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Eocal and Domestic.
—Despatches have been received by
Messrs. E. and S. Alexander to the fol
lowing effect:
Vicksburg, August 27.
We need assistance. Fever very bad.
L. W. Lowenberg.
Vicksburg, August 28.
We want assistance for Jewish widows
and orphans. L. W. Lowenberg.
—It seems that some of our brethren
in this city and vicinity wait for demands
to be made of them in person. The cry
of distress is in the meantime increasing^
There is a readiness to help, but a great
many wait that they should be called
upon by some one or other. Do not
wait or lose your time in waiting, friends,
but send in your contributions at once to
the offices where such will be received
and forwarded promptly. We have not
heard yet of our ladies’ societies, beside
the Johannah lodge, nor have our young
men shown their willingness to come to
the ranks, beside the S. L. S, The de
mands are urgent. Do your duty breth
ren and sisters.
Chicago, Aug. 26th, 78.
Editor Jewish Advance:
The following subscriptions for the
yellow fever sufferers have been obtain
ed from Israelites of Chicago :
Leopold Bros. & Co. $50 00
Simon Meyer, Strauss & Co. 50 00
Leopold Blum. 50 00
G. Foreman. 50 00
H. A. Kohn & Bros. 50 00
Hart Bros. 35 00
Frank Bros.. . 25 00
International Bank. 25 00
Cahn, Wampold & Co . • 25 00
Selz, Schwab & Co. 25 00
Snydacker & Co. 25 00
Bindskopf, Barbe & Co. 25 00
Man del Bros. 25 00
•Clayburgh, Einstein & Co. 20 Oo
B. Kuppenheim & Co.. 20 00
Sehoeneman & Co . 15 00
Sam’l Liberman & Co . 13 00
Greensfelder, Rosenthal & Co. 10 00
Hr. K. Kohler. 10 00
Silverman, Lindauer & Co. 10 00
A. Lewis & Co. 10 00
Hirsch, Mayer & Co. 10 00
Leopold & Austrian. 10 00
Eliel, Banzinger & Co. 10 00
I. Friedman. 10 00
Samuel Cole. 10 00
A. Loeb & Bro. 10 00
H. Felsenthal. 10 00
Rosenbaum Bros. 10 00
Giinbel, Florsheim & Co ... 10 00
Lindauer Bros. & Co . 10 00
Schnadig, Foreman & Co .• • 10 00
H. Lehman . 10 00
Lazarus Silverman. 10 00
Wolff Bros. 5 00
Hohn, Weineman & Co. 5 00
M. M. Gerstley. 5 00
Jos. Ullman. 5 00
Eisenstaedt Bros. 5 00
F. Kiss. 5 00
Price, Levi & Strauss. 5 00
Greenebaum Son’s. 5 00
L. Loewenstein. 5 00
Heidweyer & Stieglitz. 5 00
B. Gradle. 5 00
Witkowsky & Affeld. 5 00
E. Rothschild & Bro. 5 00
R. Guthmann. 5 00
J. F. Edwin. . 100
M. Dreschfleld . 1 00
Through Jewish Advance. 99 00
Further contributions will be received
at Snydacker & Co., 95 S. Clark Street,
at Frank Bros., 204 & 206 Madison
Street, and at the office of the Jewish
Advance, 84 and 86 Fifth Avenue, as
heretofore.
In addition to the contributions for
the southern sufferers, reported in out
last, we have received at this office front
Theo. Goldman $1.00, Ladies’ Benevo
lent Society of Plymouth, Ind., $25.00.
The sum total received at this office
up to this week amounted to $99.00,
which has been handed to Mr. Henry
Frank, whose full list of contributions
is printed above
—All the lodges of the I. 0. F. S. of I.
of this city held a pic-nic last Sunday
at the Sharpshooters’ Park. The num
ber of participants amounted to over
two thousand persons. The weather
was exceptionally favorable and the
affair was hugely enjoyed by young and
old. An opera-glass was sold at aucti on
on that occasion and the sum realized
was $38.00, which will he sent to the
sufferers of the yellow fever.
