The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-14
GENERAL ITEMS.

"A herd of twenty-five ostriches late
ly arrived at Central Park, New York. They
belong wealthy Englishman who has tried
ostrich farming in both Africa and South Amer
lea, and he is certain that the birds can be raised
in the United States. None of this herd are
less than six feet tall. They are as bad as pick
pockets for snatching watches and buttons from
the clothing of spectators Their only value
is In their beautiful feathers, which are picked
the wings are the most valuable, selling from
Sl7o to F2co neutrality-suspicious..
The Scientific american gives the
following rule for removing stumps 80 In the
autumn or early winter bore a hole one or two
inches in diameter, according to the girth of the
stump and about eight inches deep put into it
one or two ounces of Salpetre, fill the hole with
water and plug it close. In the ensuing spring
take out the plug and pour in gill of kerosene
oil and Ignite It, The stump will moulder away,
without blazing, to the very extremity of the
roots leaving nothing but ashes"
Tile Congregational Year Book for
1883 Is out this year very nearly on time. It's
statistical summaries show that there has been
net gain of members of nearly 1000. The
whole number is 3S7 6l9, against 385, 6S5 (cor..
rected footing, including the Welsh members
omitted last Year, in 1882 The number of
churches is 1886, gain of 81; of ministers,
1928, loss of 3. Of the ministers 9l8 are
pastors, against $3.50 last year, / .6O7 acting pas
tors and 1,l98 not in pastoral work. Of bar
TINS there were last year 5000 of adults and
1922 of Infants, an increase of 80 in the former
and ,0l3 in the latter.
The Salvation Army had no little
success in Allahabad but their greatest demon
stratlon was at Lahore They had there pre-
cession a mile long and a crowd of from fifteen
to twenty thousand persons. 1t had been pre-
dlcted that there would be rising of the ma
tlves and that the members of the Army would
be killed but the natives We're very orderly.
IL remained for Europeans to create the distur-
bance, such as they have brought about in other
places in India.
REVIVAL AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE
The chaplain at this colored college writes to the
n. Y EUangeList " am sure that you will be
glad to hear of the blessings that have come to
us with the new year down here in Virginia.
Ever since the beginning of Week of PRAYER
there has been an unusual interest in rellpious
matters. Meetings were held every night dur
ing that week and have been continued ever
since Already between eighty and ninety of
the students have confessed their faith in Christ
and their determination to follow Him"
AT recent funeral in Constantine
pie, of which the services were conducted in the
great Metropoltsn church Of the Armenian
Patriarchate, the officiating bishop gave a warm
testimony to the value OF the education afforded
by the American Home School The gradual
breaking down Of theIrejudice against evangel-
lcals is illustrated by the fact that this Armen-
ian bishop, in the church which has so often re-
sounded with the anathemas of excommunica-
ton against all Protestants voluntarily declared
his belief that more valuable than the fine in
tellectual culture was the pure and pervadinp
heart culture which the Home" had given the
deceased lady.
m 90 ooC ~
York city. The Rev. Jacob Freshman Is En-
gagged in an endeavor to bring them to the saw
ing knowledge Of Jesus Christ as the Messiah
and the Redeemer of Israel. His father was a
Jewish Rabbi in Quebec was converted and be-
came Methodist clergyman lie was received
INTO the Christian Church at a union meeting of
all the Protestant churches Of Quebec Nr.
Jacob Freshman came to this city with the
cordial endorsement Of Canadian Christians. He
Is doing an uudenominational work The ser
vices are we'll attended and many inauirers
call on the missionary at his house. A church
of twenty members has been organized Tracts
are distributed in English, German and Hebrew.
The currentrumor, says the CHrjstiau
IDteHgcncer, that 2 memorial signed by a ma
iorlty Of the Episcopal clergy men Of New York
had been presented to Bishop Potter, request
ing him TO take official action against the Rev.
h. Heber Newton, because Of his recent sermons
on the Right and Wrong Uses Of the Bible"
has been met by Bishop Potter with the state
Inent that no such memorial has been presented
70 him