The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-01

Church, whose salaries are paid by the
Government-from go to $500 : year.
Bishop Paine is the senior Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
He was elected with Bishop Capers at the
first Southern General Conference, held
in 1916.
The members of all the Methodist
churches in the world number a little
over 5000, 600 souls; ministers, 19, 100;
local preachers, $1,000; Sunday school
scholars, 5000 900.
The Baptist Church in Orange, NJ,
of which DR.. Hague is pastor, Is main.
tanning thirty two young men in prepare
ton for the ministry, at an annual ex-
pense Of over $4,000.
The Rev. George Powell, formerly
settled at Caledonia, VT, has been ex.
PEELED from his position on the charge of
falsehood misunderstanding plagiarism and
lack of theological knowledge.
| DIR. Legge, of Hong Kong, the trans
lator of the Chinese classics, has lived
thirty four years in the East, and has seen
the number of native Christians in China
rise from six persons to 10000.
| "A Michigan correspondent of the
Standard writes that the accessions to the
Baptist churches Of that State, according
to the reports in convention, have been
about LOCO members within the last two
years.
"A careful calculation shows that in
the middle Of the third century the pro.
portion of the protesting Christians to the
population of the earth was about one to
$50. The proportion now is about one to
five.
| The growth in the number of CON-
municants in the Methodist churches in
Chicago during the past thirty years has
been as follows: In 1910 there were 154
members; 1850, 693; 1860, 1,410; 1870,
Att.
The First Presbyterian Church in the
| United States was organized in 1890 at
Snow Hill, Md. The first Presbytery was
held in 1905 at Philadelphia, and the first
General Assembly was held in the same
city in 1889.
AT the recent annual meeting Of the
Massachusetts, Universalist State Conven.
ton, it was stated that there were in the
fellowship of the Convention, 1902 parishes
and 70 churches, with q membership of
not far from 5000
The Presbyterian Board of Missions
manage the collecting and discussing of
their funds with such economy that not
more than seven per cent. is expended for
necessary expenses, the entire balance
going directly in aid of the missionary
work.
Judge Redington, of Vermont, has
given 81, 600 to Bates College to found a
scholarship for the benefit of a girl stu
dent. This is the first endowment of a
female scholarship in any college. Judge
Redington has also given $1,000 to found
a professorship of mental and moral phil
osophy at Bates.
Wishing to promote Christian fellow.
ship among themselves, and moreover to
contribute by their example and prayers
toward season of revival, the six Con.
gregational churches of Cambridge,
Mass, are holding series of joint con-
ferences, in which addresses and special
services of praise and prayer are the
order Of each evening.
Among the questions raised before
the Supreme Court in the case of Perfect,
the Chicago murderer, was the curious
one that the States Attorney, Mr.. Reed,
had wrongfully quoted certain passages
of Scripture in his closing speech. The
passages in question were from the sew
eral statements given by the four evan
gelists of the inscription on the cross.
New York. though reported to be o
wicked city, is we'll supplied with relig-
ious teaching. Its churches number $50,
or one to each 5000 inhabitants. The
first erected on the island was of the
Dutch Reformed faith, and was placed
within the fort, where Castle Garden now
stands. Next comes the Episcopalians,
and then the Presbyterians and Baptists.
| The church property in the city is esti-
mated at $40, OOO, 900.
| Industrial.
The wages of the operatives in the
Wheeler cotton mills, at Millbury, Mass,
have been reduced rs per cent.
MIR. Sortais has invented an electrical
instrument which gives notice Of the oc.
currence of a leak in ship, and by means
of dial indicates its extent.
"A bug resembling the potato pest is
injuring apples in Michigan. 1t crawls
into the fruit, which then rots. As many
as dozen have been found in single
apple.
"A Tama County Qowa) girl, of 10 sum.
mers, has, with her own hand, during the
past season, raised 1000 bushels of corn,
500 head of cabbage, 100 bushels of onions,
and calculates on netting $500.
The square timber which is shipped
from Bay City, Mich, costs, when in the
river, $500 per 1000 cubic feet; to ship it
to Quebec costs $500 per 1000 more; and
its reshipment to Liverpool costs $500 per
1000 more, so that at the latter place it is
5000 per / 900 cubic feet.
The panic has struck the shoe bust
ness at Haverhill, Mass, and shattered it
as the lightning skaters the oak. With
the exception of the large establishments,
which are kept open to preserve their
machinery, the manufactures are gener-
ally closed or at work on limited time.
Over $500 bushels of fruit have been
gathered from the Black Brook, Mimi,
cranberry marshes. Twelve hundred
acres of swamp lands have been recently
entered there for the cultivation of the
berry, and mills and dry houses erected to
carry on the business for the ensuing
season.
| Prof. Hitchcock states that the total
area of the coalfields of the United States
amounts to 23O, $50 square miles, besides
the strata which belong to other forma-
tons than the carboniferous, as, for in
stance, those of Virginia, of the territories
west of the Missouri River, and those in
California.
The papers in the lumber regions adj
wise that only small quantities Of logs be
cut this winter, on account of the large
number now in the woods which were not
foated to market, and also for the reason
that large stock of lumber is now on
hand, which the prevailing hard times
will not permit dealers to dispose Of at
remunerative prices.
! M. James, of Monroe, Iowa, has q
6-year-old steer, which weighed last spring
3,515 pounds. He now measures nine
feet eight inches from the butt Of the
horns to the butt of the tail, and from the
tip of his nose to the end of his tail, six.
teen feet. He is seven feet high, and his
owner mas been offered $500 for the ami
NAL, but he prefers to keep him and see
how much he can be made to weigh.