The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-09-01

-Ihere are about eighty employees in
the Dead letter Office in Washington, and about
eight thousand letters are daily received there.
In general, the most valuable Enclosures are
found IN letters which are not directed at all.
New York City supports 1860
grocery stores, 1,146 bakeries, f,993 brokers',
663 printing offices, 1903 shoe stores 1882
merchant tailoring establishments, besides 723
clothing stores, 1928 wine and liquor stores,
aside from the 3,240 lager beer saloons, and
some 5000 lawyers.
"A shrewd farm hand BOUGHT for,
$3.50 the big meteor which fell in Emmett conn
ty' Iowa, last year, and was laughed at by his
comrades for what they conceived to be his
idlocy. He has now sold it to the British
Museum for $500. ''''-
The Mormons began work on their
new Temple twenty years ago, have expended
Y4,OOoOOO on It, and it is now one fourth done
The material is Utah granite, and the entire
cost will be $32oOo,OO0
I'VE hope some of these days it will be turned
into big Presbyterian church EDS. O. PRES
During the last ten DAYS of 1879
more than 600 shocks of earthquakes were felt
IN San Salvador. They were the heaviest De-
tcember %, about Lake Ilopango, where one
shock broke the telegraph wire, made the
ground anetworkof cracks, opened new springs
increased the rivulets to ten times their usual
volume, muddied the waters of the lake and
rolled hundreds of thousands of rocks down the
steep hills. On the night of January 81 and
| ~, volcano appeard in the middle of the lake.
There is now volcanic island of five acres.
from which a column of steam shoots into the
air 900 feet
The railroad between Vera Cruz
and the City of Mexico is said to be marvel of
! engineering. 1t ascends 1900 feet, 4, 700 in %
miles 1t passes from hot to temperate, and
from the latter to the cold country. 1t spans
ravlnes, scales precipices and plunges through
the bowels of mountains below; then up into
the clouds again To construct this line took
Peror.
The members of the Presbyterian
Council are beginning to arrive in this country.
The Rev. DIR. Blake, one of the clerks, is now
IN Nova Scotia; Professor Bruce has gone to
Manitoba and the Rev. Edward A. Thomson
OF st. Stephen church, Edinburgh. has seized
the opportunity to visit California before the
Council meets The Rev. e. Comba. Professor
IN N the theological Seminary of the Waldensian
church at Florence, Italy, has also arrived He
comes to read paper before the approaching
meeting and will also represent the Vaudois
Church.-Fre8byterian. =
The great gathering Of Knights Tenn
20 - Trh,SSaSo mas u!sPeT ~, alter showing the
extent of the order in this country. U1for-
tunately the Sabbath stood in the way and was
trampled down. The Ad0ance saws Ia large
part OF the Communicates started for Chicago on
Sunday. We know of two ministers. one Con
gregatonalist the other Presbyterian. who left
their puApits to join their fellow Sir KNIGHTS ON
tnelr sunday pilgrimage to the scene Of ac-
DR. Robert Breckinridee used to saw
that any man was good and edifyinp preacher
70 MIN whom he believed in and personally
loved. never weary of hearing of Christ
rom friend no matter whether he be eloquent
or learned or mott my personal confidence il
enough"-I6. -
Foreign.
"A letter from Bordeaux gives a
ferlghtful account Of the leech-p ponds ten miles
fed with the blood of old horses. which ars
driven into the ponds where the leeches niek
them TIL they grow faint. Then thew are taken
out and allowed to Craze in the fields till thew
regain little strength, when thew are AGAIN
driven into the pond and the process is repeatad
I'll at last they are dragged out bloodless and
Strange as it may seem it is never
theless true, that about 100000 worth If
STOCK is destroyed annually in France bv wolves
which goes TO show that there is yet wild coun
try in Europe.
The empire of Japan has concluded
contract with i. W. Mason, late superintendent
Oh music In the schools of Boston, to Introduce
our system OF musical instruction into that conn
try Arrangements are making at Toxic, ON
the most liberal scale to furnish the means and
appliances needed in the line If NJ 49,