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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 29, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 25.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

-A bill has been passed in the House, retiring the trade dollar from circulation.
-The Pacific dock and ware-houses, at Portland, Oregon, were burned, June 24.
-The total bullion product of the State of California, for the year 1881, is $18,950,000.
-The store-house of the Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, Mass., was burned June 23. Loss $500,000.
-The crew of the ship Rodgers recently burned in the Arctic, arrived in San Francisco June 23.
-There have been £14,000 subscribed for the new Chair of Celtic in the University of Edinburgh.
-The Japanese War department contemplates sending subalterns to America to study photography.
-The university of Vienna has so many students in Sanskrit that a second professor has been appointed.
-An order from the Czar has fixed the number of recruits for the Russian army and navy, during the year 1882, at 212,000.
-The Johnson Harvester Works, at Brockport, N. Y., were burned, June 20. Loss $500,000. The fire throws 450 men out of employment.
-The Kentucky State Bureau of Agriculture estimates the wheat crop of that State at eleven million bushels, the largest crop ever raised.
-James B. Doyle, the celebrated counterfeiter of United States bonds, was sentenced, June 20, to twelve years' hard labor in the penitentiary.
-The Alta says there is very little harvesting to do on Tulare river, in Tulare County. The fruit crop will be short in Pajaro Valley owing to the frost in May.
-Dr. Jules Crivaux and party of seventeen men, engaged in exploring the northern tributaries of the river Platte, have been killed by Obah Indians in Bolivia.
-The American schooner Massasoit, while under full sail, crashed into an immense iceberg and sank almost immediately, June 19. Five of the crew went down with the vessel.
-Among seventeen applicants for admittance to the District of Columbia bar, the best examination was passed by Mrs. M. M. Ricker. She was particularly well versed in the law of real property.
-Seventy-five persons were poisoned in Adrian, Mich., recently, by eating cheese. A microscopic examination showed the cheese to be filled with some unknown parasites. None of the persons were fatally poisoned.
-The father of the Emperor of China, called the Seventh Prince, who is at the head of the foreign-drilled military in Peking, has issued an order calling upon all the soldiers under him to abandon opium smoking within six months.
-The American bark, Roswell Sprague, which left San Francisco June 25, for Port Townsend, was discovered to be on fire when she was twelve miles outside the Golden Gate. She was towed back, but in spite of all efforts she was destroyed.
-The authorities have refused to interfere with the execution of the sentence against Guiteau, and he will in all probability meet his just fate next Friday, June 30. None will lament that the blasphemies of this notable villain are stopped.
-Six little boys, none of them over ten years of age, were seen on the road near Sonora, Tuolumne County, Cal., the other day, beastly drunk. When asked where they got the liquor, they were too much intoxicated to make themselves understood.
-Herr Meling, one of the principal navigators in the German navy, has been arrested at Kiel, on a charge of having accepted a bribe of 150,000 roubles to deliver to the Russian Government copies of the plans of all the works of defense on the German coast.
-An edict was recently issued by the Czar, which virtually bankrupts every wealthy Jew of Russia. It provisionally suspends all payment for contracts or debts due to Jews, prohibits them from settling outside towns and villages, and otherwise provides for their speedy extirpation.
-The London Times says the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and his subordinates, after careful investigation, are convinced that crime in Ireland is not sporadic, but is controlled by machinery deliberately set in motion through organized agencies, commanding large resources and obeying impulses of foreign origin.
-The Mexican Minister has received official information from the Department of State, Mexico, to the effect that the Mexican Congress has repealed its export duty on silver coin and silver bullion, which has been in existence since the Spanish rule, and which was one of the principal drawbacks to the development of the mining industries of that country.
-Advices from Sherbro Island, near Sierra Leone, dated May 21st, state that the natives of Martio had plundered a boat belonging to Bunthe island, where the British officers are stationed, and had fired on the police who went to arrest them. The Governor of Sierra Leone has proceeded to Martie with a force of blue jackets and inflicted a loss of 200 killed on the rebellious inhabitants.
-Chinese capitalists have a complete monopoly of the cotton trade in China, and are making arrangements to build, in Shanghai, one of the largest and most complete cotton mills in the world. The American Consul at Shanghai says that all the arrangements are made, the money secured, and an American expert builder of cotton mills is now in America making a selection of the best machines he can find for the working of the short staple cotton of China.
-The Commercial Advertiser’s Washington correspondent says: 'The impression prevails here that the Chinese Government does not intend to accept the action of our Government in reference to the exclusion of her subjects for the next ten years without an emphatic protest. It is already known that that Government regards the provisions of the bill recently passed as a direct violation of the treaty existing between the two nations. While a protest will undoubtedly be made, it is believed in official circles that China will not go to the extent of abrogating the treaty, but will, after expressing forcibly her belief that the treaty has been violated, quietly accept the situation.' It is stated by others, however, that this is unfounded rumor, and that China will accept the legislation quietly, as being clearly within the limits of the treaty.