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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Presbyterian Church in the United States.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly will meet at Knoxville, Tenn.
on the third Thursday of May 1875 at IL A NJ
CLERKS.
REV. JOSEPH R. WILSON, ID. D., STATED CLERK
REV. WILLIAM BROWN. D. D., PERMANENT OLEsr,
The Stated Clerk is the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES
Hos. JAMES HEMPHILL, President, Chester S. O
REV. JOHN DOUGLAS, VIoE-PREsIDssr, Charlotte
JESSE H. LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and THsAsUREA,
sUsTENTATIoN.
REV. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY,
C REV ST. RICHARD MoILwAINE, Coordinate Score.
TARY and TREASURER, Box SSl, Baltimore, Nd
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, D. D., SECRETARY,
REV 70 RICHARD MoILwAINE, Coordinate SxoEErA.
RY and TREASURER, Box SSl. Baltimore, Md.
PUBLICATION.
REV. JAMES K. HAZEN, szoRzrARr Richmond,
q. GENNET, Esq, TRzAsuREn, Richmond. Va
EDUCATION.
REV. JOHN N wADDEL, d. D., SECRETARY, Mem.
PG &. W MAoRAE, TREASURER, Memphis, Tenn.
EDUCATION OF OoLoRED MINISTRY.
REV. G. A. sTILLMAN, D. D., SECRETARY, TuskalOO-
sa Alabama.
DR.. J. T. SEARCY, TREASURER Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Applications to the Executive Committee are
first referred the appropriate Presbyteral Exec
utiye Committees for their approval and are 10 be for
warded by them TO the Assembly's Committees.
COLLECTIONS
The General Assembly has appointed the following
lections be taken up annually in all the churches:
For sustentation On the first Sabbath in January.
For Publication On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign Missions; On the first Sabbath in May.
For the Relief of Disabled Ministers and the Widows
~ Nm he first
in July.
For Evangelistic Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep
TENDER
For Education: On the first Sabbath In November.
For Education of Colored Ministry: On the first Sab
bath in December.
In where IL is highly inconyenient take up col
ections these days, they shall be taken up
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends to the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up weekly coecons
and that the thus collected be appropriated 70
ects in such proportion the church session may decide
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New METHOD OF PRESERVING FRUIT.-
A new method of preserving fruit is prac-
ticed in England. Pears, apples, and other
fruits are reduced to paste, which is then
pressed into cakes and gently dried. When
required for use it is only necessary to pour
four times their weight of boiling water over
them, allow them to soak for twenty minutes,
and then add sugar to suit the taste. The
fine flavor of the fruit is said to be retained
to perfection. The cost of the prepared pro-
duct is scarcely greater than that of the orr.
ginal fruit, differing with the supply and
price of the latter; the keeping qualities are
excellent, so that it may be had at any time
of the year. and bears long sea voyages with
out detriment. No peelipg or coriDg is re-
quired, so there is no waste.
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Indians of the Amazon River.

The Amazon, though it is not the longest,
is the broadcast and most majestic river in the
world. You may sail up this river for many
miles without knowing from anything about
you that you have passed out of the ocean.
On its banks, beginning about five hundred
miles from the Atlantic Ocean, and extend
ing for several hundred miles farther into the
interior, and on the banks of numerous
streams which flow into the Amazon, live
more than one hundred Indian tribes.
Many of these Indians have never seen q
white man, and most of them are as wild as
the native tribes were ct the time that South
America was first discovered by Europeans
Very few of them cultivate the land. They
live mostly on the fish which they take from
the rivers, and on the wild fruits and wild
animals which abound in the country. Each
of the tribes has language different from
the others, and tribal wars are very frequent
Most of them believe in the existence of a
great and good spirit called CoChimana, who
rules the seasons and causes the fruits of the
earth to ripen; but they pay far greater rev
erence to the evil spirit, Tolokiamo, who,
though not 80 powerful, is cunning and &C
tive. Very few of them worship idols, and
almost all of them consider the moon as the
abode of those who are happy after death
1t is the custom in many of the tribes to bury
their dead in the sbodes occupied while they
were living, and these sbodes are thereupon
deserted.
