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till his death. She sued for damages. The 

 judge decided tliat marriage with an alien did 

 not affect her citizenship, and henco that tin- 

 United States courts had no jurisdiction. 



In a case against the Amalgamated ('i>im'-il 

 and various labor organizations which ordered 

 a strike of all (lie lalior organizations in No- 

 \eml T, 1N!2, an injunction \vus a-ked against 

 these iKidies under the act of Congress prohib- 

 iting combinations in restraint of trade. In an 

 Halmrate opinion the court declares that the acts 

 complained of were unlawful, and that the mer- 

 chants arc entitled to relief. 



Conventions. An 1 in migration Convention 

 was held in New Orleans in .March, called by 

 the (iovernor, for the purpose of discussing the 

 lie>t met hods of bringing capital and immigrants 

 into the State. Resolutions were adopted in- 

 viting immigrants from other States and from 

 Europe, requesting the chairman to appoint a 

 committee whose duty it should be to publish a 

 pamphlet describing the advantages the State 

 offers to immigrants, indicating the merits of its 

 climate, soils, timber lands, fisheries, etc. ; to 

 promote the formation of local and parish immi- 

 gration organizations which will prepare lists of 

 available lands and other data ; and to co-operate 

 with the Immigration Bureau to promote the 

 work of that department, and to formulate plans 

 for paying all proper expenses of the work. 



A Cotton Acreage Convention was held during 

 the same day, assembling after adjournment of 

 the sessions of the other. It was called by the 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, to take such action 

 as should seem best, looking to the decrease in 

 acreage devoted to cotton the present year, and 

 to consider the propriety of sending delegates to 

 a general interstate convention to be held at an 

 early date for a similar purpose. 



The resolutions were in accordance with the 

 purpose of the convention, urging upon the at- 

 tention of planters of the whole cotton section 

 " the folly of pursuing the old methods of plant- 

 ing mostly cotton, to the exclusion of cereal and 

 other crops, and upon such planters, as individ- 

 uals and citizens, to set the personal example of 

 raising first such crops as will give support to 

 home and family, and then to plant sufficient 

 cotton to furnish the luxuries of life." 



Constitutional Commission. At the last 

 session of the Legislature provision was made 

 for the appointment of a commission charged 

 with the duty of considering important measures 

 which would involve an amendment to the State 

 Constitution, and of reporting suggestions to the 

 next session of the Legislature. This commis- 

 sion is to be composed of two members of the 

 State Senate, appointed bv the Lieutenant Gov- 

 ernor ; three members of the House of Represent- 

 atives, chosen by the Speaker of that body ; and 

 two members for the State at large, named by 

 the Governor from among the mass of citizens. 

 There is a very general demand for a remodel- 

 ing of the suffrage and election system in opera- 

 tion in the State. The commission met in July, 

 but the organization was deferred, on account of 

 abscenes, till Jan. 3, 1894. 



LUTHERANS. The Evangelical Lutheran 



Church in the United. States numbers 60 synods, 



V.d 1 .-' ministers, 9,069 congregations, 1,818,168 



communicant members, and a population of 



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7,000,000. The number of Lutherans in the 

 world K .Y.-'.s.-.iUKK). Its 2,78<5 parochial schools 

 in the Culled States employ 3,:>?0 teachers, and 

 contain 140,2N7 pupils; and its r>.;;i;. r , Sunday 

 schools have -Js/j:;:; officers and teachers and con- 

 tain 4ft), 109 pupils. The offerings of the con- 

 gregations for missions, educational institutions, 

 orphanages, hospitals, deaconess institutions, and 

 older works of benevolence (9 svnods not report- 

 ing), amount to $884,859.26. The General Coun- 

 cil is credited with 9 synods, 1,055 ministers, 1,777 

 congregations, and 807,523 communicant mem- 

 bers, and benevolent contributions amounting to 

 $287,811.93; theSynodical Conference, with 3 syn- 

 ods, 1,519 ministers, 2,165 congregations, 441, 129 

 communicants, and $171,254.86 for benevolence ; 

 the United Synod of the South, with 8 synods, 205 

 ministers, 405 congregations, 36,518 communi- 

 cants, and $18,575.42 for benevolence ; the Gen- 

 eral Synod, with 26 synods, 1,046 ministers, 1,441 

 congregations, 165.346 communicants, and $230,- 

 694.23 for benevolence; and 12 independent syn- 

 ods, with 1,477 ministers. 3,281 congregations, 

 342,647 communicants, and $176,521.82 for be- 

 nevolence. The 26 theological seminaries have 

 property valued at $1,097,800, endowment 

 amounting to $527,700, 90 professors, and 1,033 

 students ; the 35 colleges have property valued 

 at $3,024,500, endowment amounting to $709,223, 

 297 professors, and 5,162 students ; the 37 acade- 

 mies have property valued at $488,250, endow- 

 ment amounting to $50,100. 176 instructors, and 

 4,380 students ; and the 13 ladies' seminaries have 

 125 professors and 1,047 pupils. The aggregate of 

 these items shows 111 educational institutions, 

 having property valued at $4,889.323, endowment 

 amounting to $1,290,573, and 237,245 volumes in 

 their libraries, employing 688 instructors, and 

 having 11, 622 students, of whom more than 2,520 

 are in preparation for the ministry. The amount 

 given as endowment expresses only a small frac- 

 tion of the resources of the educational work of 

 the Lutheran Church, for 85 of the 111 institu- 

 tions are very largely supported by annual gifts. 

 The Lutheran Church in the United States main- 

 tains 35 orphanages, 8 asylums for the aged, 14 

 hospitals, 6 deaconess institutions, and 12 immi- 

 grant and seamen's missions, whose property is 

 valued at $2,342,700, and whose inmates number 

 35,000. These institutions are maintained prin- 

 cipally by private gifts. The periodical publica- 

 tions of the Church number 133, of which 49 are 

 German, 44 English, 15 Norwegian, 12 Swedish, 

 4 Danish, 3 Icelandic, 3 Finnish, 2 Slavonian, and 

 1 French. Following is a report of the 4 general 

 bodies and the 12 independent synods: 



General Synod. The thirty-sixth biennial 

 convention of this general body was held at Can- 

 ton, Ohio, May 21 to June 1, 1893. The Rev. Jacob 

 A. Clutz, D. I)., President of the General Synod 

 and President of Midland College, at Atch'ison, 

 Kan., delivered the opening sermon. Delegates 

 from 26 district synods were in attendance, rep- 

 resenting 842 parishes and 1,441 congregations. 

 The following officers were elected : President, 

 the Rev. Charles S. Albert, D. D., Philadelphia ; 

 Secretary, the Rev. William S. Freas, D. D., York, 

 Pa.; Treasurer, Louis Man. Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 The business of the convention consisted chiefly 

 in hearing reports of the various boards and tak- 

 ing action on their recommendations. 



