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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-09-07

ROY. r. N. pmcB gays Nv wife iosub.
jeci to aick headaches. md for her The
''scven Syringe Mass" ia Specific both
cure and prevent,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-09-07
N. n, OSBORNE, MAsrrpc w TRANS.
Petersburg, W.
FRANK nudER, srr,r. rnAxa.

Lynchburf, Va,
All pcreons ~ ycnrp old mud over nro
chnlSsd fall rates IA above, Children five
years md under ~ ycar8 " nge arc chntg-
Oh half Of the nhoyc rutcs, md children
under ycnrr Of age nro pnesed rREn. 200
pounds N baggage, consisting Of wearing
appcarcl aud bedding, to each whole lioke +,
and no pounds 10 osoh half ticket will he
checked for Emlgran,s All baggage must
be IN trunks md should be we'll strapped.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-09-07

ar BRISTOL, with
Fast Tenn Va 4 Ga, Il
Il for Knoxville, chat.
tanooga, and all points
IN 6so' 0fd, AIdO1md,
Tennessee Mississippi,
--ihc West, Soiiih.iosSt
and Norih.iocst, and Jor
Cincinnati and points
along tho Cincinnati 80.
Railroad.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-09-07
ATTENTION FARMERS.

"A Il n 1SAN II A NA' II AtbA
We have large house and certain
accommodations for farmers and wag-
oners: q large rear lot where wagon
era can stand their teams for the night
In good stalls prepared for them. We
have also good house in which they
can sleep and cook. No charge for
these accommodations. remember.
CASH paid for Walnut Logs, Pop.
lar Logs, Ash Logs, and Hickory Logs
Cash paid for Vhedt, of which we
wait 10000 bushels.
We have also opened lumber yard
and will purchase lumber for trade AT
cash rates, Bring all your grain, flour
bacon and other produce to Ia and you
shall have very advantageous terms,
Respectfully
j. w. ROGAN 81 co.
July6'SO-tf.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1880-09-07
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RIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRAINS.

Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio B. R.
Warrington Time.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

MUSIC HALL SERVICES IN CINCINNATI-Your
paper has had one or two references to the Music
HAL religious services organized in this city
eight weeks ago to reach non church goers. and
since successfully conducted.
1t has long been a serious question how to
reach the masses with the gospel in this city.
The average attendance upon the Sunday morn
ing services in all the Protestant churches was
found by actual count to be less than thirteen
thousand. We have many churches, and sew
eral of them are costly and owned by wealthy
people; but they reach, for the most part only
those who are able to pay pew-rents, and many
OF the ministers preach largely to empty seats
while Sunday theatrical and hilltop amusements
are largely patronized 1t has been said that
OF the gospel and our churches have seemed to
labor in vain.
We clip the above from the Cincinnati
correspondence of the " Y. Evangelist.
The writer then goes on to speak of DIR.
Pratt's services and the large crowds he
is attracting.
What we have in mind just now, how
ever, is the statement that in Cincinnati.
with population Of some 100000, the
average attendance upon the Sunday
morning services in all the Protestant
churches was found by actual count to be
less than $4,000" If we suppose half of
the population of Cincinnati to be foreign,
then we should have church attendance
of 5000 in $4,000, or one in about ten.
Dr. Swing will have to write another
article, and locate his story somewhere
else
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

