The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-05-03
GENERAL ITEMS.

The Louisiana floods have starved
the deer so that they are easily taken. On
Belle Island, among the cows and pigs seven
beautiful wild deer were standing quietly, their
large eyes fixed upon the new corners. Thev
appeared quite tame at first, but gradually drew
away. With an improvised lariat two were
soon caught and put on board the skifs. Thew
struggled but little, and were in better condition
than would be supposed. The others swan into
the cane and returned as the hunters pushed off.
Alter they were taken on board the boat thew
soon accepted food from the hand and seemed to
become quite tame.
The House Committee have recon-
mended that DR.. Bliss be paid $25O 900. Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton $15, 900 each. and Drs.
heyburn, Boynton, and Mrs. Edison $4,000
each, for their services duSing President Gar
heIds sickness. But there Is growing against
the reward. Especially among the doctors.
The news from Odessa, on the Black
Sea, that 1000 Jewish families have been re-
celved by the barbarous bigots is calculated to
increase sympathy for these prosecuted people
AS the Government has really done NOTHING to
put stop to these outrages, it is likely that 3 .
OOOOOO Jews in Russia would leave the countrv
day were they able to secure the means Of
conveyance Terror is likely to drive every
Jew from Russia who has the money with
winch to effect an escape, and many of the
tugltlves will seek homes in the United States
Inc I2OOO who have just engaged passage are
put the advance guard of the army which will
be likely to follow.
The F5eema71's Journal q STRONG
Catholic organ says, anent the Andover Pro-
tessorshlp: New England theology will 90
on conceding until nothing is left to concede
There is very little now. 1t is difficult To tell
where Congregationalism ends and Rationallsn
begins In the minds of these conceders.'"
"A great revival is in progress in
Burlington, Iowa. There have been more than
two hundred converts, and inquirers are multi
plying. Rev. DR.. Spinney, pastor of the First
Baptist church. is holding meetings nightly az.
sisted by Rev o. l.. Leonan. The interest is
spreading all over the city. Prayer meetings
nave been started In the public schools and re-
Gently In one school room there were SEVENTY
nine scholars assembled at the MONDAY hour
Tor such meeting, presided over by one Of their
number.
The wife of Jesse James was also his
cousin, the daughter of respectable people Iivine
near Kansas City. They were engaged in 1855
Just after Jesse had been made an outlaw under
the code and price set upon his head tn.
courtship lasted five years. One EVENING t,o,,
were together in the yard Of his mothers resy.
dence at Kearney, when five men entered the
house and made a fruitless search. the bandit
lying under a rOsebush twenty feet avav me
Gad's hill robbery Melted $1,000 of which Jesse
received one fifth, and on that capital tbev
were married and went to Sherman TEXAS f6r
their honeymoon. Jesse was participant in
the robberies at Corinth, Miss, and Muncie
han lie subsequently, raised fast horses a.
G E.uge1eld, Tenn, and was a delegate to the
state Democratic convention which nominotod
Governor Porter The daughter was horn in
Baltimore, during Jesse's absence on the North
held raid. The outlaw spent a week At The
Centennial Exposition, and recognized NAM
people from Missouri. Last summer thew lived
IN Kansas City, under the name of Jackson in
a house in which the Blue cut robbery vas
planned, and which for a week afteyvard
sheltered the main actors in the bold crime,