Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-08
SUNDAY GLOBELEYs.

| The annual meeting of the Methodist book
committee will be held at Cincinnati Feb. Il.
The Rev. Mr.. HOLMES, of New Village, Long
Island, is II years old. Last week ne brought
! home blooming bride of IS.
colored brother who stole q clock from
| Methodist church near Camden, N. j., has been
sentenced to four years of hard labor IN the
state prison.
Another too jealous coiored brother near
Nashville has blown the whole top of his wife's
head off because sne would not accompany
him to church.
At the school board election at Portsmouth,
England. a few days ago, Jew headed the poll,
an Episcopal was second, and Il Roman CathO
| lie priest third.
| The Rev. Edward Palmer. father Of DR.. Z.
Nj. Palmer of New Orleans, has entered mis-
ninety-second year. he preached recently an
animated sermon.
| An admirer of the festive Bob has named
his son IngersoH. When that lad grows up he
will be awfully embarrassed to ind that he mas
| no Christian name.
| In the Japanese bible it has been found
necessary to transfer from the English only
TWO words for which equivalent could not be
found-'hyssop' and amen
The bishops of the Southern Methodist
church are growing old. Bishop Paine is 50;
Kavanaugh rs; Pierce, IS; Wightman, u; Dog
gett, SO; Keener, so. and McTycire, Sc.
There are two little girls OF the Same name
in Utica, New York. The other day OF
them said her prayers, ard for fear they might
| be credited to the other child she aided after
the amen, ''No. 10, Orange street"
The colored Presbyterian church at Elder
and Foster streets, Harrisburg, Was de-
| stroyed by ire ON Monday last. The
loss is about $4,000. The defective tue"
is, as usual in such cases. responsible for lie
| disaster.
| The Free Baptists are increasing in n nth
| Carolina They have now about $4,000 mem
bers, besides 7,CC0 coiored members. They are
in sympathy, but not in connection, with the
general conference OF the Free-yTiil Baptists of
| the North.
founded By DR.. Wiunebrenner, will celebrate
this year the semi-centenary of its existence.
Special contributions for benevolent purposes
arc asked for, and some $50, eco wanted Tor
| classical school.
The oldest non-conformist place of worship
in England is TO be seen in the village OF
Horningsham, Willis. 1t bears the Date OF
| 1866, ard was built for some Presby terrain
workmen who were engaged upon the erection
of palace in the uaighborhood.
Richmond church yard in England, contains
4 monument, with an epitaph to the memory
of Robert LAwes. Esq, who, though barrls-
ter, was SO great lover of peace that when a
contention arose between life and death he
Immediately yielded up the ghost to end the
dispute
Pittsburgh minister mas & very stubborn lit
tie fve-year-old bog. The boys mother de-
termined TO conquer him, and, having admin
istared q severe chastisement, SIZE said: VIII
you mind now, Johnny" With sobs and cries
hereplieG: yes mamma, will, but ] bate
to awfuly.'
Dr. Puseys sou, Mr.. Philip Edward Pusey,
of Christ's Church, Oxford who has already
attained rank as d theological scholar, and
Cardinal Mannins's eldest brother, hir. frede-
rick Manning, of bennington, are among the
notable people whose death is recorded IN
recent London papers.
The Congregational denomination has in
Massachusetts 52S churches, of which, 2S2 have
pastors, $50 acting pastors, and GO are vacant.
There are 655 ministers, of whom 1875 are not
in pastoral service. The number OF members
is o. S7. The additions the past year num-
bered 4,2OO. OF these 2,42l were by profess
sion.
A Brooklyn clergyman, in speaking of one of
his parishioners who was given to argument
that it was difficult to converse with him on
any subject, said: ''Bro. Scratch is so argu-
mentative that he will dispute with q guide
| post about the distance to the next town and
argue with tombstone as to the truth of his
epitaph."
The Hoboken pastor who kissed his cook has
not resigned, as requested to, but holds the
| fort He preached a sermon last Sunday, N
which he said that he had done perfectly right,
and that if the busy tongues of malignant
possips had not so unnecessarily wagged,
there would have been trouble about the
little affair.
| A kind-hearted elder in town not far from
this city recently undertook to entertain a
| stranger WEO ulIiScil t-9 O aAiAASbsA
waiting for call. After being housed and fed
| for some days the strangers disappeared with
the watch and chain of his unsuspecting host,
who now says he will have good evidence be-
fore he tries to entertain an angel again.
| Some of the ministers of the Irish Episcopal
church, holding that dlsestablishment has an
nulled the privileges of non-conformists in the
parish church yards, refused to allow dissent
ing burial services, and an appeal has been
taken to the church representative body, which
decides that the rights of ncn-couformists in
parish church yards remsin intact.
The United Presbyterian presbytery, of Edin-
burgh has adopted a resolution calling On the
queen Ito exercise her authority to rut stop
| to the atrocities which are being perpetrated
in Afghanistan in burning villages and in leav-
| ing helpless women and children to die of cold
and hunger-proceedings at variance not only