The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-08-23
DOMESTIC MISCELLANY.

Congress adjourned al I! z. Ausut Is b.
1t has been fioaly decided that The Indians are
TO remain under the chirge of the Interior depart
ment. Ir.H
The agriculture of California is now its principal
industry aud source Of wealth Iii said that seven
or eight hundred ships will be needed to carry
away the surplus grain crop OF this year.
The mid summer Holiday Dumber Of Scribner
has been decided success The demaud on the
part of the public, has been greater than for any
other single number of the monthly. The first is
sue of Is 600 copies is exhausted and the publish
ers are printing new edition.
The Pilot, the organ Of the New Eigland Ro-
mansts, publishes more than column OF adver-
tiseuents of cigars, brandy. 0in. wbiskey, wine,
rum, and lsg,r beer The Pilot is very religious
paper and represents denomination which it
claims as the hope Of our country Waterman
Rev B. T. Hodge, who few years since was prir.
cipal Of the Academy in McGaheysville. Rocking
ham county will open male school 10 Le~isburg,
West Va, on the 4th OF September
Prof Lee Bl,nton, Of B,wlirg Green has
taken charge OF the Projection College (for males
and females l. is located at Princeton, Caldwell
county Kg, on he L,uisville Paducah i South
western railroad The buildings are large, with
accom- modaions for forty boarders and two hun
dred put lis.
Bellewood Seminary and Kentucky Presbyterian
Normal School This institution, located at An
chorsge, under the care Of the trustees Of the
Presbyterian Orphanaee will open its & Vt session
Oh September ooh. The faculty has been CON-
pleted and is as follows: Rev g. s. ROudebush,
late Of 0 .kand College, Miss; Prof. r Q. Morri-
son, late adjunct Professor OF Modern Sciences in
Washington and Lee University, and late PROBES
sor of Greek in Olkland College Miss M. p.
IN Dill
| Hanna, and Mrs S. Peot The Indications are
that it will open with large attendance, and enter
at once on a career Of great usefulness. Christian
Observer.
The committee having 10 charge the dedication of
the statue OF Stonewall Jackson at Richmond,
Va. find that after settling all dues they have
fund OF 1897 "a remaining, and have turned that
sum over to the Lee Monument Association.
Change at the Exhibition 1t has beeen agreed
upon by the Centennial Board Of finance, with
the concurrence of the representatives of the Cen
tennal Commission, TO issue tickets in packages
containing five, ten, twenty, fifty. and hundred
tickets respectively for the accommodation OF per-
sons who desire to make presents of tickets to their
friends, customers and others, aud who have hith.
erty found it difficult to extend such courtesy.
Mr.. James Rowan, an old citizen of Augusta
county, died near Midway on the 18th instant, in
the seventy sixth year of his age He was for
many years Ruling 4 der in the A. R. Church at
Old Providence. He was born, raised and died on
the same farm.
Concerning arithmetic, The Virginia Educational
Journal advises teachers as follows: :" To teach
pupils to read numbers promptly, instead Of spell
ling them hsltingly To teach them to perform
operations mentally and in silence rather than au.
dibly. To teach each fundamental principle in its
ent re scope as a unit To gather practical exam.
pies from actual life, from objects With which pu-
pills are already familiar, so to encourage habits
of observation. To induce pupils, particularly
those who are advanced. 10 originate examples for
each other, instead of depending on text books"
Chair of Ethics in Central University, Richmond,
Ky.-Rev. Prof j. V. l. gan will now enter upon
the active duties of this chair His place has been
temporarily filled by the President of the Univer-
sity because heretofore the immaturity of most of
the students prevented their engaging with profit
in the study of ethics. which constitutes the most
important element in his course. But now that
superb class is prepared to receive benefit from his
Instructions be will at once enter upon his duties.
TranylUanta Presbyterian.
Gladstone on Presbyt.rianism Mr. Gladstone,
having written on almost every other subject under
the sum- has turned his attention to Presbyterian
ism, and writes of it in the following eulogstic
terms:
81 1t has given Presbyterian communious the ad-
vantages which in civil order belong to local self
government aud representative institutions-or.
Derby habits of mind, respect for adversaries and
some of the elements Of judicial temper; the de-
velopment of genuine individuality, together
with the Encouragement Of mere arbitrary will and
of ali eccentric tendency the sense of common
life, the disposition energeticay to defend it the
love of law combined with owe of freedom ; last,
not least the habit of using the faculty OF speech
with direct and immediate view to persuasion
A system which is so fruitful of good may be
pardoned for at least seeking it's own extension and
increase - PresI,ter;ou