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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-02-01
Sunday School Bxtension in Virginia

Twelve years missionary work of the Ameri-
can Sunday School Union in this State shows the
following results
New Schools organized $50
Teachers and scholars in them. 18 500
Other Schools visited and aided 900
Bibles and Testaments given to needy
Schools, $500
Families visited 4 600
In doing this work the Society have expend-
ed over eleven thousand dollars in paying the
salaries and expenses of its missionaries, and
supplying needy Sunday Schools with libraries
and elementary books, so that all may be able
to read the Word Of God And would gladly
extend the work in this inviting field but the
means are lacking 20 employ the laborers.
We therefore heartily commend Rev. John
McCullagh, of Kentucky, Superintendent of Mis-
Ions, Southern Department, and Rev n. b
Wlckham, Sunday School Missionary in Virgin.
"a to the confidence and liberalty Of the citizens
of Richmond and vicinity, believing they will
cheerfully respond to this loud and pressing call
Contributions will be expended in the Old
DOMINION. WM. Writ Henry,
THOMAS POTTs
CuAs F. RADY,
CARLTON MCCARTHY.
Vice Presidents American S. S. Union
R'chmond Va, January, $50
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-02-01
Central 4resbpterlan.
OFFICE:
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s.:

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81, Richmond Va.
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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-02-01

Entered at the Post Office at Richmond Va, as
second-class matter.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25
Lnsa BURIAL ~ Kar ZEALAND.

The recent fall Of an enormous pu.
ketea tree near Opotiki, New Zealand,
disclosed the fact that the hollow in.
terror from the roots 10 the first fork,
about forty. FIVE feet from the ground,
had been filed with human bodies.
A confused heap ofskeletons burst out
Of the butt Of the tree when il fell. A
local paper says. "a more extraor.
binary sight than this monarch of the
forest lying prone and discharging a
perfect hetatomb of human skeletons
can scarcely be conceived. Some are
nearly perfect, while others are mixed
up in a chaotic mass ofheads, feet and
arms, indiscriminately. All the Mao.
ris here seem 10 have been quite una.
ware Of this natural charnel no use,
and declare that it must have happen.
ed long before their or their fathers
time. Indeed, the appearance of the
tree fully justified the superstition that
il must have been some hundreds Of
years since this novel family vault was
filed with its CHASTITY occupants.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

Much has been written about this
practice, and various speculations and
suggestions offered about "fatty clays'
and "earths rich in organic matter,
but recent research and experiment
have shown that the mere presence of
solid material in the stomach is suffi.
Gent to allay the sensation of hunger
for time, so that in all probability
these savages swallow the earth only
to appease the cravings of nature until
food can be obtained. The hunters
and trappers Of the far West make
pills Of calcined oyster shells and white
Ofegg, which they swallow occasion
ally to stave off hunger and its disa.
greeable concomitant when on long
journey and their rations are exhaust
ed. Tea or coffee would answer the
better as, though affording no nourish-
ment in themselves, they prevent the
waste of tissue Chambers Journal.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

SCRIPTURE IN SHORT METRE
One down town preacher is blest with
two sons-bright little fellows they
are too. Now il is the custom of that
preachers family for those two lads
to recite every morning a verse of
Scripture. The boys were in great
haste to get out on hill a couple of
mornings ago. when the father said:
"Now, boys, recite your verses, then
you can coast" aid rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of the Lord
than dwell in the tents of the wicked, Z"
repeated the older lad. "So'd l."
calculated the junior youth, and away
he flew after his sled, and the father
did not demonstrate.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

BETTER Nor CATCH HM.-Gov.
Blackburn has offered $500 reward for
the arrest of George Gaines for the
murder of Charles Penn. We sup
pose there is no doubt but that Gaines
killed Penn; think it quite probable
that he ought to be hung, and are
sorry for the family of Mr.. Penn, and
all that; but we hope that each good
citizen will so appreciate his duty to
the Commonwealth as not to accept
Mr.. Gaines as prisoner, even if he
should come and surrender himsel {.
In the first place the reward would
amount to $500, then all the expen-
ses of the trial would amount to 81 900
more, a frst-class scaffold would cost
s175, the rope costs $40, the sheriff 8
fees would be about s25, and So more,
to which Gaines would be entitled to
take him home when the Governor
pardons him, would amount to 81 ,525.
We hope no one will arrest Mr.. Gaines.
Lexington Press.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

