The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-05-23
DOMESTIC MISCELLANY,

The Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia was
/ formally opened on the 10th inst, IN presence o.
an audience of $4,000 people.
Col James D. Brady has been appointed Collector
of Internal Revenue for the Second Virginia Pc
tersburgl district, vice Richards.
Portraits and Postage stamps.--The bust on the
one cent stamp represents Franklin; twos, Jack
son; threes, Washington fves, Taylor; skies, Lin.
coin; seVens, Stanton; tens Jefferson twelves,
Clay; ffteens, Webster; twenty tours, Scott thir
ties, Hamilton; nineties, Perry. The seven, the
twelve and the UNEMPLOYMENT stamps are not is
sued, but many of them are in circulation.
Hon. John Lee Carroll, Governor of Maryland, was
married in Baltimore, on the 18th inst, to Miss
Carter Thompson, daughter of the late Judge
Lucas P. Thompson of Staunton.
Buchanan and Clifton-FOrge Railway Company
Mr. William Jolllffs has been elected chief engineer
of this railway company. He is organizing an eff
eient engineer corps and will begin the work of fnal
location on the I'D of May. The erection Of quar-.
tiers for the convicts will be commenced at the same
time 1t is expected that the work of grading will
be entered upon with from three hundred to four
hundred convicts early in June, and that it will be
in great part completed the present season. Bids
will be invited at an early day, but the work will
be vigorously prosecuted on company account until
and in default of satisfactory bids.-Dispatch.
American Sunday School Union.-Ths ffty-tbird
anniversary of the American Sunday School Union
was held at st. Louis on the 10th inst. The ab.
straot OF the annual report gives this summary OF
missionary work for 1901: schools organized
ll27 teachers in them, $780, scholars in them
AZ, lS4. Schools visited and aided, 1929; teachers
IN them, Is, 273; scholars in them, l3948S For
fifty three years, schools organized, 64,e20; teach
ers in them, 425 246 scholars In then, 2,7S7, 1884,
Virginia, Georgia. and Tennessee are leading the
other Southern States in educational progress-the
number of children in the free schools having in
creased three-fold since 1870. In Georgia over
half the white, and about two-6fths of the oolored
children are enrolled. In Tennessee about one
quarter of the colored children are enrolled; and
while the schools are separate, the law provides
that equal degrees OF usefulness and efficiency shall
prevail in each. Under Governor Hampton we
are justified in expecting South Carolina to push
her educational work to the front rank. Strange
to say, Kentucky is as backward In the education
of colored children as any other State, though her
wealth and prosperity have never been impaired
Interior.
Easter FlOwsrs-The Southern CRluchman says
Less than thirty years ago the first flower was
seen in our churches on Easter. Then two or three
placed in the ohancel, che offering of love on
the part Of some Christian Now they are put in
church by the cart load-font, chancel, reading
desk, pulpit, covered with them. Certainly we
have sensible people in our Church. We ask them
if it be right in the sight of God to turn the
Church Of God into green-house2 Does any one
suppose that Christ is pleased by flowers And If
few are appropriate, does it follow that cart-lOad
are?"
sympathy from the North THE Presbyterian Ban
ner of Pittsburg Pa, notices the misfortune of our
Committee Of Publication, and says:
"The Committee hope to be able to report to its
General Assembly that the entire disaster has been
repaired. To secure this end, the friends of the
cause are making great personal sacrifices; and we
will be psrdoned for suggesting to those OF our own
Church who are so anxious to restore fraternal
relations by gushing resolutions, that they have
now an opportunity to show their regard for our
Southern brethren in a far more effective and con-
vincing way The action of the Committee in the
premises is such that the confidence of its own and
other Churches, instead of being weakened by this
calamity, will be more firmly grounded; and We
trust that cause which has so sadly suffered, and
yet been so nobly sustained will receive hereafter
that warmer sympathy and stronger support to
which it has proved itself so justly entitled