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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-04-02
FoR THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
The Close of the Theological Seminary Year,
and the Spring Meetings of PreSbyteries.

Mr.. Editor,-1 see 10 the Central Presbyterian
of the 18th of March, minute of the action OF the
Board of Directors Of Union Theological Semina
ry, addressed to the Presbyteries, in relation to
the fact that the time of their spring meetings
frequently interferes, so as to draw away the can
didates OF the Presbyteries from the Seminary just
at or before the close of the sesSion-thus making
a serious interruption at an important time in the
exercises of the Seminary. All admit that this il
an evil which ought, if possible, to be remedied.-
The difficulty on the part of the Presbyterles il
that their annual reports have all to be prepared
at the spring meetings. in time for the Genera
Assembly which meets on the third Thursday OF
May. Their Commissioners have to make pre-
parations for long absence from home. Their
reports have to be prepared with great care, often
rewritten by the Stated Clerk. The Presbyteries
therefore meet later than about the last oil
April or early in May. And 10 meet earlier than
this would not mend the evil. Is there no way to
obviate this difficulty? The Presbyteries are as
anxious to do it as the Directors and Professors
and candidates are; all feel the evil and inconve.
nience as at present existing. Would it not be de
sirable to have the Seminary year close by the
middle of April? make this suggestion by way
of modest inquiry. II this could be satisfactorily
done, it would best accommodate all concerned
Ali the Presbyteries could then hold their sprinl
meetings by the last OF April, or early in May, anC
the candidates for examination or licensure be pre-
sent without interruption. S.B.
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Rev. Wna. Bro,on. ID. d., President Board Of d.
rectOrs and Of Trustees Of D. Z. Seminary:
You are hereby requested in accordance with
Art 3, sec. >, Plan and Constitution Of Union
Theological Seminary, to call meeting of the
Board Of Directors and Board of Trustees of the
said Seminary, to be held in the chapel Of the
Seminary at AZ o'clock, P. NJ, May 9th, 1878, tC
transact the ordinary business of the annual meet
ing, and that the Examining Committee convene
81 the same place May %, friday 9 O'Clock A. NJ
Signed, j. RUMBLE,
j. HENRY SMITH,
JOSEPH NJ ATKINSON,
A. q. NICKNAME.
ILyrcb II 1871
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MANUAL OF THE PREsBYrERY OF ROANOKE, with
blank leaves to note changes and additions. D. A
St. Clair, printer, Wytheville, Va.
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China-Intelhgence is received from our Mis-
sonaries by the arrival of the last steamer at San
Francisco. All were in good health.
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Directors and Trustees.

SYNOD OF NoRTu CARoLISA.-MiniSterS: j. 81.
Smith, ID. D., j. NJ Atkinson, d. D.. h. G. HILL,
j. p. Mcpherson, w. W. Phsrr, A. +. Dickson, j.
RUMBLE F. d. Johnston. Elders: K. N. Hutehe'
son, K. L. Bean C. I. Murphy, A. 7. Summey.
SYNOD OF VRGNIA-Ainisters VIM. Brown,
d. D., (President,) c. d. Read d. D., j. J. Bul.
lock. ID. D., j. l.. Kirkpatrick ID. D., H. NJ. White,
W. 7. Richardson, A. Martin, c. White. Elders
A. G. Mellwaine E. NJ. Armstrong, j. n. Syden-
striker, +. N. Watkins.
ExANINISG Committee Meeting Friday, May
I'd, 1881 Messrs. Pharr, BILL Summey c. White,
Armstrong, Martin. auditors: Armstrong aud
Summey. +. N. WATKINS, Secretary.
FarmviIe, Va, March 4th, '7S.
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For DR.. Kalopothakes.

Received at the office Central Presbyterian.
A friend, Tappahannock, Va, 81 90
A member OF Fredericksburg church, Va, W
These 81 were included 10 the sic sent
to Rev. G. l.. Leyburn, and acknowledged
by him.
Received since.
Mrs NJ S. D., Glasgow Station. Va, 90
n. L V. and wife, Farmville, Va, W
Mrs. ]. r. W., l w
Windy Cove, w
j. H. B. Fairfield, Va, l W
Misses Thomas, Ala, w
Mrs. B. @. j., l w
Rev. D. B. Ewing and family, w
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work of 100 pages. Sold by John Church Co.,
Cincinnati and Geo. f. Root 4 Sons, Chicago.
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Union Theological Seminary.

