Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — Reducing the Humber of Churches. [ARTICLE]

Reducing the Humber of Churches.

The city of London churches are to be reduced one-half. Within an area of little more that half a square mile, designated as “London within the Walley,” there exists no less than forty-' eight churches, which, with St Paul’s, are capable of accommodating 40,000 persons. The resident population within this area has diminished to 20,000, and the attendance at all the churches, including St. Paul’s, is not above 10,000. It is proposed to retain only twelve of these churches, and to sell the thirty-six remaining, by. which it is expected at least a million sterling will be realized, and made useful to the erection of fifty other churches in the morq remote parts of the town and its subui bs. M • A singular accident occurred to ■ freight train on the Boston and Providence railroad near the East Foxborough station. The train was heavily loaded and on a down-grade, running at the rate of thirty miles an hour, when the flange on one of the wheels of the car next to the engine broke in going over a frog, throwing the car from the track and leaving it bottom-side-up clear of the rest of the train, which ran nearly half a mile before it could be stopped. Had the accident occurred ten feet further on, the whole train would have been piled up and the lo». would have been very heavy.