The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1871-08-02
DOMEsTIC MISCELLANY.

Uo2Eo11G A4oGELLA0 4.
The Great Pennsylvania Railroad has stretched Its
long arms down the Mississippi and taken posses.
sion Of che Louisiana Leyee Company. IJ Is un-
ders,Ood the purchase was e0Dsummated through
the intervention Of Senator West.
Large Gift-Nr. Cyrus Wakefield has given
500 600 TO Harvard to build a recitation ball,
which Is % be erected on the site OF DR.. Peabody
house. and called Wakefield Hall.
Baltimore, with a population of three hundred
thousand, has Church sittings for one hundred
thousand people No other city in the United
States Is provided with Church accommodations IN
thar proportion. Another popularity is that shops
of all s}it arc closed on Sunday, including contee
tionery, cigar aud liquor stores.
The Entire Number of cattle owned in Texas Is
four million, while New York State has less than
seven hundred aud twenty thousand head OF cattle
Columbian College, Washington, D. C.-Rev. Geo.
w. Samson, ID. ID, has rendered his resignation as
President Of Columbian College, which post he has
held some fifteen years. IL is understood that Dr.
Samson has been rendered lucrative prOtesSorship
in a northern college.
Martha Washington COllege-Rev. B. Arbogast
having resigned the presidency of the Martha
Washington College, for females, at Abingdon, the
vacancy was recently filed by the election Of Mr.
r. W. Jones, formerly President Of the Methodist
Female College at Petersburg.
Germans in the South have multiplied greatly
within the past few years, but not so with the
number Of churches and ministers. There Is a
good opening for a German minister at Atlanta,
Ga, among other places. Mr.. John Ficken, Of
that city, Will give further information.
Some Facts about a Great City.-The resident
He"rlatlon Of New York is 942 252, its real and
nal property Is valued a. Sl,O75. 900, 600 and
Is axes for the year are $23, 500 600. 1t has an
area OF % square miles, water front OF 29 miles,
500 miles OF streets, avenues, and roads, while
beneath It's surface are $40 miles of Croton water
pipe and 275 miles of sewers. The revenue tax on
the intoxicating liquors consumed in the city Is
$4,000 600. This Of course is very far below the
cost OF these poisonous compounds, as well as OF
the immense sums SQuandered for them by the
consumers. As direct result of their use, 70 692
persons were arrested by the police last year. Of
whom 81, 600 were for intOxieation and disorderly
conduct. and al, 80 had to be accommodated
with shelter at the lOdging-hOuses.
Iron Churches. is the most popular material
for churches. Mr. Talmage's Tabernacle having
proved an eminent success four more religious
societies in Brooklyn or vicinity are about to follow
suit. The Ross street Presbyterian church is to
seat 500 persons and cost SOL 000 the Lee avenue
the Green Point Presbyterian church to seat 500
and 70 cost S35, 900; and the plans Of the 0rmond
Place Congregational church contemplate a large
house upon a similar plan to cost $4,000.
The Board Of Visitors and Governors of st. Johns
College, Annapolis, have elected Mr. Henry @.
White, A. NJ, to the position Of professor Of
mathematics. Mr White, who is a graduate OF
the University of Virginia, is said to be quite
talented young man and fully qualified for the du-
ties Of his position. He Is a son Of Mr. L. S. White
Of Baltimore.
Tie san Francisco Chinesa-The BuNetia says
Ii Is estimated that there are now at least one
thousand Chinese shoemakers in the city The
Cspins are now excited over the Celestial inrOads
upon their business, aud propose asking the gov
ernment % take some action that shall tend to
suppress the immigration Of Chinese.
The Chinese cigar makers are increasing in nun
bers and importance.
Flung Tang, the well known Chinese merchant
resident 10 this city, returned to China by the last
steamer. us his purpose to explain to the Chinese
government the actual condition of affairs here
and 60 disSua6e the government from encouraging
further emigration to California. He viii advise
The government to avoid San Francisco when pos
sble and 20 send the emigrantS direct to the place
for which they are destined. He may discourse of
the treatment which his cOuntrymen received in
this city; how they are daily insulted, beaten and
stoned And be may attempt to explain Amer
can justice in all It's phases. In any event. he
viii talk of the peculiar danger incident to resi-
dence in San Francisco, and pronounce it mex
pedient to send any Chinese missionaries hither.
Governor Randolph-The manly and decided
course OF Governor Randolph of New Jersey, in
uroclaiming protection TO Orangemen recently, has
received the approval OF men Of all respectable
classes. In response 20 serenade BY the people
OF M0uiStown, where the Governor resides he ut
tered the following:
Ibave every reason to be grateful when my public
acts seem 20 have been met by the hearty approval
of ms neighbors and friends, native and foreign
TO BIRTH Republican and Democratic as to politics,
PrOtestants and Catholics as to religion. The
truth Is aud recent events have clearly demonStra-
ted it. tbatwhatever differences We may have as
to our political opinion of religious faith or what
ever accident of birth may have made Us native or
foreign We are all If we are as We should be, IN
tensely American proud of the title, and jealous OF
aoy act by any people, that may serve to tarnish
the honor, OF strike at the privileges Of our COM
men country.
How Debt was Paid.-The Bethesda Congrega
tional Church az Reading, Miss, has been burden
"a for some time with a debt of 81 500 which was
a serious obstacle 20 It's prosperity How to get
rid Of it was question more easily and frequently
asked than answered. -Al THIS Juhctuf6 kWO young
ladies, members Of the church. took the matter in
hand. Taking counsel simply Of their own hearts
and Of God, they undertook to pay the debt. They
divided the entire sum into portions or shares Of
ten dollars each, and began thorough canvass OF
the congregation. They went first to the young
ladies', getting each one it possible to take one
share at least Of the burden Next they called up
on the young men, then upon the the elderly and
married ladies, and finally upon the elderly men.
Aud they did not content themselves with mere
solicitation bat made the matter a subject of special
PRAYER that God would incline the people to enter
into the work with such heartiness as to make It
successful And their prayers were answered. The
necessary sum was raised and the debt paid.
Missionaries. The missionaries sent out by the
PRESBYTERIAN Board, during last year, were twenty
eight eight OF whom were women. The amount
OF legaeies received during the year was Sl7,249-
OS. They employ one hundred aud eleven Ameri-
can ministers, with eighteen ordained and twenty
three Ecentiate native minister's also, one hundred
ami thirty-o0e American and three hundred and
seventy-e;ght native teachers.