Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-16
Religious and Educational.

Eighteen priests in Italy have con
tracted marriage in Italy under the new
civil code. T-g- fT-T5 7fpsF
English clergymen are making it a
very general practice to spend vacations in
America, in the same way our ministers dc
when they go to Europe.
Twenty bishops who died in Ireland
during the last forty-fve years, left, sever
ally, money amounting to the average OF
$275,000 each, not to speak of real estate
An unusual ceremony, it is said, is to
be performed at Hartford, Conn, on Satur,
day next-that of a Christian woman re
nouncing her faith and embracing the
Jewish persuasion.
The American Bible Society celebrated
its fifty-fifth anniversary yesterday. The
receipts for the year were 1874, 900. About
million and a quarter OF books have been
printed, and since its formation about
twenty-five and half millions. -'
The city of Philadelphia has appro-
priated million dollars to the building OF
new school houses The school authori-
ties have delegated a committee to visit
some of the Western cities for the purpose
of examining their school buildings.
The first chime of bells in America
was presented to Christ's Church, at Bos-
ton, one hundred and twenty-three years
ago, and it is still in complete tune. The
third tenor bears this Inscription: owe
are the first ring of bells cast for the Brit
ish Empire in North America, A. ID. 1774 "
The Catholics held an immense fair in
New York city on the list of May. Con
siderable feeling has been excited by the
fact that the city government granted per-
mission to erect buildings for the purpose
at Union Square, favor which would not
have been granted to any Protestant de
nomination. 81 2
"A minister once prayed in the pulpit
that /" the Lord would bless the congfega'
ton assembled, and that portion of il
which was on its way to church, and those
who were at home getting ready to come
and that, in His infinite patience, he would
grant the benedictiOn to those who reached
the house of God just in time for that
The congregation came. on time after that
-"How much regret" says Coleridge
"that so many religious persons of tho
present day think it necessary to adopt q
certain can't of manner and phraseolOgy as
a token to each otherI They must Improve
this and that text, and theymust do so and
so in a prayeaful way; and SO on. Ayoung
lady urged upon me the other day that such
and such feelings were the naGrro9o OF al
| religion: upon which | recommended hel
to try to walk to London ON her. n'drrou
bones only" .-......
A Rochester clergyman made the FOL
| lowing remarks in the pulpit on Sunday
81 am informed that lady who attended,
| a funeral in this church last Sunday, lost IL
F., this house, as she thinks, a valuable breast
| pin. The article is valued at as much a.
$500, it is said. hope that the loser wa:
| not member of this congregations an(
that if any one of you should be the owner
of such costly jewelry, it would not b
worn when you come in the house OF Goo
on the Sabbath, but that all would adorr
| themselves for such occasions in meel
and quiet spirit. If any one has found The
lost jewel he IS requested to leave i
with the sexton" 5d3 as5 s 1aa1
The fact that the Church of the Puri
tans on Union Square, New York city, i
soon to be closed is already widely known
and the following particulars will interes
/ many persons in and out of the city. Tha
church was built Oh leased land; he lease
expired on the first of May, and the charge
upon the renewal was $4,000 per annum
This sum would oyertax the Society pecu
mary ability. Hence, its edifice and righ
toa renewal have been sold to Tiffany &
Co. for $4,000, out Of which every debt
of the Society has been paid, including
the heavy arrears of salary due to the pas
tor, which amounted to $4,000. DR.
/ Cheever has thus closed his long, earnest
fearless struggle in that city for the rights
of humanity in better circumstances, W.
Judge, than ever before ~'- '''