The Directors and Trustees, Of this institution,
are hereby notified to meet at the Seminary build
ings on Tuesday the 9th Of May, 1878, at AZ P. NJ.
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GmtraI 9resbgtulan.

Richmond. Va, Wednesday, April 2, 1873.
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SPECIAL MEETING OF DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEES.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
THE OLDEST HAM ON RECORD.

Next to the petrified specimens
says the Shelby Ky. )Courant-the
oldest ham on record is one served
at the wedding feast of a couple who
now live in the country, by whom
the facts can be authenticated if ne
cessary. The ham was choice one
selected for the purpose from one of
the regular annual stock, was nicely
cured and hung up by the thrifty
house wife to be served at the mar
riage of the only daughter, then but
a few months old. Time rolled on,
the child passed through the happy
period of girlhood into womanhood,
and still that ham hung among the
smoked rafters of that old meat
house. But the strong faith of the
mother, though she had put it in
man, failed not. Suitors came, and
not suiting, were sent away,and still
the old ham hung mid the rafters
and sweetened and dried. But at
last there came one whose claims
were referred to the provident moth
er, then grow old with the weight of
years. With eyes downcast, he made
his mission known, and pleaded hls
cause as only lover can plead, but
looking up to read his fate in the
mothers face even before the tongue
could announce it, he found her
gone. For moment his heart sunk
within him; but voice calling,
"Betsy run to the smoke house and
cut down that ham," assured him
that he had got his meat.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
Welded Life only the Begin
ming.

According to the love-idyle of the
PERIOD" writes T. B. Aldrich, "when
Laura and Charles Henry, after un-
heard of obstacles, are finally united,
all cares and tribulations and response
bilities slip from their sleek backs like
a Christians burden. The idea is a
pretty one, theoretically, but, like some
OF those models in the Patent Office at
Washington, it Doesn't work. Charles
Henry does not go on sittingat Laura's
feet and reading Timothy Titcomb to
her forever; the rent of the cottage by
the sea falls due with prosaic regularity !;
there are bakers and butchers and ba-
bies and tax collectors and doctors and
undertakers, and sometimes gentlemen
of the jury, to be attended to. Welded
life is not one long amatory poem, with
recurrent rhymes of love and dove, and
kiss and bliss. Yet when the average
sentimental novelist has supplied his
hero and heroine with their bridal out
fit and attended to that little matter of
the marriage certificate, he usually
turns off the gas, puts up his shutters,
and saunters off with his hands in his
pockets as if the days business were
over. But we, whe are honest dealers
in real life and disdain to give short
weight, know better. The business is
by no means over--it is just begun. 1t
issnot Christian throwing off his pack
for good and all, but Christian taking
up load heavier and more difficult
! than any he has carried
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
Death Valley.
'RoF. j. ID. BUTLER.

The Beaver, Utah, Enterprise has the
following respecting recent visit to
this noted valley:
"The Valley of Death-a spot almost
as terrible as the prophets valley of Dry
Bones-lies just north of the old Nor
mon road to California, region thirty
miles long by thirty broad, and surron-
ded except at two points by inaccessible
mountains, 1t is totally devoid of water
and vegetation, land the shadow of bird
or wild beast never darkens its white,
glaring sands. The Kansas Pacific Rail
read engineers discovered it, and also
some papers which showed the fate of
the last Montgomery train, which came
south from Salt Lake in 1850, guided by
a Mormon. When near Death Valley
some came to the conclusion that the
Mormon knew nothing about the coun-
try,so they appointed one of their num-
Der leader, ,and broke off from the par
ty. The leader turned due west; SO,
with the people and wagons and flocks
he travelled three days, and then de-
scended into the broad valley, whose
treacherous mirage promised water.
They reached the center, but only the
white sand bounded by scorching peaks
met their gaze. Around the valley they
wandered, and one by one the men died,
and the painting fiocks stretched them
selves in death under the hot sun. Then
the children, crying for water, died at
their mothers breasts, and with swol-
len tongues and burning vitals the help
less mothers followed. Wagon after
wagon was abandoned, and strong men
tottered and died. After a weeks wan
dering a dozen survivors found some
water in the hollow of a rock in the
mountain. 1t lasted but a short time,
when all died but two, who escaped out
of the valley and followed the trail of
their former companions. Eighty-sev-
en- families, with hundreds of animals,
perished here; and now, after twenty
three years. the wagons still stand COM
plete-the iron work and tires are
bright, and the shriveled skeletons lie
side by side.''
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
The Boy that Stuck to Farm
ing.


