The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-02
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The New English Wesleyan Confo,
ence minutes show that that bodv h..
500, 1867 members, "a, 499 on trial anS
2,124 ministers, with 298 on trial anS
341 supernumeraries.
In the high school of Dedhaw
Mass, the experiment is being made 81
using daily newspapers instead of tevt
books i'll the reading class. The prinoi.
pal thinks that the plan is successful
Miss Emily Smith, of Provincetown
a graduate at the Boston School of Ora
tory, is to take charge of the Densrt
ment of elocution and oratory in col.
lege of music at Cincinnati, O.
In Rochester, N. Y, the Board q,
Education has ordered the study of sin.
tellectual arithmetic" to be dronpnd
from the third grade of the school and
some textbook on language and comno.
sition TO be substituted.
The new plan of synod organization
in the Presbyterian Church, MAKING
each synod co-eXtensive with the State
has proved failure in New York for
the reason that it was overloaded with
delegates who had legal right to be
presently. Y Times.
The Interior laments that The prac.
tice of memorizing the Scriptures has pas.
sed away from the Sabbath-schooIs, and it
isnow rare thing to find Sundav-scbool
teachers who can recite from memory a
single chapter in the life of Christ, or
even one of the Plains.
The Rev, A. d, Mayo, reports that
as fast as education laws its hand upon
the Southern children, black or white
they begin to draw near to each other.
and that there is no doubt that at
time not very far distant they will dwell
together in unity. The present attitude
of the higher classes is favorable to this
change. MIR. Mayo said that although
many of the children to whom he spoke
were descendants of the leaders in the
Confederacy, he found the former free
from the bias of their fathers.
Miss Rebecca Husey died as long
ago as 17l4, and by her will bequeathed
sum of fl 900 for, as she quantity ex-
pressed it, 1.-THE redemption of slaves, if
it may be effected, or else to the ease
ment of their slavery The fund was
allowed to accumulate until 1868. when
~ aILlpuhltN W tllG ldl 2C SUN Vi IZDs iCl,
and it was then decided that the princi.
pal should be kept intact, and the annual
interest equally divided between st. He
lena and Lagos, to be expended for the
benefit of the slave class. The trustees
at Lagos allowed their share to accumu-
late until they could establish an insti-
tuition for the industrial training of bows
rescued from slavery, and such a school
has just been opened, 10 years having
elapsed since the bequest was made.
A steamer whose hull and machin-
cry weigh only six tons has been built for
the British Baptist Society, who intend
it for services in the upper regions of
the Congo. 1t is appropriately named
peace" Many ingenious devices have
been resorted to in its construction, with
q view to good speed, very light draught
and capabilityof being transported over
land. The boat, built in seven water
tight compartments, can be taken to
pieces, aud the total number of pieces,
neither of which will be too heavy for
man to carry, number 800. 1t will be
sent to the mouth of the Congo. and there
the pieces will be carried by 800 men a
distance of 800 miles up to Stanley pool
where the boat will be reconstructed. Ii
is a gift to the missionary society fror
Mr.. Robert Arlington, of Leeds.-N
Y. Examiner.