The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-09-03


each year from 1870 to 1873 inclusive of cotton,
sugar and tobacco, show that the crop of cotton
in 1878 was about 100000 bales larger than it
was in any preceding year the production of
sugar $4,000 hogsheads larger, and the yield of
tobacco greater by 100000 pounds-the totals
for the year being: Cotton, bales 5,20O,000i
sugar, hogsheads 2l2OOO tobacco, pounds,
572,OO0,O00
Prof. Cont has founded, at Florence society
of National Catholics, based on the acceptance OF
the abolition of the Popes temporal power.
1t is not good year for speculating bishops.
The venerable prelate of Cincinnati who had
turned himself into bank of deposit made a
most pltiable and disgraceful failure, and now it
is -ruid that the Bishop of Columbo, who is an
Anglican prelate in India has Just lost Y450000
in coffee speculation.
A rough Yorkshire preacher discoursing on
the text, These that have turned the world up
side down are come hither also, announced as
the points of his sermon :-"1 !. The world Is
wrong side mp. 2. 1t must be turned upside
down. g. We are the chaps to do it."
Mr.. Scott, the well-known agricultural au-
thority, in his annual letter reviewing the crops
of Great Britain, estimates the outcome Of the
grain crops at a third less than the average,
amounting to loss of $125 ,00O,0 900 to the culti-
vators, and that 100000 quarters of wheat, or
possibly 100000 quarters, will be required
from abroad. Mr. Scott also estimates that the
deficiency in the potato crop will cause a loss to
cultvators of $75OO0,O00, and the deficiency in
beans, peas, and rye a loss of $l5OOOO,0OO.
Queen Victoria has commanded Lord Gen.
Chelmsford to go to Balmoral and give her a
personal account of the events in the Zulu war.
During the visit the Queen will personally in
vest him with the collar and insignia of the
highest military division Of the order of Bath.
The wheat crop all over the West has been
abundant, exceeding in some of the States all
former years The correspondent of a Chicago
paper writes from Indiana an many cases the
crop will sell for as much.as the land was con-
sdered worth year ago. One man said Be
fore harvest owed $3.50 I looked at my field
and said If the crop will pay the debt l shall
be satisfied. have threshed and paid the debt
and have $500 still left ;"
Three railroads in Eastern Pennsylvania, with
a mileage of about one hundred and twenty-five
miles, and constructed at an expense of over
$7000,000 have now gone to the auction-block,
and come away at nominal price, with the
bulk of this large sum absolutely wiped out. One
was the Wilmington and Reading, (reorganized
as the Wilmington and Northern.) The second
unfortunate road was a short line of not quite
twenty miles, which starts also from Whining
ton and runs mainly westward to a manufactur-
ing village called Landenburg in the edge of
Chester county. The lastbf the trio of ruined
roads is one which has just been sold out. 1t
leaves the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pomeroy,
forty-two miles west of Philadelphia, and runs
south eastward to Delaware city, the eastern
terminus of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
This makes in all forty-two and half miles. 1t
cost more than 5000 900, and was sold for $780,,
900.
The ONEIDA COMMUNITY. THE
RULES IN DIFFERENCE To PUBLIC OPINION
Oneida, ~ Y, August 2S.-A manifesto was
issued Yesterday by the Oneida Community A
few days ago ], H. Noyes president of the Com
munity submitted proposition for the aban-
don.nent Of complex marriages. He proposed
that this practice, which has brought so much
odium upon the Community, should now be
abandoned, not as renou lcing belief in the prin-
cpes and final success of that Institution, but in
Difference to public sentiment, which is rising
against it. He further proposed that in aban
doning this system the Community should place
itself not on the platform of the Shakers on the
one hand nor of the world on the other, but on
st. Paul's platform, which allows marriage but
1refers celibacy, and that after this change the
Community would continue to hold its property
in common, live together in a common house
hold, and eat at common table, have common
ehildrens' department, and continue their daily
evening meetings and all their present plans for
moral and spiritual amusement and improve
ment. This proposition was considered by the
Community in full assembly on the 26th, and
was accepted, and from the present date the
Community will consist of two classes of mem
bers celibates and married. who will act upon
the principle of "monogamy ". Y Post.
Mr. Carlyle it is reported, has small hope Of
permanent recovery, though he may hnger on
for weeks His thoughts have already been
fixed upon the ultimate end of his illness. and
he has expressed wish that he should be buried
as quietly as possible in the choir of the old Ca
thedral at Haddington, where he laid his wife
twelve years ago.
Mr. TILDENs New COUNTRY SEAT" Grey
stone the county seat near Yonkers, which Mr.
Tilden leased with the privilege of purchase, was
sold to him Wednesday for $l50,000 The sale
includes the house and about ffty-fve acres of
grounds. The place is mile and half above
Yonkers, fronts on Broadway and extends back
to the Hudson with the privileges of the water
front over the Hudson River railroad 1t cost
1925 900, and its purchase for $l500 900 is regard
ed by real-estate men as great bargain since
any one with ready money at command can at
any time lay out the grounds into lots with ad-
vantage. The former owner was Mr.. Waring, a
well-known contractor for labor in State prisons,
who is now livingin the East, where he has sew
eral contracts for the manufacture of shoes in
State prisons and penitentaries.-N Y. Post.
The English papers cannot account for the
quietness of their government in regard to the
Russian expedition moving on Merv, None of
them have intimated that there may be a secret
treaty or understanding between England and
Russia to the effect that, while England absorbs
Afghanistan up to the Hindoo Koosh Mountains
Russia shall take possession of Turkestan, with
certain allowances to Persia. Russia did not
interfere with England's conquest of Afghanis
tan, and England will take no interest in the
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