The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-06-16
GENERAL SECULAR NEWS.
Domestic,

W T. Shields, of the law class of
1S79-'So, was duly admitted to the bar, Mon
day, 9TH inst, Court day. at Lexington, Va.
Last week a cow was sold at auction,
in New York, for 81 400 What ought to be the
price of milk when such sum is bald for the
animal? Such calculation, however, does not
trouble that class of gentlemen farmers who in
dulge in a taste for fancy stock.
THE fifty-ffth anniversary of the
American Tract Society, just held in New York
was unusually interesting. 1t was held in the
Broadway Tabernacle. In addition to the adj
dresses by several eminent clergymen and its
President, Judge Strong, of the United States
Supreme Court, the work of colportage for the
year just ended showed an immense amount of
efficient work.
"A business failure of magnitude
unequalled since the panic of 1873 gave a shock
to commercial and financial circles last week
The suspension of the Reading Railroad Com
pany, promptly followed by that of the Pbila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company,
involves an aggregate capital of $18S, 900 900
besides heavy mortgage debt The two en-
terprlses were practically one the failure of the
one necessarily brought down the other. The
extent OF the companies operations may be
gathered from the fact that they controlled 800
miles of road, $50 miles of canal, a line of iron
steamers, and held more coal territory than
any corporation in the world. The failure af
tected the financial markets in all the great
cities, and depressed all American securities.
Gold and silver are now reckoned in
Wall Street by the ton, and the specie vaults
built by the Government two years ago are
found to be too small. The present influx of
hard money is beyond all expectation. One
hundred and twenty tons of gold in Government
hands What an enormous sum To this
hOwlUar 1c tn ha odd L. l. i :.
tons of silver.
"A SAINTS BONES SEIZED FOR Duty
IN THE New YORK CUSTOM HoUsE-A case con.
tanning wax figure arrived at New York last
week from Rome. It was seized bv the Custom
House officers, who were about to break it omen
to ascertain the quantity of wax on which to
charge duty, when appeal was made to the
Collector, and the following facts were made
known:
The box was reliquary, or shrine contain
ing the efigy of Saint" Discolius, MARTYR
Il; Ihe bones Of the Saint were discovered in 1902
Ihey have been articulated and covered with
wax, so as to reproduce the form of the original
VINO appears to have been a very young man
with long, fair hair and almost feminine fea
lures. The initiated flesh is semi. transparent
showing the outlines of the bones beneath. On
the forehead Is cut scar, designed to show
the manner OF death. The body is richly
embroidered with gold Near the head is 2
glass bottle set in brass and supposed to contain
some OF the blood Of the MARTYR. The case ia
consigned to a nunnery at Cincinnati. Suner-
sution doubtless sets high value on such
relic, and when it reaches Cincinnati Il will
probably be deeply venerated, but to those who
worship God in spirit and in truth the relic mar.
taxes OF the character Of the brazen serpent
which Hezekiah broke up because the peonle
burned incense to it q Kings xviii ~.
THE GOVERNOR OF GEoRe11 ON
SUNDAY SCHooLs.-It is as true now AZ in
Christs day that the world hates the eodiy
man (John XIV: 19), and the Christian Governor
OF Georgia Is no exception TO the rule. CHARGES
nave been made against him, which he was ALE
successfully to rebuff at public meeting held at
Atlanta, May 18th. Among the charges was
one that he had neglected official duties for
sunday School work. In his reply Governor
Colqultt said he believed in Sunday Schools in
the religion that established them and in The
Statesmanship that teaches that it is better to ed
cate forty young men TO lives of virtue and 70.
Igor, than train one boy for the galows He
was charged, too, with attending "nigper meet
ings. For thirty years he had attended .g1B-
oath Schools and churches, and he did not be-
lleve that his being Governor made him too
great to meet the humblest Of his fellow-nen az
worship. No position was an biob ond - ,.,L;.I |