of, and in the process of instruction camo very nearly cutting sliort his diplomatic careor and plunging hia country into mourning for ono of nor largest and fairest sons. The lesson was given on tho balcony of tho Casino at Newport where half a dozon young men of the fast set wero lounging, about mid night, a short timo ago.

Ho had dinotl witn great energy and freodom, and the effects of the dinner had not been allowed to wear off for tho lack of subsequent potations. Tho usual woighty anil brilliant talk that in to bo found in such society was being bandied about, to which the blonde diplomat listened with as much espieglorio i usual. Finally one able yquth offered to lay ponies that he was still in a condition to make an ccurato and rapid descent of the stairs and roach tho Casino court without difficulty. The uproarious incredulity of Ins companions so deeply wounded him that ho offered to lay double the first mentioned sum that he could beat any ono of the crowd to the Bpot montioned, and his bets wero promptly coverod. Eckhardstein was considered of all tho party least ablo to win this bet, but he instated upon recording his wager, and when tho whole party started off pell moll down the stairs he deliberately plunged over the railings of tho balcony where he stood, into tho court below.

Ho sprained both wrists and vory nearly dislocated his shoulder, but ho won the bet and at tho same timo earned tho awo and admiration of hiB intellectual companions as being a person evou more absurdly reckless than themBclvcs. Tho wrists aro all right again now, but his character as a hero is established beyond a question: he is roveronccd almost as muoh aB Professor Sullivan in certain quarters. Ono would be led to suppose that New York is fillinrr up again unusually early this season, to Judge by tho number of familiar faces ono sees on tho street and how many houses along Madi 011 and Fifth avenues havo their onter wooden doors down and the curtains np. Tho truth is that this has been such an uncommonly nasty Summer that people are delighted to got away from tho country wiih its fogs, rains, wet grass and chilling winds that have so damped their spirits and thoir beat frocks all tho season. Never has such a Summer been known, and though the Autumn is but littlo better, oue does not in tho city succumb bo roadily to tho influenics and discomforts of persistent humidity.

Among tho newly returned groups in tho shops and on tho street I saw last week General Sherman's daughters and two of his grandchildren. Mrs. Thncknra, who has been married quite a number of years aud has BOveral children, is a slim, girlish looking woman who Walks like a debutante, and hardly appears older hur oldest daughter, who does not in the least resjmblo hur, by tho way, but is a stalwart, red haired maiden, with cheeks like a ripe peach and locks of ruddy, vivid gold; a combination almost dazzling in its brilliancy, while tho mother is a little, vivacious, brown eyed and dark haired lady, who would be taken anywhere for a French woman, until one heard her speak. The younger daughter, Miss Sherman, has hair like her niece, and the moBt uncommon sort of skin, smooth, white and shining as porcelain. Sbo id pursued by the painters, who try to persuade her to let them put this strange type of looks upon canvas; but, like most red haired women, she seems averse to having any reproduction of herself.

Miaa Sherman goes abroad soon to spend the Winter in Paris with Mrs.Whitelaw Rcid, wifo of our minister, who is a very great friend and admirer of the old general's daughters. The sisters are still in heavy mourning for their mother, andonlygooutin the quietest way, though she has been dead some time now. The general himself has beou out in tho WoBt for somo weekH, though he postponod hiB journey for several days to be present at the first night of In walking out the othor day I was surprised to see a woman who looked so much liko Mrs. Cleveland that she might easily havo been her sister. The woman in question was walking down Broadway with llomeldi, tho French soprano who is to take tho leading roles with tho Boston Ideals this season, aud tho two turned into a music shop together for the purchase of part of tho seoro of Trovatorc, which is to be ono of tho loading operas of the Ideals reportoiro this Beason.

