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It ana, Missouri nnrl TIIE SPORT'S SPOT, AMUSEMENTS. OTJE SATURDAY PULPIT. Catholicity Versus Controversy. BY EEV. W.

W. BOTD. the professionals are still remaining in town, and the efforts now on foot to raise a couple of semi-professional home clubs for the coming season, arc said to be meeting with success; but beyond these two very well-worn facts, the news-hunter generally finds that his attempts to in an item are but a series of disastrous ex-Prince Imperial having been staying with the great Duke's grandnephew, Lord Cowley, at his seat Draycot, in Wiltshire. The Social and Dramatic Club of Vinegar Hill will shortly produce a new and beautiful amateur play, written by a Vinegar Hill dramatist and entitled "The Lost Found, or Peanuts Five Cents a Cup." A striking test of the state of trade in Europe afforded by the fact that Messrs. Bass Cog propose to brew this year 50,000 quarters less malt than last year, and Messrs.

Alsop have reduced their brewing by 300 quarters. A German expedition ill start shortly to explore the eastern part of the Desert of Sahara. will be under the direction of Mr. Kohlfs who has received the Paris Geographical Society's medal for intrepid and able exploration. More than one savant ill he of the party.

The last person decorated by the late King of Italy was Dr. David Toscano, an eminent Jewish physician of Home, who received the Order the Crown of Italy. In the time of the Papal power in Rome, Dr. Toscano could only obtain degree on taking an oath that he ould never visit Christian patients. Miss Addie Sharper has invented a social novelty in the shapeof anAdjustable Society Lamp.

the aid of a simple nieehanical contrivance the lamp may be made to go out at any desired time, and when the lamp goes out the young man goes out also. Miss Sharper says she has never known the experiment to fail. The monthly conrrrsazione of the Society fo Mutual Discomboberation was held on Friday the salon of Professor Slogo. The entertainment opened with the reading of a paper by Irofessor Pumper on the Relative Subjectivity Circumambient Atoms, which was made the business." as each Churcn attends to its own specific mission, and docs its appropriate work of elevating the community, will it advance the great cause of Christ, and hasten the answer of the Saviour's memorable prayer: "That they all may be one as Thou, Father, in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Jesus was the most unsectarian teacher the world ever listened to. How He rebukes the narrow and exclusive spirit cropping out in the of His most intimate deseiple.

St. John said, "Master, we saw one easting out devils in Thy name; and we forbade him, because he fol-loweth not untk vs." Here is the germ of all modem bigotry. But how- sublime the Saviour's reply: "Forbid him not; for he that is not against us, is for us." The words of Rev. Phillips Brooks, in his recent book, entitled "Lectures on Preaching," have the right ring about them: "A preacher comes to me from Africa, or from some church another denomination in the next street, which often seems further off than Africa. It depends upon what the power of our preaching is, how near we come together.

If we are both given to machineries, each of us valuing only what a certain sort of people may become under the peculiar culture of the denomination represents, then talk, however pleasantly, only over our fences, and shake hands, however cordially, only through the slats. If we both really value the soul of man we understand each other; the different methods our work do not keep us apart, but bring us together, for they are the means which we manifest to one another the deep motive which is the power of both our lives. The fences are turned into bridges. Certainly, Christian union, whenever it comes, must come thus, not by compromise, and the adjustment various forms of government and worship, but by the development in all preachers of all kinds of that value for man iu Christ which bur 1 Where They Will Find a Summary of Savory News, nd a Thousand Things That Will Interest Them. The Latest Intelligence Iu Local ami Outside Circles.

Ball Thf Bini-h Show Billiard8--Co king Bains The Arena, the Turf nnd the Wter. Billiards. Ti Tournament, at Musey's rooms, 'iws mui'f iutouscly as it nears its close. Up tin? iircsi-nt time all tlio games played have i with one or two exceptions probably, ex-. IWnt lines, and some the individual play-: added new laurels to those to which were previously entitled.

As the tourna- ut stands now Magnus leads for the first v.ith Carti-r next, the former having won and loit one, with another to play, which he is likely to come out winner. lias lt one game and won two, i ho win the two he t-t to play, the probability lie ill no more than tie Magnus. The panie of the tournament, and the shortest wrre made by Gallagher, in Friday's nit-: average was two-third. record nci li's game, is as follows: Magnus out-scored IleKer five piayea a line game, giv- lortv points. -dav Carter and the "llenedief I -in -s lo the discomfiture of the latter; i.i li.

i The "r.enedict" a acraiu beaten in a eiox; of 5u to i 7 i i higher played the bet game of iiaiiient with iii'ier, scoring all his pel ic ileiscr could got further on the lo iiruT ilnys his fourth game, his an-. o.r.-t lieintr and on Monday Gallagher i i after ill jilay. tournament at Sain Baldwin's 1 in the I.aclede, has ako drawn id' stttention. The games played vek and the results were Joe Bat-, Willie Newman, 53; Jas. Finley, It.

Allen, luO; II. F.verhard, 01; loo; V. ei -hard, 91 Battin, loo; Char-. Finley, 100; Allen, 05. Finley tSe liirg-t rim of the tournament, lb ai.d he and Joe Battin uremic 1 forlirst.