1T is we'll known, remarks the Phila-
delphia Presbyterian, that the Evolution
airy theory in its baldest form is taught
from one of the scientific chairs in Yale
College, and now another of the Pro-
lessons has caused his colleagues much
anxiety, and introduced u serious division
In the Faculty by teaching and defending
the principles of Herbert Spencer. Spen-
Ger, it is well known, is the chief of the
Agnostics, and believes that the Universe
is without God, at least without a God
who can become known to man. "He
holds, as one says, that all systems of
religion will ultimately disappear, and be
succeeded by vague belief in an infin-
ltely remote and incomprehensible Cause,
with a capital c." Professor Sumner
of the College, teaches. Spencer's princi-
pies of Sociology, using one of Spencer's
volumes as his ext-book, and continues
this against the advice and remonstrance
of President Porter
If our recollection is not at fault, Pres
ident Porter wrote to the ". Y Observer
during the recent newspaper discussion
about Evolution, that the doctrine was
not taught in Yale. Is not Prof. Marsh
one of the teachers at Yale? We should
guess that he teachers Evolution, and he
also holds that man can be traced in
America as far back as the Tertiary Age
The doctrine, we suspect, is Ue,y aOidely
taught. 1t is taught everywhere, for ex-
ample, that Prof. LIE Conte's "Element
of Geology" is used as textbook, unless
the teacher takes pains to correct the
teachings. of the text.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14
For the Central Presbyterian.
Presbytery of Maryland

Met in Franklin Street church. Baltimore
April 9Th, at d P. NJ, and was opened with a
sermon by the Moderator, Rev DR. Bullock from
Titus ii Ills.
Present, thirteen ministers and ten ruling
elders '"e
Rev. Charles Beach was elected Moderator
and Ruling Elder, L. c. Inglis temporary clerk
Dismis8iOn.-J. Addison Smith was at his
own request, dismissed to ST. Louis Presbyterv
Cdndtdate.-Mr. Milton B. Lambdin, a mem
Der OF Union church. Alexandria, Va. was re-
celyed as candidate for the gospel ministry.
Commissioners to the General Assem6ly.ERev
John Leyburn d. D. and Elder l., G.. Inplis
principals, and Rev. Charles Beach and Elder
G. Anderson, alternates.
Neat Stated Meeting.-Union church, Alex
andria, Va, on Wednesday, September 10, 1880.
at u P. NJ
Systematic Benefcenee. report show,
that seven churches have contributed to all the
objects of 6eneyolence. THO have contributed
to ttoe OF them and one to three The total
amount contributed shows gratifying advance
over that of last year
Home and Foreign Missions. -Interestinp and
instructive addresses were made in behalf of
these objects by our Secretaries, Rev. Drs vii.
son and McIlwaine
Statistics Ruling elders 40; deacons %
ministers 10; churches, 10; added on examina.
ton, 81; added on certificate, so; total number
OF COMMITMENTS, 1924; adults baptized 10;
iiiiaiVs DdpLlSoui 10; children IN Bible classes
and Sabbath Schools l,472.
Contributions. -Sustentation $2,63e; Evan
geiistic Fund, $500 Invalid Fund, 1868 For
eeign Missions, $3.50; Education, 81 '48O; Pub
LEGATION, $545; Presbyterian $3.50; Pastors sal
airy, $10.3S1; Congregational S9O57 Miscei.
laneous, 81, 2OS.
=, NgrTot1oe- Reports were received from ali
the churches; all enjoy the regular ministration
OF the Word all have received additions to their
membership; Sabbath Schools are under control
OF the Sessions; peace and harmony prevail
throughout our borders and our churches we
trust are growing In knowledge and piety as
well as in numbers r. T. MCMURRAE.
Stated Clerk
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

WE regret to see that the young gem
tlemen at West Point, who ought to know
better, are so hard on the colored cadets.
1t is stated that the "ostracism with
which negro is treated there is COM
plete, and that ga white cadet is cut by
his fellows who offer a negro cadet the
slightest social courtesy" We are very
much surprised to hear this; we thought
that at the North a colored person would
get full justice, and especially in an in
stitutiop where the young men are, as we
presume, almost unanimously in sympa-
thy with the Republican party.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

