The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-11
GENERAL ITEMS.

The cornerstone of the Mccormick
Cottage for orphan boys, Clinton, S. C.) was
land on the l4th of February. This Is a build.
ing for which Mrs. Cyrus H. Mccormick is pro
vldlng the MEANS and is a part of the Thorn
well OrPhanage. Judge j. S. Cothran, of Abb
bevllle, ). g., delivered the address HIS speech
was eloquent and much admired. The building
will be completed this summer and will afford
accommodation for twenty or more orphans 1t
Is to be a stone building, The plan has been
prepared by A. Page Brown. Esq of New York
and presented by Mrs. Mccormick.
The Interior states that in the col.
leglate department of Lake Forest University
out OF sixty students, only one is now left who Is
follower OF the Saviour. Several have recently
decided to enter upon the work of preparation
Tor the ministry thus adding to the score and
more In college and academy who had previous
ly consecrated themselves to that work.
In the three years past Harvard
University has received Gifts and beonesta
amounting to $l,OO6, 1853, not including the
large gifts of Alexander Agassiz to the Museum
OF Zoology. The Invested funds have only in
creased by f57O,518.
1t is said that in Radburn county
Georgia resides clergyman who has just com
pleted his one hundred and first year He ia
unable to go out of his house, but his conpreoa-
ton gathers round his bed every Sunday. and
ne breaches the gospel to them.
The centenary of one of the most
unprincipled of modern in6dels has lust been
celebrated by order of the Municipal Council in
Paris. We refer to Voltare, whose lie was a
perpetual grin from the cradle to the grave. "
whose nature was incapable of sincerity or moral
courage, who was finally understood and des
pissed by Frederick the Great, and who had
much to do with all of the calamities which have
come upon France
When dime museum gives re7u-
lar entertainment to a crowded house and the
manager says IN the middle Of the performance
" Gentlemen, l have the pleasure Of announc,ng
toyou that the next feature of this entertain
ment Will be the marriage" and the Albino'
IS married to the Fat Woman" while the Liv-
ing Skeleton and other curiosities and the mot
ley crowd laugh, does not Christian minister
lower himself and degrade the Church with
winch he IS connected when he lends himself to
the show and repeats the holy words of the mar
rage ceremony IN such a place and surround
lngs 1t is question if physical curiosities'
should be allowed TO marry at all but if allow
eo let 1t be done IN private. If it Is done in a
dime museum let no reputable minister toucb
IT.. A Justice Of the Peace or " crank" of
whom some still have a license to preach NAV
Az 4 ~" to't"" ddODcdte.
-GleDmore M. Todd, book.keeper Of
the Provdent Life and Trust Co. Of PbilodeI.
phia pleaded guilty to stealing Bll5 600 and
was sentenced to two years and eight months in
state Prison. This Is paying him at the rate of
9lJOOO per year for staying in prison. Now let
women send him flowers, and soft headed and
hearted men get mp petitions for commutation.
and dishonesty in bank officials and book-keep,
ers Will soon be checked, and the property of
widows and orphans made secure 10.