When was boy, says distinguish
ed man, my first saving of the ten cent
pieces, earned by Saturday afternoon
work-for school kept half day on
Saturday then-were expended in buy
ing heifer calf. Then 1 worked OH,
paying my father certain sum each
month for keeping. When the calf was
one year old, 1 traded it for two steer
calves, and now had to put in good and
strong for their keeping; but 1 occupied
all my spare time in teaching these
calves to work in the yoke, and at one
year old they would gee and haw as
well as old oxen, and my father paid
me for their use in leading the team for
breaking his two and three-year-olds.
Again, 1 had piece of ground each
year, after was fourteen, that could
plant and work on shares; and, if
wanted help, why 1 had to give two
days of my time to the hired mans
one day. / grew what my fancy and
reading dictated, and from the proceeds
L dressed as well as any of the boys at
the present time. 1 Ialways- had time to
play, time to read, and now look, with
love and pleasant thoughts, to the old
farm and the farm hand who taught me
to use tools, and whipped me when l
neglected to drive the team out straight
at the end of the furrow in plowing.
The remembrance of my beyhood has
always induced me to favor all items of
encouragement at home or ON the farm;
and 1 believe, if it were more generally
practiced, we should have more good
farmers, and fewer brokendown mer-
chants, or loafng, hanging on, time
serving clerks, ready for anything ex-
cept honorable labor and usefulness.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
Takes Two to Quarrel.

In the depth of the forest there lived
two foxes. One of them said: ''Let's
quarrel"
every well, how shall we begin ?"
ooh, it cannot be difficult said fox
No. l E; "two-legged people fall out, why
not we?"
So tried all sorts of ways, but it could
not be done, because each one would
give away. At last No. fetched two
stones, and said:
.There, you'll say they're yours, and
I'll say they are mine ,and we'll quarrel
and scratch and fight. Now I'll begin.
"Those stones are mine!" every well,
you are welcome to them!"
But we will never quarrel at this rate,
cried the other, jumping up and licking
his face. ''You old simpleton; don't
you know that it takes two to make a
quarrel?"
So they gave it up as bad job, and
they never tried to play the silly game
again.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
The List of Sufferings.

The list of the sufferings of Memphis
during the current year is very extra
ordinary and saddening:
First, commerce by river was impos-
slble on account of ice for two months.
Next, as soon as the river was navi-
gable the epizootic prevailed to such an
extent that there were no horses to
haul freight to the Steamers fact
which absolutely paralyzed trade in
dustry. 1-..s
The third calamity was the smallpox
which so. frightened people that Men,
phis was left in want not only of ne
cessary aid and attention but of food
Fourth, came the ''indigeneus chole-
ra," whose rayages among an already
disheartened population were as severe
as those of the smallpox.
The cholera had not fairly run its
course when the yellow fever made its
appearance as the fifth scourge within
ten months.
Then as the sixth cause of suffering,
came the financial panic. These calam-
tiles certainly entitle Memphis to the
largest measure of aid and sympathy,
for nothing except Lisbon earthquake
or Chicago fire could cause greater
suffering than that known to the people
of Memphis during this year.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
A HUMAN MAIDSTONE.

