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this time stepped in, and overheard the remark,
and said: ''fes. did run, but I'll not do it
again. Mr.. Darby then started towards him.
and as he did so Mr. Sims drew pistol and
fred upon him, shooting him through the right
arm, infiicting 8 painful wound. This terminated
the difficulty. Let this be o warning to every
body to spell correctly hereafter
RELIGIOUS.
There are. seven organized Presbyterian
churches among the Dakota Indians, all under
the charge OF native preachers.
The number Of communicating IN the regular
Baptist churches OF the United States is as fol-
lows: Regular Baptists, North, 495 ,o5l; Regu-
lar Eaptists, South, 917,844. Total, 1,4l2, 405:
Tie unifcatiun of the various Methodist
bodies in Canada is not considered dount1nl ! Or
distant. The body will be known as the on1lea
Wesleyan Church Of Canada. -
The salaries of the Methodist p5essheIs ese Of
California Conference for the year 1513 range
from $24o to s., $50 gold.
There IS said to be but one Unitarian church
| in the State Of Connecticut, and that is in the
Village Of Brookluc.
The fortletb anniversary Of Dr.. Cummings
pastorato has just been celebrated in the City Of
London.
A large Gothic iron church for Lima, Peru,
has been shipped at New York. It cost, WITH
/ the accompanying organ, over 500, 900.
An English Correspondent Of Zion's Herald
says that only about quarter Of the English
-Wesleyans are ''Abstainers," and q still less
0uulpar take any eclFe l1leIeaa LII huo le11lpeI-
apce movement.
!. John Wesley preached q, 900 ser1nons, at the
rate of fifteen Q week. He never was troubled
with clorgyrnans sore throat or needed years
leave Of absence, with all expenses paid.
The population Of Rome is .494, Of whom
232,675 are Romanists, 3,7os are Protestants,
4,619 are Jews, and 3, 400 aze members Of other
religions. -
In the City Of Naples there ara 4o5 Catholic
churches and 5000 ordained priests.
ported as resulting from the cemp-u,eetir5s
held On the Atlantic seaboard during tho Fast
season.
The New York Catholic Recie,o expresses
grandmother, long since dead, and soon to 30
! eanonized, will convert her unfortunate de-
scendants.
The Upper Iowa Conference Of the uetho-
dist Church at its late sesalon resolved not tc
receive any minister who uses tobacco, and re-
quested the Bishop not to transfer to. THAI Con
! ference any one who had used tobacco within
two years previous to the transfer. This action
the editor Of the Christian Aduocate denounces
as illegal and revolutionary
The Rev.. John Tonner, D. D., Of Canton,
Ohio, is the only local preacher Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the United States on whom
the degree Of .. D. has been conferred.
|. A Geneva paper says that Dr.. Merle d'Au-
bigne has left two volumes, almost completed,
on the Reformation, in which the history is carr
ned down to the death Of Luther.
-Congregationalism is slowly gaining foot
hold iu the South The churches in Tennessee,
Georgia, and Alabama, constituting the South
Central Conference, have three colleges and
+ seventeen church organizations.
"A bill is to be introduced into Parliament, at
the next session, providing that no clergyman OF
the Church Of England shall be. subject to any
penalty for not saying the Athanasian Greed on
the days specified by the Rubric.
The first Christian church built in modern
times in Constantinople was erected in 1864.
There are now in Turkey 76 churches. many
Of which are se1f-euppotting. There are four
Evangelical Associations in the Empire-one ut
Harnoot, in Mesopotamla, with rs churches;
another in southern Asia Minor, 2S churches;
- third in central Asia Minor, with eight
churches, and the fourth in Bythinia, with Il
churches.
: Rev Henry Powers, formerly 8 congrega-
eague, has accepted the pastorship OF the
Unitarian Church in New York, formerly under
charge of Dr.. Osgood, who has become Eplgco-
palian, aud lately preached to by Rev. Mr:
Probably the Society thought it wise to take
man who. had gotten through his moving.
The Scotch covenanteTs we're famous for
long church-ssrgices, but the English ritualists
are beating them: At least ne Judge 80 from an
announcement among the London religious ad-
vertisements, which says, (speaking Of st.
James's church, that ton Sunday next the at
teznoon seryica will commence ut half past
three, and continue until further notice. We
haTe seen no subsequent notice stopping this
"A correspondent Of the journal de ST. Pc
tersburq describes the nagnihcence OF an illu-
| mined copy OF the sacred writing OF Bnddha, IN
the language OF Thibet, which is executed for =
uEnes, Of which 80 are completed, all in letters
of gold, and bound in embroidered silk, witk
silver clasps. The copylst is to receive 725ooo
for the work
-Archbiahop Manning attended . large tam
perance meeting On ClerkenWeH Green, upon
recent Sunday. Five thousand persons were
present, and several hundred Workingmen aud
women took the pledge, kneeling, from the
hands Of the Archbishop. - -
while upon the subject Of death, many II
quirios are made as to what Bishop Whipple
could have meant when he uttered these words
over the remains Of General Meade: '*Fura aItt!e
while his body will: sleep IN the acre Ct God,
and his spirit wait IN the land Of Paradlsa for
will be;satisfed when he wakes il the likeness
Of Jesus" Unless the good Bishop has been
incorrectly reported by the press, one sa.si he
evidently behaves in an intermediate place
where We wait for those re love to JON u=-
Another says he is a spritualist. and it. h.s
created much talk IS to what he really did mean.
<-Desecrated churches in England form the
subject Of some curious correspondence in tho
London Church Times. One ;Urltcr glTes the
story Of e9 aged priest who t9ld hl tnat n re
Vest Riding to perform 81 the monthly duty"
but That he VAS peremptorily warned away by
the churchwarden's wife, who refused to h@Vo
service performed that day because her turkey
was sitting in the pulpit. On another occasion
in another church, the service was suspended
because the farmers wheat was stacked IN the
nave, and he. had forgotten that it was church
Sunday. a parish church at Heene was bit By
bit allowed to fall into decay, and VIA finally
pulled down because Of its danger topigs.s and
sheep The stone Of. this chapel - was
worked up into the adjoining buildings John
Rayne, Vicar Of Blyth: complains that there is =
remnant Of .Benedictine church, near his OWL,
which has beon shameful}y despoiled. the neigh
boring proprietor having carried OF bay Of tha
nave and converted it into 1viary for parrots,
cockatoos, and .canaries, Hare is. something
even worse: 1t Crawford, in 'Midd1eseI, the
church, as often happens, is situated int:the
park. The following notice appears at the gate:
Is This road ia only public to the parish church
for the performance Of Divine service, and per-
sons trespassing at any other time will be prose-
cuted." And now. to wind up thia paragraph,
it may be mentioned that 8 clergyman; aged II,
formerly Rector Of Aerstone, died lately: from
starvation at Camden Town. his landlady testify
ing that he had only tasted food once in the last
-There has heen considerable excitement in