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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 16, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 47.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Dakota asks to be admitted as a State.

—There will be five colored men in the Tennessee Legislature.

—Small-pox is still raging in San Francisco. Ten cases reported Saturday last.

—Nine accomplished counterfeiters have been arrested in New York and Brooklyn.

—Oleomargarine has come before Congress, to see whether cat's and dog's lard can be called legal butter.

—During a recent gale, a vessel was wrecked in St. Lawrence bay, and twenty-two persons lost.

—Greece has consented to enter into negotiations with Turkey, and the first steps will be taken in January.

—Forty passenger trains are run daily between Philadelphia and New York by the Pennsylvania R. R. Company.

—The Mormon papers treat the President's suggestions in regard to Utah with a sort of indifferent contempt. The Gentiles rejoice.

—A Chinese giant has arrived in New York. He is eight feet six inches in height. He speaks English, French, German, and a little Spanish.

—A contract is already closed for building 200 miles of the Mexico, Kansas and Texas Railroad, and work will begin at Fort Worth forthwith.

In trying to extinguish a fire in a bucket factory, Cincinnati, Dec. 11, five fireman lost their lives. Two lives were similarly lost in Philadelphia the same night.

—Thirty cases of small-pox are reported from Virginia City. For some time the doctors disagreed, some calling it chicken-pox. It has now spread all over the city.

—Another arctic expedition is to be sent out next year by the Royal Geographical Society of England. It is announced, however, that the discovery of the north pole is not to be its main object.

—The Chicago Times has ordered several type-setting machines from Belgium. The invention is said to work successfully, and a branch manufacturing establishment is to be found in Chicago.

—The gravity of the situation in Ireland is increasing daily. A dispatch from Dublin says that each day brings fresh evidence that the country is hurrying on by strides and bounds toward revolution.

—Secretary Thompson has agreed to accept the Presidency of the American branch of the Panama Canal Company, at a salary of $25,000 a year. His resignation as Secretary of the Navy is expected soon.

—The Alta of the 13th states that the Pope has conferred on D. J. Murphy, a wealthy merchant of San Francisco, the hereditary title of Marquis, in recognition of his great services to religion in America and Europe.

—Nine-tenths of the business portion of Pensacola, Florida, has been destroyed by fire. Over one hundred establishments are gone, and about fifty families are homeless. The fire lasted five hours. Loss, $500,000. Insurance, $250,000.

—A very stringent prohibitory liquor bill has passed both houses of the Vermont Legislature, and will doubtless become the law of that State. It proposes to declare any saloon, or place where liquor is given away, a public nuisance.

—Jay Gould's conservatory, said to be the largest in the United States, has been destroyed by fire. The building was 480 feet long, and was constructed on the Moorish plan. It was filled with the rarest and most valuable plants, exotics, and ferns, which were imported at great expense. Loss, $150,000; no insurance.

—Gladstone's withdrawal from the House of Commons is demanded by his physician, who says that the Premier's health cannot stand such an arduous Parliamentary session as the forthcoming one promises to be. It is currently reported that after the budget is made known, Gladstone will accept a Peerage and retire to the Upper House.

—Garfield is one of the youngest men who ever became President. On Nov. 19th he was only forty-nine years old. He is also one of the few men who ever became President, and brought his mother to the White House. She is 79 years old.

—Pope Pius directed by will that not more than $400 should be spent on his monument. Pope Leo proposes to get around it by erecting over and about the $400 monument a magnificent and expensive one to be paid for by the Princes of the church.

—There is prospect of a great lawsuit next year when the revised New Testament appears. An eminent firm of London publishers has resolved to print an edition of the new version, and dispute the legal power of the Company of Revisers to hold a copyright, or transfer it to the Universities.

—The President in his late message recommends that General Grant receive the appointment of Captain-General of the army, with suitable compensation, This if carried out will of course do away with the necessity of raising a pension fund for ex-presidents, or making them life members of Congress.

—The American Baptist Home Missionary Society was organized in 1832, and since that time has founded nearly 3,000 churches. The chief field of its grand work is the growing West. During the past year it has employed in its general work 281 missionaries, distributed as follows: Among Americans, 158; Germans, 36; Scandinavians, 18; French, 5; Indians, 9; Freedmen, 15; Chinese, 2; Teachers in Freedmen's Schools, 38.

—Over 3000 persons gathered at the Germania Assembly Rooms, New York, to welcome the twenty-four Socialists exiled from Germany who recently arrived in that city. Resolutions were adopted denouncing Bismarck and the Hohenzollern, and claiming that the duty of Socialists was to do all they could to heal the wounds which the tyranny of the German empire had inflicted upon their brethren in Germany.

—A society has been organized in Salt Lake City, called the "Woman's National Anti-Polygamy Society." It is the purpose of this Society to furnish the public with full information respecting the working of the system in Utah, in the hope that the effect of such knowledge will be to awaken public sentiment on the subject.

—It has been rather irreverently remarked that the "New York clergymen lately sustained a serious misfortune. They all had their apostolical guns heavily charged to attack the Passion Play on a certain Sunday, but the prudent manager withdrew it on Saturday, too late for new sermons to be prepared. Talmage, was not to be balked, and delivered his discourse, on general principles. The Herald says a great many extempore sermons were preached on that occasion, and, evangelically speaking, they were extremely thin." It should be a cause of general rejoicing that this disgraceful exhibition has finally been abandoned.

HAGERSTOWN, MD., Dec. 25, 1880, Bro. INGRAHAM:— Bro. Hagar, Mrs. H. and family, have spent the holidays with us. Mrs. Hagar has been quite sick for several days, but is now recovering. The family are all well. Bro. Hagar has been absent from his family for several weeks, and she has been quite anxious about him. He was a little sick when he returned, but is now well. Hagar is one of our most faithful workers, and is well known among the churches. He has been holding meetings in the surrounding country, and has been very successful. His meetings are well attended, and he has been able to bring many to the truth. We are glad to have him back, and hope he will continue to be a blessing to the cause.