California is q wonderful country.
Not content with astonishing the
world with its gold, its big trees, its
boiling springs, and its stupendous
mountains, it has tried its hand on
man, and has brought forth truly
marvellous creation. His name is
Don Pelugio Laborin, and he lives
near Ures, in Lower California. He
is human madstone,possessing the
power of curing hydrophobia, not by
steam baths, hypodermic injections,
draughts of whisky,o or the other fer
tile modes suggested by science, but
by singlehanded saliyary applica-
tion. His method of operating is
very simple. He spits on his fingers
and then rubs the wound through
which the virus has entered the sys-
tenn. This causes the poisonous
matter to be discharged, much after
the same principle that the maidstone
draws forth the virus. Don Loborin
has not been laboring with his pecu-
liar gift long enough to oisilence
skepticism and convince an unbeliev-
ing world that the truth is in him;
but his neighbors are sN.weil satisi-
ed as to his value THAI they have
made an effort to prolong his life by
exempting him from the burdens Of
taxation and jury duty. The Don is
not working for money, but wholly
for the good of rabid humanity, and
like the Virginia lady who cures the
ague by the lying on Of hands, char
ges nothing for the service. We're
it not for this fact we should. think
this power closely akin to a "cele-
brated East Indian healing stone"
which, some years ago, was in the
possession of a travelling physician
who made Minnesota his home not
many years ago. This healing stone
which the doctor dignified with. the
name of "Tschernati," was . never
failing cure for ma lignant sores and
wound, which country practitioners
couldn't do anyt hing with, because
they didn't know enough. One or
two applications would cause pre-
cipitation of matter and leave the
sore in healthy condition, enabling
it to heal rapidly. And the stone was
a simple cornelian, picked up on the
banks Of the Mississippi, its, sole vir-
tue being nitric acid, or nitrate Of
silver, dried in previous to making
the application. The doctor found
the people prone to believe in the
and humored them. He
could make more money by using
his 'shealing stone," than by apply
ing Its Hpower'in the ordinary man
mel, and he considered himself . jus
tifiable humbug.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06

A propose of Mrs. Livermore's lecture
on this important question, the Daven-
port Democrat thus sensibly makes an
swer:
Teach them self-relianee.
Teach them to make bread.
Teach them to make shirts.
Teach them to foot up store bills.
Teach them not to wear false hair.
Teach them not to paint and powder.
Teach them to wear warm, thick shoes.
Teach them how to wash and iron
clothes.
Bring them up in the way they should
go.
Instrust them how to make their own
dresses.
Have them to do marketing for the
family.
Teach them that dollar is one hund-
red cents.
Teach them how to cook a good meal
of victuals.
Teach them every day, hard, practical
common sense.
Teach them how to darn stockings and
sew ON buttons.
Give them good, substantial common
school education.
Teach them to say no, and mean it ;or
yes, and stick to it.
Intrust them to regard morals, not
the money of beaux.
Teach them to wear calico dresses, and
do it like queen.
1nstrust them in all the mysteries of
the kitchen, the dining room and par
lor.
Teach them that good round rosy
romp is worth fifty delicate consump-
tives.
Instruct them to have nothing to
do with Incorporate, dissolute young
men.
Teach them that the more one lives
within their income the more they will
save.
Teach them the further one lives be-
yond their income the nearer they get to
the poor house.
Rely upon it,that upon your teaching
depends in great measure the veal or
woe of their after life.
Teach them accomplishments-music,
painting, drawing-if you have time and
m honey to do it with.
Have them to climb apple trees, go
fishing, cultivate n garden and drive
road team or farm wagon.
Teach them that God made them in
his own image, and that no amount Of
tight lacing will improve the model.
Teach them that good, steady greasy
mechanic without cent is worth doz-
en- oil-plted loafers in broadcloth.
Instruct them in the essentials of life
truth, honesty, uprightness-then at a
suitable time let them marry.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
From the n. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune. ]
Nasty Panic Sticken.

Speaking oil this subject, l under
stand that Petroleum V. Nasty, who
has recently become 4 citizen of Man
hatten, has had the misfortune to lose
$4,000 of his individual means by the
failure of Kraus & Smith, private bank
ers in Toledo. He is philosophic over
his i'll luck, and speaks in mock heroic
strains of the manner in which the hard
earnings of many years have been ruth
lessly swept away. He has no doubt
he says, that the firm is entirely honest,
but that it has had an unhappy destiny.
Originally their capital was 5O,000, and
some shrewd speculator in this city
managed to get $250,000 out of them
(this was their depositors' money! and
compelled the house to carry him, IL
nancially, for number of years, with
the hope of indemnification for what
he had borrowed. The hope proved fu-
tile.
Nasty thinks he may receive for his
money few soiled postage stamps, a
broken chair or two, half dozen bills
made receivable by men too poor to pay
even the debt of Nature, and, possibly,
bird cage without canary, and the
remains of superanuated bpll dog.
Consequently he is cheerful over his
lot, anticipates setting up daily news
paper, and building another opera house
in New York with the proceeds of the
exploded firms liquidation.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
"OH TOM, HOW COULD
YOU"
A Tale of Danbury.

