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VI ICRMOND AND DANVILLE RAILROAD.
IL On and after OCTOBER II, 1874, the trains
on this road will run daily as follows
CHARLOTTE EXPRESS, Westward-Leave Richmond
at II D. M; leave Burkeyille at 2:07 a. m leave
Dundee at TAO a. M. leave Danvile at 7:44 a. M;
leave Greensboro at ii a. a. M. arrive at Charlotte
$3.50 p. m.
New YORK EXPRESS, Eastward-Leave Charlotte
at S35 q. m. leave Greensboro at Is p. M; leave
Danyille 1886 p. M; leave Dundee at 1913 p. M;
leave Burkeville at $40 D. M, and arrive at Rich
mond at l1:O9 p. IN. This train connects at Rich
mond with trains on the Richmond, Fredericksburg
d Potomac railroad for Washington, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York, and all eastern points.
THROUGH MAIL Westward-Leaye Richmond at
1913 p. M; leave Burkeville at 4:41 p. ~; leave
Dundee at 1926 p M. leave Danve at 9:29 p. M;
leave Greensboro at 1920 a. arrive at Charlotte
at 6.22 M This train connects at Charlotte with
trains on the Atlanta and Richmond Lime rail-
road and Charlotte, Columbia, 4 tanta railroad for
Atlanta, Montgomery, Mobile, New Orleans Co.
lumbia, Augusta, Savannah, Charleston, and all
Southern and South. western points.
THROUGH MAIL, Eastward-Leave Charlotte at
7:45 D. m.; leave Greensboro at 2:15 a. M; leave
Danville at 5l3 a. M. leave Dundee at 6.25 a. M;
leave Burkevile at 1880 a. M; arrive at Richmond
at 1922 p. m. This train connects at Burkeville
with uains on the Atlantic Mississippi and Ohio
railroad from Chattanooga, Knoxville Lynchburg,
and all southwestern points; and at Richmond with
the Richmond, Fredericksburg d Potomac railroad
and Richmond, YORK River and Chesapeake railroad
for all northern points.
LYNCHBURG PASSENGER, Westward-Leave Rich.
mond at a. M; leave Burkeville at lis p. M; ar
rive at Lynchburg at AIS p. m.
BURKEvILLE ACCoNMoDATIoY.-Leave Rurkeyille
at 4:35 a. M. arrive at Richmond at 1868 a. m.
All through trains connect at Dundee with trains
on the w. c., V. NJ. and G. S. railroad to and from
Washington, Baltimore, and all eastern points.
THROUGH TICKETS to all points South and
West, and baggage checked through.
L. M. X. rALCOTT,
Engineer and Superintendent.
b. T. DOUGLAS, Master Transportation.
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DIRECTORY
Presbyterian Church in the United States.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

THE GENERAL ASSEMbL1.
The General Assembly will meet at St. Louis, Mo-,
IN the third Thursday of May, 1875, at II A. NJ.
CLERKS.
REV JOSEPH r. WILSON, d. d. STATED CLERK,
REV. WILLIAM BROWN, D. D. PERMANENT CLERK,
Va.
The Stated Clerk is tx the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES.
Hoy JAMES HEMPHILL, President Chester s. @.
JOS. II WILSON, VICE President, Charlotte, N. @.
JESSE H. LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TREASURER,
Greensboro, N. q.
sUSTENTATION.
REV 7. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY
REV RICHARD MoILwAINE, Coordinate SEcRB-
rARY and IREAsURER, Columbia, 5. q.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY,
RIV. RICHARD MoILwAINE Coordinate sEcRErA-
KY and TREASURER, Columbia s. o.
PUBLICATION.
REV. f. THOMPSON BAIRD, D. D., SECRETARY, Rich
g. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond. Va.
EDUCATION
Rev. JNO. N WADDELL, d. D., SECRETARY Mem
JAMES ELDER, TREASURER, Memphis, Tenn
Applications TO the Executive Committee for aid are
to be referred the appropriate Presbyteria Exec
Committees for their approval and are TO be for
warded by them to the Assembly's Committees.
