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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 11, 1866

Items.

The Republican Majorities.—Gov. Fenton’s majority in New York is in the immediate neighborhood of 15,000. In the six Western States the Republican gain at the late election was 60,000 over 1864. The States were Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas.

Europe—an Alliance.—In spite of the many denials, rumors of a Prusso-Russian alliance continue to prevail. It is even said that the treaty provides for the admission of the United States into the alliance, with a sovereign establishment in the Mediterranean Sea, and guarantees that nation highly favorable commercial advantages.

The new railroad depot at Cleveland, the largest in the world, was opened on the 10th. It is 603 feet in length and 180 in breadth, covering an area of more than two and a half acres. It is built of sandstone. Over the main entrance is a massive tower 96 feet in hight. Six elegant chandeliers will light the apartment at night.

A pew in one of the Boston churches was recently sold for $5,400.

One hoop-skirt factory in New York employs seventeen hundred persons, and uses three tons of steel daily in the production of hoop skirts.

The Tennessee House of Representatives has killed a bill to establish free schools. We are sorry for the 78,000 white adults in that State who cannot read or write. A little learning is a dangerous thing to legislators, and these seem to have just enough education to want to keep the people in ignorance.

The bill, making habitual drunkenness a sufficient cause for divorce, has passed the Vermont Legislature, 13 to 11, with an amendment requiring that the drunkenness must be of two years’ duration, previous to the finding of the libel.

One large operator in pork, and two small pork houses in New York have failed, and many others are expected to go under before the present panic in the market has abated.

There were 547 deaths from cholera in Chicago during the month of October.

The Catholics, it is said, are taking the lead in educational matters in the District of Columbia.

President Johnson has placed his youngest son at the Jesuit’s College, Georgetown, D. C., to be educated.

NEARLY 2000 Germans leave Europe every week for the United States, in the Bremen and Hamburg mail steamers. A company is established at Copenhagen, to encourage the emigration of Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes to the United States.

“THE annual consumption of tobacco is two million tons.”

Truths.

HEAVEN is worth living for; else were life’s burden Too hard to be borne, with no hope from the sky; Tears lose their bitterness; earth’s weary-laden Aloft from the dust build their eyes on high.

Heaven is worth working for—working like freemen— Not toiling like slaves ’neath a tropical sun— With head, heart, and hands, like the homeward-bound seamen, Whose toils are made light by the goal to be won.

Heaven is worth fighting for—fighting like brave men; There are foes all around us, beneath and within; But Christ, our great Captain, who knows how to save men, Will make us the victors o’er Satan and sin.

Heaven is worth praying for—praying like Stephen, Who caught a sweet glimpse of its glories while here. In telegraph message to us it is given To speak to our Saviour until he appear.

Heaven is worth waiting for; patient endurance, The mark of God’s children, the test of his own; ’Tis this quiet angel that whispers assurance That God is our Father, through Jesus his Son.