Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-03
st. Francis is to be erected at Rock Island,
III at a cost If x60. 900.

St. Francis is to be erected at Rock Island
Ill., at cost of 100000.
The Methodists of Vermont are tc
have seminary, for which $4,000 are tc
be raised by weekly ten.cent subscrip
ton
I'm some of the San Francisco church
es, the single item of Music costs about
$4,000 They have also $1,000 pews.
There are 652 white and ZOE colored
scholars in the public schools of Peters.
burg, Va. There are separate schools for
the blacks
South Berwick has the oldest academy
in the State of Maine, and its charter
bears the bold signature of stern old John
Hancock
In Central Mexico there are said to
be number of congregations holding es-
sentially the principles of the Baptist
Church.
An English Cathedral choir, number.
ing an average of twenty-five members,
costs about 100000 year in gold. The
choristers have to attend two daily SER
vices.
Mrs James Mccoy, of Circleville, O.,
has been a Sabbath-school teacher for
twenty-five consecutive years, and during
that time has been absent from duty only
two Sundays, when she was detained at
home by family affection.
Bishop Clark, in late missionary ad-
dress, said the most careful statistics show
that in 1868 there were in strictly heather
lands, $500 missionary churches, 1000
missionaries, 2,400 native preachers ESQ.,
900 members, and /, 800, 900 nominal Chris
tians.
-"How is it, my little boy" inquired
schoolmaster of one of his scholars, that
you do not understand this simple ruler"
81 do not know, indeed" answered the
youth, with somewhat bewildered look ;
but, sir, sometimes think l have so
many things to learn that l have not the
time to understand them"
in answer to al article in the New
York Times maintaining that in many in
stances the salaries of clergymen were in
adequate to their necessities, missionary
writes that his wants have compelled him
to sell seal ring, which was an heirloom,
a gold watch and chain, and, with the con-
sent of his wife, a pair of bracelets.
The Independent says that since 1854
the Methodist churches of Brooklyn have
increased from 18 to 48; Episcopal, from
26 to SO Baptist, from 10 to %; Roman
Catholic, from 8 to 49, Presbyterian, from
Is to %; Congregational, from II to II !;
Dutch Reformed, from II to ID; Unitarian,
from to 81 while others have decreased
from IA to IL.
Lewis +. Jackson, a lay missionary in
the city of New York for the last fourteen
years, has, within that time, made $4,000
visits to the widows and fatherless, the
poor and rich, the afflicted and dying. He
has conducted 1,413 prayer meetings in
different localities, and witnessed the con-
version of multitudes, some of whom are
now preaching the Gospel. He has also
scattered Bibles and tracts, and gait ered
children into the Sunday Schools, and
hundreds into the churches
Ohio supports 26 colleges, 1875 pro-
fessors and 45 tutors. These colleges are
educating 3,479 men and 996 women, and
210 were graduated last year. The total
endowment fund is 81, 2,510, an increase
of $1O3,175 ia 1869. The college build
ings and grounds are valued $1,762,000,
and apparatus at $4,95O. The libraries
contain 121, 45S volumes, an increase of
5,173 over last year. The income from tut
ton, in 1860, was $2S, 538 and $104, 143 were
paid to professors and tutors as salaries.
Antioch, Mount Union and Farmers Col
leges, Ohio and Baldwin Universities are
not included in this summary.