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The Christian Index;
VOL. 55-NO. 27.
Table of Contents.
Fibst Page-—Alabama Department: Record of
State Events; Spirit of the Religious Press;
National Art Company; Bound Copies of Min
utes of Associations: General Denominational
News; Baptist News and Notes; Literary
Goßsip; etc.
Second Page —Our Correspondents : Tile
Close Views of Baptists as to the Lord's Sup
per—H. C. H.; Brother F adder—Happy Mem
ories—The Past and the Future—Baptist Af
fairs in Ringgold—Revival Sorely Needed ;
Centennial Mass Meeting—J. M. Robertson;
What Diverse Things Appear in a Newspaper
—Thos. E. Skinner : Heplizibah; Our Sunday
school Paper—S. Boylau. Mission Depart
ment: The Committee on Missions—lts De
sign and Duties—J. G. Ryals; Words of
Cheer—C. M. Irwin: Mission Committees in
the Churches— T. E. Skinner; How Many?—C.
M. Irwin; Associations—C. M. Irwin; Destitu
tion in Georgia—T. C. Boykin. j
Thikd Page.—Our Pulpit; Baccalaureate Ser
mon-Mercer University Commencement. Ma
con, Georgia. July 2,1876 —8 y Rev. T. Harley
of Savannah, Ga’
Foubth Page.—Editorial: Churoh Going—lts
Educational Feature, Prayer Universal—Rev.
G. A. Nunnally. The Word ‘‘Baptize”—Quit
man. Ga.—Rev. J. S. Baker. Georgia Baptist
News; A Soul-Stirring Letter: First Baptist
Church Reunion: State Baptist Minutes—Rev-
D. E. Butler: etc.
Fifth Page.—Editorial: Brief Notes on Various
Topics—Rev. J. S. Baker; Monroe Female
College. Secular Notes: Monroe Female
C liege Commencement; Gems Reset; Nature
—The Teacher—Poetry; Georgia News; Do
mestic and Foreign News.
Sixth Paoe.—The Sunday-school: Lesson for
Sunday. July 2s, 18T6 : Help for Destitute
Schools : Sunday-school Work ; A Model Sun
day-school Teacher ; Among my Correspon
dents ; Our Sunday-school Work; Sunday
school Convention.
Seventh Page.—Agriculture: Winter Pastures
Again: Boys Do Something; Guano vs. Nitrate
of Soda.
Eighth Page.—Obituaries; Tributes of Respect;
Special Notices; Advertisments.
INDEX AND BAPTIST.
ALABAMA DEPARTMENT.
There were 158 death in Mobile in June.
Corn is selling in Eutaw at 35 cents a bushel.
The Iron Age at Birmingham, is offered
for sale.
The cars run regularly between Eutaw and
Meridian.
Crop prospects all over the State are excel
lent. •
The crops around Selma are in excellent
condition.
The Baptist church at Gadsden, has been re
painted and re-papered inside.
The State Grange Fair at Montgomery will
begin October 24th.
Col. J. N. Smith, of Bibb, made 241 bushels
of red rust-proof oats on 4) acres.
In Mobile in June, the highest temperature
was 97 and lowest 63.
Stonewall Iron Works, in Cherokee county,
are again in full blast.
The Dadeville Baptists are making efforts
to finish their house of worship.
Rev. Henry Urquhart has been elected prin
cipal of Greenville Female College.
A post-office has been established at Ben
nett’s Station, on the A. C. R. R. A. B. Har
rison is postmaster.
Rev. A. J. Morrison, paster of the Presbyte
rian church in Selma, died at Memphis, Ten
nessee., recently.
Messrs. H. L. McKee of Selma, and S. B.
Brewer of Montgomery, have been holding re
ligious services in Tuskegee.
Mr. D. M. Callaway delivered the Alumni
Address at the Southern University in Greens
boro.
At a recent organization of a district grange,
at Selma, a resolution was adopted looking
to the establishment of a Patrons and planters
warehouse in that city.
