The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-15
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Count de Chambord, the head
Of the fallen dynasty of Bourbon. lost 5 1000 OOC
francs by the recent failure of the Union Gen
6rale in France
II he Cumberland Presbyterian
church at Russellville, Ky, has been enjoying q
remarkable revival season, during which f9C
persons have been added to the church on con
tession of faith.
= In three years Presbyterians have
organized no less than fifty seven churches in
tne 9tate OF 4, Nebraska with an aggregate mem
bershlP, of 9l9, and have built twenty Six houses
OF worship at a cost of about $4,000.
The first through freight car from
San Francisco to New Orleans without break
ing bulk reached New Orleans on Monday last
ga the Southern Pacific Railway, having been
fourteen and half days en- route
Mr.. Beecher said truly in recent
discourse, that where one man goes crazy in
the excitement of revival of religion twenty
men go crazy in the excitement of Wall street."
In nine months the missionaries of
the American Sunday School have organized
1897 new Sunday Schools, with 7i9O teachers
and 56, 279 Scholars larger number than in
all the preceding years.
Herbert Spencer's long-meditated
sails August next and intends to be absent from
home three months. He visits Canada and
also, possibly California. He has refused all
proposals to lecture, his design being solely to
see the country and people, without any Ill
terror object.
Queen Margaret of Italy has among
the ladies of her court two Americans whose
magnificent Jewels almost eclipse the famous
diamonds of the Roman Processes They are
the Princess Trigiano Brancacci, nee Field, and
the Princess Cenci, nee Spencer.
The Presbyterian Journal on Pres
byteran Union: 1.-The old-fashioned orthodoxy
and the intense Presbyterianism which find
utterance in our Southern exchanges and in
their church courts, against the doctrinal and
ecclesiastical looseness which is now so prevalent
intensity our desire for its realization
The astonishing accuracy of English
information about this country is shown by the
London Post 1t has discovered that Charles
lished in London, is at present Governor Of the
State of Ohio, having been so created in
1871 by President Hayes"
The Am. Board in 1920 had % sta
tions, with access to a population of 100000. So
missionaries, no native agents, and no schools.
They now report 812 stations, with access to
lOOOOO,OOO souls, 4O4 missionaries !, M native
agents, and 81 schools with 8 900 pupils. Their
expenditures have risen from $57, 900 to $693,.
O00
In Ohio there is no law against the
selling of alcoholic drinks, and nothing but moral
means against their use can be employed In
Oberhn the crusade still continues There is an
absorbing interest on this subject throughout the
college, the seminary, the churches, and the
village In preventing the sale of liquor in
drug store which has been virtually saloon
Meetings for prayer and conference over the
matter are held daily.
Rev Dr. Newman Smyth has been
elected, subjectto the approval of the Board of
Visitors, to succeed Prof. Park in the Chair of
Theology at Andover. One of our friends saws
that this descent from Park to Smyth is nine
days fall into unreasonable depths
DR.. Smyth is the son of DIR. William Smyth.
for nearly half a century Professor of Mathema-
tics at Bowdoin College and brother of Prof
Egbert g. Smyth, now of Andover. He served
In the Army of the Potomac as a First Lleuten-
ant, IS thirty eight years old, and at present
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at
Quincy Ill Since 1877 he has published three
works upon religious problems of the time
The new United States census gives
1858 Protestant churches, II 662 Protestant
ministers, and 9,O03,030 members of Protestant
churches According to the census the entire
population of the United States are 80, 1872 $50.
Dequct from this 6,l74 POP Roman Catholics
and Ia 263 Mormons and we have a remaining
population of 43, 1854 ,38l This gives one church
for every ALB persons, including infants and
children, one minister for every 6l2 of the
people, and nearly one protesting Protestant for
every five of the entire population outside of
Roman Catholicism and Mormonism.
"A truly marvellous thing is the
temperance revival in the State of Arkansas. We
would have said, previous TO the trial, that the
State of Arkansas was precisely the State where
local option would stand the last chance of
vigorous enforcement But Home Protec.
ton Law was passed last winter. The women,
to whom the home" is every thing, resolved
that the law should be enforced, and wherever
they have exerted themselves they have secured
Its enforcement Of course the law has been
denounced, and the courts have been appealed
to; but the Supreme Court has decided it to be
constitutional. Indeed one disguised saloon
keeper said that the Supreme Court behaved
Just like " a big Murphy meetin'" The leaders
say very candidly, the women have saved the
day'-saved their own homes too, we hope
-Hot-house strawberries in January
sold in New York at 81 quart During the
last week in February they were 81 %, imported
from Florida. The berries grow in the open
fields on the st. Johns River. They were picked
Just before they were quite ripe, and were
packed in trays, each holding twelve quarts
The trays were LAID in great refrigerators nearly
as large as a New York ice wagon and one of
them, when filled with strawberries. is quite az
much as truck load When a refrigerator is
shipped by way Of Jacksonville and the sea. the