The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-09-15

The income of Gifard College in 1874 was. it is
said. sufficient TO meet all expenses and leave a
surplus Of about 5000 600 Ii now has $50 pupils.
There are 10 Massachusetts, only three Roman
CatsObe churches without debt on their build
ings.
The tennessee dog tax yielded So 600 last year,
TIE cCatu thus pUtu0g into one pocket portion
Of what went out Of the other il damage to the
woOl industry.
Statistics show that the money invested in news
papers 10 America does not yield more profit than
one and bali per cent Some recent speeulatOrs
are. understand. willing to throw of the one
per sut and take the half, in order to be accom-
uOdsting
a waldsnsian Colony of six or seven families, con-
sstipg 10 all about sixty persons, passed through
s. L0lis during July and have gone TO South.
western Missouri with view OF making that their
future home. This is but the vanguard. Others
are TO follow soon as their property In the old
country can be disposed Of
DenOminatiOnal Colleges PROT Olney, Of Mich
igan University author Of some recent aud valua
Die textbooks, has a fsvors lie word to say of de-
nominatiOnal colleges;
The fact that the beginnings of such schools
are small aud their development slow argues moth
ing against them. Au acorn Is small and great
oak is the growth of centuries. Harvard, \ ale
BcOwn-Were these not snail in their beginnings
and Of exceeding slow growth The very effort
necessary to secure the planting and development
OF some things Is OF the bess fruits which they
yield
Education in Kausss The State Of Kansas is
SAID 20 have Invested and expended for educational
purposes, duriOg the last ten years, the sun OF
-
the amount of over milii0n dollars a year. In
spite Of the interest thus shown in instruction. it
further reported that only soOut three persons In
every hundred IN that State ent>r the learned pro-
LESSONS.
Abundance A writer from Texas says: THE
harvest yield has been abundant. So large wheat
erOp has never before been known. Oats and the
minor cereals have yielded abuniantY. Tae corn
and potato crop IS iu average The growing
cotton plant sud s1gar cane present favorable in
dicstions Stock Of every variety are tat and
furnishing. The grapes are uxurlant The trOi,
yield Is abundant.
University Of North Carolina AT a late meeting
Of the trustees OF the University OF y )rth Carolina
the committee on contributions we're instructed to
commence subscriptions for endowment scholar
ships, each subscription OF 81 900 being entitled to
name one student. lie was reported that the re-
pairs nearly completed, the cost being less than
the estimates. The election OF President vas post
pODed until December
The Centennial and the Sabbath 1t seems that
the Centennial at Philadelphia threatens TO be the
occasion Of wholesale desecration of the Sabbath.
Sunday trains already run between New \ ork and
Philadelphia to enable curious minds to contem
plate the glories of 1876 Dr. Hatfield has been
preaching 90 the SUI jlet, and the Ministerial
Union Is going to test the law OF the case. We
believe the New Jersey Sabbath Association is ex
pected to attempt the enforcement OF the laws of
that State. The Centennial Commission will have
to pronounce upon this matter. and they would do
well to attend to it at once If they let the matter
alone, the religions press viii not. That may as
well De understood
A Bright Old Age-Mrs. Elizabeth Pope, Of Clay
county, Missouri, was 100 years old the 18th of
March last, but Judging FROM letter she has writ
ten to the Secretary OF the Old Settlers Reunion
at St Joseph, she IS a good deal more bright aud
active than many persons who we're born quarter
or a half century later She says her father was
one OF the eoonists who went into Kentucky with
Daniel Boone and that Der nearest ueighbOr was
the father Of President Lncoln. She adds: g"
have been 10 his house very many times, and was
l6 or Is years old when Abraham Lincoln, Jr
was born. | have oftentimeS pursed the dead
President which IN itself was not then nor is it now
anything extraordinary, for he was simply baby
ard very ugly one at that
The Oldest living Poet Of America is Richard H
Dana, now almost elghty-eight years of age. Bay
ard Taylor, who lately visited him at mis- summer
home on Cape Ann, says: " Here he sat before
. me, BIS long white looks Streaming IN the wind,
bis eye u0dimmed, bis voice uu6rokeH, his intel
ect evidellly as clear calm, and sound as ever
Ii seemed almost incredible. Dana was born De.
tore Byron, Shelley and Keats he was old
enough to have remembered Mozart, Burns, and
Cowper, had he met them; he was eighteen when
Schiller died; he Was the FIRST masured man who
recognized the genius Of the boy, William Cullen
Bryant.
Of Indians-The number of Indians 10 the States
ana Territories of the u ZION Exclusive OF Alaska
is estimated to be 295 900 o. these 229, 396 are
under the supervision of religious bodies. The
American Missionary Association has seven agen-
cles, the American Ulitsrian Association two, the
Baptist Home Mission Society four agencies, the
Christian Missionary Convention two, the Friends
fourteen, the Protestant Episcopal Church eight,
the Lutheran Church one, Methodist Boards of
Missions fifteen agencies, Presbyterian Board niue,
Reformed Church Mission Board four, the Roman
Catholic Church eight There are estimated to be
in the Dominion of Canada l4S 000 Indians, max
ing total Of $50 900 for North America, exclusive
OF Mexico ana Alaska.
More Planets DR. Peters the distinguished as
trOnOmer Of Hamilton College, who makes so little
OF discovering new worlds, was eOmphmeuted by
the citizens Of Utica, June with a reception In
honor OF hs success 10 noting the Transit OF Venus
10 New saland. Ga returning TO bis observatory
after the pleasant evening, his peering search OF
the heavens disclosed two new planets, the IA b
and l45th OF our planetary system.