—From all parts of the country, from
all small communities whithersoever the
reports of the yellow fever suffering has
reached, assistance for the sufferers is
coming in most readily. There is another
cry of distress from the famine sufferers
of Morocco. The circular of the Board
of Delegates, whieh we publish in an
other column, tells the tale of woe clear
ly and without exaggeration. We hope
our readers will not overlook it, and will
act in this matter according to their gen
erous impulses. Donations will be re
ceived and duly accredited at the office
of the Jewish Advance.
Touro Infirmary and Hebrew
Benevolent Association.
New Orleans, Aug. 26.1878.
Nathanid A. Mayer, Esq., Treas. Sinai Literary
Association, Chicago:
Your kind donation of $50 is hereby
acknowledged. We thank you for the
assistence afforded to our efforts to re
lieve the great distress, suffering and
destitution existing and continuing to
increase among our co-religionists here.
Your action proves the truth of the
great novelist’s thought “Increase of
knowledge is increase of virtue.”
Respectfully yours,
Erns'j.’ Florence,
Sec. T. I. & H. B. A.
Philadelphia.—The Y. M. H. A. of
Philadelphia has announced a list of
prizes to be given for the best original
essays written by members or outsiders
—an example worthy of emulation.
Las Pruces, New Mexico.—-Morris
J. Bernstein, a clerk of the U. S. Indian
Agency, and a young man of excellent
character and standing, was murdered at
South Fork on the 5th inst.
Grand Rapids, Mich —Rev. E. Ge
rechter has lost a child, and Rev. Charles
Fuhler, a Unitarian minister of that city,
has officiated at the funeral “ according
to Minhag, America.”
—The congregation of Grand Rapids
holds Friday evening sendees which are
very well attended. They have also a
Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Society
which is doing good work for the poor.
Memphis, Tenn.—Mr. N. D. Menken
said he was sorry to hear of the suffering
that existed. He was willing to advance
his taxes, and if the Mayor would let
him know the amount of his bills, he
would give him a check instanter, In
addition, he authorized General Wright,
as chairman of the meeting, to order one
thousand loaves of bread and have them
distributed among the poor; he would
pay the bill.—Memphis Herald.
New York.—The Temple Emanuel
Preparatory School for the Hebrew Col
lege, will open its sessions on Wednes
day, September 11th. Instruction will
be given in Hebrew Grammar, Bible,
Mishnah, Talmud and Jewish History,
in a purely scientific manner, so that
neither orthodov nor reform parents need
have any scruples to send their children
to that school. Applications for admis
sion should be addretsed to Rev. Dr.
Gottheil.
—Revs. Drs. F. De Sola Mendes and
Henry P, Mendes have issued a circular
inviting the attendance of pupils to a
Preparatory School for an Orthodox
Rabbinical seminary which they intend to
establish, and in which instruction will be
given from the fifteenth of September
next. Of course, instruction will be
gratis in both of the above named
schools. This is the most beneficial
between the Orthodox and
Reform rabbis of rsew York, and cannot
but result in the increase of wisdom.
Truly, Judaism shows signs of rejuven
ation in America. Go on, gentlemen, and
may God’s blessing prosper your work.
Providence, R. I.—Rev. Jacob Voor
sanger preached his farewell sermon,
prior to his departure for Houston, Tex
as. The gratitude of his congregation
was well shown by handsomely engrossed
resolutions, presented to him by the
congregration and the Ladies’ Associa
tion. Rev. Mr. Yoorsanger has won
many friends in Providence, among the
Christian community as well. Rev.
Henry Bloch, of the Anshe Emeth Con
gregation, Peoria, 111., a candidate for
the position now vacant by Mr. Voor
sanger’s departure, preached recently in
the synagogue.
Baltimore.—A certificate of incorpo
ration of the Hebrew Orphan’s Aid So
ciety was filed for record in the Clerk’s
office of the Superior Court of Baltimore
on Saturday, with Abbie Seldner, Sadie
Strause, Ida Friedberger, Annie Behr
ens, Ellen Gutman, Bosa Greensfelder,
and Delia Latz, incorporators. The
society is formed to contribute towards
and assist in the maintenance and sup
port of worthy orphans after they have
ceased to be inmates of the Baltimore
Hebrew Orphan Asylum until such time
as, in the discretion of the Board of Di
rectors of the Society, they may be fully
competent to maintain themselves ; also
for other charitable objects and purposes
There will be no capital stock, the funds
being derived from contributions and
dues and fines from members. The
management is in the hands of seven
directors, who are the ladies named
above.
