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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-21
For the Central Presbyterian.
A Burial Service.

The Presbytery of Orange On c. over
lures the General Assembly to provide and
have bound with the Psalms and HYMNS.
suitable burial service for the optionni
use Of taynaen. To the writer this action
seems very desirable. Will the editor
kindly allow few remarks?
L. The use of this service is not obliga-
tory.
2. 1t is not even proposed for the use
of ministers
3. 1t is not a proposed addition to the
Directory for Worship The conducting of
funeral services is not function of The
ministry exclusively. Any Christian may
with proprlety conduct a service at the
grave as we'll as in the meeting for prayer
or Christian conference Therefore it is
proposed to bind suitable burial service
for the optional use of laymen, along with
the Psalms and Hymns, where it may be
easily accessible.
4. 1t not infrequently happens that the
services of a minister cannot be had.
This is specially the case in the country
and in thinly settled sections, in the army.
and on board ships. In many of our
feeble country churches which are open
for divine service but once a month. il
sometimes happens that the minister NAV
not conveniently attend a funeral, and in
such case one Of the elders should con-
duct the service. The writer would not
call an elder layman, but elders wholly
unused to such things would gladly avail
themselves of such a help as is proposed.
In the writer's own family it once hap
pened that no minister could be had at
the funeral of a child, and most accepta-
BILE service was conducted at the grave
by very intelligent and pious physician.
3. For the want of such a service. easily
accessible, recourse is often had by our
own people to the Prayer-Boo of the
Episcopal and the burial service of the
Methodist Church-not by our ministers.
OF course, but our laymen and elders. It
is assumed that our ministers do not need
such help as that proposed but in the
case OF laymen, even those competent to
conduct the service without the aid of a
form, have not often the selfcommand
which comes of use. After while they
could dispense with the crutch of printed
forms. Why compe! our people to resort
to helps afforded by others, the beauty of
which is unduly extolled, and the Ian
guage of which we cannot approve?
8. Some written form of service is in
variably used in the army and navy and
merchant marine, which ever after is en-
deared along NTH the Church 1Ohich issues
it, to the friends and relatives of the dead.
This is recognized advantage. Why
should not the Presbyterian Church af-
ford the same help to laymen and reap
the same benefit?
We hope the General Assembly will
favorably consider the overture. We
have old forms which could be remod-
eied to suit modern taste The advan-
tages are obvious, and the usual obiec-
tons to liturgy do not obtain against
this help Tor laymen. J. w. P.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-21
For the Central Presbyterian.
From House to House.

At time when our Missionary Secre-
tares are bringing all the the pathos of
their pleading to bear upon the Church,
In view of the urgent needs of the foreign
held-when our pastors-all who are
alive to the momentous interests at stake
are making every effort to arouse their
congregations to the demands of the oc-
casion-when our Ladies' Societies and
our Sunday Schools are besought and en-
treated for aid,-perhaps it may be per-
mitted to one Association to make brief
report of what it has accomplished dur
ing the fiscal year Just closed. The Wo-
man s Foreign Missionary Association of
the Presbyterian church of Lexington.
Virginia has aimed, ever since it's insti-
tuition, to raise $500 by house to house
collection, every year. 1t has done it for
two years past; but there was some extra
aid from other sources each year This
year the collections reached 1862 IL
every dollar of which has been gathered
from door to door. There is reason for
thankfulness but no room for Boosting;
for it is believed that with additional eff
fort, the sum of $1,000 for the three years
might have been attained. The contri-
button for March alone, taken up by this
simple process, was S51.
There can be but one excuse for setting
forth what this Woman's Association has
been able to accomplish without the adj
ventitious aid Of concerts, suppery, or any
thing whatsoever, viz: that other socie-
ties Of like character, may feel encouraged
by the results Of this well-tried expert
ment, to put in operation similar test.
Is it not better and more directly legit-
innate way to help to fill the Lords treas
uTy, than by Christmas trees, tableauZ,
concerts, and suppers2 M J. P.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-21