'i f. a'ure at Baldwin's next week, 1 ojie that iii draw the attention of the .1 an'', amateur world, will be the -l io intV' tournament, which will be rated there Monday evening. The game mi a one, and is tally ex-. 1 iu the it Tieniled rules, which are to a thi-i novei ii.stiiutiou in billiards, to a Mr. justly lay claim as the points will be p'av ed and thirty gamer' to decide hich pla it city can make the most and the best 1 the table shots.

The following are the govi rning this game: i i ed it three bails, two bite i iii is lii'u'iin by stringing for lead games, the halls being Ti'imliere 1 made iu according to the accomplirhiug a c'i-1. ion preceding or the lir-i ball, counts one Tiled against the player nt push i- barred, the being ill itself a bar to of i et t. crutch the fill inaiiei's the accepted rules of bil-l in "i counts v. ho are to inaugurate the new lay evening are S. C.

Baldwin, ht. lMwin Howard, Frank Tole, play. on M' 1 1 1 Knig and 1. Morgan. tournament for the ohampinii-Uip of ha-- been in progress in that city, ha Adams, the well known expert finger-, has challenged Mons.

Iar, ho to be Hi- das- in that lir.e, to a match on a 5x1 Cullender cushion table for Mops. Iar i- in "hieago, at present, and not i.ieeu heard from. Adams is placing a of exhibitions at John D. O'Conner's S.juat rooms in New Y'ork. The full complement of ten games in the New mis billiard tournament have been played, on xton, to whom the public had l.i la.lil iiS piouaoic wiuiiei, 13 ii.i- contestant who never met with defeat, to have won his games by super-i play tow aril- the tini-h.

as has been his cus- heretofore. He had upl.ui worii in every ne in this t' ei in anient. His final contest was exception to the others. Iu that Maurice ly over played himself by about fifteen or ing averaged about twenty-aad gone. Leading Sexton enty per cent tiiree, a- far as he by up lids of one hundred, Daly had but a f.

more than one nunareu to go. than one hundred to go. ll was at this point that Sexton closed the game ft a run of 207 the largest of the tourney by upwards of loo and the remarkable average a (joo-point game) of upwards of 2S, which sexton had surpassed, however, in his game with slos.son. It will be observed that Cyrille in his game with Italy 19 11-31. 'I his js a tribute to th atmosphere of the Cres-(.

ait City. Dion could not make these figures in New York in a Coo-point game, nor could I iilv reach a losing average of 22. Slosson against Daly made his recorded average 4 i j-'ti. A peculiarity of the New Orleans was the wnv in which the game between slosson and Dion opened, the former making a I i of 173, and the latter following it with a 1 run of 115. Stiil the averages were but 15 I "i.9 and 12 36-38.

Kudolph and Slosson are tied for second, and Daly and Dion for fourth place. The tenth article of the Clipper's in review of i ai m. jxiuis, and we see no reason why Texas. Alabama, Indiana and Kansas shall not do so. If all these States should send liberal representations to the great central city of the nation, we may reasonably expect that the inaugural meeting of the new organization ill be one of unparalleled brilliancy.

We hear that jiiimsiicK, i-omerov, McWhirter, LlZZlO Whips. CharliA n.hom t-. liell Palmer; Cainmie King William, Bill Bass, and other good ones, will be on hand. These are blue bloods sufficient merit to make sport for kings. They will arouse the long dormant spirit of St.

Ixinis. Her people will be made to feel the exciting joy of an hour sueh as they witnessed years ago, when the sons and daughters of Leviathan Sovereign, Glencoe, GravKagle, Wagner, Uodolph, Yorkshire, Lexington, and JllKlit fierce battleson tie plains now covered by massive walls of brick, since erected at the imperious demands of the rapidlv-iimirov-mg metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. The Arena. Joe Goss is iu Troy.X. where he will soon take a benefit.

Trof Miller is giving athletic entertainments Xew York City, the principal features of which are sparring, pedestrianism, bicycling, wrestling, fencing, gymnastics, etc. Tom Allen and Charley Davis are matched to box with ordinary sized gloves, according to the Queensberry rules, for a 200 cup and the championship, in London, Eng. Trof. Win. Miller, in a published challenge in the last number of the Spirit of The Times, offers to wrestle Major McLaughlin, "or Mr.

Owens, or any other wrestler in the world, for or $1,000 a side, one fall to be C.raeco-Roman, one collur-and-clbow, and one mixed. He also offers to wrestle any man, including Mons. Bonnel le Beuf, in Gricco-Boman style, two falls out of three, for a side. Also, for the same amount at catch-holds above the aist. Jim Mace was in Melbourne, Australia, December 12, the combination with which he traveled through the colonies having disbanded.

By the way, Johnny Dwyer eontem-templates visiting the Antipodes next summer, leaving Xew Y'ork about May. He will probably be accompanied bv Prof. Wm. Miller, who knows "the ropes" in that part of the world thoroughly, having been for some time proprietor of the Melbourne Gymnasium, and for years engaged in the railroad business there. Trap and Trigger.

II. Key nolds defeated It. C. Humphreys in a pigeon match for at Lansing, January IS); score 46 to 42 out of 50. The Empire IJifle Club has been organized in New York city with the follow mg officers: President, L.

