The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1888-04-18

Hampton of South Carolina has Joined the
ranks OF professional nurses in New York She
is sald TO be unusually capable and when she
finishes her course Will return to the South.
where she will not only practice her profession,
but instruct others in the arr Of nursine.- Far-
per's BGzdr
A committee of Conference consisting OF Fz-
Governor Cameron, John s. Wise. V. D. Groner
John F. Lewis, j. A. Frazier, and others have
issued an address to the Republican voters of
Virginia protesting against the one-man power
IN the party
movement is on foot in Lexington, Va, to
proceed at once to the erection of the monu-
ment over the grave of Stonewal Jackson The
necessary amount of money has been raised and
the ASSOCIATION proposes to push the work and
erect handsome monument.
The steady decline. in the prices Of wheat on
the Chicago market is a subject that causes a
good deal OF interest among grain men. Prices
are lower now than at this time last year, when
the, visible supply of wheat was 100000
bushels greater.
This inscription, was found upon tablet in
an English cemetery Here lies the body OF
-, who for many years conducted a highly
respectable general business in an adjoining
village which Is now continued by his widow.
n. B.-No trust given"
In the election on Saturday for the depart
ment of the Nord, In France General Boulanper
received l72,272 votes, Foucart rs ISL, and
Moreau 9643. The Bonapartsts all voted fol
him.
David a. Brown, Jr. of Richmond, mas OBJ
tanned judgment in Philadelphia for IS OOO
damages for injuries Inflicted by an accident
June 3D. on the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad.
THROUGH TO ENTHUSIASTICALLY Ohio River
h, i
freight trains over the Great Kanawha bridge
one day last week through to Huntington An
trains went through on time.
The differences between the Emperor and
Prince Bismarck are said to be only temporari-
| ly settled, and the proposed marriage is still
Persistently pressed by the Empress
Major John s Rudd, gallant Confederate
officer, who was or Longstreet's staff. died on
Saturday at Coal Valley, W. Va from an over
dose of chloroform. 1t is believed he commit.
ted suicide.
1t is said that on the completion Of the Simp-
son dry dock at Newport News there is to be
large shipyard built there at q cost of S2.OOO-
| 600. to be worked in connection with the dry
dock for iron ship building and the business
generally.
Politics continue to run high in England.
The local government bill proposed by the gov
eminent, and which was regarded as extremely
radical, ls now pronounced by the Liberals 70
be sham and fraud
One hundred and thirty persons including
every druggist in Concord and in Merrimac
county, N. H., have been indicted for hGaor
selling and there is much excitement in conse-
quence.
Two million and half is said to be the num-
Der of persons who are slaves to Sabbath toll in
America, and they generally receive no more
than SIX days wages for seven days work
Ten cents an acre was all farm Of 954 scres
brought recently in Greene county, Ala. when
sold under mortgage. And yet the South ls said
to be booming.
The necessary amount 100000 has been
subscribed to the proposed cooperative cotton
factory at Goldsboro n. c.
The news published yesterday from the En-
peror Frederick Is very alarming. The swelling
Is extending downwards in his throat and the
worst Is aPPrehended.
The Dublin Gazette says that the pcvy
council has dec ded to proclaim Louth under the
crimes act as prelude to the suppression Of the
National League
DR.. Cornelius R. Agnew, the eminent rhy-
slcia1 Of Philadelphia, is extremely III. he was
one of Mr. Conkhng's attendant physicians Tt
Is said he cannot live.
4ho Oll dBudteS OF IsuS5ld are the tWU noble
, brothers, who are said to be worth T4O0 600 OOO
Their income is greater than the Cars.
The South African diamond fields last year
: yielded gems amounting to 3,646S9s csrats,
3 valued at over $40 100000.
Count Zang, the famous Vienna bread rcan. Of
Vienna and Paris lately died in the former city,
, leaving fortune Of about SSOOOOOO
Bishop Whitehead episcopal Of Tittsburg,
81 deprecates the use Of flowers at funerals and In
q the church on Easter Day.
Gordonsvilo is improving. The Town .oon
r to be supplied with water from the nelghbosiug
a mountains, and there is talk of a town park
The report that Mr.. Blaiue's health .s bad ia
1 contTadIcted. HIS name Is again prom nent for
} the Republican nomination.
f Henry B. Sweeney has been appointed ost-
7 master OF Lyndhurst, Augusta county, Va vice
John A. Stuart, reegned.
d By the Atlantic Coas Line. the trains rom
l. Baltimore run through now TO Savannah lu 45
= hours
T There was destructive fire in Wheeling w
Va on Friday. Loss $4,000
9 There was ice in Staunton Thursday nigh
last.
I, License was defeated iu the election held b.
t Wytheville, Va, on Friday by ! % majority
+ The democratic primary Of Norfolk, Va.
i nominated Capt John Ludlow for mayor
g Mr.. OBrien has been again arrested in Ire.
g land.