Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-03-30

THE IDAHO NEWS
NORMAN JONES, Publisher.
BLACKFO0T, IDAHO
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EUGENE WErHERELL's will was pro,
bated last week. He left 100000. all tc
his wife. Emma Abbott
THE Reformed Church of Hungary is
making strong effort to introduce
celibacy among its ministers
TIE Baptists organized COS new
churches last year. OF this number
346 were east and 262 west of the Miss
issippi.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE attends
professionally the leading actors of
England. He is something of an actor
himself, it is said.
THE number of adherents of the Ro-
man Catholic church in America has
increased during the past century from
1850 to 5000. 900.
THE United States, with over 60, 000,-
900 population, has only 5000 students
of theology, while Germany, with only
45,O00,000 has 1000.
Coz. STEWART of Nevada City has
provided in his will that his body be
cremated and the ashes be dumped in
to the river at midnight.
In the last 100 years, while the popu-
lation of the earth has doubled, the
membership of various Christian
churches has more than tripled.
DURING the past year the net gain OF
new churches in the United States was
6,4S4, of ministers, 774,S61. On an
average, therefore, IL churches were
gained each day, II ministers, and
2,120 members.
THE Fiji island mission held iubi-
lee lately. Fifty years ago there was
not Christian in all Fiji and cannibal-
ism existed. Now there are 1858 chap
els and other preaching places and
151, $50 attendance on public worship.
In Sweden fifty years ago the pro-
portion of alcohol consumed to the pop
ulation was fifty-four litres for every
man, woman, and child; now it is only
eight litres. In Norway the proper
ton fifty years ago was sixteen litres,
now it is three and one-half
THE late William Woolsey of Har-
ford county, Maryland, was a phiIan-
ithropist with ideas of his own. He has
left nearly 100000 to be expended on
certain designated roads in that coun-
ty provided the county commissioners
spend an equal sum on them.
UPWARD of 2,OO,O youths Of India
are to-day receiving a liberal Educa-
ton, for the most part purely secular.
The spread of western knowledge in
opening the flood-gates of inidelity and
of non-religion, leaving the people in
state not only creedless but goddess.
Or missionary success in India Sir
Rivers Thompson says: ut has been
most pronounced and indhbitable
among the aboriginal tribes, the low
castles and the no-castes throughout the
country, from which class / believe n
am right in saying we may claim some
thing like 100000 converts to Christi
anity.
The gold and silver plate which be-
longs to the Duke of Cumberland
weighs some twelve tons, and the jew
els are valued at 95OO,OO The Dukes
hereditary casket includes the famous
pearls Of Queen Charlotte (worth
9160,000, which caused nearly twenty
years litigation between the queen and
the king of Hanover.
The salvationisrs who went out to
India, are having hard time by reason
OF sickness incident to the climate and
to their attempt to initiate the native
manner of life. Trying to live on z
shillings month and walking barefoot
in the sun when the thermometer regis |
ters $50 degrees are severe experiences
for Europeans Twenty OF the first fifty
who went out year ago are hors de-
combat and ten OF the forty who went
out more recently are on the sick list. |
THE Rev. S. B. Halliday. who was
for many years Mr.. Beecher's assistant
in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, has &C.
cepted the pastorate of the Tabernacle |
Congregational church, which meets in
a room on Fulton street, in the upper
part of the city. Mr.. Halliday says in
a letter to Plymouth church, which
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