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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 21, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 48.

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News and Notes.

—Red Bluff, Cal., has shipped 1,526,000 pounds of wool this year.

—The False Prophet of the Soudan is said to have been repulsed in two engagements.

—Toledo, O., had a $500,000 fire the 15th inst. The finest business block in the city was destroyed.

—Dec. 13 a very heavy gale, followed by an unusually high tide did great damage along the coast of New Foundland.

—The French Minister of Finance has stated that the amount of public debt that has been redeemed is 104,000,000 francs.

—Work on the Hudson River Tunnel between New York and Jersey City, has been stopped on account of lack of means to carry it on.

—The wine yield of Napa County for this year has been ascertained to be 2,644,000 gallons. Only once previous has this amount been exceeded.

—Last week the entire Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn, N. Y., served five days imprisonment in the county jail, for ignoring a court's injunction, and voting away a railroad franchise.

—A space in the south-west corner of the Government reservation at Hot Springs, Ark., has been selected as the site for the Army and Navy Hospital, for which Congress has appropriated $100,000.

—At the Kingston, Ontario, Medical College, only ladies are now in attendance. The male students demand the expulsion of the lady students, or they will abandon the college. Let them go, by all means.

—Since the adoption in New York of the amendment making the Erie Canal free, the Canadian papers urge the same policy in respect to the Welland and St. Lawrence canals, in order to enable them to compete with the Erie.

—Judge Hunt, of the Superior Court of California, has decided that if a nuisance is maintained by a tenant on a piece of property, damages may be recovered from the landlord. This decision affects chiefly those whose property is rented to the Chinese for wash-houses.

—Two young roughs who recently maltreated and robbed a Chinaman in New York, were sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. This is as it should be; a few such sentences will add materially to the comfort of Chinamen, and will help to give them a more favorable view of Christianity.

—It is said that George M. Robeson's canvass for election to Congress cost $70,000. And the pay of a congressman is $5,000 a year, which might set some people to wondering how he expected to meet the expense. At any rate, there will be few who will be sorry that he was defeated.

—A fire broke out in the business quarter of Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 11, which was not extinguished until the 13th. Four hundred stores were destroyed. Nearly every building that was considered fireproof was destroyed. The loss was $15,000,000. Five persons are known to have burned to death.

—Letters from Chiapas, Mexico, state that the cholera has raged with such violence that in some places the owners of, and laborers on, plantations have all died, and it is not possible to bury them. The bodies have been burned. Sixty deaths a day have occurred in Tonalar, and a terrible panic has ensued.

—The Sultan has had built for his use an armored carriage, bullet and grenade proof. His palace is practically in a state of siege. Nobody is allowed entrance unless summoned. There is sedition among the troops, because the palace guards are well paid while they are in rags. The appointment as Minister of War of Osman Pasha, who is unpopular in the army, has increased the dissatisfaction.

—The House Committee on Education have reported favorably on the bill appropriating $10,000,000 annually for the next five years, to aid in public education. It is proposed that this sum shall be distributed among the several Territories by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the ratio of illiteracy. It is also provided that a sum not exceeding 5 per cent. of the appropriation may be expended annually for the education of teachers.

—There is an exceedingly bitter feeling against England now growing in France. The French Government has been notified that England must not be interfered with in her conduct of affairs in Egypt. If they accept the situation in a friendly spirit England will allow them to annex Madagascr; otherwise she will oppose everything. The French are wishing for an army with which to give emphasis to their diplomatic negotiations.

—A shameful state of affairs has been discovered as existing among the detectives of Washington, D. C. Ten of them were recently discharged for aiding the Star-route conspirators, and now it is found that the remainder of the force have been systematically engaged in stealing. They were subsidized by the thieves and gamblers of the city, who paid the detectives 20 per cent. of their stealings. The detectives, it is said, even planned some of the large robberies, and selected the men to execute them. Yet all these men are still on the force.