Did you ever notice how things get
in your way when you're in a hurryf
A Boston women told her husban1
that a runaway horse was going by.
He jumped SO quick he sprained his
knee. and in his frantic haste fell over
two chairs, and skinned his shin, step
ped on dog, upset the table with
books and drOplight on it, ran against
his wife and hurt her, and got to the
window just as they were stopping the
horse two blocks away, round the
corner.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

Mrs. LINCoLN's WEDDING RING.
The friends found Mrs. Lincoln
wedding ring. This ring she has worn
almost constantly since her marriage;
but recently her finger had swollen.
and she had taken it off. 1t is of
etruscan gold, and is now quite thin
from wear. 1t is inscribed with: "a.
l.. to Mary, Nov. 4, 1912. Love is
eternal. The ring will be put on and
probably be buried with her. There
having been less or more curiosity as
to the value of Mrs. Lincoln's estate,
it is probably not improper to say
now, that the United States bonds
belonging thereto, amount TO S74 900.
This isapart from whateverpersonal eff.
iects she may ve.-[Springfeld Ill.)
journal.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

DEFINITION of INNOCENT PUR
CHAsERs. Innocent purchasers liter
ally translated signifies willfully igno.
rant purchasers. People who pur.
chase from irresponsible parties or
from total strangers have no right to
complain if they are victimized. and
MS II general thing il is only the class
who expect to make two dollars from
an investment OF fifty cents who are
victimized. The man who, in playing
a Skin game comes out 'peeled,
is not entitled to protection. He &C.
cepts his chances and should abide by
the result Milling World.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

BRUTALITY OF CHICAGO BUTCHERS.
1T was found, upon investigation,
that the cattle do not readily enter the
shambles, and to remedy this it has
been fhe custom to blind them by
knocking out their eyes with sledge
hammers. 1t is not very long since it
was found to be the custom to move
hogs which had been disabled from
some cause by inserting a hook into
their mouths while they were yet alive
and by this means haul them from
point to point.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

TREATMENT OF PNEMoNIA BY THE
INHALATION OF ETHER.-Dr. Samu-
ell w. Francis, Newport, X. L., re.
ports the successful treatment of an
accute case of pneumonia by the inhal-
alton of sulphunc ether. He says
that "if seen early during the first
stage, by inhaling ether for thirty min
utes every six hours, many severe and
and protracted cases of sickness would
be arrested" DIR. Francis recon.
mended inhalation of sulphuric ether
for bronchitis in 1868.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

Previous to 1772 a person accused
of a crime in England who refused to
plead, was remanded to low, dark
room, aud laid on his back, and heavy
weights placed upon his breast, with
no other sustenance than bread and
water; and he was not allowed to eat
the day he drank or drink the day he
ate, and he so remained until he died.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

Musk is mentioned by a correspOn'
dent of the Lancet as an exceedingly
efficacious remedy for whooping cough,
although very expensive. He says
that it CONTROLS the spasmodic par.
Oxysms of the cough, and that il
is the only drug which he has found
to be of any particular value in the
treatment of the disease.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

IMMENSE WHEAT CRoP IN KANSAS.
1T is estimated that the wheat crop
of Kansas this year will amount to
80, 900, 900 bushels. 1t transported to
market all at once it would require
1000 cars and the train would reach
from Topeka to Chicago, extending
across the States of Missouri and Him
OILS and part of Kansas. The quality
is first class, the greater portion of it
grading No. 2. The yield is turning
out much better than was expected.
Fields that were estimated at 20 bush
els per acre are averaging 30, and
those estimated at 80 are threshing 80
and 40. The wheat crop alone will be
worth from 5,000,0 600 to S30,OOO,.
600 to the State.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

