The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-07-19
GENERAL ITEMS.

= The rents received last year by the
American Bible Society for the use of rooms in
the great Bible House in New York amounted
to the large sum of S31 ,665 81.
The longest line of fence in the world
IS In course of construction across the Texas
Panhandle and into New Mexico, to stop cattle
rom wandering too far northward The fence
will be over 200 miles long
Since the war three men-Peabodv.
Slater and Tulane-have given $5.1OOOOO for
the promotion of education in the South The
distribution of these funds is to be almost equal
~ divided between white and colored
The Princess Beatrice is now allowed
by Queen Victoria to manage the royal estab.
lishment at all the palaces. She prefers this
win music and painting, to marrying German
The 100000 paid by our Govern
ment for Alaska amounted not quite to two
cents per acre. 1t also prevents Great Britain's
coast line on the Pacific from frightening to the
northward.
The last spike in the connecting rail
OF the Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Rail
road was driven yesterday forty miles north OF
Nemphls, Tenn. This gives Memphis another
through line to Chesapeake bay, via Louisville.
Prof. Basil L. Gildersleeve, of Johns
hopkins University, and Prof. F. R. Price, I'm
iyerslty of Virginia, were elected members of
the executive committee of the American Phil
illogical Society in Cambridge, Mass.
Three boys died at Lowell, Mass.
Wednesday, from lockjaw caused by wounds
from toy pistols another died at Gloucester from
the same cause; two in Boston Tuesday. and
still another victim is lying dangerously i'll in.
that city. Another boy died yesterday at
Nashua, n H., and one at Springfield, Mass
from toy pistol wounds.
Mrs Abraham Lincoln. widow of
President Lincoln, died at Springfield, Ill, last
Sunday night For soma time past she had
made her home there with her sister, Mrs.
Edwards. Mrs. Lincoln, whose maiden name
was Mary Todd was born in Lexington, XIV.
IN 1921. On the 4th of November 1912, she
married Abraham Lincoln, who was then a
prominent lawyer OF Springfield, H.
In answer to the call of the Luth
eran General Council FIVE young pastors have
already come from Germany to lab y among the
Germans IN this country, and it is reported that
at the missionary institute at Kropp, Schleswig
seventy young men have offered themselves Tor
similar service.
Kansas never had such crops, says
recent dispatch from Topeka, in that State
The acreage of wheat is about 1900 600. or %
per cent less than last year, and the yield, tax.
ing probable average of % bushels. will be in
the neighborhood of 10000 900. or 25 per cent
more than last year. Harvesting now is well
under way. In the most advanced section the
grain is all In, but fears are expressed in some
quarters that the facilities of transportation will
prove inadequate.
The New York Commercial Bulletin
says The vast herds of cattle which our Wes-
tern exchanges report on the trail in the Indian
Territory, and feeding their way northward
should before long have an effect on the excep
tlonally high prices of animal food 1t is es
timated that nearly 100 900 grass fed cattle will
be sent forward before the driving season is
over"
An eminent Professor of Berlin, M.
Dubois Raymond, man of immense scientific
knowledge, and not concerning himself in the
least with religious questions, has lately stated
In memorable discourse that there are seven
mysteries in nature which Materialistic science
can never explain namely, motion, life sensa.
ton, reason, liberty, matter, and the final cause
of things.
DIR. Pressense says that it is recog-
nlzed that the French Republic has one subtle.
vlgilant, and implacable enemy"-to wit,
Ultramontanism. And he is obliged to confess
that the Ultramontanes have been gaining
strength lately in France" There is a rising
fear that the schools in the Republic will. under
the new laws, be wholly irreligious, if not posi-
tive seed-beds of infdelity.
The question whether Mr.. Ralph
Waldo Emerson became a Christian in the
later years Of his life, which some good men
would fam believe, is answered very dogmati-
cally by the Springfield Republican, by saving
that Mr.. Emerson never became any more Of
Christian than he was when he wrote Ma
ture' "a well known volume issued wears AGO
He did go so far in the announcement of he
Free Religious Association, which is the society
for the propagation Of Liberalism, as to send a
generous check to its editor This is a prac.
tcal proof ofhis position in regard to the religion
Of Christ.
Among the recent census bulletins is
one that shows the number of males of the vot-
ing age, twenty one years OF over, classified as
native white, foreign white, total white. and
total colored. 1t is seen by these tables that in
only two States does the male colored popula-
ton Of the voting age outnumber the whites
Mississippi has 1929 colored to los, 254
whites, and South Carolina has 12S, 889 colored
to $4,000 whites Louisiana is nearly divided
the colored numbering l07,977 to los, $40 whites
Some States have surprisingly few Of these col
ored males of twenty one years or over. New
Hampshire has but 237, Vermont 314, and
Maine 66l. Nebraska also has remarkably few
-844. In these tables also. Chinese, japanese,
and Indians count as colored.