The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-03-18
School and Church.

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School and Church.
1t is said that in the Welsh language
an infidel book does not exist. q
I'm San francisco the Greek Church
has chapel and about $50 followers.
The English Wesleyans are getting
up thanksgiving fund, to which no
less than 81, l67 ,S25 has been promised.
There are 100000 members on the
rolls of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, that Church having been or
ganized in 1916. p, 1t has one college, a
publishing department, six bishops and
many schools
There are now ninety-one Reformed
Episcopal ministers, eight of whom are
Bishops. Sxty-four of these are in
this country, thirteen in Canada, and
fourteen in England. The Reformed
Episcopal Church is making steady
progress in quiet way, although its
history has not recently developed any
stirring events.
No ministers suffer more than the
very poverty-stricken clergymen in the
English Established Church. The wife
| of one of these in a suburb of London
saws that true statement of the hard
ships and miseries of the poor clerical
hacks of that vicinity, who are wearing
their lives away amid poverty, smoke,
and dirt, would make the Right Reyer-
end Bishops tremble. t,.......... Il A.,
| The total number of pupils in at
tendance upon the public schools of the
State of New York last year was 1,O30,-
600, and the cost of their instruction
was so, ,91S, of which amount the
teachers received in salaries $1,000, 1892
There are II 1924 school-houses in the
State, and the aggregate amount ex-
pended in support of the schools since
1850 is nearly $200,O00,0OO. uHsii
Elder Forscutt, of the Montana
Church, is trying to present to the peo-
pie of Chicago what he calls the true
ideas of the Mormon faith. He de
nounces polygamy, and says that gen
uine Mormonism has nothing to do with
it, but that Brigham Young introduced
| it and spread it in Utah. He regards
the Salt Lake Mornons as apostates
and not as representatives of the Nor
mon faith originally expended by JOSEPH
Smith. ,s5., ee g.'- M
Science and Industry. l9 ! "a
Cotton has advanced 10 to ID PEI
cent. since January 1.
"A number of farmers are successfully
cultivating upland rice in Monroe Coan
ty, Ga. 81 qsl48d ~ 10 atls aa-. s
Goat skins worth $4,000 were
shipped from Corpus Christi, Tex, il
one week, recently. $50 io i'aq 20
The farmers of Alachua County
Fla, are cultivating rice more extensive
ly, believing that one day it will become
the chief article of export. 80 91Ea y
-Cassava-root growing is being sue
cessfully experimental with about Scr
rento, Fla, and there is talk of estab
fishing mill there, for the extraction
of its starch. ym g3tf 7siq.up
Florida believes there is enough
land in that State fitted for cane-grow
ing to make sugar and strip enough t.
supply the whole United States, ant
save the 800, 100000 now sent abroad
i for it. 'IefA sf-F'-i'' r.
! Sugar factories are demanded b.
the small farmers ON the Lower Missis
sippi, who say they would gladly rais'
from 40 to 20 acres of cane each, If the.
could get it ground near home.6 1t nov
costs the profit to transport the crop t
mill. '''' g
Prof. Ingersoll of Purdue University
who has been examining specimens o
the diseased leaves, finds that the trou
'fble with the wheat in Gibson County
! Indiana, is fine fungus growth, lik
fine. sand, upon the leaf. The warm
moist weather of the winter is believes
to be the cause. aAii i1''-,'T'' - - " Z
lit is very common and very GIRO
neous impression that iron window shut
tiers and iron doors are a sure protection
against fire. The fact is they are com
paratively useless when fire reache
Them. a wooden door or shutter coy
cred with tin is much better than iron
There is much complaint in tn
Cincinnati tobacco market of t.fals
packing " 10 much of that received Late
Iy. This consists in filling the center o
a hogshead or case with poor stock
while the outside layers are of the bes
quality. The Board of Trade are tryini
to stop the fraud. .~,,-s~ ~s,,na
,...-ef.s Foreign Notes.ad .8snnoi
] Another royal marriage has bee
arranged for in Europe. The Archduk
Rodolph of Austria and the Princes
Stephanie Clothiide of Belgium arc tn
affianced parties. ss} - aoiiis
4 The statue OF the Prince Imperial