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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 5, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 38.

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News and Notes.

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-News from Pensacola, Florida, state that the yellow fever is still on the increase.
-The coinage at the San Francisco Mint for the month of September was $4,000,000.
-The reduction of the national debt during the month of September was about $16,000,000.
-The Emperor of Austria has contributed 100,000 florins for the relief of the sufferers by the floods in the Tyrol.
-The immense sugar refinery of Harrison, Havemeyer & Co. at Philadelphia, was burned on the 25th ult. Loss, $1,000,000.
-Judge Folger, Secretary of the Treasury, has been nominated by the Republicans of New York, for Governor of that State.
-Small-pox is raging at Cape Town, South Africa. There have been over 2,000 cases, mostly natives. Of these, 600 have proved fatal.
-There is evidence of cholera in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. In Axtla, with a population of 5,000, there were twenty-eight deaths in one day.
-Miss Frances E. Willard, President of the National W. C. T. U. has promised to come to California next spring, to labor in the temperance cause.
-The New Orleans Times-Democrat estimates that the flood of 1882 costs the Southwest over $26,000,000, of which $15,000,000 fell to Louisiana's share.
-It is estimated that the corn crop of Texas will reach 170,000,000 bushels. The value of the State's agricultural products is placed at $100,000,000.
-Dr. R. H. Mc Donald, President of the Pacific Bank, San Francisco, was nominated for Governor of California, by the newly-organized Prohibition Home Protection Party.
-Earthquakes have continued in Panama since the 7th ult. The losses at Panama amount to $250,000; at Aspinwall they amount to $1,000,000. There have been four deaths.
-The boys of the Somerville Glass Works, Boston, struck for higher wages; but the Chief of Police threatened to make them go to school, and they at once resumed work.
-A law just passed in Denmark provides that all drunken persons shall be taken home in carriages at the expense of the landlord who sold them the last glass. Now, that is civilization.
-Eight of the principal lecturers of the Women's Suffrage Association are to lecture in Nebraska until the election. At that time a vote is to be taken on the Woman's Suffrage Amendment.
-One of the severest storms ever known in that place occurred at Red Bluff, Cal., October 1. Both the hail-storm and the heavy rain which followed, were accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning.
-In an interview between Said Pasha, the Turkish Prime Minister, and the Greek Minister, at Constantinople, the latter declared that Greece would not renounce an inch of territory ceded to her by the Porte.
-The Pennsylvania Railway Company is placing upon the engine of each of its trains a tin box containing bandages, lint, liniments, etc., which will be accessible to conductors and other train hands in case of accident.
-Dr. Norman Kerr, the medical temperance worker, estimates the annual mortality of the intemperate in Great Britain at 40,500, and the indirect mortality resulting from intemperance at double that number.
-Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, says that the prospects of the South as a manufacturing section are very flattering. About $2,000,000 are now invested in Tennessee in cotton factories, which are paying large profits.
-The Khedive will shortly issue a decree granting amnesty to all officers, from captains downward, engaged in the rebellion, except those who participated in the riots or joined the army since the beginning of the campaign.
-The Republicans of the Second Congressional District, Louisiana, succeeded in making their nominations only after a free fight, in which many were knocked down, pistols were drawn and fired, and the Sergeant-at-arms was fatally stabbed.
-Judge Jere Black has espoused the cause of the Mormons, and will present to the Secretary of the Interior an argument in favor of the removal of Governor Murray, of Utah, and also to prove that the Utah Commission is unconstitutional.
-A party of horsemen belonging to the French topographical expedition, was recently attacked by brigands near Tunis. The French commander was killed, and seven of his men disabled. The brigands lost thirty killed and fifty wounded.
-Two men in Virginia recently settled a long-standing feud under peculiar circumstances. While service was quietly progressing in the Baptist church, the people were startled by the sound of fire-arms. A panic ensued, in which many persons were injured, Both the men were killed.
-The Porte has addressed a note to the British Ambassador, demanding to know what steps are contemplated by his Government in regard to the withdrawal of the British troops from Egypt, as they are no longer needed in that country. It will doubtless be some time before the Porte receives an entirely satisfactory answer.
-The saloon-keepers of Union Grove, Wis., were greatly incensed against a minister because he stated in a prohibition convention that the business men of the place favored license. They claimed that such a statement gave their town a bad name. It is a good sign when rum-sellers begin to feel that their business is a disgrace.
-The Railroad Commissioners of California, at a recent meeting, passed a resolution fixing the maximum rate for transportion of passengers on all roads in this State at four cents per mile, and that in fixing the rate of fare for passengers, the distance shall be estimated at the nearest whole number of miles, and the charges shall be estimated at the nearest multiple of five cents.
-The system of selling goods on installments, with the proviso that the seller may seize the articles whenever a single payment has been neglected, and that without refunding anything, has received a blow in an English County Court. The Judge described the agreement in common use as most infamous, and ordered a nonsuit, declining to hear the plaintff's solicitor or to grant a case of appeal.
-One of the speakers in the economical section of the British Association, which recently met at Southamton, England, claimed that the stature of the various populations in the British Islands had been sensibly diminished by the use of tobacco. In the same section a warm discussion took place on the question of liquor licensing, and Professor Bourne claimed that an increase of duty on spirituous liquors was necessary, seeing that the greater part of the revenue derived from this source was expended directly in preventing, punishing, and repairing the evils which result from the liquor traffic.—S. S. Times.
-The Monitor (Catholic), on the 'End of the Egyptian Struggle,' says: 'Gladstone's oft-repeated promises, if they are fulfilled, will not satisfy the people of England, who have no desire to be taxed to carry on a fracas against a section of the Egyptian people for the mere glory of marching up the hill and down again. In the meantime, Russia is rapidly getting her munitions of war in handy places for ready use; France and Italy are burnishing their armor, and, if the 'signs of the times' point to anything, they demonstrate a determination among the European powers to prepare for a terrible conflict at no distant day, a war that will change the boundaries of some European countries, and make England sorry that she ever entered upon the Egyptian imbroglio.'
-An interesting case is under advisement by a San Francisco Court. The law makes it a crime to admit or permit a child under sixteen to enter or remain in a saloon or any place of entertainment where liquors are sold, exchanged, or given away. Three girls, from eight to twelve years of age, were sent to a saloon by their parents for beer, and were admitted and the beer sold to them. The defense is that the law does not apply to children sent by their parents on an errand. How the defendant manages to squeeze such an idea from the cold and dry letter of the law, or its evident spirit and purpose, either, is more than ordinary mortals can divine. It is difficult to see how parents can give permission for the violation of the law. It is a law for police regulation in society, and not for parents merely, who may or may not refuse to consent to its avoidance.—Record-Union.