Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist Conference at Gin
cinnati, by decisive vote. resolved TO
postpone indefinitely the election OF .
colored Bishop.
"A detachment of the Salvation
Army will be sent to France under the
direction of the elder daughter of Will
lam Booth, the Commarder-in-Ohief.
1t is reported at Richmond, Va,
that Archbishop Gibbon (Roman Cath
olic) of that city, who is now in Rome,
will be made q Cardinal before his re-
| turn.
One hundred and thirty Indians
were confirmed by Bishop Hare, of the
Episcopal Church, during the last year,
and seventy three Indian adults were
baptized. - e. mrs. 20
Three fourths Of the Baptist church.
es in the country are in the South. The
membership OF. this denomination in the
Southern States is 1,5O0,000, of whom
goo, 900 are colored.
"A blind girl has excelled all previ-
Gus members of the fourth class in the
High School at Portland, Me-. by at
tanning n rank. of 100 in all her studies
for one month, except Latin, and % in
that. ..,E
/. Mrs. Susan N. Carter, ,Superintend-
ent OF the New York Cooper Union Art
School for Women, estimates that only
one-third. of her pupils ever become
professional artists or teachers. The
other two-thirds either marry or are
indecisive. $3.50.
Says the London Spectator: II
parents would only require their girls
TO take their education leisurely and
not to hurry to the end of il at the same
speed as the tougher and less suscepti-
bic sex, the habit of intellectual study
would improve their health instead Of
endangering it."
1t is said that preliminary steps
have been taken in Philadelphia for
the formation of a new society
among the othorodox Friends. II will
be made up of those persons who have
been excluded from the other meetings
for causes, such as marrying out Of
meeting, which are not immoral.
The International Christian Tenn
perance Camp Meeting holds two ses-
sions this year one at Grimsby, near st.
Catharine's, Ontario, Canada, July 22d
to 18th, inclusive. A list of wellknown
speakers have been engaged. and re-
duced fares on the railroads will be Sc
cured. The second meeting will be at
the Thousand Islands, from July 2Sth
to August LIST. inclusive.
The strict church.o of England party
regard Queen Victoria as very bad
churchwoman. She has built a castle
in Scotland and occupied her Palace Of
Hollywood, but the beautiful chapel
there is as rooaess as on the day she
first saw it. Again when she first went
to Balmoral IL was noticed that she
took a grand suite, including even her
French male hairdresser, but not her
domestic chaplain.
-Ex-Gov. Frederick Smith. Of Man.
chester, has offered 800 year for five
years in prizes TO the State College Of
divided as follows: S25 for the best essay
S15 for the next best, the essays 10 be
written by seniors on agricultural or
declamations, open to both senior and
middle classes; $l2 and 50 for the
best and second best junior reader.
The Christian Young Mems Assoc
citation have purchased Exeter Hall,
London, for f25,000 They intend to
spend another f15, 900 in doing up the
building The Roman Catholics were
anxious to purchase it for church,
but, although they offered as much as
the sum paid for IL, the actual pur-
chasers got the preference. The
United Kingdom Alliance also put in n
bid for the famous rendezvous. This is
sign that the anti-liquor agitation is
institutions of the country.