Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-14
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
CHURCHES HERR Ann EIsxwHERe.

NJ f. conference, Tor the past fifteen yea/ 8
Clerk In the Post Office department, has re
signed and will return TO Boston
- The Metropolitan VI. e. church OF this city,
the place selected for the meeting Of the next
session OF the Baltimore annual conference OF
the NJ. T. church, was dedicated in March
ls"s' when the conference was held at the
FOUNDRY church, presided over by Bishor
Clarke. Bishop simpson Rev, W Morley
Funshon and Rev. Dr. T. NJ kddv ureached III,
sIes T, on tnad OCCASION and al! have sinos
lie also deceased ~
"A revival is now in progress at Blacksburu,
Va.
- Rev. DR.. Lefevre, OF Baltimore. has declined
the professorship In Columbia -. C.l seminary.
Kew. Or. Hartzell is engaged In raising an
university.
"A new Presbyterian church has been bull,
and dedicated in Mount Sterling. XIV. 81 q cos
OF $1,000.
Rev. John s. Fouike of Newcastle Pre.bv
terry, has received a call 10 the church in Oak
land, Winchester presbytery.
AT the Second Presbyterian church lDr
Hoge'sl, in Richmond, Va, thirty-six member
were recently received
- Rev. W. r. Bingham, d. D., OF Oxford Pa
has been called TO the Passionate Of the Second
Presbyterian church Of Baltimore, Md.
- Lately there were th!rty-one additions 70
the Presbyterian church ia Lexington, XIV, Of
which Rev. DIR. Bartlett is pastor.
- Hightown, in Highland county. Va, has
one church, and not a single inhabiiant OF
dwelling ia one-halI mile OF the town.
- Rev. DIR. J. Il. Wilson has given notice OF
his intended resignation OF the passionate OF the
FIRST Presbyterian church, Wilmington, y. c.
Nine new members were lately added to
the Presbyterian church in Harrisonouryh Va,
a49 AZ oodstoek, Va, fourteen persons were
- The general assembly OF the PRESBYTERIAN
church southem) will meet at Houston, Texas,
IN ~ me FIRST Presbyterian church, ON the third
thursday OF May.
- Or. l.. W. Bacon has withdrawn his appli-
eaton SSs.i Tor membership in the presbytory OF
fnliadeipha because he SAYS he cannot agree
Win It's doctrines In its entirety.
- A committee of East Hanover preshvtery.
consisting OF Rev. W. A. campbell and the ell
ders OF the Ashland church. have oruanIzed a
church Ji eoiored people NJ Ashland Va
KEY. James Nell has been elected president
oi lhe BOARD oil trustees OF the proposed Metho-
dist Episcopal hospital in Philadelphia. The
i"'e pry Hls"al1 I'r 200 Tor the hospital.
= Inc Third English Lutheran church, Rev.
l. c. Burke, OF Baltimore. Md. has n sunday
school numbering l,seO scholars and the de-
manu- Is lor more room. \ new and larger
church cdlflce is cont .mplatec
The Rev. 2. H. Zimmerman. preSi,l,ng nj
der of the Roanoke district. Baltimore confer.
ence VI. r.. church south, reports a prosperous
etitte oi the church On that diStrict-not less
IMAM 700 conversions in tlc various charges
in meetings with the strong Place and Marcy
avenue churches, Brooklyn and with thu Rar.
gen church in Jersey City, is now nductina
meetings AT Schroeder street mission, Bait.
more.
AT the Methodist union meetings In Rich.
mond, following Moods visit. over loo have
protested conversion and united with the diff
Iefent Methodist churches in the city. There
are reviNais in Mount Vernon Charge Dauyille
Petersburg and Manchester.
- Rev. j. L. NightInRn, ID. D., OF South Caro-
INA, a brother OF the late Bishop wlghtman,
has accepted cali 70 The Passionate OF Chats
worth Independent Methodist church, Balli-
more. Key Henry j., Johnson. its late pastor.
has Joined the W. r. church north.
- The PRESBYTERIAN church OF Snow Hill Md.
ana It's "Gunby Mission church AT stockton
at present temporarily supplied by the Rev.
James r. Campbell, haNc, since the week OF
prayer, received flrty-FJur persons twenty at
snow Hin and twenty-lour al Stockholm into
fellowship.
A most wonderful revival meeting was late
~ held IN Huntsville. Ala, 10y the Methodist
evangelist, ''Sam Jones' =" OF Georgia More than
500 persons embracing lawyers, doctors bnr-
Keepers. policemen. merchants, drummcrs and
mechanics have been claimed ns converts
ihere nave been large accessions 10 the churches.
His Hiding Place Revealed by His Pes
Dog.
''My husband IS not in the city said Ms. III.
L. Helchur She barred the entrance OF two
detectives 10 the family residence at 6os Hub
bard street, Chicago, at one o'clock Wednesday
morning
"Well take a look through the house" said
the detectives, and after thorough examina-
non OF the premises they We're about TO depart,
wien "a little pet dog belonging 10 the lady
Inade a spring from her arms and ran under \
lounge In the parlor with Joyous bark
Get out. Hist said low voitt. that seemed
10 come up from the cellar Darn the dog"
was the next expression which greeted the de-
tectlNcs ears.
ON reaching down and cropping about under
the lounge they felt a bare foot, and soon hauled
out iull-grown man. 1t proved TO be a. L.
mortsaged property
Private Henry-s Letters 10 His Ffancee.
Wheeling, W. Va, dispatch to the New
York World says: There is living at Parkers-
burg in this state, young lady who has In her
possession number OF letters which are COW
eted by the War department mt Washington but
she has so far peTsistently refused 10 surrender
theln. They are LETTERS from the unfortunate
Private Henry, of the Greedy expedition. One
OF them was written only a few weeks before
Henry was shot. 1t was brought 10 the young
lady by an agent of the department She was
betrothed to Henry, their acquainta lance having
commenced in 1879 through the medium of an
advertisement for lady correspondents inserted
was then but fifteen years old. She is TIE
daughter OF prominent and well-to-do parents.
Wheels Going Back ward.
From the Chicago Herald
did you ever see railway train running In
one direction while the wheels were going the
other" inquired conductor On the Illinois
Central.
Never"
well, down on our Springfield division, be.
tween Gilman and Clinton, we mad that ex-
perience few days ago. The fall OF SOFT
sticky snow stuck right on top of the rails,
warmeda little in the noon sun, and in the
afternoon hardened in the cold. We didn't get
q train through TIL nearly night that day. The
rails were two streaks OF glistening ice. Up at
Pulaski we struck a big grade right at a station
where We were trying TO stop. The engineer
put on the brakes and finally reversed the
lever and pulled the throttle wide open. But IL
was no go. We went down the grade faster
than ever travelled before, with the driving
wheels OF our locomotive going backward. IT
was three mile slide. Those who saw us go
down say ii was the oldest thing they ever
saw. don't want any more railroad tobog-
gaming in mine.
De Lesseps on the SOudam.
From Interview in the Paris Matin.
have repeatedly warned the English that to
send an expedition TO the Soudan was to send
soldiers to certain death. AS for ancient Nubia