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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 13, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 15.

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-A Chinese lawyer is successfully practicing law in Paris.
-Work on the English Channel tunnel has been stopped.
-Over 10,000 immigrants arrived in New York, the 8th and 9th inst.
-Another dynamite mine has been discovered near Moscow, in time to prevent any injury.
-Eighteen feet and eight inches of snow fell at Emigrant Gap, on the C. P. R. R., last month.
-Senator Teller, of Colorado, has been confirmed as Secretary of State, in the place of Kirkwood.
-The Massachusetts Legislature has passed the bill permitting women to practice as attorneys-at-law.
-It is stated that forty per cent. of the cattle in Elko County, Nev., perished during the past winter.
-Judge Wylie has denied the motion to quash the Star route indictments, holding that they are good and sufficient.
-A murder at Park City, Utah, a few days ago, was said to be the seventeenth that has occurred in that town within four years.
-By the burning of a large jewelry establishment at North Attleboro, Mass., on the 5th, 250 jewelers were thrown out of work.
-A silver cup was recently presented by the citizens of El Paso, Texas, to a woman of that place, as a reward for having shot a Chinaman.
-The boiler of the river steamer, Belle A. Mac, exploded on the morning of the 8th, near La Crosse, Wis., killing four men, and seriously injuring several others.
-It is reported that the Peruvians lost 2,000 men in a recent engagement at Abacucho. The Peruvian commanders were taken prisoners, and it is expected that they will be shot.
-The Trinity (Cal.) Journal says that the Sunday Law is a dead letter in that county, as no one even made a pretense of observing it, and no steps have been taken to prosecute offenders.
-The school population of the State of Illinois is 1,010,851, and the amount expended upon the schools of that State last year, was $7,531,941, of which sum the teachers received $4,587,015.
-Attacks upon the Jews in southern Russia have commenced again. In one city, recently, the Jewish shops were set on fire with petroleum, and thirty shops and eighty houses were destroyed.
-The mail and passenger trains between Walla Walla and The Dalles were blockaded near Alkali, Or., for several days last week, by a heavy sandstorm, which covered the rails to a depth of six feet.
-The official returns of persons apprehended by the police in England and Wales during the official year, as confirmed drunkards, give the number at 37,940. Of these, 27,878 were males, and 10,062 females.
-An incendiary fire at Hopkinton, Mass., April 4th, destroyed property to the amount of $350,000. Thirteen dwellings, a Congregational Church, and a boot and shoe factory, employing 600 hands, were burned.
-Southern Michigan was visited by a severe storm, last week. Kalamazoo, Barry, and Eaton Counties, seem to have suffered the most severely. The damage to property is great, and some loss of life is reported.
-Reports of outrages and murders by the Land League in Ireland, are about as numerous as usual. It is stated that assassinations now always take place by daylight, the police patrols at night having made it dangerous for assassins to be abroad.
-Some papers are mourning the death of Jesse James, because he was a brave man, in that he took his life in his hand whenever he committed a murder. Their regrets would not be out of place had he not taken other people's lives in his hands also.
-The American Board of Foreign Missions at Bouter has been advised, by cable from Constantinople, that in a region of Turkey three times as large as Massachusetts, the people are starving by reason of the ravages of locusts. An urgent appeal for succor is made.
-In an article in the last number of the Century, a Russian lady claims that the recent outrages against the Jews were not caused by race or religious prejudice, but by the fact that the wealth of the country into their own hands. But the disgrace of the acts is not lessened, whatever cause be assigned.
-A swindle amounting to about $5,000,000 has been discovered in shipping silk and hemp from the firm of Vogel & Co., Hongkong. The sufferers are merchants in Paris, London, and Boston. Goods worth about $10 per bale were invoiced for $300 per bale. The offender has not yet been found, but is supposed to have fled to Italy.
-The President's veto of the Bill restricting Chinese immigration, has given general dissatisfaction on the Pacific Coast. In many places, the people have hung and burned the President in effigy, and done and said many unseemly things. Whatever the merits of the question may be, it certainly will not be helped by such childish demonstrations.
-In 1778, the manufacture of "six complete stoves" in Philadelphia during the previous year, was considered of sufficient interest to merit notice among the important events of the year. Statistics show that the stove industry in that city, last year, was valued at over $4,000,000, and that between 12,000 and 14,000 people were employed in it.
-The insanity dodge, by which many villains have cheated justice, has received a check by the Supreme Court of California. A fellow convicted of a murderous assault on his wife, and sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment, appealed, on the ground that the Court refused to instruct the jury on certain points touching his sanity. The Supreme Court sustained the judgment of the lower Court, holding that it would have been a mockery of justice if the jury had acquitted on the ground of insanity, and said that such pleas should not be encouraged. A few decisions of this kind cannot fail to have a wholesome effect.
-Jesse James, the notorious brigand of Missouri, has been killed by one of his associates in crime, in order to receive the reward offered for his body. His death will doubtless lead to the breaking up of the entire gang of thieves, of which he was chief. A letter has been written by the brother of the dead outlaw, which will serve to explain why they have been able to per-petrate their crimes so long with impunity. He says:
"We never robbed a Southern man in our lives if we knew it. If we did, we would give it back to him, for there is one of your citizens here that remembers the time we robbed a stage near Hot Springs. We gave him his money back, but the blue coats never got their money back."