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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25
SAYS the Belfast Witness, noticing

the biography of George Eliot:
People wondered, on the announcement of
her biography, how George Eliot would deal
with the great immoral incident of her career
which cut her of through life from all female
relationships. Mr.. George Henry Lewes, the
bographer of Goethe, and writer of great force
and insight in philosophy and literature, was
married to a wife who proved unworthy of him.
and separated from her, without the formality
or, perhaps, the legal justification, of divorce
George Eliot, knowing the facts accepted the
position of his wife, without marriage, and lived
with MIN till his death. The case has not one re-
deeming element in it. She had no prejudice
against marriage. for she married Mr. Cross, her
blographer; but Mr.. Lewes burst not marry her
fearing the consequences of bigamy; and she
accepted. with her eyes open, and in disregard
OF the public opinion of the world an admitted
ly immoral position. There was more than i'm
morality In the case There was cruelty to the
unfortunate, if unworthy, wife of Mr.. Lewes.
who lived to survive both of them and who,
perhaps, Is living still Mr.. Cross gives no vim
dlcatlon of her conduct but merely asserts her
innocence her perfect inconsistencies of evil.
and, more extraordinary than all, her surprise
that society should not view her conduct with
equal unconceru. But do we not see in her
conduct the ripe fruit of her Atheism Strange
that she should have walked so exactly in the
steps of John Stuart Mill. His relations with
Mrs. Taylor, whom he afterwards married, are
the great blot on his character. The Edinburqh
ReUleW says that Mill kept Mr. Taylor, the
husband, in misery for twenty years. Is not
Atheism as selfish and cruel as it is Athelstic +?
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

PROFESSOR HUXLEY in his Lay Ser
mons" has written of orthodox theolo-
gians who, before every advance of
science, have retired bleeding and ex-
tinguished. In The Monthly Lnterpre-
ter DIR. Mair admirably says that this
is an impcrtinence, and that the very
contrary is the fact. 1t is science that
has retreated and changed, not the
ology, in its proper sphere. The the
ology of the age of Augustine is more
closely allied to the theology of to-day,
than is the science of the past to that
Of the present.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

CoCKRoAOHEs are looked on with little
respect and treated with little considera-
ton by our housewives, but there is
hardly more venerable family in exist
ence, hardly one that can exhibit so an
Gent pedigree, and none in fact, we
believe, among our terrestrial animals,
unless it be the Scorpion.
In these days when so much is said
about evolution it is very worthy of OBJ
servation that M. Milne Edwards has
communicated to the Paris Academy OF
Sciences that M. O. Brongniart has dis
covered wing of an insect in the Silu-
rian sandstone of Calvados, which is de-
clared to be undoubtedly that of Blatta
(or the cockroach).
The Silurian lies almost at the bottom
of the geologic rocks, and the fact that
the cockroach has existed from that day
to this with but little special modifca-
ton, is as the Contemporary Review re-
marks, "a discovery that may cause, not
only the biologist, but others, to reflect
on the pertinacious persistence of some
forms amidst the vast mutations of 9TH
ers.
But this is not ALL DIR. Hunter, OF
Scotland, and Prof. Lindstrom, of Swe-
den, have each found fossil scorpion in
the Upper Silurian of their respective
countries.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

The MARKET HALL service was well
attended last Sunday night, notwith-
standing the very cold and stormy
weather. The day was one of the most
inclement Of the season, and many
feared that the attendance at the Old
Market at night would be small, but
DIR. Hoge had occasion to express graf
ification at the attendance and the in
terest manifested. 1t is now two
months since these services commenced,
and the enterprise has grown in i'm
portance and constantly gained influ-
ence for good from the beginning.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

GORDON bad presentiment, it is
said, though that is not the word
that he should lose his life in the Sou
dan. A letter from him, received at
Cairo on December 18th, by one of his
friends, contained these words " Adieu.
you will have no more news from me.
] fear there are traitors in the garri-
son, and all will be over by Christmas
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

