The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-02-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Roman schoOlmasters used a
whip made of eel skin tO punish their
scholars on the naked back
The Baltimore Catholic Mirror esti-
mates the colored Catholic population
Of the United States at 100 OOO
BY all means agitate the question
of grading teachers salaries according
to merit and let the question Of sex in
this sphere be laid aside. Philadelphia
Times.
Rev Atticus G. Havgood, OF the
Methodist Church South, says that
since the war the people of the North
have contributed no less than $40, ,OO0,-
600 for educational purposes in the
South Chicago Times.
Along the line of the Panama
Canal are nine preaching stations kept
up by the Church of England There
are about 1900 labOrers, a number of
whom regularly avail themselves Of
the privileges thus afforded.
The Boston Cooking School has
had six men as pupils during the year
| One man cook took a thorough course
and the five other men took lessons for
| the personal satisfaction of knowing
Twenty religious societies are asso-
ciated in the Brooklyn Union for
Christian work. The receipts Of the
past year were S7,575.7O. The Union
maintains free resding-room, library
and sewing-school, and is engaged in
| general charitable work. Christian
Union.
Although twenty thousand volumes
have been added in the last two years
to the Columbia College library there
| is need of more books to meet the de-
mands of the professors and students
in the various departments of the Uni
versity, especially In the graduate
courses. ~ 7. Sun.
Arrangements have been made for
a series of conventions i'm the interest
of home missions in the several Presby-
terie5 of the Synod of Ohio. 1t is the
purpose of these conventions to bring
before the churches all information on
the work and needs Of the home mission
fields. Cleveland Leader.
The American missionaries are not
a little proud Of the prowess and clever
ness of the Bulgarians. Many of the
/ bright young men who have come to
the front in the war received their train
ing in the schools established by the
American missions, which have ever
been warmly welcomed in Bulgaria.
For five years, every night in the
year without iutermissiOn, well at
tended Gospel meetings have been held
at the Bowery Mission of the Young
Mems Home in New York On a re-
cent Sunday evening the fifth anniver-
sary was held, at which wonderful tes-
/ timOntes were given by men who had
! been rescued.-N Y Tribune.
The Poles, Bohemians, Servians
and Bulgarians. and, i'm general, the
/ Slavonians living in the city of New
York and neighborhOod, are discussing
project to establish in this country a
Slavonian Roman Catholic diocese in
charge of a Bishop, a Slavoniau by
birth. There is no reason why the
Slav Catholics of this country should
not form union of their own like that
of the German Catholics or the Irish
Catholics. But it is curious that these
American citizens of Slav birth intend
to petition the Gar of Russia that he
would intervene in their behalf before
the Pope. A Catholic priest, a Pole by
birth, has already applied to the Rus
sian Consul Of this city on the subject
N Y SaB