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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 41.

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—The will of the late Samuel J. Tilden is to be contested.

—Alcohol is now manufactured in the Azores from sweet potatoes.

—A fire in the Ohio State Prison, on the 20th inst., caused a loss of $40,000.

—October 17 was the 350th anniversary of the martyrdom of William Tyndale.

—Senator Edmunds of Vermont has been re-elected to the United States Senate.

—Prince Alexander declines to be a candidate for re-election to the Bulgarian throne.

—October 23, the business portion of the town of Farmington, Maine, was almost totally destroyed by fire.

—October 22, Summerville, S. C., was visited by quite a severe earthquake which wrecked over seventy chimneys.

—It is stated that during the last two months, no less than 40,000 persons have died in Corea from contagious diseases.

—The great object glasses for the Lick telescope have at last been completed without accident, and are ready for delivery.

—King Otto of Bavaria, like Ludwig, his predecessor, is a lunatic, and becoming worse. He insists on remaining in solitude.

—It is now stated that Russia, Turkey, and France are entirely agreed that the British occupation of Egypt must cease.

—It is said that in 1840 only seven occupations were open to women in the United States; now there are more than three hundred.

—Major-General Macpherson, commander of the British army of occupation in Burmah, died recently of fever, after but two days’ illness.

—Within the last nine months no less than $83,000,000 has been invested in manufacturing and mining enterprises in the Southern States.

—The Czar of Russia is said to have a most violent temper. Only a few days since, while in one of his fits of anger he murdered his chamberlain.

—For several years past the loss by fire in the month of August has averaged about $7,000,000; but this year it was nearly double that amount.

—The next Italian budget will contain a credit of 250,000 lire for changing rifles, completing forts, and providing for an additional squadron of cavalry.

—Geronimo and his band are to be confined at Fort Pickens, Fla., till further orders from the War Department. The women and children will be sent to Fort Marion.

—The total loss by fire in the United States and Canada for the first eight months of this year amounted to $76,500,000, as against $65,500,000 for the corresponding time last year.

—Cholera is subsiding in Japan; but small-pox is reported to have broken out in Okinawa-ken, and 257 persons are said to have been attacked by the disease from August 24 to September 13, of whom forty-four died.

—The General Assembly of the Knights of Labor, which has for some time been in session at Richmond, Va., adjourned October 20. A resolution appealing for mercy for the condemned Anarchists at Chicago, was passed.

—So far this year, New England fishermen have suffered the loss of twenty-seven vessels valued at $173,000. One hundred and sixteen men have also been lost; twenty-eight women have been made widows, and fifty-six children rendered fatherless.

—Cold weather prevailed along the Hudson River on the 17th and 18th inst. The thermometer registered from 20° to 27° above zero. Nearly all the outstanding fruit was killed in many localities. It is estimated that nearly a thousand Concord grapevines were frozen in Ulster County alone.

—During a recent conflagration in the town of Eastport, Maine, gangs of smugglers from the islands on the Canadian side of the Passamaquoddy, deserted their regular business, and set sail in their boats for the doomed town, where they broke open stores and storehouses, and helped themselves to the most valuable merchandise, which they conveyed to some of the adjacent islands. This continued throughout the second day of the fire. The Police Department and the Fire Department were powerless; but the thieves were finally driven off by some of the citizens, and their return was prevented by the arrival of a revenue cutter.