News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 8, 1882

News and Notes.

By Editor

The town of Willows, Colusa County, Cal., was almost entirely destroyed by fire, May 30.

Mr. James Vick, the well-known seedsman of Rochester, N. Y., died of pneumonia, May 16, aged sixty-four years.

It is stated that owing to the strict enforcement of the gambling law in St. Louis, the gamblers of that city are flocking to Chicago.

At the recent matriculation examination of the Calcutta University, eight women passed successfully, six of whom were natives of India.

Six attempts were made to burn the city of Vallejo, Cal., on the night of the 2nd inst. The fires were discovered in time to prevent much damage.

The estimated reduction of the public debt for May is $10,000,000. The amount is less than usual, owing to the heavy pension payments during the month.

For lighting the new residence of W. H. Vanderbilt, in New York, it is stated that there are 2,000 gas-burners, supplied by about 15,000 feet, or nearly three miles of pipe.

A saloon-keeper at Hutchinson, Kan., was convicted under the prohibition law, June 3, and fined and sent to jail. This is the ninth successful prosecution in Reno County.

The office of the Southern Baptist, at Meriden, Miss., has been destroyed by fire a second time. The books were saved, but the type, furniture, and all stock was destroyed.

General Garabaldi died June 2, at his home in Caprera, Italy. He was seventy-five years old, and had been very feeble for a long time, but the immediate cause of his death was bronchitis.

The Andre monument, erected by Cyrus Field, at Tappan, N. Y., has given way under the repeated attacks made upon it by defacers and relic hunters, and has fallen over on one side.

The Chicago Journal of Commerce says that enough wooden shoes are worn to keep a large factory going at Green Bay, Wis. They are cut out of green bass-wood, smoked and dried like hams, and sold at thirty-five cents a pair.

Seven saloon-keepers of Elgin, Ill., have been fined to the amount of $2,804 damages, in behalf of Mrs. Sarah Naughton, for the death of her husband at the Fox River depot, while attempting to board a train when intoxicated. This is right. Let the responsibility of deaths by whisky rest where it belongs.

Frank James, the brother of the notorious Jesse, and his associate in crime, is now negotiating for pardon for his past offenses before he commits any more. The future course of the family is indicated by the grave assurance that his five-year-old son is "a remarkably good shot with a revolver."

May 31, the pump-column of the Alta mine, at Virginia City, Nev., broke, flooding the drift where the miners were at work. Seven men were thus imprisoned by the hot water. After three days' imprisonment they were all rescued, but two men who went to their relief in a boat, were killed by the foul air.

A manifesto has been issued stating that the Czar desires to celebrate his coronation by granting reforms, but is compelled to postpone the ceremony for a year, because of the impossibility of completing preparations earlier. He evidently considers that it is better to be a live emperor uncrowned, than to be crowned and die.

Extensive strikes are now the order of the day in the East. Dispatches of June 1, stated that in Cincinnati all the mills but three had closed, and 15,000 men were out of employment. In Pittsburg, all the mills had shut down. In Wheeling, W. Va., all the nail mills stopped work, intending to remain closed until the situation radically changed.

Curtis, second mate of the ship Gatherer, has been convicted of brutality to seamen and sentenced to State Prison for six years. In the case of the captain, the jury disagreed twice, and he was discharged, although he was clearly responsible. The Judge, in discharging the prisoner, said that the inability to convict was owing to a defect in the law, which ought to be amended.

The records of the Police Department disclose 195 cases reported as missing or having run away, forty-five of whom were afterward found. Fully one-half of this number were boys and girls who, having drunk in the inspiration derived from dime novels and other productions of that character, ran away from home to seek fame and fortune.—Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Review.

The tract of land in Dakota known as the "Turtle Mound" district, which has been closed hitherto by the claim of wandering bands of Chippewa Indians, has been opened to settlers, Secretary Teller having decided that the Indians' claim to it was invalid. The tract comprises 9,000,000 acres of the finest land in Dakota, and will doubtless cause an increased immigration to that Territory.

Bishop Gilmore has written a letter to be read in the Catholic Churches of his diocese in Massachusetts, excommunicating any Catholic who shall hereafter attend any meeting of the Ladies' Branch of the Land League, or become a member thereof. The Bishop denounces the League as calculated to make brawling politicians of women, and membership as incompatible with womanly modesty.

Dr. Wm. S. King, Surgeon United States Army, claims that the frequent movement of railway trains tends to diminish or prevent malarial diseases in localities where all the necessary conditions for the development of malarial effects seem to be present. His theory is that the heated locomotives, by continually passing through the infected districts, rarefy the air, and create a constant atmospheric disturbance, by inducing warm upward currents, such currents acting with the pure air which rushes in from all directions, as agents in the dispersion or annihilation of the miasmatic influence.