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointed the following col
lections to be up annually in all the churches
For Sustentation On the first Sabbath in January.
For Publication On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign AIissons On the first Sabbath in May.
For the Relief of Disabled Ministers and the Widows
Orphans of Deceased Ministers On the first Sabbath
in July
For Evangestic Work On the first Sabbath in Sep
TENDER.
In cases where it is highly nconvenient take up col
ectons these days. they shall be taken up as soon as
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends TO the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking weekly collections
and that the thus collected be appropriated tc
the above named objects, or when necessary 10 local OBJ
ects such proportion the church session may decide
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Two IN HEAvBN.-"Y You have two chill.
dren, said I. 81 have four" was the re-
ply, "two on earth and two in heaven. -
Thus spoke the mother. Still they are only
gone before; still remembered, loved and
cherished by the hearth and at the board ;
their places not yet filed, even though their
successors draw life from the same faithful
breast where their dying heads were pillOwed.
Two in heaven safely housed from storm and
tempest. No sickness there, nor dropping
head, nor fading eye, nor weary feet. By
the green pastures, tended by the good ahep-
herd, linger to the little lambs of the heav-
emily fold. Two in heaven; earth less at
tractive; eternity nearer; invisible cords
drawing the maternal soul upwards; still
small voices ever whispering, "COme - to
the world-weary spirit. Two in heaven
Mother of angels, walk softly; holy eyes
watch thy footsteps; cherub forms bend to
listen; keep thy spiris free from earthly tint.
So shalt thou 90 to them, though they may
not return to thee.-Missionary Messenger
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Those who are treated in the hospitals
come at a stated hour, and sit listening to
the preaching of the Gospel till they are
called, one by one, to be prescribed for
They 60 away with every reason to disbe-
lieve the great falsehoods circulated concern
ing the foreign missionaries, and some re-
ject the whole mass of lies that they have
before believed, and accept the truth con-
corning the foreigner who cured them, and
the Almighty Saviour he breaches.
These patients are from all parts of the
empire, so that the light diffustd from the
hospitals goes all through this vast mass of
ruined souls.
If the hospitals did nothing else than show
that the missionary has different aim from
the other foreigners, they would be worth
all the money spent upon them. That the
missionary is spotlessly innocent of the great
crimes included in the words "opium traffic, !"
that he is thoroughly opposed to that mon
strous iniquity, are ruths of which the Chi
nese as mass ar lorant. The medical
missionary is We oortant agent in max
ing them acquain these facts.
AS to the quail ms of medical mis-
sionary, the Comm. better judge than
| am. If l may owed few sugges-
tons, | would say
l. First and chi he must be a man of
deep piety.
2. 1t would be be r if he were man of
some experience.
3. He ought to be- young man.
4. If he were married to a woman of a
missionary spirit it were well, but of that
matter the missionary himself is the best
Judge.
Asking your early and earnest considera-
ton of this call for medical missionary for
Soochow, I remain, very truly yours,
JOHN w. DAVIS
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The KaMr

Physically, the Kafir .h and maiden
are as finely formed an 8 robust as the
people of any country the globe. A
wellknown traveller has id: "We all ad.
mire the almost Superhum majesty of the
human form as seen in ancient sculpture, but
we need only to travel to Southern Africa to
see similar forms, breathing and moving, not
motionless images of marble, but living stat
ues of bronze The important reason for
this perfection of bodily development in q
barbarous race is found in Che Kaffirs' tenn
perate mode of life, cons Mt activity, and
freedom from any of tb conventional re-
straints of dress tolerate { not enioiued,
by our civilization.
Their simple, natural tees keep them
in perfect health, and them against
many of the diseases an of Europeans.
The young Kafirs are ously swift of
foot, speed being reckon them as chief
characteristic of soldt eminence, and
their powers of endura of astonishing.
One will make 8 journey o. sixty or seventy
miles carrying letters without experiencing
much apparent fatigue. The Rev. j. G.
