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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 25, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 32.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Rochester University receives $20,000 by the will of Mrs. Fillmore.

—Weston, the pedestrian, is now lecturing on temperance in England.

—Yellow fever is raging in the French colony of Senegal, West Africa.

—The Protestant College in Beyrout, Syria, has graduated 118 students.

—The town of Redding, Shasta county, was visited by a disastrous fire August 21.

—The town of Yale, B. C., was nearly destroyed by fire August 18. Loss about $400,000.

—A heavy fire occurred at Davisville, Cal., August 19. Eleven buildings were destroyed.

—Seventeen persons were killed, and twenty-three injured by an accident at a bull fight at Marseilles, France.

—At the Teachers' Institute in New Tacoma, W. T., Aug. 16, the report says "A fierce onslaught was made on tobacco."

—It is alleged that the principal of the Durant school, Oakland, has punished a boy so severely as to cause him to lose his reason.

—The All Saints' Episcopal church and the parsonage, corner of Polk and Eddy streets, San Francisco, were destroyed by fire Aug. 17.

—The stage running between Etna Springs and St. Helena, Cal., was stopped August 16, by a highwayman, and one passenger robbed of $20.

—"Chinatown," at Nevada City, Cal., consisting of twenty-five buildings, was burned on the evening of Aug. 17. But one house was left.

—The English Land Bill was finally passed substantially as it came from the House of Commons, the House of Lords having capitulated.

—As a result of the wounds received by Bradlaugh when he was ejected from the House of Commons, erysipelas has set in, and it is thought that he will die.

—In sixteen years West Virginia has increased her school-houses from 133 to 3,557, her teachers from 387 to 4,224, and her pupils in attendance from 15,975 to 142,850.

—The explosion of a boiler of a threshing machine near St Louis, Mo., recently, resulted in the death of nine men. The boiler was old, and was carelessly handled.

—Two violent shocks of earthquake occurred at Hollister, Cal., at twenty minutes before 8 o'clock August 18. The buildings of the town were shaken with tremendous force.

—Colonel Clough, who distributed stamps for Irish law courts, and who defrauded the Government of £10,000 by forging stamps, has been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude.

—A dispatch from Tunis, August 19, says: "The country is in a most dangerous state. Many bands of deserters and Arabs are collecting. The telegraph wires have been cut in all directions."

—The undeniable annual increase in the rain-fall of New Mexico is attributed by scientists to the rapid extension of railway lines and the consequent increased cultivation of the agricultural lands of the Territory.

—The main Centennial Exposition building has been sold for $97,000. The original cost was $360,000. In its construction 75,000,000 feet of lumber and 8,500,000 pounds of iron were used. It is 1,830 feet long and 464 feet wide.

—Crop reports for the State of Iowa prepared by the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, show that the average yield of wheat per acre will not exceed six bushels. The usual average is a fraction over eight bushels.

—A volcanic eruption took place on a mountain in Idaho county, I. T., August 16. A column of fire and smoke several hundred feet in height was emitted, and rocks were hurled some distance. The shock was felt seventy-five miles away.

—There are 154 Baptist churches in the Indian Nation in a population of 60,000. This is one church to less than 400 people. In Chicago there are about 250 churches of all kinds in a population of 500,000 and over, or one church to more than 2,000 inhabitants.

—The Herald's Paris special says: Private advices received in this city state that Stanley, the African explorer, is lying dangerously ill half way between Stanley Pool and the mouth of the Congo. He has so littl'e faith in his own recovery that he has made his will.

—It is said that a scheme has been submitted to the German Government, providing that Alsace be united with Baden, and in conjunction with that grand duchy, be erected into a new Kingdom of the Rhine. Lorraine to be united with the Prussian province of Rhineland, and become a part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

—The Russian Ministry of the Interior are considering measures for preventing the productive power of the people being improperly turned to account by speculators. It is intended to establish official control over all the Russian grain markets, over the foreign demand and over the price of grain in the empire.

—The ship Trafalgar recently arrived at San Diego, Cal., with material for the California Southern railroad. Her cargo consisted of 2,262 tons of steel rails with everything necessary to lay twenty-nine miles of track. There are seven other vessels en route for San Diego with the balance of the rails necessary to complete the road to San Bernardino.

—The retiring Mayor of Cagliar, in Sardinia, had misappropriated public money, and the new Mayor in his distress ordered new impositions of taxes on the people, who, already exasperated by the bad harvest, attacked the old Mayor's house and assaulted him, leaving him for dead. A fight ensued between the carbineers and the populace, during which seven persons were killed and forty severely wounded.

—So many towns and villages in Western Russia, whose population is principally Jewish, have recently been burned that there is strong suspicion of systematic incendiarism. Up to the end of June sixteen towns and villages were burned. Since then fresh fires have occurred. The two most terrible were at Korez and Minsk. From ten to twenty houses and shops were destroyed at Korez, and thirty-five persons were killed. The bulk of the survivors were rendered destitute.