The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

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The New English Wesleyan Confer
ence minutes show that that body has
Dos, 1867 members, 81, 4S9 on trial, and
2,l24 ministers, with 293 on trial, and
S4l supernumeraries.
In the high school of Dedham,
Mass, the experiment is being made of
using daily newspapers instead of text
books in the reading class. The princi-
pal thinks that the plan is successful.
Miss Emily Smith, of Provincetown,
q graduate at the Boston School of Ora
tory, is to take charge of the Depart
ment OF elocution and oratory in a COL
lege OF music al Cincinnati, O.
In Rochester, N. Y, the Board of
Education has ordered the study of s.in-
tellectual arithmetic to be dropped
from the third grade of the school and
some textbook on language and compo-
sition 70 be substituted.
The new plan of synod organization
In the Presbyterian Church, making
each synod co-extensive with the State,
has proved failure in New York, for
the reason that IL was overloaded with
delegates who had legal right to be
presently Y. Times.
The Interior laments that the prac-
tice of memorizing the Scriptures has pas
edaway from the Sabbath schools, and it
isnow rare thing to find Sunday school
teachers who can recite from memory a
single chapter in the life Of Christ, or
even one OF the Plains.
The Rev. A. ID. Mayo. reports that
rs fast as education lays its hand upon
the Southern children, black or white,
they begin to draw near to each other,
and that there is no doubt that at q
time not very far distant they will dwell
together in unity. The present attitude
of the higher classes is favorable to this
change. MIR. Mayo said that although
many of the children to whom he spoke
were descendants of the leaders in the
Confederacy. he found the former free
from the bias of their fathers.
Miss Rebecca Husey died as long
ago as lila, and by her will bequeathed
a sum of Fl. 900 for, as she quantity ex-
pressed it, 1.-THE redemption of slaves. if
it may be effected, or else to the ease
ment Of their slavery" The fund was
allowed to accumulate until 1868. when
it amounted to the large sum of f23. 481,
and it was then decided that the princi-
pal should be Kept intact. and the annual
interest equally divided between St. He
lena and Lagos, to be expended for the
benefit of the slave class. The trustees
at Lagos allowed their share to accumu-
late until they could establish an insti-
tuition for the industrial training of boys
rescued from slavery, and such school
has just been opened, 40 years having
elapsed since the bequest was made.
"A steamer whose hull and machin-
cry weigh only six tons has been built for
the British Baptist Society, who intend
it for services in the upper regions of
the Congo. 1t is appropriately named
Peace" Many ingenious devices have
been resortcd to in its construction, with
view to good speed, very light draught
and capability of being transported over
land. The boat. built in seven water
tight compartments, can be taken to
pieces, aud the total number of pieces,
neither of which will be too heavy for q
man to carry, number 800. It will be
sent to the mouth of the Congo. and there
the pieces will be carried by 800 men
distance Of 800 miles up to Stanley pool,
where the boat will be reconstructed. 1t
Is gift to the missionary society from
Mr.. Robert Arlington, Of Leeds.-N
Y. ErG,siner.