The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1893-11-08
ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

M ARYLAND AND WEST VIRGINIA
Proceedings now before the Supreme
Court bring up for final settle
ment the long disputed boundary
between the two States, West Vir-
ginia succeeding to the claims and
alleged adversary possession of Vir
ginia. The claim of West Virginia
as to the western boundary of Mary
land is that the Fairfax stone,
planted in 1746 to mark the bound.
airy between the Fairfax grant and
the colony of Virginia, must be
taken to mark "the first fountain of
the Potomac" that being the desig.
nation of the western boundary of
Maryland in the charter from
Charles to Lord Baltimore in 1852
West Virginia also claims that the
line must be thence run north to the
Pennsylvania line by the line sur
veyed and laid down by Francis
Deakins in 1771.
Maryland's claim is that "the
first fountain of the Potomac" was
not truly marked at the Fairfax
stone, but that the boundary should
begin at the head of the South
Branch of the Potomac, as being in
reality the first fountain of the riv-
er, and that the line should run
thence due north to the Pennsyl-
vania line. A further claim of
MARYLAND is that the Deakins line
of I'LL was only provisional line
run until the true line could be
definitely settled between the two
States.
The southern boundary of Mary
land in dispute, West Virginia
claims, is the north bank of the Pc.
tomac. That boundary, Maryland
claims, is the south bank of the Po-
tomac from "the first fountain" of
that river to the boundary line at or
near Harper's Ferry, between Vir-
ginia and West Virginia, as the
boundary between Maryland and
Virginia was decided by the Black
Jenkins award to be the south bank
from Harper's Ferry to the Chesa-
peake Bay.
The record is now made up on
both sides, and final decision of
this important question, it is said,
will be given at the present term of
the Supreme Contradictions Sun.
-CoMPosITIoN OF So-CALLED
PURE RACEs.-It is now so we'll
known to anthropologists that every
European people Is intimately com
pounded of diverse racial elements
that it is only by figure of speech
that we may call the English can
-glo-Saxon," The Irish "Celts," the
Germans "Teutons," the French
"Gauls," and so on. The tendency
now is for the anthropological So
cieties to collect as much informa
ton as possible about the various
component elements before the con-
tinual and inevitable process of
blending goes any further.
Not long ago we mentioned that
an ethnographical survey of the
United Kingdom had been under
taken, and now we learn that the
Paris Society of Anthropology Is
appointing local observers to carry
out an anthropologyical survey of
the French people who, instead of
being "Gauls" and Celts," accord
ing to mere authors and historians,
are in reality fushion of Liguri-
ans, Aquitanians, Greeks and other
dark races of the south, with the
broadheaded Celt (the true Celt of
C@sar,) who is probably from the
Pamirs in Asia, and the tall, fair,
UopO baoJoJ Co,,1o or1 otbo- d 81 ox; -.
races, as we'll as the kline red races
of the Franks, Burgundians and
NoIsemen.
Contrary to the old mistake,
which is rampant in all our books
and histories which refer to race,
the Gaul and Celt are not of the
same race, but radically different,
the head of the Gaul being long and
of Teutonic shape whereas the head
of the Celt is about the broadcast in
Europe. The type is practically
unknown in the United Kingdom
London Globe.
Henry Ward Beecher once went
In search of brief rest to small
fishing village, where his appear
ance was apparently unknown.
When Sunday came round he went
to the morning service at the Con-
gregational church, and was not lit
tie astonished to hear the preacher
for the day, very young man, rattle
off one of his (Beecher's) best ser
mons as an original discourse. At
the conclusion of the service the
great preacher waited for a chat