The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

I0O,OOU scholars.
The Indiana counties have total
school apportionment for this year of
1869, 206.90.
In San Francisco the Roman Cath
Ole Church is stronger than all the
others.
For the first time in history Prot
estant Theological Seminary has been
established in Paris.
The authorities of Turin, Italy, have
refused to allow the Roman Catechism
to be taught in the public schools.
Five hundred and siXty-seven thou
sands eight hundred and fifty-nine chill
dren attend the Iowa public schools
The number of Protestant Chris
tians in China has increased in the past
thirty-seven years from three to $4,000.
The pews in Beecher's church this
year rented for $36, 929, against S47, 1896
in 1877, S63, $50 in 1876, and $40, 319 in
1875.
According to Rev. James Powell,
100000 colored children at the South
are already under the control of Roman
Catholic priests.
There is talk in Iowa about abolish
ing the office of County Superintendent
of Schools, leaving the supervision of
the schools to the local authorities.
The Chicago Baptist Theological
Seminary has two women students.
They are studying for the ministry in
the same class with their husbands.
The Baptists report 2, 020, 900 mem
bers for 1873, an increase of 81, 615 dur
ing the year. OF the total amount,
three-fourths are in the South, where
the larger proportion are colored
Many of the Massachusetts legisla-
tors are in favor of limiting free educa-
ton to grammar schools, and move
ment to abolish public schools of a
higher grade is to be made.
"A French Huguenot congregation,
which for many years has metin the nave
of Canterbury Cathedral, in England,
is about to join the Presbyterian Church.
1t recently celebrated its 237th anniyer-
sary.
Nebraska is said to have more than
2,50O,O0 acres of land set apart as a
permanent endowment of the public
schools. Those school lands sold thus
far have yielded an average of $3.50 an
acre.
"A rare book is to be seen in the
LenoX Library, New York. 1t is copy
of the Mazarin Bible, and was the first
book ever printed with movable type,
and came from the press of Gutenberg,
at Mentz, in 1455.
The pastor of Unitarian church in
Boston offers to carry on the society if
the pew-owners will make the church
free. He has already taken mortgage
for S1S, 900 on the church at lower
rate of interest that was ever paid be-
fore.
Prof Swing said the other day, in
a sermon, that the experience of the
last half century shows that the over
turning of the old beliefs regarding
future punishment will not affect badly
the future of Christianity or of public
morals.
The Superintendent of Schools in
Emmett County, Iowa, is out in letter
of advice to his schoolma' ans in which
he says: Remember that your time
belongs to the district, and leave at
home your novels, love-letters and
needle-work. " The Superintendent is
a married man.
Josephine A. Stone, colored girl,
who was graduated from the high
school at Newport, VT, last summer,
took the gold prize for the highest
scholarship, gave the valedictory, and
did the last two years study in one. She
is the daughter of cook and supports
herself by her own labor.
Superintendent Stone, of SPRING
field, Mass, wisely holds that much of
the perpleXities of arithmetic are of
small value as study, and of no value at
all in practical life; and that there is
too much parsing, analysis and humbug
generally about the study of grammar
as it is now commonly taught.
The Cumberland Presbyterian states
that one-fifth of that church is to be
found north of the Ohio River and east
of the Missssippi; two-tifths are south
of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi,
and two-fifths west of the Mississippi.
Tennessee contains %, 142 church mem
bers, or one-fourth of the whole.
"A strong opposition to the anti
secret society law of the United
Brethren is apparent in that denomina-
ton, and at the general convention
next May the matter will be up for dis
cussion, and no doubt give rise to a
warm contest, if not disintegration of
the membership.
Three colleges-Syracuse, Hamil-
ton and st. John's-have withdrawn
from the intercollegiate Literary As
sociation, and acknowledgements
expected to follow. In one case, how
ever, large number of the students
propose to retain their membership,
and their course is approved by the
Presidents in another, it is hoped that
the withdrawal may be reconsidered.
The Illinois State Teachers Asso-
citation indorses "with emphasis and
without equivocation the co-educational
system of schools, primary, secondary
and university, now in successful opera
ton in this State, believing that the
true interests, physical, mental and
moral, of both sexes are far better OBJ
served by this plan than by the system
of separate instruction"
--Seventy-four per cent. of the 100