The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-06-25
SECULAR NEWS.

Death of Colonel Chastain whits.-Ool Chastain
White, a popular member of the bar, well known
throughout this section Of the State, died at his
residence, on Main street near First, Saturday AZ
ternoon about l:30 O'clock.
New York, June 2O.-Miss Marie Gordon Pryor.
eldest daughter OF General Roger A. Pryor, vas
married to Henry Rice q Virginia planter, at the
Church of the Pilgrims, last evening.
Rochester, n. Y, June 20.-Professor Swift dis
covered new comet at o'clock this morning in
the constellation of Perseus; right ascension two
minutes aud thirty seconds, defamation north fifty
eight degrees.
The report of the Auditor of Kentucky shows
that negroes in that State own land worth So 3O6,
337, and personal property worth $666445.
The New Orleans Picayune points out the fact
that the minority in the Louisiana Constitutional
Convention who favor an honest payment Of the
State debt represent more than three .fourths OF
tho taxable property Of the State.
George Hoover. of Milville, Ind, married SEQ
ond vile within six months after the death of bis
first. The Dunkard Church, in which he was an
elder deemed his precipitancy serious offence,
| and expelled him. The punishment had so great
an effect upon him that he has become insane.
The elevated railways IL in New York are a
Nineteen thousand barrels of new potatoes were
| shipped from Norfolk, Va, to New York on Sat
urday last and 5000 barrels on Monday.
The Professorship of Mathematics of the Wei.
lesly College, tFemse) Massachusetts,, has been
offered to Miss Ida Brown, Of Bangor, Maine.
A Republicans Sketch of General Johnston. Mr..
j. M. Horton, tho excellent correspondent of the
Philadelphia Bulletin (Rupublican,) sent the fol.
lowing special to that journal to day: Amid all
the turmoils and troubles of the Democracy and
the foieS Of his southern fellow members, General
Joe Johnston sits calm and undisturbed in his
denoe and making friends with all who come in
contact with him. Rarely is his voice heard except
to vote, but when any measure affecting the army,
his State, the general interest of the country is
concerned, be Immediately takes his stand, and,
| without any breeadO or desire to make himself
conspicuous, he modestly but firmly expresses his
views. He is genial and social in his disposition,
aud it can be safely said that he has as many
| friends among the Republicans as among the Dem
ocrats. Almost the first question of = visitor to
the House is, Which is Joe Johnston and when
the quiet, gray.haired member, who looks not over
sixty, is pointed out to him, there is q shade OF
disappointment that one whose military fame has
gone all over the world should be SO upassuming."
| Dispatch.
William Lloyd Garrison left $500 to the Woman s
Journal and a similar amount to Berea College,
which is especially open to colored students and
| does not exclude women.
Rev. E. F. Gates. Manatee, Florida, writes US
1--WE have just passed through the severest and
longest drought known in the history of South
Florida IL HAS proved calamity to the orange
groves. The piDe-land groves have not an orange
on them, and many trees are bare of foliage, and
some have died. The hammock groves Jared bet
ter and will probably yield third of crop. But
few ORANGES will be shipped from this section this
fall. - Wesleyan Christian Advocate.
bingham Youngs Estats-Emilia A. Young
made application for the appointment of Re.
ceiver spd for an injunction to restrain the exc
cutors of the estate Of the late Bingham Young
from the further performance of duty, claiming
that thev have improperly made away with about
81, 900 900 of the estate. The executors are Geo.
Q Cannon, Albert Darlington, and Bingham
Young, Jr. The Third District Court has ap.
pointed United States Marshal Shaughnessy and
Mr.. Mccormack, banker. as Receivers The es
tate is claimed to be worth 81, 500 900. About
81 900 600 is said to have been returned to John
Taylor, Trustee of the Norman Church, by the ex-
ecutors.