Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-06
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

Sweden invites the Evangelical alliance to
meet in general conference at Stockholm, il
September, 1888.
The Rev. Henry Giles, aged seventy-six
years, died recently at Hyde Park, Mass. In
1910 he came to this country from Ireland.
Mr.. Turtle, once an intimate friend and coad-
jutor of Spohr,and Mendelssohn, and for fifty
years organist of Westminster abbey, is dead
in his eighty-frst year.
A monument of marble and granite is to be
erected in memory 9th Prince Imperial of
France on the greeL facing the Royal Mill
tary Academy at Woolwith, Eng.
The latest general minutes OF the Methodist
Episcopal church give the statistics of mem
beers, as follows: 1,553,S4o full members, and
159,764 probationers; total, 1,7l3,104.
In the state OF New York every minister of
the gospel, or priest Of any denomination, and
the real estate of such minister priest, OF the
value of 800 is exempt from taxation.
The Rev. II. H. Jessup, D. D., the dis
tinguished missionary to Syria, recently ar
rived in this country with his four motherless
children. He went to his early home, in Mon
trose, Penn.
The Rev. Mr.. Milne, the infdel Baptist
clergymen, who left the pulpit for the stage,
is soon to strut his hour IN Hamlet. How
soon will Beecher, the Congregational preacher
of infdelity, join him?
The number OF farms in the United States
is zoos, 907, as Gen. Walkers completed
census report indicates There has been
an increase of l,S4s,922 in the number, al
most one-third, during the last ten years.
During the month of June the missionaries
of the American Sunday school union in the
Northwest established seventy new Sunday
schools, which have 2S3 teachers and 2,227
scholars, besides aiding 1877 old schools, with
membership of e57 teachers and $685.
scholars.
Daniel Webster one Sabbath had attended
the orthodox Park street church IN Boston.
Being met by Unitarian gentlemen who said
to him, $50 you have been to church where
they teach that three times one are one," Mr..
Webster replied, "My friend, you and 1 do not
understand the arithmetic of heaven
The Cincinnati, O., Enquirer, of July Is,
says: "Covington added one more yesterday
to the long list OF victims to the terrible toy
pistol. This little internal machine has
caused nine deaths in Covington and Newport
since the Fourth of July In each case the
Insignificant wound caused lockjaw, ending in
DEATH
There are three wicks TO the lamp of a man 3
life-brain, blood and breath. Press the brain
little, its light goes out, followed by both
the others. Stop the heart minute, and out
goes all three of the wicks. Choke the air
out Of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases
to supply the other centers of flame, and all is
soon stagnation, cold and darkness.
A recent visitor to the grave OF g. S. Prem.
tiss, near Natchez, Miss, found it bearing
evident marks of neglect. It was oyergrown
with wild briars and weeds, and the little
marble headstone was hardly visible, while all
around were magnificent and carefully kept
tombs of men whose names were blanks in
| comparison with the fame OF Preutiss.
The New York Observer very kindly and
considerably gives notice to New Workers,
who remain at home during the summer, but
who are turned out in the world by thei,
| churches being closed, and to strangers who
visit the city, of some half dozen or more
mission chapels in different parts Of the city
where divine worship may be enjoyed on the
Sabbath.
In Louisville, recently, the rite of confirma-
tion was administered by Bishop Dudley to
Luke P Blackburn, governor of Kentucky.
| There was about the ceremony nothing OF an
unusual char acter, and the interest that at.
| taches to 1t is merely that which pertains to q
public avowal of his faith on the part of one
| who has been so long and so well known as
non-professor of religion. The governor is
sixty-six years old.
Wedo not believe there is any force IN t.
day to rival or recreate that beautiful yester-
day. Welinger in the ruins of the old tent,
where once we had bread and shelter, and or
gans, nor believe that the spirit can feed,
cover and nerve US again. We cannot again
find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But
we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the
Almighty saith: "Up and onward for ever.
morem We cannot stay amid the ruins.
Abraham Ingalls,, resident of st. Paris,
Ohio, has received letter from the mother of
the late President Garfield bearing tbs news
that he is a nephew of hers and cousin of
the late president, and extending to him an
invitation to visit Mentor and renew acQuaint.
ance. The parents OF Mr.. ingalls, died when
he was very young and all trace of him was
lost by his mothers relative. He was entire
ly ignorant of the relationship existing be-
tween himself and the Garfield family until
the receipt of Mrs. Garfield's letter.
The venerable DR.. Hopkins, ex-president of
Williams college, in his eulogy on President
Garfield, at the late commencement of that in
stitution, said: ga religious man and a man
of principle, he (Garfield) pursued of his own
accord the ends proposed by the institution.
he was prompt, frank, manly, social in his
tendencies, combining active exercise with
habits of study, and thus did for himself that
which it the object of the college to enable
every young man to do-he made himself q
man."
The Holland locomotive, which burns
naphtha, was run on the Erie railroad from
Paterson to Jersey City few days since, max
ing the trip one minute ahead of time and
coming into the depot with 140 pounds of
steam The ma militia hnrned duriro tha tr;r,