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Marriage Superstitions.

Since marriage became an institution there
have been certain signs and superstitions
that have chung to its celebration through
all ages and in all countries. Even to-day
in the most civilized nations we have not
entirely rid our minds of these supersti-
tons, and warrant that there is never o
bride but INDUCES herself in looking for
some happy omen. Few people are daunt-
less enough to be married on Friday, and
we all have the most unlimited confidence
in that old shoe thrown after the newly
welded pair. Nearly every bride Of to-day
wears about her when she is married some
trifing thing borrowed from lady friend,
and all know that sFBlest is the bride on
whom the sun doth shine" and are equally
certain that
"To change the name and not the letter,
Is change for tht worse and not for the better"
So on, quite indefinitely, it is wonderful
how these ancient signs are handed down
from generation to generation, and how inn
potent reason is to do away with their hold
upon the human mind. Let us recall few
Of the olden beliefs concerning marriage SUI
perstitions. In the earliest weddings We
read of among the Jews we find that the
fourth day OF the week was considered the
unlucky day for virgins to wed, and the
fifth for widows. The Romans also be-
for the performance of marriage rites, and
these were the Calends, Nones, and Ides OF
every month, the whole months OF Febru-
airy and May, and many Of their festivals.
June was considered the most propitious
month of the year for matrimony, especially
II the day chosen were that Of the full moon
or the conjunction Of the sun and moon.
The month Of May was especially to be
avoided, IS it was under the influence Of
spirits adverse to happier households; and
for centuries this superstition seemed to
prevail in Italy against May marriages, and
even to this day prevails in some parts Of
England and our own country. In China
marriages are positively prohibited at certain
times and seasons on account OF their being
unlucky.
There was at one time superstition cur
rent in England against marrying on limo
cents Day, the 2Sth OF December, day Of
I'LL omen, becauseit was the one which COM
memorated Herod,s massacre Of the chill
dren; and it Is still thought uniueky to
marry in Lent. Marry in Lent and you'll
live to repent" An old line also says,
May never was We month Of love-" And
another, Who Inarries between We sickle
and We scythe will never thrive" The old
rhyme that we have all heard tells us to
Monday for wealth.
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DEPARTURE OF STEAMERS.

Il VIDENCE, BOSTON, AND MON-sss1ill5ee4a
TREAL, AND BILLS OF LADING SIGNED
THROUGH.-Steamer j. W. EVERMAN, Captain
PLATT will receive freight for the above ports till
FRIDAY the 2Sth instant, ut IL O'Clock.
Passage to Philadelphia including meals ana state,
room, So; secondcass passage, including meals ana
state ROOM third-cleSs passage without meals,
-. W. z. PORTER, Agent,
ty27-2t No. 1925 Dock street.
TOR NEW YORK.-The Old eNfEFA
Il Dominion Steamship Company s sqsstsa :,
steamship WYANOkE, Captain CoUcH, VIII sail
Freight received until 9 o'clock A. M.
Through bills of ading signed and goods for
warded with dispatch to all points north, south.
east, and west; ALSO to foreign ports.
Passenger accommodations unsurpassed.
Cabin fare to New York. S12; rOund-trip tickets,
500 Storage, Sc and So.
For freight or passage, apply to
G. w. ALLEN 6 CO., Agents,
iy26-3t Company's Wharf, Rockets.
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GRUBBs & WILLIAMS, Auctioneel
By Cha0in, Staples & Co.,
Real EstSte Agents and Auctioncers,

TRUSTEES SALE OF HALF INTER
i EST IN "AsPEN GROVE FARM, in
Hundred tjtSnND AND oNE ACRES. AT AUCTION
In execution of deed of trust from w. s. Leake
and Mary Ann Leake, dated August II, 1875, being
front of Henrico County Courthouse, on SATUR-
DAY, 29th Of July, 1876, at IL O'Clock d., the
called "ASPEN GROVE" containing THEE
HUNDRED AND ONE ACRES OF LAND, stu
ated on the Pounce Tract road fourteen miles from
Richmond, in Henrico county.
w. !. Leake, by agreement with bis brother IS en-
titled to the old homestead with 150H acres thereto
attached.
TERMS: Cash as to tic expenses of the sale and
the sum of $184.50 now due OIL the note secured by
said deed; the balance such terms as may be an
nounced at the sale.
II. J.. STAPLES. Trustee.
'CIIAFFIN, STAPLES & Co., Auctioneers. jy 20
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DETECTIVE BUREAU.
$50 RICHMOND, July %, 1870.
VIRGINIA DETECTIVE BUREAU.

