News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 9, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 6.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—Guiteau is sentenced to be hung, June 30.

—The mint coinage for December was $10,450,000.

—A fire in a wholesale paint store in Chicago, on the 3d, caused a loss of $250,000.

—It is said that $40,000 worth of spruce chewing gum is gathered in Maine every year.

—Baldwin, the New Jersey bank defaulter, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for fifteen years.

—A mother and her two children were burned to death in their residence, at Walla Walla, W. T., February 2.

—The Jefferson school building at Washington, D. C., the finest in the city, was burned February 4. Loss, $135,000.

—Two men stopped the stage near Sonora, Cal., on the 3d, and took $286 from the express box. There were no passengers.

—There is a free library in the city of Tokio, which contains 80,000 volumes, of which 15,000 are in the European languages.

—Three flour-mills were burned at Lockport, N. Y., on the 1st. Loss $100,000. Several firemen were injured and one killed.

—A little boy at Livermore, Cal., was fatally shot by his sister, February 5, by the accidental discharge of a gun that was supposed to be unloaded.

—A woman in Philadelphia sued a street Railroad Company for damages for injuries received from standing in an over-crowded car, and was awarded $12,000.

—The Governor of Michigan has been petitioned to call an extra session of the Legislature, to provide relief for the people of the burned district. Sickness is increasing among the destitute.

—It is stated that the amount of gold which will be exported from this country as a result of the financial troubles in foreign markets, is variously estimated at from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000.

—All attempts to bolster up the Union Generale Bank in Paris, failed, and it has entirely suspended payment. The cause of the failure is speculation. The President and several of the directors have been arrested.

—Severe snow-storms are reported in the East, hindering travel. In some places the snow is three feet deep on a level. The weight of snow has crushed the roofs of buildings, causing serious damage in some cases.

—The Supreme Educational Council of Spain has given its consent to the education of women. This is a long step in advance, for there is no other country where the education of all classes is so sorely neglected.

—The chief of the fire department of San Francisco has had a large canvas with handles on all sides placed upon each wagon of the fire patrol, to be used for the purpose of catching any one who may jump from a burning building.

—The ordinance making it a misdemeanor for any person to keep or maintain, or become an inmate of, or a visitor to, any place for the practice of gambling, in San Francisco, has been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court.

—By an explosion in a coal-mine in Chesterfield County, Virginia, February 3, thirty-two men were imprisoned and suffocated. The bodies have not yet been recovered. Twenty-seven of the men were married and had large families.

—The case of the proprietors of the Oakland Opera Garden, for keeping open on Sunday, is now before the Court. The difficulty as was predicted, is in obtaining a jury. At present writing, two days have been consumed, and only seven jurors have been obtained.

—Some fellow having the instincts of a ghoul, has proposed to preserve Guiteau's corpse after his execution, and exhibit it through the country. Scoville favors it, as he hopes thereby to be paid for his trouble. Of course such an exhibition will not be allowed, and the assassin's name and carcass will perish together.

—On the morning of the 31st ult., a fire broke out in Printing-house Square, New York, doing immense damage. The office of the New York Observer was destroyed, and the foreman was lost. The Times office was nearly destroyed, and several other newspaper offices, advertising agencies, etc., were damaged. Total loss, about $1,000,000. Several lives were lost.

—The Christian Statesman quotes some paragraphs concerning the advances made in discovering the origin of certain diseases, thus making it easier to guard against them, and blasphemously remarks: "In these facts we see part of that victory over death, which the Son of man achieved for mankind, and of which a redeemed and purified world will one day be in full possession." That paper will soon have no use for the Bible. It proposes to make men Christians by legislation, and give them admission to Heaven by means of the scalpel and the microscope.

—A singular case of infatuation has just come to light in San Francisco. Miss Willis, who has been for some time engaged to some extent in visiting the prisoners in the jails, has married George C. Gottung, who has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, for the murder of his wife. The ceremony was performed in his cell, within an hour after he had received his sentence. This is a natural result of the petting which murderers receive from silly women, and others idiotically inclined. Their affection is always expended on the worst criminals. Such murderous wretches should be rigidly kept from public gaze, and if they desire spiritual consolation, let them receive it from the properly-appointed ministers of the gospel.