The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1884-12-31
GENERAL ITEMS.

One Sunday night not long ago o.
00o children were counted in public-houses in
Manchester alone
Rev. A. w. Paisley, of Alabama Pres
bytery, Cumberland Presbyterian church, has
removed to Sherman, Texas, and taken charge
of the church there.
Cardinal Manning's niece, Miss Vera
Manning, carries to the convent where she is to
take the veil pretty fortune of three hundred
thousand dollars
According to recent estimates, the
city of London contains more Jews than Jerusa
lem, more Irish than Dublin, and more Roman
Catholics than Rome.
-" The boy-preacher' Harrison, hay
ing passed now his forty-third birthday, the
farce of calling him boy preacher ought now
De cropped. Certainly. And long, long ago.
"A magnificent tomb is being erected
to M. Theirs in the Pe-re-la-chaise, Paris 1t
will cost 100000 francs, and will surpass any
thing OF the kind in France except the tomb of
Napoleon at the Invalides
The London Lna0 Journal comments
with satisfaction upon the fact that Prince AL
bert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince of
Wales, is about to enter the Middle Temple as
student at-law.
The Mahdi gave refugee a thrash
ing for smoking cigarette whereupon the
CHRISTIAN Register suggests: I" Let the anti
tooacconlsts engage his services in this country,
ana relleve General Gordon of his sedentary life
and the United States of a great evil"
The American Stanley had, according
10 the scotsman, regular ovation on his visit
70 Edinburgh, where he opened the rooms of the
oGottish geographical Society, and also address,
eu the chamber OF Commerce on the Congo
question. His spes ches are reported with great
fulness.
The New York Tribune saws that
the best way to protest against the biasphemv
IN lngersolls lectures is to stay away and re-
duce the box-of1ce receipts" This good advice
many people have already ANTICIPATED The
lectures OF Beecher and Ingersoll are now ad
dressed IN many places to large array of mpty
benches. FY
1t is said that the Reverend Moth.
er, Mary Frances Clare. is the onlv woman evar
granted private audience by Pope" We do
not guarantee this statement, but we are verv
sure that If many of the Popes bad associated
more with some reverend" and virtuous moth
erS they would have been better men.
The Congo Conference, in session at
Berlin, has done one good thing 1t has agreed
toput upon record protocol strongly expressed
with England and the other countries represent
ed IN the Conference to restrict as far as possi
bic, the liquor traffic in the Congo and Niger
countries. This Is well barbarsm has its vices.
and they are of horrid MEN, But it would be a
fearful thing to carry any Of the characteristic
vices Of civilized nations and add them to the
special vices of the barbarians. We fear the
cupldity Of the white man has already reached
the thatched cabins Of the negro, and presented
the temptation which may spread ruin and
misery in the lands which the world is lust be-
ginning to know -Presbyterian.
The AdUentist8, as they are called.
have been very quiet for number of wears.
But circular has lately been issued signed bv
one A. b. Karl of Woodruff, H., in which
after much figuring, he fixes January 1886. as
the day Of the coming Of the Lord What is
termed the Advent Church had determined that
the 22d Of October Of the present year was to be
the day Of the final consummalion But this is
past, and one Of the brethren helps the Church"
out Of the difficulty by a little additional calcula
ton When did the Advent Church look for
the Lord to appear2" he asks. On the tenth
day Of the seventh month. On what dav did
that Gomez October 3D. Now Hapgai' saws
the shaking Of the earth shall be on the twenty
fourth day Of the ninth month Now, add two
months and fourteen days to October % and it
will take you to January 4, 1885, which il the
first Lords day in the new year. Yes. it will
be the fret Lords day" We should suppose
that their repeated INSTALLATIONS would have