Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27
Religious and Educational.

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-Bostons public schools cost, last year,
$1,Ol6,sO0.
The Methodist says that the advance
of Professionalism in Mexico is marvellous
They had missionary meeting in
Boston, recently, at which hymn was
sung in Arabic.
There are said to be between seventy
and eighty thousand college graduates in
the United States.
"A st. Louis court has decided that the
guardian of an orphan must be of the
same religious faith as the child.
DR. Cuyler says that "half of the
New York churches are dying of too
much dignity and too little amen"
1t is said that on Mount Zion, Jerusa-
lem, there is now Sunday School num-
bering sixty-four children.
The journal of the Episcopal Con-
vention of Southern New York shows
70 churches and chapels in New York city
and Harlem.
The Oxford (England) Churchman'S
Union has declared by resolution "that
horseracing is discredit to the nation,
and should be abolished"
Illinois has sixty thousand Baptists,
sevsnty-tw thousand Methodists, twenty
four thousand Presbyterians, and twenty
thousand Congregationalists.
Both the German and Irish priests of
Sandusky have announced that parents
must send their children to Catholic
schools, or be excluded from the Holy
Sacrament.
The Congregational Churches in Cal
ifornia number As, being gain of dur
ing the year; number of ministers, 40, a
gain of 5; number of members, 2,071, a
gain of 131.
The Unitarians have in Boston seven
teen self-supportmg churches and six mis-
siopary chapels. Fifty years ago they
outnumbered all the Evangelical churches
in that city.
The Catholic population of Massachu-
sets, according to the Catholic Almanac,
is over 100000; churches, 175 churches
building, 10; chapels attached, 4U priests,
1888; clerical students, 95.
Professor Benjamin Wolsey Johnson,
late Professor in the Naval Academy, at
Annanolis, Nd, has been elected and ac-
cepted the Professorship of Mathematics
in X lyon College, Gambler, Ohio.
There are 145 Congregational church.
es in Michigan. The communicates, dur.
ing the last year, contributed, on an aver
age, $26.45 per member for local and be-
nevolent objects.
AT the recent conference in Boston of
the (Methodist) presiding elders of New
England, resolution was passed in favor
of calling women out still more prominent
ly in public religious services, and also in
official places as stewards, class leaders,
superintendent of Sunday Schools, etc.
News comes from the various foreign
missions that there is an increased interest
in the teachings of Christianity evinced
BY the natives of India and other coun-
tries. One agent writes; "Crowds OF
Jewish and Mussulman women have been
in almost daily, if not to find better way,
at leas. to learn what the doctrine is
which we believe and teach"
The Governors message states that
the number of school districts in Kansas is
1.7O7 an increase of 1886; number of per
sons of school age, 92,517, an increase OF
1887; number of children in the public
schools, 5S,6Si, an increase of 1854 total
amount paid to teachers as wages, $780,
49, total amount raised for public schools,
1854 ,531 ; total number Of scooolhouses,
i,213, valued at 81 OH, 1922.
Incidents and Accidents.