SIT calmly by and let witnesses and coun-
sci do the talking, and this tends to Sc
cure fairness and elaboration. 1t is this
speech making of our ecclesiastical Judges
that disslpates utterly all Judicial temper
and renders our courts at times ridicu-
lous spectacle to the world. We want
for all judicial trials in all our courts a
commission of impartial judges who shall
be neither advocates nor witnesses nor
accusers nor relatives of parties-but fair
and unbiased 1udgeS of law and fact. Is
1T un-Presbyterian to have this?
NEANDER M WOODS.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-21
Yelled Vision.
BY MARGARET J. PRESTON

BY MARGARET j. PRESTON
If suddenly there shone to us revealed
The world of spirits, that may be so near
Not, as we dream, some outer reachless sphere,
But close to us as heart beat-tho' concealed,
AS were the fiery chariots all afield
Girdling the Prophet till touch made clear
The curtained sight,-to what ignoble fear
And shame and selfreproach our souls would
yield
We might behold our sacred Dead, with eyes
Clouded thro' wonder at our empty days;
Sad with vast pity Ger our waste and woe,
Our mad mistakes, our blind and grovelling WAYS.
Our cold forgettings yet Gods angels so
DO watch us in a mystery of surprise
-Tndependent.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-21

THOSE whom God designs to enlarge he
first humbles and straitens for a time.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
THIRD EDITION
JOHN KELLY'sTERM OF OF
EICE.

NEW YORK, December John
Kelly's term Of office as comptroller
of this city expires to-day. The term
of Corporation Counsel Whitney ex-
pred on Friday last. Rumors were
current yesterday that Mayor Cooper
would to-day nominate to the Board
Of Alderman his candidate for those
offices, and for the two police
justiceships, the three sxise COM
missionerships and the commits
sionership of parks, that are now
vacant.
The Mayor declined to say wheth-
or the rumors were true or false; but
those who profess to enjoy his con-
fidence were reasonably sure to- DAY
for the office of comptroller, and
that there was but a slight probabili-
ty of the nomination of candidates
for the other vancancies. The opin-
ion of these gentlemen is based up
on their belief that no nomination of
Mayor Cooper's will be confirmed
by the Board of Aldermen while the
existing combination between the
Republican and Tammany aldermen
holds together.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
Auction sale of Eieg.n. Articles.

There is now being sold at The auc-
ton room Of +. NJ. Ogle, No. sO7 Mar
Ike. street, the largest and most beauti-
iul variety of elegant slverware, that
has ever been offered IN Win ington.
IL is composed Of almost every article
OF utility that can be mentioned, got
ten up in the richest style of ant known
to fashionable designers.
There is scarcely an article in the
collection that would not make an ap-
propriate gift for Christmas or New
Years. Richly oruamented and plain
ice pitchers, tea sets, coife urns, soup
tourines, side dishes, cake baskets,
fruit dishes, mngs, knives and forks,
carvers, toilet sets, with richly colored
and ornamented glass bottles, tea and
table spoons, napkin rings and every
thing almost that can be thought of to
please the eye, may be seen here, ex-
amined and purchased at the highest
bid, and lowest price ever secured for
in this city. The goods are on cxhibi-
ton for sale. Everybody is invited to
call and look at them at any :ime.
They are warranted to be first class,
triple plated and satisfaction render
ed or no sale. They will all be offered
at auction during the few days and
evenings this week. Call and buy
bargains.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08

