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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 21.

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News and Notes.

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-Heavy forest fires are reported from Northern Michigan.
-A fire in Tombstone, A. T., May 26, destroyed upward of $350,000 worth of property.
-David Davis says he shall enforce the rule against selling liquors in the Senate Restaurant.
-The editor of a socialist paper in Vienna has been sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment at hard labor for treasonable utterances.
-The Chicago Tribune warns the Apaches not to go too far in their outrages, lest the country should suspect they are Princeton students in disguise.
-A heavy frost seriously damaged the corn, and killed most of the small fruit in northern Iowa, May 23. In several places there was also a heavy snowstorm at the same time.
-It is reported that $24,000,000 were spent in Philadelphia last year for spirituous liquors. This would be over $25 for every man, woman, and child. If this is true, there must be some enormous drinkers there.
-The large engine built by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, for use on the heavy grade in the Tehachapi Mountains will draw fourteen loaded freight-cars, whereas the ordinary engine will take only six.
-A Frenchman has recently designed a plan for establishing mid-ocean telegraph stations, by means of which vessels crossing the Atlantic can communicate directly with the main land. If practicable, it will be of great value.
-The Republique Francaise, Gambetta's paper, not only condemns Turkish intervention in Egypt as a blow at the French in Africa, but even points to the possibility of England, under a future Cabinet, swallowing Egypt as she did Cyprus.
-The Sultan has refused permission to the Russian and Roumanian Jews who are flying from persecution, to emigrate to Palestine, or to form permanent colonies there. Two hundred families are detained in Constantinople, and are in a starving condition.
-The Supreme Court of Missouri has declared the law making gambling a felony to be constitutional, and has issued a writ of mandamus to the criminal court, to try the gamblers indicted by the Grand Jury. There are already over 800 cases on the docket, against gamblers and lotteries.
-The Legislature of New York recently passed a bill giving to the defense the closing argument in all capital cases. Governor Cornell has vetoed it. He thinks that it increases the chances that the guilty will escape conviction, and that, for this reason, it is a step in the wrong direction.
-A short time ago, as the passengers who had smallpox were being removed from the Altonower to the hospital in San Francisco, one of the boats capsized, and twenty or thirty sick Chinamen were dumped into the bay, where they remained several minutes before they could be rescued. And now the papers are wondering because those who were treated to the bath are getting well faster than any of the rest.
-In the course of a trial in San Francisco, it appeared that a Chinaman had rented a single room, in a house which he leased, to seventeen other Chinamen, who occupied it nightly, at an expense of only twenty-five cents a month, each. The room, according to the Cubic Air ordinance was capable of accommodating only five persons. This is a sample of the reasons that enable this people to labor so much cheaper than white men.
-Gladstone has proposed an "Arrears of Rent" bill, which provides for the gift of one year's rent to every tenant whose rent is valued at and under £30, and who is in arrears, in consideration of the payment of a year's rent, and allows him to start in clear of debt. The whole amount thus to be given to the tenants would be about $50,000,000, and will favorably affect about 3,500,000 persons. And yet Parnell, who was instrumental in bringing this about, has been most bitterly denounced and deserted by most of his followers. The members of the Land League seem to love agitation merely for the sake of it, and at the expense of comfort.
-The Egyptian trouble is not yet settled, and the situation is considered alarming. Arabi Bey, the Minister of War, together with the rest of the Ministry, has resigned. He is determined to depose the Khedive, and his influence among the army is constantly increasing. The British and French consuls have notified him that they will hold him personally responsible for the maintenance of public security. On the 27th ult., the Khedive summoned the dignitaries, the Chief of the Deputies, and other Arabic nobility, also the officers of the army, and addressed them in energetic terms on the subject of the existing political situation. He explained the object of the English and French naval expedition, and announced that he has assumed the supreme command of the army, and resolved to maintain strict discipline. The officers present replied in insolent language, and declared that they would never accept the ultimatum of England or France, nor recognize the right of interference by any foreign power except Turkey. They then abruptly left the Khedive's presence. The Khedive afterward received a telegram from the military commanders at Alexandria, in which they declared that they would not recognize anybody but Arabi Bey, and demanded his immediate reinstatement.