As the dusk gathers / hear the first
welcome notes Of the whip poOr.will.
What close observer Of the seasons are
the birdsl Idoubt il the man who
has an acceptance in the bank is bet.
ter posted in the calendar. As far
back as my bird register extends ]
find a record of the arrival Of the noe.
turnal songster as occurring between
the 9Th and 10th of May. DIR. Brewer
claims never TO have heard these notes
later than August; but in late Septem-
Der, in a nights walk through the hid.
den glories Of the Ramapo Valley, |
have been cheered by his song. No
other American bird is 30 shy and re.
firing as the whip -poor-will, and where
is the happy ornithologist who has
found his apology for nest2 / once
spent portions Of each day of the entire
month Of June in searching for sucha
nest, and in the end was unrewarded.
The habitual walker of the woods will,
sooner or later, stumble on their noon.
day retreats, but il is difficult TO get
into close proximity. They fly noise.
lessly and rapidly and have that pro.
tective plumage upon which Mr..
Darwin laid 80 much stress. All
day long, when undisturbed, they will
rest on the lower branches of some
embowered tree, and only when the
cleaning deepens do they come forth
in search Of nocturnal insects. Night.
ly one used to come and sit on large
stone near the farmhouse. | have sto.
len softly out to within few feet, and
watching him as he would dart out
and catch an insect, returning TO the
stone to enjoy his tidbit, after the
manner OF the phoebe. His note is
preceded by a sort of cluck. Audi.
bon found his song, as he camped in
in the solitudes of the forest, one of
the most delightful sounds OF nature,
sweeter to him than that Of the night
ingale. Burroughs describes a nest
stumbled upon-two elliptical, whit
ish, spotted eggs lying upon dry
leaves-and though he returned to it
day after day. it was always task to
separate the bird from her surround.
ings, though he stood within a few
feet of her, and he knew just where to
look. = Independent.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

ONE thousand CARS ORDERED.
The Indianapolis Car Works have
commenced ON a contract TO build L.
600 cars for the New York, Chicago
a. ST. Louis road. The car is to be 30
feet long and have carrying capacity
OF 10000 pounds.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

WHAT A FORMER ISvALID SAID.-"I
suffered for years from an exhaustive weak
ness and was fast approaching eonsump-
ton. felt that insanity and a premature
grave were inevitable; but thanks to Browns
Iron Bitters, | sm again restored TO perfect
health Of mind and body" II you, too, are
i'll, may not this remedy restore your
health?
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

IL does break up the landlord of a
hotel to have guest say: Landlord,
| think it would be an improvement
if this shoe-brush had another hair in
it," But he has the consolation of
knowing that they wont make the
same remark about the butter.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

There was recently. near Barton
Mountain, Vermont, a shower Of dry
leaves lasting all day. They fell from
a clear sky and from great height.
They had probably been caught up in
a whirlwind.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

A VALUABLE GRAPE VINE.-A
scuppernoug vine in the Tokay vine
yard, near Fayetteville, North Carroll
ma, bears 100 bushels of grapes a
year. There are other vines in the
same vineyard which produce from 25
to 40 bushels. The vines were plant.
ed twenty-five years ago.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

In cutting into hollow tree. into
which he had chased rabbit, Riley
Donaldson, of Merriwether, Ga, found
two rabbits, two squirrels, nest Of
owls and a swarm Of bees with nine
gallons of honey.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25


There is quiet about the life of a
farmer, aud the hope Of serene old
age that no other business or profes.
sion can promise. A professional man
is doomed some time to feel that his
powers are waning. He is doomed to
see younger and stronger men pass
him in the race of life. He will be
last where once he was first. But the
farmer goes, as it we're. into partner
ship with nature. There is no con-
slant or irightful strain upon his mind.
He watches the hOcks and herds as
they feed upon the green and sunny
slopes. lie hears the pleasant rain
falling upon the waving corn, and the
trees he planted in his youth rustic
above him as he plants Others for the
children yet TO be- Elk.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

