The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-10-07
SCHOOL AND U r

L benefit of clergy" was a legal
custom which allowed priests to with
draw their cases from a secular to an
ecclesiastical court. The evidence of
being a clergyman was an ability to
read. If a man could read only a single
verse he was entitled to the benefit of
clergy.
Since the death of Bishop Crowther,
the negro bishop of western equatorial
Africa, that see has been vacant. pend
ing the settlement of a somewhat
animated discussion. within the juris-
diction itself, as to the proper success
sion-whether a white man or a black
man.-Churchman.
In many parts of England a custom
has for many centuries existed of eat
ing pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, the
day before the commencement of Lent.
The custom is believed to have origi-
mated in the Greek church, the adher-
ents of which make pancakes a favor
lite diet during Lent.
The Methodist Episcopal church
south is making preparations to cele-
brate its jubilee. June s, 1894 will
make fifty years since the adoption of
1.-The plan of separation" in pursuance
of the provisions of which the Meth
odist Episcopal church south became
a separate ecclesiastical jurisdiction
Christian at Work.
Notwithstanding that upward of
IL, 1000 English sailors visit the port of
Odessa in southern Russia annually,
and that there is a resident English
population there OF 800, there is no
Protestant place of worship. An effort
is now being made to raise funds for
the erection of a church, and the mu-
nicipal authorities of Odessa have do
mated a site for the purpose.
One feature of the Worlds fair at
tendance which many visitors remark
is the presence of so many Catholic Sis
tiers among the sightseers. The monas-
terry of La Rabida, where the relics of
Columbus and the valuable loan collec-
ton of the pope are placed, seems in
teresting to them, and. a group of Sis
tiers in their convent dress completes
the picture in the patio of that build
ing.
-Congregationalists in New Hamp-
shire have gained in membership less
than seven per cent. since 1872; Meth
odists in the same state have gained
but seven per cent IN twenty years, and
the Baptists have gained fourteen per
cent. since 1872, though they have lost
twelve per cent. in 1914. On the other
hand the Episcopalians have more than
doubled in number in New Hampshire
during the last two decades.
The cornerstone of the First Pres
byterian church at Seattle was laid
recently In addition to the articles
usually placed in corner-stones for the
e%dification of remote posterity this
stone contains a blank book in which
this statement is written: "a bank has
never failed in Seattle to date. We
have just passed through a commercial
and financial panic which has been
worldwide. There has not been a fail
ure of any kind in Seattle"
in some mountainous and in
hospitable regions of the west the
most important vacation of the pub
lie schools occurs in winter time and
continues from January to April, be-
cause at that season SHOWS are so deep
and storms SO frequent hat most chill
dren are unable to make their way to
school. The summer vacation is short
but the hardship of attending and
teaching school in summer time is not
great, as the summers of those regions
are, for the most part, delightfully."-
cool.