A man who knew them told mo that tho girl was a musician from New Orleans who had an extremely sweet Voice, and that when Romeldi wont on a concert tour through the South last Spring she took this girl with her. She waa not willing to appear under her own name, and as she bore such a marked resomblanco to Mrs. Cleveland they christoned her on tho playbills "Mi'sB Frances Cleveland," and she was known even to the people in the company under no other title. She sang Adal gisa to Romoldi's Norma in the oue act of opera they gave at the conclusion of these concerts Seible to her Marguerite and Arsace to hor Som Iramide. She has lately been made superintendent of music in the public schools of New Orleans, aud has been here and in Boston studying the latest and most approved methods of instructing the children in the laws of harmony, and will train great choruses of them to sing at the New OrleanB Saengerfest next Spring, where all the musical societies of the country will bo repre gented.

Her likeness to Mrs. Cleveland is really quite remarkable, Rather shorter than the ox 1'reBident's wife, and leas museularly made, she has something of the same carriage, eyes, hair exactly similar in tint, the same pale, clear skin and with the other features, quite particularly the brows, teeth and a way of swooping the head 8, little forward and looking up from under the brows. Equally as well dressed she would by strangers be easily taken for the famous ex Presidentess. Among the German speaking population of New York there is just at present a mild and diffnsed enthusiasm about Ibsen's plays and Fraulein IiOithncr's method of interpreting them. The little Ainberg Theater is decidedly pretty, nicely decorated and protty badly ventilated but fresh air is something tho Teutons are not exigent about and with the most fearful bricht blue plush sets of furniture, all plastered with Nottingham tidies, for laee sottings that it has ever been my unhappy lot to see outside of a cheap boarding house.

Theso domestic interiors for Ibsen's plays would be ft Paradisa to the tenement house lady. There is the sort of pmi on the walls tUftt Two Brooklyn Ladies Start Out on a Long jTeur. Tho independence shown by tho averago American is a matter of oontinuod surprise and admiration to our foreign couaina. A few years ago it was a rare Bight to seo two ladies or a party of young peoplo traveling through Europe alono. Now it iB an every day occurrence.

This entiroly owing to tho independence and grit of tho American girl. A few daya ago a party of threo collogo boys returned to their Brooklyn homoB aftor a throo months' Enropoan tour. They wero Do Witt Barnett, son of David Barnett, tho well known b.wyer, and Frank and Datcr Gregory, boub of Mr. George F. Grogory, of Standard Oil fame.

The boys had a splendid trip and they surprisingly saw much in a short timo. Instead of sticking to tho beaten lino of travel, they journeyed through Norway, Sweden and Bussia. They wero handsomely treated wherever they went and made tho tour without an accident. Last week Mias Madge Nichola, daughtor of Quarantine Commissioner John A. Nichols, of thia city, started with her friend, Mrs.

Townsend, of Now York, upon a two year's tour around tho world. Tho ladies tra vel alone, except when the sorvices of a courier and guides aro required. So perfoct aro thoir arrangements that they know beforo starting just about when thoy will bo in tho different places along thoir route. Thoir rooms aro all onsraged ahead at tho different hotels whero thoy will stop, and evory possiblo provision made for their comfort and safety. Mrs.

Townsend is the bonovo lent lady who rocently had erected, at hor expense, a chapel on Blackwoll's Island for the use of tho uufortunato inmates of the plaeo. A CEMETERY FOR SALE. The Bones of the Itcrgcns and Cotven hovi ttu ITIitut Go. At the southeast corner of Fifth avonuo and Second street there is an old burying ground, whero repose tho ash of many Cowenhovcns and Bergens and members of other Dutch families who were among Brooklyn's oarliost settlers. Very few people besido thoso living in tho immediate neighborhood are aware of its existence There is no fenco around it, and thoro is nothing loft to show that it was once one of God's Acres except a couple of fombstonos, ono of which is in fairly good condition and ia still atanding upright.