Zforeign Zntelligence.
Berlin.—Only of late it has become
known that Prince Hohenlolie has been
one of the greatest advocates- of the re
ligious liberty decreed by the Congress
at Berlin for Bulgaria, Boumania and
Servia. Before the Prince left Berlin
he said to a deputation waiting on him :
“I regard with satisfaction this part of
my labor. I have begun political activi
ty in Bavaria by signing the law which
emancipated the Jews of that country ;
and I hope to conclude it by procuring
perfect religious freedom for the con
fessors of the Mosaic law.”
—The municipal School Board of
Berlin, has issued an order to all the
managers of private schools, that all re
ligious and historical subjects which may
give offense to any religious denomina
tion, be expunged from the school books
as soon as possible.
—A German Egyptologist has brought
to the university of Freiburg an immense
and exceedingly valuable collection ot
antiquities from the land of the Phara
ohs. It includes three hundred mummy
skulls, all in excellent condition, that
were found in the Pyramids and among
the ruins of Thebes, Dendora and Aby
dos ; eighty mummies of animals, and a
vast variety of flint stone instruments,
vases, amulets and trinkets.
Portugal has but one university,
Coimbra, founded in 1290. It has 70
instructors and 1,100 students. There
are 2,450 elementary schools, and pa
rents whose children cannot read and
write by 15, lose their political rights.
Bucharest.—On July 26, a number
of Jews were inveigled into a store by
lloumsnians under pretext of some bus
iness transaction, and have been cruelly
maltreated in such a manner that several
of them have been carried home with
broken limbs.
Paris.—The minister of war at Paris
has resolved upon the proposal of the
Grand Babbin, to appoint a Jewish
camp preacher, whose head quarters are
to be in the garison of Paris, and whose
salary shall be paid by the consistory.
Moise Schwab, in Paris, translates
into- French '‘Talmud Yerushalmi,” of
which the second volume now appears.
Krakaw— The N. F. Pr. writes:
“While the Poles are endeavoring to
rouse the sympathy of the European
powers in their behalf, on account of the
oppression which they suffer at the hands
of Russia, their priests continue giving
the worst signs of intolerance. The
latest troubles at Kalish by which the
Jews have sufiFered so much, and which
have been caused (as it is now well as
certained) by bigoted enemies of the
Jews, are turned by the Catholic clergy
as a weapon by means of which they in
cite the prejudice of the Galician peas
ants against the Jews. One priest de
livered an oration at the hall of the
Schutzengarten before a large concourse
of people, and he took the Kalish affair
as his subject, and warned the people
not to have anything to do with the
Jews. Another priest has preached to
the same effect in his church. The Czar
of Russia took the incidents of Kalish as
a plea to ignore the rights of the Poles,
and this has also produced bitter senti
ments against the Jews in the circles of
Polish patriots. Rev. Dr. T. Warshauer
has therefore addressed an open letter to
the Czar (published July 15th) in which
he demonstrated that all those troubles
came only through the instigations of
the ultramontane clergy, and how it was
the duty of the intelligent Catholics to
impress the unintelligent masses with a
spirit of toleration according to the de
mands af the time.
Algeria.—In consequence of a quar
rel between some drunken soldiers and
some Israelites at Constantinople, the
excited garrison threw themselves upon
the Jewish quarter, illtreated the inhab
itants and pillaged the houses. The
riot lasted three hours. But the authori
ties at last succeeded in quelling the
disturbance. Seventeen persons were
wounded.
Turkey.—An incident lately occured
at Constantinople, which was much
talked of in the community. An emi
nent Talmudist and an author, much
respected, and a member of the great
Betli-Din, committed suicide by throw
ing himself into the sea. "W hen his
body was recovered a letter was found
on it, addressed to the chief Rabbi, the
contents of which have not transpired.
It must, however, have tended materially
to attenuate the guilt. For the body
was buried with all the honors due to
his position, and a public funeral service
was held — marks of honor, as a rule,
are withheld from ordinary suicides.