We, the undersigned, having formed BUSINESS
ASSOCIATION for the DETECTION OF CRIME,
offer our services to the pnblc, and will work for
Banks, Insurance and Railroad Companies. and To-
baceo Factories; and win also obtain Information
desired by lawyers or others; wl attend 20 6ssness
work entrusted 70 our hands Will be promptly att
tended to and no puhliclty given.
s2'IsFs'' a CArTAIN WILLIAM I. DABNEY,
cAPTAiN WlLLIAM F.KN0X,
over Cohen's Bank. 81 "a ~ 2A-8m
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AllucTroNs AL.Es...ruture Dnys.
BIZ Chafin, Staples q Co,
RearEstate Agents and Auctioneers.
M. 4 Tenth street.
TyRUsTEES SALE OF a TWO-STOK

TyRUsTERs SALE OF A TW0-sTORY
j rRkMED DMEb blsr st on MI nE lvIbskE
ss;rREETh. AT AUCTYON.-By virtue Of a certain
deed q ~ Thoms and Gsn pecsor and
In Richmpnd Chnncery Court clerks Office, In u. ID
A. page having been ,er maae In tae
shall sell jbeing thereto required by the benehciar
OF auction the bidder on the pIemiSes'
the valuable EOT above described, with the two
story framed house situated thereon, num6erea 6OO
on Beverly greet. The lot mas front Vi @o's ie1'
and depth Of 120 feet. ,,,oa,
This is opportunity to purchase nice piece
Jerks Enough in cash TO defray the expenses OF
sale and to pay off and DISCHARGE note OF
5-s November 1916, and accrued Interest; announcer
note Of $3.50, with interest from 9Th July, 1870,
until paid; and credit as to s545 until inc osn
November 1876: and the balance (if any upon
such terms as may be announced at the sale;
w, L. CUWARDIN, Trustee.
CuAFFIS. STAPLES G. CO., Auctioneers.
POSTPONEMENT.
.La.x, ,.,o l., ,ostnoppd Till MONDAY. july
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JAMES RIVER STEANIBOATsjI
y COMPANY. zaSnzsE<

FOR OLD POINT. NORFOLK. PORTSMOUTH
BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA,
NEW YORK,
AND ALL REGULAR LANDINGS ON THE
JAMES RIVER.
Making close connection nj Norfolk with the new
and elegant steamer FLORIDA for BALTI-
MORE, and steamer LADY OF THE
LAKE for WASHINGTON, d. G.
On and after TUESDAY. May 10th, the fast and
elegant steamer JOHN SYLVESTER, carrying the
United States mail, will leave Richmond for the
above-names points TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS,
and SATURDAYS at o'clock A. NJ.
Passengers by this route can view by daylight Ill
the historical and interesting points and objects on
the James river, including DUTCH GAP lpass1ng
through the same Notifications, batte-felds, James
town, Hampton Roads, ETC., and have four hours at
Old Point for bathing and sightseeing, or two hours
at Norfolk before departure OF Baltimore steamers
The elegant new "Hygcia Hotel" at Old Point Is
now open for the reception Of guests.
Fare to Old Point and Norfolk. .S.......... S2 90
Fare to Old Point and Norfolk and return...: 90
Through tickets to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
New York at reduced rates.
Tickets for sale on steamers, at CARRIER 4 Co.!
Ticket Agency, Main street, and Exchange Hotel ano
baggage checked through Freight received daily TOT
Boston, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, and regular land
iBgs on James river, from A. 81. to q T. NJ, al
reasonable rates.
Freight for way-landIngs must be prepaid.
l.. b. TATUM, General Agent.
Office: Company's wharf, Rockets; branch once
at W. D. Blair 6 Co.'s, No. 903 Main street.
my IL
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n,IAIITIIIssOAD LINES.
REDUCTION IN PASSENGER FARE.

