Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-24
Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin
State Sunday School Union.

Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin
State Sunday School Union.
The Eleventh Annual Meeting Of the
Union was held in the Congregational
Church in the city Of Pond du Lac, com
rnencing Tuesday evening, May 3lst, 1870.
After devotional exercises led by deacon
Byron, the president of the Union took
the chair at o'clock, P. M.
Addresses of welcome were given by
the pastor of the Congr egational church,
Rev. A. Little, and Rev. II. @. Tilton, pas
tor of the NJ. E. church, and responded to
by the president. The S. S. forces of the
State were largely represented, and the
large and commodious church was
thronged to its utmost capacity through
out the meetings.
The numerous devotional exercises, dis
cussions, and business, showed an advance
in the Heaven favored cause.
Much interest was given to the Ami
versary by the presence and practical in
struction of the Rev. j. II. Vincent, editor
of the Sunday School Journal Of New
York, and Prof. Foote, Of Chicago. who
had charge of the singing TO the spiritual
pleasure Of all. These two brethren were
present by special invitation Of the Exec
utive Committee of the Uuon.
The State Secretary reported much
larger number Of reports from schools than
usual, and over 200 hopeful conversions
conneetea with the Sunday Schools.
" J. W. Vail, State Ageat, employed by
the Executive Board the First of February
but who had been in active service less
than three months, reported as follows:-
q Annual meetings of Ceanty Associ.
atoms attended,
Number Of addresses delivered, 8S
s I" chiidren's meetings held, 81
:. /" Town SIS. Institutes, l6
/" Sabbath services, l8
HS1.' Town SIS. Missionary
Societies organized, 16
aod :" rs. Schools organized, 3
- ssmiles Travelled, 1920
!" "letters sent out, 1873
Z" circulars, 66
After the adjournment of the Union
the executive board held 8 meeting author
izing their Agent to continue his agency
in holding Institutes, giving to each town
Sunday School Missionary Society. and
to each county Sunday School associa'
tion. Will the brethren lend hand by
sending to State Agent for constitutions
and reports, and commence the organiza
ton of taeir towns and county, forming
an efficient and harmonious connection of
the Sunday Schools through the town and
county organizations with the parent soci-
ETY., the Wisconsin State Sunday School
Union. a a6agA l ttf
The officers esecsed for the ensuing year
are as follows q aaE
President of Union sss a.f
B Kingsbury, NJ. E., Ripon.
Secretary esl9 i4a5a m , s3ft
CIV. Pettibone. Pres. Fond du Lac.
Executive COMMITTEE
Or. D. w. Perkins, Pres, Milwaukee,
w. ii. Byron. Bap.. Milwaukee.
j. A. Hall, Cong, Waterfowl.
II. Cowles. Cong, Madison.
E. Coleman, NE Fond du Lac.
II. Clark, F. Baptist, Fond du Lac.
Rev. W. R. Stowe, M. E., Oshkosh.
The meeting was adjourned on Thurs
day evening with prayer and benediction,
and with new inspiration we 60 forth to
increase our Sunday School work for an
other year. s5
ap.S. Postoffice address of State Agent,
J. W. Vail, Avoca, Wis.
SupERsTtrioa IN EaSLAND. The Europe
IN mail SAYS that one day last month an
old man named Philip Burch, was ororght
before the Barnstable magistrates charg@u'
with assaulting Mary Stephens. ltappears
that the defendant met the COMPLAIN ~
the market and suddenly scratched IL. 'rr
arm with a needle causing it to bleed.
On being questioned by her as to his con-
duct, he replied, "You have had power
over me long enough, and now will be
revenged." The old man, in answer to
the charge, told the Bench that he had
been persuaded by more than 100 persons
that il he could fetch" the blood Of the
woman he should be able to overcome her.
lie went on TO state that he had suffered
Affections through Mary Stephens for the
last five years, and had four complaints
upon him at once he had also lost four
teen canaries and about fifty goldfinches.
lie was fined Is. Cd. aad costs. with the
alternative of seven days imprisonment.
b3rCharles Dickens says, there il
nothing beautiful and good that dies and
is forgotten. An infant, prattling child,
a youth veil taught, will live again in the
better thoughts of those VINO loved Il
and viii play res part, though its body be
burned to ashes or 6rewaed in the deepest
sea. There is not sn angle added to the
hosts Of heaven but does IFS blessed work
on earth in those that loved it here.
wof the thirty-ssven governors Of
tbs Union, twenty nine srs Republicans.