The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-06-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


-Adams County, Mississippi, has
forty-ivs public schools.
There was, says DIR. John Culinary
Shea, q colony of Dominican Monks IN
Virginia one hundred and fifty years
before plymouth Rock was discovered.
The First Baptist Church of Chi
cago viii be fifty years old next octo-
Der and there win be an appropriate
celebration and jubilee. = Chicago Trio
Unc.
There is good authority for tho
statement that Japan and Greece each
spend more money for common schools
in proportion to their wealth than the
United States Chicago Times.
The will of the late j. N. Hunger
ford, of Corning, N. Y, bequeaths
S20, 600 to Hamilton College, in addi-
ton to $15, 900 given by him to that in
stitution year or more ago.
1T is estimated that there are
twelve hundred towns west Of the Mis-
sissippi River without churches or regu-
lar preaching of any kind. Yet young
men say there is no room for them
N. T. Examiner.
The Hartford public high school is
to have q new equatorial telescope with
an object glass of nine and one-third
inches. aperture. This is the most
powerful glass in any high school in
the country and few colleges have any
more powerful. -New HaUcn Register.
The Philadelphia Record goes in for
sending the pauper children in the poor
houses to the public schools. 1t holds
that Il the State can educate the chill
dren of those who are able to pay for it,
it is . hundred times the duty of the
State to educate the unfortunate chill
dren who have no one to pay for their
tuition.
The State authorities of Vermont
have come into possession of a bequest
of 600, 900 made for the benefit of the
common schools by the late Arnahan
Huntington, of Brantford, Canada MIR.
Huntington was a native of Vermont.
The legacy was obtained only after
long contest with Mr.. Huntington's rel
atives in the courts.
The Rose Polytechnic Institute has
been opened at Terre Haute, Ind. Mr..
Chauncey Rose. a wealthy citizen Of
that town, is the founder, Besides Civ
ing the beautiful buildings, he has en-
dowed it with nearly $500, 900, and is
soon to provide it with a Library and q
valuable museum. The students are to
be thoroughly drilled in manual labor
and the use of machinery, besides re-
ceiving liberal education.-Detroa
Post.
i'm st. Johns Episcopal Church at
Montreal recently. just before the cele--
bration of the holy communion,
member Of the church who had made
rank but unfragrant record in the
world, advanced to the altar rail and
made public profession of penitence for
his grievous sin. The rector, Rev.
Edmund Wood. standing within the
rail accepted his confession and re-
stored him to good standing in the
church to the unbounded establishment
of the congregation. Detroit Free
Press.
Rev. DIR. j. M. Scudder, of Vellore,
India, wishes that every missionary in
the land were medical man, and urges
the home societies not to send out any
workers who have not at least slight
knowledge of medicine. He visited
two towns for several years in success
sion without gaining the least hold,
apparently, upon the people, when a
slight surgical service on his part
opened both their hearts and homes.
This reminds one of the medicine
men" among the aborigines of this
country, who were physicians for both
body and soul.