The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1889-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


day about one-haf and among them the beat
scholars. In Williams College LAT on of 24S.
and In Amherst 233 ont of 352 are members of
churches. In many other colleges, as proved
by DR.. Hodge, from whose carefully prepared
tables these figures are taken, the proportions
are still more favorable to the prospects Of reli
gion.
ROME, Feb S.-The fears recently entertained
by the authorities that an outbre4k would occur
among tue thousands of unemployed persons in
this city were realized today. This morning
great crowd of unemploye ed workingmen assem-
bled and marched through the Via Condotta
and other streets of the city, blackenlng the
shop fronts as they went and IN some cases en-
tering stores and carrying off whatever plumber
they could secure.
Mr. ]. Edward Addicks, of Wilmington, DEL,
late candidate for United States Senator from
Delaware, has applied to the Delaware Legisla
ture for charter for the Peninsula Investment
Company, which PROPOSES to operate in gas
stock, and make Wilmington such a centre for
gas stock business as Hartford. Conn. is for in
surance.
N. de Lesseps has thrown up the sponge. The
Panama Company bankrupt and is to go into
liquidation. The attempt to organize new
company to take over the rights of the old ons
has failed. The Nicaragua Canal, an American
Company, now proposes to take up the matter
Of ship canal across the Isthmus.
a millionaire named Tagliabei, who died re-
Gently at Milan, bequeathed the sum of so 600
francs to the ieet sweepers of that town on
condition that they would all go to his funeral
In their working clothes In his youth he had
himself been a street sweeper.
Heavy gales ragged on Friday last on the
English and Irish coasts. A building fell near
Bolton crushing a number of cottages and kill
ing six persons. At Pembroke ferry boat cap
sized and nine persons were drowned. A ter
rihc snowstorm ragged throughout Scotland.
The total production Of pig iron in the South
last year was 1865 900 net tons. The produc-
ton Of 1888 shows an increase of 5000 tons
over 1887 while the total production for the
whole country was about 100000 tons less in
1888 than in 1887.
The Roanoke (Va) Herald learns that nego-
hations for the erection of $3.50 900 hotel on
Mill Mountain, near that city, have been con-
cluded and that specifications for the building
will be prepared and the contracts awarded
soon.
The Figaro of Paris says that two professors
connected with the Pasteur Institute have sue
eeeded IN Identifying the generatve microhe of
diphtheris. The discovery of preventive of
this disease by vaccine virus liz expected to fol
low.
On Monday in Japan constitution was pro
mulgAted for the empire. Japan is the first of
the Asiatic nations to adopt constitutional
goVernment-king lords, and commons, the last
elected by general suffrage.
The Board of Supervisors Of Wythe county,
Va, are taking steps looking to the extension of
the Valley line Of railroad to connect with the
Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia, or some other
Southwestern road.
A revival meeting at Stanford, Illinois, re-
suited In over sixty conversions. On Sunday
the 18th ult., fifty eight persons united with
the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
Mr. Charles B Rouss, formerly of Winches
ter, Va. but now Wholesale merchant in New
York has purchased for $247 900 a vacant lot
on Broadway, on which he will erect ten
story warehouse TO cost 100000.
Three dismissed cadets OF the Virginia Mill
tary Institute last Monday night week stoned
the home of Gen. F. II. Smith, IN Lexington.
In the Mayors Court next morning they were
fined $50 each.
The disappearing of paying teller in Colur-
bus Ca, with shortage of $23 000 ia one of
many signs of progress the South s now giving
the world
W. L. Cunningham. of the Roanoke Machine
Works will go to Venfzuela, South America,
and take charge Of the works of the Ell Callao
gold mines at that place.
The Sultan of Morocco has sent an embassy
TO congratulate the Emperor William of Ger
many, on his accession to the throne Germany
is doubtless greatly pleased.
For the year ended December 81, 3s3 800
bales of cotton were handled at West Point
valued at Sl874O,771 The direct export was
1852 bales, valued at IS 615 78S 80
The strike which has been on in the Elkhorn
mining region of Mercer and Mcdowell counties
Of West Virginia for nearly a month has been
declared of.
Although SO years Of age, Elijah Martin. Of
Sahd Plarns, W. Va, works every day at his
trade Of blscksmithlrg and can shoe horse
as quickly as any Of hls fellow workmen.
The Hebrew charity ball in Philadelphia was
attended by some Baltimore ladies' and yielded
$4,000
Secretary Bayard has assented to Prince Bis
the conference as to Samoan afairs
a company bss been organized in Stanton.
Va, to manufacture furniture, with a subscrlbed
capital Of $4,000.
Pittsburgh Pa. since the introduction Of nat
ural gas, is said to have risen from the dirtiest
to the cleanest city in the West.
The Samoan conference will open in few
days. Lord Charles Beresfords visit to Berlin
is IN connection with this matter.
Eight or ten frame teDements we're burned in
Petersburg Friday morning Loss $4,000 or
$4,000 partly covered by insurance.
Thirty-three acres Of land two miles from the
corporate limits Of Lynchburg sold Thursday
for $4,000, or about f473 per acre.
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