Morning journal and courier., 1881-06-02
chapter of Sorrow.

A very interesting service will be per-
formed by Excelsior Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star, tomorrow evening at Grand
Army Hall. The ceremony will be in re-
membrance of the members of the chapter
who have died and is known in the order as
the ssChapter of Sorrow" Certain forms
and ceremonies of an impressive character
are observed, and the entire proceedings are
calculated to keep fresh in memory the viz
tues of the departed sisters and brothers.
Friends of members will be admitted by in
vitation.
The States neutrality-suspicious. OF ROseola.
In the statement of the State Board Of
Health for May, published yesterday, is the
following: "a mild epidemic of roseola has
been spreading slowly over the State Thls'
at first, has been mistaken for smallpox or
measles, oftener the latter. In some in
stances the aid of physician has been re
quired for several days, in order to subdue
the high febrile EXETER Usually, if he
has chance to make the diagnosis, and thus
relieve the patients anxiety lest it might be
a praver disease. it is all the physician has to
hope for in this disease. The same is true of
varicella or chicken-pox, which has been
| widely diffused in the State. Taking roseola,
| chicken pox and measles, as well as the Ger
man measles, all of which may be looked for.
| as well as their fiercer cousin, smallpox, 1t Is
not strange that now and then mistake is
| made and one of the first three is called
| smallpox it seems singular that these should
| prevail at or about the same time. In some
| few towns measles still is epidemic, and in
others the German variety is cleaning the
i field swept over by the common variety"
| The Late International Y. NJ. C. A. Com
| ventfOn.
The twenty fourth international convention
/ of the Young Mems Christian association,
which closed Sunday evening at Cleveland,
O., was composed of $40 delegates, repre-
| senting from Halifax and Montreal on the
East and North, to New Orleans on the South
4 and Denver City, Colorado, on the West. The
| convention was noticeable because of the un-
| usually large number of young men IN 1t, and
/ also of representative men. Over eighty col
1 lege del gates were present, beside large
/ number of railroad men and good repre-
sentation of commercial travellers. The clos
I ing meeting Sunday night overtiowed one
church holding 1900, and another was held
1 in a church close by. Short speeches were
| made by several delegates, closing address
| by Rev. j. L. Wheat, of Louis vile, KY: and
then according to custom the delegates
| massed about the platform, joined hands,
| sang blessed be the tie that binds our hearts
| il Christian love-" and the convention ad
/ iourned. The next one is to be held in 1883,
/ TWO years hence, at Milwaukee, Wis. The
conference of general secretaries, the salaried
| men of the associations, meets annually, and
| will probably meet in June, 1882, in this city.
Berkeley Divinity school.
The twenty-seventh annual meeting of the
alumni of the Berkeley Divinity
| School Middletown was held Tues.
day. larger number than usual
| we're present. The business meeting for the
election of officers were held at 9 a. M. in
the Berkeley library. The holy communion
was administered in the chapel of the Berke-
| ley School At 3 o'clock the alumni with the
bishops of Massachusetts, and Connecticut
| dined at the McDonough House. At 7:3O p.
| NJ, in the chapel, the alumni sermon was
preached by the Rev. P Huntingdon of the
| diocese of Massachusetts,. The ordination
was at II a. M in the church of the Holy
Trinity, the sermon being preached by
L the bishop of Massachusetts. For Connect
cut Bishop Williams ordained Charles Walter
| Boylston, B. A, and Frederick Rufus San
ford, B. A.; and for Massachusetts Bishop
Paddock ordained Francis G. lid Berger, B.
A., and Frederick Ward Dennis. OF the 9th
| er members of the class, Mr.. Shepherd has
| been ordained in the diocese of Pennsylva-
mia. Mr.. Hodges will be ordained in the
diocese of Central New York, Mr.. Morgan in
Albany and Mr. Beckwith in Georgia. The
bishop held his usual reception inthe after
1 noon.
Mr.. Huntington's sermon was from the
| text John tenth chapter, eleventh verse :;
subject, the Saviour is presented to us in a
twofold character-shepherd and lamb. 1t
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