Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-23
Religious and Educational.

college classes were never so full as
they are this year.
The Maryland Bible Society will fur
nish the cars of the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Railroad with bibles.
The freshman class at Harvard col
lege number 214 The largest number
ever before admitted was 1876.
The dedication of Baptist Church
at Pressure Isle, Me, was postponed on
account of the advent of circus.
-Minnesota pays out more money in
proportion, for school purposes, than
most of the States OF the Union. Her per
capsta is $3.50.
Six Presbyterian churches have, with
in the last few monts, been erected within
the bounds Of the Presbytsry of Eastern
Texas.
"A citizen Of Nashville, Tenn, recently
gave piece of land in the vicinity of the
city, worth $4,000, for site for new
Tennessee school for the blind.
The Board Of Missions of the Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church have decided
upon South America and the West Indies
as the best field for beginning the work of
establishing missions.
The Catholic papers publish statistics
Of Peters pence, from 1861 to 1868 inclu-
sive. The aggregate amount is II, 181 900
francs. But since 1868 the amount has
reached, it is believed, 4OO,0O0OO0 francs.
In 1870 it was 271 ,175,00O francs.
When the Hindoo priest is about to
baptizc an infant, he utters the following
beautiful sentiment: Little baby, thou
enterest the world weeping while all
around thee smile. Contrive so to live
that thou mayest depart i'm smiles, while
all around thee weep"
Mrs. Van Colt, the revivalist, did a
very unpopular thing at a meeting in
South Salem, Mass the other day. Find
ing that the church was overcrowded, and
that large share of her hearers were the
meetings, she took occasion to call upon
all who did not desire to join in the SER
vices by bowling in prayer to go to their
homes, whereupon more than half the
congregation Immediately left the church.
we're comment.
The whole number Of students in at
| tendance at Mount Union College, Ohio,
| the first year was 1872 and the whole num-
Der OF students from the origin Of the in
stitution in 1853 is 9,142, Of whom 6,367
have been employed to teach in the public
schools, being found in ever State in the
Union. The property of the college is
$3.50, 600, and In the department of natural
history 1t claims to have larger collec-
ton Of specimens than any similar insti-
ton In the United States
Careful investigation shows that only
| fifty-eight per cent. of our population
could possibly attend church on any
given Sunday, and the churches having
seating capacity for only fifty per cent,
so that two per cent. Of our church going
population is unprovided for There are
more than two per cent. who prefer to be
| absent from church, however. The in
crease of church accommodation does not
keep pace with the increase of population.
In the East the accommodation is in ex-
cess of church-goers, but the case is re-
versed in the West.
Personal and Literary.
Healey, the American artist has left
Rome and located in Paris with his
family
Secretary Delano, of the Interior De.
partment, is said to be the only native of
Vermont who ever held Cabinet Office.
Charles Bridgman, who died recently
in Hartford, Conn, at the age of 95, had
served as organist in one church in that
city for eighty-one years.
Miss Abby Woodleigh, of East Berk.
shire, Mass, has been elected to the pro-
fessorship of chemistry in the Pennsylva-
MIA Female College.
The interest of the Earl of SALISBURY
in the Ragged School Union of England
is shown in the fact that on only two oc.
casions in forty-two years has he failed to