St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-05-12
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

The Very Rev. Thomas Casey, vicar.
general of the Erie (Pa.) diocese, died
worth ee5o.OOo He had given nearly
rs much to the church and to charity
during his active life.
Mrs Amelia A. Frost. wife Of Rev
George A. Frost, Of the Orthodox
church at Littleton, is the first woman
preacher Of the Congregationalist
church in Massachusetts. She was or.
dained a'short time ago.
The American Baptist Home Mis-,
sion society has not reported debt for
seven years; bus this year it has al.
ready been compelled to borrow $780,.
600. and will probably report a debt OF
at least $40, 600 at the close Of the &c
ciesiastical year in April
Switzerland has within a few
months lost two of her most eminent
theologians, NJ. Auguste Bonvicr. who
for many years was at the head of the
moderate liberal party in the Geneva
university and church, and NJ. Augustip
Hrettlllat. who was At Neuchatel the
representative of orthodox evangelical
theology.
Rev. Ida c. Hultin, who has been
called to the Unitarian church in Troy.
is the pastor of a fiourishing church IN
Moline. Ill She has. says the New
York Tribune, preached and spoken
several times in New York and Brook.
Iyn during the LIST three years, and
has made \ most favorable impression
on all who have heard her.
DIR. Andrew V. v. Raymond. who
was elected to the presidency Of Union
college recently, has sent his formal
acceptance to the board of trustees
He will resign the pastorate OF the
Fourth Presbyterian church in Albany
in order to assume his new duties His
inauguration will take place on June
26. the day preceding commencement
Rev. Algin Grout. one Of the oldest
American missionaries died in Spring.
field, Mass, recently, at the age OF
about ninety and one-half years. Mr..
Grout graduated from Amhert college
in 1851 and from Andover seminary in
1854, and soon after being ordained as
minister to Cape Town, where he en-
gagged in missionary work among the
Zulus. To reach his post he went
through three hundred miles of abso-
lutely savage country. He remained
in Zululand until 1870. assisted by his |
wife, who survives him Mr.. Grout |
aided in translating tine Bible into the |
Zulu language.
Among the famous military schools |
Of Europe there is none more popular |
for foreigners than the French school |
at St Cyr During the last twenty
years more than one hundred foreign
cadets are said to have received instruc-
tion there. among them being twelve |
Americans At present the countries |
are Turkey, Japan, Ru. |
mania, Paraguay. Hayti, Burma. Mon. |
tenegro. the Argentine Confederation, !
Peru, Servia, Greece. PeIs STA, Switzer. |
land. Belgium, Spain and England. |
Indeed. every country may be said to |
be represented there, with the solitary
but natural exception of Germany.
Mrs Elliott +. Shepard is planning
the erection of a church near her coun. /
Try home on the Hudson as a memorial /
IF her husband. 1t is to be beautiful
in architecture and will be the most |
,ostly church edifice ever erected in
he United States. Mrs. Shepard makes
t point to carry out every enterprise
hat her husband was engaged in in
such a way as he would done had he
lived. There is no difference in the
lifts to different charities. no changes
rave been made in the household or
he newspaper or in any other thing in
.hich he was interested. The old en-
,loyes and servants of the household
'cmain and in every way Mrs. Shep-
lrd's loyalty 10 the memory of her husr
,snd is very Touching.