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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 48.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-Severe storms of wind and rain have been raging again in England.
-Twenty-five thousand persons are employed in manufacturing tobacco in New York.
-Ex-Senator Frelinghuysen of New York has been nominated and confirmed as Secretary of State.
-Benjamin H. Brewster of Philadelphia has been confirmed as Attorney General of the United States.
-One gentleman of Vienna has contributed $62,500 to the fund for the relief of the sufferers by the theater fire.
-Quite recently $10,500 were sent to Ireland from Chicago as her first contribution to the Anti-Coercion Fund.
-Among the Indians in the Indian Territory there are ninety Baptist churches, and nearly six thousand church members.
-The dams near Algiers, on the line of the railway, have burst and the tracks are flooded. Fifty-four persons were drowned.
-It is said that in one square mile in London, where the poorest people congregate, over $2,000,000 a year is spent in strong drink.
-Fowler's Steam Plow Works at Leeds, England, were burned recently. The loss is £60,000. Three hundred persons are out of employment.
-Within eleven months permits have been given in New York for nearly 4,000 structures, which cost in the aggregate about $43,000,000.
-Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, well known in connection with Arctic exploration, died Dec. 17. His first exploring voyage was in 1853, under Dr. Kane.
-The number of wrecks reported by the English Lloyds from January 1 to November 1, was 883. The estimated loss to commerce is $650,000,000.
-Another mine association plot has been discovered at the Russian Imperial Palace at Gatchina. Several persons were arrested, and a large quantity of bombs were seized.
-A cargo of 116 tons of beef and mutton was recently received in London, from Sydney, Australia. The meat was shipped in a frozen state, and was as fresh on its arrival as when shipped.
-A dispatch from Dublin says that the reluctance to pay rent is more extensive and truculent than usual, and that there is good reason to believe that the Land League is as flourishing as ever.
-The correct list of the victims of the Vienna fire has been issued by the police. It puts the number at 794. This catastrophe has served to materially diminish the attendance at theaters at present.
-There is now a firm conviction at Constantinople, that an offensive and defensive alliance will shortly be concluded with Germany, that State having the commanding political influence that England once possessed.
-Near Bradford, Pa., recently, an explosion occurred in a magazine containing 1,300 pounds of nitro-glycerine. The magazine was in the woods, and no damage was done except that for a radius of two acres, the trees were stripped.
-A New York dispatch says the Southern Pacific Railroad Company is making arrangements for a very heavy traffic. It expects to convey wheat from San Francisco to Liverpool in 33 days, as against 150 days by the Cape Horn route.
-The Hongkong Press says: It has been reported to us from Peking that the Hon. James B. Angell, before he left China, had succeeded in obtaining the permission of the Government to lay an American cable between this country and the United States.
-A special dispatch from London says: Reports are just received of a terrible typhoon which visited the country around Harfong and Fermony, in China, raising the waters of the sea and driving them inland four miles. One town was entirely submerged and swept away, with all its inhabitants, numbering 3,000.
-The Supreme Court, of California, holds that it is the duty of a landlord to repair the leased premises on notice by the tenant, and if he does not perform this duty he can be compelled to pay by deduction from the rent, to the extent of a month's rental, or, at the option of the tenant, the term be concluded without redress to the landlord.
-The American Book Exchange, which reprinted foreign works and standard home books unprotected by copyright at an exceedingly low price, no longer exists. The margin over actual cost of production, which includes no authors' percentage, was too small to compensate for the dead stock, which is the necessary accompaniment of the book trade.
-A London telegram says: There is intense excitement in Europe regarding the activity manifested by France in increasing its armament. France has just ordered 900 new cannon of Hotchkiss, the American armorer, for the French Navy, and other purposes. The French have requested Hotchkiss to double the capacity of his works at St. Denis. The Germans are making several hundred new cannon at Magdeburg. The French are building several new ironclads. Heavy special appropriations for ordnance have just passed the French Chambers.
-The electric railway in Paris has been so successful that it has found capitalists who are ready to support a scheme for its permanent establishment, and arrangements have been made for an elevated electric railway around the city. The proposed railway is to be about fifteen feet wide, carried on pillars 130 feet to 160 feet apart, which would occupy but a comparatively small proportion of the total width of the boulevards. The proposed gauge is four feet, and there are to be stations at intervals of 400 yards, so arranged that an intending passenger would not have to traverse more than 200 yards to reach a station.
-In a recent speech at Leeds, Henry Richard said that the war with Afghanistan cost the British taxpayers $120,000,000. Careful statisticians on the continent estimate the cost of the six great wars amongst the nations of Christendom, within the last twenty-five years, at $15,000,000,000, to say nothing of the 2,000,000 of men whose lives were a part of the price. It is also computed that there are now in Europe nearly 13,000,000 of trained soldiers, and that between four and five millions of these are actually under arms every day, and costing altogether something like $2,500,000,000 per year. These figures are reached without making any allowance for the cost of ammunition, arms, etc., and ironclads. The cost of one of the latter in these days would start five and twenty large factories. Nor is anything added for the enormous loss of the productive labor of all these millions of able-bodied men.—Alta.