The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-02-23
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The new Governor of Virginia
favors a colored Normal school.
There are eleven pastors Of Congre-
gational churches in Connecticut who
have averaged pastorate of over twen-
ty-fye years each.
According to Edward Everett Hale,
rich, fond and foolish old man gave
his grandson, a Freshman in Harvard
College, $50. 900 for his years spending
money. 1t ruined the boy.
Marion County, Ca, is sdumbfounded
over a preacher asking for his back
salary for three years. He had been
paid Sl5, and that was supposed to be
enough to run him for several years yet.
Cyrus II. Mccormick has added
$50, 900 to his previous gifts to the Pres
byterian Theological Seminary in Chi
cago, which makes a total of 5000, 600
he has given to that institution.
The Louisiana State University in
tends to establish an experimental sugar
laboratory and give practical instruction
therein, thus materially assisting the
interests of the sugar industry in the
Gulf States.
The Rev. William H. Beecher, of
Chicago, a brother of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, celebrated the eightieth
anniversary of his birthday recently by
preach ing the morning sermon in the
First Congregational Church, having
been member of the congregation for
twenty years. He became a licensed
preacher fifty-two years ago, and has
preached for over fifty-five years.
Cornell University under-cla ssmen
are having great times. A few days
ago tho sophomores gave class supper.
The freshman did their best to break il
up, but did not succeed. Then the fresh
men concluded to have a grand supper,
and the sophomores made up their
minds that at least the President and
Vice-President of the class would not
be present to enjoy the festivities. Ar
rangements were pretty quietly made
to kidnap those young gentlemen, and
the scheme so far succeeded that the
kidnapping party fell under arrest.
Bishop Harris, of the diocese of
Michigan, said in a recent lecture be-
fore the students of the General Theo-
logical Seminary that the secret of
Dean Stanley's wonderful power was
his sympathy with men, and that he was
already numbered among the worthless
of England as one of the prophets of
bne AnglO-OaXOn race. E1e also eau
toned the students not to be out Of
sympathy with the age in which they
lived, and not to fall into the mistake
of supposing that their knowledge of
medi@valism could take the place of
mental and spiritual influence.
The property owned by the
" Economics religious community
founded in 1905 by some German
Lutherans on the banks of the Ohio
River, half way between Beaver Falls
and Pittsburgh, is estimated at $40,-
600, 900. Every day adds thousands of
dollars to this vast estate, and it's pos
SCISSORS, who believe in the second COM
ing of Christ, hold the money to ex-
pend it in his gloriication when he
shall appear once more upon the earth.
The affairs of the community are man
aged by Jacob Henrici, now in his
seventy-ninth year. But very few peo-
pie outside of the society know of how
many members it is at present COM
posed, but it is said that should their
worldly wealth be divided pro rata
among them each of the members of
the society would probably have 81 ,000,-
900.