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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

HERE ARE some people who write
very well, but have no ideas. There are
some people. who have ideas, but write
very badly. We prefer the latter.
The Americans are better reasoners
than the English. The latter write in
comparably better, but there is an incon-
sequence and want of clearness as regards
the argument. The American always
follows strictly logical process, and
often expresses himself in an inelegant
way.
The great want in our American
schools is the teaching of the English
language. Our boys and girls are not
taught the meaning of words, nor how to
put sentences together. The teacher
ought to be good writer, and he ought
to require his pupils to lay before him
compositions or letters, which he ought
to examine and criticise with great sever
ity.
Take our public men in Virginia for
the past fifty years. How many of them
could write page of really good Eng
llsh? Hardly one. Every educated
Englishman writes well. We suppose
there must be something in the methods
OF education that creates this difference.
We can speak from experience, and illus
trate by example; we never had one aoord
of instruction given to us at school or
college intended to teach us how to write
the English language, and the men and
women, past middle lite in the South,
will generally bear the same testimony.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

JUST settle at once, that there is no
compromise between Jesus Christ and the
world. Just settle that at once.
You will merely waste your time try
ing to adjust their claims.
Ifyou are not ready to give all to Him
you had just as well stop.
He demands this much and no more
your time, your money, your studies,
your business, and, if necessary, your
life. If there is any one, or any portion
of these, that you propose to hold back,
you have mo part nor lot in this mat
ter"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

PERHAPS we are old -fashioned, but we
Ike that department in the paper which
comes under the head of Selections.
We know very well that the fast press
of modern times perfers to fill up all this
with Original matter (even to poetry
and with news But for our own part,
this is generally the best part of the paper
to us, when such selections are udicious-
ly made.
At the same time. you cannot edit a
paper wholly with the scissors. Look at
the Independent or the Interior; we sup
pose it takes half-a-d1zen first-class men
to get out an issue of one of these papers.
And even then, the subscriber will often
take glance at it, and toss it to YOU
with the remark, "Theres nothing in the
paper"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

WHO is my neighbor? A hundred
years ago there was little intercourse
across the oceans and with the isles of
the sea. There was little intercourse
with one another even among the nations
of Europe. Now the whole scene is
changed. The whole world is brought
together. And the gospel is being sound
ed throughout all the earth. Why is my
neighbor? Homo sum, ct humani nihiI
a me ohenum puto. That sentence
awakened the applause of the theatre in
the days of Imperial Rome. How much
greater its significance now, in the light
Of the gospel, and with the barriers of
oceans and national frontiers almost re-
moved. There is good time coming,
though we may not live to see it.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

WE take this from the published sketch
OF DIR. John Halls sermon in his church,
New York, on Sunday morning a week
ago.
The drift of society is to put the churches in
competition with the theatres and the museums,
and then the temptation of the minister is to put
himself into competition with the actor. with the
singer, with the museum lecturer Tail of tho
sermon being interesting of the childish efforts
TO make the music of the church compete with
the music of the theatre, why the man who does
so has not mastered the b C of what makes us
men 1t is degrading. Let us sanctify the day
OF rest. Lastly with regard to the relation in
winch we stand to all the churches No Pro-
testant church can afford to stand bv itself and
Ignore other forms of Professionalism. Anglican
churches tell upon others all over the world.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

The Rev. JOHN JASPER (colored)
preached sermon Sunday (by request)
on CHE Sun DO MOVE" He is an un-
lettered, but is said to be strong man,
and mighty in the Scriptures. And after
all, it is only question of direction be-
tween the astronomers and the colored
preacher with regard to the sun. Presi-
dent Reynolds, of Zion College, as stated
elsewhere, affirms that the sun with its
attendant planets moves around "the
sweet influences of the Pleiades" at the
rate Of 154 $4,000 miles per year, and
completes his orbit in 100000 years.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

WE have received from Bishop Keane,
OF this city, an article in reply to DR..
Wltherspoon's article in the Central Pres
6yte'1am of last week, entitled, Rome
and Morals" Owing to the length of
the communication (some four columns),
and to the fact that the first side OF our
paper had already gone to press, we re-
greet our inability to get it in this issue.
1t will appear next week.
We take the occasion to say that we
have on hand number of other COM
munications, which we will publish as
soon as we can. Our contributors must
have patience.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