From the y. Y. Herald.
THE SPREAD OF DIPHTHERIA.
The rapid increase of diphtheria,
amounting almost to an epidemic 10 some
parts o. brooklyn, taken in connection
with the current weather conditions, is
peculiarly alarming. Last week ii was
announced that this terrible scourge pre-
vailed in a very malignant form in Gray
son county, Va, and we may expect in
the present peculiar hygrometrict state OF
the atmosphere that it will develop un-
usual yirulence along the whole Ap-
palachian slope. The extended medlco-
meteorological researches of Dir. Arthur
Mitchell, and Alexander BuchAn, the
noted British meierologist, conclusively
demonstrate the connection between THIS
disease and definite weather stages.
"Cold and moist air, 'hcy find, sis ac-
companied with high death rate from
MISREPRESENTATION which have
marked the Atlantic seaboard for the
last Ortnight, and have been intensified
| by the heavy rails of Sunday from Nir-
| ginia TO Massachusetts and the cold wave
ow upon us. The concurrence of low
temperature and high humidity in aug
| mentlng the malignancy and spread OF
| diphtheria is the more remarkable, as
| etiologists incline to the theory that the
malady is originated by organic matter
III the air, which is generally heulralized
or destroyed by cold weather.
| Mrs. Wood aud Formed recently re-
ported a number OF experiments made
by themselves for the production of
diphthera in the lower animals. They
first tried to inoculate them with mem
brane taken from persons sick with
| diphtherla, and were fatally successful
in only about five and one half per cent
Of the cases thus tried; but strange to
say, in a much larger proportion of ami
mails on which they tried the effect OF
organic matter death ensued. The re-
suits seem to show that the organic
matter which prevails so largely in our
foul streets and alleys is even more eff
iectlve in producing the deadly forms OF
The foul memOranOus trachits than the
dlptheritic eXudation itself, and that the
contaglon is Of the nature of septic
poison not absorbed into The system, but
when taken into the mouth and nose
causing intense local Inflammation.
The official investigation of the diph-
therla outbreak which so alarmed
Northwestern London in 1878 clearly
revealed the fact that the attack of the
disease within the area of the out
break fell upon consumers of milk de-
rived from particular source. But
there is nothing more certainly estab-
llshed by scientific inquiry into the or.
igln and spread of this dread pestilence
than that it reveals in the damp, cold
and foul air OF i'll drained streets and
suburbs, and where soiled snow and ice
are left to exhale their pestiferou,
odors. A heavy responsibility rest.
on all municipal authorities in oul
Eastern cities to do what is possible tr
avert the threatened epidemic.-N. J
| Herald
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
IRISH DANToNs.
PARNELL AND DILLON EMULATE TIE
FRENCH REvoLUTIosIsT.
nfruvxwf .aan

A"NSh hENOLUTIONIuT.
DUBLIN, Dec. 6, 1880.
Last evening a great banquet was
given to MIR. Parnell at Waterford. In
responding to the toast in his own
honor he said that the English govern.
ment had great resources, but he did
not believe her resources were adequate
to perpetuate her government in Ire
land. 81 do not believe" he contin-
ued, 'that any amount of money or
the strength and power of even the
greatest nation in the world can work
impossibilities, and IL is abundantly
proved that governing Ireland outside
OF Ireland by power and people who
do not live in the country is imposs-
BILE. We have gigantic forces arrayed
against us, but we have more power.
ful forces on our side-namcly the
forces of nature, forces of Dationality,
forces of patriotism and true devo.
tion.
hese are sufficient to break he yoke
of English misgoyernment and chase
from the country that usurpation which
has long had its heel upon our neck.
Look al what we have done TO this pitt
lul kONtlhiHcul. III Twelve months we
have obliged them TO reverse every priu-
ciple, every law, every tradition on
which they built their position. We
have made them eat their speeches
Even Gladstone, don't believe Glad
stone can settle the Irish question with
out breaking up his Cabinet. He could
not even pass his miserable little Com
pensation bill last year.
If ! had not been confident that the
Lords would reject it / would have
had the Irish party reject it; but |
preferred to let the Lords do my dirty
work. When John Bull finds that he
will have to pay el50, 900 900 in the
next four or five years to govern this
country he will think the English mode
of governing Ireland very expensive.
| may be told that concession would
be better. but when concession perpet.
yates an evil il is better to reject it.
| Now, few words on the national
question. do not believe we can set
Tic the national question. We have
10000 landlords with 500, 900 depend
encies arrayed against Ireland's self
government. If the remaining Q, 200,
900 souls combine nothing can resist
them. The British government may
pass coersion act, though L don't sa,
| would let them. But if they die
they would not DO advanced one step
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
ATROCITIES BY INDIANS.

