The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-02-11
GENERAL SECULAR NEWS.
Domestic.

OF the 10000 houses standino within - .
boundaries OF Philadelphia, twelve out of sixteen
are mortgaged. ''0ii
At the great iron works of Pittsbnro Do
they have succeeded in rolling iron so thin 40 10
resemble tissue paper and 10000 sheets are re-
CURED TO make one inch in thickness
Again, as prophesied last fall, the Negro exc
aus Is renewed. Hundreds are here on their
way to Kansas Nebraska and other n1ocos
AGAIN we have begging for money and food and
clothing for the destitute among them Again
we hear OF the swindling agents who took f6eir
money, IN advance, promised to see them
a iouSn, ana n IN cruel mockery of their cries for
helP' lett them to their fate in St Louis In
terror. l."
=, The pastor of the Roman Catholic church at
GIeehcaStle' Ind, publicly reproved and dis
charged ms choir because they had Dernetrated
a fraud in the rafting of piano at fair II
was not the gambling for which they were re-
ouked, but for cheating while GAMBLING for
Which they were discharged As there sbonId
be honesty among thieves, so gambling even for
the church, should be done fairly.
Stephen P Nash was, on January 10 elect
ed President of the New York Bar Associat;oD
to succeed Hon VIM. NJ Evarts. This is tbs
largest richest and most powerful association Of
tne kinu IN the United States, owning spacious
~ Coo o. i''h COSU PlOUOOO, and library of
io'OOU volumes, costing $4,000; to be elected
president of such an association is no small
honor. ~ Small
Owing, as it says, to the great advance in tho
price of white paper, the Chicago Times ono
nounceS that 1T henceforth adds twenty per cent
70 the price Of its daily issues. The price is To
week. O0"'S per
The recent rise in the cost of material is nrov.
ing very heavy burden to all newspaper pnb.
Isners, VINO, unlike most manufacturers are not
aoie usually to add the additional cost to the
price Of the paper. 'i'
Asst TGME.-The finest embodiment Of the
railway progress Of the time is now admitted to
pe the last trains of the Pennsylvania railroad
between Philadelphia and New York The dis
Lauce OF ninety miles IS raversed in exactly two
hours, including ten minutes for ferriaoe from,
Jersey City and New York The actual distance
Iayersed by rall-eighty miles-is covered
~ one hour and nifty minutes, or at a rate of
iorty eight and a-half miles an bour The -
however, only the average rate of speed and in
0rder 70 make up for diminished speed tbrougb
lne larger towns, velocity of over a mile
minute must be attained over considerable
portion OF the road. Those who are accuetorood
TO measure speed by the jumping and swain,
OF o. the cars, and on many roads this is an ino9
iailole method, would be astounded on the tcvo.
nour trains OF the Pennsylvania road In he in
formed that they were travelling sixty miles an
nour Inc motion is as smooth and steady as
motion through air, and few under such condi.
IONS except veteran travellers moving At this
rate OIL speed, have any realizing sense of the
l act lhatsuch velocity should be attained and
sun DC the very poetry of motion speaks vol |
ne5 Tor the management of the PennsvIvania
-oaa, whose aim has always been to secure per-
o os,,,u IN all details and thus accomplish grand