The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-10-08
GENERAL SECULAR. NEWS.
Domestic.

In the case of William Krouse, steward of the
Commercial Club of this city, indicted in the
Hastings Court for selling liquor on Sunday, the
jury returned verdict of guilty The Judge,
in assessing the fine said he was satisfied the ac-
cused had not Intentionally violated the law,
and fixed the fine at $40 the minimum sum-
In the case of John D. Snellings, indicted also
for selling liquor on Sunday the jury found the
accused guilty.
We have the authority of our friend R. T. La
CIV, ESQ, of New Kent, for the following: In
the fail of 1873 he seeded seven quarts Of
"Mole's" red winter wheat, and reaped at har-
vest eighteen bushels or about one hundred and
forty nine for one. We want to know who can
beat WuSe Point Star.
TALNAGE MET IN THE BAY-The Cunard
steamship Bothnia reached Upper Quarantine
before s o'clock Tuesday evening, bringing back
from Europe the Rev T. De Witt Talmage and
Mrs. and Miss Talmage The vessel was too
late to continue her voyage up to the city, but
Dr. Talmage and his family were taken on board
the steamboat Nelson K Hopkins, that took a
committee from the Brooklyn Tabernacle down
the Bay to meet them, and were landed at Mon
tague street Brooklyn, at o'clock, and imms-
diately taken home s.l
The tide Of emigration is still setting toward
our shores. During the last week 1888 immi-
grants landed at Castle Garded, 1,l43 having
landed in one day, one steamer bringing over
500 and another 1856. The hard times abroad
are sending over many industrious persons to
make beginning in the New World, but we do
not hear Of many being bound for Lord Bea-
consfelds paradise for farmers in the Wild
erness of the Hudson Bay Company's Canada
possessions. ~ Y. Observer.
Hon. R. NJ. T. Hunter and Judge William J.
Robertson announce themselves as in favor OF
the McCulloch bill.
The Car of Russia owes his escape from Nj
hilist assassns, it is said to a coat of mail which
has been hit many times but has always resisted
the bullets
The Rev. Joseph Cook has returned to Boston,
and will begin his Monday lectures about the
first of November
One firm in Wilmington, North Carolina, has
$50 surgeons, an aggregate of $4,000 pounds
1t is smoked and cured in New York and ship
ped to foreign markets.
AUGUSTA, GA, October 4th.-J. F. and L. J.
Miller, provision dealers and millers, have made
an assignment. Their liabilities are YoO,OOO ana
their assets $4,000 The cause of the failure is
speculation in grain and bacon.
A great scheme is under way in England for
the publication of new and stupendous die
tionary of the English language, to make four
volumes each as large as Websters Unabridged
which will be one and half times as large as
the famous Littres French Dictionary. Ten
years have been allotted for the work, and the
first part of it. containing the letter A, is hoped
for by 1882. Dr. Murray, president of the Phi
Illogical Society, is the general editor, aided by
competent staff, of which Prof F. A Marsh,
of Lafayette College, is the American represen-
tative.
The amounts of wheat and corn raised in the
United States in 1873 are, wheat, 420, l22, 400
bushels; corn ,345 55S,0OO bushels total l, 1852,
680.4(Q.