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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 18, 1882

News and Notes.

-In Ohio there is one saloon to every 223 people. -The Government Hospital at Laramie, Wyoming, was burned recently. -From Arkansas to Minnesota the crop prospects are reported favorable. -Hon. C. C. Washburn, Ex-Governor of Wisconsin, died at Eureka Springs, Ark., May 14. -Guiteau, the assassin, aspires to the honor of a new trial, but his chances seem very doubtful. -A vessel will leave San Francisco next month for the relief of the Point Barrow expedition. -In some parts of Labrador the people are famishing for food, which cannot be had at any price. -Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau, has left her husband and is preparing for a lecture tour in the West. -The last report of the Stockton Insane Asylum shows 1,089 inmates; 771 males, and 318 females. -Charley Ross, son of the woman who made the first United States flag, is in the San Francisco poor-house. -A collection of fifty-one species of Japanese Maples has lately been received at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. -The Texas Associated Press Association has lately been sojourning on the Pacific Coast, gathering items and rusticating.

-Five boys, from ten to twelve years of age, were arrested last week in Oakland, for burglary of a Central Pacific baggage car. -The Fish Commission is shipping over 4,000,000 young shad and herring for the rivers of Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas. -The last Chinese steamer, with 800 passengers, was quarantined at San Francisco, having several cases of small-pox on board. -During the first three months of the present year, 900 buildings, aggregating in value $10,000,000, have been erected in New York. -The reunion of the Army of the Tennessee took place last week at St. Louis. Generals Sherman, Sheridan, and Pope were present. -A cyclone struck the Wesleyan College near Warrenton, Mo., on the 9th, tearing out one wall and carrying parts of the roof half a mile. -The Moors have recently stoned the English Minister at Morocco, and the Sultan has imprisoned 600 men for complicity in the assault. -The lower House of Congress has passed a bill creating the new Cabinet Portfolio of Agriculture, but the Senate is expected to defeat it. -Recent hot north winds are reported to have been very damaging to crops in the Sacramento valley; but favored localities still promise well. -The Court House at Pittsburg, Pa., was burned down last week. The building cost $200,000 originally, and much money had since been expended in improvements. -It is reported from Redwood City that a case of genuine leprosy passed through that place bound for San Francisco, May 9th. The victim is a Chinese-Kanaka. -A Chinaman recently had his neck broken in Oakland, and a young white man was crushed to death in Alameda, both as a result of jumping off from cars while in motion. -Engineer Melville has notified the Secretary of the Navy that he has found De Long and his party—all dead. He has found also the books and papers of The Jeannette. -An Austrian physician who visited the Jews' hospital at Odessa, states that there are 128 horribly mutilated persons there, the Russians having poured petroleum into their wounds. -It is charged that at the county teachers' examination, held in Nevada City, last week, some of the applicants fraudulently obtained certificates, by communicating answers to each other. -The Secretary of the Navy estimates the cost of putting the navy into good condition at $3,173,000. The total cost of the vessels in the navy is $72,345,776, and since 1865 the repairs have cost $23,075,000. -In San Francisco, last week, two brothers named Troy, printers, engaged in a drunken quarrel and one of them was fatally stabbed by the other. The grief of the murderer is said to be intense. It was whisky did it. -Some of the Indians in Dakota Territory have taken a sensible step. At a recent council the Brule Sioux surrendered 200 stands of arms, requesting that they be sold and the proceeds applied to the benefit of the tribe. -The gambling houses of New Orleans paid $30,000 into the city treasury last year for licenses. The money thus received was devoted by the city to charitable purposes. Rather an expensive way of caring for the poor. -Prairie and wood fires have been raging in southern Arizona and western New Mexico recently. The territory is reported to cover forty miles square, and the damage done is immense. The fire is attributed to Indians. -The Vatican has forwarded formal instructions to Cardinal McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin, directing him to call upon the Roman Catholics to declare in a public document that their cause is distinctly separate from the sectaries. -A New York dispatch of May 10th says: "A number of Russian refugees this morning cruelly beat Adof Beinbaum, Superintendent of the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, for refusing them large sums of money with which to begin business." -The Brewers' Association recently met at Washington to advance the interests of the nefarious traffic. They claim that light fermented drinks are doing a great work in the temperance cause. President Arthur was present and made a speech. -A terrible cyclone passed over McAllister, Indian Territory, and Mound City, Missouri, on the 8th. The former town, consisting of about eighty houses, was completely demolished. Twenty-two deaths are reported, and forty-two persons more or less injured. -Egypt is at present in a state of anarchy. Relations between the Khedive and the Ministry have been suspended. The European powers are preparing to protect their interests, and the Sultan has made preparations whereby 30,000 could be speedily embarked for Egypt. -The excitement in Ireland has been greatly increased, and the Irish cause greatly jeopardized, by the recent murder of Lord Cavendish, Chief Secretary, and Burke, his assistant, in Dublin. No clue to the assassins, although over 800 arrests of suspected persons have been made.

-Within the past few days every one of the inmates of the San Francisco County Jail has been vaccinated. There are about ninety Chinamen confined there for violation of the ordinance in relation to crowded sleeping apartments, and they are said to have submitted very unwillingly to the operation. -Wednesday, the 10th, was "Senior Day" at the State University. Of the several addresses, was one by J. S. Bishop, of Honolulu, on the subject of "Theaters." He argued, and very appropriately too, that constant attendance at theaters had a demoralizing influence upon the lives of men and women. -Mr. Calkins has introduced a bill in Congress asking for another Arctic expedition, with Master Lucien Young in command. A $50,000 vessel is proposed, and an expenditure of $100,000 for the expenses of the explorers. If Agur could write in these days, he might say, "There are five things that say not. It is enough," and specify the North Pole enthusiast. -A Minneapolis, Minn., dispatch, of May 9, says that a cyclone struck a school-house near Lakefield, lifting it up and scattering it over the prairie. The teacher and eleven pupils were all more or less injured. "The storm came in from a funnel-shaped cloud, which bounded along the prairie and passed into Herron Lake, sucking up the water to the height of a hundred feet." -Chinese Restriction Bill No. 2 has been signed by the President. The East and the West have to a certain degree traded sentiment respecting Mr. Arthur, as expressed when the former bill was vetoed. There is but little difference in the two bills, excepting that the time of restriction has been reduced from twenty to ten years. Many guns were fired around San Francisco Bay on receipt of the news.