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

University Of North CarOlina.-'The closing cere-
monies Of the collegiate session at Chapel Hill
have lust taken place The Governor and nine
other trustees attended in state, and preparations
were made for brilliant celebration. The whole
company present on the grand day, including the
dignitaries, professors, students, ladies and vSl-
tors, from town and country, black and white,
amounted by actual count to 75l The following is
the list Of students as reported by the President
(Pool9
waiter Guthrie, John Oyerman, Walter f.
Pool, ranking as Sophomore, and q. w. Puretoy,
Charles Suggs, John Tinny and Samuel NJ. Worth,
ranking as Freshmen.
Seuen students for the great University of North
Carohna-an Institution which, In former days,
was among the most fOurishing in the land! The
downfall has been wrought by Radlcalism. Able
and learned men were professors there; they were
removed TO give place to iron-cad gentry, whose
only recommendation was their capacity to take
that purifying oath.
The same fate is openly threatened by the Wells
faction against the University of Virginia and the
other Colleges Of the State.
ProhibitOry LAVA correspondent of the Chris
tan Lateljgeneer does not give the most hopeful
view of the prospect in Massachusetts, from the
law just enacted. He says
1.-The temperance agony is over now, and the
PrOhibitory Law is again in force In the Bay
State Cider only can enjoy the freedom OF water
and tea and coffee. All beverages beside are un-
der the ban. For weary months has the subject
been discussed and not a few feudS have arisen In
the temperance camp as the result. a more de-
structve intolerance has seldom appeared than has
been indicated in the words of extremists. An
apparent unity appears In the ranks, but In truth
there is lack of harmony. If one could cry against
the wrongs perpetrated in the name of Liberty, no
less may we now exclaim, D Temperance, what
folly and sin are committed IN thy name!
How they Stand-There are in our country total
of six million two hundred thousand members of
sO-called Evangelical churches, including one han
dred thousand QuakerS. 1t is an interesting ques-
ton, what number OF our population may be
reckOned as grouped around this actual personal
membership in the Christian Church. We think
quite enough to Justify the application OF the terms
Christian, Protestant and Evangelical even, to our
whole country. If we reckon three persons to each
church member, according to the rate of previous
reckoning In these columns, we have about nine
teen millions of our population indirectly connect
ed with the Evangelical Churches. We are In
eined to regard this as too small an estimate The
Roman Catholic population is reckoned at five mil.
lions. These two elements make only twenty four
and half millions of people. Thus, ten and
half millions of our people would be outside of
both Romish and Protestant Evangelical influences
Now, as Universalists, Unitarians, Shakers, Com
munistS, MOrmOns, and Jews altogether number
but about half million Of the population; and as
the heathens Indians, Chinese, and Greek Chris
tians of Alaska do not count million more, we
would have population absolutely outside of all
direct religious influences Of every sort, of nine
millions. Is not this much too large ?-Anlerican
Presbyterian.
Jews Increasing The IsraeliteS of Philadelphia
have purchased lot at the corner of Broad and
Mount Vernon streets, and are erecting magni6-
eentsynagOgue thereon, at cost OF about 100000
Fish as FOOd-Professor Agassiz says that fish
is a kind of food which refreShes the system, es-
peeially after intellectual fatigue There is no
other article that supplies the waste of the head
so thoroughly as fish diet. Fish contains phos-
phOrus to a large extent, chemical element which
the brain requires for growth and health.
The will of Dr. James Rush of Philadelphia dis
poses of million dollars and his estate after pro-
vding for certain moderate legacies, goes to the
Philadelphia Library Company to purchase lot
and erect building to be called the " Ridgeway
Branch of the Philadelphia Library, aud it is
designed to be monument TO his father-in-law,
Jacob Ridgeway, and his wife Phoebe Ann Rush,
from whom he derived most of his fortune. The
will gives directions for the management of the IL
brary as to choice books, and especially cautions
the managers against competing with other libra
ries in the number of their volumes. He advises
them not to give much space to those teachers Of
disjOinted thinking, the daily newspapers.
Our Grain PrOspeOts.-PrOm every quarter of the
Union comes up the welcome intelligence that the
crops of wheat rye barley, and corn promise well.
In Iowa, Illinois, Missouri Indiana, Ohio, and
other Western States, this years harvest will be
unprecedented, according to all accounts. Through
out New England, New York, and Pennsylvania,
the prospect of full crops is excellent, while in the
South larger harvest is anticipated than in any
previous year, owing to the fact that more ground
has been taken up in sowing and planting than at
any other period in its history
Fruit.-A letter from Delaware says: "The
fruit prospect is magnificent. The whole State is
full of strawberries now at six cents per quart
Blaekberries viii be more plenty than mosquitoes
every where Peaches viii be full crop, and un-
usually large and luscious if the weather be dry.