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

Items of News.

—The school authorities of Washington, D. C., have refused to admit colored pupils to the schools for white children. —It is stated by good authority that $16,000,000 are paid out annually in Chicago for liquor, and there are 5,000 saloons. —A Swedish mail steamer sunk recently in Calmor Sound, Sweden, while on a trial trip. Fifteen persons were drowned. —The ignition of a dry Christmas tree in a house in New York caused the destruction of twenty oil paintings valued at $10,000. —Great excitement prevails at El Paso, A. T., and neighboring villages, small-pox having broken out. Fifteen cases are reported. —It is reported that cold weather prevails on the Sahara Desert, and that hundreds of camels and many soldiers have perished in consequence. —Advices from Tabrez, Persia, state that the Russian garrison at Askabad has been increased to 8,000 men, and the outposts are advanced forty miles eastward. —A fire in Galveston, Texas, the 13th, destroyed property to the extent of a million dollars. The county library and the libraries of the Judges of the Supreme Court were burned. —The latest advices from Venezuela are that a revolutionary conspiracy has been discovered. A strong guard surrounds the house of the President, who has 10,000 men at his disposal. —The Czar has signed a ukase, in accordance with which payments by peasants on account of lands they received at the time of their emancipation will be reduced by 12,000,000 roubles a year. —In Ventura County, Cal., considerable damage to property has been done by the recent gales. Eleven barns, two dwellings, and a great number of other buildings, fences, windmills, etc., have been destroyed. —The outrages committed in Ireland in December, numbered 574. In Cork, recently, the police discovered a case buried in the ground, which contained a large number of Snider rifles and a quantity of dynamite, gun cotton, and ammunition. —The largest steel sailing ship afloat, registering 2,220 tons, has just been launched at Belfast, Ireland, from the yard of Ismay, Imray & Co., managers of the White Star Line. It is named Garfield, and will be employed in the Australia and California trade. —The California Powder Works at Pinole Station, Contra Costa Co., eighteen miles from Oakland, were blown up on the 11th. Two men were killed and several injured. All the buildings in Oakland were shaken by the explosion as though by an earthquake. —Quite an excitement prevails in Germany over the Emperor's edict. The Allegemeine Zeitung has been seized for calling it a coup d'etat. Other papers have been suppressed. It is stated that the Emperor has decided to proclaim Crown Prince Frederick William Regent, on the 22d of March next. —The steam-ship Lion was lost at sea, recently, on a trip from St. Johns to Trinity Bay, N. F. Forty-three persons were on board, of whom eighteen were passengers. No one can account for the loss as the time necessary for the trip was only eight hours, and there was no storm. No survivors remain to throw light on the mystery. —Quite extensive damage was done in different parts of the country on the 10th inst., by fires. At Denver, Col., a fire destroyed $200,000 worth of property and caused the death of two persons; two children were burned to death in a house at Knife Falls, Minn., and Los Angeles, Cal., was visited by the most destructive fire ever known there. —The weather in California last week was what might be termed phenomenal. A cold, northwest wind swept over the State, having its usual drying effect. Wheat has been injured considerably. In the southern counties the cold was very severe. In San Bernardino snow fell to a reported depth of eight inches. More than a few scattering flakes were never seen there before. In other places considerable snow fell. —January 13, a terrible accident happened on the New York Central Railroad, near New York. The express train from Chicago, heavily loaded, having eight palace coaches, was run into by a special train. Two palace cars were telescoped and burned. Eight persons were killed, and very many injured. Senator Webster Wagner, proprietor of the Wagner Palace Cars, was one of those burned to death. The accident is charged to the carelessness of a brakeman, who has been arrested. —In regard to the Campbell-Cannon contest for a seat in Congress as Delegate from Utah, it is thought that both will be rejected—Campbell because he was not elected, and Cannon because he is a polygamist. It is stated that no polygamist will hereafter be allowed a seat in Congress. This, although good in itself, will have no effect on the evil, for the Mormons can send a man to represent them who is not a polygamist, but who will work for their interests. Entire disenfranchisement of all who believe in or practice polygamy would doubtless be as effectual as anything. —The advocates of the Sunday law in California are beginning to move on the enemy's works. The proprietors of the Opera Garden in Oakland have been arrested for keeping open on Sunday night. A jury trial was demanded and the case is now in Court. The proprietors are members of the "League of Freedom," and a stubborn fight is expected. It is said that whichever way the case is decided it will be appealed. Twenty-three business men of San Leandro, Alameda Co., have been arrested for violation of the law. In Arcata, Humboldt Co., the saloon-keepers had formed a combination to fight the law, but after they had been arrested and convicted on four different charges, they gave it up and will close in future on Sunday.