Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-01
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

on the Island of Nantucket. F ~Afl
Miss Mitchell, the eminent female
astronomer, was native of Nantucket.
The Pima Indians have undertaken the
erection of a small chapel at Blackwater
village.
The Presbyterian church of Canada in
cludes TT pastoral charges, i18 professor
ships, and 697 ministers.
The state of Michigan has now 239 Con-
gregational churches. Ten new churches
were organized last year.
It is reported that all but II of the 22O
Dublin constables dismissed for insubor-
dinaton WILDE reinstated. =
The Congregational church edifice on
the island of Nantucket, built in iii, is
still in good order and is constantly in use
for lecture and Sunday school room.
An official report places, the number of
outrages in Ireland during the month of
August at 165, includind one murder, ten
cases of intimidation and 83 cases of send
ing threatening letters.
The seventy third annual meeting of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions will be held in the City
Hall, portland, Me-, beginning Tuesday,
Oct. 3, and closing Friday morning, Oct.
6.
A late dispatch from Panama says: At
1924 o'clock this morning there occur
red here one of the severest earthquakes
ever known on the Isthmus. Many build
ings were damaged, but no lives were
lost.
At its August communion the First
Church, Leadville, Col, received twenty
new members, making total of sixty
nine added during the past year. Rev. F..
J. Stanley has just closed his first years
labor with this church.
The suggestion of the London Sunday
school Union that the 18th and 18th
days of October be set apart for universal
prayer on behalf of Sunday schools, ap-
pears to meet with general acceptance
among all evangelical denominations.
DR.. Adams. of New York, said: II be-
ieve that more has been done in geogra-
ply, philology and ethnology indirectly
by missionaries than by all the royal and
national societies in the world that devote
themselves exclusively to these objects"
converted Hindoo is reported to have
said at a public meeting in India: 'The
very lowest caste in India is the cobbler
caste, and it is remarkable that a cobbler
from England, William Carey, should
bring them the first tidings of the gospel"
A dispatch from Pekin, dated the 9TH
inst, to the London Times, says that the
Chinese authorities interviewed boldly in
Corea, seized the father of the king and
brought him to China. The king has been
reinstated by Chinese troops and ships.
The correspondent of the London Daily
NeaUs, at Alexandria, has obtained from
what he pronounces most trustworthy
source the exact strength of Arab
Bey's army. The grand total is as follows:
Infantry, 1860, cavalry, $4,000; guns,
143; rocket tubes, IS; Bedouins, 10000.
A Sandwich Island paper says: cat the
communion, on July I'd, at the Chinese
church, Honolulu, one Chinese convert
united by profession, and two were receiv-
ed by letter from the Basel Mission in Chi
ma. Two of the members of the church
likewise brought their infants for bap-
tism."
Judge Folger, secretary of the treasury
and stalwart Republican candidate for
governor of New York, is a native of the
Island of Nantucket. The Folgers
are numerous. The mother of Benjamin
franklin was Nantucket Folger, and the
Judge is said to resemble the philosopher
and statesman.
Ernest Gebhard, somewhat remarkable
man, who is at one and the same time pas
tor, poet, composer, and distinguished sim
ger, who has had charge of the Methodist
church at Zurich, has just left that place
for the United States upon singing tour,
in order to raise funds for the furtherance
of Methodist work in Germany.
The annual meeting of the American
Missionary association will be held at
Cleveland, Ohio, commencing on Tuesday,
Oct, "a. The amended constitution will be
presented for adoption at this meeting.
The board earnestly appeals for contribu
tions, to make up the greatly needed sum
sum of 100000 for the year which closed
with September.
The Presbytery of Allegheny, Pa, by
vote of fifteen to eleven refused to permit
Rev. John Kerr to travel on Sunday by
railroad to minister to a weak congrega-
ton, after holding services at Allegheny.
It would be proper for him to ride on
horseback, or in buggy but not in rail-
road car. This is drawing an ethical ques-
ton down to fine point.
New Albany P&sbytery, says the Herald
and Presbytery, with body of 4,407 COM
municants and fifty-one churches, had, at
the last report to the General Assembly,
only seventeen active preachers, and thir-
teen churches marked as having no preach
ing. Only one-third as many ministers as
churches, and these so distributed as to
leave over one-fourth of the churches va
cant.
The uestion of the descent of John Bun
yam is exciting much interest in England,
that he cana from a