The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-04-19

The ladies Of DR.. Taylor's Tabernacle
Church have, the past winter, sent % well filled
| trunks to as many Home Missionaries families.
Each trunk contained general supply of cloth
ing housekeeping goods, pulpit suit for each
missionary. and library of about 20 choice vol
umes The estimated value of the gifts was
! 1850.
Reports of fearful famine come
! from Asia Minor, where, owing to three suc
cesslve visitations of the locusts the crops have
be- been swept and the people are dying of famine.
Inc district ls three times as large as Massachu-
sets, and embraces ancient Cappadocia and part
OF Phrygia. Immediate help is needed.
Mile. Jeanne Bonaparte, the daugh-
ter OF the late Prince Pierre Bonaparte. whose
marriage to the Marquis deVileneuve Pargemont.
a Legitimist, has been announced, is the sister of
Prince Roland Bonaparte. who, marrying the
daughter of the late NJ. Blanc, keeper Of the
branch OF his family to the position of the
wealthlest. Her father, the late Prince Pierre
Bonaparte, was a first cousin of Emperor
Napoleon III, while her mother was fashion
able milliner and dressmaker.
SO microscopically perfect is the
watch making machinery now in use that screws
are cut with nearly six hundred threads to the
INCH though the finest used in the watch has
two hundred and fifty. These threads are in
the screws to weigh pound, their value being
SIX pounds of pure gold.
The opposition to the appointment of
DIR. Newman Smyth to the vacant chair in
Andover Seminary, which started in the East
has received powerful reinforcement in the
West. AT the meeting of the Congregational
ministers of st. Louis the following resolution.
of the short sharp and decisive kind, was passed
" IL esoIved, That we hereby express our convic-
at unr1lA ha Z
nomination of Rev. Newman Smyth as Professor
OF Theology in Andover Seminary"
"A HINT TO THE CHOIR. An old lady
who had no relish for modern church music
was expressing her dislike of the singing of an
anthem IN certain church. when a neighbor
said " Why, that is very old anthem David
sang 1T to Saul" To this the old lady replied
" Weel, weel, moo for the first time understan'
why Saul threw his javelin at David when the
lad sang for him."
INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION. The
immigration during March was much larger
than that in any previous year. In that time
1887 immigrants arrived at this port of these
29,7l9 were men and boys, and IA lis women
and girls The total number for the three months
Is 70 ABB as against AZ S47 for the first quarter of
1881, 32,7O2 in 1880. and 10, 339 in 1879. The
nationalities for March were as follows -
Germany, 49, 1872 Ireland, 1854; Italy, 4,117;
OWOuoHi 20 K, l.
265; Switzerland, 1,2lO; Hungary, l,028; Scot
land, ,OOS Holland, 917 Austria, SAL Russia
1854; France 500 Norway, 42O; Bohemia, 229;
Poland 23Si Belgium, Ito and other countries,
1896.
The future of New England occu-
pied my thoughts during recent trip eastward
Steamships are helping the growth of Boston
and salt fish is making Gloucester. Outside of
these places the Old New England seaports are
not doing the business for which their wharves
have capacity. The tides come and go, but
not the ships Gradually the whale feet is
dwindling at New Bedford while Salem signs
IN vain to see once more the barks that Ike
Solomons ship from Tarshish came regularly
bringing rare goods from the East Indies. New
Eng gland farms do not charm their cultivators.
She farmers are not increasing The manufac.
turing centres, though. thrive Lewiston in
Maine, Manchester in New Hampshire, Boston
Worcester Fall River, Springfield, Lowell Lynn
and Lawrence In Massachusetts Providence in
Rhode island, Hartford and few other Con
necticut towns, are steadily growing. New En-
gland, at least its lower half, promises to be the
birmingham of the country-COr. Christian
InteLagenccr.