REDUCTION IN PASSENGER FARE.
"A SCHEDULE OF TRAINS. !.
PASSENGER TRAINS leave West Point DAILY
at A. NJ, arriving ut Richmond ut % A. NJ leave
Richmond at r NJ, arriving Mt West POINT '1 .
Trains connect at West Point with steamers from
Baltimore and all eastern points on WEDNESDAYS.
FRIDAYS, and SUNDAYS, and with steamers I JOE
gaItimore and all eastern 1sg pe59ts on MONDAYS
Fare to Baltimore and return w
Fare to Washington 2o
Fare to Philadelphia. ~
Fare to New York......... ........'......' az az
fs Ts 70 FREiaHT TRAINS leave Richmond
Mt S A. M on WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, and SUN.
DAY, connecting at West Point with steamers, ana
freight n early pe morning. sq7Hgg;
at Richmond Mt s. p. NJ. and connecting With the
Through Freight Trains on the Richmond and Dam
Vile railroad for all southern points.
: EXPRESS FREIGHT received on MONDAY.
be delivered In Baltimore the following day at g
"a LOCAL FREIGHT TRAINS with passenger
coaches attached leave Richmond at $50 A. M. on
TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, and SATURDAYS,
at 1856 A. NJ, arriving at Richmond at $500 T. d.
The management takes pleasure in announcing to
the travelling public and shippers that the steamers
of this line between Baltimore and West Point have
been reftted in the most thorough manner FOR the
accommodation of passengers and freight:
Travellers taking this line arrive In Bailmore IN
ample time to connect with the rail lines FOR Pha-
delpha, New York. Boston, and all eastern and west
ern points .,, ~
transfers at Richmond of frghts to or from south
ern points. ,,,...
W. N. BRAGG, Master Transportation NH l3
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Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday tho hes. day OF oil,
Thursday for crosses,
Eridxy for tossea,

EatuTdEy no IucR ~ d1s -
At ono time 1t was Thought that all those
who married on Tuesdays and Thursdays
would be happy. Among the Romans no
pnrriage was celebrated without an auger
being first consulted. II
In the middle ages it was considered an
llomen Il the bridal party, in going 70 che
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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILpo,n,
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT.
RICHMOND, VA, june 1 z. 1875
IN AND AFTER JUNE Is, 1876, PAS

Train leaving Richmond at $50 A. NJ rms dan
Except Sunday. stopping at all regular stations
Train leaving Richmond ut 1900 p. n. runs d,pr
stopping az Hanover, Louisa, Gordonsyille. Ch,2,
lOtfcsvile, Ivy, Mediums river, Greenwood WaTnat
boro, Staunton Goshen, Millboro', Coyington, AIs.
ghany, and all regular stations west OF Alieahsny
Accommodation train leaves Richmond for L.,
louisville and all intermediate stations daily iexcem
rive at Washington CLIO A. n. -
Sleeping cars run a on all night trains and paro.
Ticket Office and sleeping car open at $50 p. u
for the IL midnight train.
Trains arrive at Richmond as follows:
Express Train daily A. N
Mall Train daily Except Sunday at.......6:50 P. NJ
Accommodation Train daily Except
SunQayJ AT. $50 A, N
Trains coming into Richmond stop at stations =.
above.
Trains make close connection with trains of II.
Richmond and DanYile and Richmond and Peters
burg railroads, both to and from Richmond.
For further information. rates, &C., apply at s27
Main street, or ut ompany,s offices
CONWAY X. HOWARD
General PASSENGER and Ticket Agent,
w. NJ. s. DUNN,
je19 Engineer and Superintendent,
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CuArFIS, STAPLES 6 CO., Auctioneer:
pOsTPONEhfEN1

The above sale is postponed till MONDAY, July
Wv " "a '''" CHAFFIN, STAPLES & co.
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NHEAP FREIGHT RATES SAilslnlsa-i
BY THE
POWIIATAN LINE FOR BALTIMORE,
CANTON INSIDE LINE FOR PHILADELPHIA,
MERCHANTS, CHEAP TRANSPORTATION
LINE FOR PHILADELPHIA.
ivD.3m L. B. TATUM, Agent.
nLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP EESS
~ COMPANY. Usass36sas

DILL ADELPH IA, RICH AENh
a. MOND, AND NORFOLK STEAM-sEsassEESsesssss
SHIP LISE-FOR PHILADELPHIA PROVE
DENCE. BOSTON: AND ALL NEW ENGLAND AND
notice the steamers of this line will make tr-wcekly
trips, leaving Philadelphia every T TUESDAY,
THURSDAY, and SATURDAY: and Richmond
every TUESDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, con-
Meeting at Providence with Boston and Providence
railroad for Boston, and by our Fall River line for
the same city uiG Cape Cod, landing ut Old Colony
'ep0'' WI PORTER, Agent,
2425 Dock street, Richmond.
WILLIAM L. CLYDE C CO..
General Agents,
No - South Wbarves, Philadelphia.
ID. d. G.. MINK, Agent,
my17 No. 30 Devonshire street, Boston.
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native churches as speedily as possible upon
the basis Of self-support. selfgOvernment,
and self.prOpagatiOn.
These suggestions are carefully elaborated
in the article Of DIR. Wilson, and they de-
serve study by all who are actively engaged
in conducting missionary operations. Essen
tally, We believe that they are right and have
the sanction of the New Testament. "No
heather land, says the author, can ever
be thoroughly evangelical except through
the agency of its own people. The foreign
missionary may, with the blessing of God,
set the ball in motion, but it must afterward
be kept in motion by those who are raised
up on the soil. But no native community
can be expected to do much in extending
the knowledge of the gospel to regions be-
yond, until they have first been trained to
self-government and self support AS re-
suit of these principles put into practice, in
some missions he adds that "mOre souls have
been converted to the Lord Jesus in the last
fifteen or twenty years than in the previous
forty or fifty"
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For THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
A Curious Fact.

