St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-06-30
School AND CHURCH.

Among the words recognized by
the latest American dictionary are;
electrocc.e. abusee. .acadsmise. gracios-
ity, accusably and enhansive.
New York City spends a, ,0OO. 900 on
policemen. as against s. 400, 900 on
school-teachers. It is now proposed to
increase tho salaries of policemen.
The first free public school ever es-
tablished in the world was at Dor
chester, Mass, In 1880. The site of
the school is to be marked by an en-
during monument
Mira Gottheil, wife Of Prot Rich
ard Gottheil. of Columbia college. New
York. has been decorated by the
French minister Of foreign affairs with
the title of officer Of the French scad.
emy for her services in founding the
Franco-Jewish schools.
The Jewish law ordered that the
grain fields should not be CLEANED. and
fences or walls should not be gathered,
in order that something might be left
for the poor. No farmer might forbid
poor persons from entering his fields
and cleaning after the reapers.
The Baptists Of England will add
100 to their army of missionaries now
At work among the heather. This is
made possible by the $500, 900 fund
gathered during the centennial year. +"
A dcputation Of leading men is now
visiting the Baptist churches of En-
gland to sound . call through them
for the men and women for mission
aries.
In New York the total attendance
taken at all forms of religious worship
amounts to about 9Oo, 900 in . total
population Of 1,S00, 900, including the
sick. the disabled. infants, octogena-
rians and persons in public institutions
There are more Methodists than Bap-
fists in New York, more Presby terians
than Methodists. moro Catholi cs than
Presbyterians.
Gen" Rooth of the Salvation
army announces his purpose of making
. campaign of four months duration
in the United States and Canada. He
wants the army to raise . fund of eshO. :
900 this year to celebrate his ''fiftieth
year of Christian life" nd proposes
that an international jubilee congress
be held in London next July. He will
use the money. il he gets it, to further
the work of the army.
The Delaware Historical society
has charged itself with the pious task
of marking the site of the old Crane
Hook church below the mouth of the
not far from Wilmington.
This church was the predecessor of old
Swedes church, and the latter will
soon be two hundred year old. 1t is q
old structure. with . grave
yard Of much historic interest Tho
society cherishes a relic from the wall
of the Crane Hook church. but the site
of the building is now marked by only
the stump of an old buttonwood tree.
The Protestant Episcopal church
almanac for 1894 says that during the
last year S27 men were ordained to the
gain of S6 over the previous
year. The number Of communicates is
given as 566. sI3. an increase Of 1887.
The grand total of contributions was
SIS, ss5. $3.50. being IN increase of $780,
7l1.l9. This would indicate that in
some respects the Episcopal church has
been making fairly satisfactory prog
rcss during the last year.
The annual catalogue Of the Yale
school announces some impor-
tant changes. Rev. William K Black
man, II. D., Ph. D., Yale, 80. will sue
ceed DR.. Fairbanks Is professor of
Christian ethics, while the latter will
lecture on ''The History Of Philosophy
Of Religion" Several new courses will
be added this year, some to be conduct
ed by Prof. Blackman. These latter
will chiefly embrace the study Of an
archy, socialism, civil-service reform,
the wage system and other branches of
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