MIR. HENRY WARD BEECHER lectured
in the theatre in this city last week, as
announced beforehand in our last issue,
on Evolution and Revolution" The
title was an apt one, for it was one of
the most revolutionary" lectures ever
delivered before a Richmond audience.
He remarked at the outset that "evo.
luton touches the elements of theology
with a rude hand" He described the
world and the universe as the product
of slow and infnitesimal changes
through countless ages. The evolu-
ton of man from the lower animals,
he said, was not proved, but, for him
self, he believed it to be highly proba-
BILE, because it explained so many things
which the old theology left unexplained.
The human race, he said, was, there
fore, probably connected with the
brute forms, and had been on the earth
many thousands of years-the lowest
computation among scientific men was
100000 years (which is utterly untrue,
and which, if true, would lead us to ex-
pect, according to the doctrine of evo-
luton, some difference in such a lapse
Of time between primeval man and the
man Of our day-when there is noto-
riously none]. Some men, he said,
were ashamed to be descended from
the brutes, but, as for himself, he had
just as soon be descended from an ape
as to have appeared in any other
way, provided he had "come far
enough"
The Bible account of Adam and Eve
he said was absurd, and was merely
Hebrew legend. He then launched
into an invective against the "abomi-
nable and detestable doctrine of Origi-
nal Sim" Primeval man, he said, was
a mere child in his nature and did any
one suppose that God was going to
punish him forever for one act of dis
obedience-as if an earthly father
should drive his little child from his
house for stealing some preserves
But this was not all, he said the de-
testable Calvinistic theology consigned
all the posterity of Adam to the most
dreadful doom, and generation after
generation was swept into perdition
for sin committed by their progenitor
six thousand years ago. This hideous
theory, which had come down through
the churches, he said, made God a
devil. The doctrine, be said, was not
in fact taught in the Bible There was
not one word of it in the whole of the
Old Testament; and Christ never
taught it; and the story of Adams
fall was touched by only one of the
apostles, and that in only two places
[this is a fair illustration of his shall
low method in treating a subject,
where, the speaker said, Paul was not
expressing his own sentiments, but
merely accommodating his argument
to the views of the Jews.
He then went on to expound his
view of Inspiration. The Bible was
full of errors, and fabulous stories, be
ing written in the infancy of the world
Cat least the Old Testament) by. fall.
bic men. lie made great deal Of fun
Of the story of Jonah He not only
represented the Bible as teaching what
is false in science and history, but as
being also unreliable sometimes on
moral questions, as, for example, po-
IL gi
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

On hearing that st. Paups Church
yard was going to be paved with
wooden blocks, Sydney Smith said,
There will be no difficulty about it, if
only the Dean and Chapter put their
heads together" Sydney Smith him
self was one of the " Chapter"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

This witness is the most valuable as COM
ing from veteran Indian missionary,
who has been forty four years in that
great empire
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

AT late meeting of the Directors Of
the London Missionary Society, Rev. J.
II. Budden bore emphatic testimony to
the fact that the people Of India are Just
now in special state Of preparedness
and willingness to listen to the Gospel.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

BY the new postal law passed just at
the close Of the session of Congress, on
and after July 1st a letter weighing
one ounce Gnstcad Of half an ounce, as
at present. may be sent for two cents
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

The day Of suffering is short one,
but the day of remuneration is an ever
lasting one
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

UPON the invitation Of nearly all the
Protestant ministers Of Pittsburg and
Allegheny, Mr.. Moody will hold a
Christian Convention in Pittsburgh,
April 9th and 10Th, and preach ON the
18th. lie will be accompanied by Mr..
Sankey.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-03-25

ENGLAND has vastly more money
than Russia, and she can throw troops
on the Afghan frontier through the
railway I'm of India more rapidly
than ] ia. As to D mters Russia
has the ger native P pulation, but
Englan $1,000 Eng sb soldiers in
India ata 10000 Indian troops, two
thirds Of whom are said to be heartily
loyal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
Temptations Of Young Officers.

I used to dread the arrival of young
officers who came to the regiment from
West Point, says Mrs. Custer, fearing
the sameness and inactivity of the gar
rison life would be o test to which their
character would succumb. When they
came to pay the first ceremonious call
in full uniform, we spoke of common
place topics. I kept up running line
of comments to myself, usually on one
subject: L wonder if you are likely to
20 to the bad under temptation; I am
sorry for your mother, having to give
you up and be anxious for your habits
at the same time; I hope you don t
drink; pray that you may have STAN
ina enough to resist evil Our sister
knew that 1 believed so in matrimony
as saviour of young officers that she
used to teasingly accuse me of greeting
all of them when they arrived with the
same welcome: Il am very glad to see
you; hope that you are engaged 1
hardly remember being quite SO abrupt
as that in speaking, but 1 never failed
to wish it to myself. Their frequent
diff Guilty was that they desired to do
everything that the old officers did. /
have known them rub and try to mar
their shining new uniforms to have
them look as if they had seen service
One, especially youthful in appearance,
wondered how 1 came to divine that the
reason that he wore his grandfather's
fob and seal, and carried the gold
headed cane when of duty, was that he
wished to look old and experienced. I
could not help praisi0g them when they
went through the frat few telling years
of service and came off conquerors. l
was sure that had had the misfortune
to be man could not have borne the
tests to which knew they were sub
iected "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
A Girl who Can Shoot.

