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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 19, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 39.

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News and Notes.

— Forty towns in Connecticut voted “no license.”

— A shock of earthquake was felt at Montreal, October 10.

— The Egyptian Ministry have refused to allow Arabi English Counsel.

— A large gang of counterfeiters was arrested at Tipton, Indiana, the 12th inst.

— Hon. A. H. Stevens has been elected Governor of Georgia, by a large majority.

— The Hon. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, is working vigorously for prohibition in Indiana.

— Over 230,000 telephones are in use in the United States, and 5,000 are added every month.

— There are 900,000,000 acres of public land open to pre-emption, in the United States and Alaska.

— There are more miles of railroad in the United States than the whole of Europe, including the British Isles.

— A scheme of the Mormons to introduce Mormon text-books into the Utah public schools has been frustrated.

— Out of a total of 25,969 arrests in San Francisco during the present year, 19,500 have been for drunkenness.

— Diphtheria is epidemic in Pittsylvania County, West Virginia. Nearly 200 deaths have occurred within sixty days.

— It is said that opium-smoking is now indulged in to a great extent, both publicly and privately, in Washington, D. C.

— Cuba was visited by a cyclone on the 12th inst. Over a thousand houses were destroyed, and many lives were lost.

— Ohio went Democratic in the recent election by a large majority. The result is due mainly to the influence of the whisky element.

— The new steam-ship, Belgian, four thousand tons burden, built at Aberdeen for the American trade, was totally wrecked on her trial trip.

— The sum of 25,000 francs has been offered to the French Academy of Medicine, to found a prize for the discovery of a cure for diphtheria.

— A plot to burn the Imperial Theater at Riga has been discovered. Sixty boxes of petroleum and gunpowder were found on the premises.

— The Sultan is greatly exasperated at England’s reply to the note in regard to the evacuation of Egypt. The sick man can do nothing but growl.

— The California Grand Lodge of Good Templars has adopted a resolution heartily approving the Prohibition Home Protection Party of California.

— Enough of the business of the Post-office Department has been tabulated for the annual report, to show that there will be a surplus of $1,500,000. This is the first gain since 1862.

— Several officers of the ship Harvester have been tried at Seattle, W. T., and found guilty of brutally assaulting seamen under their charge. Such offenses are becoming too common.

— A list of the landed proprietors who were in the rebellion is in the hands of the Egyptian Ministry. It is believed that their property, amounting to $10,000,000, will be confiscated.

— Owing to the alarming increase of pauperism in the south of Ireland, the Dublin Union has taken the lead in a proposal to send 1,000 able-bodied men and women to Canada, at a cost of £7,000.

— On September 7, the day of the earthquake at Panama, there were four tidal waves which overwhelmed six or seven little villages on an island and the mainland, and drowned seventy persons.

— On the 16th ult., a tidal wave invaded the mouth of the river Ozama, San Domingo, three times. Vessels parted their chains, some striking bottom. At Guayabin, the same day, the sea receded twenty feet.

— Mr. John Adams has patented a ship-brake, for stopping ships at sea, and preventing collisions. It was tried on a large steamer in Boston harbor, and every time it was applied, the ship was stopped before she had drifted her length.

— Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, has decided that the Act of 1794, inflicting a penalty for engaging in worldly employment on Sunday, is valid. The point was raised by a number of barbers, arrested and fined for shaving customers on Sunday.

— On the morning of the 5th inst., it was discovered that the nucleus of the comet had separated into three unequal fragments. The space between the fragments is estimated to be 2,000 miles; but there is no perceptible difference in the appearance of the comet to the naked eye.

— An Eastern paper notes the fact that two wind-mills of large pumping capacity were recently shipped from New York to Cuba, and says: “It is surprising that more wind-mills are not used in this country.” The editor has evidently never visited California, nor read “Between the Gates.”

— A “traveler” from Maine reports that he saw two men drink whisky from a bottle, and forthwith the information is sent to all parts of the country that “prohibition in Maine is a failure.” And in the face of all this testimony there are States presumptuous enough to enact prohibitory laws.

— Near Los Angeles, Cal., four young persons, two of them, young women, were returning home from a party, and fired several shots into a Chinaman’s cabin, “just to have a little fun.” As a result of this “fun” two Chinaman were killed. With unconscious irony the paper states that the young persons are all highly respectable.

— The French officials employed in Egypt before the war are returning in great numbers, and demanding to be re-instated. It is stated that their course causes “friction.” This was to be expected; but it is not probable England will allow France to come in on an equal footing with her since the burden of the war was borne by England alone.

— Mr. Mulhall, the English statistician, says that the United States has become, in its first hundred years of existence, the richest country in the world. He places our possessions at $50,000,000,000; England comes next with $44,100,000,000; and France is third in rank, with $37,200,000,000. Has not the prophecy which speaks of this country as “coming up,” been amply fulfilled?

— A young American teacher in Panama, writing to friends in Philadelphia about the recent earthquakes at the Isthmus, says: “The panic in the city was wonderful. Nearly every family who have a place to go to have left the city and are pitching tents out on the savannas. At least 1,000 people are encamped. All in the house sleep with their stockings on, their slippers close beside them, and their clothes in a bundle where they can grasp them and run. Imagine what a condition this is to be living in! What renders it doubly severe is that we know not what to expect; no one has any theory by which to explain the disturbance. You have read of the earthquakes, but no word of tongue or pen can describe their horrors, even in this mild form. The greatest consternation prevails everywhere.”