Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-13
MINOR TOPICS.

and in order, in the higher and lower
courts.
MINOR TOPICS.
THE sales of the Moody and Sankey
hymn books, which are called by the name
of "Gospel Hymns" amount to 8, 5337, 900
copies.
IT WAS hard on the retiring pastor of a
country church whose congregation had
passed a series of fulsOme resolutions
about him, when the local paper printed
" inebriated zeal" instead Of unabated
Zeal'
THERE should be general feeling of
relief among all decent people at the
semi official statement Of one of the lead
ing members of the Irish convention
Qately held in Chicaso) that the conven-
ton discussed only Irregular revolutionary
methods of agitation
COMPLAINT was made in the Ontario
teachers convention at Toronto, on We'd
nesday, that there is an over-supply of
teachers in Canada Chat is, of third-rate
tcachers). forty and fifty applications in
some cases being made for situations with
q salary of not moe than $500 a year.
IT is remarkable fact, which has not
been adequately explained, that the excess
in candidates for the ministry is most felt
in the Methodist bodies. In this country,
tho evil is less felt now, and is probably
passing away under the improvement in
the times but in England all the Methc-
dist bodies feel it.
One of the evidences of the power Of the
gospel upon heather savages is seen in
Tapitenea, one Of the Gilbert Islands,
where the people have gathered and
burned all their weapons Of war, have
passed prohibitory liquor laws and inn
posed heavy fines on those guilty Of Sun
day labor or desecratiOn.
SOME more interesting extracts from the
private correspondence of Maj. B. f.
Breneman, now in Europe, to friends in
this city forecast of some theatrical
amusements underlined for the next sea-
son here graphic account of the rel;-
gious enthusiasm and social life of Rich
mond negroes, and other matters Of local
and general interest will be found on our
lido ,,aroS tn I1v
One of the last acts of the late Dean
Stanley's public life was an expression of
sympathy with the cause Of the Arme-
mans. He took part as leader in the
Abbey on the day before he contracted
the chill that finally ended his days, in a
private meeting to organize an English
subscription in aid of their efforts for the
enlightenment of Asiatic Turkey. The
Armenian association was invited by him
to make its headquarters in the Jerusalem
chamber, and during his illness III ad-
dress of thanks for this aid was boiug rap
idly signed.
ENGLIsHMEN stoutly opposed to vac
cination-and of that class there appears,
unfortunately, to he respectable number
ought to read and ponder we'll statistics
just furnished by the Deptford smallpox
hospital, which receives patients from all
parts of London. During the six months
ending on June 80, it received SAG cases OF
smallpox, of which 326 had been vaccin.
ated and 264 had not been, while of 4G il
was unknown whether they had been vac.
cinated or not. Among the vaccinated
cases the deaths numbered only only q, OF
25 per cent. among the unvaccinated
they reached total of 127, which was As
per cent OF the 46 doubtful cases were
fatal.
A RECENT estimate of the Jewish pOpu.
lation of the world puts the number al
about 6, 100000. Only 1870, 600 of the race
are to be found in Asia, 400, 900 in Africa,
300, 900 in America, and q, 1000 in Austria,
liza. The great majority Of the race, more
than s, ,OOO, 900, live in Europe. Roumania
contains far larger number Of Jews in
proportion to its population than any
other European country, namely, 7.44 per
cent. while Norway contains only "a
individuals of the race. The local distri.
button of the Jewish population in differ.
ent countries is traced out with great
pains by DR.. Andree. Thus, in some of the
government districts Of Russian Poland
the Jewish inhabitants constitute from 13
TO 1S per cent. of the population.
Although for the whole of Germany the
Jewish clement is only u per cent. OF the
population, in the city Of Berlin it has
increased to nearly per cent.
A MIR. FERGUSON, who belongs to Gar
fields church, writing to the Nation, Oh
jec.s to the term "Campbellite as de-
scriptive of his denomination, and insists
that, while claiming to be nothing else but
"Christians, " they do not claim to be the
only Christians. To prove this, he admits
that there are Christians in "the various