Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-18
RELIGIOUS ND EpUcATIONALa

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"A church is being erected by Tho
Baptists IL Salt Lake ely. Y
E The law Of Massachusetts, estah-
fishing evening drawing schools is saa
to have proved very successful. They
have done much toward encouraging a
:ove of mechanical art!T or (TyTl
A Chicago court decides that when
a boy goes to a private school and PAYS
tuition in advance and then gets drunk
and is expelled the school must return
t<he unearned money. -
The Texas Legislature has given
another million acres of land for'u1i-
versities and another for common
schools, and Fpfd to submit q fenAi-
tutional amendment permitting bcal
sch0ol taxation.
At a Methodist Conference held at
Beloit, Kan, the members refused to
admit or Aordaih any candidate to the
Conference who uses tobacco, and re-
quested the Bishop not so appointaany
preacher as presiding elder who is in the
habit of using the weed. The Bishop
heartily indorsed the wishes of the Con
'erence. x Chicago, tribune.
Bishop Riley, Episcopal Bishop OF
Mexico, has meyer. received any salary,
! and has Given about $50, 600 during
the past ten wears to the Christian work
unaarZhis. care. These facts are now
made known by the report of u special
:ommittee representing the Committee
Foreign Missions of the Episcopal
Church and the House of Bishops.
N--The Tablet, of London, publishes
anfarticle showing the growth of Ca
tholicism among EngIish-speaking ma
tons. In Great Britain, since 1910. the
churches havcr increased from 522 to
a ,46i; the laity, from $50, 5O0-to 1884,
900. In the United States. IN the same
period, the churches have advanced
from 324 to 5000. the laity, from &C.,
$50 to 6, 143,00Q- r.--~w.,-rsr-v,-
The Virginia State .Boa1d Of Edtl
cation has accepted the Griffin Farm.
near Petersburg, as the site for the Col
ored and Collegiate Institute, provided
the City Council Of Petersburg gives
$4,000. The college building syill be
erected near the spotwhere the memoir
able "crater" fight occurred during the
war. The amount appropriated by the
Eegislatlire for the establishment of the
school is Si00.000.
:. --Mrs.-Amanda Smith,7the, celebrated
colored evangelist. is evangclizine
among the colored people of Grand
Bassa, Liberia. She writes that she
has given many Bible readings, and
{ that she finds among the women of Ii
IBERIA great dispositions to study the
Bible. She finds strong drink to be the
great curse of Liberia, and she is labor
ing diligently in the cause Of temper
ance REFORM She will probably make
her permanent work in Liberia. III
dianapolis Journal!
I'm Scotland last year there was ex-
pended on public schools the sum of
f312,047, of which sum schools con-
nected with the Church of Scotland re-
ceiyed ELS, 266; the Free Church
schools, f1S,215; undenominational
schools, EGG, 207; the Episcopal schools,
20, 1893; and the Roman Catholic
schools, f25,642. A further point in
these school statistics is thatsthe total
estimated population of school age is
], 169,9i3, of whom $3.50 are on the
books of elementary day schools; but,
by excluding children under five-the
age at which. education is eompuls0i-y
the number would be reduced by nearly
SOC, 900. t4 fFf