Religious And Educational

The Mexicans of Conejos County, Col., have recently gratefully accepted one thousand copies of the New Testament, of which they are said to be diligent studente. -The Rev. J. A. Spurgeon, of London. brother to Mr. C. H. Spurgeon, has iust received a legacy amounting to about $75,000, bequeathod to him by a member of his former congregation. -The Tennessee Jubilee Singers, by their concerting tours have made $160,000 for the ï'isk University of Tennessee, the college for the education of oolored people. In Connecticut a wife and daughter left the church which the husband and father attended, and hired a pew in another. He refused to pay the rent of it. and, being sued for the same, the court held that hö was nofc liable. - Duving the last year the American and British and Foreign Bible Societies at Constantinople sent out into various narts of Turkey 80,0-15 copies of the Scriptures, entiro or in part; and abont 10,000 copies of religious books and tracts wci-e also distributed from the same agoney. -The following is au estímate of the numbers of the varions religious denomin-ations who speak the English language: lipiscopalians, 17,750,000; Methodists, 14,000,000; Roman Catholics, 12,500,000; Presbyterians, 10,000,000; Baptists, 8,000,000; Congfogationalists, 7,000,000; Unitarians, 1,000,000. - Brother Jasper's African Baptist Church at Richmon.l, Va., grew so largo and unwieldy that it has had to throw out a colony. Out of a snip of over 4,UUU ït aismisseu iw w form a new church. The old churoh will still contain many more membors than it ought to havo, and more than can be properly nia-iaged by Brother Jasper or any other man. Jasper is as popular as ever among his flock, and still holds with unflinching pertinacity that " the sun do move." Virginia has now two summer normal schools- one at the University and one for colored teachers at Lynehburg -and appropriatos $500 annua)ly for the Institute at Hampton. North Carlino nnnnrt! n. STT WRüks' nOl'mal school for white teachers and a yearly oue for colored. South Carolina has none, but sends some pupils on Peabody scholarships to Hampton. Georgia has a normal department in the University of AÜanU ;uul sends twenty pupils to the Normal College at Nashville. Florida also sends pupils to the Normal Colltge at Nashville. Alabama has one for white pupils and two for colored. Mississippi has none; Louisiana has two; Arkansas, two; and Texas, thouu-h late in the field, has just provided by law for two. West Virginia nominaílyhassix, buttheyarcneglected; while in Tennessee is the widely-known Normal College, supported chiefly by the Peabody Fund.