The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-11-05

year are fifty per cent. below those for the same
period last year The liabilities show a still
greater reduction; this year, $l5, $50, last
year, $66370,36S.
The last new house lin date of construction
IN the Fifth Avenue New York, has been sold
for 100000. 1t stands near ffty-seventh street.
region which, few years ago, was mere COM
mons. Another house is to be built in the same
locality, the expense of which with the lot,)
will be $4,000.
Texas has almost stopped horse racing by fix
ing tax upon it. The Legislatures Of other
States could well initiate this law.
The deepest spot in the Hudson River is OPP
posite West Point, whore the water is two hun
dred and sixteen feet deep.
The Board of Presidents of the city passenger
railway companies in Philadelphia have once
more voted down a proposition to reduce the
fares to FIVE cents.
During the past nine months the number of
Scottish immigrants who landed at Castle Gar
den New York city, was 1900 1t is estimated
that the total immigration from all nations dur
ing the present year will be nearly 10000 per
sons
lively emigration to this country from the
vicinity of Genoa is said to be going on. On
one day recently 1000 persons left, and on the
next day 1900. $50.
Mrs. Meeker, wife of the Indian Agent slain
by the Utes, and daughter, and Mrs. Price and
her two children, have arrived at General Mer-
ritt's camp. The Indians have not harmed them
and they gave them up Internationally.
1t is estimated that DR.. H. ]. Glenn, late Dem
IL. 4. ~ - Gol,
this year has raised one million two hundred
thousand sacks of grain on his ranch at Colusa
county. This is equal to about siIty-f thou
sand tons, or enough to load thirty-two vessels
The crop is worth about $2,2l0,000
A Mr.. Soule, of Elgin, H., is in his third
year of frog farming and his first crop is now
being marketed. He has an acre and quarter
devoted to frog industry The kind grown is
the =" Goslin frog" much larger than the COM
mon sort. Mr.. Soule, will, next season, furnish
st. Louis, Chicago, and Cincinnati, with frogs
and is confident Of success in the business.
Great damage is being done in the vicinity of
Norfolk, N. Y, by forest fires, the flames cover
ing thousands of acres. Quantities of timber
and of stacked hay are being destroyed and there
will be no green timber. There has been no
rain for thirty days. The ground is very dry
and the Wild blows hard.
The Chief of the Bureau Of Statistics reports
that the value of the exports from the United
States of live animals of all kinds increased from
$5S44,6 53 during the fiscal year 1878, to $11,-
4S7754 during 1879. 1t is believed that the
Improvements which have been made, and which
are still in progress, for effecting the speedy
transportation Of cattle and for securing their
comfort and health both on railroad cars and on
ship board, will result in large and constant
increase of such exports.
LOUISVILLE, KY, October 27th.-The Ohio
River is nearer dry than has been known for
many years Thousands of passengers and large
amounts of freight hitherto going by river are
now compelled to swell the earnings Of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and so great
is the business of this line that all rolling stock
is at present in use, and more ifust be borrowed
to serve patrons who, having 4eld their heavy
freight in hopes of rise in tlC river, which. it
is now believed, will not occur before Christmas,
are obliged to send by rail. The low water is
the occasion of much distress here, as the coal
supply which comes by river from Pittsburg, is
now exhausted, and all fuel in use in households,
as we'll as by manufacturers, has to be brought
from Kentucky mines, on the line of the railroad
mentioned. The enormous demand for coal oc,
casioned by the resumption of business, and the
general activity has put up the fuel price 100
per cent, this railroad alone charging $24 a car
load for Kentucky coal delivered here, the form
er price having been SO.
There are about $4,000 Chinese in San Fran
cisco. Seven-elghths of them live in the region
bounded by Sacramento, Broadway, Kearney,
and Stockton streets From Sacramento to
Broadway is FIVE blocks of 275 feet from Kear-
ney to Stockton is two blocks Of 4l2t feet, with
Portsmouth plaza (two-thirds of block in size)
out There are l,0S0,96 square feet of land in
| this district or not quite "a acres The whole
contains All building lots of 25xl00 only
Fully 10000 Chinese live in this little space,
which is to-day the most thickly populated por-
ton of the United States. Even the poorest
class of white laborers would use FIVE times the
space into which these Chinese horders are not
simply crowded, but damned. -Occident
| Foreign.
| Dean Stanley in recent sermon said that in
the fifteen years in which he had been Dean of
Westminster there had been but fourteen inter
ments in the Abbey.
Cabul, which the British forces have entered
for the third time is the Afghan capital 1t is
on the right bank of the river named after it.,
and stands at an altitude of 1896 feet. Cabul
is about three miles in circuit. The noun
tains surround it pretty closely except where the
plain opens to the northeast
Statistics collected by the staff of the Glasgow
Daily Mail show that there are at least 10000
fewer people at work in that city than there
were two years. ago.
Secretary Evarts has received information
from representatives of the state department
abroad that both the German and British gov
ernments will cooperate with the United States
in preventing any more immigrants coming to
this country to Join the Mormons
The King of Spain, whose approaching mar
riage is announced, has made the happy event
the occasion of timely act of charity. He has
cansed II to be made known that whatever sums