The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-06-09
GENERAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Van Colt has been conducting
revival services at Denver. Col where between
200 and 600 persons have been converted.
There are 4O,43O Methodists in
Kansas. Nearly one fourth of the entire popu-
lation of that State are members of some Chris-
tian church.
Strange are the requests which PEG.
pie sometimes make to perpetuate their own
vanity. man lately bequeathed $500 to a
church in New Jersey on condition that its bell
should be tolled on every anniversary of his
death.
Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore has been adj
nltted to practice as an attorney in the District
Court of the United States for the Eastern Dis
trlct of Pennsylvania, and also in the Circuit
court OF the United States. The Court of Com
mon Pleas. No. l, still refuses to recognize her.
Common Pleas, No. 2, admitted her.
Within the last two years poultry
raising by incubators has become an industry
on Long Island, especially in Suffold county
Several of the large hatcherles have incubators
with capacity of 1900 eggs, and about 80 per
cent. OF the eggs are Matched Goose and duck
eggs are Matched out the same as chickens, and
the business is said to De profitable
inspector Bonfeld of Chicago has
received from the manufacturers in Connecticut
what Is called riot gun" for use by the city
police 1t IS centre fire weapon with spring
needle and shoots SIX times without reloadine
It's Six shells each hold nine buckshot a little
larger than twenty-five calibre ball. 1t ope.
rates rapidly, and Is said to be very eficacous
IN scattering crowd.
Among the steerage passengers who
embarked on the Catalonia at Queenstown was
family OF i've persons father, mother and
three children. When few DAYS out the two
elder children fell sick and died, and were soon
followed by both parents all four being buried
at sea. j he child that was left is two or three
years old: When the vessel reached this port
on Saturday 1t was given in charge of the
ofhclals at the Chsrdon Street Home.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin has
been making inquiries among the architects of
that city, and finds that the May strikes have
had the effect of suspending investments aggre
gazing 1000 90. 1t Is believed that the pre-
sent would have bee- he greatest building wear
since 1874 or the year following the great fire,
out the uncertainty caused by the labor agita-
tlon has caused CAP italsts to postpone action.
DIR. Tristram an English naturalist
who has travelled much in the Holv Land
speaks OF the excellence of the breed of the
PALESTINE domestic ass, which he says is taller |
stronger and heeter than that of any other coun-
try. The white asses mentioned in Scripture
are still highly priced, and a good Syrian ass
fetches about G40
The Methodist Episcopal Church
South, has 1855 effective travelling preachers |
l77 on the supernumerary list, 344 superannua, |
ted; total, fO6 Local preachers, 8 ,943; white
members. 975 260 colored members, 527; Indian |
members, 1888; total preachers and members, |
$50 994. Increase during the year, So SOY In
tants baptized during the year, 90. 546; adults,
%. 100; Sunday Schools, O,622; teachers, H.
912; scholars, 56l .747 Collected for Conference
claimants. $780, III; for Foreign Missions, $l63,.
III; for Domestic Missions, 1907 Total for
Missions, $24S, $50. -.
Norfolk, Va, proposes to compete
with all other South Atlantic ports by squeezing
cotton bales very closely by a hydrostatc press
patented two wears ago. The compress cost |
oo.oOO Norfolk intends to create reyolu-
ton IN the shipment of cotton to foreign ports |
The new press alone at Norfolk cost $63 900, |
Is warranted to furnish pressure of 6 1000 tons
One-half OF that pressure reduces bale in |
thickness to twenty-elght inches. This, it is |
claimed, results in a saving of tire in loading a
snip and an increase over the old screwing |
method of nearly one-half in the number OF |
bales in ships hold
We have heard the wiling away of
church members from one parish to another and
one denomination to another called sheep
steallnS, ouJ IN debate In the PresbyterY OF |
Edinburgh debate to allow the churches to
call pastors from other denominations, men,
Der opposed to the motion declared such a prac |
tlce to be plain shepherd stealing" and an
abomination in his eyes. 1t lis kind Of thlevery
which is very much in vogue on this side of the
ocean, and many Of the shepherds seem quite
willing to be acknowledgement
Mr.. Barnum says that he has wasted
$4,000 on boomerang throwers. You We heard
Of Australian bushmen;" he said, who have
weapon made of bent stick that they throw
with wonderful skill hitting the prey unerring.
lY, the boomerang returning of itself to fall at
the feet OF the marksman2 | had an agent go
from London to the wilds of New South Wales
but he writes me that the accounts are two third
lies, and the remaining third isn't worth bring
ing away. The boomerang is a fact, and the
native Australian savages fling it at game
missing about as often as hitting and it will re-
turn, If it strikes nothing, to somewhere near
the starting point, but with no sort of certainty
My man searched thoroughly, and witnessed
the feass OF the best experts to be found but they
amounted to nothing in particular. The famous
boomerang is practically myth"
AN AGED SAINT We called on
Sunday afternoon with Bishop Warren on Miss
Harrod, who was born in Newburyport, Mass
in 1856, and who, if she lives until next August
will be one hundred years old The call was a
delightful one. The venerable woman greeted
cordially, talked freely, recited a long Gospel
ballad v hch, she said, " learned ninety-two
years ago when 1 was eight years old" She
became Christian when she was fifteen Her
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