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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 14, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 38.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-Mrs. President Lincoln is in France.

-The Rinderpest has appeared again in Poland.

-Smoking is to be prohibited among West Point cadets.

-Work on the Brooklyn Bridge will continue through the winter.

-Professor Tyndall has spent the summer rambling among the Alps.

-The Chileans continue to devastate the northern provinces of Peru.

-Sixteen hundred immigrants landed in New York last Wednesday.

-The widow of Commodore Vanderbilt has an income of $1,000 a week.

-Labor strikers are creating riots in Russia, and alarming the government.

-Reports of death and poverty fill the Russian press from all parts of the interior.

-Great destitution has been caused in Northwestern Kansas, from drought.

-The German Government has ordered the expulsion of the French Jesuits who emigrated to Alsace-Lorraine.

-Six hundred hands in the stove works at Albany, N. Y., are thrown out of employment by the strike of 237 moulders.

-During the last three and a half months, Memphis has laid down over twenty miles of sewerage pipes, and twenty miles of subsoil drain pipes.

-Cyrus W. Field has accepted an invitation to dine with a number of prominent citizens of New York before departing for a tour around the world.

-The Mexican House of Representatives has declared General Gonzales to be President-elect. He will enter on its term of office December 1.

-The governor of the Fiji Islands and suite, who a short time since arrived from Europe, left New York for San Francisco, Friday last, en route for Australia.

-The citizens of Ouray held a meeting to-day, and resolved that if the Government did not take steps to get rid of the Utes they would take the matter in their own hands.

-James M. Stewart, postmaster of the House of Representatives, died in Alexandria, Va., last Thursday. He served in the Mexican war and the Confederate army.

-Before returning to California, President Hayes will examine the Columbia river bar. It is said that he favors improving the river and bar for more extensive commerce.

-A telegram from Breslau reports that an accident occurred the 6th in a mine near Kattowitz. Fifty-four workmen were overwhelmed. It is feared that fifty were suffocated.

-A collision on the Pennsylvania R. R., near Pittsburg on the night of the 9th, has resulted in the death of twenty persons, besides many more who were dangerously hurt.

-Nine hundred persons are thrown out of employment in Greenock, Scotland, by the burning of the woolen mills there last Thursday. The mills were the largest in Scotland.

-The five hundredth anniversary of the translation of the New Testament into English by Wyckliffe, was celebrated a short time since in Trenton, N. J., and elsewhere, by appropriate services.

-The semi-annual Mormon Conference convened in Salt Lake, the 6th. Cannon, our six wived delegate to Congress, delivered an address, in which he defied hell and the United States Government to put down Mormonism.

-The synod of the Russian church is sending a Greek priest with 5000 roubles to purchase a site for a church in San Francisco. Others, it is said, will follow with more money, a choir, and all the accessories of a full-fledged Russian Greek church.

-Miss Josephine Taylor, daughter of John Taylor, head of the Mormon church, has fled from her home and cannot be found. It is said that she has been out of her mind during the past year, through the efforts of her father to force her into polygamy.

-A New York Herald special portrays a most serious state of affairs in Ireland. A general strike against rents is threatened, the Land Leaguers and the Fenians have coalesced, and enmity is increasing between Catholic and Protestant, and between North and South.

-A deputation of landlords called on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland recently to urge upon him the necessity of taking measures for the protection of life and property. The barracks in several towns in the west of Ireland have been ordered to be repaired for a full complement of troops.

-Frankfort on the Main, with a population of 100,000, is reputed to be the richest city of its size in the world. It is asserted that there are 100 Frankforters worth from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 each, and 250 who are worth $1,000,000 and upward. The city is one of the great banking centers of the globe. Its aggregate banking capital is estimated at $200,000,000, more than one-fourth of which the Rothschilds, whose original and parent house is there, own and control.

-The Presbyterians are alarmed over the marked decrease in the number of members received on profession of faith. There has been a steady decline since 1876. In that year there were 48,240 reported as so received; in 1877 the number was 43,068; in 1878 it decreased to 32,477; in 1879 to 29,196; and in 1880 to 26,838.

-The writing table which Queen Victoria commanded to be made out of the timbers of the Arctic vessel Resolute, has been finished, and will soon be presented to the United States, as a memorial of the courtesy and loving-kindness which dictated the offer of the Resolute. The table will form part of the White House permanent furniture.

-The Times, in an editorial, says: "Wherever Mr. Parnell and his fellow-agitators go they leave the country in flames behind them. Deeds of violence are committed which they have not suggested in express terms, but which are in full accordance with the spirit of their harangues, and which they scarcely even pretend to disapprove afterward."

-The opposition which Baptist ministers met in Russia at first has given away to such an extent that they are now permitted to solemnize marriages. The Russians seem to take readily to the Baptists, as they are immersionists by education and the practice of the Greek church, and consequently have nothing to learn or unlearn on this particular point.

-President Hayes and party, while in Walla Walla, W. T., enjoyed a novel sight. Several hundred Umatilla Indians, in paint and feathers, appeared before the house where he was stopping, and after he had been introduced to the braves, commenced a war dance, which lasted an hour. The party declared it to be the most novel and interesting feature of their trip.

-In Southern Russia the fearful Siberian plague, commonly known as the "black death," has broken out in a village near Odessa. The ignorant peasantry are much opposed to the use of disinfectants. The nuns even told the people that all persons would be excommunicated who allowed sulphur to be burnt in their houses. In one village the peasants went so far as to prepare a funeral pile on which they proposed to burn a Sister of Charity who was engaged in some sanitary work. The Sister was only saved by the prompt interference of the police.

-The Escurial is the palace of the kings of Spain, one of the largest and most magnificent in the world. It was begun by Philip II. in the year 1562, and the first cost of its erection was 6,000 ducats. It forms a vast square of polished stone, paved with marble. It may give some notion of the surprising grandeur of this palace to say that according to the computation of Francisco de los Santes, it would take more than four days to go through all the rooms and apartments, the length of the way being reckoned thirty-three Spanish leagues, which is above one hundred and twenty English miles. There are fourteen thousand doors and eleven thousand windows belonging to the edifice.

-The Alta, Oct. 10, contains the following: "The old Egyptian kings and masons of ancient times, who ordered or constructed the obelisks and the pyramids, and who left the signs of their craft upon the foundation stones, ought to awake from the dust of their tumuli and be present at such an occasion as that at the Park in New York City, yesterday. The corner-stone of the foundation was laid with Masonic honors and ceremonies, the Brethren in full regalia. So far the movements in reference to the obelisk, its removal, voyage, arrival, and transportation from the ship, have been fortunate, and when it shall have been placed in its assigned position, it will form one of the most interesting objects in that beautiful park."

-The temperance people of the country are uniting in a testimonial to Mrs. President Hayes for the noble stand she has taken for total abstinence while hostess of the White House. This testimonial will consist of a life-size portrait of Mrs. Hayes, to be painted by one of our best artists, and, when finished, will be placed in the White House. The picture will be engraved, and to every person who contributes five dollars and sends it to Miss Esther Pugh, 54 Bible House, New York City, an engraving will be sent. What remains after the cost of the pictures is paid will serve as a nucleus of a fund to be named in honor of Mrs. Hayes, the interest of which will be used in procuring and circulating TOTAL ABSTINENCE LITERATURE.