The San Francisco Chronicle says:
Miss Lillian F. Smith, who styles herself
the California Girl Champion Rifle
Shot of the World" gave a remarkably
interesting exhibition Of her wonderful
rifle the other evening. Around the
wooden figure of deer, suspended in
midair, number of glass balls were at
tached by wires. Miss Lillian, with q
seven-pound Ballard rifle, carrying %
caIibre cartridge, broke ball after bali at
distance of thirty-three feet with I'M
falling aim, firing both from the right
and left shoulder, shooting with the rifle
held upside down aud backward over
the shoulder, sighting with hand
mirror. These shots she repeated with
the sights obscured by card on the
muzzle of the rife. One of her most
remarkable feats was the breaking of
a glass ball revolving on a wire cord in a
horizontal circle, with a radius of about
six feet. This feat she also performed
shooting backward, using hand mirror
to sight with. Ten glass balls were
sprung from trap, with only four
foot-rise, and every one broken before
they reached the floor. Twenty balls
were attached to the deer, which was
caused to swing, and every one broken
inside of a minnie without miss. Two
small balls no larger than hazelnut
shared the same fate, and nickel FIVE
cent piece, concealed behind card,
was perforated in the centre. After the
programme had been completed, Crit
tenden Robinson, the well-known wing
shot, had acquired such confidence in
the accuracy of the aim of the young
lady-who is really only child of four
teen years Of age-that he volunteered
to hold the ace of clubs, which he took
from pack of cards in his hand, while
she endeavored to perforate it. and she
justified his confidence by putting ball
through the centsr of the ace spot
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
Big Enough TO be Senator.

Spooner, the new Senator from Wis
consin, is considerably below medium
stature; in fact, rather teaspooner in
size. Although there does not seem to
be anything the matter with his brain,
his physical appearance does not impress
q stranger with a sense of greatness.
Naturally he is a little sensitive on this
point. The other day while sitting in
newspaper Office here, he was intro
duced to gentleman as 'fCol. Spooner,
of Wisconsin.
"Ah glad to know you. Are you a
relative of the new Senator of that
name ?"
The mutual friend fastened to explain
that the Colonel and the Senator were
identical. The gentleman looked at
Spooner in a half-incredulous sort Of
way, as if sizing him up and Judging him
by the standard of tape line. He at
the same time begged his pardon in a
tone that poorly concealed his surprise.
The newly fedged statesman could
stand it no longer, and exclaimed with
some petulance:
"Great Scott! do You suppose man
has got to be seventeen feet high to be
a United States Senator ?'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
The Way of the Parsees.

When Lord Randolph Churchill was
in Bombay little time since, he visited,
amongst other places OF interest !, IN the
surrounding neighborhood, the towers
of Silence. As result OF this Visit the
following comments are to be found IN
scribed in the visitors book with the
lords signature at the footi
Sat the REQUEST Of the secretary Of the
Parsee Punchayet, allow myself to ex-
press the opinion that funeral obsequles
conducted in accordance with the teach
ings and precepts of Zoroaster, as they
have been explained to me, though Pc
culiar to a comparatively limited num-
Der of the inhabitants of this earth, and
undoubtedly novel to the stranger from
the West, are entirely agreeable to the
principles of pure religion, and may
be and are ingeniously and powerfully
supported by physiological science and
experience"
The Parsees. who are very active
and rich class in Bombay, will no doubt
feel fiattered that their practice OF ex-
posing their dead on the Towers, to be
eaten by yuItures according to the 70
roastrian behest, should be thus favor
AMY reg dIueu ny OnS 81 well hnoWh III
the political world of the little Western
island with which their great empire is
associated. The practice, has certainly
much to recommend it in tropical
country; 1t is cheap, clearly and ex-
ceedingy expeditions. Men, women
and children are put into separate di-
visions on the top of the Towers; but
their bones, those of the rich and poor
alike, mingle in the well below, into
which they disappear in the course of
time. Lord Randolph Churchill, like
many another European visitor, may
have felt the Towers rather gloomy
and repugnant sight; but the trouble of
a journey to them is more than repaid
by the magnificent view to be had from
the terrace in front of them, of Bombay
and the Indian Ocean.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
CONFEDERATE COUPONS PAID.
MIR. Benjumin's Scheme for Distributing
Scorer Service Ennh.

