The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-12-22
SCHOOL ASp CHURCH.

Cadet Whitaker has established
! military school for colored youths a.
Charleston, S. &C Chicago Inter ocean
An observer of life has been doing
the London churches on Sunday morn
ines, and has remarked on the paucl.y
of attendance of the male sex: In
some churches the ladies outnumbereu
the gentlemen by at least five to one.
There are eight ministers in Maine
who have been ordained fifty one years
or more. and the venerable DR.. Caruth-
ers. of Portland, has been in the min.
istry for the remarkable period OF
three-score and four years. One OF the
eight--the Rev. j. T. Halves, OF Itch
field-still supplies for the church IN
that place. -Bost0n Post.
"A female teacher of San Francisco
is being investigated for ''gagging
little girls of tender age, after the style
that prevails in the British navy. She
is charged with having promenaded
one little sufferer through various
rooms filled with scholars, exclaiming;
Use what nice little doggy have
caught She won't bite you" The
child's lips, it is claimed. were blistcred:
and her neck cut by the strap that held
the bamboo gag. Indianapolis Jour-
nal.
The following curious incident act
ually occurred recently: Whilst
CLERGYMAN was in the midst of his SER
mon person entered the church and
in the coolest manner possible saunt-
cred mn the aisle. No sooner had the
preachers eye lighted on the newcomer
than, dropping the thread OF his SER
mon. he said to him: 'sCome in, my
friend, come in; we are always glad to
see those here late who can't come
early The unknown individual
stepped forward. coolly took his seat,
and then as coolly asked the preacher.
ssWould YOU oblige me with the textP"
Certainly" was the reply; and the re-
quest having been complied with the
sermon proceeded. Chicago 1rsou''e.
Commenting on the late discussion
of Sunday Schools by the Central Coun-
Gil of the Diocesan Conference in En-
gland, the Church Standard says:
1--WE hope that it will be long before
the Church in England sets aside, ig-
nores altogether, and attempts to SUPER
sede the responsibility which rests upon
parents, guardians, sponsors, or other
suitable persons to train those whom
God has placed in their charge. No
Sunday School system, no matter how
admirably devised and how thoroughly
carried out, can undertake this duty
and relieve those to whom God has
committed trust"
The 600, 600 Presbyterian commune
cants are thus distributed, according to
a writer in the New York EUdngcfist:
The Northeast, 800. 000-New York,
lS3, 900; Pennsylvania, $4,000; New
Jersey, 1900; Baltimore, Nd, IT.
600. The Lake Region, 166, 000- Ohio,
69, 700; Indiana, $4,000; Michigan, H.
600; Illinois, $4,000; Wisconsin, 5000.
The South, %, 900. The Southeast. 21,-
5OO--Atlantic North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama), 1900; Kentucky, 5000; Ten
nessee. $500; Texas, 1900. The Mis-
souri, Valley, 81, 000-Iowa, Fl 900; Mis-
souri,, $4,000; Kansas, $4,000; Minne-
sofa and Dakota, 5000; Nebraska, 6,000-
The Rocky Mountains. 4, 900 Colorado
(and New Mexico, Utah, Montana),
1000. The Pacific Coast, 11,600-Pa-
cific California, Arizona and Nevada).
5000; Columbia Oregon, Washing
ION and Idaho), 1900.