The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-03-22
GENERAL ITEMS.


the water is above the tops of fiat cans on the
railroad track and other villages in the vicinity
are In even more desperate condition. Aus
TIN, Miss, is submerged by the flood. which is
twenty five feet deep around the princina1
buildings There is crevasse of three hundred
leet near Bayou sara, which will surely inup-
date eight of the richest sugar parishes There
is some alarm at New Orleans respecting the
levees. break occurred at the head of Tole.
aano street, which soon wdened to sixty feet
but was speedily closed. The water is seetb
ing through at the head of Milan Street. and a
break would inundate the city. Two openings
occurred twenty five miles above town b9t
We're promptly attended to- The levee between
Memphis and Arkansas City is broken in forty
places and at some points the Mississippi is ffty
miles wide. The relief commissioners for Ar
kansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee report 40 600
destitute persons.
-TENNEssEE.-A CORRESPONDENT of
the Herald and PresJyter writes Rev. T
L. Hammond appeared quite unexpected on the
street of Maryville on Wednesday of last veaI,
paying role rather peculiar to us of this conn
try. lie sat on horse, presenting an imposing
inquire, being a large man, and wearing a large
white plug hat. Slowly he rode through the
streets in z'gzag manner, shouting to all Within
the line of his march, Come down to the meet.
ing to night 1T IS scarcely necessary to add,
the crowd came
When l have asked voung man 70
has usually been "Oh, can't afford it." Look
here, young man If | had begun fftv wears
ago to smoke two cigars day. at FIVE cents a
piece II would now amount to 81 .S25: and two
glasses OF some stimulant (Which was very
popular thing IN early days. at five cents a
glass would be 81 ,S25-making sum total of
$500. My newspaper only cost me $l25 for
W. /
not afford to do what you ought to do. and what
you can do by letting alone that which is of no
possible use to you.-Erchange.
-"SEvEN WoRLD-PRoB1E Nat
long ago DR.. Emil du Bots Reymond an emil
nently learned and able scholar. and the fore.
most opponent of materalism and scientific
ATHEISM In Germany published an essay on
, Inc Limits of Natural Philosophy" in which
ne showed that its researches are restricted IN
what is cognizable by the senses; and that he.
yond these bounds, which science cannot pass
the guidance of faith is a necessity. His essay
produced quite a sensation, to which he has ra
Gently added by a second essay before the Ber.
lin Academy of Sciences" in which he en-
unclates to his brother scientists seven world
problems which no one of them has been able
TO solve. l. The existence of matter and of
PoWer. ?. The source of motion. g. The he
ginning OF hte 4. The manifest proofs of de-
S!9" IN nature: o. The origin of simple Dercep-
5to"' %. Logical thinking, and the origin of
tGngudge Z: Free,oH Believe In God, and
all these problems are readily solved. IGNORE
the Creator, and the demands made on vour
credullty are numerous and some of them SIN
pendous. ''''
Prof. H. B. Smith wrote, as the clos
ing words of his "Apologetics :"
-, One thing Is certain-that Infdel Science
VIII rout everything excepting thorough going
Christian Orthodoxy. All the fabbv theories
and the molluscous formations. and the intsr.
mediate Purgatorles of speculation will 90 bv
the board The fight will be betw ZEN a stiff
thorough gong Orthodoxy, and stiff thorougb
gong lnhdelity. 1t will be e. a., Augustine or
Comte, Athanaslus or Hegel, Luther or Scbon
enhauer, }. ). Mill or John Calvin. Arianism
8etS the hre from both sides so does Arminian-
ism, so does Universalism."
MIR. Oliver Dalrymple's Bonanza"
farm, in Dakota of 10000 acres. with 500
no ;ses and mules, and 500 men as a WORKING
force Is often described as the largest farm in the
woIIu; ana Tor all we know, it may be at pre-
sent but compared with some of the ancient
farms 1t Is mere flea bite Minus inherited from
ms father, Nimrod, a farm as big as a good sized
western State, with 10000 cattle, IA 900 slaves
ana about Y6OO,OO0,0O0 as a WORKING canital
all OF which he doubled before his death Cvrns
Ihe hlhg OF Persia, had at one time 80 600
horses, 10000 cattle, 100000 sheen 10000
asses, and $4,000 slaves, and three Thousand
mil lon dollars spare cash besides. This is what
may be. called " farming under easy circum.
stances. '-American Garden.
1t is between four and five hundred
years since coffee first began to be cultivated in
Arabia, and for long time its production and
consumption were confined to that country and
Persia: The first coffee house in Europe was
opened at Constantinople in 1904. Another
century elapsed before it reached western
Europe. " The first coffee house in London was
opened in Newman'5 Court, Cornhill in 1853
by Greek named Pasqua Rosie" The first
coiiee-h house In France was opened at Marse,lles
IN 1871 year or two later one was opened in
Paris ."
The New ANDovER PRoFEssoR
The Congregationalist does act believe that DR.
Newman Smyth should be given the Char If
theology at Andover." The ground Of ifs
CONVICTION IS that those books on which DR.
Smyth stands before the Christian pubic have
caused him to be regarded with serious distrust
as to certain points and especially that he has
expressed himself with too much vagueness upon
the subject of future punishment" Andover
SEMINARY has Greed of its own to which ever,
Professor Is bound to subscribe. and there Z
nothing indefinite in the Creed, nothing like the
maze In which Dr. Smyth manages to invest
some OF his theology
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