MIR. Ben1nm1n's scheme for Distributing a
Secret Service Fund.
A dispatch from Charleston, 8. O., saws:
There is no demand for Confederate
bonds in this market. One Of the few
men In the secret has just explained the
mystery. He was connected with the
bond operations, and says that Judah P.
Benjamin was the originator of the plan
which created q demand for bonds.
His story is that the State Depart
ment of the Confederacy had a secret
service fund which was principally de-
posted in Lordo and Paris banks to
the credit of citizens of England and
France who were friendly to the South.
The fund was used to influence officials
of other governments in some degree to
aid the State Department in its efforts
to secure the recognition of the Con-
federate States and occasionally to assist
other departments by smoothening the
way for purchases W hich were difficult.
London and Paris were the chief points
of secret service activity. There was an
agent at Brownsville, Texas, on the
Mexican border. When the war ended
there were large unexpended balances
of secret service money to the credit of
these parties. The total balance due
the Confederate government at the time
of its fall amounted to $5,080,000. 1t
was agreed by those in whose names
the secret service funds were deposited
that they should not be surrendered to
the United States.
1t was finally concluded that the
holders of Confederate bonds were en-
titled to the money. The aggregate OF
the funds was ascertained, and caIcula-
ton was made as to how far it would go
in paying the interest on the bonds. 1t
was decided to pay off the unhonored
coupons, beginning with those last due,
by the Confederacy during its existence.
These were coupons falling due, January
l, 1865. Then the balance was applied
to the payment of the next coupons fall
ing due. The bonds were advertised
for and were readily obtained, and all of
the January 1865) coupons were paid
simply by the purchase of the bonds for
the amount of these coupons and their
subsequent destruction. The remainder
of the fund was absorbed by the partial
payment of the coupons next due in
order of their presentation.
very Few OF the men VINO Qealt In the
bonds knew the object of their purchase
The circle managing the scheme was
quite small. Mr. Benjamin conceived it
and secured its fulflment. He handled
none of the money and none was paid to
his order. Nobody in the secret made
money out of it. The purpose was sim
ply to return to the creditors of the dead
Confederacy part of their money. The
whole transaction is now closed as all
the Confederate assets have been dis
bursed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
Microbic InoculatfOn.
DIR. FERRAN's INTERESTING SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMENTS WITH CHOLERA GERMS,
From the New York Herald

lHAon Gu6 new 1Ofk h6rAlu.J 3
VALENCIA, April 81, 1895.-Last even
ing DIR. Ferran in the presence of $50
Spanish physicians and many illustrious
persons, gave lecture, with microscopic
Illustrations, upon cholera microbes,
making interesting comparisons between
the true cholera microbe and that of
the non-epidemie cholera. After the
lecture eighteen physicians submitted
TO mlcrobic incubation, and after these
many others, among them the Count de
Rouree and priest named Massanera.
Or Ferran had with him quantity Of
the bacillus germ, which he has been
able to cultivate in specially prepared
broth (the Pierre Miguel SYSTEM of
mutton or beef. This, injected into the
system, develops in the patient the
successive symptoms of cholera. A single
incubation gives immunity from cholera
contagion for period of three months,
but second incubation is required
within the week in order to make sure
OF the efficacy of the system for longer
periods.
The Herald correspondent also con-
cluded to submit to the experiment.
"The injection was given me in both
arms, on the back part between the
elbow and the upper muscle. A small
syringe with point like needle was
used, penetrating simultaneously about
half an inch. After an hour l began to
feel considerable pain about the spinal
region, the injection causing muscular
agitation, the pain extending to the
hands. In two hours my temperature
rose to fever heat. This was followed
by clammy hands, lassitude and pains
in the legs. In four hours my arms
became very painful, with sensation as
though they had been severely bruised.
After this the activity of the vaccine
subsidized. but the arms grew very stiff,
so that / could scarcely lift them. Later
on began TO experience nausea, &C.
companied by a dull headache. while
the pain in the arms spread to the mus
cles of the back. ] went to bed and
slept we'll. Many who have submitted
to the test, however, are troubled with
sleeplessness. l awoke with severe
headache, which remains. This dis.
patch is sent off twenty-e;ght hours
after my incubation. The period
during which symptoms continue is, l
am informed, torty-eight hours"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-21
Wanted to Get Married.

"Can you tell me where I can find a
justice of the peaceP" she asked Of a
pedestrian on Michigan avenue.
"Yes'm. Down Griswold street one
block, and then turn into the alley
''Thanks. A marriage by justice is
legal, isn't it ?"
"Oh, yes"
"Just as legal outside his Office as
IMP"
Certainly"
She was evidently a widow. She
weighed lis pounds, bit off her words
like a straw cutter at work, and when
she walked her heels clicked on the
pavement in way that talked of bust
ness. In ten minutes she had justice
in tow, and in ten more the two entered
q shoe factory where thirty or forty men
were at work While the justice took q
chair in the Office the woman entered
the working room, passed down to the
lower end, and, as she halted before q
man of 40, who was running pegger,
she said:
civilian, I've got justice of the
peace in the office. Come !"
He turned whittier than -four made by
the patent roller process, and she took
him by the sleeve and continued
mo fooling, William-come right
along r.
He followed her without word, and
as they reached the Office she clasped
his hand and said to the justice:
$50 ahead and marry us"
He went ahead, and in two minutes
the pair were man and wife. The woman
handed the officer 81 bill, kissed Will
liam on the chin and said, as she started
to go:
"Now run along to your work. II
you should forget where live, and not
happen around tonight, I'll drop in on
you early to morrow-very early Ira
ia Z! good bye, all - Detroit Free