The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-05-17
GENERAL ITEMS.

Ralnerl0p
tics which show that probably three fo9rtbs of
the business men in that city are actively en-
gagged IN Christian work
The six Andover Professors have
declared that it cannot be denied that the doc
trines of eternal punishment and of judgment
the pulpit" -
How sad the development of the
New Haven Cramer case What comment the
Mothers testimony is on the altogether too care
less freedom of intercourse between the sexes
which is tolerated by American parents ?
-BEER.-That the manufacture is on
the increase in this country many will admit
but few are aware that since 1863 it has in.
creased 619 per cent, or that since 1870 its ex-
portation has increased Is, $50 per cent.
Since the war there has been a steady
and unparalleled growth in immigration last
year tar exceeded all previous experience and
this year promises to be at least sixty three per
cent In advance of last year
An Exchange cheerily saws to ifs
pOetical contributors Dealers have advanced ar ed
quarter of cent on waste paper. Send alone
your spring poetry; write it on one side of the
sheet and use the heaviest legal cap"
"A Duke, three Lords, and a Count
arrived in New York by European steamers 4tb
inst. They we're the Duke of Manchester. Lord
Vaudeville, Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady
Churchill, Lord Elphenston, and Countess Mont
saulpin.
1t is said that Suicide, viewed as
Social Phenomenon in Modern Civilization +" is
the title of new book by a learned Austrian.
his position is that the irreligious countries
abound most in suicides, and that these increase
Just as lrreligion prevails. He maintains his
ground by unanswerable statistics
"A large new church has been erected
IN Somers Town, London, in connection with
the Presbyterians. Earl Shaftesbury presided
at the opening. An English Church clergyman
came to bid the new congregation God-speed
Inc large congregation has been gathered from
among the poor and outcast.
The First Congregational church of
San Francisco, founded by the Tate Rev. DR.
stone, mad an orthodox creed distinctly recogniz
ing the doctrines of original sin the Trinity and
the everlasting punishment of the fnaliy i'm.
Penltent, but under the lead of its new pastor
Rev. q. ID: Barrows, it has now adopted creed
IN which these three doctrines are ignored.
The Rev. Arthur Anniceseed of
Utica, is disciple of Wilde, and is pronounced
by his lady parlshioners a very zephyr of poetic
plety. His preaching is verv delicate Last
sunday he read a portion of Sacred Writ detail.
ing rehearsal of Jonah's submarine adventures
We come now to Jonah, said Arthur. who
passed three days and three nights In the whales
-ahem-society."
We notice among the promising SIGNS
OF the work of the church in the South and fba
general advancement of the colored people that
IN one of the Presbyteres, COMPOSED chiefly If
Freedmen, there was stringent resolntion
passed In regard to the formation of the pastoral
reiaton In the churches instead of temporary
supplies, and that meeting of the graduates 0t
Lincoln University was held lately at RALEIGH
N. u, where the project of establishing month
lymagazlne for the colored people was considered
anu approved twenty-five former students of
Ihe University were present.-Pres5vteria
The Supreme Court of California has
Just pronounced its Sunday law constitutional
Inc law prohibits any racing, circus. {" or anv
oarDarous and noisy amusement" the represen.
IaIion OF any musical, theatrical or operatic
performance where wines and intoxicatino IL
quors are to be had on Sunday. and nnnisbce br
hne any person who keeps open on Sunday any
store workshop, saloon, or place of business
with the exception of hotels, drug stores etc
Inc law IS a very mild law as it stands. We
nope California enforces her Sunday law better
than New York does
-Ihe widow of man killed bv tbe
cars while In an intoxicated condition bronobt
SUIT against fifteen saloon keepers in Flpin Who
mad sold her husband liquor and also aoainst
the owner of the building in which one of the
saloons was located. The plaintiff was nonsuited
except as to four of the saloon. keepers and tbe
one landlord, but against these a Jury vester.
$2,804. az
Some of the walls of the ancient for
tress OF Szegedin, in Hungary-the town which
two years ago was visited by a terrible flood
were recently demolished, and in one of them
the Workmen found concealed two bundles of
tobacco. From the position occupied bv these
ooundles, 1T Is inferred that they were there
when the fortress was built-at remote his
torical period-and that tobacco was therefore
IN use In the East long before the Indian was
discovered using it in the West.
In the midst of the laudations Of Mr.
Darwin as the foremost man of science in his
day, 1t IS well to recall the fact that, in the iudg
ment OF so eminent scientist as Professoor
Iyndall, Darwin's chief doctrine is verv
doubtful one, especially the portion of it which
derives man as development from the brutes
ne 5ald lew years ago -" Inasmuch as IL il
sun IN Its Hypothetical stage, the bar of exclu
sion ought to fall upon the theory Of evolution
; mold with Virchow, that the failures
have been lamentable, and the doctrine is utter
ly discredited D."
The Methodist has this Cbautauoua
comment, which is well made
Inc Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table" on
pears among the books recommended to be read
IN the Chautauqua course. Weremember cod
ing that work as it originally appeared in the
Atlantic Monthly many years AGO and rbo W.