The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-03-09
GENERAL SECULAR NEWS.
Domestic.


The Texas cattle drive last wear
was 394, 7S4, against PSI, 1927 in 1879.
There Is genuine temperance re-
vlval all over the West. In Iowa it is likely
to make some political overturning. In In.
temperance advocates determined.
The White House was so named after
it was burned by the British in 1915. when the
smoke 80 biackened the heestone walls that it
was painted white.
Hon. j. Randolph Tucker, who has
been chairman of the Committee of WAYS and
Means in the lower House of Congress, has freed
" his mind" in regard to Ingersolls mistakes of
Moses" in the following way 1.-The ten grand
mistakes of Moses are the ten commandments.
the laws of modern civilisation. Let him who
points out the mistakes of Moses amend those
ten commandments and improve the decalogue
if he can. "-Presbyterian
The Revised Version of the New
Testament is promised shortly and "Compan-
ion to the Revised Version" prepared by Pro-
fessor Alexander Roberts, DID, Of ST. Andrew
University, Aberdeen. and a member of the
New Testament Company; explaining the rea
sons for the changes made in the Authorised
Version, will be published simultaneously by
Cassell, Potter, Galpln & Co., of New York.
Foreign.
They seem to be running all to "lec-
lures" this winter in Edinburgh. Rev. Sir
Henry Moncrieff is delivering the course of lee
lures in the Chalmers" Course. instituted by
Mr.. Macfe, of Auds, last year. DR.. Matbieson
is delivering the Baird Course on 1.-THE I'm
mortality of the Soul" The st. Giles lecture
is by DIR. Flint-subject. The History of the
Scottish Church from 1860 to 1890" DR.. Cal
derwood is lecturing on Objections to Need of
an Atonement."
Henry III. in 1884 granted license
to people to dig coal at Newcastle. Seventy
two years after this Parliament petitioned
Edward l. to prohibit its use in London as it
was regarded as preudical to health, and the
wives of the gentry refused to eat meat cooked
over coal fire. The king granted the request
The women of the court of Louis XIV declared
that its use was destroying their com plexions,
and though men of science said it was valua
BILE fuel. the women had their way, the use of
coal was stopped.
The EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AT
WoRK.-The war in South Africa which has so
unhappily broken out between the Basuto
nation and the Colonial Government having
produced the most disastrous effect upon the
mission stations and the native Christians, the
Paris Evangelical Missionary Society deter
mined to appeal to Her Maiesty's Government
and therefore preparded a memorial to be pre-
sented to the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of
State for the Colonies. In this memorial it
was stated that the French mission to the Basu.
tos had been carried on for more than ffty
years, and that thirteen stations and SEVENTY
out stations existed at the present time, with
seventy-Uwo chapels and buildings, and other
property to the value of e25, 900. There are
5000 communicates and candidates for baptism.
with 5000 children in day schools, besides 100
young men and women under training in normal
lie oil 0trf nof L. Al
have been also regularly instructed. This un:
happy war has scattered the churches and closed
the schools; thousands of the Christians are hid
ing In the mountains villages have been burnt
and crops destroyed, and many of the converts
against their wills, to their lives, have been
compelled to join their heather countrymen
against the British Government.
The French Branch of the Evangelical ALI
ance, In full sympathy with the Paris Missionary
Society, also prepared a memorial to Lord Kim
berley, and forwarded it to the Council of the
British Organization of the Alliance, requesting
support, setting forth in the memorial all that
had been stated in the missionary appeal.
Inc Council OF the British Organization most
cordially sympathizing, decided upon sending a
population to Lord Kimberley wftha memorial
from themselves in support of that from the
French Branch of the Alliance.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies having
expressed his readiness to receive at the same
nour on January 9th, Populations from the
Evangelical Alliance and the Paris Missionary
Society, the gentlemen composing the same
waited upon his lordship at the Colonial Office.
The Right Honorable William Brooke, Sir
William Muir, X. c. s. I, Donald Matheson,
Esq, Colonel Wilmot Brooke, Lockhart Qorden
Esq, and Major Malan represented the Evan
gehcal Alliance. and the deputies from Paris
consisted OF the Rev. Messrs. Pressense, Fisch,
Appla, Colliard, and Mabille. Lord Kimberley
received the Populations most kindly, and hav-
ing heard all the deputies severally stated
expressed his concurrence with the object in
view, and his desire that every effort should be
used for the restoration of Professionalism