Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-23
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.


in Chicago.
The Mormon population in the United States
by the late census was 1l4,2SS.
Late reports state that the Nihilists are stil
plotting against the life of the Emperor OF
Russia.
By the census of 1880, there was Roman
Catholic population in the United States OF
6,174,2O2.
The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, England,
took their Easter communion this year from
the hands of the pope himself.
The American Bible Society is proposing to
enter upon a thorough and universal canvass
of the United States and Territories TO supply
every destitute family with the Bible.
An estimate in the London Times puts the
cost of "drsnk" of the people of Great Britain
in 1881, at $685. 100000 The item of
beer alone drank, amounted to over &c, 600, 600
gallons.
The painful intelligence comes of the death
of missionary lady, Mrs. Harriet E. Jessup,
wife of the Rev. Henry II. Jessup, D.
D who died in Beirut, Syria, April S. She
died of pleurisy.
The Salvation army has got into Parliament.
The government is called on to put stop to
It's noisy demonstrations, and its friends de-
mand protection for it from the mob. There
seems to bea great difference of opinion as to
its usefulness.
One day last week 5000 emigrants arrived
at Castle Garden, New York. This is said to
be unprecedented at this time of the year, and
the arrivals of one day were as many as ar
rived in a month half dozen years ago.
The Rev. and Hon. John Davis Pierce, OF
Yysilanti, Mich, died at the residence OF his
daughter in Medford, Mass, a few days since,
at the age of IS years. He was born in Chest
erfield. N. H., and was q cousin of ex-Presi-
dent Pierce.
Reports come by the way of Constantine
pie, that the people in Cesarea are dying of
famine. A plague Of locusts appeared last
summer, that destroyed grain. vineyards and
everything, and that is the cause of the present
distress.
Toronto Ne,0s: It appears from the census
tables that there are 4,47S pagans in Canada,
and 1894 persons who have no religion at all.
But if all the rest of the population are as re-
ligiously inclined as the reports seem to indl-
cate, we can survive the small admixture OF
alloy shown.
In Minnesota there are 145 Congregational
churches. of which twenty-one are vacant;
ministers LIT, of whom seventeen are installed,
ffty-nine are acting pastors, and thirty-seven
without charge; church members, 1865; ad-
ditions last year, 6S2; in Sunday-school, H.
451.
The fortune of the Hon. Thomas Allen,
member of congress from st. Louis, Mo-,
who lately died at Washington, has been I'M
derrated. He was leader of railroad enter
prises of the West, and it is now stated that at
the time of his death he was reported to be
worth SIS, 100000.
American tourists have already commenced
their exodus to Europe in surprisingly large
numbers. Last week five ocean steamships
left the port of New York in one day, each
crowded with passengers, and the same rate
of travel, it is estimated, will be kept up
for two or three months.
The will of the deceased poet, Henry W.
Longfellow. makes no public requests, and
after several small sums given to relatives,
it gives the rest of his property to
his children. Richard N. Dana, Jr., the
executor named in the will, being dead, the
poets son Earnest will be made administra-
tor.
Mrs. Mary J. Pierce, who has beeu a teach
or among the Seneca Indians in Cattaraugus
county, New York, since 1910, is now past 60
years of age. and somewhat feeble. She made
an address at Salamanca few days ago, en-
treating her hearers to keep up the good work
in which she has been so long and zealously
engaged.
Archdeacon Hunter, of the Episcopal church
who labored for twenty-three years among the
rowing Indian tribes and the scanty English
population engaged in the factories of the
Hudson Bay company, in Rupert's land, re-
Gently died at the age of sixty-four. He
translated the gospel of st. Mark into the
Cree language.
This good one is from The Christian at
Work: This is sharp, if nothing else. A
Wastern minister recently said from his pull
pit, "when couple of agnostics came and
wanted me to stay and argue with them on
religious hypothesis, said to one of them
in the words of the prophet, abide ye here
with the ass while go yonder and worship"
The following may be commended to the
Auti- Chinese raiiers of the Pacific coast.
Bishop Whipple remarks: God says that call
nations are made of one 1esh;"b but some Chris
tians, by their actions lat least appear to think
that God is mistaken, and that they are of
"better clay'' than some of their fellow-men,
especially those who may be equity" of a
skin little darker than their own.
By the census of 1880 it is ascertalned that
there are 92,653 protestant churches in the
United States; ,662 protestant ministers and
zoos $50 members of protestant churches.
OF the protestant population, this gives a
church to every 473 persons, including infants
and children; one minister to every 6l2 of the
people, and one protesting protestant for
every five of the protestant population.
The Newark, N. j., M. e. Conference has
just closed its annual session. Among items
OF, interest was the adoption of resolution
thanking President Arthur for his veto to the
Chinese bill. The resolution was adopted by
rising vote amid great enthusiasm. The