The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-07-12

school and Church.
The Dakota Presbytery has 500 In
dian COMMITMENTS.
Rev. DIR. Newman estimates that the
Chinese spend $l5S,O0O, 900 in the wor-
ship OF ancestors
The subject Of endless punishment
Is attracting attention in the Episcopal
Church in Ireland.
The English New Testament Com
ssry have reached the seventh chapter
Of Hebrews.
Mrs. X. G. Saunders is one Of the
assistants in the Harvard College Uni
versity. She reduces observations made
with the meridian circle.
There have been only three ecclesi-
astical trials Of Bishops in the Protest
ant Episcopal Church in the United
States since 1887, and only one involv-
ing criminal immoral conduct.
The New England Methodist Con-
ference, lately in session at Westfield,
Mass, passed \ unanimous vote ssdis-
couraging" the holding Of more than
three regular services in any church on
the Sabbath; namely, sermon, a BIZ
BILE service or Sabbath-school, and q
prayer-meeting.
An institution for colored students,
to be known as "Clark University, is
shortly to be built near Atlanta. II will
not be seetarian, and it will offer poor
students work which will help them to
pay their college expenses 1t will be
in part an agricultural school.
A West Virginia law enacts that il
any person shall be concerned in man
aging a rattle or gift enterprise at a
church fair or festival, he may be inn
prisoned one year and fined $500, and
the property be forfeited TO the State for
the benefit Of the School Fund.
The Regents Of the State University
of Iowa have elected Miss PhGbe w.
Sudlow, present Superintendent Of the
Davenport City Schools, Professor OF
English literature, with salary of 81
700 year. She is said TO be thorough
" competent, and in justice to her sex,
II not in obedience to her own wishes,
should accept the honor without hesita-
ton.
The University of London having
obtained its charter for admitting wom-
en- 10 degrees, University College at
once takes the step for which it has been
steadily preparing during the last ten
years, and next October classes in all
subjects Of instruction within the Facul-
ties of Arts and Laws and Of Science
will be open to both male and female
students, who will be taught in some
classes together and in others separate
~.
DIR. Scuddcr says that the Oriental
nations will never become converted to
Christianity until the women first be-
come Christians, and he says that the
women can be converted only by the
personal agency Of women who 90 there
from Christian countries. Hindoo
women will not listen to male mission
aries. Dr.. Scudder was in India for
over 20 years.
Hsps and vlishaps.
Louis Nier, aged IA, Of Warsaw,
Ind. was killed by falling from q
freight-train on which he was stealing
= ride.
VIM. +. Wilson, of Ossian, Ind,
swallowed dose OF strychnine, sup
posing il to be morphine. He died in
20 minutes.
A 2-ycar old child of James Nor
ton, farmer living near Sidney, o.,
wandered upon the railroad track near
its home and was run over and killed.
A little boy named Max Brown, Of
Mount Gilead, o., was seriously burned
by an explosion Of flask Of gunpow-
der, with which he was playing near the
fire.
C. b. Cook, Of Cynthiana, Ky, was
severely wounded BY the accidental dis
charge of self -cocking pistol while
taking some clothing from bureau
drawer.
The 9-year-cld SON Of VIM. Gard
ner, Of Lafayette, Ind, was seriously
wounded BY the discharge of a pistol in
the hands Of sister two years younger
Robert Wright, prominent citi-
zen Of Louisa County, Va, was killed
by stroke Of lightning while standing
in front Of his house. Every vestige Of
clothing was stripped from his body.
john Gardiner, engineer Of porta-
bic saw-n1ll near .<Allensville, vinton
County, ~, was fal W injured by the
breaking q The To- while The engine
was running a. = n RE Of speed.
james Coagan. : sailor, aged 80.
for wager 81 Is cents, tooke dive In
to the river at New Orleans, from the
fore-top-sail yard q the ship Wyoming
His body was not recovered.
--A3-year-old child named Hembling,
at Grand Rapids, Mich, got hold Of a
bottle of benzine, which Il split over its
clothes, and approaching too near the
fire it, clothing ignited, burning the
poor child fatally.
" Frankie Allen. n 81. Paul. (Nfinn \