The New York herald., 1879-03-09
UNCONVENTIONAL NOTES.

Dakota has twenty-five Congregational churches-a
growth from within ten years. revival has
prevailed for some weeks in tho Congregational
church at woodhaven. L. l.. of which the Rev. Mr..
James is pastor. Several converts shave been added
to the church.
The Congregational church ut Ann Arbor, Mich,
received sixteen converts at its last communion
season. the result of revival still in progress.
Tho will Of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Whitehouse, Of
Pembroke. N. H.. gives 100000 to tho New Hampshire
Missionary Society lConsregational and aggregate
OF $4,000 to other religious and benevolent organi
zations.
The Rev. Christopher Cushings Congregational
Quarterly has received he believes its death blow
by reason of the action of the National Council of
Congregational churches in providing for Year
Book of dcnomnational statistics. OF these statis
tics the Quarterly has hitherto had monopoly, and
they have kept it alive Its publication is now to be
suspended. Meantime Dr. Gushing has been chosen
treasurer of the Massachusetts Homo Missionary
Society in place of Mr.. Charles Demond.
The New England congregational Church, Brook
lyn. has membership of 200 on its roll and very
little nsregation besides There are $50 teachers
and pupils in the Sunday school. and mortgage Of
S25 900 rests the church property. beside foat-
ing debt of 1000
prominent feature in Henry varley's new Taber-
nacle in Melbourne Australia will large coffee
house. where eatables will be furnished at q little
over cost price. Tho whole edifce will cost about
S1O0Oo0
There is very general awakening at Greenport L.
l. The pastor. Rev. Charles L. Hiscox, has been
assisted by his father Dr. Hiscox in extra meetings
with remarkable results.
Rev. +. A. Brady has been two years pastor at
Delhi. Ont. and in that time has baptized one
hundred believers. He reports that baptist views
spreading rapidly III Ontario.
The Missouri Baptists regard water essential
only for three purposes-laineiy, for navigation.
irrigation aud immersion. They other fluids ex-
clusively tor drinking purposes.
The receipts OF the Baptist Missionary Union, as
compared with last year. S33 2s5 g. instead of
S53. .2s5 &c, have stated The larger sum ought
to be the correct figures. though it is not
Rev. George Balcom has tor time been
engaged in revival work at Painted Post, N " where
the Baptsts and Presbyterian have been holding
"a union meeting. The Methodists have been hodng
meetings also. about thirty have come out in
church. he says.
The Eraas.ner and Chronicle says Of Rev. Arthur
Mursell's sneer against American close communion
Baptists who received HIM here with ted
social aud pulpit hospitality that he must needs 40
t. the Internal regions OF n heathcn mythology for
triple-headed monster, hcndish mixture OF bull
dog. serpent and snake. with which to caricature "a
system under which lie was everywhere treated as
n Christian gentleman and minister. They did not
ask his sympathy here but neither did thoy expect
such coarse caricaure.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
The Holy See has erected Afhanistan into an apos-
toc prefecture and has intrusted to the Society
s.. Joseph or the sacred Heart
The Catholic bishops of st. Uyacinthe and Ottawa
sailed together from Liverpool for Canada on Ash
Wednesday.
There are now four Catholic doccses vacant I'm the
United States--Chicago, Hartford. Marquette and
columbus.
The Most Rev. J. d. PURCELL Archbishop of Cncin-
natl. has had the satisfaction OF seeing ms
priests crowned with the mitre than, perhaps any
blshop of the century, some twenty odd In
Observation-Disclosures Hcnni. Wood. Aleinany and Laliy;
bishops Quinlan. Gilmour. Fitzgerald. Mac heb,cuf,
De GocsDrIand. Toebbc, Dwcnger. Borgess., Luers,
Juncker. Carroll. Miles. Wheian. Young. Rappe,
Baraga and Mcfarland.
Father Bapst, s. j. who In i'll health, is for tho
present rcsiuing at Boston College.
The Catholic diocese of Hartford established
in 1874. and now has S3 churches and 10 buildings.
80 chapcs and stations 100 priests, 80 clerical stu
dents, female academies, i3 parochial or free
schools. 10 religious institutions. orphan asylums
aud Catholic population of 100000.
movement tho relief disabled priests in tho
diocese of Providence recently started In Provi-
dence II. |. goodly number of clergy are en-
gagged in the movement and q COMMITTEE has been
| appointed to push the matter through until every
priest IN the diocese is brought into 1t.
band OF Jesuit missionaries. under the Jealous
Father Mcguire y. j. are giving missions in Boston
churches curing Lent.
The Bishop OF Louisville. KY. has prohibited any
more religious services over the dead In houses
churches. They must be performed hereafter at tho
graves.
A correspondent Of tho Ciurchman. writing from
Berlin, says the Old Catholics Of GERMANY are