The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-12-29
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

School Superintendent.
The Amherst Agricultural College
has siXty-nine students.
The salaries of the Philadelphia
school-teachers have been reduced 10
per cent.
The service of women on the Bos-
ton School Board is said To have been
thoroughly efficient.
There are 1875 Baptists in Vir-
ginia, black and white, with 1,170
churches and 1873 ordained ministers.
Nine women have been elected
County Superintendent of Schools in
Illinois at this years county elections.
The General Council of the Chris
tan Union will meet at Wesley, Ind,
on the third Wednesday in May, 1873
The Boston Congregational clergy
men have been discussing, with closed
doors, the doctrine of endless punish
ment.
Eight clergymen in Chattanooga
have denounced the custom of obtain
ing money for churches by means of
lotteries.
The negotiations for the union be-
tween the Lutherans and Methodist
Protestants of Georgia have been
dropped.
"A Catholic paper states that the
personal gifts made to Plus TX. since he
became Pope amount to over $40, 000,-
600, not including Peter pence.
The recitation term of the Dart
mouth College Medical School opens
with the largest class since the estab-
ishment Of the recitation plan,
In reading hymn to be sung, one
Sunday afternoon, New York minis
ter recently said: "You may omit the
fourth verse; l don't believe it's true"
The Boston School Committee has
adopted an order authorizing the Com
mittee on High Schools to organize a
Latin school for girls in that city.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
now has three foreign Bishops: Bishop
Williams, of Japan; Bishop Penock, Of
Africa, and Bishop Scherschewsky, of
China.
There are in New York city ten
colored Methodist churches, three col
ored Baptist churches, one colOred
Presbyterian and one colored Congre-
gational church
One of the severest hints pastor
can receive is cash donation from the
congregation, accompanied with the re-
quest :" to spend it in the replenishment
of his library
There is a strong Catholic move
ment against dancing in Baltimore.
Many young women who are church
members are dropping the amusement
from their party engagements.
AT the State Superintendent Insti-
tute recently held in Tennessee, the
prevailing idea in regard to corporeal
punishment in schools seemed to be
that it was injurious, and Il relic of bar
barism.
Dartmouth has 425 students Haz-
ing at this college is almost entirely
suppressed. The college authorities
complain that they haven't enough
money to assist poor and deserving STU
dents.
There are now in Boston six public
and many more private kindergartens.
st. Louis has thirty-two that are public,
Chicago has seven, and Cincinnati,
Cleveland, indianapolis and Nashua,
N. H., one each.
The Baptists began their German
work in 1880. In 1851 they had five
German ministers, with ten churches
Now they have two German associa-
tions, with 100 churches, 100 ministers
and 5000 members.
The Little Sisters of the Poor
have representatives in all parts of the
world. In Paris they have five houses
where they care for poor people sixty
years of age and upward. The order
commenced at Saint Servan in 1910.
First Scot: Fat sort O. minister
haze We gotten, Geordie?' Second Ditto:
seldom get CLINT o him. Sax days O
tn week he's envees' BILE and on the
seventh he's encomprehens'b ler'-
Punch.
BY way of holding out sufficient in
ducement to the ungodly to enter upon
a life of religious observance, an Edgar
town Mass man offers chrome to
every person attending church service
every Sunday morning for the next six
months.
In recent installation sermon at
Buffalo, DR.. Calkins recalled this char
acteristic remark of the late DIR. Brain
ard, of Philadelphia: There are three
qualifications of ministers-piety, tidel-
ity and poverty. The first two we must
obtain of the Lord by prayer; but we
must trust the stinginess of the churches
for the last"
There are 800 young men and one
young woman in the law department of
Michigan University. The other de-
partments and classes have a much
larger proportion of girls. 1t is the
unanimous opinion of all acquainted
with Michigan University that the CO.
education of the sexes results in "noth-
ing but good"
Never before in the history of the
Methodist Protestant Church has the
outlook been more encouraging than
now. The annual conference has in
dorsed the union and declared ale
glance to the general interests of the
denomination. The several interests
publishing, educational and missionary