Tho other lies prone upon tho ground and has been sadly defaced. The inscriptions on both of them, however, are legible. They read as follows: "In memory of John R. Cowonhoven, who departod this lifo September 2, 1811, aged 51 years and months," and Cowonhoven, died February 28, 1702." All around aro scattered fragments of headstones, showing that vandals have been at work, for timo certainly could not havo caused such destruction. Tho hillocks marking a scoro or moro of graves aro yet plainly discerniblo.

To somo old residents this disused cemetery is known as the Quaker burying ground, but thero is nothing to show that it was used exclusively by that sect. It iB moro than likely that it was tho private graveyard of tho Cowcnhovena aud Bergeua, who years ago held largo farms in tho vicinity. The lot ia for Bale aud when in eourso of timo it comes to bo built upon the question will arise as to what shall be done with the bonos of the dead and gono Dutchmen. THEODORE TILTON'S LONELY LIFE. A Prematurely Old, Broken Downjand mioerablc JtSan.

In a smaU cafo in a Bomowhat unfrequented part of Paris the other day I saw another man who recalfed a case the fame of which was world wide. He was sitting at a table seomingly buried in thought of a not pleasant charactor and oblivious of hia surroundings. Ho had an intellectual face, but on it there woro doep lines that told of past Bufferings. His long hair was gray prematurely gray. His shoulders wero bent, and thero was a moody, brooding look on his faco.

But he was evidently a tall man and some years ago must have been a handsome man. As ho sat at the table he looked like a strong man borno down by the memory of some great sorrow of the past. Presently he aroao and walked out without looking to the right or the left, and then I recognized him, although it had been years since I saw him before. It waB Theodore Tilton, the once famous editor of tho New 1'ork Independent. But how changed.

In the days of his popularity, tall, oreet, strong and handBomo: now a broken, prematurely old man. Ho iB doing aomo sort of literary work here, but no one seems to know just what it is. I could not but think, after seeing the man, that the scandal in which this man's life was wrecked was moro than a mere scandal. It was, iu fact, a tragedy. Tho circle of the chief actors in it is narrowing.

The greatest of thorn jB dead, so are others, among them some of tho lawyers and several oi tne jury, one oi tne law yers, Bonjamin F. Tracy, is in the Cabinet of the President of tho United States. Mrs. Tilton is more fortunately situated than her husband, for Bhe haa the company and sympathy of her children. But Theodore Tilton haunts out of tho way placos in Paris, seeking neither frienda nor friendships, a miserable and broken man.

Philadelphia Times. A FRACTURE IN THE MOON Which may Have Been Canned by Contact With the Earth. The new asteroid discovered by Dr. Peters, of Hamilton College Observatory, on tho 25th of August, may proveito be the most interesting of tho whole group. Tho first computation of tho orbit indicatod.that part of tho path was insido the orbit of the planet Stars.

Dr. Peters is making auother computation from later observations, and ho thirkB tho path may be ontsido that of Mars but still near enough to distinguish tho new asteroid aa the nearest of all to the sun. In viow of tho discovery, astronomers may bo inclined to adopt tho viow that tho moona of Mars were picked up by that planet from tho asteroids near his orbit. It is poaaiblo that tho earth picked up its satellite in tho same way. Tho moon haa the appearance of having received a heavy blow which cracked tho shell in every direction from the crator Tycho.

Tho moon might havo Btrnck the earth in a way to caueo the fracture of the moon's aholl, which was afterward cemented again by tho outflow of melted matter. Tho linos of apparent fracture aro intensely whito, liko new mattor pushed up through tho older portions of tho moon's surface. The central point, or crator of Tycho, is also intensely white and is vory large and shallow. Mochester Democrat ana Chrontcle. mara, is much pleased.

A collection for fund for the caro of tho placoa in tho Holy Land will be taken up in all tho churches to day. Thero are now 5,742 members enrolled in tho Guard of Honor of the Sacred Heart in St. James' Church. Tho director general, Father Donohuo, has Bent Father Mitchell a special recognition of this groat succoaa. Bev.

