The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-14

nusheu ny the secretary OF the treasury shows
the receipts and expenditures of the government
from 1855 to 1851. The net revenue ba,
risen rise IN that time from S74056. 500 "a to 500.
.o2,29257. and the net ordinary expenditures
from S69 ,57l ,025.79 to $3.50, 7l2, SS7 So
The interest on the public debt in 1856 was
?l'9o3 81, IN 1867 it was Sl43 7Sl ,59l, in 1881
1T was SS2,50S,7 41. The public debt September
less cash in the Treasury, was $l,Sl6 $685. 67.-
45, showing a reduction of $l4, ISL 22l.32 dur
ing the past month; of this amount of debt
S426, 443, $50 bears no interest.
TOBACCO SALEs.-The sales of leaf
tobacco at the Danville warehouses in the
month of August amounted to 2,662,3l1 pounds,
which brought 1884. OPS II, or an average of
1887 per hundred.
As an evidence of the recent advance in the
market, due to the widespread drought. we re-
mark that the average price of the tobacco sold
on this market in August, 1880, was only
Yll 90, or Y2.O7 hundred less than it was in
the corresponding month of the present year.
The sales for the eleven months of the to
bacco year. commencing October 1st, 1880.
amounted to 1853 pounds, so that we NAV
safely calculate that the years work will ex-
coed thirty million pounds.-Register.
The APACHE WAR.-The Apaches
of New Mexico and Arizona are among the
most warlike Of the Indian tribes. There have
been apprehensions Of trouble with them for
some time. On the 30th of August medicine
man" who had been active in fomenting discon-
tent, was arrested by Gen. Carr, who has COM
mand at Fort Apache. The man was appre.
hended without resistance, but when the soldiers
had withdraw several miles from the village
they were surrounded and fred upon by the
Indians. The fire was returned and the fight
kept up until dark, when the Indians drew off
to their own camp, having killed by their attack
one otticer and seven men. Under cover of
darkness the soldiers made successful retreat
TO Fort Apache which, at last reports, is being
bravely held against a large Indian force.
The affair was greatly exaggerated in the first re-
ports received Yet the Apaches are brave and
may give serious trouble.
The statistics of the Jews of the
world have been recently compiled by the Ger
man ethnographical scholar Richard Andell.
and are published in The Je,cish World Thew
give the whole number in Europe as 5,l66, 326
IN AREA, 4o2, 996; In Asia, 1S2.S47; in Amer
lca 3O7,963; In Australia, 10000; and the total
number as 6.0S0,132. In single countries the
the Jews aie most numerous in European Rus
STA, where there are ,552 $40 of them. and next
IN Austria Hungary, 1872, 1888 Next come the
German Empire, 520,575 European Turkey
l6efOre the war;, 1872; Great Britain and
fi rising 900 each; France, 49,436;
Italy, $3.50. The dates of the statistics range
from 1869 to 1878. The Falashas, who number
two hundred thousand and other "pseudo
Jews" are not included.
The Oldest church building in Amer
lea now standing is the {" old Bingham MEETING.
house." at Bingham Mass. 1t was built IN
1851 and enlarged and improved in 1929, 1855
ana 1863. 1t Is frame, its main timbers
heaVy oak, and, 1T is said, seems capable of tax
ing on two hundred years more. On the sec
ond Sabbath of August, 1881, a large congrega-
ton gathered there to celebrate It's two hun
dredth anniversary. Several distinguished men
delivered appropriate addresses Gov. Brown
IN his address, referred to the remarkable fact
that six ministers have spanned the entire
period OF the 25O years of the existence of the
parish making an average of forty-one years
and eight months to each pastorate. Rev. Cal
Vim Lincoln its present pastor is a descendant
OF rev. feter Hobart Its first pastor, who took
charge In 1859 and continued till 16SS-forty-
three years.
"A correspondent of the Christian
O1''or'' writing from Paris gives a note of warn
ing as follows =" Paris is no place for boys
and girls to come to school in, unless ALREADY
mere Tor other reasons; and in that case parents
should choose very, very carefully. Paris, with
Its great libraries, its wonderful museums its
scores OF free lecture courses its great schools of
music art, medicine, law politics, science, is
grand city for American professional students
10 WORK In: But few years in Paris often
- IL young American
ideas. If his principles are not very strong
they are likely to go under. Very small is the
number OF students attending either of the two
American chapes, or any other church. He is
likely to return with decidedly advanced
IDEAS about religion, and especially the Sabbath.
In some-ln many respects he will have broader
and nobler views, but more likely he will 90 q.
little beyond the golden mean. If he drop Pa
rlslan ideas OF morals and religion on his return
nome he is fortunate, and so is the country for
sad will be the day when we EXCHANGE the
leaven of Puritanism, which is still our glory
and our safeguard, for Partisan broadness Of
which, after all, Emile lola is one of the truest
because the frankest exponents."
-MALARIA.-A writer in Appzeton's
Io'rndI referring to the fact that malaria is
much more prevalent than formerly attributes
1t to two causes, both of which have been SUD-
posed necessary to comfort, at least. if not to
health, In the summer months He says:
" Admitting that the origin of malaria cannot
be accurately determined, there are two cir
cumstances IN recent phases OF our social life
that may. In part account for the great pre-
valence OF the fever arising from it, We com
mented last month upon the immense growth
IN recent years OF summer pleasuring and
this fact Is one of the circumstances to which
we refer. Almost everybody now travels in the
summer months, or changes his residence dur
ing that period. The seashore, the mountains
the valleys, are all crowded with people from
the cities and towns and as these people are
unaccllnated as their habits are not so iudi
c I as those OF permanent residents, exposing
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