Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1874 — Northern Indiana Conferance of the Methodist Church. [ARTICLE]

Northern Indiana Conferance of the Methodist Church.

The annual Conference of the Northern Indiana Methodist Church met at Medaryville, Indiana, on the 25th day of March, 1874, with an attendance of twenty-eight members, besides visiting brethren from other parts of the State and from 61 her denominations. The business was conducted harmoniously and in a Christian spirit. This Conference is oup among the smallest of the Methodist Church, showing the following statistical report: Number of members 1,555, ministers, 18; churches, 21, valued at $25,000; passonages, 4, valued at $3,000; 24 Sabbath schools with 145 teachers, 1,256 pupils and 1,180 volumes in their libraries. Many good resolutions were passed, which, however, were principally local in th eir nature. The committee on the Bible Cause reported as follows: Whereas, The Bible comes to us as the revealed will of God, and we can only be prepared to do God’s will in proportion as we learn it, therefore, Kescjeveh, That as an annual Conference we recognize in the American Bible Society one of the best institutions of the age; that we are in sympathy with said Society, and that us ministers we will co-operate witli all regular and honorable agents who come to our .fields of labor. A committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the views of the Conference upon the Tempt reace Reform manifesting itself, so' wonderfully throughout the country,-who reported tlio inlj lowing resolutions which were ; adopted: i Whereas, In reviewing the Temperance Movement in this and other lands we feel to rejoice in the fact that every public movement has entrenched the cause of temperance, therefore, Resolved, That as an annual Conference we rejoice in the Women’s Movement which, like a tornado, over tins land is shaking the Rum Power from center to circumference. Resolved, That as an annual Conference we promise co-operation with those noble women, and pray that this tidal wave may roll on until our iand is redeemed from the curse of intemi peranee. J Several persons direct from the ! fields of action spoke to a large au- ; dience, Friday night, on the subject j of Temperance. | Saturday night a missionary meetI ing was held, which ‘was largely I attended. The best of feeling prevailed during the entire conference, and an adjournment was made Saturday night, after passing a vote of thanks to the people of Medaryville and vicinity for their kind entertainment. J. C. Weight, Chairman. Lpwis Alter, Secretary. In red hair, llie coloring material in the wondrously fine capillary tubes contains a large amount of sulphur; the hue of jet black hair comes from almost pure carbon; and so nil the shades of lock and tress have chemical causes, Now, as different human • general physical organizations have more or less of one of these chemical agents than another, and human dispositions are nervous, or lymphatic, or sanguine in proportion thereto, it should be scientifically possible to form some jost estimation of one’s character by an analysis of the hair of the head. The subtlety of strychnine'is this shown: A bottle which contained a remnant of this poison, was thrown into the fire. In a few

minutes the bottle bnrst violently, sending out the flames in every direction, and two . women burned thereby were so virulently poisoned also that only the promptest administration of strychnine antidotes saved their lives.

~~ L.', There is a common impression that syrup made by the action of acids on sawdust or old rags will \ turn tea black on admixture. — This test is not infallible, because slight traces of iron may be present from other sources. The following is an infallible test and is easily tried: Mix small quantities of the j syrup with a solution of muriate of! baryta. If any non-neutralized acid j remains in the syrup, it will* be precipitated to the bottom in the form of a white insoluble compound. The muriate of baryta is fouud in most drug stores. The best simple remedy for Sur face wounds such as euts, kbrhsionS of the skin Ac., is chaacoal. Take a live coal from the stove, pulverize it, apply it to the wound and cover it with a rag. The charcoal absorbs the fluids secreted by the wound, 1 and lays the foundation of the scab; it also prevents the rag from iritating the flesh, and it is antiseptic.— Quinine is also good for the same purpose, and is in addition a stringent and tonic. A ham, well packed in pulverized charcoal, after the usual smoking, will keep foryears. Butter in pots, well surrounded with charcoal, will keep for twelve months. Each atom of charcoal can absorb 1,000 times its bulk ot deleterious gases. —llalVs Journal of Health.