The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-12-20

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The Chinese Minister at Washington
has wardrobe said to be worth Sl5O,OOO
General Robert E. Lees statue. at
Lexington, Va, will be unveiled in June next
MIR. M Pherson, clerk of the present
House of Representatives has made up roll of
the next House, and figures out Just 90 majority
for his Democratic successor
The keeper of the New York Morgue
says that four-6fths of the FIVE thousand
bodies that reach the city dead-house every
year are sent there by drunkenness. Prohibi-
ton would be good movement for many of
these forlorn souls.
Mr.. Joseph Cook says that he came
out of Germany convinced by good deal of
conversation with experts, that Wellhausen's
theories are making far less impression there
than they are lowing to Robertson Smith) in the
English world
The Episcopal Church in Ireland,
since Its disestablishment prints in the PRAYER
book a notice that wherever the word priest"
occurs In that volume it is intended to mean
presbyter."
Rev. Charles Stowe, son of Mrs. Har.
riet Beecher Stowe, has been called 10 the Wind
sor avenue church. Hartford, Conn. 1t is thought
he will accept He was ordained in that CITY
about four years ago
Bricks nodded of undried clay, mixed
with straw, and stamped with Pharaoh's car
touche, are found around the Mound of Mahuta.
on the Fresh Water Canal in Egypt, where one
OF the late battles was fought and which Is SUD-
posed to mark the site of the ancient Rameses.
st Augustines church, in Washing
ton CITY, is an expensive Roman Catholic
church, heavily burdened with debt. The choir
Is composed OF colored people, and it sings the
most elaborate masses in good style. It is a
resort for some of the fashionable people, who
go to hear vespers admirably sung.
In Chicago, on Thanksgiving Day,
DIR. Goodwin, of the Congregational Church,
preached sermon in the house of worshin of
St Pauls Reformed Episcopal church the First I'
Union Park, and Leavitt street Congregational
churches uniting with St Paul's Bishop Fallows
conducted the opening services according to
Episcopal form.
Any church fairs this Winter
Bring everything on to the basis of square, hon
est buying and selling. Let the grab-bags. the
voting of gold cane to a soft-headed doctor or
pair OF slippers to an old bachelor, all devices
like bean bottles and weighing the fat man-be
oanlSned to the coal bin. Such things disgust
sensible people and bring the whole enterpise
/ O''''"'Ee"'e
"A peculiar fungus has carried ruin
into the coffee plantations of Ceylon, the Fiji
Islands and Java and dismay into the bosor9s
OF their owners. 1t is even feared that the plant
is doomed, like the grape, to gradual extinction
unless some means of extlnguishing its mortal
enemy is discovered
A dispatch from Constantinople, saws
the Sult,n did not attend the MOSQUE FRIDAY
and 1t has since transpired that an attempt to
assasslnate him was contemplated. The Sultan
IS completely terrorstricken and hardly dares
show himself outside the harem. Dervisch Pasba
Is to be executed.
"A paying tin mine has beeen dis.
covered in Island Creek Township, Jefferson
Co o., declared, by experts to be eonal in
quality to the famous Cornwall ore of Wales
The owner says he will have 900 men at work
on 1t within year.
"A church in Bavaria, accommoda.
| ting 1000 people, has been almost entirely built
of PAPER mache. which can be supplied at a
cost little above that of plaster 1t can be made
to initiate the finest marble, as 1t takes a polish
superior to slate.
1t is said that at a recent Salvation
Army meeting at Poole, in Dorsetshire it was
announced that tea meeting would be held the
following week. A printed circular gave the
day ana hour OF the meeting, and concluded:
Salvation is free
But not the tea
Rev. S. M. Dodge, of the Walnut ST.
Church. Evansville, recently gave some interest.
ing facts in regard to the Romanist fair in thai
city. One fact is that Protestants patronizeC
the fair another is that it depends largely ON
wheels Of fortune. etc. for its profits; another i,
that dry goods groceries, hardware wooden.
ware, and nearly everything needed in a family
has been donated by Protestant people to thi.
fair, and has been disposed of by rafting. or al
the wheel of fortune. Even the motto. "
Know that My Redeemer Liveth" was rallied
off. The concluding fact is that Protestant
money is needed in genuine Christian work. and
should not be dlsbursed in a way to destroy the
effect of Bible teaching. and Presbyter
The working people throughout con.
tinental Europe are beginning TO plead for de-
liverance from the secular Sunday, and that toe
when such persistent efforts are made in this
country to persuade the same class of peopl,
that the American Sabbath is an Infringement
upon their liberties late dispatch from
Vienna, Austria, says A meeting of thre,
thousand workmen was held today, at which 4
resolution was passed protesting against Sunday
work. A resolution was also passed in fsvol
Of legal prohibition Of newspapers and othei
work on Sunday