Rev. Mr. Crump is an independent candi
date for the legislature in Blount, on the new
county question.
Two Primitive Baptist churches in Ran
dolph county exclude Patrons of Husbandry
from their pale.
A post route has been established from Ver
n n, Sanford county, to Newtonville, Fayette
county, by Auroand Cave Springs.
The church in Talladega has secured the
services of Dr. S. Henderson for one Sabbath
in each month.
It is stated as probable, that Dr. Hawthorne,
of New York, will be called to the pastorate
ofthe First Baptist church in Montgomery
The next session of the Uuion Meeting ui
the Fourth Di trict of the Tuskegee Associa
tion will take place Friday before the fourth
Sabbath in August.
The gross receipts of the dinner given by the
Episcopal ladies of Demopolis, were $450.
The dinner given on the same day by the
Methodist ladies, realized $650.
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The governor has offered a reward of S3OO
for the apprehension of Monroe L. Weaver,
of Cherokee county, charged with the murder
of James A. Weaver.
THE SOUTH-WESTERK BAPTIST,
of Alabama.
Spirit of the Religious Press,
—The Watchman draws the following sketch
of|the “ church of the luture:”
We, therefore, look for a church of the fu
ture, retaining its essential nature, it* imper
ishable truths, its simple ordinances, and yet
materially ahead of what it is in the present.
We are pursuaded that it will be more scrip
tural than it is now. Wearied with tradition,
and disheartened, the sects will turn to tire
Sacred Volume for guidance. This will ne
oessarily make the church more spiritual in its
membership, more independent in its thinking,
mdre enterprising in its action, more consecrat
ed in its form and government. It will lead
the world’s thought, and follow less ; it will
attack the world’s sins, and defend its own ex
istence less ; it will rule in the world’s life, and
serve less devotedly the world’s fashions and
its modes. Where it.now apologizes, it will
dogmatize; where it now pleads, it will com
mand ; where it now falters it will strike,
sweeping onward to that victory which has
been ordained from all eternity, and which
shall usher in the day when the wilderness
shall rejoice,” and the kingdoms of this world
becomes the kingdom of our God and His
Christ.
—Says the Standard:
Chicago churches have not yet arrived at
that degree of Christian development which
makes the presence of policemen desirable m
their business meetings. So far, we believe,
New York and Brooklyn have, in this respect,
the advantage of all the rest of thecountry.
—The Biblical Recorder discusses the hymn
book question, and states its grievance thus ;
Of course there has been some gain in this
multiplication of hymn books; but the losses —
their name is legion. The hymn book has
died out of the reverential affection of thepeo
ple, out of its place on the family Bible, out of
the memories of our church members. Sing
ing in our households and singing by our con
gregations is dying out, and we think that the
multiplication of hymn books is the most pow
erful agent in the production of these results.
Singing, congregational singing, must be done,
in most communities, without books. Thia is
easy enough in those churches —for there are
still a few of them —which have not been deso
lated by the war of the holy hymn books.
Having but one version of the hymns, they
become fixed in the memories and the word's
are recalled without effort. But try it in the
churches where each of the hymn books in
turn has held sway, like the commandants of
the military districts at the south after the war.
Take anv of our old familiar hymns, “ Rock
of Ages,” for instance. It has been so tinker
ed and altered, each hymn book having its
own version, that if the people undertake to
sing it from memory—and they will sing that
slay or no* at a!4—you will g.oan in spirit, and,
in reference to such congregational singing,
take up the language of the Epicopal prayer
book, “ Good Lord deliver us.” The people
know it and will not try to sing. It is sad to
think what loss of spiritual power we are suffer
ing in this way.
—The Christian Treasury relates this touch
ing incident:
Several years ago, a small church, struggling
for existence in the midst of prevailing errors
and wickedness, was suddenly visited witn a
previous revival, in which a goodly number
were added unto the Lord. The members of
the chuich were take* by surprise. It was not
what they were expecting. But an aged
“ mother in Israel,” who had for many years,
been confined to her retired room by her
infirmities, said that she was not surprised. It
was just what she had been praying for, and
looking for. Though hidden from the busy
world, and even from her brethren and sisters
of the church, she was not hidden from God.
