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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 30, 1867

Items.

—At a recent trial at Fort Hamilton, in New York harbor, a shot weighing 1,080 pounds was fired from a 20 inch gun to a distance of four miles.

—The “Gentile” Sunday School at Salt Lake City is still flourishing, and has 125 children from all religious denominations, even Mormons. The saints are moving to establish opposition schools.

—Sixteen murders have been committed in Jackson Co., Ind., in the past two weeks, most of them shockingly cold-blooded and premeditated. The number of rapes, robberies, arsons, and other crimes are too numerous to mention.

—Bees are destroying thousands of the fruit and grape buds in New Albany, Ind., by stinging and killing them. Fruit growers say that the depredation of these busy insects are so formidable as to endanger the entire peach and grain crop.

—Accounts from Rio Janeiro state that between the 7th and 14th of March, 143 deaths from cholera occurred in a little town of Rio Grande do Sul, the population of which is about 3,600.

—A telegram received here April 23, by Atlantic cable, has the following significant paragraphs: “Peace is despaired of.—There is a tendency to a panic.—Prussia is quietly arming.”