The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-29
sCR0eL AND CHURCH.

1t is said that the Salvation Army
is making many converts among the
negroes Of the South. M Y. Tribune.
Nashville, Tenn, has eighteen
celored school-teachers, larger num-
Der than any other city in the United
States. Chicago Times.
The Reed Female College was in
corporatcd at New York, recently.
with Morgan Dix. Horatio Potter and
the like among the corpcrators.
"A mission has been established at
Hong Kong to watch over the Chinese
returning from this country, and en-
ploy them in educational and Christian
work among their countrymen. -P,sld-
delphia Times.
|-One of the best Greek scholars in
this country, during recent lecture on
the benefits of classical education,
stated that there does not exist a gradu-
ate of an American college who can
properly atfix the accents to a page OF
printed Greek. Boston journal.
Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, long
the highly original but orthodox pastor
of tho rich Park Congregational Church
of Norwich, Conn. has set the gossips
all BY the ears by becoming Unitarian
clergyman in Worcester pulpit. -
Hartford Post.
--Twenty-nine Cardinals have died
since the accession OF Leo. Kill, and
| thirteen hats are now at his disposal.
OF the fifty-seven existing members,
one, Cardinal Schwazenberg, Arch
bishop of Prague, was created Cardinal
by Gregory, thirty-six by Plus, the re-
naming twenty by Leo. The present
pope has not been so partial to Italians
as his predecessor; three Of his creation
are German, two French, one English,
one Irish, one American and one Pole.
The College of Cardinals now contains
shirty-two Italians to twenty-five OF
other nationalities. = Chicago Tribune.
in the year 1855 the State OF North
| Carolina gave to the University OF
Tennessee at Nashville large portion
! of what constitutes the seventh and
| eighth wards of the city, with other
property now valued at over $5, 900, 900
One of the conditions OF this grant was
| that it should be free from taxation for
ninety-nine years. As this franchise
/ runs out in November, 1884, the city
authorities are making arrangements
| to value and assess the property, and
expect to realize therefrom an income
for the corporation of over 800, 900 per
annum.
There being about 10000 Scandi-
navian and Lutheran adherents of the
Mormon Church in Utah, a special
effort is being made to restore them to
Christianity. Presbyterians are work
ing through Norwegian cvangelists.
The Methodists have appointed Nor
wegian missionary to Salt Lake City,
where he has erected a church edifice
and opened school. The Swedish
Lutherans have sent q minister, who
has gathered congregation, and a
Danish Lutheran clergyman will soon
commence operations. Chicago Times.
| According to new regulation the
municipal schools of Paris are now
regularly visited each fortnight by ap-
proved medical inspectors. These look
carefully at the children in their class
rooms, and in the event of their dis
covering signs Of a contagious disorder
the teacher is communicated with and
the child sent home to receive a sub
seauent call from the doctor. The
municipality employ 1926 physicians fol
this purpose, and expect to materially
diminish measles, mumps, scarlet fevel
and the like, by such attention. M Z
| Examiner