The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-30
GENERAL ITEMS.

the United States this fall-Herbert Spencer,
DR.. Lyon Playfair and Matthew Arnold
"A st. Louis paper says pointedly =
all his own, and big congregation. he has him.
self convicted of heresy."
There is more whiskey made than is
used. AT least the distillers say that the mar.
ket is so heavy that the product cannot be
moved. The people d6not demand the article.
We are glad of it, and are not sorry to hear that
the distillers propose to reduce production
Prof. g. E. Day, of Yale Divinity
School, must be also of the Conservative School,
Tor In a late address he gave a most paternal
admonition to his brethren to study the Bible
more for themselves and less the criticisms of
Robertson Smith and others about the Bible"
The following is the prohibitory"
amendment suggested TOR an article of the Con
stltution of the State of Pennsylvania. 1t seems
to be entirely unobjectionable:- =" Sec. l. The
manufacture, sale and keeping for sale of
alcoholic, brewed, distilled, fermented vinous
and all other intoxicating liquors whatever, to
be used as beverage, are forever prohibited
within this State; and the Assembly shall, with
out delay, pass all laws with sufficient penalties
necessary to enforce this prohibition Sec. 2
The manufacture and sale of the aforesaid Ii
quors for other purposes than as beverage
shall be regulated by law, under sufficient
penalties and securities"
WHOLESALE POISONING OF HUNGA-
RIAN HUsBANDs-London Aug. PA telegram
from Vienna states that over one hundred wo-
men are on trial at Gross Becskerek, Hungary,
charged with poisoning their husbands. The
guilt Of thirty FIVE of the women has been
proved
The United States training ships Portsmouth
and Saratoga, Commodore Luce commanding,
left Gibraltar tonight for Tangier and Madeira
After visiting these places the vessels will pro
coed homeward. Mr.. Hannibal Hamlin, United
States minister to Spain, is at Gibraltar and will
visit Tangier.
Whereas only twelve priests and
twenty Catholic churches were to be found in
Dakota In 1880, there are now forty three such
churches and thirty. seven priests; and the pro-
gress and prospects of the Catholic Church in
that Territory are most encouraging" accord
ing to the Catholic Revie,O. Yes; but the Pres
byterians have done as well as that and the
work of other Protestants must have vastly ex-
ceeded what has been done by Rome.-PhiLa-
deEphia Presbyterian.
1t is stated in the AdUance that not
long before Theodore Parker went abroad and
died Emerson said to him at Concord I'VE
must get rid of that Christ, we must get rid of
that Christ" If the story is true it agrees with
every thing known about Emerson, and with
much written by him. He was an eminent
and quite attractive Pagan, living in the nine
teenth century, but living life wholly apart
from Christ, and ready, as the above remark in
dlcates, to say, Away with him !"
END OF TIE MINERS SrRIKE.-Af-
ter stubborn and protracted struggle, the great
strike In the Cumberland coal region has been
declared at an end and tomorrow fixed as the
day on which the old miners propose to resume
work, If the companies will receive them The
determination to yield was arrived at Yesterday
at meeting of the District Assembly of the
knights of Labor at Frostburg and a notice to
be posted to-day, was adopted, recommending
the resumption of work on Thursday by the
strikers. The strike commenced on the 18th of
last March, and was lnaugurated by the Knights |
OF Labor as a measure of resistance against the |
expressed determination of the companies to in
troduce reduced scale of wages. Whatever
moral there may be in the struggle and its re
suits may be read without the aid of a precep
tor, and all alike must now regret a contest
which has resulted In such severe financial loss
not only to the companies and their employees,
but to the whole section of the country in which
the strike Baltimore Sun of 25th.
We have seen, says the RanoaOha
Gazette profile of the Ohio Central Railroad
route and the Richmond q Allegheny Railroad
as combined and these two roads when com
pletedi Will furnish through railroad line from
the Ohio river to Norfolk, Va, with an ascend.
ing and descending grade nowhere along the |
entire route exceeding thirty feet to the mile.
The Richmond & Allegheny is to be extended |
up Craigs Creek and down Sinking Creek to
New river, thence to the mouth of East river. |
The Ohio Central Railroad is to be extended |
from Charleston to Gauley Bridge, thence to
Hawks Nest, thence by bridge across New riv-
er, thence up New river on and along its banks
to the mouth of East river where it will unite
with the Richmond & Allegheny, and also with
the Norfolk & Western Railroad This through |
line road, when completed, will, in grade, have
very great advantages over any other road ex
tending from the Ohio river to the Seaboard.
THE GARDEN OF THE UN1oN.-There
never was such a year for the truckers in the
region around Norfolk this has been We
hear Of many whose crops have sold for from
seven to fifteen thousand dollars of several who
have realized from twenty TO twenty FIVE thou
sand aud we have heard Of one gentleman
whose land will produce him by the end of the
season as high a sum as seventy FIVE thousand.
This unparalleled prosperity is the result Of fine
rams and warm weather here, while north Of us
the season has not been so favorable to early
vegetables, or later ones either This country
about Norfolk is the Garden of the Union. and
the northern people are beginning TO find this
fact out. We know of no part Of the United
States where capital invested in farming can
produce such large returns This tidewater re-
gion of Virginia puts to shame the richest dis
.ricts in the northwest in which boosted land
Of wheat and corn it is impossible to raise on
even large farms crops that can compare in mon