County News

Abrihamson, of Sungrun, Turkey' preached in a Saline church last Sunday. We are not advised as to which particular one of Abraham's offspriug this was but he must have been a ripsnorter to have come all the way from the oriënt to let light into Saline. The Saline elevator purchased 250 carloads of grain during the past year. Trot out your lambs and match Dwight Crittenden. He, this morning, delivered to our buyers 31 February lambs that weighed 2070 pouuds. The consideration Was flve cents per pound. - Saline, Observer. The corner stone of the new Presbyterian church at Saline will be laid Sunday. A young man named Eobt. Holloway, living in Webster, feil fortyflve feet from a barn Tuesday afternoon and dislocated one of nis shoulders. He was attended by Drs. M. K. Guinou and ,T. W. Lee and is doing nicely. - Dextex Leader. Old (Jatholic Movement. Professor Ten Brook received last, autumn from the University of Chicago for translation an article on the old Catholic movement in Europe, the original of Professor Beysehlag, of the University of Halle, Germany. The article apepars in the July number of the American Journal of Theology, published by the Chicago University. lt is long (46 octavo pag-es). It sketches the Vatican council of 1869, the action of which gave rise to the Old Catholie movement, and then the movement itself, of which. it give3 much of interesting detail. Dr. Doelinger, of the University of Munich, was perhaps more than any other man, the original leader of this movement, and about eight years bef ore the council of 1869 had delivered in the Odeon In Munich four leetures, in which he took up such questions as the temporal power of the pope, the territorial sovereignty of the bishops, Austrian rule in Italy and the mutual ill will getween Catholics and Protestants, giving on the subjects a bold utterance of his own honest convictions. Professor T. B. was present at the delivery of these leetures, and declares that in a five years' residence in the Bavarian capital he had witnessed no sensation so deep and general as that occasioned by these disoourses cf the veteran theologian. He gives details into which we cannot here enter.