He hearkened and heard her fervent prayers;
and in answer, souls were converted to Christ.
—Speaking of collegiate education the Cen
tral Baptist says :
We are not in the number of those who be
lieve and maintain that mere scholastic train
ing is to be the great reform of the world.
Knowledge is indeed power, but unless it be
wielded in the right direction, and under the
influence of high and noble motives, it is just
as likely to become a power for evil as for
good, and of this assertion many lamentable
proofs are to be met with in the history of our
fallen humanty. It is, therefore, essential for
the furtherance of the high interests that are at
slake, that the heart be educated as well as the
intellect. And we believe that, even so far as
the present life is concerned, and leaving out of
view, as we are purposely doing in this article,
any consideration of the higher interests of that
other life for which the present is but a prepar
ation, the claims of these two elements of our
nature—the heart and the intellect—are of
equal importance. Hence we look upon it as
a demonstrable proposition that, hand in hand
with scholastic education should go that other
education which can only be 'urnished by
Christian surroundings. Christianity alone
provides the proper motives for right action in
the world, and it alone holds the restraints by
which the power which knowledge confers is
kept within its proper limits and is directed
along its proper channel.
Some such notions as these must have been
in the minds of those who formed our denomi
national whose work in
the past has justified the wisdom of those no
ble-minded and noble-he>rted men and women
who called them into being, and the necessity
lor which will neve' cease t<> exist while hu
man nature remains in its present low state in
the world.
—The Inferior pointedly says:
Dr. Cuvier explains that brief pastorates are
the result"of “ itching ears, small salaries, and
hi; church debts.” If that is all, the remedy
is easy. When ears itch, box them. Use
good, solid sermons, and strike hard enough to
make them tingle—they will not itch after
that. Remedy for small salaries—cut the pat
tern according to the cloth. Remedy for
church debts—do not try to outshine your
neighbor.
—The Congregationlist has the following very
sensible thing to say about a ceitain class of
ministers:
It is an excellent thing for a man to go to
his own place. A preacher uttering heresy
from an orthodox pulpit, makes a great stir.
He is famous. He enjoys it, and his heretical
friends like it much better than to have him
FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, JULY 20, 1876.
all to themselves. But let him go over and
join the heretics boldly, and the glory passes
away. So does the disturbance. It is the dif
ference between having a grain of sand under
one’s own eye-lid, or in the common road-bed.
We can think of several unsound preachers
who not long ago achieved some undesirable
notoriety in evangelical pulpits, but who rather
quietly collapsed on going where they belong
ed. Would that they always might do it.
—The New York Methodist exclaims:
What shall be done with the liar? The
good Book tells us what will come of him at
last, but what shall we do with him here on the
earth? The best proceeding is to get him
soundly convicted and then soundly converted.
Nothing short of that will cure him. His na
ture, whatever you may think of your own, is
corrupt, prone to evil and that continually.
We can think"of nothing short of anew birth
that will make a man out of a liar. “ But con
verted men lie,” one will say. Well, they need
converting over again. Nothing so surely un
masks a hypocrite as the discovery that a pro
fessing Christian tells lies.
—Reflect on this from the Evangelist:
it is high time to rebuke the false notion
•hat the people are too poor to take a goud re
ligious paper. Nothing they eat or wear is so
cheap. Too poor! Perhaps so; but it is a
significant tact that the most poisonous and
banefu> publications ate mainly supported by
people ot slender means. It is this class who
bur the trash that is sold on the cars and ter
ries. The Wretched comic nonsense, and the
sensational monthlies which are circulated by
wandering agents', are found in the humblest
country homes. The Sunday Mercury and
dthef stoty papers are bought by the. thousand
on Saturday night, by mechanics and servant
girls. The sons and daughters of the very men
who have for years been “ too poor ” to take a
family paper which would have been a living
fountain of religious influence, buy quantitie
of pestilent trash, which in too many ca.-e.-i leads
them, to ruin.
