News and Notes
4%Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1882
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 13.
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- After promises of clemency, Russia has resumed her severity on the Nihilists.
- The Levant Herald, an English daily newspaper, has been suppressed at Constantinople.
- The Proctor House on Kearsarge Mountain, N. H. has been burned. Loss, $75,000; no insurance.
- News from Dublin, Ireland, says: There can be little doubt that Fenianism is terribly rampant here.
- Paris despatches say: In a gale on the Algerian coast two barks were wrecked and fourteen persons drowned.
- The House Committee on Naval Affairs recommend an appropriation of $2,500,000 to complete unfinished monitors.
- Owing to a strike of 700 moulders at Troy, N. Y., nearly all the shops have closed, throwing 2,000 men out of work.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, America's great poet, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on the afternoon of March 24.
- Sixty houses and fifty outbuildings at Baeszenfa, and two hundred and forty-eight houses at Saks, Austria, were burned March 27.
- There was a thunder storm at Los Angeles, March 13, attended by a cloud-burst which filled a dry canyon to the depth of seventeen feet.
- It is thought that Sergeant Mason will be pardoned. The "sober second thought" is to the effect that the sentence is needlessly severe.
- The entire square of the business portion of McArthur, Ohio, was burned March 24, the fire starting from a defective flue. Loss, $200,000.
- A freight train on the Cumberland and Ohio broke through the bridge near Clifton Forge, killing the engineer and fireman and injuring several others.
- March 25, there was a sand-storm of unprecedented severity at Merced, Cal., in the San Joaquin Valley. The same day there was a thunder storm at Tucson, Arizona.
- The electors have taken a friendly suit against Bradlaugh to compel him to perform his parliamentary duties. It is hoped they may introduce the question and obtain a decision of the law court.
- A bill to grant money to Prince Leopold was opposed with considerable strength in Parliament. The English are losing their love of paying large sums to support a rich and numerous royal family.
- Cadet Whittaker, whose case at West Point made him famous, has been released from arrest, the verdict against him being set aside; he has also been dismissed from the Academy for deficiency in studies.
- Richard Smith's Temperance Convention at Columbus, O., passed resolutions urging the Legislature and Government to adopt the Smith amendment to regulate the sale of liquor and maintain the sanctity of the Sabbath.
- About 400 arrests were made in San Francisco on Monday for violations of the Sunday law. Nearly 800 had been arrested previously. There's fun ahead for the lawyers if a tithe of these cases ever come up for jury trial.
- The murdering of wives is becoming alarmingly frequent. We give no accounts of these crimes, too horrible to relate. The number might not be so large if the murderers were treated as criminals, instead of being lionized by silly women.
- The distress in the lower Mississippi country not only continues, as the waters are not abated, but is likely to increase, as the decaying carcasses of drowned animals and the miasma from the deluged districts will breed distempers as the water dries up.
- March 23, at Philadelphia, a tugboat exploded her boiler, killing four men. The captain was blown over the house tops into Water Street. Immediately a fire broke out which burned one tug, a railroad passenger and freight station, and many other buildings were injured.
- A very severe hailstorm visited Lexington, Ind., and Wheeling, W. Va., on the 27th. Also buildings were blown down at Evansburg and Pittsburg, Pa., the same day. Also near Macon, Ga., the same day, a tornado destroyed much property and injured many persons.
- An explosion of gas occurred in the Laurel Run mines, of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 25. James Williams, fire boss, William Scoville, William Ashford, and two unknown miners in the pit at the time are supposed to be all dead.
- The Anti-Chinese Bill passed the House by a heavy vote, 177 to 65. It has been claimed that large numbers of Chinese can be landed in San Francisco before the law takes effect, the Chronicle gives a list of the vessels in the China service and their capacity, showing that no more than 9,771 can possibly be landed within that time.
- Ireland is not quiet under the laws for her relief. There have been continual disturbances in Galway between the Eighty-eighth Regiment (the Connaught Rangers) and the Eighty-fourth, an English regiment. Recently the Connaughts, assisted by a mob, attacked the picket of the English, and cheered for Ireland. There were several bayonet wounds received on both sides.
- At Plattsburg, (N. Y.) March 25, the railroad house, freight and passenger depot of the Chateaugay Narrow-gauge Railroad was burned. Two locomotives, a passenger coach, and two freight cars were destroyed. The loss is $25,000. A boy named Lowell, twelve years old, was burned to death in the round-house. The station agent was dangerously burned by an explosion of a barrel of kerosene.