The removal of Rev. J. M. Rose from
Portsmouth, Va, to Memphis, Tenn, will
leave vacant an important pastoral charge.
The departure of Mr.. Rose will be sub
ject of general regret in the Synod of
Virginia, and especially in East Hanover
Presbytery, Of which he has been a very
active and useful member.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

THERE is something infinitely con-
temptuoUs in the attitude of the Roman
Catholic Church towards the Ritualists.
The Cothohc Revje1O says Religious
millinery is very fashionable among those
of our dissenting brethren and sisters
who are divided between fear of Rome
and fear Of Rationalism."
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

INCLUDING the Week of Prayer, the
daily afternoon prayer-meetings have
been kept up in this city for two weeks,
and they are continued during the pre-
sent week. 1t is gratifying that the at
tendance has been such as 10 warrant
those in charge of them to continue them
through the third week.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

THE FAMILY EDUcAToR,-No family of
children ought to be brought up without having
ready access to this grand volume (Webster5
Unabridged Dictionary. It's library in itself
1t will answer thousands of questions to the
wide-awake child-not simply concerning the
spelling and meaning of words, but also with
reference to every branch of study with which
the young mind must grapple at every stage in
the course of securing an education
The book Is an ever present and reliable school
master to the whole family-Lutheran Sunday
School Herald.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

AN EXCHANGE remarks that it is one
of the signs of the times that great sec
ular newspaper which keeps its finger
on the pulse of the popular taste, like
the New York Tribune, offers as pre-
MUM for subscribers Concordance of
the Scriptures.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

10 DELINQUENTs.-Our subscribers
generally pay up, and we have in gen
eral little reason to complain. There is,
however, small percentage of names on
our list that are in arrears, and to whom
bills have been sent. We respectfully
ask them to settle.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

The January number of the Princeton
Re0'e'0 has strong article (the second)
on the Historical Proofs of Christianity
by Prof. Fisher of Yale College. The
subject is Miracles" 1t meets the mod
ern phase of this question better, we
think, than any discussion we have seen.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

"EPocHs of unbelief," says Goethe,
" however glittering, are barren Of all
permanent good" 1t is not your intel
lectual persgqeur who ever makes anybody
happy; it is FA1TH--trust-th is the
well-spring of love.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

WHEN girl marries drunkard with
the hope of reforming him, it is like
Christian people going to the theatre to
create moral drama. The reformer will
be caught alike in the tolls of the dram
and the drama.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19
SINGULAR REASON FOR STOPPING

SINGULAR REASON FOR STOPPING A
RELIGIOUS PAPER.-A subscriber writes
to the Christian Union
have taken the Christian Union for many
years, notwithstanding its free-t trade proclivi.
ties; but now that ! see you are determined to
push an agitation in favor Of free trade l can
take it no longer Please discontinue.
The Christian Union does not seem to
be at all conscious Of any incongruity ;
but announces that it believes in free
trade, and intends to advocate it.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

Journalists would not hate Presbyte-
rianism if the Pharisees' had not hated
Jesus.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

Ba5- For bleeding gums, use Meade & Bakers
Carbolic Mouth Wash Fifty cents bottle.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-01-19

THIS is hard winter; remember the
poor.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14

The German government has taken the
necessary measures to protect the Jews in
Pomerania and West Prussia, where strong
hatred exists.
The Kenner stakes at the Saratoga races
were won by Hindoo, who ran two miles in
1882, without whip or spur
Hanlan will give an exhibition at st.
Louis, August 90, and expects to row Ross
for $4,000 a side in October, at some point
to be named hereafter.
The drouth in Switzerland has continued
for nearly two months. The grass is burned
and in the mountain pastures beasts are
perishing from heat.
A machine operated by four clerks, which
telegraphs twelve hundred words per mn
ute, Ia to be feature of the electrical exhi-
bition at Paris.
The wheat corner in Chicago has made
prices for cash and August delivery six
cents higher than rule in Milwaukee, and
cargoes continue to arrive by lake from the
latter port.
General Grant has bought for $4,000
residence on Sixty-sixth street, New York,
for his future home. He will be at the
soldiers reunion at Bloomington, H., Sept.
8, and 90 thence to st. Louis and to Mex
leo
Yellow fever is sweeping off the officers
and men Of the De Lesseps Canal company.
The mystery of the robbery OF the Citi-
zen's bank, of Paris, KY, by which 100000
was obtained, is in process Of solution.
The wife of q tailor, named Cooper, who
was one OF those suspected of the crime,
was on yesterday at daylight seen to dig up
a large tin box in her back yard, and she
soon after left toi Covlngton to join her
husband. The telegraph intercepted them,
and the missing bonds were secured.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14

