The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-26
NEWS AND GOSSIP.


Mr.. Tennyson has written a tragedy, with
Mary Queen of Scots for its subject, and it is
soon TO be performed at Drury Lane in
London.
The Southern Methodist papers give the
statistics of the church South, as they will
appear in the forthcoming volume of the
general minutes. The number of members
Is: White, 659,677; colored, 3,429; Indian,
4779. Total, 676 600, or p, AL more than last
year.
The hanging of the negro Alfred, in Ken
lucky the other day, for the murder of DIR.
Alfred, was the first execution since the
adoption of the new statute in that state,
making it discretionary with the jury
whether the punishment for such crime
shall be death or Imprisonment for life.
The first case under the new law against
cruelty to animals in Missouri, has just been
successfully prosecuted in st. Louis. The
charge was or willfully and cruelty depriv-
ing A horse of necessary sustensnce. The
decision SAYS that ait is not necessary to in
dulge In laudstion of the passage of the act,
Its propriety aud absolute necessity COM
msnGs itselfto the better nature and judg-
ment of every one,"
The Reformed Episcopal chu.cn Id Ottawa,
Canada, is reported to be growing very rap
idly. DR.. Gallagher, who has been acting as
tsmnorarv rector, was rendered feception
ON the eve of his departure, and was prcsen-
ted with a gold-headed cane by his honor,
MAYOR Featherstone,in behalf OF the church,
Speeches favoring the reform cause We're
also made by Senator Sidal, TIE Hon. j. Il.
Johnson and others.
A traveller writes that sething remains of
the American colony that went to the Holy
Land, several years ago, to reform the
Turks and rebuild the Temple, but the site
of their settlement. The German colony
from Wurtemburg, which followed the
American. was more practical and success
fuI They number sixty families, and have
converted the waste land near Joppa into a
garden, having hundreds OF orange and
lemon trees.
Celestial love, with the affections of good
and truth, and the perceptions thence de-
rived, and at the same time with the de-
lights of these affections and the thoughts
thence derived, may be compared TO tree
with beautiful branches, leaves and fruits !;
the LIES love is that tree; the branches, with
the leaves, are the affections OF good aud
truth. with their perceptions; and the fruits
are the delights of the affections with their
thoughts.-LSwedenborg.
And now a member of the Boston Histori-
cal Society is trying to prove that the Had
ley (Mass.) massacre Is myth. That in
stead of a terrible encounter with the In
dams. in which William COTE, one of the
English regicides, appeared and gained a
victory for the whites, there was no alarm
on the date mentioned, no Indians appeared
and no battle took place nine months later
with 1 900 disciplined troops, but no angel
from heaven was seen nor any fugitive from
the wrath of the English king.
Mr.. Richard Grant White, has lately given
to the literary world catalogue of one
hundred of the greatest writers. living and
dead. Beginning with Moses he ends with
celsbraties of to-day. and the list is remark
able for its omission well as it's strange
inse ton of certain names. Under the
head of "English," he places twenty.
six names, beginning with Chaucer and
ending with George Eliot. be lncludes
Fielding but omits Smollett; he lncludes
Wordsworth, but omits Shelley; be includes
John Stuart Mill. but omits Macauiay:
No one would know, however, from the list
that Dickens or Thack cray, -Bescott, irving
or Hawthorne ever lived. The name OIL
Richard Grant White is also wanting. Il
The Rev. DR.. Kohler, of the Sinai congre-
cation, of this city, still continues his Sun
day as well as Saturday services, for the con-
-yenience of some of the members who are
compelled to attend to their business Satur-
days. The Sunday services are largely at.
tended, and consist Chiefly OF rengious ane