GALVESTON, Texas, December IA
Ne,os special from Fort Stockton says:
Persons just in from San ElizaIio re-
port that Mexicans from Chihuahua
bring appalling particulars Of devilment
done by the escaped and desperate
Iemnant Of Victorio's band in the neigh
borhood of that town. In that section
from twenty to thirty men, women and
children are known to have been muir
dered and mutilated in the most horri-
BILE manner. a detachment of ten men,
returning with General Terassas after
the abandonment of Victorio's camp,
were attacked by about thirty Indians
few days ago and only 1eraSas and
one man escaped.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
From Ys.,srday's Kate Edition.
LETTER FROM SAMUEL TOWN
SEND.
For the Gazette.

For the Gazette.
Mr.. EDITOR IL see notice in your
paper that Judge Houston, or persons
for him, have served notice on Il. l..
Martin that his seat In the next Congrei :
will be contested. /, as one Democrat,
am glad the corrupt Republican party
have opened the ball. One Of the Re-
publican State Committee in this county
boldly proclaims that they (the Repub-
licans) bought out New Castle County
Now, let every Democrat who ran on
the Democratic ticket In this county for
member Of the Legislature, serve notices
on every Republican member who
claims TO be elected TO the Legislature,
that his seat will be contested.
And then let two-thirds Democra-
tic Legislature investigate Republican
corruption, if it takes all this winters
session. In the end it may prove
enough to prevent any Republican
claimant from taking his seat, and pile
up evidence for Martin to use in the
contest of Houston.
| agree with John w. Forney in what
he says IL bis paper; that Is for this
Democratic Compress to appoint such a
eJmmitte as the Wings appointed over
twenty years ago and called the Covode
COMMITTEE, to bring to hight as far as
possible every corrupt and unlawful act Of
the Republican party for the last twenty
years, II II takes the whole short session, 4,
and 10 thoroughly probe the arts OF brib-
cry and In nImidation in the late election.
Brng employers and the men they
threatened in order to force them to
vote the Republican ticket. Bring all The
Jonn Welhses and other rich contribut
ors to the Republican corruption fund.
SAMUEL TowNsEND.
Townsend, Del, Dec. 8, 1880.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
ESCAPE OF PRISONERS.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, December r.
Seven prisoners escaped from the
county jail at Merton, yesterday.
They were /: VIM. Green, Indicted for
murder; George Hobler, for larceny &;
Frank CLEANS and Charles McGree, for
burglary James Edwards for pocket
picking Philip Cross for lape, and
William Hardelck, for grand larceny.
The escape was made by cutting a
hole through a stone floor and digging
through the foundation wall.
JEFFERsoNyILLE, Ind, Dec. r.
Seven prisoners in the Southern peni
tentiary escaped last evening. They
came from the foundry and sealed tht
wall between the fire of the guard.
from each end. Six were recaptured
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
wANAMAKER a brown. Phiia.
The Reduction in
Clothing at Oak
Hall.

The clothing marked
down Saturday comprised
about 5000 suits and over
coats. Both the suits and
the overcoats are various
enough to constitute Il
complete stock of them
selves, so that you may
be reasonably sure of find
ing among them what will
both suit and fit you.
Some of the very lowest
priced mems suits we make
uo among them; $40 reduced
to So so, and some of all
grades up to excellent suits
at $50, reduced to $50 and
$27 so reduced to $25.
4 $40 overcoat at SIC so
is not to be missed on a cold
morning. Even the boys,
whose clothing has been wait
ing for this cold snap will not
object to the taking off of
three or four dollars from
the cost of suit and overcoat.
Remember this All these
garments were made by our
people, under our own eye,
and before this reduction
were marked as low as they
ought to be sold, We couldn' t
afford to reduce them, but
we must sell faster to keep up
with our work people.
We know how to sell fas-
ter, viz. by selling lower,
We have been selling faster
Tor nineteen years, faster than
our competitors. That we
have done of course by sell
ing lower. Now we have to
sell faster than ourselves,
and down goes a part Of our
stock, whether we can afford
it or not.
Whatever you don't like
bring back. If there be
grumbler, we don't want our
clothes on him
WANAMAKER Il BROWN
OAK HALL, sixth and Market,
nova. philadelphia
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
FAILURE OF A HEAVY COFFEE
FIRM.

