Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-02-19
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The Chicago Board of Education
have ordered that when teacher mar
ries her marriage shall be considered
resignation from the school service.
The Southern Baptist Mission il
Rome has been recognized by the Ital
IAN Government, and it will now hav'
the right to acquire and hold property
The decrease in the number of pu
pills studying German in the st. Louis
schools is since last year nearly 700
Nevertheless 20, 1913 pupils out of 38,.
485 are still taking the language.
Two years and half ago there was
Onlyone Presbyterian church andnot one
Presbyterian minister in active work in
Dakota Territory (not counting Indian
churches). Now there are some tif-
teen churches, and nearly, if not quite,
as many ministers.
The American Board has spent
more than $1,200,000 on its missions
among the Indian tribes; has gathered
over fifty churches among them, in
which not far from 1000 members have
been enrolled, most of whom have done
honor to the Christian name.
In the Madras Presidency the Arcot
Mission ofthe Reformed Dutch) Church
has during this year extended the hand
of welcome to over 5000, who have
abandoned the worship of idols and
professed themselves adherents of
Jesus. On one Sunday the Rev. Jared
Scudder baptized 307, and on the next
227 converted HindOos.
"A technical school with shops un-
der the charge of experienced work
men as instructors is soon to be estab-
lshed in Philadelphia. The course of
thirty lessons, thirty lectures and sixty
hours practice, divided into three terms
of ten weeks each, costs altogether tif-
teen dollars-fve dollars per term.
This fee will include the use of mate
rials and tools.
"A committee of Illinois ladies have
begun movement for presenting to the
voters of that State the question of a
change in their Constitution giving
women the right to vote for school Off
GERS. Petitions asking for the presen-
tation of such an amendment will be
introduced in the next Legislature.
The State already permits women to
hold school offices. .........
The Congregationalists have in
England and Wales 2,907 churches, be-
sides 1880 branches and preaching sta
tions. During the past year fifteen new
churches have been formed and forty
five chapels have been built anew or re-
constructed. In Scotland the same de-
nomination has 106 churches, in Ire
land, thirty, in Canada 121, and in India
172. Their strength in England and
Wales is further shown in the fact that
they have thirteen colleges there with
1859 students.
Nevada has been able to sell only ,
about 100, 900 acres of her school lands,
owing to their mountainous situation ,
or desert character consequently the :
school fund has not been much bene- {
flied by the grant. The State proposes
to relinquish these lands to the Govern
ment on condition of grant of 2,000,- !
900 acres of non-mineral lands, which :
can be sold to advantage. The Nevada +
Legislature passed q bill authorizing >
this exchange, and Representative Dag 4
gett is preparing another bill to the
same effect to be introduced in Con- +
gress. ... n
The cornerstone of Clark Univer- p
jity, an institution founded for the 9
,ducation of negroes, was laid at At q
anita, Ca, recently. The University b
)egan its work in 1860 in a small n
to the annoyance of the citi- k
ems, who offered 100000 to have
located elsewhere. 1t was pet b
cheme of the late Bishop Havens to ii
ave the University enlarged and IL
trengthened so as to become the al
eading educational institution in the NJ
outh. 1t has now on the roll 120 el
tudents. The new building is to be ia
25 by 40 feet, and has 450 acres of in
ind connected with it. When COM III
leted it will be free from debt. ie
The want of Christian courtesy in 10
ONE of our churches, especially in
le city, is astonishing. In some cases az
ven cultivated families may attend tn
II years and not obtain the slightest nj
Now, there may be ex- I'll
client preaching, and everything, so tn
lr as the worship is concerned, en- be
rely congenial, but what does it sig pr
ify when you are no better than a ci'
among the JewsP When tie
,mily has attended church six or re
ght years and never received so du
uch as a word of welcome, it comes va
be a little tedious. People natur-
ly want to know by certain exter- re-
u signs whether the communion of I'll
ints means anything, and whether, no
it mean nothing here, it may mean tn
lything hereafter. -Ne3O York Church. I'M
on Protestant Episcopal. thl
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