Father Charles H. O'Doherty, of tho Transfiguration parish, has been ill and had to go away for recuperation all last week. He has returned much benefited by the trip. The Young Men's Literary Association, of St. Patrick's parish, will celebrate their Bilver Jubilee on the evening of Wednesday, October 1G, by giving an entertainment at the Saengerbund Hall in Smith street.

The Confraternity of the Sacred Heart, of St. Patrick's parish, ono of tho most aetivo and strongest of the young men's associations, will give an entertainmout at the Critorion on tho evening of Octobor 11. Tho Redemptoriat Fathers, of Now York, will give a mission in St. Peter's parish during the last two weeks of thiB month. The congregational singing which has been introduced into tho Transfiguration parish has proved a groat success.

Tho pastor, Father Kiely, has issued a leaflet on his pastoral visit, in which he sayB: Ho will make inquiries as to the number of persons in each family, their spiritual condition and their prospects. He will inform them that a mis fiiou will be given in tho church before Christmas, in order to insure tho reception of the sacraments by the adult mombers of the parish. Ho will expect a suitable gift toward the new church, of which the foundation is already happily bogun and of which tho cornet atone will bo publicly laid on October 27. Tho names taken in this and the former census will bo handsomely engrossed and deposited with other records in the cornerstone. The League of tho Cross of St.

Anthony's parish will have a big meeting on October 10 iu the pariah hall, on Leonard street. It will bo tho anniversary of Father Mathcw's birth and a oulogy on the life and times of tho great temperance advocate will be pronounced by Professor Haggorty. There will bo other agreeable features in a long programme. It is expected that there will be a largo attendance. Father O'Hare has begun a crusade against wakes and the road houses outside the cemeteries as somo of tho minor evils to be attended to in the temporance reform movement.

St. Anthony's Young Men's Union will give a minstrel entertainment in tho parish hall on Tuesday ovening, October 15. Land for the sito of the new church that Father Monteverde is to build has beon purchased on the nortb side of Chauncoy street, oast of Stuyveflant avenue. The plot is 100 feet square and cost It iB stated that the venerable Father Creigh ton, who resigned the charge of the Parish of Our Lady of Victory some timo ago, has concluded tho arranging of the busineas of the parish and will leave for tho West at an early date. His successor, it is also announced, will bo the Rev.

Richard S. Foley, of St. Patrick's Church, South old, Suffolk County, who will take lmmodiate charge. Father Foley was stationed in thia city beforo ho was assigned to the country parish, Where he has made a very successful record. St.

Luke's Union, of Whitestone, will have an entertainment in the Village Hall on the evening of October 18. On October 18 Biahop Loughlin will be forty nine years a pnoat. With Biahop do GoeBbriand, of Burlington, ho will enjoy tho distinction of being the Benior prelates at tho coming groat celebration in Baltimore of the Catholic centennial of the American hierarchy. Both these bishops wero consecrated on October 30, 1853. Tho Most Rev.

Archbishop Kenrick, of St. Louia, antedates both, having been consecrated Bishop of Drasa, on November 30, 1S41, but he has notified Cardinal Gibbons that ho will not bo ablo to attend tho ceromoniea. The venerable prelate is verging on his 84th year, having boeti born in Dublin, August 17, 1800. He is still ablo to attend to the duties of his office. Hia brother who died in 1803, was Bishop of Philadelphia and afterward Archbishop of Baltimore.

Tho writer has been asked if any meeting of Brooklyn Catholics will be held to arrange for delegates to tho Catholic Congress on Novomber 11 and 12. Two of the main committee of tho eongresB are residents hero Major Keiley and L. Kehoe. No move in that direction has yet been heard of. St.

Louis held a meeting on September 23 at which it wa3 decided to send a large delegation. New York haa taken no action either, and there seems to be an apathy over the matter in this aection. An informal ineotiug of tho editorB of the Catholic press of the country will bo held in Baltimore on the afternoon of Sunday, JSoaner 10..