Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-03
NEW YORK.
Bradbury's Piano Factory Burned
Loss, $1OO,OOO-FOund Dead-De.
crease In Loan Certificates.
Prussia and the ROmish Chureh-Death
from HydrOphObia-COllisiO in
New York HarbOr.
The Spanish IrOnclad Released, but
"Sticks in the Mud''--Eeeeher's
Church Differences-Ete.

NEW YORK, January 2.-Bradbury's
piano mandatory and show-rooms,
with w. H. Seymour & Sons silk-hat
mandatory, at the corner of Grand
and Crosby streets, were burned early
this morning. Loss, one hundred thou
sand dollars.
VIM. Banta, aged forty-five, was
found dead and covered with blood yes
terday, on the stoop of Warren's hotel.
at the corner of Canal and Elizabeth
streets. The bartender and five other
persons have been arrested, to await an
investigation into the cause of his
death.
James Redmond died at his home in
Brooklyn yesterday of hydIophobia. He
was bitten by cat some six months
ago.
A Berlin telegram to The London
Daily Telegraph says the government
has absolutely resolved to abstain from
any interference with the inner eccIesi-
astical organization Of diOeeses during
their struggle with the Romlish church,
and to confine its action to rig
orousIy Tepelling any encroach-
ments of the bishops upon State
rights. The existing prescriptions
respecting the administration of dioceses
when the bishOprics are vacant will
| serve for the cases in which the preIates
shall be turned out by the government.
These dioceses, left without head, will
be administered by general vicar, who
VIII, IN his turn, be depOsed should he
not comply with the letter of the stat
utes. The government is qnite aware
that these measures will super
induce lnconceivable confusion in
DIOCESAN administration, and it
hopes thereby to compel the
clergy to compliance with the law. The
new form of the oath of allegiance to be
subscribed to by the bishops appointed
in future is framed in terms binding the
subscribers to absolute submission to the
state, and its officially assumed vatican
Will not permit the episcopal candidates
to take it. This assumption will be fully
tested by the approaching filing of the
Fulda vacancy. The Rhenish and
Westphalian bishops are canvassing for
the imperial parliament, and they will
certainly be elected. The government,
however, is entirely Indifferent with re-
gard to this maneuver.
Outstanding loan certificates nine hun
dred and seventy thousand dollars, a
decrease Of two hundred and fifty thou
sand since last report.
The steamship Ethiopia, from Glas-
gov, while coming up this morning,
came in collision with the pilot-bOat T..
+. Williams, and was run ashore on
Staten Island. She will have to dis
charge a part of her cargo before she
can be got off.
A thousand Workmen have been dis
charged from the navy-yard. The
Spanish iron-clad steamer Arapeles was
tOwed out of dock to-day by two tugs.
She ttOated out gracefully, and her crew
gave three cheers at their escape from
such long Incarceration. Their ioy was
only short-lived, however. AS the tugs
towed her to the east side of the navy
yard, where she intended taking her
guns on board, when within about
twenty yards of shore she stuck fast in
the mud, and there she will most likely
remain for some time.
At the conclusion of the usual Friday
evening prayer-meeting at Plymouth |
church, Brooklyn, tonight, Mr.. Sher- |
man, clerk of the church, read COM |
municatiOn which had been received |
from the joint committees of the Church |
Of the Pilgrims aud the CIinton-avenue
church, after which Mr.. Beecher rose
and said that he deemed it not inappro-
| Lriate to take steps for the purpose of
making reply to this letter. He had /
asked some of the brethren to draw UP q |
reply, and he had also drawn up letter |
of reply, which he would request Pro- |
fessor Robert Raymond to read, and |
asked that it be signed by the chairman |
of this meeting and the members of the |
and that it be forwarded to |
the committees of the two churches. |
Professor Robert Raymond then read |
the reply to the communications OF the |
committees of the church of the Pill |
grims, and Clinton Avenue church. |
The committee admits diff
ference between the congrega- |
tionalism of the Plymoth church |
and other Congregational churches, and |
claims that the foundation of Plymouth |
church was effected to protest against |
the denomination Cf congregational |
which had excited profound |
Indignation among the members of the /
Congregational churches in the city of |
New York at the time. Plymouth |
church has been governed by a majority
Of its members, while in neither of the
OIueI w CuuICnoS mas ever Dee0 QearQ
the voice of the brotherhood in open
or called assembly. The attitude of
Clinton Avenue and the Church of the
in this controversy is charac-
terized as unwarrantable, and Plymouth
church refuses to receive any further
documents which are not accompanied
Oy the proof Of authority of the
whole brotherhood Of the congregation
al churches, regularly and deliberately
conferred, and they decline, nj
any case, to receive from any
church letters containing covert
nsinuations against the character of
my Ofthe members of Plymouth church.
Plymouth church does not decline to
DIN in calling mutual council, but will
wait less dubious invitation. 1t claims
hat Plymouth church can make rules
or its own government, and still re-
mains Congregational, and declines to
withdraw from the Congregational fell
owship. This reply was adopted, and
'rdered to be signed by the chairman
md members of the committee, and
orwarded to the joint committees of
10Th churches. The committee to whom
vas referred Mr.. Bowen's protest report
dversely. The report was ordered
laced on file. The meeting then ad-
burned.