Whitfield County GaArchives News.....Items July 11 1872
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The Christian Index.
 Items.-- Wake Forest College confers the title of D. D. on Rev. N. W. Wilson, 
of Richmond, Va.  Rev. J. B. Jeter, D. D., of the Religious Herald, has been 
appointed by the Foreign Missionary Board at Richmond, a Commissioner to 
superintend the erection of the Baptist house of worship in Rome.  Before 
proceeding to Italy, Dr. J. Will spend some time in England in behalf of the 
mission.... Revs. G. B. Taylor, J. C. Long, W. D. Thomas and W. E. Hatcher, of 
Va., have received the degree of D. D. from Richmond College.... The Home and 
Foreign Journal comes out, for July, in a new dress, with Rev. Dr. Long, of 
Charlottesville, Va., as editor.  This is a proper time for greatly enlarging 
its subscription list.... The  newspapers announce that Rev. E. T. Winkler, D. 
D., has resigned his pastoral charge in Charleston, S. C. , to assume care of 
Siloam Baptist church, Marion, Ala.  .. The Baptist Weekly, a sixteen-page 
paper, N. Y., is the successor of the American Baptist; Rev. A. S. Patton, D. 
D. , managing editor.  Its first three numbers give token of enterprise in the 
collection of news, of ability in the discussion of doctrine, and of the 
variety and interest characterizing a first-class religious newspaper.... The 
proposition to give $10.000 in city bonds, to Mercer University, on condition 
that it will establish a High School in Dalton, GA., was adopted by the 
citizens of that place, at the polls, with but a single vote in the 
negative.... Rev. J. L. M. Curry, LL. D., has received the Doctorate in 
Divinity from Rochester University, N. Y.....The Methodist Advocate, Atlanta, 
is edited, under election, by the recent Northern General Conference, by Rev. 
N. E. Cobleigh, D. D., LL. D.  He wields a facile pen, and manifests a kindly, 
earnest spirit. 


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