C. Bruce; Vice Presidents, H. F. llolton and W. M.

Farrow Secretary and Treasurer, Ir. M. M. Maltby Executive Committee C. H.

Jolir, T. W. Linton, and the officers above-named. An exhibition between Capt. Pogar ltis and Dr.

Talbot, the later being conceded fifty glass balls in one hundred, took place January 19 at the Tivoli Theater, New York (where Bogardus bad been engaged during the week) Bogardus broke 9s out of lo0, and Talbot 4S out of 50, and a tie was announced. lVdcstrie.iitsm. The 150 yerd race between Wheat, ored sprinter, and Scholes is to take Fleetwood Park, 24. Daniel has made arrange give an exhibit inn alk ut the llighlat. Belvedere, Cincinnati, commencing the col-place at r.ents to il House, Jaiiua- Miss Bertha Von Hillern began an xhihition of her powers of endurance at Odd Fcllo'vs' Hall, Washington, D.C.at 8 o'clock p.

January Is. She proposed to walk eighty-nine miles in six consecutive hours, and she completed the task with plenty of time to spare. A seven-mile alking match for the cham pionship of New Zealand and lo0, wasi contested recently by Bow ley, of Christ Church and Edwards, of Wellington. From first to lust the contest was of the most exciting description, and the result was a dead heat. Time, 2s.

Aquatic. The steam yacht Pandora was purchased in London England January 17, by James Gordon Bennett. It is stated that the vessel is to be fitted out another Arctic exploring expedition. A meeting of members of the Newark, X. rowing clubs was held January IS, at which a committee of three from each organization was appointed to raise the requisite guarantee of $5oo, to insure the holding of the annual regatta of the N.

A. A. on the Passaic Biver. Prize Figeons. The Ne York pigeon show has proved an immense success.

The classiQeution of the birds embraced sixteen classes, and as in each class the Columbarian society awarded three or more prizes, and a long list of special prizes were added, there were in all over one hundred nnd titty awards made. The number of prizes iieiuec'l a large repiesei'iafion of thesecral ai ietii'S, and i he Aoiiarium as the center of attiactioii during the exhibition. orn society notes. Everybody's Private Business Made Public. Doiiis of the Elile-rersonal Items the Fashionable World.

of Grand Masquerade Eall of the Codfish Coterie. On Friday Mrs. Jones visited Mrs. Smith. Miss Calliope Melpomene Bumper is around tow n.

Mr. Sponge is in town; he has no intention of going away. The German given by the O'Finnegans was perfectly glorious. Miss Melindy Belinda Brown is in town, she has never been away. The Grand Order of Pugs will give a select entertainment next week.

The Bayreuth Leaves is a new newspaper devoted to the Wagner interest. Aristides Bunch, a leading society beau of Oshkosh, is visiting his friend, Dionysius Snivel. Mrs. the most charviante and lien conservee of our society matrons, has a new ig, of the prevailing color. The French settlers of Pelotas, Brazil, have sent a crown of silver to Paris to be deposited on the tomb of Thiers.

The Voudoo Club gave a grand entertainment at midnight Saturday night. The incantations ere delightful. The Cnited Sons of the Clubstone, it is rumored, or suspected, are to give a party this inter or some time next fall. The kettle-drum which occurred at tfie residence of Mrs. Slug, Thursday evening, on Collins street, was a grand success, The German explorers at Olympi.a have discovered the long-sought-for Philipeion, erected by King Thilip after the battle of Charonea.

The weekly reunion of the Higgins' coterie was in every way a success; but subsequently a row occurred, and Higgins got badly pulverized. Baroness Burdett-Coutts has been elected an associate of the Koyal Historical Society, and has given to the library" a magnificent present of books. The Indian rrince, Maharajah Scindian, has the construction of a new palace, which promises to outshine the one occupied by the Prince of Wales during his visit to Gwalior. The Italian Government have decided tore- store to the Neapolitan dynasty the dowry of Queen Marin Sophia, wife of Francis and thn Tirrmertv left bv the late Queen Maria Theresa. Such are time's changes that a Kapolcon has lately been the guest in England of a W'cllcsley, the is of It of his By in of I DE BAR'S OPERA HOUSE.

Monday, January 21, until fnrtlier notice, the gifted American atxisia, McKee Rankin MissKittyBlanchard, IuJoaquinMniei-'sftliePeetof the Sierras) chariiiliiglj pure "American drama, entitled THE DANITES, 5iipportei1 by Louis AVlrirh. C. T. Parslae. Vining I.ewcrs.

Miss Ior.Hrtiiitliwaiteainl all excellent cast, tr M.VGMFK'KX i'SCENEltV 1SY H. WATSOV. OLY3IPIC. Saturday, January 26, two performances this day. Ilaverly's 3Xiiisti-els 2 MATIVF.E at 2 p.

m. Vight at 8. Monday, January 2S i )ne week onlv, Miss Genevieve Rogers in "Maud THEATRE COMIQUE. Pine Street, between Third and Fourth. Grand Matinee this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, evert lady will receive a beautiful chmiiio.