National Art Company.—Some
time ago several of our correspondents wrote
us complaints concerning the National Art
Company, of Cincinnati, alleging that they
were unfairly treated, and that it was a hum
bug. Others, on the other hand, endorsed the
company, and stated that the company was all
right. We have neither endorsed nor con
demned it, our own information, received from
a reliable party, leading us to believe that the
National Art Company, was O. K.
Still, we feel it our duty to allow our corres
pondents the privilege to express their own
opinions pro or con, and shall in no wise re
strict the privilege of a free speech, and of a
free press.
this explanation in justice to our
selves, and all parties conce’rned.
Bound Copies of Minutes of Associa
tions. —We will, this season, print 200 copies
extra of all the Associations in Georgia. This
will enable us to supply not only the clerks
of the Associations, but such other brethren as
may wish a copy of so valuable a volume. In
addition to the Minutes of the Georgia Asso
ciations, the volume will contain those of such
other Associations in Alabama, Florida and
Tennessee, as the clerks of those States may fa
vor us with orders for printing. The volume
will also contain the Minutes of the late Ses
sion of the Southern Baptist Convention,
where clerks furnish the printed copies.
We have the books for last year for a num
ber of the clerkß of Associations which we
shall be glad to send to them.
The Southern Piano and Organ
Depot. —We call special attention of our read
ers to the attractive advertisement of Messrs.
Ludden & Bates, the popular and enterprising
proprietors of the grert Southern Piano and
Organ Depot, Savannah, Ga.
Ail styles of pianos, the Mason & Hamlin
organ, sheet music, musical merchandize, are
kept on hand by this firm in large quantities,
and at prices which cannot fail to attract buy
ers.
We ask a careful perusal of the advertise
ment by all who may desire to purchase first
class instruments or musical goods of any
kind.
The Model Press. —The numberless
improvements in facilities in printing seem to
have reached their acme in the Model Printing
Press, manufactured by J. W. Daughaday &
Cos., 434 and 436 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
This simple and efficient invention is the most
durable and rapid low-priced press ever made.
It will print a form irom the size of the chase
to the smallest card, and is, undoubtedly, just
the thing for business or professional men, as
well as amateurs and practical printers. We
can confidently recommend it to our readers as
the very best cheap press that we have ever
seen. — Daily Graphic.
Music and Music Books.—Churches,
Sunday-schools, singing societies and amateurs
are requested to read the new advertisement of
Oliver Ditson & Cos , the famous Boston Music
house. They advertise a series of music books
by several eminent composers. There is also
a notice of new miscellaneous music, just pub
lished, or in press.
Lovers of music and choir leaders will do
sell to send for catalogues '.o Oliver Ditson &
Go.
Carolina Central Academy and
Business College, Ansonville, N. C. —
The fall session of this sterling and widely ap
preciated college will open August 7th. By
referring to the advertisement, our readers will
perceive the valuable attractions this school
offers for the finished training of youth.
Lady Teacher.— A lady of Virginia,
of experience, desires a situation as teacher.
See notice.
General Denominational News.
—lntelligence is received by missionaries in
Japan that much interest is manifested on the
part of the natives in regions which no foreign
preacher has visited. Converts when on their
travels are often besieged by their countiyme n
desiring information.
Dr. Talmage’s church of 1,219 members, ac
cording to the minutes of 1875, contributed
$2,500 for education, $66,721 for congregation
al expenses, and SBB6 for miscellaneous pur
poses, besides its gifts for missionary purposes
—The church of the Brethren, sometimes
called German Baptists, or Dunkers, held their
annual meeting in Miami county, Ohio, re
cently. This people number from 100,000 to
150,000 members. They are conscientiously
opposed to reckoning and publishing their nu
merical strength, believing that as David, king
of Israel, displeased God by numbering the
people in his day, so the same should not now
be done.
