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Show J. B. Quiqg, a stockholder in tha Rehoboth Beach camp meeting aseo ciation, Delaware, recently brought suit before Chancellor SiuUbury, praying lor a writ of injunction to restrain the proprietor of the hotel ou tho grounds from permitting dancing, card-playing and other amusements to take place in the hotel; the ground of tho complaint being that the amusements set forth were contrary tn mor&litv as taught bv tho dis cipline of tha Methodist Episcopal church, and therefore in violation ot the charter of the hotel. The ohan-celloc-took this view of the matter, giving emphatic expression to the opinion that dancing was in violation of the morality of the Methodist church. He told counsel, who dis 8ented from his opinion, that there was no use arguing tho point. He ivaa about to issue the injunction aaked for when the question cf juris-dtctioc juris-dtctioc oiine up, and the decidiou win reserved until the 1st proximo. |