Kngaeement of tin- jm-at M. Louis favorite actor, GKO. W. THOMPSON', in his drama of also, Langlois Jirotlicrs. Lciifuu lfrotlu rs, 2 Ha-leys." Irwin Sisters, beautiful Ballet Troupe, and the hole yret Variety 'ompaiiy.

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i Everv lover of truth must rejoice in the fact that he is living in an age, the tendency of which is opposed to the spirit of exclusiveness and narrowness. Religious truth is becoming more and more the property of every man. More and more we are feeling that truth is committed to no special order or sect, but that it is every man's right to search out and know the truth for himsett. anere is a liberal spirit in exercise in the henrts of more people than ever before in the history of religion. Pure and undeliled religion is less considered as a name, a form, a creed, a church but as the spirit of Christ, as a life in the soul, exhibiting itself in every right and proper action.

The days of the inquisition have passed; and though now and then one meets a pugnacious controversalist who, if he had the power, would make a first class inquisitor, and who hurls his harmless anathjmas at the heads of those who differ from him, yet the majority of professed Christians can shake hands ith each other, and exchange words of fellowship, and see in one another's faces the features of brethren. I devoutly thank God for these characteristics of the present age, which prove that the world is moving forward, not backward. Notwithstanding these signs of a growing Catholicity, we realize also the present conflict of religious opinions. There is controversy in the religious field as there is in all other fields of thought. There is time-consuming debate that results in disturbance and aleination of feeling.

Moreover, controversy tends to unsettle the public mind in the essential truths of the Christian system, and so the good cause of religion suffers because of these contending sects and parties. In the presence of these fighting theologians the Bible itself seems like a garden into which cloven-footed beasts have entered, or as the field from which battle has just departed. There is no portion of the history of the church more humiliating to the sincere believer in Christ than that of the controversies of the various sects, li argument alone had been used to propogate sectarian view the effect would have beeu sad enough but laws, prisons, scaffolds and exile have been summoned, where argument has failed, to sustain the dogmas of a religious school. And the saddest thing about this historvof contro versy is, that nearly the hole stir has been about matters non-essential. One party has seized upon a disputed doctrine, made it a test of personal loyalty to Christ, and shut the.

gates of heaven to those who ould not accept it. Another has overlooked the weightier matters of the Bible justice, truth, and mercy and put immense stress on a priestly order or ordinance, on the style and color of a surplice, on the effect of baptism, or ou the mere ritual of a service. For one I prefer to err on the side of Catholicity, rather than on the side of controversy. When I see the mock dignity of those who claim the exclusive ownership in God's truth, in the church, in the promises of the Bible, I am quite willing to be branded a heretic, and suffer, if need be, their mimic thunderbolts of excommunication and censure, rather than to yield my right of private judgment. Men can not all believe alike.

To one a certain Bibie truth seems most important, to another a different truth. Each will lift into prominence that doctrine to hich his temperament allies itself. We should bear iu mind, in the midst of conlroversey, that Cue largest part of the di-putcs arise about nen-essentials. The things that must be understood in religion arc very few in number, though many other things would, if heartily accepted, contribute to the symmetrical development of the clmracter. Fundamental differences of belief are the exception.

Men are not fighting at the center, but at the outposts of Christian truth. Modern controversy is ell illustrated by the difference between two parties in the German Chinch, to which Dr. Lange alludes in his critical com meutary. Iu using the Lord's Prayer one par ty savs Tuier Xostcr," the other savs "JSosler Pater." This slight difference in the order of two words, insignificant as it is, has ofien been the cause of alienation of feeling and disturb a nee uevolion. luc trivial and insignificant character of much of religious controver tends greatly to lift from the truly liberal soul the shadow cast by those, clouds of theological dispute that seem periodically to darken the religious sky.

In ail Christian churches the simplest and plainest truths of religion are taught. In every church holy men are found. In all churches 1 joyfully recognize the true disciples of a com mon tamer. 1 lie i anioiic iiiuri'u nas a run legacy in the sainted names of her St. Louis Fenelon, Cheverus, and Saint Francis de Sales the sweetness of whose charity seventy thousand persons were won to his faith.

The Sisters of Charity are messengers of blestin to the suffering ones of all climes. The English church presents the names of Latimer, Hooker Iierklev and Ilcber. The dissenting churches may well take pride in the memory of the holy lives of Baxter, Bunyan, Howe, Watts, Robert Hall and Doddridge. George Fox, Wm. Penn and Robert Barclay will surely open heaven to the Quakers.

The ynitarian Church mus claim John Milton, John Locke, Samuel Clarke and many others equally devoted to God and humanity. And so I might recall names from every church that would do the heart good- the world's greatest and best, before whom it would do well for the modern controversalist to uncover. We ought to shudder at the suggestion that the Infinite God can be confined within the limits of any single denomination. We should be quick to recognize moral worth wherever it mav be found. We must not shut up God love, or Christ's work, or the Spirit's power within the creed of any party or sect.

We should respect the right of private judgment and the sacredness of individual interpretations of truth honestly derived from the Bible through prayer. The denomination of which I am a member to the tenets of which I heartily subscribe ought to be the foremost in maintaining and fostering the spirit of true independence thought. The fundamental idea of a Baptis Church is soul liberty, and therefore each sep crate church in the denomination is absolutel iiidencndent. It is said that Thomas Jefferson got his conception of our republican form of government from a little Baptist church Virginia. So zealously has tnis principle neen guarded, that if a Baptist Church calls a council of sister churches to deliberate with it, it is simply for advice.

