Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-01

fold. The split in bis church he attributes to
 his promulgation of the dogma in question,
 which, although it drew proselytes for time
 has now reduced him to preaching to empty
 benches.
 Rev. James s. Bush, who will soon cease to be rector of the fashionable Episcopal church at West Brighton Staten Island, is so conscientiously opposed to church lotteries that his resignation grew out of one. The Sunday school library needed replenishing, fair was held to procure funds, and to swell the receipts watch was rallied for and won
 by Erastus Brooks. Rev. Mir. Bush's oppo- sition to church fairs has been we'll known,
 and the fact that this one was conducted dur ing his absence led him to resign at once on
 returning. MT. Brooks has given the watch
 away, and says he respects his pastor and had
 no intention of affronting him.
 A prisoner in the State prison of Califor-
 mia writes to San Frsncisco papers that
 money will buy whatever the convicts ID y
 want, and that whisky selling is 8 lucrative
 trade in the prison. He adds The men
 WAO A0FS NCSA COAf4CLCu Ok LAo AAkQcSI crimes are always the most popular over there among the prisoners, and the officials too, and if they have coin as well, there's no end of favor shown lem. Just take "Black Bart" as a sample. He sticks up stage coaches single-handed. You newspaper gents give him whole columns for & send-otf. He blows his own trumpet, and struts around as Q GWAl1 hinh bo ot Gon Quentin look at him with wish that they'd gone in for the same big game, and the off, cers of the prison gather hiR in as pet lamb, and appoint him right of at the start as head man of the laundry, where he gets lots of pickings, where he sits around in private office, and has his meals cooked by his own Chinaman-ons of the prisoners Of course-on his private stove.
 Dr. T. R. Allinson gave 8 supper to one hundred and fifty London paupers the other day costing six cents per head. The bill of fare comprised three cosrseg@Scotch broth and slice of whoIe-meal bread for 8 sav- ory dish, green pea pie with potatoes, the pie crust being made with vegetable oil and for dessert, sweetened semolina and stewed prunes. Addressing those present the doc tor remarked that his own food cost him lit Lie more than Sd day, and he found that he could do his work great deal better with out beef or mutton, or any of tn ose things thought so nourishipg and so strength-gi ing. For nearly two years he had taken no meat at all. His dinner that day had con sisted of vegetable stew in which were po- tatoes carrot, turnip, and pearl barley, and with that he ate brown bread. To follow, he had plum pudding, made just as any of hose he was speaking to would probably make one, except that tbere was no suet in t. I vat meal he took at one o'clock, and lsd aotting more until joining them at su per On ,uch diet he had often to work, saa he oea work with comfort to himself Or sixteen hours day. Sines letter of his in the Times with reference to 'ook containing recipes for the cookery of hese plain dishes, he had received 1, 500 let CTS asking that the book might be forwarded 8 the writers. The applications did not oslao from poor people generally, ybnt fecna l nrsis and ladies and persons in good posi- ! ions in life.