Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-21

The Springfield Republican wants to know why Connecticut don't try the abolition of the death penalty. We have tried it, by the help of our iuries, snd the opinion is now very general thAt VIC ought to try tho effect of a few hansipgs.
 The growing ritualistio trouble in ths Phila- delphja diocese has finally assumed the serious shape of the Bishops formal notification to the Rev. O. s. Prescott, rector of St. Clem- ent's, infornIng him that the Standing Com mites has examined and sussaised the char gss brought against him, and adnonishiDg him ''to abstain hereafter from all genuf1sx- Ions, prostrations, or bowings to or before the Lords table by the clergy aud choristers, the use of candles and lights in the chancsl be- yond what are needed for the purpose of giv- ng light" and other practices commonly rec ognized as ritualistic. It is said that the rec tor and vestry will disregard tho admonition in order that tho matter may come before the Civil Courts, and, if disregardsd, it will cer- tainly be tried in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
 Secretary Schurz intends to visit the Ma IlOUH1 4SHO"SlCuS paEh IuiS 6uuH6T, Auu IS considering plans fer its improvement. Among other thiEgs, it is proposed to make the park preserve for the large game of North America, many varieties of which al- ready abound there. Unless something is done to check the reckless destruction of the buffalo, moose, elk, bear, etc., the species are in danger of becoming extinct. The Yellow stone park comprises 3,575 square miles of territory, most of which Is over 6,OOO feet above the ocean level. It is surrounded by mountains from 10000 to 12, GOO feet high, and is accessible only through two or three canons. If hunting wsrs prohibited there, the preservation of great variety of game would be assured, as the country is well wa tered and sufficiently fertile to support i'm mense herds of herbivorous animals.
 The ''ballad concert continues to be the most popular style of musical entertainment in London, and the wonder of many why this should be 50 continues to increase. The ''ballad concert consists entirely of songs and a few hackneyed instrumental pieces by way of filling out the time. Mir. Jennings writes of these concerts sFfve-sixths of the songs are of the most wisby washy, sentimental chareoter-it is astonishing what sentimen- tai creature John Bull is under the surface. He will sit by the hour and listen to some ono singing about his broken heart or his moth er's grave. The last quality which foreign CTS attribute to the Englishman is sentimsn- tality, but in reality he is full of 1t, and that Is partly the reason of the suc- cess of these ballad concerts. Anything about love's young dream, or dying sweet heart, or the old church by the hill, puts him into delightful state of melancholy, and enables his wife to enjoy good, comfortable cry. At one of these concerts I heard an able-bodied gentleman sing four or five verses of song exhorting everybody to keep his grave green,' and plant tear-washed flower upon it every now and then-with most lackedaisical expression and accents of the deepest emotion. It seemed to me the most ludierous performance had ever seen, but must have been wrong, for everybody was crying. It would have been much bet ter to have settled the whole matter by the audience signing pledge to keep the gentle
 mans grave green and dismissing him with his mind made easy on that point. As it is,