The council can utter no authoritative voice. The church may accept or reject its decision. Each church has the right to its own tonus of worship, and all questions arising are settled in a purely democratic way. It was for this principle of personal freedom that Roger Williams, left the then inhospitable limits of Massachusetts, and settled in Rhode I-land. The eccle-siasticism of the Puritans, the intolerance of the Orthodox Church, at that time the State Church, compelled him to this course.

Is it not strange, then, that within this denomination, the very corner-stone of which is the independence of the church and soul-liberty, there should be a party of self -constituted, would-be leaders, (happily few in number) who endeavor to enforce an intellectual absolution in matters which are fairly matters of opinion? Who endeavor by threat and anathemas to drive out from the denomination not only individuals but whole churches? Some time since I saw an old Colonial cent, that might well prove a fitting study for these theological warriors. It bore the date of 1787. The superscriptions are exceedingly apt. On one side w-crc thirteen rings, representing the thirteen original Colonies, interlinking one with the other and forming a circle around the motto "WE ARE One." On the other sida stood forth the bold words. "Mind Tom Own Rcst- skss." A fitting dfrttr for every graduate from our theological schols.

We are one: One Lord, one fatth, one haDtitm." But underlying our unity is the car. diiial teuet of every Christian wind your own art one life of he of by of whitewashes. THE GAME ELSEWHERE. Pave Kggler is wanted by the Chieagos as their center fielder. Springfield, is to have a professional nine next season.

The Cincinnati last season won but nineteen out of seventy-two championship games. Polan, catcher of last year's Alleghenies, has been sick and confined to his bed for over a month. There is some talk of getting up a professional nine in Brooklyn, with Dick i'eaxce as the manager. The Milwaukees and Indianapolis both claim Croft for next season, the former by virtue of a telegraphic contract. Bradley is pitcher for the Tecnmsehs, of Bon-don, next year, and the Canada club ill go iu for the championship.

Teek and Snyder are about to publish a new copyright score-book, on the basis of their association score-book of last year. Sutton has gained his suit against the old Athletic Club, for salary due him, but it is claimed the Club has nothing to realize on. Several gentlemen of means contemplate organizing a first-class professional nine at Elizabeth, X. J. and will have a fine ground.

The Buffalo Club starts with a capital of Thev have a good nine, including Fulmer, Galvin and Dolan of last year's Alle- uciiicrj. Joe I.eggett, seventeen years ago the crack catcher of the country, last week absconded with several trWmsand "dollars, collected from Brooklyn liquor dealers in payment for their licenses. The following nine will represent Cincinnati next season: J.White, catcher; W. White, pitcher; Sullivan, Gerhardt and MeVey on the bases; Geer, short stop, with Jones, i'ike and Kelley in the outfield. Pittsburg will be represented next season by a co-operative professional nine known as the Alleghenies, and including Sullivan, Phillips, I.ane, Hasan and Wilkinson.

They will join the International Association. Leeds, late Captain of the narvard College nine, recently pla ed in a base ball game at Yokohoma, Japan, sides were chosen, representing Tokio and the American licet airainst Yokohoma, the latter's nine including Leeds and Churchill, of Harvard College. A meeting of the representatives of the strong teams of svracuse. Buffalo, Bochester, Auburn, I'tica and Binirhaniton, ill be held at an early date to arrange rive series of games for the championship of the State of New York. A meeting of the Pacific Base-ball League as held at City Hall, Mm Francisco, January 10, at which constitution and by-laws were adopted, and a permanent organization effected.

The first regular meeting of the league will be held on the lirt Thursday in February. The death of Archie Bush, Captain and catcher of the Harvards of IsTO. is announced as having occurred at Liverpool, Lngland, on Heecnibt lri, hile on his bridal tour. Frank Wriiiht, the Captain of the Harvards of lsiiti, is engaged in business in Liverpool, The International Association is to hold a special meeting at Buffalo, on next Thursday, to take action looking to a reorganization on an entirely new liu-is, and one better calculated to promote the welfare of the non-Leairue clubs. The Bo-tons were organized January 20, ls7'i, George and Han right and "llurrv M-haier being the only three of the original players that are still connected with the club, Harry Wright acting again as manager this Near, with Harry ciiutt.T as the business iiian-agcr.

Iieaeon llaldeman of the T.oui- ilies, always u-ed to siiiiiilement his morning tinners wiih the following: 'ih. Lord, if it is Thy pleasure to catch me out on a foul to-day, good enough! Gram that 1 may run mv bases and when at la-1 Vou put me out, me be buried beneath the home -piate. A new board of directors for the Syracuse Stars was elected on the llth, at he "annual meeting, and a local paper in commenting upon the. li'-w management says of the club: "It id character, re-ponibility and three important roiiuis.ites to its The ISciich Show. Mr.