Christian people made no effort for the
spiritual good of these numerous Indian
tribes until the year 1872, when the South
American Missionary Society of the Church
of England sent the Rev. Mr.. Clough upon
a journey of inquiry to Amazonia, the name
by which the region is known. He found
that many supposed obstacles to missionary
enterprise did not exist, and that a vast new
field was opened to the messengers of Christ's
gospel.
The society has since sent three more mis-
sionsries, and intends soon to send out an
other missionary and his wife, the latter to
specially labor among Indian females, whose
condition is sad and degraded one. 1t also
intended to send out small steam launch,
which will be nsvigated by the missionaries
themselves, and thus enable them to gain &C.
cess to numerous distant tribes of Indians.
May God raise up many lsborers to 60 into
this new field and stir up his people to an
active interest in the heather Indians of
Amazonia, who now for the first time have
the gospel of Christ proclaimed to them !
The Missionary Visitor.
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been accepted and these pledges made, it is now
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The eminent English physician, DR.. Rich
ardson, in recent lecture at the London
Institution, emphstically declared that in
these days health aud education are not going
hand in hand. He denounced as the first
serious and increasing evil bearing on edo
cation and it's relation to health, the too early
subsection of pupils to study. The present
modes of education, he said, are not compst.
ible with healthy life. Children are often
taught lessons from books before they are
properly taught to walk, and long before
they are properly taught to play. Play is
held out to them not ss q natural thing, as
something which parent should feel it is
duty to encourage, but as reward for 30
much work done and as rest from work
done, as though play were not itself form
of work, form of work which child likes
while he dislikes another form because it is
untitled to his powers. For children under
seven years of age all teaching should be
through play. Through play letters and
languages can be taught, animal life can be
classified, and the surface of the earth made
clear, and history can be told as story
Under such system the child grows into
knowledge, learns we'll, eats, sleeps, and
plays we'll, and acquires the habit of happi-
ness. "To put horse in harness and make
it work hard while growing" sCornfully said
the Doctor, els acknowledged to be cruel
and ignorant, but to make growing child
work hard is thought mark of vigilance"
In the past year four victims of oVer-work
have been under his care. In one, absence
of memory, had resulted; in another, sleep
lessness, and that exhaustion which leads
almost to delirious wandering. Here failure
caused extreme depression. In the third
case sleeplessness, labor, and excitement
brought on an hereditary tendency to in
termittency of the action of the heart.
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THE Christian IntelHgencsr, writing of
"Smooth Things" concludes thus:
There is no time for weakness in the pull
pit, wherever else it may be tolerated. Not
only does the world need the highest stan
dard Of Christian morals, but it needs still
more that form of sound words" and those
essential Christian truths out of which the
highest morality proceeds, and by which, in
strumentally, souls are saved. There is no
reforming agency like the living Gospel in
the hands of faithful Christian ministry
and of living church. To be powerful the
pulpit need not cast off its dignity nor its
graces. Its power depends mainly upon its
purity, its courage, its wisdom and its zeal,
and above all upon its spirituality and holi
ness. These are all elements Of that faith
fulness which takes away the fear of man and
makes "the man of God the man of power
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GLADSTONE says: 81 submit that duty is
a power which rises with US in the morning.
and goes to rest with US at night. 1t is CO.
extensive with the action of our intelligence.
1t is the shadow which cleaves to US, 60
where We will, and which only leaves us
when we leave the light of life."
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The improvement to be made of the truth
is, to cease from sin, and set ourselves to
the business of religion, and that in good
earnest.
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Love covers sin from others, but not from
the sinner himself.
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1878.
