The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-06-24
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

OF English speaking people, IL 5oo
600 are Roman Catholics and SO ON ooo
Protestants.
The American Tract Society has
dispensed S6,314, 46S pages of literature
the past year.
The Yale Association in Colorado
have raised a generous fund for the mr.,
pose of aiding poor boys in that State tn
60 to Yale. II t-.
The Rev, c. Lewis, LID, Bantist
minister of Kentucky, died suddenly tbo
other day of heart-disease. He had nre'
pared sermon on DEATH for delivprv
the morning he died.
-Infidelity in India is threateninc
danger, but with small results thus far
The census of Calcutta gives II ,O95 Re-.
man Catholics, 1858 Protestants. 3o
Unitarians and Theists, and 40 AOnoQ'
tics. st g. ST.
The Minnesota normal schools have
been instructed to prepare their students
to teach the elements of social and moral
science, including temperance, health
purity, cleanliness, politeness, patriot,
ism, self-respect, conscience, etc.-Chi.
cago Tribune.
At the recent session of the confer
ence of the Methodist Church South. at
Nashville, Tenn, the Committee on Re-
Vlval recommended a new chapter in tho
discipline, which would forbid members
dancing promiscuously, or visits to
theater, opera, or circus.
There are in the Fiji Islands -sis,,,t
900 Wesleyan churches and |, 4U0'schools.
The communicates are numbered by
thousands. The schools are attended bV
nearly $4,000 children, and out of a bon
ulation of about 10000 over 1O0g60
are reckoned as regular attendants at
the churches. Idolatry is scarcely
known, and cannibalism, for which
these islands were so famous only fifty
years ago, has been voluntarily abandon
ed except by a single tribe.
There is a Mormon society in
Jonesport, Me-, which owns church
editice in partnership with the Congre-
gationalists. They are of the Joseph
Smith sect and discard polygamy,
acknowledging the Bible, but as inferior
in authority to the Book of Mormon.
They are the survivors of the famous
colony that went to Palestine and were
brought back by the aid of our Govern
ment. The town has u population of
1900, nearly one-half being Mormons.
Boston transcript.
France is probably foremost in prac-
tically imparting to her youth technical
education. Nearly ten years AGO a
school was established in Paris where
children not under twelve years of ace
were taught cabinet making, iron work,
wood and metal turning, modelling and
engraving on wood and stone In En-
gland, as well as in France, although
technical instruction does not form a
part of public school education there are
establishments founded for that purpose,
and considerable rivalry exists between
cities and towns to locally secure these
institutions. ...
The fifty-eighth anniversary of the
American Sunday-school Union was held
in Pittsburgh, recently, Rev. Charles l..
Thompson presiding. The reports de-
clare that 1864, 037 children have been
| gathered into the Sunday-schools of the
society, and religious literature valuee.
at 81 500, 900 has been put into circula-
ton. The entire expense of its mis-
sionary work for the period of fifty-eight
years have been only $2,729,941. The
. last year has been one of the most pros
porous in the history of the society;
1929 new schools have been established;
2,543 old schools aided. The union
reached last year 438,6S7 children.