p. 47 | ITEMS OF NEWS

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 27, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 4.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Montana sheep are being smothered by snow.

—Utah produced $6,450,953 of bullion last year.

—Oregon is to have a new academy, to be located at The Dalles.

—Gambetta has been re-elected President of the Chamber of Deputies.

—There are one hundred and seventy-five undertakers in New York City.

—An ironclad is reported on the coast of Ireland to prevent the landing of arms.

—The Baptist missions in India report 1,875 conversions during the last year.

—Moving ice in the Ohio river, recently cut down two steamers, valued at $60,000.

—Nearly eleven million pounds of salmon were taken from California waters last year.

—Three slight earthquake shocks were experienced in Oakland, Monday evening last.

—Los Angeles has at least one Chinese leper, and it is feared that there are others there.

—The total receipts for Sara Bernhardt's twelve performances in Chicago were $41,478.

—During the last fiscal year the total value of our exports of all kinds was $1,613,770,330.

—From the vicinity of Healdsburg, Cal., comes a complaint that eagles are carrying off kids.

—Utah is to have a fine University building erected in a park near the center of Salt Lake City.

—The work of laying the foundation walls of the Hall of Records in Sacramento has commenced.

—The father of Charlie Ross has spent $60,000 in searching for his stolen boy, and is still at work.

—The California Northern Railroad, uniting Marysville and Oroville, has been sold under decree of foreclosure.

—In the United States and Canada the recorded losses by fire for the past year, aggregated about $330,000,000.

—Three hundred hands were thrown out of employment by the burning of a morocco factory in Linn, Mass., Jan. 19.

—Nearly ten thousand people assembled to witness the placing of the obelisk upon the pedestal in Central Park, New York, January 22.

—The police statistics of New York show the arrest of 52,820 men, and 18,879 women in 1880, an increase of 4,675 men over 1879, and 321 women.

—The Erie train No. 12 from Buffalo to New York, was thrown off the track last Sunday night. The postal and smoking cars were burned, also five mail agents.

—Ten years ago the United States had fourteen cities of 100,000 inhabitants each. Now it has twenty, a greater number than any other country in the world contains.

—Commissioner Le Duc has purchased a farm in South Carolina, to try experiments in tea cultivation. He says the soil is wonderfully similar to that on which the best teas are raised in China.

—The highest bid for pews for 1881 in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, was $700 against $500 for 1880. The total revenue for the year, with the rentals of pews and aisle seats, will be $41,362.

—It is stated upon the authority of the Lutheran Observer, that ninety editors are in prison in Germany for publishing wild Socialistic sentiments, or for insulting the government authorities.

—Says a New York exchange, "If you want in your house a death angel who never sleeps, and is always ready to do his work, get gasoline, and bide your time. Ten lives lost in this city Tuesday by its use."

—The Chilians are still victorious over their Peruvian neighbors. Callao and Lima have, according to latest advices, surrendered unconditionally. It is said the slaughter in the battle of Lima was frightful.

—The Western Union, American Union and Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Companies are preparing to consolidate. This step is considered but preliminary to a rapid and systematic developement of the grand telegraphic net-work extending around the world, and having its center not at London, but at New York.

—"Greece seems determined on war. Turkey will thrash her. Then some of the Powers will interfere, and either a peace will be patched up or Europe will be ablaze with war." So says a San Francisco daily.

—The Pacific Coast Steamship Company have authorized their president to contract for a new and fast steam-ship to ply between San Francisco and San Diego where it will connect with the new transcontinental railroad whose terminus will be at that port.

—The Oakland Guards will probably represent the National Guard of California at the inauguration of President Garfield, having gained the honors in the competitive drill held in San Francisco, on Thursday last, to ascertain which of the various companies was the best drilled.

—Oregon, also, has had a cold spell. A letter from Wasco county says that even should the weather moderate at once, $100,000 will not cover the loss of stock in that region. Cattle and sheep are dying by wholesale, but few ranchers, comparatively, being prepared with feed.

—Says the daily Alta, "Now they are talking about tunnelling Niagara Falls. Nothing daunts modern enterprise. Some day Yankee engineers will be at work on a tunnel under the Atlantic, and in time passengers will be automatically 'fired' from New York to Liverpool."

—For a long time China and Japan have both claimed sovereignty over the Lin Chin Islands; and to avoid a crisis, the natives have paid double taxes. The dispute has finally been adjusted according to General Grant's plan, made when traveling in Japan. Japan retains those on her coast, and China those on hers.

—A special dispatch from Madrid, of the 24th says: "The floods and gales which have ravaged the entire peninsula for ten days are the severest on record. Inundations have caused the destruction of half the crop of oranges and lemons, and an immense loss, estimated at over $40,000,000, to the agricultural interests. There is a foot of snow here."

—The Christian Union says that "Kernyism has broken out in Brooklyn in an ordinance passed by the Board of Aldermen, providing that laundry licenses shall only be given to citizens of the United States, and imposing a special tax on Chinamen. Of course, neither ordinance will stand before the courts, as all such special legislation is contrary to the constitution of the United States.

—Advices from London state that the Chinese treaties with the United States excite alarm in some English quarters, on account of the opium clause. The English fear that China intends to renew her attempt to prohibit the importation of opium altogether, and will rely on the American precedent when negotiations are begun with England. The result, if successful, would be disastrous to Indian finances.

—Some of the members of the California Legislature, thinking that the new Chinese treaties are not radical enough, have proposed sending them back for amendment, upon which a leading daily thus sensibly comments: "Californians would do well to make no factious opposition to the new Chinese treaties. If we do not want them, certainly the rest of the country does not. If we do not accept the present offer, it may be long before we get as good a one again."

—The London Times, commenting on the increase in the population of the United States, as shown by the recent census, says: "These eleven and a half millions of people are not a poor, indigent, and untaught mass, such as would be produced in any European State by so great and rapid an accession to the population. They are well-fed, clothed, well-to-do, and, as a rule, well educated. There is room and to spare for them all, and for as many more during the next ten years. We cannot but look with some envy on a Nation whose easy lot it is to gather up the good things which fortune casts to it."