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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-20

Il seems that the money order system Of
this country il growing so fast that during
the last year money to the amount Of $751;
900. 800 wAs transferred in that way, not
only ct no net cost to the Government
whatevsr. but At . clear profit Of 5000.
OF course, Il is not desirable that any
profit whatever should accrue; it il only
meant 10 have the Department self. sustain
ing. Tho fact that 1t ID self-sustaining
tends to prove that the organization Of
postal savings banks are desired and
needed. The Government could afford TO
pay two or three per cent. per annum for
money left in ever so small sums on call ;
and il every important Postofice were .
bank Of deposit, the confidence Of the peo-
ple would be absolute, and they would
save far moro money than they do st pres
emit. In that case, too, . depositor in any
part Of tho country could. BY exhibiting
his book, draw his money without any ex-
pense. The public scntimcnt in favor Of
postal savings banks is growing every
hour. and every private banking institu-
ton that Il embarrassed furnishes . now
and cogent argument for their establish-
mont and for that Of . Government tele-
graph. In nearly all the Postofices Of
Great Britain : person may deposit any
sam mp 10 $3.50 and receive two and ono
haIf per cent. intereat on 1t. Withdrawing
o. transferring il At will. America will not
forever BE- : laggard.
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of 81 .000, 900. 1t is also prayed that de-
fendands, who are the Trustees Of the cor
poration, be removed from office, and q
receiver appointed to take charge OF all its
property.
Frank Osbiston. who examined the
Sierra Nevada mine for Mr.. Flood. this
morning. telegraphed as follows: That The
face Of the crosscut ON the 210O-foot level
is running into ore of o better quality; that
the face of the 2200-crosscut is three-fourths
in ore averaging over $500 per ton. and
will be wholly in ore when further progress
is made. Mr.. Osbiston takes q most en-
couraging view of the mine.
The Stock Report" prints the following
from Virginia: A number Of wellknown
experts, including Hank Smith. visited the
crosscuts on the 2100 and 22o0 Is of the
Sierra Nevada mine this morning, aud
pronounce the latter a magnificent success.
The face Of the crosscut has entirely run
out OF the cap-rock. and is now i'll solid ore
its whole width and length. The ore runs
from 500 to 81 900 a ton, clear across the
face, and Smith p%ronounccs it the most
satisfactory <aowing. The visitors report
has dom much to restore confid, nee here.
At the 2-o'clock session Of the Board the
leading stocks vary but little from the clos
ing quotations between the Boards.
The investigation Of the Georgia disaster
was recommended this afternoon.
SAN BUESAyESTuRA, Nov. ~.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-20
PACIFIC COAST T.
SPECIAL 70 N EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
CALIFORNIA.
The Small Pox Again.
DEATH OF COLONEL Jas. N. STRONG.
THE SIERRA NEVADA NINE.
"A Somewhat Nasty Case.


SAN FRAxc1sco. November 10.
A case Of smallpox was discovered BY
the quarantine officers Yesterday morning
ON board the British bark River Lune,
which arrived from Androsssn, Scotland,
ON the 9th instant. She was visited 1t that
time by the quarantine officers. who pro-
nounoed her all right. The case Is that Of
an apprentice, who shipped ct Androssan.
Tho quarantine officers say that no con-
tracted the disease IN . Chinese quarter OF
this city. Yesterday the patient was re-
moved to the penthouse, and the vessel
sud GREW placed in quarantine.
Colonel James Madison Strong, q men,
Der Of the Constitutional Convention from
Nariposs and MERGED Districts. and .
pioneer c~otton-growcr Of California, died
1t Sacramento this morning. The Con-
vention to-day adopted suitable resolu-
tons, anu adjourned TIL tomorrow.
