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

The courts of San Francisco granted
1854 DEGREES of divorce during the past year, a
proportion to the inhabitants of the city vastly
larger than even New England tolerates.
The total amount received for the
fund for Mrs. James A. Gar6eld's children to the
present date is 1865, 1912
There have been great floods in the
South western rivers. The Cumberland river
at Nashville last week reached height of fifty
five feet three inches seven inches above the
great floods of lS47.
The ease with which some men per-
ceive the minute is well illustrated in this
story. When Mr. Edmunds had Just been
elected to the Senate from Vermont member
asked Senator Collamer what kind of man his
new colleague was. =" A very able man" was
the answer. 9" A very sharp sighted man. Why,
he can see fly on barn-door two miles off
with perfect distinctness-and not see the door r
The Pennsylvania Railroad will
build one hundred and ninety FIVE locomotives
at their shops in Altoona. Pa, this year, forty
of which viii be Modocs."
The income of the Girard estate in
Philadelphia is gradually nearing, million, the
returns for the past twelve months footing up
100000. This great trust is still in its infancy.
The grand new house of w. H. Van
derbilt, at Fifth avenue and Fifty first street,
New York city, has been completed, and is now
occupied by the family.
"A young girl, only IA years OF age,
died OF mania-a Potu in Philadelphia last week.
All the liquor demon The horribly illegal
legal licensing of vice and death When can it
be stopped
Kansas City, Mo, continues to grow
rapidly, and journal there predicts that its
population will considerably exceed 100000 by
the close of this year.
The Senate Committee on Pensions
has agreed to give Mrs. Lincoln Sl5, goo in cash
Immediately, and provide that her pension here
after shall be $4,000 per year, instead of $4,000,
as at present.
Mr.. Francis Wise, distiller, and the
richest man in Ireland, has Just died. He left
no will to dispose of his wealth, which amounts
to $l5000,000. A reasonable share of this is in
American securities.
"A company whose stock is owned in
Brussels, Belgium, is erecting at Fitty-seventh
Street and Seventh Avenue, New York City, a
building at cost of S75 900, in which to exhibit
such Panoramas as the Siege of Paris.
The London Echo says it is now too
certain that the late Dean of Westminsters life
was sacrificed to the bad drainage at the Deane
ry. The study in which he worked was often
to others insufferable on account of offensive
odors, but the Dean, 1t is well known, sin
gularly deficient In tie sense of smell and taste
"A NEW DIsTRIBUTIoN.-Mr James
Ferguson, In an article on Antiquities of To-
MIA" allows to the Greeks only one of the three
orders of architecture usually ascribed to them,
namely, the Corinthian. He refers the Doric
to Egypt and the Ionic to Assyria.
"A correspondent of the Congreqa-
4iopoliSt pup,har NJ no tiap 70 raatad
in the Presbyterian Hospital of New York last
year was ll15; of these 996 were treated
gratuitously AL of them were Roman Catholics
leaving GA for all other denominations fact
which would seem to vindicate the Hospital
from the charge of sectarlan narrowness, despite
Its name." The hospitals which bear the name
of Presbyterian will hardly need a seeming
vindication as long as they throw their doors
open, as they do now to all sects and colors
All that the word Presbyterian" means in
connection with them is that they are managed
by Presbyterians and supported by Presbyterian
money
-DIvoRCE.-Rev. Washington Glad
den has article in the Century for January,
based upon pains taking statstics-from which
1t appears that divorce is alarmingly increasing
In nearly all the States; and that in the Pro
testant population of four New England States
divorces have attained such enormous proper |
tions as these: In Massachusetts they stand as
one to every fifteen marriages in Vermont as |
one to thirteen in Rhode Island, as one to nine
and in Connecticut as one to eight Three of
the causes given are rash marriages, the growing |
laxness of divorce laws, and the assiduity with |
which the new theories of woman's rights are
promulgated fact being well known that
looseness in the marriage relation Is a never fail
ing attendant upon these theories.
AN UNPRECEDENTED LEGACY.-It is
believed that the Boston University is the first
and only educational institution in this country
that ever received legacy of two millions 1t
was left by Mr.. Isaac Rich, to come into actual
possession of this University at ne expiration of
ten years, which time expired last week The
happy event was duly celebrated by the faculty
and students in addI esses, music social converse
and well served refreshments The Boston Uni
versity is the property of the Methodiss, though
neither the professors nor students are restricted
to that denomination. The institution provides
for every department of professional and liberal
study, and IS open to both sexes It's first ten
years have been period of struggle, with mad
equate buildings and limited funds for all which
the present Princely endowment provides an
ample remedy.