A San Francisco editor, who has been to a Chinese theatre there, thus speaks of the quality of the music furnished: —lmagine yourself in a boiler manufactory when 400 men are putting in rivets, a mammoth tin shop next door on one side, and a forty-stamp quartz mill on the other, with a drunken charivari party with 600 instruments in front, 4000 enraged cats on the roof, and a faint idea will be conveyed of the performance of a first-rate Chinese band of music. PfiESBTTEEiAjfisM.—It is a fact that presbyterianism is stronger in America than in any other country in the world-. There are about 7,200 ministers, and 731,000 members connected with the several branches of the presbyterian church in America, and lately a unuion has been effected between the old and new schools, two of the largest and most influential bodies, which now number in their united capacity, 4,229 ministers, and 431,463 members. A special thank offering of 5,000,000d015. was proposed in commemoration of the Union.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 65, 29 April 1870, Page 3
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167Untitled Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 65, 29 April 1870, Page 3
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