Charles Lincoln, superintendent of the Bench Show of sporting and thoroughbred dogs, which is to open here on the 10th reports that each succeeding day brings further assurance of the success of that important affair. A large number of entries have already been made, nnd among the number are several animals well known to and highly prized by the sporting world. F.ntrics are coining in every day, and letters are received from all parts of the Cnited States asking for particular information in regard to the -how. In accordance with the instructions of the Bench Show and Sporting Men's Association, issued at their late meeting, Mr. Lincoln, a few-days ago, mailed an invitation to his Koyal the Prince of Waits, requesting him to some of the dogs of his kennel for competition in the show.

Mr. Lincoln says the lrince ill have ample time to receive the letter and get the dogs here by the opening of the exhibition, and he feels pretty confident that bis ifoyal Ilighnesn ill rceer. the initation favorably. Invitations have al-o been sent to all the prominent gentlemen of this country, and especially to ell known breeders and owners of dogs in Mis-ouri. The several State-w ill be represented by delegations sent out for thaT purpose, and Tennessee has already been beard from in this respect, and expresses her determination to delegate men who will properly represent her, and to the best advantage.

Mr. P. II Bryson, of Memphis, promises to send his famous dog, "Gladstone," which won the puppy stakes in the great field trials at Nashviile. "Gladstone" will only be entered for exhibition. Mr.

Dabney Carr has been appointed manager of the displayof sportsmen's goods, which will be a large and an excellent one; and Mr. C. B. Whitford has been selected to take charge of all dogs coining here by express. Judge- for goods in the sportsmen's line have been written, but none have yet been appointed.

A letter was received dining the week from J. II. Whitman, of Chicago, stating that he had made arrangements with the officials of the Chicago and Alton Boad, to have all dogs intended for exhibition carried free, at the ow ner's risk, however; all persous attending the show to be carried tit theatrical rates. Parties of from five to ten will get round trip tickets at $15 5u. and parlies of ten to twenty, at $1150; the regular lare being Parties come and go together to secure these rates, and those ishing to secure the rebate must apply to Dr.

liewe. Turf Talk. Thomas Prince, the old-time jockey, died nt Newmarket, England, December 27th, aged 48. Fille de IAir, who, as a two-year-old, won five races in England, died at Count Lagrange's stud, at Dangu, recently. A special meeting of the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders will be held at the Everett House, in Xew York, on February 12.

Captain R. M. Sadler, well known in English and Irish turf circles, especially the latter, died suddenly at Brookville, Tipperary, December 31st. The racing campaign of 1S78 commenced on January 15th at Savannah, with the meeting of the Savannah Jockey Club. The weather was favorable and the attendance large for an opening day.

The Marquis of Ailesbury, K. died at Sav-ernake, in Wiltshire, England, on Sunday, January 6. By his demise the turf has lost one of its stanehest supporters, lor, although not an ardent follower of racing, he had its best interests at heart. R. J.

Tracy, of Lexington, purchased on the 17th inst. from J. D. Carlisle, of Jessamine County, Ky. the four year old trotter Mambri-no Diamond, black, sixteen hands high, by Mambrino Patchcn-Lucv.

This Is a most promising colt. He made a trial trot at three years old in 2:34. The only living sons of imported Glencoe are now in California, raflcman is in Tehama County and Crichton at Los Angeles. Crichton is one of the very last of the get of Lord Jersey's famous chestnut, having been foaled iu 1858. He is a brother to Blonde, Maroon and Miss Duke, all famous brood mares.

JTMa' Spirit In commenting upon the reorganization of the St. Louis Jockey Club, has the following to say, by way of encouragement We know that it is the purpose of turfmen from Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisi- of in subject of discussion for the evening. After a slight repast of dry toast and intellectual tea Miss Molecule executed a brilliant passage on the piano in a manner calculated to draw tears from the eyes of every true lover of music, llcrr Professor von Stoffohren then produced (by request) his opheicleide and the society dispersed very soon after. Judge Hankins' hospitable mansion was on Friday night night the scene of one of the most unique entertainments for hich Judge Hunk ins' hospitable mansion is famous. The unique entertainment was chiefly intellectual, consisting of an essay on "Spring," by Miss Chickin, and of a powerful paper on "The Constitu tional Aspects of the Dog Tax," by Chitty Blackstone, the rising young lawyer.

These unique entertainments are getting uniquer and uniituer all the time, and our so ciety reporter is puzzled to tell which is the uniqaest of them. Grajid Masquerade Itall of the Codlisli Coterie. The annual masquerade hall of the Codfish Coterie hich has been for years quite the sw ell event of the season among the. beau monde, transpired on Thursday, in the elegant a imingfr of the Hitone Hotel, and was a scene of magnificence calculated to make the effete despotism of Europe feel sick. Looking down on the kaleidoscopic panorama, from the back window into which he had climbed with his note-book, the coup J'ocil hich presented itself to the i7 of the Post reporter as indiscriba-blv distingue and marked by that certain jc tie sais quoi which has stamped the Codfish Coterie as the crane de la cremr of the haut ton.

