The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-09

Conflicting Accounts OF His Conditioned
Temporary Cessation of the Crisis-The
New CardinaIs-PiO NOnO-s Days Evil
DENLY Eumbered-whO Shall Succeed

reports concerning the health of his holiness
the pope have kept the telegraph constantly
in motion between Rome and the other
Italian states. But the perplexity caused by
opposite views has been nothing compared
to the agitation at the foot of the Antonian
column and around the fountains
OF the acqua vergine. Swarm
iDg crowds and swayiDg lines
follow in dense masses by moonlight
under the towering buildings which grid the
piazza, or people suddenly rush forth
epileptically Inquirng, gesticulating, shak.
grumble, while ragged newsboys cry out the
names OF half dozen organs, sill OF which
are equally discordant. The journal which
sells most at present, though it prowls about
stealthily, is La Lupa (she wolff 1t Is a
satirical paper and minds not whom it
devours Then come the Capitate and the
Popolo Romano. As TO the ultramontane
Voice of Truth it has no chance at all, but
yet keeps up shrill note in the kiosks
THE ROPES CONDITION.
Not one of these papers tells the exact
truth about Pho Mono. Party feeling and
financial speculation always will either re-
duce proportions or magnify them. The
fact is that the pOpe's life is hanging by a
thread; that he is a very aged man, also
obstinate, and, when suffering from rheu-
matism, loses temper if contradicted-a
thing he is very sorry for afterward, but
still he has not been deferred from his fancy
The Carcassonne pilgrims who came from
France last month proved rather too much
for him. He was ailing when he consented
TO give them an audience and he did so
because, considering, as he said the revolu-
tionary state of their country, he felt
prompted by vivid sense of his pastoral
duties toward them. The effort to appear
strong and to exhort brought on prostration,
oh how haan
fever first and prostration afterwards bat as
there are several physicians their reports on
this head disagree. Be it as it may, the last
appearance in public of the pope was for the
Carcassonne pilgrimage.
THE CRISIS TEMPORARILY OVER
The crisis has momentarily subsidized, and
his holiness has peremptorily asked to be
carried about again in his large arm chair
1t does not appear probable, nevertheless
that the eve which has remained dim can
ever brighten as it did before, or that the
listless hanging arm can again rise and be
stretched forth with its former vigor; that
the hanging underlip can resume its usual
CHEEKY smile. There are undeniable symp-
toms Of the light wearing fast out even of the
mind being absent at times, but this state
may be prolonged and the hereditary elias
ITCHY Of disposition so remarkable in the
poDe's family may keep the wick burning
phere mild and dry, and no i'll rumors get
mingled with the fragrant breezes that creep
up from the gardens below. The pOntificai
encourage are positively afraid of the exer-
ton Pho Mono is determined to try by fits
and starts.
THE NEW CARDINALS.
He has given out his intention to create
two new cardinals on the 2Sth instant. One
is the present archbishop OF Ravenna the
al Del rfvas -h~
late, officiated for the first time at mass last
week. The ceremony is to be performed
under the special presidency of his holiness,
and, although the event is anticipated with
terror by the medical advisers, clericals de-
clare unanimously that the pope will here
take new lease of life. When the latter
are asked why, his holiness being better, the
physicians staff should have been so con-
siderably increased, they reply with COM
forting smile that the pope's case is unlike
that of other people; the more doctors ne
has the better be is for that he is very
stout and while some nimbly dress his
wound others are only wanted as assistants
to support his increasing strength. What
these optimists call health, strength,
and that kind of bulk which neaTS
powerlessness. Should their system be adj
mitted, there is no reason why the so beef
eating looking fellows who lounge about by
turns in the vatican, dressed up in Jack of
Diamonds attire, should not be made of
some use now, and at length show that
young, sturdy muscle can serve q good turn.
Meanwhile the pope's pigeons, that he liked
to feed with his own hands, strut about in
his private garden and huddle together on
the edge of his favorite fountain, exactly as
If they were lovingly watched by a kind
hearted old pontiff. His birthday is APP
preaching, and he hopes 10 gather his month
ly roses in that part of his walk not covered
with orange trees. Meanwhile,
good, bad and Indifferent opuscules are pub
lished on his probable successor-the sue
cessor, saws conventional form of speech,
to St. Peters chair, but sitting down will
not be his chief function, and the political
state of Rome Is such that he may not even
be able to stand it.
Pho NoSo's FPILEPToID SEIZURES.
The London Lancet correspondent at
Rome writes as follows:
Notwithstanding the optimist represent
atoms which the 0sservatore Romano and
the Voce della Verita have been instructed
to put forth with regard to the health of the
pontiff il is manifest that his strength is
Slowly and steadily declining. The epllep
told seizures to which the pope has through
out life been subjected have left his circula-
ton languid and prone to that passive serous
effusion which has deprived him of the use
of his lower limbs. An increasing sensitive
ness to barometric pressure is also apparent
in the general aggravation of the symptoms
conseoent on such continuous wet weatheras
has prevailed in Rome these last ten days.
Hence, too the alienation that has followed
Oh the return of a clearer atmosphere. To-
day 1.-THE 10th inst there is no change for
the worse, and the senile catarrh, which
formed so alarming a symptom some days
ago. is less severe, and proyokes fewer of
those paroxysms of coughing from which, in
the PATIENTS tendency to epileptoid seizure,
so much is to be dreaded, simultaneously,
too, the appetite slightly keener, and bet
ter nights rest is looked for. But the con-
dition, as a whole, is not such as to warrant
a relaxation of the vigilance of DIS
Ceccarelh and Antonini in their efforts
to obviate the tendency to death by
asphyxia or coma or fatal syncope
bis physicians have less apprehension, the