Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-20
WOODBRIDGE ITEMS.
A Peach Tree One Hundred Years
 Old-The Curculio and the WOOd- hrfd1A Peach crop.


 A Peach Tree one Hundred Years OId-The CurcuIio and the Wood. bridge Peach Crop.
 WOODBRIDGE, Aug. 18.-At meeting of the grange held last Wednesday even ing the question of the wild carrot nui- sance was discussed and resolution passed that the same must be cut at once. The grand jurymen have been notified and instructed to see that they are cut, in accordance with the statute to that effect. All persons that fail to do so will be pros ecuted. Some have already cut them, while others have not done so, and the consequence is that they are spreading all over the land, in the highway as well as in the cemetery. It is for every mans inter est to cut them and thus prevent their spreading. It is hoped that Ia word to the wise will be sufficient in this case.
 Peach trees are generally short lived, but there have been two in this town which have lived to great age. One on William Tomlinsen's farm, which died last year, was said to have been one hundred years old and has borne fruit regularly during that time. One tree standing on the farm of Charles Backer has borne fruit for one hundred years. Last year it had 365 peaches upon it. The present year it blos- somed and set full, but the curculio has destroyed them until at present there are but sixteen peaches left Six generations have lived to enjoy the fruit from this | tree.
 The prospect for fruit this year does not look very encouraging. There was an un- 1 usually small amount of fruit set, and this has been almost utterly destroyed on ac- count of the ravages of the curculio and other worms. The farmers will not have l fruit enough this year for their own con- l sumption.
 DIR. PENTECOsT's MISSION. His Proposed Work in India-sketch of His Career.
 The Northfeld correspondent of the New York Tribune in speaking of the Rev. Dr. Pentecost who is preaching temper arily in this city, says:
 One of the most interesting speakers of l the college conference and the Bible con- 1 ference has been Dr. George F. Pentecost, for number of years popular Brooklyn ! pastor. Dr. Pentecost has beautiful 2 home in this village, which he has rented. l On September 6 he sails from New York
 
 ! undertake an evangelistic mission. He will leave England on the P. o. steamer ! Khedive on October 10, reaching | Calcutta in about month. He will be accompanied by a party of friends l from England and Scotland, and they will be joined in a short time by an American 1 contingent, of which it is more than pos sible that MT. Sankey, MT. Moody's asso ciate for twenty years, will be member l The missionary conference, of which Bishop Thoburn is president, is planning the details of the mission, which will be- l gin as soon as Dr. Pentecost and his | friends arrive and will continue for five 1 months, until the warm weather drives the ] Europeans into the Himalayas. While il Calcutta the party will live in the house o1 Sir William Mackinnon, the proprietor o1 l the British India Steamship com pany Sir William Mackinnon, who by the way, is H. M. Stanley's friend, is not in India at present and he has placed his elegant house at the l disposal of Dr. Pentecost The object o1 the mission is to band together all the An I glo-India Christians in practical evan ] ing free will offering to India on the | part of Dr. Pentecost and his friends, al of whom are going at their own expense. | Dr. Pentecost was born in Kentucky about forty-eight years ago. He was edu cated in Georgetown college in his native state, and received the degree of A. M from Hamilton and the degree of D. D from Lafayette. He did not study theolo gy in seminary, but learned it in thu 1 saddle, serving in the Eighth Kentuck, ] calvary under General B. H. Bris I tow. Dr. Pentecost came from Kentucky l to Brooklyn in 1868, when he was 26 year old, and was four years pastor of the Han son Place Baptist church. From Brook 1 lyn he went to Boston, where for six year
 he preached with great snccess at the War
 ren avenue Baptist church. He resigned l his Boston pastorate to engage in evangel
 istic work, but after three years he accept
 ed call to the Tompkins avenue Congre
 gational church of Brooklyn. Tn
 size of his audience was limited onl
 by the capacity of the church durin
 the six years he was in Brooklyn, his sec
 ond pastorate. He preached on Sunda
 afternoon in the Academy of Music, hun dreds of men and women confessing thei
 faith in Christ For three years Dr. Pen
 tecost has given all his time to specis
 work. He has been six times to Europe
 holding meetings for the last two years i
 Scotland. He has written several books
 "A South Window" ''The Angel in tn
 Marble" ''The Reasonableness of Chris
 ianity," and ''Bible Studies" The frs named has reached a circulation of 5000
 copies, the second 100, ,000, while '.Bibl
 Studies now have an annual sale of 30, ,OC
 copies.