The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-05-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

OF the German Reichstag, "have now
only one want, and that is for money
enough to get to America"
The Baptists in France have don
bled IN ten years. Within that time the
church at Montbeilard has grown from
nine to one hundred members.
Frank Wa,worth, who murdered his
father in New York some wears AGO. and
was discharged from prison on the plea
OF ill-health and threatened idiocy, has
been admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court of New York.
The report of the American Sun
day-school Union for the year ending
March l states that I AIS schools. with
6,295 teachers and so, 43S scholars, had
been organized. Help has. been extend
ed to 1887 schools, whose scholars MN
Der l57649.
The most costly piece of real estate
IN New York is the Trinity Building,
next to Trinity church, assessed st ST.
100000, and next is the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Lieutenant Gender, of the Palestine
Exploration, recently stated in Edin-
burgh that their survey had identified
40 scriptural sites in West Palestine, so
that $50 out of the $50 mentioned in the
Bible were now fixed.
In a population of a million and
quarter In New York city hardly 10000
pay taxes on real estate. Nearly mil
hon i've In tenements and pay from $12
to $50 per month for a couple of rooms
The entire Fifth Avenue contains small.
Ter population than single block of
tenements, such as you find in any of the
third class streets.
Within few years the Turkish
Empire has lost half of Armenia, all
Bosnia, Herzegovina, Cyprus; the pend
ing step is to take Thessaly and a part
OF Epirus and give it to Greece and
Iunis is just passing over into the hands
OF France. Is this the " drying up of the
Euphrates" of which the prophetical
writers discourse?
The fervid Witherspoon once ex.
claimed =" Cursed be ali that learnino
which is contrary to the cross of Christ ;
cursed by all that learning which is not
colncident with the cross of Christ :;
cursed be all that learning which is not
subservient to the cross of Christ"
The following item, which recalls
some strange and terrible scenes in the
past, we take from the Paris correspon-
dence OF the Free Religious Index IAN
historical heroine died last week in the
Batlgnolles quarter of Paris. Made
molselle Corinne Verify was an acknowl-
edged beauty during the era of the Reign
OF Terror, and was chosen as model for
the Goddess of Reason in professions,
and by painters and sculptors. Nearly
century ago she was the possessor of a
competence, and surrounded by large
circle of admiring friends But one bv
one the latter died, and she was left as
one alone and forgotten by succeeding
generations. Her worldly means tecame
less and less; and she died in her ninety
ninth year, having earned a meagre sub
slstence during her last years of life as a
rag-picker"
The Independent having accepted
for time the current opinion that Mrs.
Lewes died some time before her bus-
band, while George Eliot" was vet liv-
ing with him, and finding this opinion
questioned, applied as near Headquarters
In London as possible for information.
and learns that the lawful wife of the
late q. IL. Lewes is now living" The
InadePendent'S informant says =" George
Eliot, our informant continues. Lived
In open concubinage with Lewes, was his
mistress Cor rather one of his mistresses.
and the Eliot-worshipping set accepted
the situation and objected mainly to hav-
ing the fact stated in plain English.
The nonsense about Eliot considering
herself married to Lewes, etc, was inn
posed on those who wished to be imposed
on, and on nobody else" The public has
perhaps, heard as much of this matter as
1T cares to hear, yet it is entitled to know
the truth. 1t is not altogether due TO
the baser elements of human nature that
SO many have been willing to accept an
apology for George Eliot's" relations TO
Mr.. Lewes. Those who have revered her
genius and admired her writings have
found 1T difficult to conceive of her DELHI
erratey setting aside the laws of moral
virtue and FORGETTING her claim TO
womanly purity. Let this be put TO
their credit But where, after al5 shall
apology be found for such a transpressor