Wood thus speaks of the Kafir's manner of
acting the postman:
"Taking an asSagai or two with him, and
perhaps short stick Nth knob at the end,
called kerry, he Il start off at a sling
ing sort of mixture between a run and trot,
and will hold this pace almost without cessa-
ton. AS to provision for the journey, he
need not trouble himself about 1t, for he is
sure to fall in with some hut, or perhaps
village, and is equally sure of obtaining both
food and shelter He steers his course al
most as if by intuition, regardless of beaten
tracks, and arrives at his destination with
the same mysterious certainty that charac-
terizes the migration of the swallow.
cit is not so easy to address letter in
Africa as in England, and it is equally diff
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Central Qrssbpterian.
Office No. 10l5 Main street, nearly opposite
the Post Office.
TIE r MS.

Three Dollars year, paid in Advance. If not
paid within the first too months, 81.
PosTAGE.-Twenty cents a year-to be paid at
the Office where the paper is received
PAYMENTS may be made to local agents wherev,
practicable; all ministers of our Church are autho
ised to act as SUCH Or by checks, Posto6fce none,
ORDERS or letters Registered by Postmaster Other
wise 1T MUST BE AT THE RISK OF THE PARTY SEND
ING IT.
OBITUARIES. Charged at ten cents line. The
party sending can make the estimate by counting
eight words to line. Payment inrariably in ad.
vGncs.
CoNHUSIoATIoNs AND LETTERS on BusIsss,
should be addressed to Central Pfssbuerian, Box
IL, Richmond, Va.
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ON AND AFTER OCTOBER l2th 1873, mail
trains On this road will run as follows:
UP DAY MAIL, via rail, and steamer, leaves
Byrd Street station, 8 p. m.
UP NIGHT MAIL, via rail alone, leaves Byrd.
Street station, II p. M, Except on Sundays.)
UP ACCOMMODATION leaves Broad, Street
station, p. m. Except on Sundays.)
DOWN DAY MAIL, via rail and steamer, ar.
rives at Byrd.Street station at lao p. m.
DOWN NIGHT MAIL, via rail alone, arrives at
Byrd Street station, 400 a. m. Except on Mondays
DOWN ACCOMMODATION TRAIN arrives at
Broad-Stre station. 8:37 a. m. Except Sundays
FREIGHT TRAINS leave Broad. street station
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at I. rs a. m,
connecting at Quantico with the Alexandria and
Fredericksburg railway. Returning, arrive at Broad
street station on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur.
days at p. m. j. B. GENTRY,
General Ticket and Freight Agent.
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III usb aMdEp.
Capabilities of an Acre.

j. M. Smith, market gardener of Green
Bay, furnishes the HOrt5culturist some in
terestlng statements of his experiments in
high culture. He has found the rule inva-
riabIe, not single exception to it, that the
more he has spent in culTlvating and manur-
ing, the greater have been the net profits per
acre. Last season he cultivated fourteen
acres, and began with more thorough and
expensive cultivation than ever before. The
result was, that although there was ter
rife drouth one of the dryest seasons ever
known in that reglon-after spending 3d.
$50, or 1884 per acre, he had better Oal-
ance than at any previous year. He appears
to regard constant cultivation, especially
through drouth, in connection with copious
manuriOg, as all important. Stable manure
is the standard; with such use of superphos-
pilates, plaster, lime, ashes and other ma
nures, as experience and good sense point
out. "After you have learned to spend
money to the beat advantage" he remarked,
Ga larger profit may be made by laying out
$500 per acre than with less. After the
second year, if your land does not pay all its
expense, taxes, and ten per cent on $1,000
per acre, there is something wrong some
where. I have some acres of laud that did
not pay expenses for two years, but for q
number of years past, have not failed to pay
ten per cent on at least $4,000 per acre.
expect my whole garden to do more than
that in short time" He adds that he is
now aiming at 1000 bushels of onions per
acre, then a crop of carrots or turnips, or
500 bushels of early potatoes; or if straw
berries, $500 quarts, or 400 bushels per
acre. This amount of strawberries is not
wholly impossible, as we have known, under
our own observation, this rate on two-thirdS
of an acre.