Our Baptist friends claim that in doctrine they are
pree ninent They and they only hold the truth.
They are the primitive spostolical and scriptural
church. As fruits of the best doctrine we look
for the best practice-pree ninence in all things.-
Why then do they not give rs q better example
Of Christian liberaty-for instance According
to their Treasures report at the recent Conven-
ton in Richmond, their contributions to the cause
of Foreign Missions were about $5l 600. The
Presbyterians of the South, occupying the same
territory and numbering about one fifth, perhaps,
of the Baptist membership, gave, in the same
year, about $6l ,00O Our work is nothing to boast
Of but according to their preensons they ought to
be before US 10 all things A comparison Of fig
ures in the support Of all the other Boards and
Con ,aittees-of the Church will show as great an
inc equality in our favor. Comparisons are odor.
ous'-or odous' as Shakespeare is commonly
quoted-but when We are so often set off and put
out Of the pale Of Christian communion we natur.
ally ask, with humility, for more evidence that
they who close the door upon US are, in all the
grsces superior to all the world.
The contributions to the cause of Foreign Mis-
sions by the Baptists Of Virginia we're about &c.
900. The Presbyterians of Virginia give MORE
We gave during the year ending April lst, 1875.
$40 1872 The statistics for the year correspond.
ing with that Of the Baptist Convention Just ended,
will probably show upwards Of $4,000. against
their $4,000 Our membership is less than Is. 900,
theirs about 10000 May each increase in liber-
atty and humility and charity.
A COUNTRY PASTOR.
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States met in Savan-
nah, Ca, May 18th, 1876.
The opening sermon was preached by Rev.
M. D. Hoge, D. D., the last Moderator, from
John iv: SO.
Rev. B. M. Smith, D. D., of Uaion The.
illogical Seminary, Va, was chosen Modera-
tor, and Rev. John E. DuBose, of Tennessee,
temporary Clerk.
There was the largest attendance since the
war, 159 delegates being present.
We regret to say no reports have reached us
from Savannah, except the kilograms to the daily
papers, the latest of which inform us that the de.
bate on the Presbyterian Council was in progress,
and was participated in by Rev. Drs. Robinson,
Adger, White, and Hoge, and Rev. Messrs. Bow.
man and Parks.
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PATIENCE FOR DAILY USE.

A man well known in the history of mod.
ern English literature, writing of another
celebrated person, and one of bis own cotem-
poraries, said this of him: "One of his re.
markable characteristics, and which &C.
counted for many of his inconsistencies, was
the high ideal system he had formed of a
sort of impracticable perfection in honor,
virtue, and SO forth. Anything short of this
he seemed to think not worth aiming at. He
thus consoled himself for the extreme laxity
of his practice by the impossbility Of salts
flying, or coming up to, the lofty theory he
had formed. The consequence was that the
most romantic professions of honor and indie
pendence were often coupled with conduct
of the meanest and most unworthy kind"
1t was not, however, so very remarkable
a characteristic after all certainly not in
some aspects of it. There are good many
still in the world, who persuade themselves
that, if the occasion called for it, they would
be found equal to the demand upon them for
something noble and great, while, at the
same time, habitually unmindful of these
minor charities which really do so much to.
wards lessening the burdens of life, and
smoothing its rough places.
1t is quite possible, certainly, for one to
excuse himself for neglecting the means di.
.ectly within his reach of adding something
20 the general stock of happiness, in the case
If those around him, on the ground that he
8 only waiting for a suitable opportunity to
how how much Of magnanimity and self
acrifce he is really capable of.
There are some people who are prompt in
esorting to the household on which the
hadow of some great sorrow has fallen, and
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who are fluent enough, then and there, IN
expressions of coincidence and sympathy, and
vet who do not seem to understand, at all,
that there is any call upon them to let TALL
words of kindness and sympathy in the Gus
tomary intercourse, and amid the daily &C.
casions of life.
There are others who 60 on in the same
track, apparently insensible to the fact that
certain petty, but unworthy and unlovely,
habits are fastening upon them; or insensl-
bic to the fact tnat, in yielding to the temp
tations which are so constantly recurring in
the pathway of most of us, the power of re-
sistance to evil is becoming daily weakened.
And doubtless one secret Of it all is that
they do not recognize the necessity of watch
ing and praying, except in view Of tempta-
tons to heinous and fragrant sins, or habits
of evil that carry concentrated in them all
the elements of utter moral ruin.
The case is very much that of the master
of ship who takes no notice of numerous
leakages in the hold, on the ground that he
is on the lookout to save bis vessel from the
fury of violent storms that may break upon
him before he reaches the end of his course.
But the leakages may sink his ship before
the storm comes. And precisely 80, before
the great emergency arises, the patience
which was held in reserve for it, may lose its
power and perish of sheer hamilton, just be-
cause no pains are taken to keep it alive un-
der the common occasions constantly calling
for it.
twill not do to forget that Paul's declara-
ton, Ye have need of patience" is one the
truth Of which may be demonstrated in the
hourly experience of most of US.
If we would let it have sits perfect work
We may count upon the necessity Of doing
this amid the worry and trouble, the crosses,
vexations, and little biting Disappointment
which 90 to make up the customary routine
of lobby no means extraordinary in the case
of any of US. 1t is the patience which il
prompt to respond to the demands made upon
it, in such circumstances, which is the pa
thence that will not be apt to give way wher
the pressure is great, or the struggle sore
aud bitter.
Those who have learned in such schoo
as that indicated, to repress the momentary
impatient burst, to keep steady hand upor
the reins, to take quietly the sting of th'
petty vexation, to accept the daily trial as 9
necessary part of the daily discipline-thest
are the people who, when the furnace is a
it's hottest, will be most likely to show thu
beauty and power f submission which hon
ors God in giving sweetness to their Owl
lives.
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Louisville 0rphanage.

