The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-02-07

General Booth has sailed from Bombay Tor
| England.
Bisbop Vaughan, Of Stafford, is regarded as
fbe most likely successor oil Cardlnal Man
ming as Archbishop OF Westminster. lie -
| tho editor Of the Tablet and Dublin Review.
AZ q Roman Catholic convent in Fort
Derfboid. North Dakota, al the sisters, IN
/ cindino the MOAci superior, are Indians. and
/ The spiritual director IS priest OF Mohawk
/ descent.
John Blocher. of Buffalo, has bequea'hed bis
I large house 10 be used as a charitable bone
/ 100 AGED meu, and has provided Tor the endow-
ment of the institution with almost his entire
fortune, estimated at nearly S2OOO,OOO.
Monsienor Freppel. Bishop Of Anglers, who
dico after few days illness on December 22d,
wac the only ecClesiayNc in the Chamber OF
Deputies, and since Bishop Dupanloup's
death. IN ISIS. he was the chief parliamentary
champion OF the Church.
The death is announced in Australia Of the
Rev. Dr. kelynack, pTesldentOl the WESLEYAN
Methodist General Conference, Of 4 uaua!asia.
ne WIS al the head OF the UNCONVENTIONAL
college i'm sydney. He visited his country
some years ago and preached 70 large auui-
euCes.
The committee appointed by the Presbyte-
| risn General Assembly on consensus c'eed
for al Presbyterian and Reformed churches
was in session 10 New York city last week.
We do not understand that the committee
entered upon the work of preparing lhe pro-
posed new creed, but only considered now
/ united effort OF all churches concerned cOUd
he secured for the purpose Of formulating
such q creed.
The condition Of the Pope's health continues
/ 10 create anxiety. Last week ne suffered
| considerably hom rheumatic catNrnt al
| tack, which confined ham 10 MS Ded' bul
! toward the end of the week be WAS better and
able TO receive numbero OF pIelates ana heads
Of congregations.
An Austrian priest and three Italian nuns,
VINO have been prisoners IA hhartOum ever
since lis capture eight years ago. recently
| escaped. They confirm the previous accounts
Of General GOrdons death. and add mat ms
| dismelnbeted body was exposed IN pubic
| places fOl many days after bis death.
MIS-. Mary Stuart had at one time named in
! her will the American Museum OF Natural
History and the Metropolitan Museum OF Art,
each 10 receive legacles OF Sl5,OOO; but In Der
last Will and testament these names are
| stricken ont, This Is because OF tner having
hesn opened on Sunday. The immensely
valuable art and book collection which she
| Gave to IenoX Library, and 10 which she also
cave $500 600, was given on condition mat u
should never be thrown open 10 the puplc
on the Lords Day.
The American plan OF compelling the
siuus is being tlied in India; but 1t does not
seem TO meet the favor Of the orthodoxy
Of ,he NOhammedans, who regard 1t as
| baspnemv TO interfere with the pleTOgalVes
OF the Almighty. who sends ram where ne
pleasps We seriously suspect tnat the ram
makers Will not have success enough 10 IN
dancer the continuance of MOsiem iatahsm.
The Girls Letter Guild, with cen ers at
Birmingham and Leeds, England IS ABOUT 20
have a third center at Washington, ID. -, OF
which Miss Il Wadleigh, No. l23, Thirteenth
street. y. W., is 10 be secretary. Two Oh the
English factory girls are 10 be here at Easter
10 aid in making the work known. lheO OJecI
OF the Guild Is Ito give 10 WORKING giIIS III
structOns, sympathy and kindly cOunsel ior
their daily life, by system OF regular ana
individual correspondence between cultured
Christian women and themselves
The conflict between the Salvation Army
and the police at EastbOurne, which mas been
decided in favor of the former, mas aroused
considerable discussion IN the Euglsh J.ur-
nails as 20 the wisdom or moral right, what
ever the legal right may be. Of intrusion by
anv religious body on the quie. OF commu-
| nitv Most of the journals OF different de-
nominations unite in considering the course
Of the Salvation Army as extremely III al
yised TO say the least, saying That undOuDt-
eddy they have rights, but so nave o'hei people
and among the dearest OF those rights is
quiet.
In the Caucasus there is a number of
scattered and banished communities OF
MOlOkans, Russian sect that nave endured
much persecution. Jacob DlllkOh graduate
of the Mission College of Urumia. has been an
aDOstle to them and taught them more iull
the Word of God. This devoted brother SET
fed among them, and for two wears past has
zone on a mission 10 Siberia. lie was Kept IN
nrison so mnch. and was so sure TO be BAN
ished. that he chose TO 90 as Tree man. Dod
has blessed his work IN Siberia and provided
, also for his family; and this last summer ne
> | returned six thousand miles westward ~ care
+ for his children.
, Recent dispatches from Paris state that
| movement has been starred IN that city 10
, make sunday restday. The honorary presi-
, dent of the society, VI. jules simon, states
I, that the ann is 10 secure for WOrklngmen
weekly rest day. and sunday is naturally the
dav the society has chosen. The undertaking.
however, proves TO be a difficult one, as II
, runs counter 10 numerous customs ana H.
teresfs. IL is not the aim OF the society 10
forbid people 10 work on sunday II they WISH
10 do SO, but TO prevent them forcing olher
people 10 work. The president. NJ. Leon say,
saws the society is the OutgOwth OF a congress
Of social economists held IN Paris during tne
Exhibition OF 1889. The society does not IN
tend TO ask for legislation, but VIII depend
entirely for success on the power OF pefsud-
SION 1t has already succeeded IN having lh5
| hours OF labor shortened in the O7tOlhOV' anu
is now laborng with the railroad companies
Cardinal Manning's funeral at Bromplon
Oratory. London. ON January DIST, was con-
Quoted with impressive ceremonies. Fllteeh
bishops and i've hundred priests were pre-
sent. aud The Queen and the Prince ana PIN
ccssOf Wales were represented by hlsh meh-
beers of their households While the Ioreign
powers We're represented by their amDassa-
doris. Most interesting, however, was the
great crowd, largelyo of workingmen and their
families. VINO gathered at the Oratory at au
early hour. but who were so quiet IN their
manner that the large force OF conslaDes ana
mounted police had 10 do no more than speak
gently 70 them. The procession to the Gene
terry was conducted with pomp greater even
imam that attending the funeral OF the Duke
oi Clarence and AvOndale the previous day.
Ii is estimated that there were fully lOO,vUJ
persons present at the cemetery. A heaYy
, fog delayed the procession, and before the
close all The tapers aud candles carried by the
| priests and nuns were lighted.
/ What is Heaven?
II may be well to disabuse people Of the