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.-o
" and after SEPTEMBER Goth, 1874, passen.
ger trains will run as follows:

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD.-O
" and after SEPTEMBER Goth, 1874, passen.
ger trains will run as follows:
FROM RICHMOND.
$50 A. N. MAIL TRAIN.-For Gordonsville,
Charlottesville, Stanton Covngton, and all inter.
mediate stations daily Except Sunday,) arriving at
Coyington at $40 P. NJ. This train connects at
Gordonsville for Orange, Culpeper Warrenton,
Manassas, Alexandria, Washington, and the North,
and at Charlottesville for Lynchburg Bristol Knox.
vile, Chattanooga, and the South.
4:45 p. NJ. ACCOMMODATES Gordons.
vile and all intermediate stations daily Except sun.
day. arriving at Gordonsville at $3.50 P. NJ
$50 P. M. CINCINNATI EXPRESS.-For Cor.
louisville, Charlottesville, Staunton, Goshen, Mill.
boro,' Covington, White Sulphur, and all stations
west of White Sulphur daily Except Saturday, ar.
irving at Huntington at $3.50 P. NJ This train con.
meets at Gordonsvie for Washington, Baltimore,
and the North, and for Lynchburg, Bristol and the
South, and at Huntington with steamers Bostona
and Fleetwood for Cincinnati and all points West
and Southwest, arriving at Cincinnati at A. NJ
Baggage checked through.
For through tickets, rates. and information, apply
at 826 Main street, Ballard and Exchange HOTEL or
at the companys Office Broad street near Sixteenth.
EDGAR VLIET,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
w. c. WIcKHAM, Vice President.
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Rev. W. Scarborough " on Medical Missions,
in Chinese Recorder, for May, June, 1874.
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The General Assembly will meet at St. Louis, Nc
on the third Thursday of May, 1875, at II A. M.
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ID edmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
III Route.

UeueraI Fassenger and Ticket Agent
w. c. WICKHAM, Vice President
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POLITICAL.
Following is a tabular statement Of the
b~alloting for United States Senator in the
Massachusetts Legislature:
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elevator-way Of the Clifton House, in Chicago,
and was almost instantly killed, a few days
ago.
The chemical works OF Chapel Bros, of
Baltimore, have gone q, in smoke. Loss.
$50, 900.
A large portion OF the business part of
Port Henry, N. Y, was recently burned.
Loss, $50, 900.
"A careless telegraph operator caused the
collision of two railway trains in Jersey City
the other day. by which three persons were
killed.
Another Mississippi steamer exploded the
other day between Cairo and st. Louis. Three
of the crew were killed, and two or three 9TH
ers seriously scalded.
The losses by fire in St. Louis for the year
ending April l foot up 1899, 535.
A terrible calamity has befallen the village
of Millerstown, Pa. A fire broke out in a no.
tel, and spread with such rapidity that many
of the occupants were overtaken by the flames
and persisted miserably. 1t is believed that a
dozen or more lives were lost. Sixty-nine
bsaldings were consumed, involving a loss of
a quarter of a million dollars.
The Tivoli Knitting Mills. of Cohoes, n.
Y, have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
000.
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ANDREW COUNTY REPUBLICAN.
SAVANNAH, MISSOURI.
NEWS IN BRIEF
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines persistence in
the pursuit Of the property she claims in
New Orleans grows warmer with successive
disappointment. Every resort to litigation
having failed, she has brought her claims
before Congress, where they are to be con-
sidered by the Committee on Private Land
Claims.
The Council of Congregational churches
at New York has declared that Mr.. Beechers
church erred in its dealings with Theodore
Tilton. Mr.. B. and his congregation were
censured. and admonished to err no more, I'M
der pain of being "blotted out from fellow
ship with other Congregational churches
President Orion, of the Western Union
Telegraph. has gone to Europe to recruit his
health.
yice-President Wilson will shortly visit the
Arkansas Hot Springs for the benefit Of his
health.
Rev. FL rence Mccarthy has been deposed
fro IN the passionate of the Union Park Baptist
Church, of Chicago.