The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-06-22

period The manuscript is of the twelfth cen
fury.
"A writer describing one of the
recent religious festivals or fairs ia India. saws
One thing alone l missed of the attractions of
an English fair-there was not one grog shop.
not one tent licensed to sell spirits wholesale
or retail. Strange to say too, over the whole
line OF road, two miles, amid thousands of
jewellers. we did not see one person the worse for
liquor" In this. at least the heather set an
example worth following by Christian England
| and America.
Mrs. Gladstone is a benevolent wo-
man and does many kind things for the villagers
OF Hawarden. She has given them an excellent
coffee house, which is open weekdays and Sun
days. She has also established near the castle
home for orphans Many of the Gladstone
servants have been on the estate twenty thirty
and forty years.
CHINESE EMIGRATIoN.-This prom
ises to be great year for Chinese emigration to
various parts of the world. The Canadian
Pacific railroad has given orders for the hiring
OF 5000 Chinese laborers the Northern Pacific
Will take several thousands, and 500 are want.
ed for railroad grading in Mexico Three
agencies In China are said to be busy hiring
men under contract. For the Hawaiian Islands,
where the Chinese are already very numerous.
53,ooo more are packing up. their destination
beng the extensive and still growing sugar
fields. Five thousand are expected in Australia,
where disturbances are reported to have oc
Cured In consequence among the white Ia.
borers.
One of the most extraordinary, in
deed startling transformations in the history of
any people through missionary agency is that
which has taken place at Fiji Thirty years
ago these islands were inhabited by a race of
OF feroclous cannibas, whose practices were cruel
almost beyond belief. Not content with eating
the dead bodies of their fallen foes they actually
cut on the arms of their living victims, from
which they sucked the warm blood, and then
proceeded to cook and eat the limbs of the dy-
ing wretches In their presence. At the present
time there are no less than nine hundred Wesley
an churches in those islands, each with crowded
congregations who largely contribute to the
support of their own teachers. We can hardly
conceive of greater triumph of the Gospel un
der more discouraging conditions Christian at
Work.
The French Government is pushing
forward the colonization of Algiers as rapidlT
as possible, and to this end proposes to make a
loan OF some fifty millions of francs for the pur-
pose OF purchasing large tract of outlying land
from the Arabs to whom it belongs upon which
to erect some three hundred villages, as nuclei
for farming populations. These villages will
contain churches, school houses, ETC., and will
colonlsts are strong enough to support them
selves. BY this means it is expected that some
!o,OOO families can be settled in Algeria. to aid
In the agricultural development of the country.
together with 5000 families, the heads of which
shall be skilled mechanics of various kinds
The land will be divided into small farms and
either rented or sold to the colonists-Interior
Prince Bismarck is just now engaged
in intoxicating little wholesome respect for the
rarn Harr d H., - Al IN
ment. A German bark in Chinese water was
plundered by pirates, an occurrence of such
frequency In those parts that the Celestials took
no note of 1t. The German minister however
was instructed to insist that the Pekin authori.
ties take Immediate and effective measures for
Furnishing the pirates, and the German consul
at Canton has been ordered to call in a war
vessel to back up the demand for the prompt
recognition of the rights of German seamen.
Interior.
That is new phase of antiquarian
research which makes the penetration of the
mystery which envelops the history of bygone
peoples OF secondary Importance, and money
getting the first. And yet something yerv
like this has been done in France by the forma.
ton OF company, or society, with the Rochs-
chlids at Its head, for excavation in the region
which once formed part of the empire of Queen
Dido. The original investment was $4,000;
and the enterprise assumed largely CONNER
cial character in the fact that the excavation
was to be made to pay. That it has more than
realized the hopes of the share holders there
seems to be no doubt. The agent of the com
pany, Nj. ID Herisson, has returned to Paris from
the ruins OF Utica, in northern Africa, with
collection OF antiques worth five times the
amount of the capital stock. He reports. too that
from the ruins OF that city alone he might have
obtained four times as many objects of equal
value, while there remains in that region the
ruins of more than three hundred cities. In
M. ID Herisson's find are numbered statues of
the finest Greek workmanship, urns, lamps
vases ETC., of the precious metals Onlv two
months were occupied in excavation. If an.
tiquarian research is to be brought to the level
OF mere mining industry, it is still pleasant to
know that it cannot but add to our knowledge
OF the buried past Interior.
Madame Soie Bompiani writes from
Rome to the Observer that it is a mistake to
suppose that the Roman inquisition does not
still exist in the Eternal City Only. she saws
the presence of the Italian government renders
1t harmless. But tokens of its existence are
gwen now and then by the prohibition of new
books. They are put in the index"-that in
dex which must now contain the noblest and
best of Italian thought for centuries. Padre
Curci, also Jesuit Of liberal opinions was
year or two ago banshed from the order
When the Roman Republic was established in
in 1919, the Palace of the Inquisition was con
verted into homes for the poor, first being ex
posed to the public for few days 1t was pro
posed to raze it to the ground and erect col
umn OF infamy on the spot but the idea of US
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