The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-06-23
DOMESTIC MISCELLANY.

Mr.. Raymond, the Editor Of the N,c York Times,
died suddenly last week.
White Sulphur springs.-The track of the Chesa.
peake and Ohio Railroad is now laid to this point,
and will be putin complete order for passenger trains
by the LIST of July. This opens the long needed
access to that region containing so many valuable
mineral springs
Prof. Guyot has late presented Princeton College
with 5000 specimens of Alpine rocks.
The State of Michigan will give to its University
$4,000 annually.
The price of tuition at Harvard College has been
raised from 800 to $3.50 year, and the rent of
the best rooms has been doubled. This will prove
trying change to students who depend on their
personal efforts to pay the expenses of the College
course.
Increase of Notwithstanding to official stats.
tics from Washington, the wealth OF the country
doubles every ten years. That is fact which may
we'll surprise the world. and it throws surpris-
ingy grateful light on our financial prospects. 1t
means substantially, and yet Mechanically, that
in ten years the taxable credit basis Of our debt
will be doubled; that, in other words, we shall
have, ten years hence, twice the resources for it
that we have to-day; twenty years hence four times
those resources.
Divorces in Northern and Southern States.-The
Southern Glwchn,an makes appropriate comments
on this subject which we copy:
1.-THE attention of the public has been called
several times of late to the frightfu increase of
divorces and the contrast has been noted, between
the number of Divorces in the Northern and
Southern States. We have before us the last sta
tistics on this subject, in Connecticut and South
Carolina.
1t is we'll known what land of STEADY habits"
is Connecticut; what high toned moral and in.
telectual community dwell within its borders; and
howit is held up to an admiring world, as copy"
for all to initiate. Well, here are their divorce
statistics for the last year.
The statistics of divorce in Connecticut are start.
ling. During the last year the divorces numbered
| AIS, or more than one-tenth of the number of
marriages. All the marriages celebrated in the
total 4, 734.
On the other hand, we have all heard of the
barbarism of South Carolina, and the South gen.
orally; how crime is and has ever been rampant;
how ignorance and all the concomitants of igno-
rance reign universally. A sad condition indeed
| And in this barbarous land, here are its divorce
statistics:
| The first divorce ever granted in the State of
| South Carolina was decreed at Greenville on the
Dist, wife obtaining decree on the ground of
| ill-treatment and abandonment!
One divorce in a century, But even this is de.
| luSlve. The South Carolina that grants this d.
vorce, is not South Carolina at all but govern
ment composed of ignorant blacks and interlopers,
who are IN South Carolina, but not of it; and
therefore we may say that South Carolina has
never granted divorce at all, while in one year,
in highly refined, moral and Christian Connecticut,
there have been four hundred and seventy eight
The contrast is great But some foolish fellow
will conclude it is all in favor of South Carolina
which only shows he knows nothing at all. "
Bad Opinion of it.-At the East New-Jersey
Baptist Association anniversary recently, for the
first time an anti tobacco resolution was passed,
by strong majority-almost unanmousy-two
doctors of divinity quoting Scripture to sustain it,
viz: " the superAuity of naughtinesss, and "him
that is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Large Yield-C. L. Brace says of the Lvermore
valley, California Think of 10000 acres of
tall golden wheat without tree, or hedge, or
fence, extending its yellow waving surface as far
as the eye could reach and averaging forty bushels
to the acre-.tour hundred thousand bushels in this
pretty valley, of which no one ever heard. And
five years ago, no one thought this land was worth
cultivating, and it could have been bought for s.
acre-now it is worth $780,.