A most charming device for carrying
on clandestine courtship was brought
to light by grape-skin, Friday evening.
The young girl lived with her parents
and brother on Pine street. The young
man whom she favored was a trihe
obnoxious to the rest of the family, and
it has been their aim to keep him at a
distance. As he had not been to the
house for some time, and as she had not
been discovered with him on the street,
the f1attered themselves that the i'll
starred match was broken up. On Fri
day evening the brother arrayed Ihim-
self in his best suit and went down street
An hour after, while passing along the
dark side of the street, he encountered
the Objectionable suitor engaged in close
conversation with another man. Not
wishing to notice him he lifted his eyes
above the level of the other party's head
and was preparing to sail by with an
unconscious demeaner, when he unfor-
tunately stepped upon the skin of
grape, and losing his balance, shot vio-
lently into the strange gentleman's legs,
bringing him down upon himself. The
ysung mans embarrassment was chang
ed into horror and astonishment, when
the stranger cried out in the voice Of his
sister: "Oh, Tom how could you?"
He sprang to his feet in an instant. The
stranger was also getting up, and pre-
senting most remarkable appearance.
His face was red as scarlet, and his CLOS
sy mustache was turned half way round
one half lying across his mouth and the
other half hugging the lee side of his
nose. "Why, Mary!" exclaimed the
shocked brother. But Mary said moth
ing, and held her head, while the lover
made himself scarce. The brother took
the sister home, and her mother escort
ed her to her room, where she was at
once undressed and put to bed, with hot
bricks to her feet, and a quart of hot
boneset down her throat. Her mother
who could not believe ill of her daugh-
ter, declared it was case of the bilio US
fever, and determined to get the best Of
it. The lover has secured work in New
Haven for the winter.-DGRbary Ne,os. |
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
It is Better.

Better to wear a calico dress without
trimming, if it is paid for, than to owe
the shop-kceper for the most elegant
silk, cut and trimmed in the most be-
witching manner.
Better to live in log cabin all your
own than brown stone mansion be-
longing to somebody else.
Better walk forever than to run in
debt for horse and carriage.
Better to. sit by the pine table for
which you paid three dollars ten years
ago, than send home a new extension
black walnut top, and promise to pay
for it next week.
Better to use the old cane-seated
chairs and faded two-ply carpet than
trcmble at the bills sent home from the
upholsterer's for the most elegant par
lor set ever made.
Better to eat thin soup from earthen-
ware, if you owe your butcher nothing,
than to dine off lamb and roast beef and
know that it does not belong to you.
Better to let your wives have fit of
Mysteries than to run in debt for nice
new furniture, or clothes, or jewelry.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-11-06
Changes of a Century.

The nineteenth century has witnessed
many and great discoveries:
In 1909, Fulton took out the first pat
ent for the invention of the steamboat.
The first steamboats, which made reg
ular trips across the Atlantic ocean
were the Sirius and the Great Western
in 1888.
The first public application to prac-
tical use of gas for illumination was
made in 1902.
In 1913, the streets of London were
for the first time lighted with gas.
In 1913 there was built at Waltham,
Mass, a mill, believed to have been the
first in the wsrld which combined all
the requites Of making finished cloth
from the raw cotton.
In 1890 there were only twenty-five
post offices in the whole county, and up
to 1887 the rates of postage were twen-
ty-five cents for letter sent over four
hundred miles.
In 1907, wooden clocks commenced to
be made by machinery. This ushered
in the era Of cheap clocks.
About the year 1888, the first railroad
of any considerable length in the Uni
ted States was constructed.
In 1910 the first experiments in pho
Biography were made by Daguerre.
About 1910 the first express business
was established.
The anthracite coal business may be
said to have begun in 1870.
In 1886 the first patent for the inven-
ton Of matches was granted.
In 1s45 the first telegram was sent.
Steel pens were introduced for use in
1903.
The first successful reaper took place
in 1888.
In 1916 Elias Howe obtained patent
for his first sewing machine. anon =.
The first successful method of vul-
canizing India rubber was patented in
1889. r