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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 27, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 40.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-The Michigan relief fund in New York, amounts to $110, 353.
-Charles Davis, the boy who fatally stabbed a Chinaman at Tulare, has been sentenced to six years in the State Prison.
-Four hundred mormons are to arrive in New York by the steamer Wisconsin.
-The steamer Clan MacDuff foundered off the Welsh coast, recently. Forty lives were lost.
-The first term of the Woman's Medical College in San Francisco will open November 15.
-Steps have been taken in San Francisco toward starting a cremation society.
-An attempt was made in New York recently, to burn the Cunard steamer Bothnia.
-Ex-Governor Edwin D. Morgan of New York succeeds Windom as Secretary of the Treasury.
-John Buchanan, the dealer in bogus diplomas, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment, and a fine of $1000.
-J. G. Holland, the author and poet, died very suddenly at his home in New York, on the 12th, aged 62 years.
-The immigrants arriving in the United States during September, numbered 57,452, against 54,874 for September, 1880.
-In consequence of the unprecedented drought, the water supply of New York is in danger of being cut off. Very much alarm is felt in the city.
-The seventy-second annual meeting of the American Board of Foreign Missions was held in St. Louis last week. Over 500 delegates were present.
-The Catholics of Oakland held a church fair recently in which "comic songs, clog dances, and everything calculated to create amusement," were furnished to the patrons.
-An explosion of petroleum occurred on the 4th, on board the Italian brigantine Armenia, bound from Barcelona for Marseilles. The vessel sunk and eight persons were drowned.
-An Austrian family by the name of Jelletich, consisting of father, mother, and two children were burned to death in their house, near Jackson, Amador Co., Cal., October 20.
-A terrible inundation has devastated the communes of Settirno and San Petro, Italy. Fifty-four houses have been destroyed and four lives lost. The losses of cattle and grain are enormous.
-A terrible hurricane, accompanied by a flood, visited Mazatlan Mexico recently. Crops were entirely ruined for 100 miles in the interior, and over 100 persons are supposed to have perished.
-Thirteen students were recently suspended from the California State University, for "hazing." The Faculty decided that hereafter all students found guilty of this offense, should be expelled.
-Scoville, Guiteau's counsel, is evidently more insane than his miserable client. He imagines that people of "high reputation, and well-known charity," will contribute to save the assassin's life.
-Fever is epidemic at Umritisir, in the Punjab, Hindostan. The mortality is from 200 to 300 daily. The total deaths for the eleven days which ended October 1, is 2,265, of whom 1,138 were children.
-Peter Cooper, although ninety-one years of age, is actively engaged in the establishment of a technical school at Cooper Institute, New York, in which to teach young men and boys the use of tools and machinery.
-A dispatch from Burlington, Iowa, October 24 says: "The river is the highest ever known here, even higher than last spring, and is still rising." A break in the levee below Hannibal, Mo., has caused much damage.
-In a recent gale off the English coast, it is estimated that 43,670 tons of produce were lost at sea. The emigrant ship Thinguall, with 500 people on board, has not been heard from since the gale, and it is feared that she is lost.
-As the ship Friedeburg was unloading a cargo of railroad iron at Long Wharf, Oakland, three rails fell vertically into the hold, making a hole in the ship's bottom, which caused it to sink immediately in twenty-five feet of water.
-The present condition of Ireland is simply one of anarchy. Riots are the order of the day. "No rent" cards are conspicuously displayed. The arrest of the most prominent land-leaguers seems only to augment the difficulty.
-One thousand two hundred employes of the Old Colony Railroad have been examined for color blindness, in compliance with the new Massachusetts law, and forty engineers, firemen, conductors, and others have been dismissed as having defective sight.
-Designs have been made by a Swedish naval architect, for a new kind of passenger steamer, which shall make the trip across the Atlantic in six days. It is intended to carry 600 first class, and 1,500 second and third class passengers, and 3,000 tons of cargo, besides 3,200 tons of coal, the amount necessary for the voyage.
-A serious fire occurred in New York on the 10th inst. The Fourth avenue car stables, occupying an entire block, were burned, together with a large number of horses. The loss on this was $200,000. The flames then spread to Morrill's furniture ware-house, in which were stored $2,000,000 worth of property. This was entirely demolished.
-The pastor of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Pittsburg, announces that he will refuse absolution to any parent or guardian who sends children to the public instead of the parochial schools. A member declares that, in case of the priest's refusal to spiritually minister to his family in the manner prescribed by the usages of the Church, recourse will be had to the civil law.
-In Waldeck, a province of Germany, a decree has been issued that no license to marry will hereafter be granted to any individual who is addicted to drunkenness; or, having been so, he must exhibit full proofs that he is no longer a slave to the vice. The same government has also directed that in every report made by the ecclesiastical, municipal, and police authorities upon petition for license to marry, the report shall distinctly state whether either of the parties desirous of entering into the matrimonial connection is addicted to intemperance or otherwise.