The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-03-10
GENERAL SECULAR NEWS
Domestic.

Here are the names of some of our
American millonaires: Commodore Vanderbilt,
railway king, $75O0O,000; William B. Astor,
real estate lord $6OO00,O00; Alexander T.
Stewart autocrat of dry goods, $4,000 OOO
Peter and Robert Goelet, real estate lords. $25.
100000; Charles Morgan, shipping merchant
$10,0O0000; Alexander Stuart sugar refiner
$5, 5000; William c. Rhinelandar real estate
lord, S35OO,OO0; James Brown, banker, SIS OOO-
OOOi CORTLAND Palmer, retired wealth, 81 OOo,-
600; j. w. Chanler, married Astors granddaugh-
ter, 81 100000; John Q. Jones, Chemical Bank
cashier, $2,500,000; Colonel Van Buren,, real
estate lord 81 100000; David Leavtt, 6nancier,
S3,OOOOOO; Benjamin Winthrop, retired 81
100000. Total, $4,000, O0o.-Erchanqe.
The most weighty testimony in favor
of brevity is afforded by the practice and success
of Judge Benjamin R. Curtis Justice Miller
of the Supreme Court of the United States. said
that Mr.. Curtis was the first lawyer of Amer
lea OF the past or present time" He rarely oc-
cuPled more than forty minutes in making a
plea. His great argument in the case of the
United States against the Union Pacific Rail
road, presented before the United States Circuit
Court at Hartford can be read in less than
fifteen minutes. Only two instances are remem.
bered by Justice of the Supreme Court in
which he spoke over an hour.
The colored men are marching on to-
ward the West and Southwest A CHATTANOOGA
Journal announces that during the last few
months the exodus from East Tennessee. North
Carolina and north Georgia to the West has
been unprecedented. 1t is estimated that with
in the past four weeks 900 colored emigrants
have passed through Chattanooga, nearly all
of whom have crossed the Mississippi at Mem
phis. The emigrants for the most part consist
OF bodied farmers, such any State can illv
afford to lose. When questioned about their
new and unknown homes the emigrants give
the most extravagant reports of the fertility and
richness of the land. They say that they can
obtain the farms for mere song that when
once soWn the crops will spring up like magic
They do not credit the reports in regard to dis
appointed returning migrants-Interior.
The highest salaries paid by anv col
lege are those to the professors of Columbia who
receive re, amounts varying from $500 to $3375.
The University of California pays full profes
sors $4,000; Yale and Princeton about So 500.
Brown University from IS 900 to 81, 500: Am
herst $1,000; Washington University. st. Iouis
$4,000; Williams 81, 200; Tufts, $4,000 which
however, Is only temporary reduction from
$1,000; Harvard pays from $1,000 to $500;
Michigan University allows professors $4,000
assistant professors s 800, and instructors 5000
Cornell pays its three classes of professors re-
spectlvely Y2,250 ST. 800 and 81 900; WESLEYAN
Unworthy $780, with a recent discount of ten
per cent the Ohio Wesleyan University f,om
$1,000 to 81 500; Dartmouth, Trinity at Hart
ford, the North Western University and the
University Of Wooster Ohio each pays $4,000
Lafayette allows 81 800 and a house illinois
81 800; Bowdoin $l700; Western Reserve and
Beloit 81 800; Oberlin 81 400 Iowa. Olivet and
Kalamazoo Mich 81 200 Antioch 81 $50 and
Aillsdale (Mch) from 81 900 to 5000. The
salaries of the professors in the German univer-
sites are paid mainly from the public treasury
OF the State. They are somewhat higher than
those allowed American teachers.
Here is what the Interior (the Presbv
terrain organ of the North-west) says about
the Presidential race:
The interminable and immense ocean of no.
litical literature of the past two months. boiled
down, results in justths and no more General
Grant can have the Republican nomination for
the Presidency if he wants it, The Germans in
Ohio and New York, pivotal States threaten 10
bolt If the general is nominated Does the gen
eral want the nomination under the circum-
stances2 His next and nearest friend is General
Washburn, to whom he owed more for his on
portunities to show the ability which he DOS.
sessed than to any other man. The Republican
Germans endorse Washburn. Ex-Governor Til
den can have the Democratic nomination if he
wants It, New York is pivotal State John
Kelly and Tammany threaten to bolt if Govern.
or Iilden IS nominated, and they probably will
bolt. Does Governor Tilden want the nomina-
ton under the circumstances The nearest
friend to Mr.. Tilden is Speaker s. J. Randall, of
the House Of Representatives. He stands in
about the same relation to Governor Tilden that
Mr. Washburn does TO General Grant. The
next President will not be chosen, primarily,
by the people He will either be- OF be named
by, one Of the two leading Presidential War.
wicks. 'All this noise, this beating Of tom-toms
and blowing Of hew- gags by the partisan news
papers, is nothing but a noise"