The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-11-19
Religious Items.

The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church
reports an income for 1873 of 1900.
It's appropriations for the present year
amount to $60,S36. j.,
THE West Jersey Baptist Association
includes so churches, the oldest having
been organized in 1890, and the youngest
during the present year. The member
ship is 6,795.
THE American Board for Foreign Mis-
sions has Just held its sixty-ffth annual
meeting at Rutland, Vermont. The fis-
cal year closed with debt of $50, 4O1.
The estimates of the present year reach
half million dollars.
The Philadelphia Baptist Association
numbers 85 church societies and rs
church buildings, together with IA chap
els and ~ parsonages, valued at $2,Ol4,-
056. The present membership Is 81 1924,
of which 1878 were added over all losses
during the year.
THE Presbyterian Synod of New York,
which meets the present year in Boston,
comprises 8 Presbyteries, 329 ministers,
33 licentiates, 43 candidates, 100 church
es, and total membership of 1869.
The total contributions of the charges for
the past year amounted to 81 ,096, 465.
REV. r. X. BEEcHER's new church in
Elmira, New York, is nearly ready to be
opened. 1t is said to be the largest Prot
estant house of worship in the State, and
the money was all subscribed before the
building was commenced.
REV. H. f. BUcKNER, mis sionary in
the Indian Territory, states that there
are now only twenty-three hundred per-
sons remaining of the once powerful Sem
mole tribe. Of these, including the
chief, four hundred belong to the Baptist
Churches. r'L tr7L
In 1873 there were in Great Britain
1898 Roman Catholic priests, 1853
churches and chapels, Sc converts of
men, 267 converts for women, 81 Catholic
gymnasiums, 1,249 schools, 20 Catholic
dioceses, and membership estimated at
seven millions. About one hundred years
ago the Catholics in England and Scot.
land numbered only $4,000. .3'.r
DAN. Davis, of Virginia City, paid a
visit to PromOntory, on the Central
Pacific r. r., and was charmed with the
manners and custOms-.-almOst patriarchal
in their simplicity-Of the people. He
stopped at the principal hotel of the
town. 1t was nice place, and the land
lord was very agreeable and friendly
sort of man. Says Dam. When din
ner was ready the landlord came out into
the street i'm front of his hotel with a
dOuble-barrelcd shot gun. Raising the
gun above his head he fired off one bar
rel. / said to him: what did you do
that for?' Said he: TO call my bOarders
to dinner / said: why don't you fire
off both barrels? 'Oh,' said he, / keep
the other to collect WITH"
Something the Matter with the Churn.
They have new hired girl over at
Keyser's farm, Just outside our town, and
on Tuesday, before starting to spend the
day with friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed
the girl to whitewash the kitchen during
her absence. Upon returning, Mrs.
Keyser found the job completed in very
satisfactory manner. On Wednesdays
Mrs. Keyser always churns, and last
Wednesday when she was ready she went
out, and, finding that Mr.. Keyser had
already put the milk into the churn she
began to turn the handle. This was at
eight o'clock in the morning, and she
turned until ten without any signs OF
butter appearing. Then she called in
the hired man and he turned until din
very offensive language addressed to that
butter which had not yet come. After
dinner the hired girl took hold of the
crank and turned it energetically until
two o'clock, when she let 60 with re-
mark which conveyed the impression
that she believed the churn to be
haunted. Then Mr.. Keyser came out
and said he wanted to know what was
the matter with that churn, anyhow. II
was good enough churn if people only
knew enough to work it. Dir. Keyser then
worked the crank until halfpast three,
when. as the butter had not come, he sur
rendered it again to the hired man be-
cause he had an engagement in the vii
lage. The man ground the machine 10
an accompaniment of frightful impreca-
tons; then the Keyser children each
took turn for half an hour. then Mrs.
Keyser tried her hand and when she was
exhausted she again enlisted the hired
girl who said her prayers while she
turned. But the butter didn't come.
When Keyser came home and found the
churn still in action he blasted his eyes
and did some other innocent swearing,
and then he seized the handle and said
he'd make the butter come if he kicked
up an earthquake in doing it. Mr..
Keyser effected about two hundred
revolutions of the crank minute,
enough to have made any ordinary
butter come from the ends of
the earth; and when the perspira-
ton began to stream from him
and still the butter didn't come, he ut
tered one wild yell of rage and disap-
pointment and kicked the churn over the
fence. When Mrs. Keyser went to pick
it up she put her nose down close to the
buttermilk and took sniff. Then she
understood how it was. The girl had
mixed the whitewash in the churn and
left it there. A'good, honest and intelli-
| rent servant who knows how To churn