ated by number of the prominent
men Of Cairo; the Cairo City Water Works
Co.,with capital stock of twenty thousand
dollars, also incorporated within the last
week the Cairo & Texarkana narrow
gauge railroad, which is rapidly approach
ing the city; the Mobile & Ohio railroad,
which will, in few weeks connect with the
Cairo & Vincennes railroad at this point
the Cairo Transfer company, the
Cairo street railwy, the Cairo Il
Evansville narrow guage railroad and the
Illinois Central Union depot, that, it is ex-
pected, will soon be begun. All these, to-
gether with those mentioned by the Demo-
crat, are enterprises which have taken
shape here within the last six or eight
months, and which are being
actively pushed to completion. With
all these industries in active
operation, besides those that were previ-
ously established il is safe to predict that
Cairo must be one of the busiest and most
promising cities IN the states and that,
within few years, it Twill be one of the
great cities of the west
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
"CAIRO'S BOOM"
metropolis Democrat

Our neighboring city of Cairo Is on a
regular boom. First, the Illinois Central
railroad located their immense grain eleva-
tor there with capacity of about 100000
bushels and costing near a million Of dol
laIs. Next, the Halliday Brothers bought
the st. Charles hotel and have transformed
it into one among the finest hotels in every
respect to be found in the United States.
Following this move, number Of public
spirited and wcalty citizens have organized
q joint stock company for tho erection of a
fine opera house. On the heels of these i'm
provements it is authoritatively announced
that the Singer Sewing Machine Co. will re-
move their stand and wood work factory
from South Bend Ind, to Cairo. The
works employ about $50 men regularly.
Following this the Dixie Oil Company have
decided to locate their cotton seed oil
works at the same place. Each Of the two
last mentioned institutions have already
bought property for the erection of their
respective buildings. Verify Cairo seems
TO have awakened from her long ethsrpy
and now like young giant honors the
race Of progress.
To this the Democrat might have added
the Three States Horse and Fair associs.
ton with stock of twenty-five thousand
dollars, which hasrecently been incorpor.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14

POLICE NOTES.
of Cairo.

Henry Jefferson was arrested by Officer
Wins for disorderly conduct and fined five
dollars and costs by Justice Robinson.
Nellie Gibson was disorderly and was
arrested by Officer Mahoney who took her
before Justice Robinson where she was
fined five dollars and costs.
Charles Cody was arrested by Officer
Omsted and fined five dollars and costs by
Justice Robinson for disorderly conduct.
John Hooks and Ellen Smith were both
disorderly and we're fined five dollars and
costs each by Esquire Osborn. They were
arrested by Officer Wins.
Officers Wins and Tyler arrested Frank
Thompson for vagrancy and took him before
Magistrate Comings, who fined him twenty
FIVE dollars and costs
VIM. Reinhart was drunk and disorderly
arrested by Officer Wins and fined six dol
lars and costs by Magistrate Comings.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14

sound the first note; Viii then the people
had better rest easy a4d entirely ignore the
sensational utteranceS Of Governor Black
burn and the newspa es aforesaid. Only
one dispatch arrived here yesterday, at 100
A. NJ, and it shows ii at the President had
a slight fever at THAI line. It read as fol-
lows; 1.-THE PresidShe did not sleep as well
as usual during thghhprly part of the night,
after midnight, h&Sever, his sleep was re-
freshing and only broken at long intervals.
This morning he has had a little fever,
nevertheless he expresses himself as feeling
better for several days past. Pulse 1914,
temperature 100 $40. Respiration 49,
Bliss, Reyburn"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
GENERAL NEWS.

