The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-03-22

Mrs. Anna ii. Leonowens will teach
Sanscrit at Amherst this summer, and
next year return TO reside in Europe.
Adrian College, Michigan, has re-
ceivcd windfall in the shape Of a dona-
ton Of $4,000 from Mr.. Tompkins. 4
wealthy resident Of Rockland County,
New York.
- The Woman's Bible College nj
Binghamton. N. ", which affords a
free University course To the daughters
OF disabled or deceased minister's, with
out regard To sect, Is full 10 Overlooking.
-Spurgeon, the great London preach
err, has broken down in health, and has
been forced to abandon the ministry. II
Is anticipated that the largest congre-
CATION In London will thus be broken
up.
Mr.. Leander |. Mccormick, of Chi
cago. has offered his great telescope to
the Virginia Legislature for the State
University at Charlottesville. The Leg
lslature are discussing bill 10 provide
Tor accepting the gift, and TO erect an
observatory for IT at cost of $4,000.
--Bishop Scott, Of the Methodist
Church, is rs years OF age, and will not
be able much longer to perform full du-
~. OF the other Bishops, two. Haven
and Peck, are troubled with malarial
diseases, and Bishop Simpson has much
sickness. Two Bishops are abroad, one
in China and one in Mexico.
bishop Haven has appointed the
Rev. Royal J. Kellogg, Of Bethany, Pa,
Principal OF the Monrovia, Africa, Mis-
sion, and the Rev Melville Young b.
ward, Of Glenwood, Ind, Superintend-
ent of the new mission TO be planted az
Boporo, in the interior. The Rev. Joel
Osgood has also been appointed to the
same mission.
The Association for the Promotion
of the Higher Education Of Women, re-
Gently formed in Cork. held its inaugu-
raj meeting, February 2, in the theater
~ the Royal Cork Institution and was
very well attended. The opening adj
iress was delivered by DR. sullivan,
President Of the Queens College.
The Rev Arthur p. Adams, of Bey-
srly, Mass has been suspended from
he ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
church for holding and teaching doe
rines contrary To the articles Of religion
4 his Church. He preached the near
oming Of Christ, and held that the ef
lcacy Of the redemption scheme is de-
'endent upon the resurrection. Christ
an only be complete Savior, he taught,
fter the resuri ection.
The General Conference of the
iethodist Church South will be held in I
atlanta the first Wednesday in MAY.
he general business Of the Conference
all cmorace many interesting subjects.
rumnent among which will be: First
The relations to each other of the two /,
reat branches Of American Method
I'M. Second-The adjustment OF the I
residing-elder question Third-Tcm i
GRANGE and great moral subjects, in I
uding perhaps the questions involved
the discussion Of the subject Of dane :,
lg.
The Rev. DR.. Alexander Burgess, ]
Springfield, Mass, who has been \
ected Bishop Of Quincy, ILL.,, is a de- II
'endant Of distinguished Rhode Il
land family, the youngest son Of the /,
re Chief-Justice Thomas Burgess. Of
'at State. and brother Of the late Rev /,
r. George Burgess, who was Bishop Of \,
aine for Is years. DR. Alexander n
urges was born in Providence. and \.
a. graduated at Brown University IN =
3s. and from the General Theological =
,minary in New York in 1871. y !.