Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions -held its seventyseventh annual meeting at l>es Moines, lowa. The Prudential Committee reported that thirty-five missionaries had been added to the force during the - year; that the receipts from ail sources amounted to $500,863, and thnt the expenditures aggregated $658,285. Kev. J. L. 'Withrow, D. D., of Boston, preached the annual sermon, assailing the doctrine of future probation, asserting that the church had 100 much to do to pay attention to such speculation, aad had no time to waste on dead pagans. The address was frequently applauded by the large, audience- __ Tre triennial- oonneil of *tbe Protestant Episcopal .Church of the United States began its sessions in Chicago on the Cth instant. There were in attendance nearly sixty Bishops and four hundred clerical or lay delegates. The two houses organized by electing Bishop Williams, of Connecticut. Chairman of the House of Bishops, and the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, of New York, Chairman of the House of Deputies. The American Board of ‘Foreign Missions, in session at Des Moines, had an exciting debate oh the question whether probation and chance of salvation end with this life. The new departure was rejected, the report of the prudential committee being adopted by a vote of 48 to 22. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the week, as reported k) R. G. Dun & Co., mini’, ered for the United States 167, and for Canada 23, or a to’.al of 190. which is about up to the ayerage of the last six Or seven weeks. The failures in New York and the East were light, the bulk of the week s casualties being reported from the Southern and Western States and Canada. The League base-ball season has come to ay end, and the Chicagos have taken the pennant with a splendid finish. The percentage of the Chicagos is .726, the having won 90 games out of 124-played. The Detroits have a percentage of .707, with 87 games won out of 123 games playeYl The New Yorks stand third, with a percentage of .630, having won 75 out of 119 games played. The Phiiadelphias are fourth; with a percentage of .623. having won 71 of 114 games played. The Bostons, in the fifih place, have a percentage of .471, with 56 games won out of 117 played. The St. Louis have the sixth place, with a percentage of .352, winning 43 out Of 122 games played. The Kansas City percentage is .244, winning but 29 out of 119 games played. The Washingtons’ percentage is .229; with *27 out Of 118 games.