NEW York, December 1.-THE
house of b. G. Arnold & Co., coffee
merchants, of No. 1875 Front street, to
day made an assignment to j. Law
renee McKeever, of 12S Pearl street.
The firm were the largest operators in
coffee and teas In this city and proba-
bly, in the country. The rumor of the
suspension spread quickly and caused
considerable surprise. The suspension
was caused, it is believed, by the
shrinkage in the value of coffee and
teas, the house having heavy stock 4;
also by losses sustained by other TAIL
ures. Reports were current that the
firm would be able to settle their obli-
cations in full, and oven that they will
have large surplus after the winding
up of their affairs. The Liabilities
are estimated at upward of 81, 900,
600.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
DEATH FROM HYDRoPHoBIA,

WARRINGTON, December John
Thomas Dove, the eight-year-old son of
George W. Dove, of this city, was bitten
on the cheek by a hound about four
weeks ago. The little boy, very brigh t
child, complained on Saturday OF his
eye hurting, and yesterday morning was
taken with spasms Doctors Lincoln and
Ward were called In and pronounced the
case hydrophobia. The little fellow suf-
ferid dreadfully and the sight or sound
OF water threw him into fits of tren-
bling succeeded by spasms. He died this
morning at ten O'clock.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
BoYCOTTING WATERFORD.

LONDON, Dec. 7, 1880.
The freedom of Lho city of Waterford
was presented to Mr Parnell in the
Town Hall today. He returned his thanks
IN speech, in which he expressed the
0elief that the back OF English rule In
Ireland was broken, and that the coun-
Try would ultimately recover its leglsla-
tive Independence. A despatch from
Waterford to the Times says:-"The
proposition to confer the freedom of the
city on Mr. Parnell was carried With
considerable opposition. The result OF
The opposition, however, was that the
dissenting mem bers have been more or
less "Boycotted." A system of wholesale
intimidation was exercised TO compel
corporation in the arrangements for the
reception of Mr. Parnell. The windows
OF several establishments were smashed
when 1t became known that the owners
would not join the popular movement,
ana IN two cases watch had been con-
stantly kept to see that no business was
done there. The inhabitants had to Join
10 the rejoiclngs or have their houses
attacked and trade destroyed. The re-
.ult was that almost every business
house was decorated with flags.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
YOU NEVER MISS THE WATER
TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY.

WESTMINSTER, Dec. THE wells
in this neighborhood have been going
dry one by one until there is such
scarcity of water that our people are be-
ginning to be alarmed. MI. Vim. Wam-
piers well, which has been abuudantiy
supplied with water for over ono hun
dred years, has been among those that
have given out the more recently. In
May, 1878, the citizens of Westminster,
by small majority, decided against
supplying the town with water by means
of reservoir aud artesian wells. They
now see their mistake, and If the mat
ter is again brought before them their
former decision will be reversed.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
LOCAL TIME TAn,p
TRAINS LEAVE u,,,

