Sharp County record., 1878-04-05
School and Church.

Mrs. Anna ii. LeOnOWenS Will teach
Sanscrit at Amherst this summer, and
next year return to reside in Europe.
Adrian College, Michigan, has re-
ceiyed windfall in the shape of dona-
ton Of $4,000 from Mr.. Tompkins, q
wealthy resident of Rockland County,
New York.
The Woman's Bible College at
Binghamton, n. Y, which affords q
free University course to the daughters
Of disabled or deceased ministers, with
out regard to sect, is full to overfowing.
-Spurgeon, the great London preach
er, has broken down in health, and has
been forced to abandon the ministry. 1t
is anticipated that the largest congre-
cation in London will thus be broken
up.
Mr. Leander l. Mccormick, of Chi
cago, has offered his great telescope to
the Virginia Legislature for the State
University at Charlottesville The leg
islature are discussing bill to provide
for accepting the gift, and to erect an
observatory for it at cost of $4,000.
Bishop Scott, of the Methodist
Church, is 76 years Of age, and will not
be able much longer to perform full du-
ty. 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 Bo-
ward, of Glenwood, Ind, Superintend-
ent of the new mission to be planted at
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 ?, in the theater
of the Royal Cork Institution and was
very well attended. The opening ad-
dress was delivered by DR.. Sullivan,
President cf the Queens College.
The Rev. Arthur P. Adams, of Bev-
erly, Mass, has been suspended from
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for holding and teaching doc
trines contrary to the articles of religion
of his Church. He preached the near
coming of Christ, and held that the eff
fcacy of the redemption scheme is de-
pendent upon the resurrection. Christ
can only be complete Savior, he taught,
after the resurrection.
The General Conference of the
Methodist Church South will be held in
Atlanta the first Wednesday in May.
The general business Of the Conference
will emorace many interesting subjects,
prominent among which will be; First
The relations to each other of the two
great branches of American Method
ism. Second-The adjustment of the
presiding-elder question. Third-Tem-
perance and great moral subjects, in
Guiding perhaps the questions involved
in the discussion of the subject of dane
ing.
The Rev. DR.. Alexander Burgess,
of Springfield, Mass, who has been
elected Bishop Of Quincy, ILL.,, is de-
scendant of a distinguished Rhode
Island family, the youngest son of the
late Chief-Justice Thomas Burgess, OF
that State, and brother of the late Rev.
DR.. George Burgess, who was Bishop OF
Maine for Is wears DR.. Alexander
Burgess was born in Providence, and
was graduated at Brown University in
1888, and from the General Theological
Seminary in New York in 184l.