The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-12-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

Mr. Gladstone has promised to sup
port he movement for the disestablishment of
the Welsh Church
-Paupers in London have increased
from % in population OF 1000 in October,
1889 to AZ to the thousand in October, 1856.
The medical schools in Edinburgh,
Scotland, have been reopened to the education
of women after being closed against them for
more than twelve year.
Two Berlin Jews, Auschell and
Behrendt, have just bequeathed 45O 600 marks
to the city to be used for teachers widows and
orphans
North Carolina is said to have
twenty negroes who are worth from $40 600 to
$4,000 each. John Mckee, a Philadelphia
negro, is worth halt million and owns four
hundie ed houses
The Prussian State railways have for
some time past employed women as guards at
crossings. The work consists chiefly of the clos
ing and opening Of the bars and the lighting
and sweeping of eros ng', and the women in
most cases are either tue wives or widows of
guards Their daily wages from twelve to
eighteen cents.
1t has been announced that Mr.
Moody has secured another generous donation
iOi hio plSuulu educational Work at NOrthtlelI
and Mt. Hermon from Mr.. d. NJ. Weston of
the Shawmut Church, Boston The fifty thou.
sand dollars thus given to be spent IN build
ing another substantial dormitory IN that much
crowded school,
The CongregationaliSt is the authori-
ty for the following: An incident was related
by DIR. Qalnt lately, at the Boston Ministers
Meeting, of his conversation at Des Moines with
the keeper of small shoe store, a foreigner,
whom he sounded to his political opinions.
Are you an anarchist ?" No" Are YOU
SOCIALIST No" What are you, then ?"
am Baptist"
The FIRST JEWISH PEER IN GER
MANY.-The late Baron Carl Mayer de Roth
sctl lid was the first Jewish peer in Germany. as
his son In law is the first Jewish peer in Eng
land. HIS mother was the high-spirlted Baro-
ness Adelaide, who protested so energeticallv. at
the footstool of Pope Plus TX, against the at
tacks OF Cardinal Della Genghs on the Jews
and he inherited all his parents fiery love for
MS race. 1t was IN consequence of his naughty
bearing towards Gen. Manteuffel, when the
Prussians invaded his native city, that the
Frankforters sent him in 1867 to represent them
in the Relchstag
"A detection has occurred among the
Friends in he State of Ohio which will lead
probably to separations among them. The ex-
tent to which some have deviated from the an
Gent testimonies of the Quakers may be Judged
Oy the TACT that at the quarterly meeting at
Greenwich, Ohio, the special feature of interest
was that In two of its meetings twenty persons
lQuakers) were baptized with water by Rev
VIM nicholson, a Quaker minister Among
the baptized were FIVE Quaker ministers. viz.
Eli Cowgirl and wife, Ida G. Romick, Laurette
Plmm and Armit Williams. Another innova-
ton was the use of instrumental music. that of
the which iOu 70
the interest of the meetings.
DR.. McCosh spirit was stirred with
In him at the Harvard anniversary. When de-
grees OF various kinds were showered upon
dlvlnes and professors of every college and mi
verslty in New England, the eminent men who
serve IN the college at Princeton were forgotten
or II not forgotten, ignored The Church Press
(EpiscopaD Is grieved by similar neglect 1t
says: marked feature in the extraordinarily
long list of names honored by Harvard at her
quarter millennial birthday is the absence of
the name of even single bishop rector, or head
of college or theological seminary of our own
Church in the United States"
The Methodists are a wonderful
people. They started out to raise million
for missions, and they missed by only about
seven thousand dollars. Somewhat dlsappoint-
ed and bit surprised, they are nevertheless at
1t again. They mean to cross that million line,
and we believe that they will succeed, and when
they get the money they know where they are
going to spend good portion of 1t, for one of
them who has been looking over the field writes.
" On the whole, we conclude that in the next
twenty five years more can be done in New
England for Christ and his church than in anv
other portion of the continent" We suspect
that they mean to convert Andover.
The New HEBRIDEs The whole
population of the New Hebrdes were nude
cannbals when the English presbyterian Mis-
slonarles began their work among them thirty
seven years ago. Now, by their teaching and
the clvllzlng power of the Gospel, about nine
thousand are professed Christians, and about
10000 are so civilized by it as to wear less or
more clothing, and give up their grosserheathen
practices, and to enjoy the same blessings
Every island In the group now pleads for the
British missionary to teach them the better way
The whole population of the New Hebrides fear
and hate the French, and are very decidedly
opposed to the French annexation for fear of on
preston, war, and destruction following. as on
New Caledonia, Tahiti, Madagascar. and indeed
wherever the French settle among such races
The British and Canadian Presbyterian church
or have now over Gl7O,0O0 invested In their
churches, SCHOOLS, stations, missions. vessels
boats, and work on the New Hebrldes.
-JEws-In one way or another, ac-
cording to recent writer as many as I 500
Jews leave the Synagogue for the Church oil
Christ every year. 1t IS estimated that there
are 1000 converts from Judaism in the Church
of England, and more than 100 of them ordain
ed clergymen in London Trinity Sunday FIVE
more were ordained. Rabbi Zadoc-Kahn of
Paris, thinks that Judaism as a religion is on
the wane. Sooner or later the Jews will roerge