The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-08-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Congregationaiists in this
country number $50, $50.
A st. Paul lumberman has given
$50. 900 to the University of Minnesota
to endow a chair of Semitic languages.
Gen. Booth is at work on a new
book drawn from the results of his OBJ
servations during his recent visit to
this country.
Rev. Russell II. Conwell, DID,, pas.
tor of Grace Baptist church CThe Tenn
ple). Philadelphia. has baptized 1901
persons during his eleven years pas.
torate there.
ID. l.. Moody has a scheme on foot
to put a Bible in the hands of each OF
| the 75O,O 900 criminals in the country,
and he generally carries out what he
undertakes.
The action of Notre Dame uni
versity Roman Catholicl in comforting
the degree of LII. d. on the well-known
Congregational clergyman, Rev. Wash
ington GLADDEN.. is almost unprecedent-
ed. and will doubtless excite wide COM
ment.
The First Japanese Christian church
in America was dedicated in san Fran
cisco recently. 1t belongs to the Meth
odist denomination, and has about
three hundred members, who contrib
uted largely toward the building of
the editice. The assistant minister and
the organist are Japanese, and the
church organization will be managed
by the Japanese members, with very
little help or interference by Cauca-
slams.
Bishop Miadenoff, head of the
South Slavic Catholics. has disappeared.
He offered some months ago to secede
from the Catholic church with a large
number of Macedonian ~Bulgarians and
to recognize the e~Xarchate of the Greek
church. Soon after he went to Con-
stantinople and dined with the eXarch,
and has not been seen or heard of since.
He is believed to have accepted an in
vitation to visit an American Catholic
convent on the Asiatic side of the Bos-
porus.
DIR. D. X. Pearsons, of Chicago, has
offered to give Mount Holyoke college
$50 900 if it will raise an additional
$50, 900 in a year and a half. The gifts
of Dr.. PearSonS to western institutions
aggregate ;.bout s., 900, 900, eight col
ieges being the beneficiaries. OF these
Beloit has received 5000, 900, Knox $780,
900, Chicago Theological school $500 90,
while he has recently made Whitman
college, of Walla Walla, Wash, n SINH
lar offer to that now made to Mount
Holyoke, and Drury college has also
been aided by him.
Prof. Simon Newcomb, of the ma
tional observatory at Washington, who
has just been elected an associate of
the French Academy of Sciences. has
had degrees conferred upon him by
Harvard, Yale. Columbia, Leyden, and
Heidelber. He holds the gold medal
of the Royal Astronomical society and
the great gold Huygens medal of Ley
den, bestowed only once in twenty
years. 1t is now thirty-four years
since he was appointed a professor of
mathematics in the United States
navy. and he has been senior professor
for nearly twenty years.
The financial statement of the
Presbyterian board of foreign mis-
sions for the year ending April 80, 1895,
shows that the total receipts were
SS66, SIS, against SS41,553 for the pre-
ceding year. The total expenses, in
Guiding appropriations for the fields,
Church at Home and Abroad etc,
were 81, OILS, 757. To this must be add
ed the deficit al the beginning of the
year, S1O2, 597. making a total liability
of 81, lis, 354. Deducting the income
there remains a deficit of S251, 976,
which is lessened, however, by a gain
of S3S.S72 in exchange on silver and by
unused appropriations amounting to
S3s, 221, so that the real deficit is Sl74,-
$50.