Mr.. BEEcHER thinks that the great CRYING
danger IN our day is lying and dishonesty. 20
We agree with Mr. Beecher for once.
The vices which characterize an age are
brought to the surface by the habits and
pursuits of the people. In the middle
ages there was little commerce; society
was unsettled; the law was not executed E.
1T was an age of violence The strongest
ruled. A great contempt was felt then
for the Jew who traded and traficked
and for the vices which are brought out
by trading and commerce, namely, living
and dishonesty, To kill man or break
his head, or wrest his land from him by
force, or ruin maiden, was regarded as
very smSpl affair as something natu-
rally IN the line of the noble profession Of
arms
The same thing has been illustrated in
the characteristic vices of the people Of
the different sections of the United States
The name Yankee has become associ-
ated all over the world with the idea of
getting the advantage over you in bar
gain. The vices of the commercial and
trading communities of the North are ne
cessarily such as Mr.. Beecher complains
of-lying and stealing. The temptation
to liewhen selling a horse or a piece of
calico is very great; the temptation to
defraud in the manufacture or delivery
of goods is very great; now given nation
of statesmen and manufacturers, and the
national vices will be lying and stealing
On the other hand, organize society as it
was organized at the South before the
war, and the young gentleman farmer or
planter will despise a lie theft is some
thing that he cannot comprehend. But
he will regard drunkenness and gambling
as venial matters; and he will put ball
through you if you offend him in the
slightest way. The vices of the rufFian
and the BLACKBOARD will crop out conspic-
uously in such society.
Since the war the vices of the North
are fast settling down on the South
There will be less blood-shed, and more
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

WE sincerely regret to learn that Mr..
Mcnamara the leader of the Independent
Catholic movement in New York, dis
cards what is generally known as sacred
music, and has the hymns sung to such
tunes as "The Exile of Erin, and Wear
ing of the Green He has, says the
Presbyterian Banner, one version of
psalm of David set to Yankee Doodle"
and the twenty-sixth psalm is sung to the
tune of Paddles Forever" Goodbye,
Mr.. Mcnamara.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14
THE CHINESE.
pert.

PROF. EELs has a very calm and sug-
gestive discussion of the Chinese Question
In the present number of the Pres6ue-
ran ReUieaO. He thinks there is no dan
ger at present of their settling in this
country to any great extent. There are
now about 100000 of them, and they are
constantly coming and going. They do
not ordinarily remain more than four or
hive years. 1t is very evident that the
Chinese in this country have learned to
discriminate between Christians and the
more vicious classes of our population.
They manifest the greatest desire to learn,
and especially to learn about the Bible.
In many of our cities they are regularly
organized now into Bible classes, and
numbers of them have become Christians.
Prot. Eels regards the movement as a
Providential one, obviously designed to
act on the future of China. 1t is perfect
ly clear that no missionary work could
begin to be made so effective as this
Hardly a Chinaman will 90 back to
China to resume his old idolatrous prac-
tees; many will go as Christians; a large
number will go carrying. more or less OF
Christian civilization. Prof. Eels re-
marks that the converts from among them
are reliable; and he makes insthis con-
nection the observation that they are in
every thing S'ag,tlarLy thorough. What
ever they undertake to do, they do we'll
Ii one undertakes to commit the Shorter
Catechism, he will know every word of it
If one undertakes to learn to cook, he will
perform all the operations exactly as they
are taught him.
1t is our belief that the Chinese are
destined to cut great figure in the flu
ture of the world. They possess the
qualities which ensure success. Their
national vitality shows this. They are
the only nation, except the Jews, who
have come down to us in any charac-
teristic form from antiquity. Their civil
ization and social life go back to the peri
cd of the Egyptian Pharaohs; but Egypt
and Babylon and Assyria passed away
the Chinese Empire survives and -four
ishes.
There are three races to-day that are
particularly adapted to trade, and to
modern civilization; the Anglo-Saxon, the
Hebrew, and the Chinese. The Hebrew
roots out all competition in Europe; he
is superior to the Yankee in America
and the Chinese, by their economy, their
patience, their application, their industry,
are superior as merchants and traders to
the Jews. When China is thoroughly
Europeanized, unless Europeans and
Americans learn to live on less, the Chi
nese will take the trade Of the world.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

