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California Department.
CONDUCTED BY PROF. J. DURHAM.
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All matter intended for this department
should be addressed to Prof. .J. Durham,
Washington Corners, California.
Grabbed Golden- Grains.
Pres. McCollough is conducting a
_ meeting at Santa Clara.
""Bro, H. ^-SeauiRH lias Iocs ted fur
a time at Yountville, Napa county.
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Six additions reported at College
City through the labors of Pres. J.
C. Keith.
per his labor. Bro. P. will find as per’s Ferry fame, died in "San
Francisco on the last day of Feb­
many friends as he left.
ruary, and was interred in the
Bros. Seaman and Berry have San Jose cemetery on March 2nd.
iad four additions at Yountville Mrs. Brown had a little home near
and Napa City lately. Bro. Berry, the foot hills of Santa Clara county
do not become discouraged; there and an encumbrance on it a few
is a harder kind of rock in Cali­ years ago, but a subscription was
fornia than in Illinois or Missouri. started, which relieved the in­
Here ’tis granite and quartz most- debtedness, and gave the old lady
y; back East it is mostly sand- quite a surplus. She had been
sTon^T^Ttn^k^r-inuru wuik lieie
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perhaps to convert men, but verily years. At the time of her death
you shall not lose your reward.
shp was i» San Francisco under
medical treatment, and it, was
It is said, and truthfully too, thought that she was improving.
,hat Col. Peter Wilkes, of Stockton, She was well advanced in years.
port, was in a protracted meeting eachers of the State. With all his
Easiness in his law office and bank­
at Colusa.
ing business he takes plenty-of time
A District Meeting for the Sacra­ x>. prepare himself thoroughly for
mento district will convene at Col­ his Sunday school work? When he
lege City on the 27th of March. appears before his class he is brim­
The programme will soon appear.
full of the lesson, and it is a grand
treat to^sit at his feet and learn
Bro. L. B. Wilkes, of Stocton, those lessons of truth. Sunday-
is not permitted to be away from school teacher, take an item will
home on account of sickness of you?---------------------------- -----------
Sister W. We hope she will soon
For some weeks the almond trees
recover.
in this vicinity have presented a
. . .. .„Bro,Blakehas really arrived in J^&utifuLappearance-__ A. . fitting
California and engaged to labor for representative of hoaryhairs so
the churches at Williams and much so that we have often been
Colusa. May great success crown reminded of the words of Solomon,
his efforts.
“ When the almond tree flourishes.”
A Hebrew scholar, a few days ago,
It is stated that the Christians,
reminded us that he had learned
or Disciples, have 4000 Sunday-
that the Hebrew word for almond
schools, 20,000 teachers and 500,-
means “ watchful,” and that one of
000 pupils.... They ought to give-
the best authorities on that langu­
much Bible truth.
age supposes the meaning is so be­
Bro. F. W. Pattee, just from Vir­ cause the tree is the first bloomer
ginia, has come into California. of the year, and hence is on the
He will spend some time in Oak­ “ watch ” for the first dawn of
land. He is said to be a brother of spring.
ability and we bid him welcome.
The Santa Clara District Meet­
Bro. A. W, Sanford has had two
more additions at Glen Valley
school-house, in Colusa county.
Bro. S. preaches only once a month
at that place, but is doing a good
work.
Dr. Payton, now of Stockton, but
formerly of Salem, Oregon, gave
the students of Washington Col­
lege and the citizens of the village,
a lecture on Hygiene, a few even­
ings ago. The lecture was very
interesting and profitable.
Bro. Thomas Porter is for the
present in San Francisco at the
residence of Bro. H. H. Luse, No.
