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18th to August Goth. 1t resulted
in a verdict of guilty against six
of the conspirators and sentence
of hanging. Oscar w. Neebe.
being condemned to Is years i'm
prisonment. On Sept. 18th, 1887
the court of last resort confirmed
the findings, and the date of ex-
ecution was set for Nov. 11th. On
Nov. 10th Louis Lingg committed
suicide in his cell, and few hours
later Gov. Oglesby committed the
sentence of Fielden and Schwab to-
Imprisonment for life. The other
four, Spies, Parsons, Fischer and
Engel were hung on the day set,
Nov. 18th, 1887. The Masonic
Temple was built in 1890. We
are unable to ascertain in regard
to the poetry mentioned.
No. 5191:-Hades, in the re-
ligion of ancient Greece, was the
name applied to the kingdom Of
the underworld, the abode of the
departed spirits or shades. Hades
and Pluto are also personal names
for it's king. It is the Greek word
by which the Septuagint translates
the Hebrew sheol, the abode Of the,
dead, in which sense it occurs
frequently in the New Testament.
No. 4874:-Antichrist is a name
which occurs only in the epistles
Of St. John, and is identified by
different writer's with more or
less probability with false Christs
and all other enemies of Christian
ity.
No. 469l:-In the Roman Cath
Ollie Church, the reception of the
tonsure, a bare circle on the crown
Of the head, precedes admission
into orders, and is admins,
tered by the bishop The Greek
priests also bear the tonsure. The,
earliest ecclesiastical precept on
the tonsure occurs in a canon
of the Council of Toledo,
1888 A. D..
No. 5493:-Prester John is the,
name applied by medieval Gre
dulity for two hundred years to
the supposed Christian sovereign
Of a vast but ill-defned empire in
central Asia. The idea of pow
erful Christian potentate in the
far East, at once priest and king,
was universal in Europe from
about the middle of the twelfth to
the beginning of the fourteenth
century, when it was transferred to.
Ethiopia and finally found a
fancied historical justification in
identification with the Christian
king Of Abyssinia,
No. 4959:-The Templars were
famous military order, which,
like the Hospitallers and the
Teutonic Knights, owed it's origin
to the Crusades. In the year 1119
two comrades of Godfrey de Bouil-
lion, Hughes de Payen and Geof-
froi de Saskatchewan, bound
themselves and seven other French
knights to guard pilgrims to the
holy places from the attacks of the
Saracens, taking before the patri-
arch Of Jerusalem solemn VOWS Of
chastity, poverty, and obedience,
No. 4567:-The famous bashi-,
bazouks are irregular troopers in
the pay Of the Sultan. Very few
of them are Europeans; they are
mostly Asiatics from some other
of the provinces in Asiatic Turkey.
They are wild, turbulent men,
brave enough if serving under
some leader who understands them:
they receive no regular pay. They,
may be either infantry or cavalry,
and their usual weapons are long
lance, a sabre, several pistols and
one or more daggers. The famous
bulgarian atrocities of 1876,
which reused the indignation of
Europe and ultimately cost the
corrupt Turks their supremacy,
were mainly due to the lawless>
brutality of these ruffians.
No. 1917 Heredity is the term.
applied to the transmission to the,
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