The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1875-01-13

The Albsmarls Manual Labor-school The Stat
Board of Education was making arrangements To-
carrying into effect the provisions of the will OF th'
late Samuel Miller for establishing manual labor
school in Abemarle. The fund bequeathed fOl
this purpose amounts to about $500 600.
Boston has successfully introduced stoves and fires
into street ears, for the comfort OF passengers.
eirard College. Philadelphia January 9th
The trustees of the Girsrd estate have resolved on
account of the increased income from the trust. to
provide for $50 boys in the College. There are ia
applications
Encouraged By the great success Of his other dime
standard books, Mr.. Howard Chsllen. the well
known Philadelphia publisher, is about to issue
his Dime Pilgrims Progress, in two parts, at
ten cents each. Next to the Bible, this work has
the largest sale of any book in our language, and
at this surprisingly low price, every family will
want it.
In his last report the United States Commissioner
of Education says that all the reports received from
teachers who have taken pupils from the Kinder
garten mention the superiority OF these children
others IN their observing faculties in rapidlty
Of mental perception, and of advancement in studies
they undertake.
Union theological ssminary.-A correspondent of
the Wing says:
1.-The corporation Of the Theological Seminary at
Hampden Sidney propose to put up large library
building during this year and the next. Drs
Smith and Dabney, and Judge Watkins, commit
tee of the trustees having published an invitation
to contractors, accomplished aud scientific srchi
tect has prepared plan with elaborate speei6ca-
tons 1t is understood that the structure will be
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excellent taste and accommodations. be model
building"
Quiet, bar Effective Mr. and Mrs. Durant, of
siey, ssssss , ,sis5si1 e &c eaess.sis ct wo-
men By women. have, without any blowing or
uumpetS, gone to work to erect college tor the
purpose, and have already expended nearly mil
hon dollars on the site and building.
William Appleton Potter, who has Just received
the appointment of Supervising Architect of the
Treasury in place of the celebrated Mullett, is
younger son Of the late Bishop Potter of Penn
sylvanis.
An agreement has been made with the Canadian
Post ofhce Department by which. BEGINNING Feb
ruary lst, the prepayment rate from United States
post offices to any point in Canada will be the same
as to points 10 the Uoited States. 1t is inteRded
also to establish an international money order sys
tenn.
The CospAtrick Disastsr-When the vessel was
discovered to be on fire, eighty persons, mostly NO
men, rushed into one Of the boats which was cap
sized, and al in her were drowned Soon after
wards all the masts fell, killing many Of the pas
seDgers. An explosion subsequently occurred in
the stern of the vessel completing the destruction.
The total number of lives lost By the destruction
of the vessel is now estimated at Ara
The Cincinnati Commercial speaks plainly and
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,isviIle Library Lottery" The advertisements of
the schemes themselves prove, says The CONNER
eidl, that it is one of the most impudent and ri.
gantie frauds ever attempted Look at the face of
it. The proposition is thatif the people contribute
FIVE millions of dollars to a scheme Of ehance-in
which the name library is used as hsit-one
half that sum will be redistributed by lot. Now,
who ever heard of anything out of the lottery line
equal to this in sheer impudeDee? The managers
propose to take two and halt millions of dollars
fly per cent. on five milhons-for their trouble,
and the people have been pouring their hard-esrned
dollars By the million into this mud-hole The
gamblers frenzy has been scattered broadcast
through Kentucky By this scheme 1t is passion
that spreads ike eoD6sgration, and wastes like
pestilence.
The Christian world-We desire to say an earn
est word for this monthly 1t is the organ of the
American and Foreign Christian Uuion''-a So
eiety which for years has made speciality of mis-
siOnary work among Romsnists in this and other
lands. The Christian World. edited BY Rev, Il.
NJ. Baird, Phi. d., an acute observer and faithful
chronicler. is simply invaluable in this day, when
Rome, driven from her homes in the old world, IS
desperately striving to get the upperhand in this
country This excellent periodical gathers M what
is of most importance as illustrating The devices
and spirit and purposes u topeTy; Every nI1iS-
ter onoht 10 take it. and it should be in every Pro.
testant, every truly American family in the land.
The price of it is only one dollar year, payable to
the editor. H. NJ Baird. As Bible House, New
York.-St Louis Presbyterian.
The Ball Keeps Rolling. DR.. Robinson,
President of Brown University, and as clear head
ed man as there is in the Baptist Church. said
in q recent speech:
"The principle with which our fathers set out
was the sacredness of individual Tights-the re-
spOnsibihty of every man to bis own Master. They
suppressed only out breaking wickedness aud false
doctrine. During the last dozen years there had
been tendency toward ecclesiastcism all over the
Christian world. Even Baptists are beginning to
have faith in the power of ecclesiastical authority
We were inclined to resent the taunt that our or
ganizatOn was "a rope of sand, and to trench on
the right Of private Judgment. But the organize
principle among US was that we are loyal to Christ
Our fathers swept away all canons, all interpreta
lions, as OF no autnOrltys auO appealeU 10 tue d.
bic, and when we begin to rely on the power Of &C.
cesiasteal organization we shall begin to decline.
The Lords Supper is largely social observance.
The Church cannot claim or control 1t. -"
In connection with the visit of the King of the
Sandwich Islands to this country, the announce
ment will be read with special interest that mon
ument has recently been erected on one Of the
islands, TO the memory of Captain Cook, who was
killed by the saVaRes Of OShyhee, Hawaii, ninety
five years ago. The ceremony took place on the
l4th Of November in the presence of Major Wood
house. the EDglish Commissioner, and the captain
and officers OF the Scout. The monument is an
obeisk twenty-five feet high, and mounted on a
base eight feet square. 1t bears the following IN
scriptiOo: In memory of the great circumnayi.
gator, Captain James Cook, r n, who discovered
these islands on the 18th of January, A. D. IT'S,
and fell near this spot on the l4th of February,
A. ID. l779 This monument was erected in No
vember, A. D. 1874, by some Of his fellOw-country-
men" 1t is erected on suitable spot about one
hundred yards from the rock on which the captain
fell
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