The corner stone Of the new building at Anchor.
age, KY, for the Louisville Presbyterian Ophsn.
age was laid on the 9th of this month. Anchorage
is twelve miles from Louisville and the Bellewood
Seminary there has been purchased for the Or.
phanage. The property consists of some fifty
acres, admirably located, with magnificent grove,
good buildings, fine school rooms, with Presby-
terian church on the adjoining lot. The plan Of
the directors is to use the existing buildings as
school, in which such of the orphans as are fitted
to receive an education can be trained to be teach.
ers or to occupy other positions of usefulness, and
in which all who wish to erjoy the advantages of
one of the best educational institutions can be ad-
mtted on terms which will place good education
within their reach. New buildings are to be erected
as residences for the little orphans
The services were conducted by the pastors of
l. usve, the officers OF the institution and others.
: After prayer had been offered. the cornerstone
BY Messrs. John @. King, Samuel Casseday, Geo.
W. Morris, A. Davidson, j. V. Escott. A. A. Cor.
don and others. ln the corner. stone we're deposi.
ted copies of the Bible the Confession of Faith of
the Presbyterian Church, and the religious papers
of our Church and papers Of Louisville; also roll
of the names Of the noble women to whose gener.
GUS, sef-denying efforts the building about to be
reared will be blessed monument. The congre-
CATION then went over to the church where the SER
vices were opened with prayer BY DIR. Lowry, and
continued with singing BY the congregation and sd-
dresses BY the Rev. J. De Witt Duncan, Rev. DR..
Stuart Robinson, who furnished the cearest ac-
count of the history and the plans of the institu.
ton that had ever been placed within the reach of
the public; and Bennett H. Young, Esq. who, in
presenting what was called the Secretary's report,
made thrilling, eloquent speech of great pathos
and tenderness.
The school for girls is called Bellewood Semi
nary and Kentucky Presbyterian Normal School -
that for boys, the " Kentucky Presbyterian Male
Normal School,"
The former will be started in the fall. The or
phsns will also be moved from the city to their new
home, and before many weeks the Presby terians
which will command the warmest sympathies of
thousands, and with the Divine favor, be an agent
Of untold usefulness in years to come Christian
Observer.
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THE LADIES MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Of
Union, Morr,e county, W. Va, have on hand the
Photographs, handsomely executed, OF all the For
eign Missionaries (male and female under the care
of the Southern Presbyterian Church, which they
will remit to any order, at 25 cents each (,oi p o.
stamp.) Address
Miss HELEN A. Houston,
Union, Monroe county, w. Va.
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Central presbppterian.
REV. WILLIAM BROWN, D. D., Editor.
Richmond, Va, Wednesday, May "a, 1875.

BA% PLEASE TO REMIT.-Those who are
in arrears for the Central Presbyterian will
find statement on the label of their papers
and are urged to give immediate attention to
the matter. 1t is small matter to each,
but great matter to this office.