n ~ lLMI NCN
o ~ noh PHlLAOELPHIA.-l.@o9,l
~ wv S,i4, 1902. lO.SO, A. m - %
hS.e5,2.Oo 2.30, 400, Gil In "a a. l. ~
On sundays, l.5S, 2.23. Sid = ,'Vn, ~;
80, h.55, lO.OOp, IN. '''O'"' H.;
FoR NEW YoRK.-l58. 2 2ge ~ :
Am; 1925, l2.43, 2Js eig'~ ei9'~
sundays, I.6S. 2.23 .. m. sl9n' - p
10 ra ~ dbsALIiMoRE AND WASH,
~ ,9l, 2;W, 2.l5, 7.5j,s.Sj, a. m 7his ~ :
a'9 '9;V, nos, p. m. On sundays Il /
~ roh BALTIMORE, Bay Line am,
1'vs p, m. No SUNDAY trans 0ou'
FOR NEW CAsTLE.-6.W n q
S.Oo, $50, p. IN. No SUNDAY trata a.
FOR DELAWARE K, R.yo IN ,
go, p. m. No Sunday trains d.
FOR WILMINGTON K NopTt,,n
~ a. M; 800, 5.O5 p, m. S%' So
For DELAWARE WESTERN y
'o'~a' M; $50 p. IN. No SUNDAY
TRAINS ARRIVE IN wItvr
FROM PHILADELPHIA.-lgu ,
i'oZ, $40; Y.2j, " m; l2.IS lgi5I
4.N, 40, 4.5O,5. ~, 8.25, 100. sm q ~
IN. On sundays, I2.i3, I.s lls '73
a. M; 7.a p. IN. -''''
FROM New YoRK.--l.5s 20s : "a
M ls.iS, I.O2. 4.iO. O.7.G1 y. in On, ,''-
LOS, 2.VS, 7.52 q. IN. "'
FROM BALrIMoRE.-l.53l, Oh
M; ll.2O, I2.lI, 2,Oj, 6.O7 gI5 n ~ d,
Gays, .O3, 2.Ii "a. Iii. B.O7 $50 n m
FROM WAsHINGToN.-lit 21- Il
l2.2O, 1881, 2.n5, 6.O7, $50 u. m
days. 6.07, 8 80 y. III, ''
FRoM.NEw CAsTLE.-s.is. g2i /,
BIO, $40 p. III. No Sunday Train:
EkoM DkLAwARE X. K.-,.,,
$40 ,. IN. No sunday trains
FROM WILMfNGroN a NuKrnr
400, ll.2 n. m; 6,45 p. IN. No
trains.
FROM DELAWARE WESTERN r
a. In.; 2 10, y. IN. No SUNDAY tra
TRAINS FOR WILMINGTON
PHILADELPHIA.
FROM BROAD STREET AND WAS
| ANENuE-Z05,LS s.l5. lU.J,Il.mI
l.S, 800, 1850. 400, 4.Sp, 5.lj, t.J'
9.i5, ll.3O p. III. On sundays. s..
90. a.45, ll.30p. IN.
FROM THIRTY SECOND AND
STaEETs. .-7.3O, ll.35 a. M 1872
M; LOO IA. IN. On Sundays, 100
| NoTE.-The black figures repr,
Limited Express" on whi, b
fare Is charged.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION.

To-day is the festival of the Immac-
ulate Conception, and it will be obser-
we'd in the Catholic Churches as hol-
iday of obligation. Services will be
held similar to those on Sunday, and
all the faithful are required to hear
mass. While many of the earlier
Catholic writer's have held that the
Virgin Mary was free from original
sin, it was not declared doctrine of
the Catholic Church until December
s, 1854, when Pope Plus tx. pronoun-
ced it a dogma of faith.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-08
IN FAVOR OF COUNTY DIVI-
SION,

During the session of Court, Monday
afternoon, while George b. Rodney,
Esq, was arguing the Clemson will case,
something Sas said about the Court
House. Mr.. Rodney responded that
he had not yet seen t!.c new Court
House, nor did he havt any desire to
see it. That during the few years left
for him to practlse law he hoped TO con-
tinue IN the old Court IIouse, under a
new county. Others III Nsw Castle are
heartily in favor Of Couuty division, and
1t is probable a movement TO this effect
will be made during tine next session OF
the Legislature.