The New York Commercial Adver-
tiser has the heading. Why Old
Maids Multiply" But old maids don't
multiply-at least, not il they are
right sort of old maids.-[COurier.
Journal.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

1.-The gentlemen of the press are the
watchdogs OF civilization" says Prince
Leopold. duke of Albany, son of
Queen Victoria, etc. "Nothing can
60 wrong anywhere without their
uttering a warning sound" Why
Leo, you talk like the advance agent
of a theatrical troupe, trying to work
us for puff.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

Printing has been introduced into
the public school of San Jose, Cal, as
a regular study. If it should become
a study all over the country, printers
would be as thick as three in a bed,
and not one in a hundred tell an italic
space from a plea shooting stick.
There is such thing as having too
much OF one kind of pie. -IPeck's
SIM.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

Albert Morris and Jennie Adams
were airily married in the clouds over
Topeka, Kansas; but the balloon land
ed them in forest, and they had to
make honeymoon pedestrian trip of
ten miles to get back TO civilization.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

The new steamship Stirling Castle;
from Hankow, China, lately reached
London, after a run of 20 days ~
hours, the fastest on record. The
distance from Hankow to London is
II, $50 miles, SO that the Stirling Cas-.
tie made an average of more than 375
miles a day, making no allowance for
detention at coaling ports and time
occupied in passing through the Suez
Canal.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

A poor sewing girl who went to the
late DIR. John f. Gray foradvice, was
given a vial of medicine and told to
go home and go to bed. al cant do
that, doctor" the girl replied, "for /
am dependent on what | earn every
day for my living" "If that is
So" said DIR. Gray, "I'll change the
medicine a little. Give me back the
vial" He then wrapped around it a
$40 bill, and returning ii to her, reit-
Grated his order: 600 home aud go
to bed" adding, Take the medicine,
cover and all.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25
The average life of a submarine tel

The average life of a submarine tel
egraph cable, says Nature, has hither
TO been about eleven years.
"In the earlier days of submarine
telegraphy, Sir William Thomson de-
clared the life of a cable TO be pracu.
cally inviolable; and Robert Stephen.
son, on the other hand, was OF the
opinion that no cable would last out
ten years" The engineer was more
nearly right than the physicist; but
the occurrence of defects in cable
does not now render it necessary to
take up the whole length, as the faulty
portion can be removed and replaced
by new without disturbing any consid.
cradle part of the line"
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

1t is said that the German wife does
not occupy the proud position of wo-
man under the same circumstances in
America. Here she is the pet of her
husbands riches or poverty, while
there she at once becomes mans ser.
want. "Do you love me, Gretchen
said burly Teuton to the maiden OF
his choice. 81 do" was the meek re.
ply. "And will you be my wiie?" 81
WILL" "Then, my darling, come here
and pull oft my boots" And the prop
er relationship between husband and
wife was at once established. New
York Herald.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

The Arkansaw Travellers aged col
ored person says: "My idea of de
better worl is whar dar is election
goin' ON oil de time, case den de white
folks is alters perlight.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25
DEMOCRATIC srArr MO COUNT TICKET

DEMOCRATIC STATC AND COUNTY TICKET.
FoR surERioR JupoE--MAJ. A. v. RICHARDS
FoR ArrELLArE CtKRK-CArr. T. J. HEsRY.
Foa COUNTY JuDoE-E W. BRowE.
FOn COUNTY ArIOREKY-D, u. CARPENTER.
FoR COUNTY CLERE-JonS BLAiS.
FoR AssEssoR-J. II. nOCKER
FoH JAILER u. NEwLASD.
Foh suRvEYOR-F. D. HowARp.
Foa CoAoEKR-W. }, DAuonERTY.
foA CONSTABLE (sraSFoRD PREciNcr)- roLnEnr
MARTIN.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25

