The New York herald., 1871-02-26
Joke ON a Mapping Deacon.


been asleep long before fellow passenger, In pass
ing, Josted against and woke HIM up. On casting
ms eyes doWnWard ne spied the envelope, and Tor
time forgetting that he was going east at the rate
OF twenty miles an hour, and thinking himself In
MS accustomed pew In the Bluh City church, he
gulleQ grcenDacK bearing picture OF Stanton
from his wallet showed IL nLo the yellow receptacle
ana again went to sleep. Pretty soon the conductor
ticket. The old fellow still keeping the idea of his
dream and thinking the man or the punch one OF
The brethren calling for his contributions seepiy re-
ierred TO the envelope. The conductor examined IT,
but found that he had too far Tor tnat amount
OF money Already and again awoke The deacon.
rms brought him to realization Of his situation.
lie let sold, explained matters, passed In his
checks, shifted over to the other end OF the seat
authority or the best looking railroad boy running
between Des Moines aud The Bluls--at least SO the
girls at Av0ca cell him.
Religious Notes-Personni and General.
very remarkable revival OF religion is in pro-
gress In Bristol, N. H., carried on by united move
ment OF the churches.
There has been a wonderful revival at Ulathe,
Kansas, place OF $500 inhabitants and meetings
have been held every evening for five weeks over
200 have expressed hope. The receipts of the
dramshops have fallen from sixty dollars TO five per
dag.
Rev. M. B. Buckley, very eloquent lecturer. will
discourse the Cooper Institute on Thursday even
Ing, on the Irish Bards and their history. The OBJ
ect Of the lecture is to raise funds for the erection
OF cathedral In the ancient City OF Cork, from
which the learned gentleman comes.
Archbishop McCoskey gave confirmation, at the
Church ofithe Eppheny, on Wednesday, the 18TH
inst, TO 100 females, among whom were many
adults and on Monday next win administer the
same sacrament TO as many males
The late Charles Il. Falstein OF San Francisco LEFT
bequest of $4,000, to be equally divided among
the Protestant Orphan Asylum, the Roman Catholic
hn I.ldia ias' Ernfnr pata af
Society.
The PASTORS widow in North Carolina whom a
numoer Of our readers nave recently assisted says
tnat she Is lat loss how TO express her gratitude
Tor the kndnsss OF friends that have contributed 20
her aldn
non. Thomas Talbot has built church for the
Baptlst society III Bilerca, Mass, at cost OF
$4,000, aud secured the income of $4,000 annually
towards the support OF the preacher
Rev. Peter McVlckar has been elected president OF
Washburn College, Kansas. He formerly stale
superintendent ol schools and IS emlnenCly quail
lied for his position.
Rev. James Z. Keser requests his correspondents
10 ADDRESS MIN at PETERSBURG Va, where lie Is now
residing.
Rev. G. A. Fox, well known Baptist clergyman,
died suddenly at WnkesDarre, Pa. the llth
INST
Association in the Atlantic States visit Cali.
lorna in April. aud spend Two mouths or more IN
open air preaching.
The various branches OF the Methodist Church In
Canada are moving towards a union. On tho 3Ist
ult. union tea meeting was held at Toronto at
which tne Dappest spirit prevailed, though action
was taken.
MIR. Spurgeon has written circular In behalf OF
the 'Worklngmans Lords Day Rest Association,m ~
In favor OF petitions TO Parliament TO relieve the
10000 letter carriers from labor sundays. These
carriers walk sixteen to twenty miles every day. and
need one day 8 rest.
The Indian Mirror, weekly paper in English,
published at Calcutta-the organ or the "Indla Re
form Ass0cialion'-is about 10 take the form OF q
daily broad sheet. the first daily native journal III
snIIn n IN n fha anT Of
on newspapers.
Another alarm about the approaching royal mar
riage has arisen In Anglican Unnrch circles m Eng
land. IL Is SAID that Lord L0rne is 10 be ''admted
10 molly communion without conirmationu by
bishop he being already recognized Presbyterian
COMMUNICATE IN tue Established Church OF Scot
Jand.
Tne catalogue OF the Northwestern Presbyterian
Seminary at Chicago contains thirty-eignt names,
including resident graduate. One OF them had
his college education IN Norway one In Neither
lands, two In Ireland three IN Canada, ana others
Ing how cosmopolitan the West Is. q
Mr.. Oncken, Of Hamburg reports that 100 mission
aries and coporteurs, with upward OF two hundred
brethren from the various Baptist churches In Ger
many. have from the commencement OF the war
done their part IN supplying tlrst the German sol
pels or the New Testament
Money Is being raised in this country TO build
brick use OF worship for Presbyterian church OF
ninety Chinese members at Tung Chow In the north
OF China. This church supports three mission sta
items, one OF them 100 miles from Tung CHOW.
There are three colleges in the West which the
Unltarians are specially called upon patronize-
Antioch, In Ohio; Washington In Missouri, and
Humboldt, IN Iowa. The last named has iands val
ued at 100000. and Is now seeking In New England
money endowment.
The library put on board the missionary ship the
Morning star" was the gift OF the American Sea-
mems Friend Society and that society has put two
similar libraries on board each man -owar aud one
on board each vessel sailing out OF port
A German writer, Dr. Huppe, In a work on the
stale OF morals in Beriin says that Of the 630O00
Protestant inhabitants Of Berlin but IL 900 are ha-
btual church-goers, and that of 23 G99 Interments
but 3,777 were accompanied by pastor.
The Episcopal Lord Bishop OF quebec has pur-
chased the llvermore place and other property in
Plymouth N. IT, to The value of $47. 00O for the pur-
post OF establishing young ladies' Episcopal semi
nary OF the highest order In the States.
New Hampshire paper, referring to an item pub
shed In these columns few days ago. to the effect
that The Episcopal Lord Bishop of Quebec had pur-
chased the Lvermote place in Plymouth for a ladies'
seminary, sayS:-''Rev, Dr. Balcn formerly canon in
the English cathedral at Montreal was negotiating
Tor the place last summer, and has probably pur-
chased IT,, but doubts II he c0ntemplates starting
school,
The Westdeld tMass.l Methodist church has wo-
man nome misslonary-Mtss Lizzie Butter. she IL
employed by che church to work the direction Of
the pastor in visiting the slck and destitute and
bringing children to the Sunday school, In both OF