The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-27
S1'. LOUIS NEWS.
A RELIGIOUS UDNTHDvEHsy-"w WHAT
CATHOLICS D0 NOT BELIEVE"
n Resignation of the speaker nj the House
Ut Deiegates-~An Ice FanaiHe-The Ma
tlanat spelling Reform Asssria ti8n.

Resignation of the speaker nj the House
of Deiegates-An ice Famine Ma
tisnat spelling Reform Asseti alton.
Especial Correspondence OF the Demoerat.l
~ Lou1s. January a. 1878.
THE CLERGY or 81. Louis
and vicinity are now engaged In d grand reli-
gious controversy the greater portion .of
which is being conducted through the columns
Of the Globe Democrat. The controversy had
lts origin In lecture delivered by the Right
Reverend Bishop 1tyan on the 10th OF last Ue-
esmber The lecture was delivered Mt the
invitation OF the Rev. Dr. Snyder pastor Of
the Messiah Unitarian Church, and the sub
iect Of his lecture,
"wHAT CATHOLICS 30 NOT BELIEVE,
WINS also selected by Dr. Snyder The Mes
siah Unitarian Church was offered TO Bishop
Ryan for the delivery of his lecture. but the
Bishop preferred public hall. and SO the leo
t,lre WINS delWered in Mercantile Library
Hall. The BisAop was honored with rs large
an audience rs ever gathered In the hall. and
among those present were large number Of
Professionals, including Dir. Snyder. and few
Jews. including Dr. Sonnensthein, the rabbi
OF the principal Jewish synagogue here,
Bishop Ryan Is d natural born orator, and
bis lecture on this occasion fairly en-
fgpturrd his hearers. Tho greater part
Of his lecture was published vsfbat-
I'm In the Globe Democrat and Republican,
aud the Times published q thfee-eoumn
synopsis Of 1t. and the entire lecture was
afterward published In pamphlet form and
offered for sale ut the bookstores mud news
stands. During the following week reporter
Of the Globe Democrat interviewed some thirty
different elergymen. representing nearly oil
the religious seets and denominations In the
city, on the Bishops lecture. and the Inter
view were all published IN that paper. Open
letters to Bishop Ryan from Some OF the Pros
testant clergynen wsfs then published. and
then replies 10 them by number OF Catholic
elergymen. During the controversy. which
has been going on ever since, lectures ON
religious matters have been delivered
ut Mercantile Library Hall by DR.
ssonnensehen, the Jewish rabbi; DR. Francis
Dillon Eagan formerly an Episcopal minister
| but now d convert 10 Catholicism DIR. j. O..
| Reaset, IL Presbyterian minister; Mr.. George
| II, Vending. Of Shelbyvile, Illinois: and Mr.
| Albert Warren Kelsey, o newspaper cores
pondent ON political aud religious topics. and
a great admrer of Buddhism. the subject Of
his lecture. Pulpit sermons on the religious
controversy have been delivered by nearly all
| the Protestant eIergymsn in the city. and by
o. few OF the Catholic elergymen, and abb
straets of about hundred of these
sermons have been published In tho Globe
| Democrat. Tho number Of letters pub
| lished by the same paper during the
controversy liz tip In the hundreds somewhere.
and the end IL not reached yet. The Sweden
borpians and Mormons have entered into the
controversy, and II u Mahomedan could be-
found In tho city the Globe Democrat people
would not rest until they got ut least as much
rs an interview out of him. There are any
number Of Chinese In the city, but their religion
seems to have been forgotten altogether In
the controversy.
| JOHN II. AMfIUNa,
Speaker pro TEN. Of the House Of Delegates.
and the oldest member OF the Municipal AsN
Aenbly resigned his seat IN that body Tues
day night. tn ayoid expulsion. The charge
against Mr.. Amelung WIS that OF forging the
names of n score on more OF his constituents
to n petition for n branch server In his ward,
md attesting to the gennineness OF the same
on presenting 1t 10 the board Of public im-
proyements An investigation Of the charge
developed the fact that only one signature
TO the petition was -. genuine, ana that
was the name Of VIM. Ameling him
self The only excuse he could offer
for certifying to the genuineness OF the other
signatures, was that he knew from previous
conversation with his constituents that they
were all in favor Of the sewer, and that he di .
nothing more than was customary among his
fellow aldermen when he certified to the
genuineness Of the names The Investigating
committee reported in favor OF his expulsion,
but Mr.. Amelungs resignation was accepted
| 40, # I'm tpffsra
committees report came up for considera-
ton The hasty action Of the majority In nc
cepting his resignation leaves very little
doubt that many other petitions for improve
ments have received similar doctoring.
A Times reporter interviewed the leading
wholesale ice dealers Of st. Louis, few days
ago, on the prospects for
/ CHEAP ICE
next summer. No Ice has been put up here
yet this winter, and the Ice dealers say thai
The ice in the river-lakes OF Illinois, where
most of the ice consumed In ut. Louis comes
from, Ia only five inches thick now, only hal
the thickness required for shipping. The win
ter is more than half over, and the prospects
are that the Ice men here will have TO look tt
Northern Minnesota for their Ice this year
up before the middle Of January, ane
there was so much Of 1t cut In TN
! vicinity of st. Louis that there was no profit
at all In the Ice brought from the North. The
WlOle9tl1e pItCe vi 1GG lth1b "t@7 ~
duced at one time to 50 80 o ton and never ex
ceeded So so a ton. The average price during tht
summer months is about ". and the Ice dealers
say that they have received as high A. $40 Q
ton for their Ice The wholesale price here II
, now SO ton and the retail price fifty cents
hundred The retail peddlers do very LITTLE
, cutting themselves unless the winter Is an I'M
, usually severe one They generally buy from
, the wholesale men, as do also the brewers o
} the city and the pork-packers. The Ice bills
some OF the brewers amount to thousands 9
dollars in the course Of q year, enough to ef
feet the price Of beer very materially.
, THE NATIONAL SPELLING REFORM ALsoCTA
TON
met here last week, but the interest In tht
/ convention was altogether of local charac
ter. The addresses were all delivered by res