—The Committee on Episcopacy of the
Methodist church, North, has decided that a
woman cannot become a’legally licensed local
preacher.
—Eighteen free churches and chapels hav e
been established by Protestant Episcopalians
in Baltimore, within six years, with a seat
ing capacity of six thousand, and having con
nected with them about two thousand commu
nicants and about twenty-five hundred Sunday
school children.
—The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, have appointed a Week of
Prayer to be observed throughout the connec
tion, beginning with a fast on Friday, August 3.
—The goods of the Hebrew exhibitors at
the Centennial Exhibition, are covered up on
their Sabbath.
—At a recent meeting of the Evangelical
Continental Society, Gavassi reported 50,000
regular attendants at the evangelical churches
in Italy. There was not a member prior to
1848.
—The receipts of the English Wesleyan
Missionary Society the last fiscal year amount
ed to $920,000.
—A Congregational ministerial Bureau was
organized to help unemployed ministers to
supplies and pastorates, bat it does not pay ex
penses. Ijd Menus per cent, on the
salaries iotjaMm year for permanent places,
and five per cent, on receipts for supplies.
—The Reformed Episcopal church now
numbers fifty congregations, sixty clergymen
and four bishops.
—ln Paraguay nothing has been attempted
beyond Bible circulation, though the country
is open to missionaries, and Bolivia has not
yet been explored with the Bible.
—Only one missionary, the Rev. J. F.
Thompson, is laboring among the native pop
ulation in Uraguay. His average attendance
Sunday night is about 300.
—A Mormon temple is to be built in Brook
lyn, near the Plymouth church.
BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES.
—Elder J. R. Hamlin, pastor of the Baptist
church near Cuba City, Crawford county, Mo.,
recently baptized twenty persons, fifteen of
whoti were Methodists.
—Rev. D. J. Pierce, of Portland, Oregon,
says:
I have the woid of our missionary, Dong
Gong, that the Christian Chinese of San Fran
cisco, belonging to the Baptist church, have
for two years supported a preacher of their
number in Northern Canton district, who has
received sixteen converts, and has now re
moved into a neighboring field, where the
converts have called and supported another
preacher. “By their fruits ye shall know
them.”
—The new Baptist church at Jackson, is
said to be one of the moßt elegant church edi
fices in West Tennessee.
Over thirty of the students of Waco Uni
versity, Texas, were converted this year un
der the labors of Bro. W. E. Penn.
Nearly ninety thousand Baptists in Mis
souri last year, gave for missions $6,221; near
ly eight cents per member.
—Bro. Lofton, Centennial agent for Ten
nessee, has resumed his pastoral duties.
Rev. H. F. Buckner, in the Texas Baptist,
states that in the recent Southern Baptist Con
vention, no opportunity was given him at any
time to ask for a collection for Indian Mis
sions, though at great expense he took with
him two native preachers.
The Religious Herald, remarks upon this:
He might have raised SIOO or more by a
hat collection, if he had asked it. If one
wishes to raise money for good causes, he
must come to the front and plead for it as for
his life.
—The Religious Herald in an analysis of the
statistics of the Baptist General Association
of Virginia for 1875, Bays that of the 650
churches, 5 have less than 10 members; 85
have less than 30; 186 have less than 50 ;
426 have less thati 100; 116 have between 100
and 150; 56 have between 150 and 200; 33
have between 200 and 300; 12 have between
300 and 400; and only 7 have over 400 mem
bers. Nearly two-thirds of our churches have
fewer than 100 members each.
So far as the report of the treasurer of the
General shows, 258 churches, re
porting 16,321 members, made no contribution
whatever to any of the benevolent work of the
General Association.
THE HERALD
of Tennessee.
—Rev. H. A. Tupper, Jr., son of the Secre
tary for Foreign Missions, is supplying the
pulpit of the Fulton Baptist church, Rich
mond, during the time his esteemed father en
joys his needed vacation. The young broth
er’s sermons are said to be exceedingly inter
esting.
