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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 19.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

By Editor

-Illinois has been visited by another cyclone.
-Much damage was done by a storm at Tiflis, Russia, May 14.
-The difficulty between Germany and the Pope has not yet been settled.
-Indians are selling to the Government large tracts of land in Montana and Idaho.
-A boiler explosion in Rome, N. Y., May 10, killed five men, and injured four others.
-Thirteen fishermen recently lost their lives in a storm at the mouth of Columbia river.
-Bradford Co., Pa., has been visited with very destructive fires, both in oil tanks and forests.
-Silver money is accumulating in the Treasury to an uncomfortable extent. Nobody wants it.
-Fires throughout the United States for the last two weeks have been too numerous to specify.
-Within the past fifty years, 200,000 miles of railroad have been built, at a cost of $15,000,000,000.
-The Postmaster General has consented to not interfere with the Express company carrying letters.
-Over a thousand persons were left destitute by the burning of the town of Baumholder, Rheuish, Prussia, May 12.
-Mrs. Hopper, of Ventura Co., Cal., went on a hunting excursion, met a grizzly bear, and killed him at one shot.
-Altidor Pass, in Afghanistan, is held by 9000 men against the British. That war has cost England $65,000,000.
-Chief justice, Sanford E. Church, of New York, died May 14. He was prominent in the politics of that State.
-Eighteen were recently killed or wounded by the explosion of a dynamite magazine at Faido, Switzerland.
-The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco has commenced action in Court to impeach I. S. Kalloch, Mayor of that city.
-Dr. Wheeler, the last of the Mendocino bandits, was sentenced to death on the 13th, and committed suicide by poison, in jail.
-When all the new formations, planned and worked out on their minutest details by the German War Ministry, are completed, the total strength of the army will exceed 2,000,000 men.
-The Methodist General Conference passed a resolution highly complimentary of Mrs. President Hayes, and the social atmosphere of the White House.
-The destructive fires in Pennsylvania and New Jersey still continue. Great quantities of valuable timber, and other property have been destroyed.
-A shaft of an iron mine in Lake county, Mich., caved in May 14, burying sixteen miners. Thirteen were rescued, nearly suffocated; three were killed.
-The majority of the Board of Engineers recommend Port Orford, Oregon, to be improved as a Harbor of Refuge. The minority report favors Trinidad, Cal.
-A boiler explosion at the Birchill Iron Works, London, May 15, killed twenty-five persons. Sixty were taken to the hospital, some in a dying condition.
-Joking is a mania with newspapers. The N. Y. Herald, speaking of the probable impeachment of Mayor Kalloch, says that unless the charges are disproved, Kalloch cannot be saved from disgrace!
-Dr. Wm. M. Taylor has resigned his position as editor of the Christian at Work, finding it impossible to be pastor and editor at the same time. Yet the real work on the paper was ably performed by another.
-Bismarck is losing the confidence of the people. His speech has not produced a favorable feeling. No one believes he really wants to resign, but uses the idea as a threat—a sure way to destroy his own influence.
-A quite heavy storm extended over the northern and central part of California the night of May 10. Smart showers fell on May 12, followed by slight frost in some localities. Considerable damage was done by hail about Red Bluff.
-The Chinese are still learning civilized ways, says the New York Herald. The Celestials convicted recently of gambling, declared the game an innocent one and gotten up for a deserving object of charity—a sort of church fair, in short.
-Col. Thomas A. Scott, in the prime of his years, has had to dissolve all connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad, being completely broken down by overworking. He had received repeated admonitions to desist, but did not heed them.
-The town of Milton, Northumberland Co., Pa., has been entirely destroyed by fire; 666 houses were burned; the inhabitants were left destitute and suffering; a few lives were lost. The fire was incendiary, and is supposed to have been set by tramps.
-For want of appropriations by Congress, the U. S. courts are dismissing the juries, and the Postoffice in Boston has ceased night work for want of money to pay gas bills. Very few men in Congress regard their oath of office; as a body they do not labor in the interest of the country, but only quarrel on politics, or plot to carry out personal schemes.
-Rev. George A. Peltz, Baptist, of Jamestown, N. Y., prominent as a Sunday-school worker, has confessed to immoral practices and vacated his pulpit.
-What can be believed? First comes a report of persecution of Jews in Russia. Then a denial, and statement that severe laws had been modified, or lay ungatory, the latest dispatch from St. Petersburg says that, instead of any amelioration of the position of the Jews, the police measures against them are enforced more stringently than formerly. Persons in business are required to quit the Capital on twenty-four hours' notice, and Jewish strangers arriving are ordered to depart in the same summary manner. From the known severity of Russia, the later report is probably the true one.
-The Christian Herald thus tersely remarks on the concession recently made by the Pope: "Married perverts may in future perform all the functions of the priest, with some exceptions. This is a satisfactory reform. Many clergymen, who, by the pathway of Ritualism, had arrived at a point where they were ready to take the final step of joining the Romish communion, but were deterred because they were married, will now join the Roman Catholic Communion, and true Protestants will be spared the pain of seeing men occupy Protestant pulpits and receive Protestant pay while preaching Romish doctrines and undermining the faith of their congregations. We trust that now, being let go, they will go to their own company."
-Here is a precious bit of news copied from the N. Y. Independent: Two ministers of the Philadelphia Methodist Conference, the Rev. Messrs. T. B. Miller, and Wm. Major, have been tried by an ecclesiastical court on the charge of selling bogus medical diplomas. It appears that these men, with some associates, bought out a bogus medical university, and ran it during the week, preaching, as usual, on Sundays. Mr. Miller was dean, and Mr. Major, secretary. Although there was no charter for the institution, the "faculty" gave diplomas. One man paid $25, and received a diploma from Dean Miller authorizing him to begin the practice of medicine immediately. The Conference committee tried Miller and Major, and expelled the former, and suspended the latter for one year.