Charles Croker, president of the South
ern Pacific road, reports the laying of q
mile of track per day beyond Ell Paso, and
predicts that the line will, by July next, be
finished to Galveston. He says engineers
are now running survey from Corinne to
Yankton, and road can be built for one.
third the cost of the Union Pacific, which,
will be done if Gould consolidstes the At
Gibson, Texas Pacific, and Union Pacific
lines.
The Chicago nine beat the Detroit club
by II to O; Providence defeated Boston by
70 to 8, and Buffalo laid out Cleveland by
8 tot.
A national civIl.service conference is in
session at Newport, X. l., among those pres
ent being George William Curtis, Carl
Schurz, and Richard II. Dana, Jr. Mr.
Curtis thought the first necessity was the
passage of the Pendleton bill by congress
and another important matter the abolition
of political assessments. A resolution was
passed opposing arbitrary removals from
Office, as well as interference by members
of congress with the exercise of the ap.
pointing power.
Mr.. J. w. Nichols, Of Bloomington, has
issued his first number OF the Prohibition
ist, a temperance paper.
Bradlaugh's condition continues to grow
worse, and his illness is regarded as very
serious. His arm and face are affected
with erysipelas, the indirect result of his
struggle with the parliament officials and
the police in the lobby of the house of
commons.
The Womans Christian Temperance
Union Of Peoria have placed drinking
fountain at the court house square, which
is daily supplied with pure spring water
and Ice.
The British house Of commons adjourned
at daylight Saturday morning, having fin
ished consideration of the land bill and
sent il back to the house of lords.
--.-,s---.-.- ..
A commissioner of The Times of London,
who has made a tour OF the wheat districts
Of England, estimates yield Of thirty
bushels TO the acre, and an increased crop
Of three million quarters.
The widow of ex-President Fillmore,
died in Buffalo in her list year. In Octo'
Der las. she suffered a severe stroke of par
alysis. The only survivor Of the ex-presi'
dent is an unmarried son by his first wife,
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
PERSONALS.

Mr. r. IL. Cunningham and family have
latt Michigan and are now at Sheboygan,
Wisconsin.
Sheriff Hodges longs to be with his
family at Dixon Springs during these warm
DAYS, he is struck on the place.
Captain Gates, clerk Of the steamer Hal
lday, is lying on board quite sick.
Mrs. James Webster has returned from
her visit to Dixon Springs.
Mr.. Frank Gallagher is in Sheboygan,
Wisconsin, with his wife.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
REAL ETATE RECORD.

ALEXANDER COUNTY AUGUST 18TH.
Geo. s. Pidgeon and wife to Annie Mel
lis; special warranty deed, dated April
23d, 1881, for lot twenty-five, block forty
seven, In the first addition to the city of
Cairo
John f. Cauble and wife to Miles eau
BILE; special warranty deed, dated August
18th, 1881, for west half of northeast quar-
ter, except eight and half acres heretofore
set off to Linda Cauble by Alexander
county circuit court; also twenty.four and
forty-eight one-hundreths acres off east
side of northwest quarter; also twelve
acres land in Union county.
w. P. Halliday and wife, Charles Cali
CHER and wife and A. L. and NJ. J. Stafford
to Robert Thompson and Henry Sperry;
special warranty deed, dated July Goth,
1881, for lots one to fourteen inclusive, in
block slxty-one, in the city of Cairo.
Louis D. Morelock to Christian More
lock; warranty deed, dated August 9th, 1881,
for lots one, two, four, thirty-nine and forty,in
block thirty-eight in the first addition, and
undivided half of lots one to twelve inclu-
sive, in block four, in the fifth addition to
the city of Cairo.
City of Cairo to Peter Saup; deed, dated
July 18th, 1881, for lots four in block two,
and lots one and two, in block five, in rail-
road addition to the city OF Cairo.
Peter saup and wife to stratton g. Bird
special warranty deed, dated August 18th,
1881, for lot four, in block two, in railroad
addition to the city of Cairo
City of Cairo to Stratton g. Bird deed,
dated June 10th, 1881, for lot nine, in
block two, in railroad addition to the city
of Cairo.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
A Liberal Offer.

