The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-08-29
School and Church.

School and Church.
Rev. DIR. n. j. Morrison, late of Oil
vet College, has accepted the Presidency
of the new college just opened at Spring
field, Mo.
The Free Methodsts of New York re-
fuse membership to persons who use to-
bacco or liquor in any form, or who are
members of secret societies. They also
prohibit the use ofjewelry and of gay and
fiashy dress.
Rev. Charles Whitehead, Reformed
minister at Amboy. N. j., was stricken
by paralysis while administering the COM
munion two or three Sundays ago, and
died soon after. A similar death befell a
minister in North Carolina recently.
On a picturesque site at Wellesley
Mass, Mr.. III. +. Durant Is building a
large and beautiful college for girls. The
building Is in the form of double cross,
and will have ample accommodation for
300 students. The President and resident
professors of the college will be women.
and to the students will be committed all
the work of the house. except washing,
securing, and the heavy lifting. They
will thus be taught cookery and other
household duties, and all without infring-
ing upon their time for study and recrea-
ton.
The reunion of the two leading Meth
odist bodies in Ireland is now likely to be
speedily accomplished. The Conference
OF the Primitive Wesleyans, held i'm Dub
lin, has appointed committee to confer
with the committee appointed by the re-
cent Wesleyan Conference I'm Cork upon
the subject of union. This decision was
almost unanimous. The negotiations
commenced two years ago by the PRINT
tive Wesleyans with the established
Church have been broken off for the last
twelve months, and II was generally felt
that their wise5t course of action was to
return to the parent body. The division
took place in the year 1916, upon the
question of the administration of the sac
raments.
AT the close of the last year the
amount in trust of Mr.. Peabody's great
bequest for the benefit of the poor of Lon
don amounted to 81. ia, 900. and another
sum Of $500, 900 is TO be added To the prin-
cipal during the present year. The num-
b,r Of families occupying apartments un-
der his bequest is Si7, and the number of
persons benefited by it 3,407. Ii was
stated at the recent meeting of the trus-
tees of the Peabody Educational Fund,
held in New York, that the income of the
fund to be expended in the Southern
States for educational purposes during the
present year would be about $50. 600.
Last year Sl30,000 had been expended
by them for free common schools in the |
South, thus making nearly Sl,000,000 |
with the amount contributed in connec-
ton Herewith by the people themselves.
Foreign Items.
Queen Victoria sent Lady Smith, of
Lowestoft, copy of I" Leaves from our
Journals in the Highlands" In comment
Grafton OF her one hundredth birthday. |
The fly-leaf contains the following in the
Queens own handwriting ITO Lady |
Smith. on her one hundredth birthday, |
from Victoria r., Balmoral, 1873" Lady |
Smith was able to write her reply to the |
Queen.
The Duke of Edinburgh should be sat
isfied with what the English Parliament |
have done in anticipation of his marriage |
with the Russian princess. Mr.. Gladstone
said the marriage was one of affection, |
and he thought the proper thing would |
be to vote him $4,000 year, and $780,
300 year to the princess in case she |
should survive him. The young people |
ought certainly to be able To rough 1t |
on that paltry figure. There was little
grumblng on the part of three or four
radicals, who thought it time that sort of
thing should stop. But 1t went through
without trouble.
The fathers of the Society of Jesus,
who were forced by the Jesuit law to
leave Germany, have in part found new
home in the county of Lancashire, in
England. After they had wandered
through France, Belgium and England,
the brothers Stapleton placed an estate
At their disposal, and the fathers at once
established convent at Dillon Hall.
Nearly one hundred German teachers and
students do there as II they were at home.
Other colonies of German Jesuits have
established themselves at Stonyhurst and
At st. Buenos, In North Wales. There is
iaily communication with Germany.