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Show HIS (iOI.DKN JL.liII.KK. A Brooklyn Pastor Has A Great Celebration. Celebra-tion. Biiooklyn, N. Y., June 7. Special. The religious celebration of the golden gold-en jubilee of the Rev. Joseph Fransioli, pastor of St. Peter's church, will begin to-morrow. Father Fansiolt is a native of Switzerland, having been born in the canton of Ticino, in 1817. On Juuo 7, 1840, he was ordained a priest and iu 1855 ho came to Brooklyn. He is very popular with alt classes and with the members of all religious denominations iu this city. Among tho hundreds of : clergymen living hero only au exceedingly ex-ceedingly small number have been preaching for half a century. Iu that number are the venerable Dr. F. A. Farley, of thc Uuaturiau clntrch, now nearly DO years of age; Father Nicholas Halleis, of St. Francis Catholic church, who is tow 8'J; Dr. Edward JJeechcr, Cougregationalinl, who is 87 years old; Dr. S. M. Hoskius, of St. Marks Protestant Episcopal church, whose golden jubilee was celebrated cele-brated last year;- Ir. Samuel T. Spear, of "Tho Independent," who was ordained or-dained lifty.'livo year's ago; Dr. D. V. M. Johnson, of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Epis-copal church, who took orders in the same year; Rev. W. P. Corbit, who entered en-tered tho Methodist Episcopal itenerant itener-ant ministry in 1840; Dr. Hiram Hutch-ins, Hutch-ins, who retired from the Bedford avenue ave-nue Baptist church recently, and Father Fransioli. |