The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-12-03
BRIEF ITEMS.

Men went into Wall street rich on Monday Of
last week, and Saturday found them beggars
others commenced the week with less than moth
ing, and on Saturday retired with fortunes made
in those six busy days-the busiest the Stock
Exchange has known in long time. The
transactions were simply enormous: between
Monday and Saturday three and half million
shares of stock alone were sold-to say nothing
of the enormous business in bonds. Prices grad
ually appreciated till Friday, when the crash
came. The loss principally falls on outside
spectators But it all shows that the spirit Of
speculation is still rampant and that we are not
to have appreciation of values and increased &C
tivity' without return of the mania of specula-
ton. In fact it may be said of stock specula
tons as of Tennyson's book:
Men may come and men may 90,
But they flow on forever.
CAistian at Work.
Hampton Institute now enrolls 316 graduates,
who are in great demand as teachers, at the
moderate salaries of from $40 to $50 per month.
The students this term count colored boys 1876 :;
girls, SO IA decided increase over last year, total
225. Indian boys, SO; girls 4 total, 40.
Boarding students, 237i day students, 81 grand
total, 268 The senior class numbers 49, the
middle class, IS; the Junior class, 76 the pre-
paratory class, "a the work students "a and
the Indian class 40. The latter labor in the
saw-mill and knitting-room and on the farm; fit
themselves at night school, for the junior class
of $780, and, by saving their wages ($lO a
month and board, can, with their earnings
while in school, complete the three-years course
of study, without a dollar from charity. The
enrolment will be increased during the year by
rs colored and 20 Indian youth.-Independent
The Partisan Committee of the Universal
Jewish Alliance has lately resolved upon the
establishment of school for the children of
Jews in Jerusalem of liberal views Two dele
gates have been sent out-one from England
and one from France-with the full power to
purchase real estate and put the enterprise in
operation. This puts the Orthodox rabbis, who
for centuries have forbidden the teaching Of
anything to the children of the synagogue ex-
cept the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud, into
greast perplexity and alarm.
A French company is said to have been re-
Gently formed for the purpose of utilizing the
products of the Dead Sea- An engineer last
May visited the ground, to report upon the
feasibility of procuring from its waters and shores
natron, salt, petroleum, sulphur and other chem
ical substances to be brought by small steam
boat to the northwest shore, near Jericho, and
thence to be carried by camels to the Medter-
ranean Sea at Joppa. At the same point on the
sea small factory will be put up, to reduce
crude materials to pure and more compact state.
Such a project carried out would contribute
greatly to the recovery of this part of the coun-
try to acknowledgement.
The importation of gold to this country is pro-
ceeding at an increasing and enormous ratio
The steamer Mosel, on Monday last alone
brought 81 100000 in coin and bars. We are
drawing even more heavily on Germany than on
England. There never was in America before
an average of so much hard money per capita as
there is now, and the increase is coming both
ways, from foreign banks and from our own
mines. Business is nothing less than tremen-
dous All our large houses report the year as
the heaviest and most satisfactory in their histo
ry-although they have only had a few months
of this great activity. Next year will without
doubt be the most busy year in all kinds of in
dustry ever seen in America. People are be-
ginning to spend money as though there was no
end to it. The laws of trade will during the
next year, start the outflow of our money and
prosperity to some extent. Wages and materials