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Full text: DECEMBER, I860 - JANUARY, 1861 59 1st Class Girls, Mrs. Harris, widow; 2nd Class Girls, Miss Sarah Jane Swymmer; 3rd Class Girls, Miss Charlotte Solomon, of Geo. T. Solomon; 4th Class Girls, Miss Amelia Gaetz, my daughter; 5th Class, Girls, Miss Catherine Owen, of Daniel Owen; 6th Class Girls, Miss Catherine Rudolf, of J. Joseph Rudolf; 7th Class Girls, Miss Emma Anderson, of Geo. Ander- son, Senr.; 8th Class Girls, Miss Eliza Gaetz, my daughter; 9th Class Girls, Miss Eliza Rudolf, of John G. Rudolf. January, 1861 Tuesday, 1st,—This morning a man, living a short distance from this town, named Elkanah Shaffleberg, while cutting ice from the wheel of the Mill, slipped on to the wheel and carried round untill he came in contact with a second wheel when he was immediately deprived of life. Sunday, 20th,—Died this morning 7 O'Clock, Mrs. Elizabeth Heckman (wife of John Heckman, Esqr., Gustos of this County) after an illness of a few days, aged 70 years. Wednesd. 23rd,—Attended the funeral of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Heck- man this afternoon. Sunday, 27th,—The harbour is frozen nearly to the battery point. Tuesday, 29th,—August 26th I stated that an uproar had taken place in the Lutheran Church of which the Revd. Charles Cossman is pastor; as the difficulties which had then arisen, have become more aggravated and grad- ually worse I will state the cause and its effects. The Lutherans becoming dissatisfied with their minister, Mr. Cossman, whom they imported from Germany about 26 years ago, resolved upon sending to the United States for an assistant Minister, one who could preach to them in English, as Mr. Cossman could only officiate in the german language; consequently a requis- ition, or call, was made to a Mr. Stein85 of the Lutheran Church in the States, who accepted the offer and was soon on his way to this place. The importation of this man was to serve a double purpose, firstly to preach to the Lutheran Congregation in english, and secondly to diminish the flock of the Episcopal Church, which some of the hot headed Lutherans vainly imagined could be easily accomplished soon after english services were commenced in the Lutheran Church, but their earnest desires were not realized. Mr. Stein had preached some months and yet no renegades from the English Church, the pit they had dug for others they fell into them- selves as the sequel will show. Mr. Stein not content with praying and preaching to his own congregation, had of himself concluded to open the Lutheran Church on Sunday, or week day evenings, for prayer meetings at which time any person male or female, would be allowed to exhort or offer prayers aloud, no matter to what denomination he or she belonged, in this however Mr. Stein met with opposition from many of his own people,