The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-15

The Baltimore Preachers meeting
lately, discussed the question: "Are large
salaries, splendid churches, and so-called
great men, elements of power or weakness
in the church,"
On recent Sunday Mr.. Beecher an
nounced q meeting of the Plymouth
soclable. Visitors were requested to come
IN the garments of their ancestors. Mr..
Beecher said he did not know to how far
PACK the request had reference. [Great
laughter
AT church in Bellerica, Mass, one
sunday morning, young daughter of the
pastor entered the pulpit, and, stating that
her father was too ill to officiate, proceed
ed to read sermon appropriate to the
day, much to the satisfaction of all her
hearers.
Corporal punishment is rarely inflict-
ed in the schools of Russia and Germany
In France it is prohibited. In Switzer-
land school-whippinss are left to the regu-
lation of the separate cantoiis: In En-
gland there is constant and vigorous whip
ping, and in America the custom is dying
out
"A good thing ad* heen done in
London by opening a Sunday Home"
where poor girls, friendless and homeless,
may spend the Sabbath with rest and
kindly Christian care, instead Of rowing
in the streets, exposed to temptation.
Personal and Literary.
Ernest Longfellow, the second son of
the poet, is attracting much attention in
Boston by his skill as landscape
painter.
The "Pioneer Boy" life Of Abra-
ham Lincoln, published by Fl. B. Fuller,
has recently been translated into modern
Greek.
"A London paper announces that Dore
vii, visit America in August next, "with a
large and valuable collection of works of
art.'
Senator Sumner spends most cf his
time in bed, propped up by pillows, but
he persists in reading, despite his physi-
clans,
"A granddaughter of Benjamin Frank
lin is President of a committee Of Tllila-
delphia ladies engaged in Arranging for
the centennial.
The receipts of Mr.. George William
Curtis lecture at Ann Arbor, Mich, hav-
ing fallen $57.75 short of the expenses; he
has sGft the Lecture Association his draft
for that amotini.
The richest newspaper Publisher and
proprietor in the Union is said to be J.
Young Scammon, of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean. He is supposed to be worth four
or five million dollars; but he did not
make any of it in journalism.
Wv: 8. Devoss, the young man who
won the recommendation for appointment
to West Point frotn the Council Bluffs
District, is the self.educatcd son of poor
farmer, who event before the committee
in his plain, homespun suit, alone and
unsupported, while his competitors were
fashionably dressed and supported by men
of influence and official position"
Probably the only man who knows
anything abo;tt the provisions of A. T.
Stewards will is A. T. himself, but cor
respondent says that, in addition to giving
large sums for hospitals, museums and
other things, he will give hio splendid
mansion to the city for an art gallery.
He is seventy-four, and never had any
children.
-Longfellow and Bryant were recently
admitted to honorary membership in the
Academy of St. Petersburgh. The occa-
sion was one of much pomp and cere-
mony, nearly all of the eighty regular
members of the Academy being present,
and the royal family being represented by
the Prince Of the house Of ROmanoff, the
Grand Duke Constantine.