there is vice and crime unparalleled in the annals of our country; if
these things combined constitute a poverty unknown elsewhere in the
land when estimated by its extent, then those who seek the poorest
will not neglect the millions in the Southern States.

It is our work, as an Association, to do what we can to render these
people the help needful. Will not the friends of Christ help us
"remember the poor?"

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CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS IN COUNCIL is the title of a pamphlet of 266
pages, giving full report of sixty addresses by American educators at
Ocean Grove last August, arranged topically as follows: I. Education
and Man's Improvement. II. Illiteracy in the United Slates. III.
National Aid to Common Schools. IV. The Negro in America. V.
Illiteracy, Wealth, Pauperism, and Crime. VI. The American Indian
Problem. VII. The American Mormon Problem. VIII. Education in the
South since the War. IX. Christ in American Education. Tables:
Illiterate and Educational Status, United States, 1880. Rev. J. C.
Hartzell, D.D., the editor and compiler, purposes to issue a second
edition for general circulation. He may be addressed at the Methodist
Book Concern, New York. We know of no one document of equal value, on
the subjects discussed. The price is one dollar.

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SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.

An account of the Southern manufacturing and mining enterprises for
January and February is given in the _Manufacturers' Record_, and
illustrates the growing thrift of these industries in the South.
Kentucky shows the largest aggregate, which foots up $6,851,000.
Alabama is second with 5,210,000; Virginia, 3,830,000; Texas,
3,593,000; Georgia, 2,074,000; Maryland, 2,015,000; North Carolina,
1,227,000; West Virginia, 916,000; South Carolina, 904,000;
Tennessee, 846,000, and the other States a little less than 500,000
each. The cotton mills begun since January will cost over $325,000,
and will add more than a hundred thousand spindles to the number now
in the South. The Eagle and Phoenix Mills, Columbus, Ga., intend to
erect a new structure at the cost of $1,000,000. At Rome, Ga., and at
Birmingham, Ala., new cotton mills to cost $100,000 each are about to
be erected. Confidence, which can only spring from intelligence and
Christianity, is the one thing needful in order to secure the capital
wanted for the development of the vast manufacturing interests of the
sou