, 1880-05-09
GENERAL NOTES.

The British Wesleyan Thanksgiving fund has
reached total Of $1,380,0o0.
There are two branches Of the Reformed Epis-
copal Church in Canada. One has twelve con-
gregations, and the other hut one.
Tho Derlesliotino order Of monks has given to
the Church forty Popes, 200 Cardinals, fifty patrl
archs, 1850 Archbishops 5000 Bishops, and nu-
mcrous canonized saints.
The annual report Of the Church of the Latter
Day Saints, presented to the recent Conference
Mt Plano, shows tho Church numbers L, ST. CO m-
Ynunicants,-anin increase Of GIL over the previous
year.
The Bible has been translated into 2aB differ
ent languages and the copies circulated amount
to LIS, ,0tu,tDO More than seventy bnrburous Ian
gllnges have been endowed with a grammar and
literature.
The State Sunday y-school Convention will be
held ut Gnlcsburg Mny II to l3. An admirable
program OF exercises has been prepared by the
Committee Of Arrangements Tho railroad
companies will sell round-trp tickets ut reduced
rates to Au deSlrou9 or attending the ConVen-
ton.
The Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episcopal
Church is the most costly OF its denomination ia
na!tinore and it has :. the @ most st. d fashionable
The Eastor collection realized this amount, and
tho stately building is now paid for
In q recent letter from Garibaldi to Baron
at Venice, occurs this paragraph: II wish that
Italians would understand that the atheism we
and science, and that its aim ls to destroy the
worst Of human pla9ues-clericalism."
The Christian church on Western avenue In
this city has invited Elder J. H. Wright, State
Evangelist for Illinois, to become Its pastor, ana
1T published in this city, says Of him: Brother
Wright will be splendid addition to our minis
| torial corps in Chicago. and we feol confident
thuf he viii Gynftd work in tho rftvh
The college book of Harvard gives statistics
showing that out Of 943 students who graduated
between 1859 and 1875. inclusive, %o we're Unita-
rians or i6era y! 1 0Tth1do1
III 1lethodists u 2Swedenborgans, other trtn1-
tariuns, 2 Quakers, Is Cuthollcs, jows, Nor
and i3 Undecided y se1fs t1 are n furnished the
church of their own sclecuon
One of the most essential parts in the connec-
tioual system of American Methodts1n s its great
Book Concern ls OF ifsetf vnst instttu-
house house were ere hoo HOOKS. $5$5H; periodicals sse
4ota1 saee from bo
81, l,i65,5222 The weekly circulation Of its SIX
Ch1fstian 1drocdtes amounted to l35, sos. The
much larger: The total ret profit for the year
was little more than $9a1uU.
4 queer person named Fita has died In Nor
laix, Brittany. He earned his living BY per
forming v1cAr1oQ9 pliSFHuaHts- IL All4 UuE Was
oppressed By sin and wished to purge his breast
ht barRained with FitA+ who undertook for
valuable consideration to make pllRrfmages and
rcpea. pFuyers. Covered with dirty rags he
would set FORTH and, as he had many clients. he
was continually on the road. There WIS not
church. or u chapel, or shrine, or hnllowed
sprinr that he did not visit. He WAS the bell
rtnrcT at every procession; he attended every
pardon. When out OF work he would strut
about the streets Of Morlaix intoning at the top
Of his voice psalms and hymns. Some people
thought him crazy, others said he did 1t to i'd
yertise himself.
Large prints Of the new Roman Catholic
Cathedral at South kensington, which is to be
rnfscd on the site of the Brompton Oratory, are
exhibited in all the print shop windows In Lon
dom If the ediflce corresponds with the pre-
sentiment. it will he the most imposing religious
buiidIn0 In the metropolis, next, Of course, to
St Pauls and Westminster Abbey. The style Is
ornamented Gothic, most 1ortd, but most effect
i've: and, as the structure Will be very large in
size and detail, the character OF its architecture
viii giye it ali the nobler aspect, Operations arc
actively proceeding on the building. which, 1t Is
sud, has been very prudently taken in hand, not
a sod having been turned OF stone cut until
HE fun amount 0: tho estimated cost Was tn
hand. The treasurer hsstn hand R00,eoo-
A Methodist church tn Massachusetts, resolved
tn ret along on the G! o. D. plan in all depart
Inepts Of it's finance. Anew Sundays ago the pas
tor reported that the church was @25o Short and