In the dazzling bewilderment of flashing eyes and twinkling feet, it was impossible to do more than lightly sketch the prominent beaux and belles as they glide around in the dip or shook a leg in the languid lancers. One of the most recherche costumes was worn by Miss Pop-ic Giggle, who appeared as Minerva, in a blue silk no neck and low sleeves, hair a Id rompadour, and tw yards of her train tucked under her left arm alter little Billy Muggins had put his foot in it. Miss Rosic Shooter appeared as a pheasant girl, with a prairie-chicken wing on each side of her head, and a copy of tiie Illinois game-law worn en punier. Miss Samantlia Skinner, so long a leading belle, appeared as a newspaper girl, wrapped up in brown paper, with a postage stamp and no address on the wrapper, delicately iiitima-timr that she was "waiting for the male." He had not come hen our reporter left. MissSwellie Dasher, was attired as Cleopatra, in a diamond necklace, diamond earrings, a tortoise shell comb and bangles.

Hereo-tume which would have been very trying to a mediocre beauty, was declared by coniiaisscursio be ires chic and quite an fait. Miss Pinkie Foote appeared a "In" Anda-louse," in yellow satin, black lace, high comb, low neck and clock stockings. Waggie, the cynic, remarked to our reporter that the only disparity in the rig was that the costume was Andalusian while the foot was a delusion. The ma'estic Mrs. Lardoil Tubbs appeared as I.adv Godiva in a mohair skirt with more hair trimmings, Coventry iaee and a tax receipt in her coiffure.

Old Tubus escorted his stately spor.se, attired Earl Leofric in a cotton velvet gaberdine, an undersized coronet, pink cotton tights, sandals, and a property sw ord. Tubbs, who is of British descent, does not accept the popular opinion against eternal punishment, as he was heard to remark to a friend "Hi wish til' old "oman 'd go 'ome. Its so infernally 'ot in this blarsted night-gown that hi caw n't stand it." Among the male costumes the distingue Binks, familiarly known as Little Binkie, appeared as "Richard Ceeur de Lion," in a full suit of mail from De Bar's property room. Owing to a slight miscalculation of the dimensions, the effect produced by his dancing resembled the rattle of a very dry peanut in a very loose shell, but the empresscmeiit of his manner was that of a preux ckeralier. Judge MeElligot T.

Jones, of the Court ot Demurrers and Delays appeared as Themis, in a pair of gold -bowed spectacles, a white tunic and cotton gloves, and carried a copy of the depositions in the Bowman case with him. Toper Guzzle appeared in his favorite disguise as Bacchus, ith a round bottle-nose and a fiat bottle in his breast-pocket. After supper he wore a costume ornamented with a bias trimming of mayonnaise of salmon, and a dozen raw oysters in his spike-tail pocket. The waiters carried him out, when he discovered the game the boys had put up on him. Skinne T.

Flint, Esq. the millionaire bachelor and catch of the season, wore a pink domino with a grease spot on the left shoulder, and a ticket on the neck-band, "This style for tw enty-five cents." Slimmer Tape, the genteel and popular superintendent of the hairpin department of Muggs Crosshair's dry goods emporium, appeared in his favorite role of Spartacus. The effect of the costume as somew hat impaired by the left calf of Spartacus sliding down to the left heel of Tape, but as Tape as unconscious of this little nianoeuvcr, it merely added to the amusement of others without marring his en joyment of the festivities until he got home. Dr. Bleeder Fizcum appeared as in a skull-cap, a poms plaster, and a Holman's liver pad; as he said, he was wrapped up in his profession.

Bolus is a wit, and when asked by a fascinating blonde if he was not a devotee of the nine muses, answered: "Yes; the qui nine muses." Lack of space alone prevents us from doing free justice to other costumes that were con spicuous for their elegance, nnd hereafter we must request the real society people who wish to get their names in this column to send them in earl' accompanied by the money. P. S. As the Sunday morning papers have been in tne habit of copying our society items without giving us credit, we here bv warn them that tin's column is convrighted and exclusi ve, ami any editor found trespassing on it wii sci-sors will be prosecuted nn the ull vigor of the law. A singular discovery lias been made on board the Irvine, a full rigged vessel, recently in dry dock at Rotlierhithe, London.

The ship had recently arrived from Peru, at which place the body of a woman as found imbedded in the cargo, wmen consisted of soda. The body is in good state oi preservation, and Is supposed to be that oi a victim of an earthquake which oc currd many hundred years ago in Tern. Kings are uiserceu in me ears. rows far beneath the differences of tonus and flies far above them." It is a joy to me to know that the Christians in my church are not all the Christians to be found in the universe; and though I long for the day to come when the whole Christian church shall return to the simple rites and or dinances of the early church, I still earnestly love all believers in everv sect under the whole heavens, and pray God to nourish and sanctify them. The worst forms of sectarianism, however, are no excuse for neglect of personal religion.

do not wonder that men stumble in their religious life, when so many doctors of divinity ure shouting in their ears, "We are the church, 'but claiming infallibility for their dogmas, and engendering "uncharitable heat" about matters which do not concern the salva tion of the soul. Indeed, I frankly admit it would be far better to unite in the proclamation of those truths in which we agree, rather than in contending for the "mint, anise and cummin" of theology. But bad as controver-v uiiiy be, it offers no excuse for the sincere seeker after light. All such an one has to do is, ac cording to the measure of his ability, to set himself honestly to break off everv known sin, to study for himself the divine oracles, and to pray for light nt the hands of "Our 1-at her which ait heaven." Sincere, pa tient, direct seeking ill lead one to Ilim who has said: "If any man will do my will, he shall know of the docu ine." A man who neglects i revealed Word of God and the closet ot prayer cannot, with any spirit ot candor, excuse his neglect of God "or Christian duties bv ading the inconsistent lives of professors of religion, or the conflicts of tneir various re ligious opinions. oh, sometimes gleams upon our sight.

