Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-12
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are visited regularly, and supplied with copies
of Mr.. Spurgeon's sermons, so that ne has
nearly as large congregation in Glasgow as
in London.
Within fifteen years, sixty-eight pastoral
relations of the Presbytery of Baltimore have
been dissolved of the churches having
as many as three, four and five pastors. This
is slightly ahead of the Methodist itinerant
system.
Isaac Rich has beQueathed S2,0O0.000 to
Boston University. In consideration of this
the university has established in the academic
department sixty four free scholarships which
are to be divided equally between Young men
and young women.
The funeral services Of the late Bishop
Lynch were held at the Cathedral chapel, III
Charleston, S. G. Two archbishops and about
twenty priests were present. Archbishop Car
rigan of New York, presided at the chanting
of the lauds and mathis.
Says leading religious journal: 4 thou
sand men can go TO work at O'Clock In the
morning without the ringing of bell, and
why is it that three hundred people cannot as
semble in church without previous ding
donging lasting half-an-hour?
1t is against the laws of Ohio to sell whisky
TO be drank on the premises, but wine, beer
and ale may be sold to be SO drank. Ali sa-
looms in Cincinnati are open on Sunday. A
bill is pending in the legislature, and has pass
ed one house, to close all saloons on Sunday
At the approaching coronation of the car
and czarina the ivory throne Of Constantine,
the last emperor of Constantlnople, is to be
used. The czarina is to occupy throne
adorned with SIC diamonds and rubies and
1928 sapphires, turquoises and pearls OF the
first water.
General Buffers purchase OF land in Bath
county, Virginia, and the neighboring sections
of West Virginia, is displeasing to many set
tiers there, and on Saturday his surveyors
were fired upon. Over 100 shots were ex-
changed, and several persons on either side
wounded, none seriously, however.
We can lie without saying word. If q
man sells me basket of apples that has the
good ones all on top and the bad ones under
meath, he lies tome. He says by his acts that
all the apples are as good as those l can see.
| do not know that the man lies until empty
tie basket, but God knows it ell the time.
The Boston Journal: Earthquakes have
been so frequent of late in Europe as to excite
considerable apprehension. They have been
most violent in Eastern Europe, but have oc-
Cured so often III Western Europe as to at
tract unusual attention. Four shocks hap
pened in Switzerland in one month. This is
very unusual state of things.
1t has been seven years since A. I. Stewart,
the merchant prince of New York, died. His
aged widow lives alone in the spacious house
which he built shortly before his death, having
with her only her housekeeper, half dozen
servants and a coachman. This was the most
previous to the building of the Vanderbilt
palace.
A collection of great interest to Oriental
scholars, consisting of 5 400 cuneiform tab
lets, is now on its way to England. These
were discovered by Mr.. Rassam, at Sippara,
near Babylon. 1t is supposed that they are
the library mentioned by Besorus, which con-
tanned antediluvian records copied from earlier
documents by king Sargon l., who lived 1900
sc.
One of the most remarkable stories of the
difficulties of Bible translation is mentioned by
Mr.. A. Burnell, in the Academy. In one of
the Dutch Islands about Java sheep were I'M
known until the Dutch introduced them, al
though the people already had goats. Sheep,
therefore, came to be called Dutch goats. A
missionary translated "Lanb of God" by "Son
of the Dutch Goat of God"
Charles Hale. of Boston, is dead after long
Illness. He was born in 1881. He was a son
of Nathan Hale, founder of the Boston Daily
Advertiser, and nephew Of Edward Everett,
and brother of the late Rev. Edward Everett
Hale. de was seven years United States con-
sui to Egypt, and when there caused the arrest
at Alexandria, of surratt, who was afterwards
hung as one of the conspirators to assassinate
President Lincoln. s
The Metropolitan Methodist church of
Washington is not local, but national
organization, in which it is sought to interest
the whole Methodist Episcopal church For
oO--iC SColo ~ lao OOSh Seii q fASu'y uSO"'
A year ago this encumbrance amounted to
$40, 900. It has all been paid now but SIT, 200,
which Chaplain McCabe, of the Church Ex-
tension society, has assumed, and will ere
long collect
The rascally slave traders of East Africa re-
Gently demolished the house and destroyed the
books and papers of the Rev. VI. P. johnson,
of the Universities mission, in Mataka's
Town. Mr.. johnson was away on an explor-
ing expedition on Lake Shirwan when
the outrage was committed. He was
compelled to go to Zanzibar for a new supply.
He will settle on the eastern shore of Lake
Nyassa, in place called Losewa, whence he
will visit Mataka's Town.
The following incident recently occurred at
Berlin: A tragedian occasionally gave
pass to his landlady. She was sitting with
her little girl in the pit of the theatre, when
the heavy villain was about to stab the ira
gedian in the gizzard. The child, seeing her
friends danger, instantly started up, and,
with tears streaming from her blue eyes,
shrieked out: ooh, please don't kill him, or
he won't give us any more tickets for the
theatre!"
The following story is told of distinguished