Henry Schwartz has brought suit against
Daniel Meyer ct al, In the Fourth District
Court, for An accounting Of all monies,
gains and profits Of the Typo Consolidated
Mining Company, and 70 have = certain
contract for coal declared fraudulent and
void, and to recover damages in the sum
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-20

The 1200-foot level Of the Eureka Con-
solidated mine is to-day the most interest
ing spot in the Eureka district. 1t Is in
teresting because Of its direct bearing upon
the wealth and permanency Of the mines Of
this immediate neishborhood. 1t demon
strates that our mines not only go down
to en- indefinite depth, but also grow
richer as they descend. We have it on
good authority that the 12O0-foot level Of
the Eureka is promising even better than
the rich levels above. The ore body at
this point is widening rapidly, is cleaner,
better defined and freer Of waste rock and
other Questionable matter. and not stop
ping here, actually assays nearly $l00 to
the ton in gold, to say nothing Of the sill
yer and lead. This is . most encouraging
circumstance for the future Of a town.
II gives to all property and business hero
an enhanced value. for the good and sufi-
Gent reason that we have additional
evidence that the camp" las they call i)
b destined to last and flourish for years.
The people of Eureka, no less than the
shareholders in this great mine. are to be
congratulated on the bright outlook as
sured BY the valuable development made
It the g~reatsst depth attained by any mine
in the district. 1t is not improbable that
the great ore deposits Of Ruby Hill may 80
down for thousands Of feet. They have
only to hold ont . few years longer to
mako this the most populous mining center
west u the Rocky Mountains.
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A partial ilst Of the public subscriptions
Tor the yellow fever sufferers. in forty-eight
cities Of the United States. and in Liver
pool. Paris. Montreal, Mexico. Havre and
other cities in France and Havana, amounts
70 The respectable sum Of 81 ,s59. 900. In
this total are not included any Of the pri-
vate, religious, or society subscriptions.
The aggregate Ct which IL. no doubt, very
large, New York properly stands 1t tho
hssd of the list. her subscriptions amount
Ing 10 e895 900. II TO this sum are added
Tie subscriptions Of tho various churches,
Masonic and other societies. and those Of
private individuals. which were sent di.
rsctly 70 the yellow fever towns. the sssre-
gate for New York. no doubt, would not be
les than sso0.0oo. And II similar addi'
lions are mads for the other places. the
whole amount contributed would be found
70 b. not less than "a. 0 200. II il not 70
b f~crgottsn that even the Mexicans. whom
Il 4 the fashion among some Of POI people
u dsvids. msnIiested : spirit u true and
aposteststlous charity By sending 70 The
ysIiow tsveE sufbEerss liberal subscription.
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FOR N E w S.
SPECIAL TO THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
A Bomb Thrown into the Ranks
Of a Corps Of Veterans.
CELEBRATING THE ESCAPE or KING
HUmBeRT.
LARGE SALE OF SILVER.
LARGE SALE OF SILVER.

LONDON, November 10.
Tho corps Of veterans, which had a
bomb thrown into its ranks during the
procession in Florence. while celebrating
the escape OF King Hnmbert. was SINH
larly attacked returning from the funeral
procession Of Victor Emanuel. The fol-
lowing is the Pope's congratulatory tele-
gram: "Having heard Of the deplorable
attempt made against the life Of Your
Majesty, l express to you my extreme con-
Germ, and at the same time my congratula-
fions that you have escaped this grave dan
ger. ] pray God for the preservation Of
Your Majesty's health" Signed, LEo.
German Government silver. to the value
Of 1850, 900, was bought yesterday at sos
pence per ounce, for transmission to India.
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Suiciic Of the Treasurer of Boise
County = Gallagher Killed by
White.
SILvEn CRY, Noyembcr Ig

SILVER CRY, November 10.
r. W. Tompkins, Treasurer Of Boise
county, committed suicide recently. The
cause is not yet known.
Dan Gallagher was killed in Northern
Idaho a few days ago, by White, a dis
charged soldier. At the same time White
also inflicted a dangerous wound on Major
George Shearer. White was acquitted,
having acted, it is said, in self-defcnse.
Ainsle's majority for Delegate to Con-
gress Is nearly |. 200.