The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-28
RELIGIOUS NE WS.

History of the New Church in America.
Bishop Simpson lecturedi in Wesley Chapel,
Cincinnati, on Monday evening, upon "The
Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln"
Mr.. Jay Cooke has built beautiful meet
ing. house for the Methodists at Girardville,
Pa, and the Rev. D. D, Hudson has been
appointed its pastor.
The new Methodist Episcopal meeting
house at Canton, Pa, of which the Rev. J.
Thompson is pastor is to be dedicated on the
9th of January. The Rev. DR.. Mattison, of
Jersey City, will preach.
The Treasurer of the General Convention
of the New Jerusalem Church in the United
States has received $13, 22753, towards a
$4,000 fund for publishing Swedenborg's
works. and keeping the same for sale in the
depository.
During the last six years twenty-five Con-
gregational and three Independent churches
have been organized in Northern Illinois, and
fOrty-three houses of worship have been
erected, all but eight by missionary churches.
Nineteen have become self-supporting.
=, AT the recent dedication OF the new Mis-
sion Chapel in Second street, $50 women, who
had been addicted to the use of intoxicating
drinks, marched into the chapel, bearing
banner proclaiming themselves members of
the New York Women's Temperance Society.
The Chicago jail is haunted, and the pri-
goners say it is the spirit of a murderer, Flem-
ing, who was executed nearly ten years ago,
which visits them. Noises of cold, rushing
winds, groans, rafting and clashing of bolts,
and other pleasant sounds, vary the midnight
dullness.
Mr.. John Shirk, a veteran OF the war OF
1872, died at his residence on his farm in
French Creek township, Mercer county, on
Tuesday. He was one of the heroes of Perry 3
victory, on Lake Erie, in 1913, and received a
silver medal from the State for his services on
that OCCASION
"A man named McCune was opposed to the
marriage of his daughter to one Barney
McAdams, and got into quarrel with him at
Newtown, Scott county, Kentucky, on the 9th
instant. The fight ended in McCune shooting
McAdams, inficting fatal wound. The jus.
tice before whom McCune was tried decided
that he acted in selfdefense, and released him
-Four years ago, the commander OF a YES
sci smuggled a quantity of duck at Boston
He was found out three months ago, and com
polled to pay fine of IS, 900 Upon his in
formation, Thayer & Lincoln of No. l3 Com
mercial street, Boston, are now being tried be
fore the United States District Court for re
ceiving the smuggled goods.
Bishop Morris, senior Bishop of the M. &
Church, is in his seventy-fourth year. HI
was born in Kanawha county, Virginia, Apri
%, 1774, and joined the M. E. Church il
August, 1913. In April, 1914, he was license,
to preach, and continued in the good worl
upward of 80 years, when an attack of paraly
sis incapacitated him.
The Diaspora of the Moravians is tn
name for the Synod or governing body of tn
Moravian Church in America. True to it
ancient history, this church is sending on
members, under the authority Of the Diaspors
to new and destitute places, to preach an
gather congregations. They are to visit place
foy,o 1fao OF a1 Thao
missionaries have no salary, their traVellin
expenses only being paid.
"A negro in Anson county, N. c., vote
the Conservative ticket. The pale face
thereabout were so delighted with the gentle
mans patronage that they gave him fort
acres of land. Forty acres for vote indicate
either wonderful scarcity of COnservativ
votes or most wretchedly poor land. Probs
bly, the latter-sliced from the tract where tn
more a man owned the nearer he was to sta
VatiOn.
Louisville papers give columns to recor
the arrival, the appearance, the haunts, III
companions, the past victories, the preseI
intentions, the future prospects, ETC., of M
ohael McCOole, the gentleman who propose
to punch the head Of james COburn for 5000
The ecstatic Louisvillians inform us that th
punching will be done on the 9th OF Ma
next, at point within the orbit Of the plan,
Jupiter; whether the Republican and Demt
cratic National Conventions, which occur O
the earth, in America, about the same tim
win attract the largest attendance is question
able. At present Louisville favors the lleac
punchers.
M. G.. A. Porter, Northern man, recon
mended, says the Richmond (Mo) Repubiiea
as "a gentleman and a scholar, /" employ,
as school-teachor in the Millville distrio
has been warned BY some UnW hipped Rsbsl