The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-01-19

Card for the New EoleCtio.-Want of room last
week prevented our publishing the following card:
To SUBSCRIBERS. We have. thought it adviSa-
bic to notify our subscribers that the Nec Eclectic
Magazine cannot be maintained at Its present stan
dard, unless Its circulation Is largely increased.
The Publishers having labOred Unremittiugly with
out remuneration for the last two years, and hav
ing spent many thousands OF dollars In the effort
to establish a Magazine that should be credit to
the South, think they may now reasonably look to
their subscribers and all friends of Southern htera
ture, for more material assistance than has yet
been given. There Is one way in which the sue
cess of our enterprise can be fully secured at once
If each OF our present subscribers will continue
their own subscription and secure one RelC SubScr,
Jer our list would Immediately be increased to
Selsustainng point and for once in the history Of
Southern literature. magazine established on
sufficiently remunerative basis 70 secure 6rst-class
talent
We believe the majority of our subscribers are
warm friends of the cause of Southern literature,
so that We do not feel VIC are presumiOg too much
In asking their assistance TO this small extent and
We hope there will be a cordial and immediate re-
Spouse to this appeal
TURNBULL & MURDOCH.
The New Eolootio.-W L. B., in the Observer
and Commonwealth, thus writes Of the December
number:
"What noble testimony is that of John Ruskin,
as given in the December number Of the Neto
Eclectic Before brilliant audience, at the thea
tire Of the Royal College Of Science in the city of
Dublin, the great art critic breaches as serious
sermon as ever was preached from the pulpit He
turns attention from the beauty of the physical
clouds tn that other kind Of cloud, Of which it is
written, What Is your lite2' He presents the
same conclusion Of the whole matter, " which
C-1 4 ! -, vb Ill
for his prettineSs Of speech. By the way, the rei
gious tone Of the December Eclectic is emineutly
satisfactory. We see that men OF the greatest
genius can invent nothing that will compare with
the Gospel AL workers, it seems, are disappOint
ed upon the review of lite, except those who work
for Jesus.
Timely Counsel" Winter work is now on hand
In the neighborhOod in the school district in the
Church-there are scores Of things to be done,
that are never done in summer This Is the har-
vest time in the moral world. Be up and doing
while the season lasts Il is not strange that SUN
mer is untayOrablc for Christian activities. If men
ought alCayS to pray and not to faint it is also
true that the most hopeful season for Christian Ia
Dor is 10 the winter. In season and out of season.
is good rule, and in season especially.
PrOvidsntal-A New Jersey paper states tdat
the wind on Sunday, January ,, blew off the hat
Of little girl as she was walking with her father
10 Trenton Her father and she turned and hur-
ried after it, and the next moment the spre Of the
Fourth Presbyterian Church fell with crash
across the sidewalk at the very place where they
had Just been.
The Grain Crop in Minnesota The Minnesota
farmers have raised this year $500 600 bushels Of
corn against 4S07 All last year, and $4,000, 900
bushels Of oats against $50 46l last year. and both
crops command better prices than last year. They
,lo cod halls Of vhook Z
$50 900 last year. and although the price Of this is
low, the four crops will realize nearly $1,000 900
more than last year.
Smithsonian InstitutiOn.-The regents of this In.
stitutiOn, Of which Professor Henry is the noble
head have rendered their report, the financial pOr
ton OF which shows that the amount of capital
invested in 1865 was S6900lS, aud the receipts OF
the same period, 81 ,453 SO. About S., 600 was
appropriated by Congress for the preservation and
care Of articles In the Museum, procured by United
States exploring expeditions
Western City's GrOwth-Sau Francisco has a
population of l7O,25O; IN July, 1868, it was l47,-
ESQ., by the Federal census of 1859 it was SO, S35.
The total number of buildings in the city and
county is Is esq, of which $50 have been built in
the past year. The total cost of the years i'm
provements Is from nine to ten millions of dollars,
besides 81, 600 600 expended on the streets and
sewers,
Public Lands in the sOuth.-In response to a res
olutiOn Of the House OF Representatives the De-
paTtment Of the Interior recently furnished the
following facts The estimated number of acres
Of public land UnSod and unappropriated, after
deductiug all disposals far reported, is thus
given
Acres Acres
Florida, 1928, 496 Louisiana, 6,4S6 9O3
Alabama, 6496,S74 Missouri, l,I3l,7
Mississippi, 472S,jl7 Arkansas, ll,3OLO77