The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1884-01-16

"eeh' lhree young women, wearing white
muslin dresses trimmed with lace. were led To
the altar by the. officers of the congregation
Ihey were sisters and the daughters of Christian
parents, and they had been members of the
Roman Catholic Church. At the urgent apneaI
OF their mother they had consented to withdraw
from r' the Catholic and join the Jewish Church.
Inc Rabbi pronounced blessing upon them
and welcomed them to the Jewish faith.
-THE COTTON MILLS OF THE SotyrB
Inc Baltimore Manufacturers Record pub
nshes hgnres showing the rapid progress recent
mace oy the South in its cotton manufacture
Ing industry. When the census of 1880 was
taken there were in the Southern States $50
mills mi with 1888 spindles and Is ,222 looms.
mere are now In operation there 314 mills
with ,276,4 22 spindless and 24,S73 looms. In
1851 the value of products was twenty-one mil
non dollars In 1883 1t reached between thirty
five and forty millions. This is good showing
for the South.
There are 919 daily rapers in Italy.
OF which the province of Rome has 200, Milan
l4l, and Naples 1879; Sicily has 40 Palermo
being credited with "a, Messina 15 and CatanIa
~ none IN the other towns. The oldest daily
paper is the Gazette, of Genoa, founded in 1871
None OF the papers, great or small have cir
culation exceeding 10000, and the fluctuations
are IN some instances remarkable. The P,tnzola.
OF Milan, varies from 5000 to IA 600 the Fam,
t,Ha, of Rome, from 5000. to 10000 and the
Gasetta del Popolo, of Florence from 10000 to
ZOOOo. The circulation of the Perseyernnzn
the most important journal of Lombardy scarce
ly reaches 5000, while the Nazione. of all the
Journals published in Tuscany the one most dis
tinguis for excellence of STYLE and dignity of
tone, has less than 1000 subscribers on its hooks
and outside of Tuscany Is but little inquired for.
The following is said to be true. A
preacher out West, Mr.. H, was a good man
in
gwen to chewing tobacco One time he was
riding on horseback through the country when
there came up a shower Riding up to a cabin
he hastily hitched his horse and knocked at the
door. sharp-looking old lady answered the
summons The preacher asked for shelter. II
don take In strangers-I don't know you" re-
plled the old lady, suspiciously. but You
know what the Bible says" said the preacher.
BE not torgetful to entertain strangers. for
thereby some have entertained angels unawares."
GU needn't quote Bible" said Che old LADY,
quickly; no angel would come down from
heaven with quld OF tobacco in his mouth as
you have 2 The door was shut, and the preach
er unhitched his horse and rode away in the
rain.
= The railroad building of 1888 has
been immense. During that time 6 600 miles Of
main track have been laid, at an approximate
cost of $l65 000,0 600 making the total number
OF miles of railway in the country to date about
izo,OOU: The construction during 1882 was the
largest IN the history of the country, IL 600
miles being laid against $500 miles the year
before The States and Territories which lead
IN construction this year are as follows: Mon
tana, Alb miles Dakota, 400 miles: Michigan
400 miles New York, 375 miles Pennsylvania
go miles; Ohio. 326 miles, and Mississippi 3O5
miles. New Hampshire Rhode Island, Con-
nectlcut, Delaware, Nevada and Wvomine are
the only States and Territories in which no new
road was built
"A correspondent of the London Tile
graph who has visited the great arsenal at Can
ton, now entirely under the control of China
men, declares that it is turning out breech-load-
ing rifles, artillery and machine guns of the hest
patterns and of excellent quality and finish
one thing, writes the correspondent. was
evldent-namely, that Cinnamon here knew
enough to make their own weapons AS there
are those who think that IN the event of war
China would be at loss for breecb-loadng
arms, IL Is as well to mention that at Canton
and Shanghai too, l saw cases Of machinery NOT
yet put up quite sufficient to set another arsenal
or two into working order and that at Tientsin
and Foochow arsenals there are as we'll az at
the two aforementioned places. plenty of China
men who understand enough of the art Of waan-
on making to get all this machinery into work
ing ORDER
"A PROFITABLE Co PARTNERSHIP
banker patron in New York from a missionary
OF the American Sunday School Union in Ar
kansas, In which he writes -" Cheering re-
ports come In from many of our schools (yourx
and mlne) and l am succeeding in the orgsniza
ton OF others and in furnishing them with ann
plies, which fact gives good promise of their
Permanence; and have recently attended SIM
day School Institute, where it was a great pleaa-
ure to hear men, some of them ministers. testify
TO the benefits received by them in Sunday
schools where they enjoyed few other advan-
tages. One of our schools reports grand re-
sults-twenty or thirty conversions, &c; another
mas more than doubled, and others are raising
FUNDS Tor increased supplies-tokens of contin
uance in well-doing. On my last tour of EIGHT
days delivered eight addresses and organized
SIX schools, all ofwhich ordered lesson helps and
i've OF them libraries. Almost da1lv | realize
Wlde-spreadIng results and a general rising 10 a
higher plane of life"
Inc New York partner is in the Fifth Ave
byterian.
"A late number Of the New York
tribune says -" According to the Catholic
Directory, the number of Catholics in the United
states was 100000 in 1874 and 6.88OOOO in
1857. This is equivalent to an increase of about
twenty per cent. in ten years But the censns
OF 1880 shows that the total population of the
United states increased thirty per cent in fem
years, half as fast again as the Catholics. Now
u we consider that immigration-at least one
third OF which is Catholic-adds more than
twenty per cent to our population every ten
years, the conclusion from these figures is ir-
resistbe that the Roman Catholic Church i,
the United States does not succeed in bolJing its
own natural increase 1t is well known bv tbo
clergy that a LARGE prouOrtop Of tLo 81 n L..