Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-04-26
Religious Intelligence.

MGR. RoTA, Bishop of Mantua, has
been obliged by the civil authorities of
Italy to close his seminary.
THE Catholic clergy Of Spain are &C
lively canvassing the state for sigma
lures to petition to the Cortes, pray
ing for Catholic unity.
me next annual meeting of the
Protestant Episcopal Church Congress
will be held in Boston, beginning No
vember II. The Bishop of Massac hu-
sets will preside.
The Orthodox Hindoos of Calcutta.
it is stated, have held a meeting to take
measures for checking the growing
neglect of Orthodox Hindoo manners
and customs.
THE Board of Foreign Missions of
the Presbyterian Church desire contri-
buttons to the amount of $4,000, in
order to close the fiscal year on MAY /,
without deficit.
The subscriptions to the French
Catholic University at Lille, now
amount to e1O6, 400. This sum does
not include the buildings, which were
presented by single individual.
DIR. MARTIN, Bishop of Paderborn,
who, to escape imprisonment by the
German government, fed to Holland,
has gone to England He was request
ed by the Dutch government to leave
their country.
AT the session of the Troy Methodist
Episcopal Conference, which begins
April IL, in the City of Albany, the
Centennial sermon Will will be deliver
ed by the Rev. DR.. Hawley, on Friday
evening, the 18th inst,
The trustees of the Wilmington Con-
ference Academy (Methodist) at Dover,
Del, which was lately burned, have
come to a satisfactory arrangement
with the mortgage creditors in relation
to the insurance money.
The sum of Z, 524 rupees was lately
subscribed at Sunday evening meeting
in the Methodist Chapel Calcutta,
toward the building of a new edifce.
The congregation is composed of per-
sons who are by no means wealthy.
Miss A. G. YALE, teacher in the
Clarke Institution, Northampton, adj
dresses once month the prisoners in
the jail at that place. Her influence
over them is very marked. A large au-
dience is present from tho town when
ever she speaks.
THE official report of the Dutch Re-
formed Board of Foreign Missions
states the receipts for the fiscal year up
to March 81 to be $40, 40. The fiscal
year ends April 80. The treasury
lacks $27, $50 of the full amount of its
appropriations.
AT Londonderry, New Hampshire,
the old custom prevails of opening
the town meetings for election with
prayer. The Presbyterian Church, In
the same town, has had eight pastors in
the 1876 years, the eighth being now In
charge.
The Fort Street Presbyterian Church
of Detroit, which was recently burned,
was one of the finest buildings in the
city. It was erected in 1855 at the
cost of 500, OO0 and was altered in 1870
at a cost of $4,000. The insurance
upon the church was 100000.
The Italian Government has closed
the Vatican or Pontificial University in
Rome It's professors and teachers
were professors in the Old
Roman University. The ground of the
order for closing is said to be that the
state insists upon the control of all
higher education in Italy.
THE annual meeting of the Southern
Babtist Convention will be held in Rich
mond, Va, about the middle of May.
The convention represents every
southern state and several Indian terri
tories. It has been twenty years since
it met last in Richmond. About 400
delegates will be present.
TROUBLE has arisen in Stockholm,
Sweden, over the proprietorship Of the
British church in that city. Attempts
have recently been made by non-Brit-
lsh members of the congregation to
obtain the control of the property, the
cost of which was paid by Englishmen.
The English trustees are determined
not to surrender it.
THE annual report of the Presby-
terrain Mission among the Chinese of
California, gives the names of seven
teen laborers. Among these are TWO
missionaries and six Chinese assistants.
There are two mission schools; one at
San Jose, the ether at Sacramento.
Nine Cinnamon have, during the year,
united with the church on profession
of faith.