The New York herald., 1872-10-20

aided In erecting eleven other church buildings Mx
OF winch are In the capital and the rest in tho
district and in Maryland. DR.. Smith has made
pastoral visits during that time and received
the esteemed and cathoic-spirited pastor OF the
% Firss %ffesoyterian church. Auburn, N. Y, has re-
70 The Of church
ber ofthe Northern New YORK Conference has united
with the Presbyterian Church. and has accepted
WsynesSurs Rev. ntcSs cPrsSa PresSen a
OF Florence Female College, Is extremely Iii thas
| last graduating class at Columbia, has lust
been ordained by the Presbytery Of Anguish an
| evangelist. He goes to South America "a a mia
sionary. Rev. G. L. Hogue late graduate OF Union
Seminary, has been appointed city missionary BY
the presSytery G IL Louisville ,Ss Rev C. Vaughn
was at one time pastor OF the First church, Lynch
| burg, Va
The venerable Bishop Smith, OF Kentucky, senior
| bishop OF the Episcopal Church in the United
ing to Hoboken N. j., to reside for the next two
| years. meeting OF the clergy and aitv or the
| Episcopal churches in this city was held IN St
AIMS church. in Eighteenth street. near Fifth ave-
| nue., on Wednesday evening, to adopt measures to
| found a "Home for Old Men and Aged Couples in
this city. A committee. consisting Of Drs. Tuttle
| and Gallaudet and Messrs. Thomas p. Cummings,
William Niblo. A. Il. Mcdonald, j. q. Kendall and L.
w. Wells was appointed, with power to hire the
house adjoining st. Lukes church, with It's iurni-
ture, at an annual rental OF s250o for such home-
The sum OF $1,000 was subscribed at the meeting,
and the committee were authorized to collect
Rev. Henry 9: Potter, D.. d., the earnest
spoken OF the successor of Bishop Eastburn (dc
ceased) in the diocese OF Massachusetts, Dr. Potter
pleasing address he is now In the prime OF mature
manh0Od he Is one OF the most prominent clergy
men ~ the American Church ne L. SOUND con
ments and OF solid and graceful requirements
dr. Potter 3 II the Right Rey AonS Potter
pennsylvania, and nephew Of Bishop Potter, OF
New York.
The Catholics OF Long Island dedicated two new
churches last Sunday-one at Hewlett's station to
ST. Joseph ana In the Eastern District OF Brook
lyn to ST. Cecilia The Sacred Congregation OF KiteA
in Rome has issued decree for the beatincatiOn and
oraer Of Minor a This eyep viii D be sHe e
termined on within a few days. The petition against
the expulsion Of the Jesuits from the inhabitants Of
Upper and Lower RhenlSh provinces bears $4,000
signatures Rev. A. J. Ryan, the poet-Drlest, il
about to visit Europe for the benefit OF his health
affection Of the leg that he cannot even say mass.
He has just returned from New Orleans, from an
RsS Rev. James Gpbon SUCCESSOR Of
Bishop McGnl, will be solemnly installed in st.
Peters Cathedral, Richmond, Va, to-day, as the
fourth Bishop OF that diocese, Bishops Kelly.
Whelan and McGill having been his predecessors.
Bishop Gibbons is in his thirtyeighth year, but
He is Baltimorean, and one whose friends there
are legion. The installation of Archbishop Bayley
in Baltimore has rekindled the desire to hold the
Eleventh Provincial Council in that city, which was
postponed last May owing to the death OF the then
shortly be made Rpa or holding T It. The oiowng pref rel
ates, who compose the province, will doubtless
tend:-Right Rev. Bishops Whean, OF wheeling;
Lynch, OF Charleston DOmenec, OF Ptttsburg; Wood,
Of philadelphia; 0Hara, of scranton; Shanahan, Of
Harrisburg Mullen, Of Erie; Gibbons, of Rich
vannah; and Verot, Of Florida. The Rev william
Wayrch, Q. ss: R., the distinguished Redemption
st preacher OF st. AlphOnsus church, in ThOmp-
son street, New York, is spoken OF as the probable
successor OF Bishop Persico in the see OF Savannah,
n son9 oa
commence .,aon mission in Midaletown, Conn;
SsoP his diocese IN wmnston VII to assume the
responsibilities Of the see OF Richmond, Va, was
saver and goblets and black marble clock and
pair OF mantel ornaments, appropriately Inscribed
MISCELLANEOUS.
The JeaCish Messenger advocates union services
among Hebrew congregations THANKSGIVING
Day, SO as to secure something more than a dozen
wOrshippers In their temples on that day. And be-
to promote goodwin among the members. The Is-
cation society in this city, with the audable pur
pose OF founding cheap Hebrew literature for the
success. among the 60, 600 Jews in New York only
two hundred nave been found willing to subscribe
So year toward the societys funds; The I Jewish
tive ministry for American pulpits but there is not
enterprise nor interest enough among wealthy
Israelites here to establish theological
seminary for the education OF young men as rabbes.
DR.. Felsentha Of Zions congregation in Chicago.
therefore proposes that fund be raised sufficiently
large that its interest may be applied annually
to the education of American students for the
ministry in German rabbinical schools where every
thing is ready at hand while it would take half
q century to get a school as forward here. He
would also have Biblical schools founded in all the
large cities of this country where Jews are popuOus
as preparatory educators OF such students. The
Rev J. w. Schenck was installed on Friday last, by
the Chassis OF Hudson, as pastor of the Reformed
church OF Caverack, n. Y. Dr. Ruff OF
Memel, publishes a call on the benevolent
to assist the suffering Jews of schaulen.
in Russia They lost all their property by
a great connagration, and now the cholera
has made its appearance, and the Russian Winter
Is fast approaching. Three thousand people at
tended service in the Temple on Fifth avenue, one
thousand five hundred in the Lexington avenue,
Norfolk and Thirty-ninth street Temples, thou
sand in the Thrtytourth, Forty-fourth Clinton and
Nineteenth, and hardly smaller numbers In the
other regular synagogues. Fully fifty thousand
Jews united In worship on Saturday ast-Yom KiD-
pen-ffty thousand voices at sundown proclaimed
Israel's watchwOrd. Quite respectable Jewisk
population; but strange to say adds the Jet0ish
Messenger, not one-tenth properly observe the Sab
bath. The Temple Adas Jeshurun made O COlec-
tion last week In aid OF the Roumanians. Quite a
large sum was received. The other congregations
will soon be called upon for a similar purpose.