Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-28
Religious and Educational.

Il, aolence, ac1tere, aoherefore, h0ao? This
is the whole of philosophy, wrote Joubert.
Existence, origin, place, end and means.
According othe Superintendent of
Public Instruction, there are now one round
million Of scholars attending 1.-the free
schools of New York. ''s 'l bia W
"A new Episcopal College has been
opened at Winchester. Tenn. 1t has five
professorships, four tutorships, and 100
students. 1t is a part Of the University
projected by the late Bishop Polk.
r A Connecticut farmers wife, who was
noted for keen eye to the financials, ON
being told by her husband, as he came
home from church meeting, that he had
been elected deacon, eagerly inquired /;
"But how much money will you get by
rt?" f a. 7..o3'. .s.-..,.'f5a -
+, "A Madrid letter to the Independence
Beige remarks that the public education
in Spain is very backward, as may be inn
agined from the fact that out of a total of
70, 1877 municipal councillors, no less than
12,479 are unable to read or write. Among
the number are included 422 Mayors and
938 Deputy Mayors" =
The Pope is still seriously considering
the proposition to canonize Christopher
Columbus for discovering America We
have an indistinct idea that, when the afore-
said Christopher first suggested the idea of
finding another world, certain church dig
nitaries,were seriously considering the pro-
priety of making roast hereto out of him.
. MR. Tilton, of the Independent, in adj
;voeating :" Weman's Rights, tells us that
Harvard and Yale belong to a former
generation their brows are ungilded with
the dawn Of the coming era. Put five
hundred college girls for classmates, and
four hundred and fifty will graduate more
vulgar-minded than they entered. Put
both sexes under the same roof-making
the college something like the family-and
the result will be mutual intellectual
benefit, mutual social refinement, and a
mutual moral growth"
The New York correspondent Of the
.EpsscopaIian says :" A correspondence has
recently passed between some Baptist cler-
gymen of this city and the Rev. Mr.. Spur
geon, with view of bringing the latter
here during the anniversary week. Mr..
Spurgeon will be handsomely paid for his
trouble, and his visit here, it is scarcely
necessary to add, would make sensation
in the religious world Next, there is rea-
son to believe that similar negotiation is
pending between some of our High Church
friends and no less a notability than the
Rev. DR.. Pussy. ~ ~ -
There was very gay wedding party
in New York lately. The Rev. w. P. Cor
bett Methodist minister, was married to
his second wife (the first one is dead). He
is now fifty years of age; his young bride
is only twenty-five. The groom has six
children and the Oldest, a daughter, is old
er than her mother-stepmother, of course.
The ceremony was performed in the Sew
enteerth Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, by the Rev. Bishop Janes. Over
nine hundred invitations ~ere sent out,
and they were all responded to.
The Church Talon, a new weekly
ouarto, issued in brooklyn, devoted to the
practical fusion of all the orthodox Pro-
testant sects and denominations into one
church. has the following Bond of
Union''l:r g We, the undersigned, believers
in the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures as
set forth in the Apostles and Nicene
Creeds, do hereby pledge ourselves to Sc
cure, under God, an open communion, and
the recognition of one evangelical minis
try, by the Interchange of pulpits, thus to
make visible the unity of the church. And
we furthermore solemnly pledge ourselves
to stand by each other IN securing these
ends - ss.F .tl.4