Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-01
RELIGIOUS.

Mrs. Van Colt will attend to
"~revive" Sacramento shortly.
A fine new Episcopal Mission
Church was dedicated in Baltimore
OH Sunday last.
Rev. w. B. Slaughter, of the Ne
braska Conference, has been spend
ing a few days visiting friends in
New York City and vicinity.
The Presbyterians of Nauvoo are
raising means to build another
church in that town, to be located
on the site formerly occupied by the
celebrated Mormon temple.
The First African Baptist Church
of Richmond, at its last business
meeting, excluded seventeen MEM
bers for dancing. That looks like
business.
Father v. SOmmerisen, a CathO>
lie priest, has returned to Mankato
from the wonderful Yellowstone
country. He made the outward
trip lover 400 miles) through tribes
of Indians, alone and unmolested.
A scheme for remodeling and ex-
tending Manchester Cathedral has
been approved by the dean and
chapter. The proposed additions
and alterations will, if carried out,
involve an expenditure of some
thing like half a million pounds.
The theatres and other places of
amusement In Hannibal, Mo-, have
been deserted because of the revi-
val interest created there by Mr..
HammOnd's preaching. Services
are held in the streets, as well as in
the churches, and in saloons, and
a continuous service of five hours in
the street Is a common thing.
There are in Baltimore PA
churches of all denominations, of
which IS represent the different
Methodisms, 33 are Episcopal, %
Roman Catholics, II are Lutheran,
IA Baptist, 9 Jewish, Z United Breth-
rem, 5 Reformed, 8 Friends, 2Swed-
enborgian, and the Congregation
alists, Campbellites, Unitarians and
Universalists, have l each.
A man about thirty-five years old
died recently in Kentucky, who,
since the termination of the war,
has been making tri-weekly pill
grimages between two churches ten
miles apart, always making the
journey on foot, fasting with great
severity, and keeping silence during
the whole of his long walk. He
would never disclose whether the
penance was self-imposed or what
it was performed for.
The Pope is in the midst of mo-
mentOus days. The 18th of April
was the anniversary of his return
from Gaeta in 1850, and also of his
escape from the catastrophe of st.
Agnese i'm 1855. These will follow
in May his birthday, in June his
succession to the throne; and from
month to month his PRONUNCIATION
of the dogma of the Immaculate
Conception, the declaration of his
infallibility by a vote of the Vati-
can Council, and other dates to be
recorded in adamant in the annals
of the Roman Catholic world.
In the Roman Catholic Cathedral
at Baltimore there are said to be
richer treasures than i'm any other
church in this country. Jewelled
eiboriums, gold and silver chalices
all solid-patenas and remon-
strances, elaborate chausubles, mi
tres, cOpes, dalmatiques, rockets,
stOles, maniples, benediction wells,
and other ecclesiastical vestments
are all carefully preserved in its
tabernacles and sacristics. Some
of the ornaments are relics
of the past. Among others, the
gilded crozier episcopal crOok)
used by Archbishop Carroll, eighty
five years ago, occupies a conspicu-
Gus place, as also the rich mitres
worn by himself and departed sue
cessors OH the days of their en-
thronement. Even the cathedral
vaults are shrines of treasures, as be-
sides the solid silver ornaments of
the burial caskets, in which repose
the remains of archibishops, there
are archlepiscopal rings worn by
each during his government of the
diocese.