14 Essex St. As soon as he rests
up you will hear of some mighty
Australian Porter blows in behalf
of the truth. May the Lord pros-
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. How she
happens to be such can be under­
stood when it is stated that she in­
herited more than her one-half of
that illimitable fortune brought to­
gether by the Empress Catherine
II, and Paulf her son. The Grand
Duchess actually maintains a dozen
large hospitals in various towns, is
lesponsible for the education, tail­
ors’ bills and every expense of a
-great-number--of--pFotege»-ia all
ranks and has lately established a
new private eating-house for stu­
dents in St. Petersburgh.
hjore than 3,000,000 trees were
planted in Great Britain during the
of the State, a married daughter season of 1881-82.
and son-in-law in Saratoga. He is
The value of the hog* products
a teacher of the public school at exported from the United States
Saratoga. There isalso a daugh­ during the fiscal year ending June
ter in the mint in San Francisco
30, was about $71,000,000.
’ General News Basket.
A Burlington mother has mira­
culously cured her youngest hope­
Washington.is now crowded with
ful of srpoking by the laying on of
visitors. Every day the West End
hands.
is thronged with equipages bearing
woman beautiful and most beauti­
The first sugar refinery ever es­
ful, in gorgeous attire, to make tablished in Cuba will soon be rea­
“ official calls.” (No prominent lady dy to begin work at Havana. Ac-
I cording to a pamphlet issued by the
hundred callers between two and company the refinery will cost
five o’clock on her receiving day.
§313,258, while the capital provided
Colonel and Mrs. Robert Ingersoll for the construction amounts to
and their daughters have gone to §360,000.
New Mexico on a visit, accompany­
ing Mr. John Alley, the Lynn mil­
lionaire,who,with. his.. wife and
daughter, has gone to the land of
the Pueblos to contemplate a won­
derful ranch which he has just pur­
chased for six hundred thousand
dollars.
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When two young ladies kiss each
other they fulfill a Gospel injunc­
ing will convene at San Jose on
tion. They are doing to one an­
April 1st. The following program­
other as they would men should do
me has been made out for the ad­
unto them.
dresses during the meeting :—W.
A. Meloan, “ Faith and Opinion
' The will of Wendell Phillips
W. A. Belding, “ Union of Chris­ leaves his entire property, valued at
tiansR. N. Davis, “ Power and from two hundred thousand to two
Purpose pf PrayerL. B. Wilkes» hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
“ The Missionary Work of the unconditionally to his wife. It
ChurchJ. Durham, “ The Public specifies that, though she die before
Worship of the ChurchJ. H. him, the property shall go to his
McCollough, “ The Relation of the nephew, S. P. Blagdon, of Nfiw
Church of Christ to the Denomina­ York, to be held in trust fur the
tions W. H. Martin, “ The Special wife of George W. Smalley, of Lon­
Plea of the Christian Church E. don. Mrs. George W. Smalley is
B. Ware, “ Church Literature.” Wendell Phillips’s- adopted daugh­
The State Sunday-school Evangel- ter.
istand the State Evangelist are ex-?
The wealthiest woman in the
pected to be present.
world, by reliable accounts and
Mrs. John Brown, wife of John comparison, is the Grand Duchess of
Brown, of Ossawattomie and Har- Russia, Catherine, widow of George
Mrs. Tom Thumb, who modestly
announces herself as a “ wee and
winsome... widow/'.. has..opened.. a...
museum in New Fork, with her­
self, of course, as the principal at­
traction.
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Male education and female edu­
cation in India, when compared
with each other, present a striking
contrast. The Xotal female popula­
tion is 99,500,000 and the total
male population 103,000,000 but
only 127,000 females are under in­
struction at school, as against
2,517,629 males. In one case the
percentage at school is .84, in the
other it is 16 28.
Eighty-three per cent of the pop­
ulation of the United Statesis com­
posed of white natives and the im­
migrants from Germany and Great
Britain, leaving four per cent from
other countries and thirteen per
cent for those of African descent.
llow L ong W ould it T ake to
F ill the S ahara ?—In view of the
recent project to fill up the Desert
of Sahara by connecting it with the
Mediterranean Sea, a correspond-
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