The Established and the Nonconform-
ist clergy in Great Britain both took an
active part in the recent political canvass.
The great majority of the Established
clergy sympathized with the Beaconsfeld
government, while the dissenting church
es sympathized almost universally with
the Liberal party. These ministers last
mentioned defend this on the ground that
the party in power, by its policy IN the
East, had debauched the national con-
science, and that it was their duty to de-
nounce such conduct on the part of their
rulers. 1t is well known that Mr.. Spur
geon has often spoken out with great en-
Phasis against the ruling party.
The victory Of the Liberals is, there
fore, to be regarded on the whole as in
dicating a growing strength among the
dissenting churches. Of course the apri-
cultural and financial distress in the
country entered, however, very largely
into the result.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14
Bag To our Old Subscribers, -y,su

Nearly every subscriber who RENTS his sub
scription takes occasion to express his desire to
see the circulation of the paper extended. We
are gratifed by this appreciation, and in order
ito enlist all in the effort to increase still more
>our circulation, we now make this proposition
TO our old Subscribers, viz We will give pre-
:mium of rs cents to any old subscriber for
every new subscriber he obtains at the regular
rate, SO per year, or if preferred any old sub
scriber sending his subscription and that of a
new subscriber, shall receive the two copies of
he paper one year for SIS.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

--Thirty-three years waiting for
teacher has been the experience of some island.
ers near the coast Of China In 1885, DR.. Mead
o o III making a journey along the coast of
CHINA, called for few hours at a small island
where, ne distributed some tracts and small reli
glous books The island remained unvisited bv
any European for thirty three years. when =
missionary went thither and began to preach the
gospel To his astonshment, one of his hearers
said, We know that doctrines" and on being
asked whence they had obtained their knowi
edge the man replied Many years ago for
elgner came here and left some little books and
other writings which contained that doctrine
which you preach. He gave them to my father
who charged me when dying to read them and
keep them carefully, and perhaps some day COL
tooud send some one who would teach ma the
doctrine more fully" The result of the seed
sown by Or. Meadows, thirty. three wears before
was the formation Of a church which speedilv
numbered sixty members, and is now in a
healthy and thriving state.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

lying and stealing.
Commercial communities lie and steal
agricultural communities, like Spain,
Italy and the Southern States in ante
bellum times, are addicted to deeds of
blood, and where ignorance and supersti-
ton prevail, there will be brigandage, as
sasslnations, burglaries, etc.
The human heart is desperately wicked
no better and no worse in agriculture or
commerce; the environment only evokes
this or that particular vice.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

The annual meeting of the Virginia
Bible Society was held in the First Bap-
fist church of this city on Sunday after
noon, Bishop Docgett presiding. The
Rev. DR.. Sledd delivered an address, and
was followed by Mr.. Thomas N. Page.
The society expects to have sixty or sew
enty colporteurs in the field this summer.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

WE have been requested to state that
at the Commencement at Hampden Sid
ney the Baccalaureate sermon will be
preached on the sixth of June by Rev.
W. 7. Hall, D. D., of Lynchburg, and
that on the ninth, the Literary Societies
of the College will be addressed by Ben
net Fl. Young, Esq, of Louisville, KY.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

CHAsTAIN Cox says he thinks he is
prepared to 60" We suspect he is mis-
taken, and we suspect that there are a
great many who are laboring under a
similar hallucination.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

WE are glad to learn that much reli-
glous interest is manifested in the congre-
CATION Of the First Baptist church Of this
city. The pastor, Rev Dr. Hawthorne
baptized some seven persons Sunday
morning, and two in the evening. DR..
Hawthorne breaches to crowded houses.
The meetings continue this week
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

The Rev. DR.. CURRY preached at the
Second Presbyterian church of this city
on Sunday morning.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS have received
S2 for the Rocky Mount church from
Charlottesville, Va.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

pondent makes. We have as strong an
aversion as he has to making children
MORT
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

Darwin acknowledged himself match
ed when his little niece asked him, seriously.
what a cat has that no other animal has He
gave 1t up after mature deliberation, and then
the sly puss answered, Kittens"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-04-14

READ the fine poem on The Burial of
Moses.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-13

