Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-09
SUNDAY GLOBELNrS.

conversions and baptisms are reported in a
number of towns.
Last week William Il. Vanderbilt bought
four vacant lots adjoining st. Thomas church
on Fifth avenue, New York, for 1896 200, a
tr;he less than 100000 lot of 25x1OO feet.
The Rev. George Muller of Bristol, Eng,
who carries on his great orphan work by
prayer alone, has recently visited the Holy
Land, and while in Jerusalem addressed two
companies of lepers.
The Michigan legislature at its late special
session just closed, revised the tax laws of the
state. After a full discussion by a large ma
jority, church edifces and parsonages were
left on the exemption list.
Rev. John Newt There is many a thing
which the world calls disappointment; but
there is no such thing in the dictionary of
faith. What to others are disappointment
are to believers intimations of the will of
God
In commemoratiou of the 5OOth anniversa
ryof Wycliff's death, which will be in the
year 1884, Wycllff society is IN course of
formation to secure the publication of the
great reformer's Latin works, with English
trsnslations.
A comet was discovered in March, at the
Dudley Observatory in Albany, N. Y. 1t is
stranger, no one having before made its &C.
Quaintance. 1t is 150,00O,O0O miles distant
but is approaching the earth at the rate of
100000 miles day.
Including the value of the present property
s2d subscriptions, amounting to $4,000, the
txustees of Calvary Baptist church, New
York, have now between s350,00O and $780,
600 in hand for the lots and building of the
proposed new house of worship.
President Arthur has appointed
John H. smyth, of North Caro-
lima, one of the blacklist men.
in the world, consul general to Liberia, Africa,
in place of the Rev. DR.. Garnet, deceased, who
was appointed by President Garfield.
Among the last official acts OF President
Garfield, if not the last, was the signing of
the commission of the Rev. Henry Highland
Garuett, whom he had appointed minister to
Liberia. Mr.. Garnett died the 18th OF March
iast-probably fell a victim to the climate.
Chicago is to have great musical festival.
It will be held in the Exposition building, May
50, "A, 25, and 26, under the direction of
Theodore Thomas. Distinguished solosts
have been engaged, and a chorus of one
thousand voices has been at work rehearsing
all winter.
Canon Fleming, in late Sunday evening
sermon, preached in Westminster abbey, said
there are now so many objects of common IN
tarest which make America and England one
n friendship and sympathy, that Longfellow's
death will be as sincerely mourned here as in
the United States.
Last week eighty-six students were gradu-
a!ed at the commencement of the College OF
Pharmacy in New York city. The numerous
mistakes, not few of them fatal, which are
lnade in compounding and dispensing medi-
eines, prove the imperative necessity of the
thorough education even of druggists clerks.
At recent council OF Catholic bishops of
ia. province of Baltimore, to nominate sue
cessor to the late Bishop Lynch, of Charles
ton, 8. c., Archbishop Gibbons presided. Six
praiates were present. Three names were Sc
iacted to be sent to Rome, from which the
Pope will designate one to fill the vacant
t;shopric. The proceedings are kept secret.
In July, 1851, Mrs. Longfellow, while seated
At the library table amusing two children, ac
eidently touched piece of lighted paper to
her dress, which was Immediately n flames.
Mr.. Longfellow sprang to her rescue, but she
was so badly burned that she died next day.
The poet visibly aged under the grievous
stroke.
At Huntsville, Alabama, the churches of
various denominations have united in gospel
services for several weeks. These have been
attended with great awakening of religious
interest," which has reached all classes. Two
hundred persons have protested conversion.
Methodists, Baptlsts, Cumberland Presby-
t4rians and Presbyterians labored earnestly
together.
The grand jury have taken action in the
case of the Park Row fire IN the city
OF New York, which caused
not only the loss of several printing Offices,
but caused, also, the loss of life, and have
unanimously dismissed the same, finding no
criminal negligence on the part of any one,
and declaring that Mr.. o. B. Potter, the own
er OF the building, was acquitted of being re-
aporsible for the calamity.
The Rev. Dr. Orville Dewey, distinguished
Unitarian minister, died March 81, at Sheffield,
Berkshire county, Massachusetts, aged IS
years. He was born in Sheffield in 1884, He
graduated at Williams college in 1914. He
studied theology at Andover and became
Congregational minister. On change of
views, he served several Unitarian churches as
pastor in successive years. In 1862 he re-
tired to his farm in Sheffield, where he after
ward lived to the time of his death. he wrote
s2d published several works which were held
in much esteem by Unitarian people and
others.
In the seclusion of Behring sea-latitude Sc
degrees and 81 degrees north, and longitude
f67 degrees and 1853 degrees west-are the Pri-
bylov islands, the most Insignificant land
marks known in the ocean, and through all the
summer months they are enveloped in dense,
hul1id fog. Yet their value is inestimable,
for two of them, st. Paul and st.
George, are two islands (Behring and
Copper. of Commander groups), belonging to
Russia, are the only fur-seal breeding grounds