The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-12-06
GENERAL ITEMS.


dollar is being circulated throughout the coun-
try The coin is heavily plated and resists the
acid test unless 1t is very deeply cut before the
acid is applied.
Col. Seaton, Superintendent of the
Census, says that the compendium, or handy
volume, containing popular digest of the sta
tistical results of the census, Will be ready for
issue about the time Congress meets. 1t will be
volume OF about l 400 pages.
"A Committee representing syndi-
cate of European capitalists has been inspecting
the proposed route for ship canal between the
Delaware and Chesapeake The estimated cost
of the canal which would be 10 miles long is
S6,0O0,00Oo. 1t is said that work is to begin at
once.
"A Western orator, who is known as
defender of the Bible, said last SUMMER that
ihheity destroyed all reverence, and as proof
of 1t added that Ingersoll would be known to
the latest time only as " Bob" Ingersoll inst as
Paine can never be known otherwise than as
Tom Paine"
An Evangelical Ministerial Associa-
ton has been formed in Louisville, Ky. Min
listers OF all evangelical churches are eligible to
membership, Rev r. p Humphrey, D. D., l..
l.. D.. has been chosen President for one year.
Ought Women to be Allowed to Preach in
Our Pulpits ?" will be discussed at the December
meetings.
The report of Commissioner of Agri-
culture Loring, which was submitted to the
President last week, estimates the CROP weld Of
1882 as follows: Corn, 1885, OOO0 900 bushels
wheat, 100000 bushels; oats, 100000 600
bushels; barley, $4,000 900 bushels; rye, 20 O0O-
600 bushels, and buckwheat, 10000 900 bushels.
During the excavations in the Ro.
there 1vy IL ~
the remains of an ancient and forgotten church
which has since been identified as that of Santa
Maria In Faro. 1t is Of small size, and was built
on the ancient level of the forum.
The New York City Mission and
Iract. Society, at No. so Bible House has among
Its fifty laborers those who speak in English
German, French, Italian Bulgarian and Ae-
brew and publications in twelve different Ian
guages are daily distributed among the tene
ment- houses and the immigrants at Castle Gar
den.
10 the inquiry, why have the lee
lures and concerts once so popular in our cities
ana villages, and even in some rural districts,
been abandoned this reply has been given in
the cities the opera and theatre and German
now attract those who formerly attended the
lectures and the concerts, and in the country
towns card and dancing parties occupy the
younger people-PresJyterian Banaer.
The bishop and other clergy of
Archbishop Purcells diocese are unit in re-
pudlatlng the 100000 debt which he con-
tracted in his official capacity. The money
went INTO the buildings now owned by the die
eese The title of the property was in the Arch
bishop In fee simple. He owned enough pre-
Perty to pay the debt and that ownership gave
him his unlimited financial credit The priests
hold on to the property and repudiate the debts
contracted IN Improving it. Where is the diff
ference between this and secular embezzement2
Interior.
"A report by M. Won Schultz on a
Central Asian railway was recently laid before
the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. 1t
was based on survey ordered by Gen Strive
along the proposed south-oastward extension of
the Orenburg Railway. The conclusion is that
the best line is by way of the Valley of the
lick, across the southern part of the Mugodar
hills to Ietse-bash Bay, on the north western
shores OF Lake Aral
The american Z8raellte, referring to
the critics of the Robertson Smith school saws
One OF the hypercritical gentlemen under
took some time ago to maintain that Moses was
a myth, and pointed for proof to the fact that
none OF the ancient Hebrews were called Moses.
and this name is not even mentioned bv Isaiah
only. kim. ii, II. That gentlemen forgot that
no Hebrew was called Abraham down to the
second Christian Century. So it appears that
the Jews down to very late period would not
assume the names of Moses Abraham or even
Isaac on account of the holy generation they
felt tor the bearers Of these names.
AN invention revolutionizing the
envelope and stamp business has been adopted
| by the government and will be put into pract-
cal use by the middle Of January. 1t is moth
| ing less than letter-sheet, envelope and stamp
| combined, which can be closed together with a
single " lick" The public will be saved the
price of envelope and paper, as a contrivance
large enough for an ordinary epistle. with
stamp attached will cost but g cents. There
will also be issued and l cent classes. Mr..
Ehrlech, of st. Louis, is the inventor.
-Sweetwater, Texas, has grown up
with rapidity. A correspondent Of the Terds
Presbyterian says " Where five years ago the
Indian and buffalo roamed at will, now is sit
uated the beautiful little town of Sweetwater.
the county site Of holland county, situated on
the Texas and Pacific RR., 230 miles west from
Dallas Our depot was built two years ago.
town Of 800 inhabitants has built up around
! 1T. We have five organi ed churches namely,
Presbyterian Cumberland Presbyterian, Meth
odist, Baptist and Christian We have Sabbath
School and preaching every Sabbath"
"A delicate literary gem has been
reprinted in this country from a foreign mage
zine, and is now published in successive mum
bers Of the Interior, Presbyterian newspaper
in Chicago. As a literary work the story is
beautiful and interesting, being the travels of
/ little pilgrim through this world and some re-
I gIons supposed to be in the next. But the object
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