SEED PoTAToEs.-I have raised excellent
crops of potatoes from small seed. This
fact induced me several years ago to adopt
the rule of planting small seed every year.
In few years the crop had sensibly dimin-
ished in size of tubers, and, of course, in
bushels. The cause was believed to be in the
seed. A concurrent cause may have been
the tendency to decline everywhere apparent
for the last thirty-fve years Since then
have planted large and medium size seed with
better results. Years ago, when l was boy,
an old farmer in Surrey, N. H., had been in
the habit of planting his smallest potatoes
for many years 1t was remarked by the
neighbors that his crop had run out in conse-
quence of this practice. At that time the po-
tato disease had not appeared, and frequent
change of seed and new varieties had not be-
come an actual necessity. The remarks of
the Surrey farmers neighbors were, quite
likely, correct. The only safe way in the
long run is to secure parent types whose
characteristics it is desirable to have trans
mitted to the offspring. All our improved
cattle, sheep and horses, all our improved va
rieties Of vegetables possess superiority over
their Wild ancestors, through careful seec-
ton of parent forms for many years, united
with careful attention and cultivation, and veg
etable organisms are no less subject to the law
of descent than animal.-"S. b. o." WI
faiHgtOR, ", in Am. CUltiCdtOF.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-13

VERMONT DAIRY NoTEs Mr. Wood of
Pomfret said, at the recent meeting of the
Vermont dairymens association, that he kept
twelve cows, and averaged from each COW,
for year, 3lG pounds of butter that he fed
per day two quarts bran and two quarts meal,
in winter, with plenty of early hay. In sum-
mer he feeds two quarts of meal, and some
times little more, TO such cows as are flush
in milk. He generally allows his cows to 60
dry about two months He sells his butter
to one man during the summer months, his
product netting him twenty cents per pound,
while, during the fall it advanced to thirty
cents. For this winter he has had no re-
turns.
T. B. Sayles of Shoreham whose butter
took the first prize at the recent interna-
tonal dairy fair at New York, says that to
make good butter it is of the first importance
that the milk be good, and for this purpose
he has Jersey COWS, which he feeds with In
dian meal, cornstalks, good English hay cut
early, red clover and Alsike clover. He sets
his milk in pans twelve inches deep, and i'm
merses them in spring water skins every
twelve hours in summer, and at intervals of
twenty-four hours in winter. lie sours his
cream, and ohurns it at a temperature of Ga /;
salts it to suit the taste of his customers,
sometimes using three-fourths of an ounce,
and at other times an ounce, to the pound of
butter
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-02-13

MANUBING LAwNs.-Eyery one nowadays
recognizes the beauty of trim, well kept lawn,
though it is comparatively but few years since
the snowy flower garden or the untidy door-ya
gave way to the fresh and smooth expanse of
green turf between our dwellings and the dust
of the highway. But it is too often the case
that lawns are rendered unsightly and disa-
greeable in the winter by the very means tax
en- to make their summer appearance attract
i've. Coarse, strawy manure is spread over
the surface in the fall, and left in scattered
Jumps to be broken up by the frost, instead
of being finely broken and evenly applied.
There are several beautiful lawns which we
pass every day on our way to the city, which
are disfgured in this way. The absence of
snow thus far this winter, has made these
lawns look worse than ever. If barnyard ma
nure is to be used as a op-dressng for lawn
in the fall, it should be very finely pulverized,
and all straw and litter should be carefully
raked out, care being taken to apply the ma
nure very evenly, as the result of uneven dis
tribution will be very evident in the patchy
appearance of the grass in the spring.
We do not think, however, that p-dress-
ing of barnyard manure in the fall is by any
means the best way of keeping up lawn.
Apart from its unsightly appearance, it is al
most sure to contain seeds of weeds and
coarse grasses which it is almost impossible
to eradicate after they have once got introduce
ed among the fine grasses of the lawn. A
much better practice is to use some of the
commercial fertilizers in the spring or a light
dressing of crushed bone or wood ashes. If
this is done early and the ground carefully
rolled, the effects of the fertilizer will be very
quickly seen, and with little care in resow-
ing bare spots, a handsome lawn can be east
ly made " E. Farmer.