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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 14, 1882

News and Notes.

-Governor Ordway, of Dakota, says that 100,000 emigrants have entered that Territory this year.

-Arabi and his fellow-conspirators will spend the remainder of their lives in the island of Ceylon.

-Five Russian dragoons have been condemned to fifteen years in the mines for engaging in the riots against the Jews.

-The emigration to America, from the mountain districts of Hungary is so extensive that the authorities are attempting to check it.

-It is calculated that the private and official embezzlements in Russia during the year amount to 26,000,000 roubles (about $20,000,000).

-A bill is now before Congress to reduce letter postage from three to two cents for a half ounce. It will doubtless soon become a law, as the President and the Postmaster-General favor it.

-The Boers, of South Africa, have driven the Caffres into caves. One cave has been destroyed by dynamite, and fifty natives were killed.

-The passenger trains on the Texas Pacific Road are hereafter to carry a strong force of State Rangers between Fort Wort and El Paso.

-The Russian Minister of Marine has asked for a grant of 5,000,000 roubles (nearly $4,000,000) for the construction of four men-of-war.

-Arabi Pasha's associates also pleaded guilty and were sentenced to death, but the Khedive commuted their sentence to imprisonment for life.

-An attempt has been made to assassinate the Sultan, and he is completely terror-stricken in consequence, hardly daring to show himself outside the harem.

-A member of the Government Commission to inspect the Navy Yards says that those already visited cost about $50,000,000, and would not sell for $1,000,000.

-While the Mississippi steamer Morning Star was racing with the Sunbeam, Dec. 6, her boilers exploded, and sixteen persons were either killed or fatally wounded.

-The Prefect of St. Petersburg has ordered the police to expel all the Jews residing in the city without official permission. The Senate has decided that Jews are incapable of holding office in Russia.

-An ostrich farm is to be started in California, about seventy-five miles south of San Francisco. The farm consists of 800 acres, and twenty-two birds have arrived from the East, with which to stock it.

-The President of the First National Bank of Denver says that the banks of Colorado have lost paper to the value of a million and a half dollars, during the past year, through robberies of the mail.

-A citizen of Oakland, who recently purchased a mountain near Los Gatos, Cal., for a stock range, accidentally discovered that it yields 96 per cent. pure sulphur, the market value of which is $20 per ton.

-The total number of arrests made during the last fiscal year by secret service agents was 335, the majority being for counterfeiting money. The total fines assessed amounted to $10,664, and the total amount of counterfeit coin captured, $8,830,154 51.

-The anti-Mormon population of Utah are very much disappointed with the President's message, because it practically ignores the Mormon question. The Mormons are correspondingly jubilant, and impiously say that God has interposed in their behalf.

-Secretary-of-War Lincoln says in his report that sixteen per cent. of the United States army desert, and that every year a number of men enlist merely in order to secure free transportation to some point in the West, and desert as soon as they have reached it.

-A band of Apaches from Arizona recently crossed the border into Chihuahua, Mexico, and sweeping down upon the town of Casa Grande, massacred seventy-five persons, and carried off several women and girls. A large quantity of stock and other property was stolen.

-The new code of New York punishes attempted suicide. The first prosecution was a man who took laudanum, and who received, instead of death, two years in the penitentiary. This is as it should be. There is not much glory to be obtained in States Prison, and suicide may be expected to become unpopular.