DEATH ON THE TURN OF THE DAY.
Il heard a lady say to physician
the other day: 81 was watching one
night at the bedside of a dying child.
| asked the doctor when death might
be expected. He replied: ANY time
after u o'clock Why did he Sc. that
timer" Because, said the physician,
"for some unexplained reason large
majority of natural deaths. especially
when the patients are children, occur
on the turn of day. as the country
people say. That is, from II to B. Ell
Their at noon or night" There is no
explainable reason for this, thenl |
asked. "None. 1t is one of the mys-
teries that envelop death. Out of 100
persons dying by natural process 80
will within those hours. y Atlanta
Constitution.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25
A Cabin IN Ireland


The idea that human beings, made
in Gods image, having the power to
think, 10 reason, and TO act, could
live, even exist, in such a howell was
incredible. Wading through mud and
slush, coming over the shoe. tops,
bent my head and entered. The
room, IL 30 it could be called, by any
stretch Of imagination, was so low
that | could not stand erect. The
cold, bare earth that constituted the
floor was damp and slippery, as the
rain came trickling down through the
open thatch and formed little pools
upon the ground.
Near a suggestion Of a fire we're hud.
died woman and four children, the
eldest not more than eight years Of
age. As ! entered they all arose. |
was Mortified b see that they we're
without shoes, and their clothing was
so torn and ragged that il afforded no
warmth whatever.
The mother and her little girls we're
blue with cold. Their features we're
pinched with hunger. Their whole
appearance indicated the want and
suffering they had been enduring for
years. In one corner of the room was
what they called bed. 1t consisted
of four posts driven into the ground.
On stringers were laid four rough
boards, and on these boards we're
dried leaves and heather, covered with
a few old potato sacks. There is
where the family of six persons slept.
There was no window in the house,
and the only light and ventilation be-
ing furnished by the door and the
cracks in the matched roof.
AS for meat, that is something they
never dreamed Of eating. Only once
a year do they dare to hope to taste it.
On Christmas day they manage, if
possible, to boil the half of pigs face,
and they mix their stirabout with
buttermilk to make gorgeous feast.
That ia the only meal they ever have,
and the pleasure of this indulgence is
destroyed by the terrible remorse that
follows extravaganza. Two meals of
potatoes day-that is the diet they
are born to, live upon and die upon.
As to their clothing, that issomething
too horrible TO talk about.
In ride of five miles-from the
door of the hotel in Cork to Barney
castle-I counted over 500 women
barefooted, whose feet had never
known stocking or hoe.-["Nasby. "
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-10
A Western Casabianca.

Yesterday afternoon small lad rode
up and down the streets trying to sell a
little jackaSs which he was riding.
"Iow much for this beautiful iackass?"
he shouted, at which those along the
street gave broad smile.
"Is he gentle?" asked q horseman.
Just like sheep" said the boy,
and moment later the animal landed
him clear into the crowd.
"Ain't lie awful funpy?" remarked
the boy, rs he got up. dad learned
him that trick" and there was a smile
on his face that would have done credit
to Grimaldi.
"Oh. he's a daisy" continued the
lad; ''full of vinegar and spirits; can't
tire him out"
Here the animal gave the lad kick
in the stomach that keeled him in the
mud.
always tryin' to show off before a
crowd; learned him that trick for the
fair" continued the lad; trying to sup
press his tears.
Nobody wanted the jackass, and the
boy, mounting. rode to the next corner,
where about the same performance was
repeated. All day long he rode up and
down the street; extolling the gentle
qualities OF the jackass and picking him.
self up from the mud every time he was
pitched of. He stood up to the racket
with as much fortitude as Casabianca
on the deck of the burning ship until
he finally got bid of three dollars for
the jackass. This seemed to entirely
flatten out the boys grit. He was
thrown from the jackass for the last
time, and, turning homeward, left the
animal in the street, as he remarked:
"Have l been lyin' all day and
wrestlin' with the mud for three dol
lar mule? l wouldn't 60 through such
a deal again for Shaughnessy's big trot-
ter. ."-SGH Lake Iritune.