The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Catholic churches of New York
city are worth 81, 100000.
The Bible has been introduced into
the Bengal public schools.
"A record of corporal punishment is
kept in the Portland schools.
-Beecher has been preaching in
Brooklyn for over thirty years.
The Quaker meeting-houses of New
York city are entirely free from debt.
There are 100000 people in Lon
don who never attend any place of wor-
ship.
The Cturchman pronounces Uni
versalism the sinister progeny of Cal
vinism.
"A general religious awakening is
reported throughout the State of Con-
necticut.
The colored Baptists of Virginia
have built and paid for fifty churches
the past year.
The British Baptist Handbook for
1873 reports Il membership of 269,S36
an increase of 4,039.
The question of disestablishment is
said to be entering very largely into the
political canvass In Scotland.
The new sect among the Method
lists, known as Free Gospel Method
ists," is rapidly growing in the West.
1t is reported that 131 of the En-
glish School Boards have given their
practical assent to the spelling reform.
The Connecticut school fund has
distributed for the schools, between
1899 and 1872, the total sum of 81, $780,
620.
The number of theological candi-
dates for the Evangelical Church of
Prussia has fallen off steadily for the
past five wears.
The Trustees of the University of
Chicago have elected Rev. DR.. Galusha
Anderson President of the institution,
nice Alternately. RESIGNED.
Rv fr;ondlv aorooroon+ bo+,voor
oil i,,yeroctad ~ reod;nm of tho R;hIa
hos hoo,, diSnonsod Nth IN +ba nnh1;o
schools of Naugatuck, Conn.
Educational interests are lsoking
up in Tennessee. The State University
in Oxford has double the number of
students that it had a wear ago.
The presbvterian BOARD Of Foreion
Missions has, since it's organization,
spent S9SS, 600, or an average of S23,-
600 annually. among the Indians of
this country.
Tha avarana rrrnbar of bant;sms
bv Rant,st ministers in the Tinted States
last wear was eioht. The AVERAGE num-
her bv Raptist missionaries in FOREIGN
lands was fourteen.
pb;l;n pbilIins wont to Jolie+ Prison
10 s;nr td tho nrisoners tho otbar SIN
dav IMAGINE the effect when he began
his introductory remarks with my
friends, | am glad to see so many of
you here to-day
The Society for the Increase of the
Ministry, an Episcopalian association,
has taken under its care for the present
year TO less than Ill scholars. Nearly
as many more have been refused aid ON
account of lack of funds.
Fo,tv-ono oirls in carly taers have
already entered the new Latin school
for drills in Boston. No nunils under
twelve wears old are received altbongb
hovs i'm their latin school NAV beg;n If
nine v@ars
G., f0nr olorc,on &c +bo ru;s
oo,,aI CT,,,roL Al r. To-. 49,, FL
coPal Cnuron uleo u'''lhS lasV year anu
OF the forty-three whose ages are gwen
in the Churchman'S almanac the aver
ape wac over sixtv-one wears This is
- -.1s.,,.aII ,.g:.
very r0sPeolaple lolSoNlCy'
The Archbishop of York, in reply
to n memorial from some ant;-confes-
e;onaI;ctg cove. al on, porcu.dod tb.+
~ on: ~ nc
any reCurh W tne Practice III lile church
would be, on the whole, most unfayor-
able to the spiritual life of the people -
"A proposition to render bachelors
ineligible to election as school directors
in Iowa is received with complacency
NV tho hoa,d of r;na man,barS in ono
- .i'...i-
township as Ihey -po'sC themselves 10
be all married. men, and, collectively,
the fathers of sixty children.
nc +ho.,o Cotb,,;o A,,oLh;ol,,,.
:, 'ho V C"thoii0 ,iIhoisnoPs III
me ohi.eu OtaIes are lrlsn' vi the 10
nVlng BISHOPS, ~ are OF the same
nationality; of the 200 priests, no less
than z O0O halono To tba Ir;sb raca
M 49, s,.a..,..! oII1 IL
nc ""iii0 PioPo. .ioI hoi'o Soou III 'lio
ialty, VINO are onlclally returned at o.
50O, 600, and of these 100000 have
been supplied bv Ireland.