Wagner & Co. Michigan Ave. & Jackson
St. Chicago, offer to send Electric Belts,
Bands, etc, for the cure OF Nervous DebIli-
ty end other diseases, free, for examination
and trlal before purchasing. These Elec-
trio Devices are the invention of DR.. D. A.
Joy, of the University of Michigan, and are
claimed to be the only Electric Devices or
Appliances for the cure of diseases that
have yet been constructed upon scientific
principles. See their advertisement in this
paper.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
For the Sunday BULLETIN
A MOTHERS LAMENT.

loved thee, daughter OF my heart
My child | loved thee dearly;
And though We only met TO part,
How sweetly, how severely!
Nor life, nor death can sever
My soul from thine forever.
Thy days, my little one, were few,
An angels morning visit
That came and vanished with the dew;
Twas here, tits gone, where lie ~
Yet did'st thou leave behind thee
A clew for love to find thee.
The eye, the lip, the cheek, the brow,
The hands stretched forth in gladness,
All life. 10y, rapture, beauty now,
Then dashed with infant sadness:
Till Frightening by transition,
Returned the fairy vision.
Where are they now those smiles, those tesrs'
Thy mothers darling treasurer
She sees them still, and still she hears
Thy tones OF pain or pleasure
To her quick pulse revealing
Unutterable feeling.
flushed In moment on her breast
Life at the welspring drinking;
Then Graded on her Jap TO rest,
In rosy slumber sinking:
Thy dreams--no thought can guess them,
And mine no tongue express them.
For then this waking eye could see,
In many q vain vagsry,
The things that never were to be:
Imaginations airy
Fond hopes that mothers cherish
Like still.born babes to perish.
Mine persisted on thy early bier,
Unchanged TO FERNS more glorious,
They flourish in higher sphere,
Ger time and death victorious
Yet would these arms have chained thee,
And long from heaven detained thee
Mabel my last, my youngest love.
The crown Of every other
Though thou art born in heaven above,
lam thine only mother
Nor will affection let me
Believe thou csn'et forget me,
Then--thou In heaven and on earth
hoy this nope dengnr US,
That thou wilt hail my second birth,
When death shall reunite US,
Where worlds no more eau sever
Parent and child forever
Mr.. NEBo, o., August sth. 1851. M
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
Cairo City Water Works Company,

The books for subscription to the capital
stock of the above named company are now
open at the following places Geo. O'Hara's
drug store, G.. d. Williamson & Co.'S store,
F. Korsmeyers, Cor. Sixth and Ohio Levee,
l. Farnbaker & Co.'S, Cor Seventh and
Commercial, Barclay Bros, Cor. Eighth
and Washington avenue. And will remain
open for subscription until Wednesday 18th
at 10 o'clock, noon.
WALTON W. WRIaHT,
Secretary Of Commissioners.
August 10th, 1881.
:R- Argus copy.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
Ice. Wholesale and Retail.

am now prepared to sell ice by the Car.
load, or by the pound at prices beyond
competition. My wagons will run to all
parts of the city during summer, serving
ice to customers in quantities to suit.
Orders for carload lots will receive prompt
attention. My ice is Pure Lake Ice, from
the Kankakee Ice Co., Kankakee, Ill. Tel
enhone No. 90. +. M. WARD.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
The Great Triple X.

xxx Beer" the finest malt produc-
ton ever brought to this city, has just been
received in large quantities by Mr.. Louis
G. Herbert, near the corner OF Elgnth
street and Commercial avenue. The
"tripple X" is superior to any other beer in
the country, is cool and healthy beverage,
which, once known, will be preferred to
every other brand. Call at Mr.. Herberts
and lry the xxx"
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-14
A Lean Into POpular Favor,

1t is not always that the world acknowl-
edges what is right and best; but Burdock
Blood Bitters, by universal acquiesence,
have been awarded The premium for cleans
ing the blood, curing indigestion, constipa-
ton, regulating the bowels, and toning up
weak nerves. Price 800, trial size 10
cents