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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5321, 16 October 1885, Page 4

•'- Mr Moody has made a five years' engagement with Mi- D. B. Towner, a celebrated Gospel singer of Kentucky. The Parnellites supported the English Government in the vote to exclude Bradlaugh from the House of Commons. The directors of the Cambria Gold Mining Company have declared another dividend; of Is 6d per share payable on ' Saturday next. ■ • A well-known London lawyer is named Thomas Jolly Death. It is s;iid his father gave ;him the name of "Jolly " as a sort of . pffseiivtojthe sombre surname. At the opening%f^the new building of •the Sydney Young MeniPOtiristian Association L 2700 was subscribed. ••' It is riot generally known that President Washington was the inventor of a plough, which was considered a marvel •of ingenuity at the time. Symes,; the Freethought lecturer, is to be proceeded against by the Melbourne police •for charging for admission to his Sunday entertainments. The Rothschilds have advanced to the Egyptian Government the sum of £250,000, to be paid back in September. Eigty-nine Americans and. 11 Englishmen are in attendance at the Berlin University.. ' .. . . ... The best time yet made between. New ' York and Liverpool is six days,nine hours, i and fifty minutes. - General Booth claims that by the year ! 1900 the Salvation Army will number ' 20,000,000 members,