The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-03-24

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mas recently taken the subject into considera.
ton, and experiments have been made bv DR.
julius Hensel a chemist resident there. DR.
Hensel reports that he discovered one or more
poisonous thread worms in each drop of water
ana that from two gallons of the water he had
taken 100000 organisms or animalcula He
believes that large amount of the typhus fever
IN Newark is caused by the state of the water.
and that one out of every seven deaths from con.
sumption may be traced to the effect of the
thread-worm on the lungs.
BISMARCK IN A BLooKADE.-A des-
patch from Bismarck, Dakota Territory. saws
FROM February lG to March 8, no mail was re.
celved IN this city. except few letters by way
OF Deadwood and Omaha. A team lett on Fri
day last for the mail on the blockaded train so
miles east, and brought in 20 passengers and
TWO tons OF letter mail. Three tons of papers
were left at the train and are expected this week
One hundred and twelve men are WORKING %
miles eastward, and can only clear two miles a
DAY. Provisions are running short; there is no
hour IN the city, and provisions are being ship
ped by the Government from Fort Lincoln
The offensive inscription over the
entrance to the cemetery of the Free-reIpons
congregation, Berlin, Make the best of this
life there is no hereafter, no resurrection" has
come under the notice of the police authorities
VINO demanded the suppression of the last line.
We find the following in one of the
secular papers When Colonel Robert Inger
soil had occasion few days ago to make oath
TO some document he went before Chief Justice
Garter, of the District of Columbia Supreme
Court. The Judge is stern old Presbyterian.
| lie dwelt with particular emphasis upon the
form, You do solemnly swear in the presence of
Almighty God the searcher of all hearts &c
and, though Ingersoll WINGED, he was obliged to
1.-The total cost of the Brooklyn bridge.
across the East River at New York. is set down
at $11 ,4S3,979 to date
Josh Billings said: "There never
infdel"
Foreign.
-EUGENIE's TRIP TO ZULULAND.-Tbe
departure of the Empress Eugene for Zululand is
definitely fixed for March % Her Majesty
will embark in The German, one of the Union
Steamship Company's boats, accompanied only
by one member of her household, the Marouis
de Bassano, son of the Due de Bassano, and bv
Sir Evelyn and Lady Wood Several ladies'
the widows of officers slain in the war~will
also take part in the mournful journey but their
number is extremely limited "The German"
will proceed directly to the Cape, without stop
ping at st. Helena. She will remain three DAVIS
at Cape Town, and then start for Natal. arriving
at Durham toward the end of April After rest
ing some days IN the colony, the Empress
EugeHle will travel by land to the Valley of
Ityotyazl, the scene of the sad disaster. About
fortnight will be needed for this part of the
Journey, which will be so arranged that her Ma.
Jesty will reach the donga where the Prince fell
on the Inflated LIST of June, and at the verv hour
of the struggle and the death.
On June 3rd the Empress will start on her
ratr1
Union Companys steamers but this time few
hours will be spent at st. Helena Her Majesty
will return to Chiselhurst on July 26. The two
English servants of the late Prince Imperial will
be IN attendance on the Empress during the whole
OF the journey to Zululand and back London
Telegraph.
DISTRESS IN THE TURKISH CAPITAL.
Great and general distress throughout the mid
die ana lower classes IS also reported from the
Turkish capital. Several ex officers of the
Army, who have resigned their commissions in
sheer despair of ever getting their arrears Of
pay, may be seen painfully earning their bread
as Porters In the streets of Galata. A short
tune ago, the municipality having failed to keen
It's engagements to the gas company. the latter
cut on the supply of gas, and Constantinople
was plunged into Zimmerman darkness for one
Whoie long winters night, to the CONSERVATION
OF ITS respectable inhabitants Next dav the
municipality contrived to scrape together the
sum required to appease the gas companv's
righteous wrath, and the lights re-appeared after
shutdown. Highly significant of the straits to
whlch the middle class Stamboulis are reduced
is the fact that the small householders in the
neighborhood of the Bajazid Mosque have taken
to shooting the pigeons that inhabit the roof
and Purlleus of that sacred edifce ENJOYING from
time lmmemoual absolute immunity from moles
IatIon because, as 1T were, born and bred in the
odor OF sanctity These pigeons hitherto protect
ed by the municipal and religious authorities.
and assiduously fed by the inhabitants of their
parish are daily falling victims to the hunger of
their former friends and patrons. who wage war
upon them with relentless perseverance So
conscientious Conservative as the Mussulman
bourgeois or Proetary must, indeed be hard put
TO 1t for meal when be breaks with so venela
bic tradition as that which enioins him To
spare the lives of the holy pigeons that soioprn
egraPh.
The time may be near when Rome
Will be more distinguished as the political cant
tai OF Italy, and withal lively and fasb,onable
CITY; than as the residence of the Pope and the
headquarters of his hierarchy. During 1879 the
births there numbered 1887. of which 1880
were among the resident population. The deaths
among residents were 6,724 On December 81
1879, the population numbered Dos $50 an IN
crease OF 1883 over 1873 Since 1871 the non
ulauon has increased by 54476. mainly by i'm
migration The sanitary condition of The CITY
shows Improvement The authorities have how
ever abandoned their scheme Of a Worlds Foir