The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-16
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Virginia claims the oldest English
church in this country. 1t is the old
Friends church at Burton, and was
built in 1882 An ancestor of Martha
Washington is said to be buried in the
church-yard.
The monthly magazine of the Free
Church of Scotland makes the number
of Protestants in the world to be l20,-
600, 900; of Oriental Christians, S0,000,-
600; of Roman Catholics, 200, 900, 900;
of Jews, l0.000.000 of Mohammedans,
$4,000, 900; of Pagans, S00,000,000.
The Principal of the Nevada City
(Cal.) schools has given notice that any
pupil under his charge who was known
to indulge in cigarette smoking or in
the use Of tobacco in any form while in
attendance upon OF. on the way to or
from the public schools of that city
should be forthwith expelled
President Ewell, of William and
Mary College. at Williamsburg, Va,
reports several students in the various
departments of that venerable instltu-
ton, and insists that its trustees do not
contemplate letting the college-'the
only one in the United States having
royal charter out of existence.
AT the recent Presentation Day ex-
ercises of the National Deaf-Mute Col
lege, in Washington, memorial bust
of the late President Garfield was UNI
yelled with appropriate ceremonies.
The bust, which arrived from Italy
only six hours before its unwilling, was
erected by subscriptions received from
deaf mutes throughout the United
States, and cost $1,000. IN, Y. Times.
Anthony X. Henderson, who died
in Erie, Pa, recently, bequeathed his
fortune of 100000 to $3.50, 900, after
some small personal requests are de-
Quoted, to the towns Of Newcastle, Pa,
and Cleveland, o., for the establish
ment and maintainance in each Of an
industrial home for poor boys, in which
they may be taught the trades and given
II sufficient education for the ordinary
requirements of business life. Pdiia-
dolphin Record
The charge having been published
in New York that the American Bap-
list Missionary Society's funds for ex-
penditure in Burmah had been manip-
ulated in the interest of officers of the
society in this country, DIR. Murdoch,
of Boston, Secretary of the Board, ex-
plains that whatever manipulation has
been done was for the benefit of the So
ciety, and with the consent of the mis-
sonaries in Burmah. IN. Y. Tribune.
When Parson Jones was asked by
one of his Pensioners if he didn't
think some broad ideas interiected into
his sermons would be more in conso-
nance with the spirit of the times than
his customary pulpit utterances, the
good man replied, "Quite likely; but
pray how can one put broad ideas into
narrow mndsP Sermons must be
adapted to the capacity of the congre-
cation, you know. -" Chicago Herald.
There is in Philadelphia an organi-
cation composed of some of the most
prominent ladies and gentlemen of that
city which is known as 1.-The Public
Education Association" The object is
ito promote the efficiency and TO per-
feet the system of education in Phila-
delphia by attracting general attention
to its errors and defects through APP
peals to the local authorities and to the
legislature when needful, and through
such other means as may from time TO
time be deemed expedient. --Phitadel-
slLi0 Prose-