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MENNONITES. 



erate roads built on the narrow-gauge plan. 

 The average cost per mile of the railroads of 

 the State is $56,888.62, exclusive of equipment, 

 which has cost $7,701 per mile. The entire 

 system of the State is represented in $165,- 

 624,136.72 of securities, of which $117,066,- 

 798.07 is stock, and $48,557,338.65 is debt. 

 There was an increase of debt of $11,000,000 

 during the year. The total earnings of the 

 year were $34,632,483.54, a falling off of eight- 

 tenths of one per cent, represented by a de- 

 crease of $1,155,900 in receipts from freight, 

 and an increase of $527,381 from passengers. 

 The total net increase was $10,703,301.70, or 

 six and four-tenths per cent, on the permanent 

 investment. Of the sixty corporations, twen- 

 ty-nine paid dividends ranging from one to ten 

 per cent., averaging nine per cent, on the stock 

 of the dividend-paying roads. 



The number of children in the State between 

 five and fifteen years of age is 292,481, of whom 

 210,248 attended the public schools. Accord- 

 ing to a report of the deputy-constables on the 

 labor of children in factories, there are 60,000 

 children in the State growing up in ignorance, 

 and receiving no benefit whatever from the 

 schools. 



McFARLAND, Eight Rev. FRANCIS PAT- 

 RICK, D. D., a Roman Catholic Bishop of the 

 Diocese of Hartford, born in Franklin, Pa., 

 April 6, 1819 ; died in Hartford, Conn., Octo- 

 ber 12, 1874. He received his early education 

 at a private academy in his native town taught 

 by Rev. Father Clark, S. J., and passed thence 

 to Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, at Emmittsburg, 

 Md., where he finished his studies, and was 

 subsequently professor. He was ordained priest 

 in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, by 

 the late Archbishop Hughes, May 18, 1845, and 

 for the next year was a professor in St. John's 

 College, Fordham, N. Y. After three months' 

 service as assistant priest at St. Joseph's Church, 

 New York, he was appointed in the beginning 

 of 1847 pastor of the Catholic church in Water- 

 town, N. Y., and in 1851 was transferred to St. 

 John's Church, at Utica, N. Y., where he re- 

 mained till his elevation to the episcopate in 

 1858. He was consecrated Bishop of Hartford, 

 March 14, 1858, by Archbishop Hughes, and 

 his episcopal residence was at Providence until 

 1872, when the diocese was divided, and Bish- 

 op McFarland came to Hartford. His labors 

 were abundant and he was very successful in 

 ministering to the prosperity of his diocese. A 

 studious, dignified, yet very zealous prelate, his 

 death was a great loss to the Catholic Church, 

 not only in his own diocese, but throughout 

 the United States. 



MoLEOD, Rev. JOHN NIEL, D. D., a distin- 

 guished clergyman and theological professor in 

 the Reformed Presbyterian Church, born in 

 New York City, October 11, 1806 ; died there 

 April 27, 1874. His father, a native of the 

 island of Mull, but a graduate of Union College, 

 had been for more than thirty years a prom- 

 inent minister of the Reformed Presbyterian 



Church in New York, and the organizer of 

 the American Colonization Society. The son, 

 after a very thorough training in the best 

 schools of New York City, graduated with high 

 honors from Columbia College in 1826, studied 

 theology with his father, and in 1828 was or- 

 dained as an assistant to his father. On the 

 death of his father, in 1832, he was elected his 

 successor, and installed January 14, 1833. He 

 was for many years the stated clerk of the 

 General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian 

 Church, and a professor in the Theological 

 Seminary of that Church at Philadelphia. He 

 was a member of the Committee on Versions of 

 the American Bible Society, and was for many 

 years perhaps the most conspicuous among 

 those leaders of the Reformed Presbyterian 

 Church who were unwilling to unite with the 

 other branches of the Scottish Church, in the 

 United Presbyterian Church, as constituted 

 in 1858, or with the Presbyterians of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly, on account of minor doctrinal 

 differences, and such points of practice as the 

 singing of Rouse's version of the Psalms only 

 (as they believe that, in religious worship, it 

 was wrong to use any hymns which were not 

 inspired productions), the right of member- 

 ship with Freemasons or Odd -Fellows, etc. 

 He was prominent in procuring the infliction 

 of the discipline of the Church upon Mr. George 

 "W. Stuart, of Philadelphia, for singing hymns 

 in a Union meeting, and once or twice, in late 

 years, was also conspicuous in some of the lit- 

 igations growing out of questions of church- 

 property in the congregation to which Mr. 

 Stuart belonged. Dr. McLeod was always a 

 man of large influence in his denomination, 

 and highly esteemed by those who knew him 

 best. Though a vigorous and able writer, Dr. 

 McLeod had published but little; some ad- 

 dresses, sermons, and devotional essays and 

 discussions, are all that are extant from his pen. 

 MENNONITES. The Mennonite Board of 

 Guardians are a committee who were ap- 

 pointed at the beginning of 1874, with the con- 

 sent of members of several Mennonite Confer- 

 ences, as a central body to receive funds and 

 afford help to Mennonites in Russia who wished 

 to emigrate to the United States, but were not 

 able to pay their passage. The purpose of the 

 board was to pay the passage of as many emi- 

 grants as circumstances would permit from 

 Hamburg to the United States, but not to de- 

 fray their expenses from their homes in Rus- 

 sia to Hamburg. Nevertheless, it stationed 

 an agent at Hamburg, who obtained from the 

 European railroads advantages in the reduction 

 of fares and the provision of more convenient 

 means of transportation, by which the progress 

 of the emigrants was considerably facilitated 

 from the time they crossed the Russian lines. 

 It made contracts with one of the lines of 

 steamers to bring over all emigrants at reduced 

 rates, and stationed an agent at Castle Garden, 

 in New York, to attend to their wants on 

 reaching this country, and provide for their 



