The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-01
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

MIR. Eliot. Superintendent Of the
Boston schools, says that tho Boston
teachers punish too much, some al
them reporting one hundred and thirty
cases Of corporal Punishment in q
month.
The average annual Attendance Of
colored pupils at the public schools In
South Carolina from 1869 10 1876 was
Al .691, while from 1876 to 1880 the av.
erage attendance was SO.72S-- an in
crease of nearly 100 per cent.
The Methodist Church OF Cansda
has torty-four missions among the In
dams of the Northwest Territory, thir-
ty missionaries, ten native assistants
and thirty-one hundred and fifteen menu
bers. Between Puget Sound and Alas
ka there are six Methodist missionaries
and number of teachers among the
Indians.
"A missionary tour around the world
was sometime ago undertaken by two
members of the Society of Friends in
England, Mr.. Isaac Sharp and Mr..
Langley Kitching, who have success
fully completed their mission in Africa,
and almost as fully in Madagascar, and
the latter gentleman has Just returned
to England. Mr.. Sharp proposes, after
a short stay in Madagascar, to proceed
to Australia, and thence return home
by way of America.
The religious world of Italy is much
distressed by the death of Father Gio-
vanni, the Capuchin friar, who was one
of the most celebrated tenor singers in
Rome. He was not only remarkable
for the beauty Of his voice and the
purity of his method; there was relig-
ious fervor in his execution OF a mass
that brought tears into the eyes of wor-
shippers, and placed the father in rivalry
with the master singers of the past.
The Pope has expressed lively regret at
the good friar's death.
The latest sect in England is that
of the Danielites. 1t had its rise in
1876, and its founder was T. w. Rich
ardson, a student of medicine and a
vegetarian. The organization has q
form of initiation, degrees, badges,
scarfs, and all the symbols of a secret
society. The person who desires to be-
come member takes solemn vow to
abstain entirely from fish, flesh and
fowl, from spirituous and malt liquors,
from snuff and tobacco. When this
promise has been taken and solemn
pledge of secrecy given the candidate is
ushered into the garden" which is
the Danielite name for lodge. The
head of each garden is called the CHIEF
gardener. The sect has no theological
system.
There is a curious church in Flor.
ence, Mass, calling itself Free Con.
gregational." 1t was originally (abou,
thirty-seven years ago) called the ''Com.
munity." This latter was a plant Of
feeble and short-lived growth, and was
succeeded by the Free Congregational
in 1868. Having for its President q
man of wealth and liberality, the society
has handsome hall, costing $40, OOO
Its name is ''Cosmian Hail." and it i
provided with an auditory, stage, par
lors, kitchen and all the accessories Of
a modern church. The services are
held on Sunday afternoons, and are
LETT entirely to the taste and will of the
person conducting them. This society
invites Jew and Gentle, male and fe.
male, bond and free, orthodox, hetcro.
dox and nullodox'' on its platform. II
usually has resident "speaker," who
is open at all times to criticism on the
spot. This position was first held, fol
eleven years, by the notorious G. c.
Burleigh.