—Rev. M. Stone, D.D., in a malicious letter
published in the Journal aiul Messenger misrep
resents both the white and the colored people
of the South. This brother writes with polish
but it is rotten stone polish.
—The Religious Herald says;
A friend wishes to know what we think of
the new plan of Georgia Biptists in having a
“Committee on Missions” to take charge of all
collections for missions in that State. A simi
lar plan was tried in this State, but had to be
abandoned. Possibly Georgia Baptists may
do better than we did.
—The Centennial Dollar plan appears to
have been abandoned in Pennsylvania.
—Tile Baptist Reflector of July 13, says:
From Lynchburg to Amherst we rode with
Bro. M. B. VVhar.on, once pastor at Bristol,
now agent for the Theological Seminary for
Georgia. Bro. Wharton says he has succeed
ed in raising about SIO,OO in Georgia, for the
Seminary. His health is slowly improving,
and we hope it will not be long until he is re
stored, so,that he can resume the pastorate
again. ,
The same paper says :
We had the pleasure of spending the night
with Dr. Montgomery, in Lynchburg, last
week. The probability is that Bro. Manard’s
chapel will be organizad into a church, soon.
It ought to be, for Lynchburg is strong enough
to afford two churches.
Ll rttltlKY GOSSIP.
—The Religious Herald, in an article
on the grave of John Randolph, reprints
a couple of stanzas of a commemorative
poem by Whittier :
“ There, where with living eye and ear,
He heard Potomac’s flowing,
And through his tall, ancestral trees,
Saw autumn’s sunset glowing,
He sleeps, still looking to the West,
Beneath tbe dark wood shadow—
As if he still would see the sun
Sink on wave and meadow.”
The Herald points out the mistake
made by the poet, and which has found
a place in the history of literature, that
Randolph’s dust.reposes on the banks
of the The great
rest ing place is *ii Charlotte coAntv* one
hundred and fifty miles from’ the Po
tomac.
The Herald point* out the egregious
blunder Whittier makes in the opening
lines, in which he speaks of Randolph’s
eye “ hearing ” Potomac’s flowing.
The Herald's strictures are very per
tinent, and prove how often a close
criticism of an artist’s work will bring
to light grave flaws and errors. Some
of the most melodious and daintily con
structed lyrics, if translated into plain
prose, would show absurd departures
from the law of common sense, and
jingling rhymes dragooned into service
as substitutes for reason.
—Dr. Russell, of Bull Run fame,
who attended the tour of the Prince of
Wales to India, as correspondent for
the London Times, will soon publish a
book embracing the incidents of this
brilliant hegira of the Prince.
—Henry Vincent, the well known
English lecturer, will visit the United
States in the fall, for a farewell lectur
ing tour.
—Miss Ora Arrington, only sixteen
years of age, living in Sumter county,
Alabama, is the author of a fine novel :
“ Leona, or Shadows and Sunbeams.”
—Another attempt is being made to
translate the Talmud. Dr. Sammter, a
well known rabbi and Talmudist, has in
the press a German translation of Baba
Mezia, with a commentary in the same
language. It is to be published in Ber
lin, in ten or twelve parts, large folio.
The original text accompanies the trans
lation.
—John Esten Cook, of Virginia, the
Southern novelist, has written for the
Detroit Free Press a serial entitled,
“ Cannolles ; The Fortunes of a Parti
san of ’Bl. A story of the Revolution.”
—Dr. Jeter’s “ Centennial Poem,” in
the Religious Herald for July 13th, has
an introduction as remarkable for the
modesty and Spartan simplicity of its
language as the poem itself is for gran
deur of conception and rhetorical bril
liancy. For blinding splendor of dic
tion, undefinable and awe-inspiring
mystery, a mosaic style beyond the
grasp of the most nebulous of ancient
or modern masters, and power of resist
ance to the rays of light that commonly
serve to illume subjects that can be
contemplated by the average human
mind this poem, composed upon “ the
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etherial heights ” of Richmond, must
rank permanently with the most
unique literary productions of modern
times. With Lanier’s Cantata and Dr.
