Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1883 — The Cows of the Country. [ARTICLE]

The Cows of the Country.

The cow population of the United States is 12,611,148, or abont one cow for every four people. This only includes milch oows, and their value is estimated at $340,400,936, an average of $27 per head, based upon their prices in different states. The population of Syria and Palestine is estimated at 2,076,321. Of these only 6,000 are Protestants.

Religious Intelligence. The Rev. Charles EL Spurgeon is in friUng health again, and is only able to preach one sermon each Sunday. A movement has been started in Italy to hold the services of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Italian language. The new church in Moorasville, Ind., was dedicated on Thursday, February 1. Bishop Bowman and Dr. J. S. Woods officiating. Fart of the religion of the Hindoos is to be kind to animals. They oarry this into suoh practical operation that they moot hospitals for sick and homeless brutes. A biography of the late Bishop Edward Thomas is in process of preparation by his son Dr. Edward Thomas, President of the Nebraska Conference Seminary. Bishop Kavansngh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has his residence in Si Louis. But he reocntly attended the Florida conference, and was prostrated, and will be oompelled to re main in Florida during the winter. The Otis bequest had yielded already to the American Board $778,982.89, leaving $271,409.12 to be used in the next ten years. Fifty thousand dollars has been appropriated to educational institutions in Ceylon and the Turkish Empire. The United Presbyterian Church of Sootland mourns the loes of nearly all of the fund providing for the support of its deceased ministers’ wives. It amounted to £85,000, £30,000 of whioh has disappeared with the defaulting treasurer, Peddie. The undergraduates at Oxford, England, have formed what they palled a Salvation Army. The object is to do Christian work in an aggressive way, but to avoid the clap-trap show of the followers of General Booth. At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful stained-gloss window made by an apprentice out of gloss rejected by his master, who was so mortified by recognising it as superior to any other in the olmroh, that according to tradition ho killed himself.