The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-06-28
GENERAL ITEMS.


ton and Lee University. II is understood that
Sidney.
1t has been shown by census taken
on Sabbath that little over one third of the
population of st. Louis, Mo-, attend church :;
while In the Puritan city of Boston only about
one-tourth OF the people thus regard the Sab
bath.
The Episcopal Church Congress will
be held this year in Richmond, Va, going
south of Mason and Dixon's line for the first
time.
The United Presbyterian churches
IN Monmouth, ILL.,, have been greatly strength
with the First and Second Presbyterian church
es.
The churches of this country aggre-
gate an expenditure of $l75OOO,OO0 year in
maintaining and extending public worship Yet
this is less than three and half dollars for each
person.
The report copied into our paper a
shor' time ago that President Seelye had advised
stu of theology to go to Hartford The
oloA ID Seminary, and not to Andover. is now
said to be correct.
The Hymnal of the Established
Church of Scotland must be popular book, as
it was reported to the late General Assembly
that since it was issued more than million Of
copies had been sold.
The 5O,OOO,OOO of our population
have Protestant minister for every 72S persons.
and Sabbath School teacher for every ifty.six.
One IN every five is a member of an evangeli-
cal church.
In San Francisco the Roman Cath
olics have 10 churches, the Presbyterians Is,
Methodlsts a. Episcopal H. Baptist g. Congre-
gatlonal Gin all, SO churches, 10 chapels and 7
synagogues, for population of about 100000.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain church of Canada met in Toronto on the
l4th OF June. There was very large attendance
OF representative Presbyteians from all parts of
Canada, and the meeting cannot fail to be one
of great interest.
Every little while we see a new won
der in the way of rapid railroad travelling
Jumbo" new locomotive on the Pennsylvan-
Ia Railroad went last week, from Philadelphia
to Jersey City, ninety miles, in eighty minutes
The drivers on this engine are seven feet in
diameter.
The army-worm is reported as hav-
ing appeared in large force along the southern
counties of Ohio. Indiana and illinois, doing
great damage to grain crops, destroying fields Of
wheat IN few hours. They are moving north
ward through the Miami Valley.
"A London scientist predicts that the
time is not far distant when electricity will be
stored so successfully and cheaply that little
boxes of it will be used to propel tricycles, and
people will journey about the country by that
method rather than by rail.
The Columbia Banner tells of an
Irish potato bush which contained about thirty
Rotatoes-all up among the limbs like apples
The contributor who brought it to the Banner
office says his family eat them and they are
fine. He has about dozen of the trees grow
ing in his garden.
Rev. j. w. Hamilton, a Methodist
clergyman, who several years ago began a new
church edlhce on Columbus Avenue Boston
has secured money enough to complete wha
will be the largest Protestant church BUILDING
In New England. 1t will be built of brick
with treestone trimmings, and will seat, will
the chapel which opens into it, between 5000
and 600 persons.
There are 1000 charitable institu.
tlons in London with an aggregate income of nc
less than go, $50 900. OF these eghty-two are
hospitals and forty-seven dispensaries the united
yearly receipts of which reach the total of So
60o'OOO, or about one eighth of the whole
n ulSpdCCn from Denver, Col, saws
Chang Tsung Liang an attach6 of the Chinese
Legation, passed through this city to-day on his
way to Washington. He says the Chinese gov
eminent will return fifty students to American
colleges, having discovered that their removal
was a mistake.
The Rev. Samuel Longfellow has
resigned the pastorate of the Unitarian church
OF Germantown, Penn. which he has held fol-
five years past, in order that he NAV, at the re
q1est of the family, write The biography of hi,
brother, the late Henry w. Longfellow. TIL,
society has accepted the resignation with re
greet
from France an extraordinary tricv
Gle Journey is reported to have been made By
the Vice President of the Lyons Bicycle Club
accompanied by his wife. They travelled in on,
of the two seated tricycles from Lyons to Nice
Genoa, Rome and Naples, and home again
through Florence and Turin. The entire dis
lance Is about $500 miles, and they averaged
between fifty and sixty miles day.
DR.. Chalmers, with the intense earn
estness Of his convictions, once startled an in
3 credulous friend by declaring that the Free
! Church Of Scotland must have an annual income
2 of 100000. DR.. Mcdonald, the Moderator o
2 the late Free Church Assembly, was able to an
J nounce that the whole income of the churcl
was above the sum named by DR.. Chalmers an,
S had risen at times as high as 100000.
; "A cotemporary journalist says
a One Of the most unappeasable things in tn
r world is the writer of a rejected communica
ton We hope this is not true, for there lie Oh
T. our desk more than one hundred Communica
q tions received since the LIST of January, and q