Jeter’s Fourth of July poem in hand,
what uncharitable critic shall dare to
assert that the American Centennial
muse has not reached, nay, over-topped
by a million miles, the highest pinnacle
of Olympian glory?
—The contributions to the fund for
the creation of the chair of Celtic Lit
erature in the Edinburgh University,
now amount to upwards of £B,OOO.
Longfellow, in one of those short,
sweet poems, so characteristic of his
genius, relates a legend found in the
Talmud, which, for its beauty, deserves
a passing notice. It is an old Jewish
superstition, that the mighty Sandal
phon, the angel of prayer, stands at the
gate of the Celestial City, with his feet
on the ladder of light, seen by Jacob in
bis dream, and listens to the sounds
rising from mortals below:
“ And he gathers the prayers as he stands
And they change into flowers in his hands
Into blossoms of purple and red- ’
And beneath the great arch of the portal
Through the streets of the Citv Immortal
Is wafted the fragrance they shed. ” ’
—Tbe earliest mode of writing was
on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, stones,
ivory, bark and leaves of trees; and
from the latter the term “ leaves of a
book” is probably derived. Copper
and brass plates were very early in use,
and a bill of foefiment on copper, was
some years since discovered in India,
bearing date one hundred years B. C.
Leather was also used as well as wood
en tablets. Then the papyrus came
into vogue, and about the eighth cen
tury the papyrus was superceded by
parchment. Paper however, is of great
antiquity, especially among the Chinese,
but the first paper mill in England was
built in 1586, by a German, at Dart
ford, in Nevertheless, it was
nearer and a half—namely,
in iri3- 8 , *
stationer F * per . ma j „„
any thingt&S JjLyfection.
The first approach to a pen was the
the stylus, a kind of iron bodkin - r but
the Romans forbade its use on account
of its frequent and even fatal use in
quarrels, and then it was made of
bone. Subsequently, reeds pointed and
split, like pens in the present day, were
used.
—A new Southern authoress has
come into the literary field, Mis* Sue W.
Hubard, of Buckingham county, Va.
To her was awarded the prize of $275
offered by the Baltimore Sun for &
serial story. Her work, “ Two Sides of
the Question,” is spoken of in high
terms by the critics.
The Raleigh News speaking of this
rising literary star says :
The success of Miss Hubbard is of peculiar
interest to the people of North Carolina, for
she is a descendant of Willie Jones, of Halifax,
who was one of North Caroiini's uost dis
tinguished sons in his day and generation.
His wife was noted for her loveliness, her tal
ents, and brilliancy of wit. There are few
North Caolinians who can Dot recall her cele
brated reply to Tarleton when he attempted to
slur an American officer.
The gifted descendant of this distinguished
couple has many friends and relations in this
city and North Carolina, generally, who feel an
interest in her success; and hope that her
signal triumph over the ninety writers who
contended for the prize that she won, is a
harbinger of a bright future in the wide and
charming field of fiction.
Culpepper (Va.) Female Insti
tute. —The President of this excellent Insti
tution of learning announces, through our col
umns, that the next session will begin Septem
ber 13th. The curriculum is thorough, the
location of the Institnte one of the moet attrac
tive in the State, and terms of tuition very rea
sonable. Address Dr. Vaughan, and read the
advertisement for further particulars.
Messrs. Ludden & Bates, of the
Great Southern Music House, Savannah, G*.,
advertise in this issue a charming new song:
"Good Night, Little Neil.”
This firm also publishes the only Musical
Magazine published in the South— lhe South
ern Musical Journal. It is an excellent maga
zine. See advertisement.
Chemical Paint. — Those in want of
a durable paint should read the announcement
of the New York Enamal Paint Company, in
this issue of The Index.
Ward’s Seminary, Nashville,
Tennessee. This popular and celebrated in
stitution for young ladies will open its fall ses
sion September 4th. Its marvellous prosperity
for many years is the best testimonial of its
merits.