The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-07-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

There are four fourishing Sunday
schools connected with the Second Pres
byterian church of st. Louis, and on a
recent Sunday plate collection in the
church for its Sunday schools, brought
in $3.50.
Wisconsin expended upon public
education last year $3.50, 1854, each
pupil in the public schools costing the
State $7.67. The receipts. of the private
schools of the State were $70,4SS, and
the expenditures S75, 052.
Yale freshmen may have M mora
class suppers, and President Porter ia
reported as saying young gentlemen.
the sober of you would have to take care
of the drunk, and that would cause the
minority to take care of the majority
"A member of the Sacramento (CalN
board of education has succeeded in Of.
fectiug the passage of resolution to nav
twenty dollars to the young lady graduate
who appears at the high school com.
mencement exercises in the least expen.
sive dress.
.-"Generap' Booth, of the Salvation
Army, says it has now 265 stations and
385 paid officers. Its income amounts
to $285, 900 per annum. Nine million
copies of its literature were distributed
last year and $50, 900 raised for the pur-
chase of Congress Hall in London.
The Western Missouri town of Lib.
eral is zealously anti Christian. BeIiev-
erS in Christianity cannot buy land there.
and are excluded from residence as far
as possible. The founder is an atheistic
lawyer named Walser, and he has cath.
cred a population of about 800 intidels,
who, however, differ widely in their own
theories.
, The census report of the dominion
of Canada shows that of the various re-
ligious denominations there are l,791,-
9S2 Roman Catholics, 742,931 Method
lists, 676, 165 Presbyterians, 574,S18
Episeopahans, and 296,525 Baptists,
while other denominations range in num-
bers from 1000 to $4,000. The per-
centage of increase is as follows: Roman
Catholic, 81; Methodist, IS; Presbyteri-
an, "a; Church of England, 161; Baptist,
"a. OF the Roman Catholics but 800.
S39 are in the Province of Ontario
Chicago Herald. rr F
There have been sold from the nur-
sery OF the Agricultural College at AM
herst, Mass, this spring, $4,000 peach
trees, 1000 apple, 800 pear, and 1000 of
other fruits and ornamental shrubs.
Provision has been made for largely in
creased stock. The careful raising of
all these plants is necessary as part of
the instruction which the college gives,
and by raising them in such quantities
they become a source of profit and give
the students who pack and handle them
practical knowledge of the nursery
business. m.. ~. ...
Rev. w. w. Browne, principal of
the Comic school, Rochester, N. H., was
arrested a few days ago, charged with
an aggravated assault upon schoolboy,
one Louis Label, twelve years of age.
The boy testified that he was beaten
about the shoulders several times and
once on the head, the last blow intiicting
cash from which the blood flowed
freely. At the request of G. B. Gatney,
counsel for the prosecution, the lad barred
his back, which showed plainly the black
and blue marks left by the ruler with
which the punishment was inflicted
The prisoner was ordered by Judge EZs
to pay the enormous fine of 81 and cosls.
The horrible and revolving crime for
which the boy was thus numerically
thrashed was that of whispering in
school, - Chicago Times.