Through present wrong, the eternal right! And, siep by step, since time began, We see the steady gain of man. "Through the harsh noises of the day a low, sweet prelude its way; Through clouds of doubt anil creeds of fear A light is breaking, calm and clear. DAS AM KLrjiCKSLIKU. (A. I.

1ST8.) lit has long been the opinion of antiquaries and scholars that the Xibelungenlied, the hero-epic of Germany was not complete in itself, but that its sequence and conclusion would be found in a "lied," or lay, which would tell of the heroic deeds of the Amelungs, the succes sors of the Xibelungs; and portions of the Anic-lungen lied, or Lay of the Amelungs, have been discovered in the library at Gottingcn. are the first to present to our readers an English version of the poem, which is interesting, as showing that the Lav of the Ainelungs, at the date of the poem, seems to be very much the same as their lay at present. Ks var tin statesman Amelung so bopular vas he, lie vas scleral dimes elecktit to der Municipal Assemblee; His woiee vas fur de beople his vork vas fur his wart, Unt to geet dem shobs unt gontray he allfays vorkit Tier beoplcs vantit sewers dey cried out fur dose tings, Unt Amelung make answer dey shall baf dat by shings, A bedishun shall pe signet shoost gif von plank to niui Unt I lay him on te gounter in my leedle groeeiee. Der bedishun gums pack signet fur dat sewer on Soulard street Mit names of resbectaple heoples dat suit dey vantit it Dere vas Schmitt und Meyer uml Schulze und Jones und Green und Brown, Unt all de broperty owners in dat part uf de town. Unt den dere vos rechoicin' in dat leedle groecrec, Unt all der Amelung bai ty got tight as tight coot be; For dere vos lots uf money in dat shob on Soulard street, Unt twenty -de straw-pidders vos rctty to pid on it.

Hut der Amelung hat ein enemec dat blayed it low on him, Er hiesz der Sewer Gomishner unt he says dat is too slim, Dat Schmiit unt Meyer unt Schulze unt Jones unt Green unt Brown, Vas all got tet or vas pogus names-tat didn't lecf in (lis town. Unt all der heeples dat signet der names dey say dat vos a sheet, Dat dey signet no bedishun for dat sewer in foulard street. Unt Gott in Ilimmel vot a row dey make apout nutting ad olo Unt der Amelung he is sod upon py a Gomedy uf de whole. Unt "Is dat so," says Amelung, I know not how dat may pe, Unless dose poys dey put up a shob und blays a game on me. Dat baper lays on de.

gounter of my leedle groecrec Und ven I ricks him up vonce more-dose names der signet pc. Ich bin ein honest gounsilman as honest as efer I voss. Tut shoost hleasc seddle dis madder' midout making any fuss. Unt to show das Ich bin innocent I resign midout any doubt, But I clear out mitey quick, you pet-before I get kiekit out. Der Amelung woieo is silent der Amelung wot is nix; Der Amelung ia tepartit from our city bolidir.

His shairis filled mit waeancy be neffer holds der floor Unt der Ciddy Counsel knows him not py any means no more. Putt, ven der lecfs Is fallen unt der 'leckshun gomes agin. Und der beople vants a statesman unt meana to put him in, Der Amelung will pe on teek unt sdrange aing9 shall ve see Aroant dat peer-stained gounter of hia leedle groecree. the ba-e ball season of 1S77, ftrraiirns some of .1 ti the prominent failures of the season's management and attributes them, first, to the supposi-t ion that because a man wa3 shrewd and sharp in commercial matters, he was competent to i a professional nine successfully; second, to he interference of wealthy and influential stockholders or directors in the business of the man-a rer or field captain which was instigated, in some degree, by monetary motives, and third, i the deceptive character, of not a few of the I players. In speaking of the St.

Louis nine, the i cupper says: As for the Pt. Louis management, it is only necessary to state that 1,000 indebt-K ilnc-s, and the loss of public confidence in the i integrity of the team as a whole, were the re-i suit of flair campaign." A great deal of good tid vice i- given to new clubs as to the manner of I selecting a manager; and manager's are told how they can best conduct their nines ithout being or too self-important. In speaking of the coming season the Clipper suggests that it would be for the better to place the tariff of admission at 5 cents, and in alluding to this matter suggests that the novelty el the game that formerly drew thousands to a t-aine lias now died out, and "base ball has been so idely extended that the small wave- t- of the immensely-widened circle are not now noticed as was the big splash on the small i- kc of the past decade." Local Base Ball. It i- said that Denny Mack, who is now play in New Orleans, will play with McOeary'S ine next year. 'I he St.

Ixuiis Browns during the three years er the existence won ninety-six and lost -e enty-nine championship games, having each tar a most creditable record. I-ocal base hall matters have nothing of In tercst or noveltv in them this week. A few of le.