The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-16
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There are 5A,9SS Congregational
lists in Canada.
There are 5000 Jews in Vienn.
and % synagogues.
There are seven Baptist churches
in Cleveland, Ohio.
Henry Ward Beecher does not be.
lieve in modern revivalism.
/ The mother of Hon. \. T.. Banks
died in Waltham, Mass, few days
ago.
The last census gives the number
of clergymen in the United States
as 1854.
There are 3T4 Baptist churches in
Iowa, with a membership of 10000,
and 100 pastors.
The season promises to be one
of great activity in the mining dis
tricts of Colorado.
Governor Beyeridge, OF Illinois,
has designated Friday, May Both,
as Decoration day.
Chambers and Seddons will
fight May 2lst for $4,000 and the
lightweight championship
Three hundred and forty-nine
bodies have been recovered from
the wreck of the Atlantic.
The Pennsylvania Republican
State Convention will be held at
! Harrisburg on August 18th.
The Spiritualists are to hold 4
mass meeting in Cincinnati from the
22d to the Goth of this month.
There are two thousand Metho-
dists in Germany, an increase of one
hundred per cent. in one year.
Siguor Blitz has sailed for Europe,
leaving the Straightforward business
to thirty-two gentleman of the same
name.
Assistant Secretary Of the In
terror Cowan says Indian supplies
have been contracted for at lower
prices than last year.
Twenty-Five thousand seven
hundred and eighteen cattle were
received at the Union Stock Y ards,
in Chicago, last week.
Two thirds of the police force of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, have been
changed in the interest Of the
temperance movement.
The Miami Baptist Association
requires churches to pay the travel
ing expenses of pastors when at
tending denominational meetings.
\ fine and costly Episcopal Ca
thedral is TO be erected in New
York, Oh the west side of Central
Park, not far from Manhattan
Square.
The Methodist Missionary and
Church Extension Society, of Bos-
ton, Is sustaining seven mission
churches, which in time will become
self-sustaining.
There are six hundred Christians
in confinement in Japan, notwith-
standing the edict of liberation.
Many of them are Jesuits, who are
imprisoned for political reasons,
rather than religious.
The membership of Surgeons
church, in London, is All. During
the year colony was sent out TO
establish a new church. Additions
during the year, jTl; removals by
death and other causes, 1858 leaving
a net increase of sos.
California has $4,000 Ixdians.
Twenty thousand of them are Mis-
sion Indians, who have been for
many years under the care of Cath
Ollie Missions, established 100
wears ago on the California coast.
An edition of the New Testament
in the Russian language, under the
sanction of the Greek Church, is
going into circulation. The agent
of the British and Foreign Bible So
ciety at Odessa reports The sale of
10000 copies within the first six
months.
The Episcopal clergy in Ireland
has greatly decreased in number
since the dis-establishment of the
/ Irish National church. In 1869 there
were 1881 ministers; now there are
but 1874. Many have retired from
the pulpit; while others have gone
to England.
The Legislature of West Vir-
ginia is at loggerheads with the
Executive. The quarrel at pres
ent is in regard to two Boards of
Public Works, each of which is
claimed to be genuine by the Leg
islature and Governor severally.
! The row has reached the extent of
ordering the use Of fire arms.
Memphis Ledger: The Judge
/ said; Mr.. Sheriff, fill up the pan
cl, there is one Juror required.
The two professionals started for
the vacant chair, and one of them,
a German, got there ahead of his
brother American, who fell back
toward the clerks desk, and said,
soto voice, to the clerk: did
You see that id Dutchman beat
me out Of my situation:
All departments of the Vienna
Exposition are filed with goods
except that of the United States,
which is still empty. Great in
dignation is felt by American ex-
hibitors at this state Of things.
The public have been admitted
daily since the first of May. The
weather, however, has been un-
favorable, rain having fallen al
, most constantly since the open
ing, and the number of visitors
thus far is below what was expec-
ted.
l. MEANS WHAT He SAYs.-
: Though combinations strong
as proofs of Holy Writ and as
numerous as the sands on the sea
: shore, were produced to prove that
Dr. Pierce, the proprietor of DIR
Sage's Catharrh Remedy. is in earn
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