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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 21, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 36.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

-Great damage has been done by storms and floods in the south of Spain.
-Ohio has thirty-four distilleries and eighty-nine rectifying establishments.
-A large boot and shoe factory was burned Sept. 16, at Elmira, N. Y. Loss, $3,000,000.
-The recent election in Maine resulted in victory for the Republicans by a large majority.
-Six hundred and forty-six new converts to Mormonism have lately arrived in New York.
-Track is being laid on the Northern Pacific Railroad at the rate of twenty miles a day.
-The Rothschilds have presented the British army in Egypt with twelve tons of tobacco, and 5,000 pipes.
-Yellow fever is not diminishing in the South, but is breaking out in a very malignant form in new places
-A morning paper speaks of Australia as a hemisphere. Can some school-boy tell how many hemispheres there are?
-In the Wisconsin Democratic Convention 1,601 ballots were taken before a nomination was made for Governor.
-The Chronicle states that fully two-thirds of the suits brought in the Superior Court each day are actions for divorce.
-During the storm on Thursday of last week, an unknown schooner on Lake Huron was sunk, with all hands on board.
-News has been received that a party of thirteen, including two women, were murdered by Apaches in Chihuahua, Mexico.
-The steamer Asia was wrecked on Lake Ontario, Sept. 15, with 100 passengers on board. Only two are known to have escaped.
-Chief Engineer Melville and two sailors, survivors of the Jeannette Arctic Exploring Expedition, arrived in New York the 13th inst. An enthusiastic reception was given to Melville.
-The Star-route trial has ended in what might well be termed a fizzle. The jury disagreed on the three principal defendants, convicted two who were tools of the others, and acquitted two others.
-The Republican candidate for Sheriff of Sierra Co., Cal., was shot and killed last week. He had received the nomination only after a hard struggle, and political jealousy was the sole cause of the murder.
-The telephone is now conneced with diving apparatus, and the diver receives his instructions by means of it, at the bottom of the sea. It is thought that it will tend to lessen the danger of accidents.
-A prominent financier estimates that Egypt will lose about £70,000,000 by the war. The cotton crop, which would have been worth £40,000,000, is entirely lost, and there is little hope of saving any of the sugar crop.
-The estimated value of real and personal property in the United States, in 1880, was $33,805,000,000, against $24,169,000,000 in 1860, That is, the gain in twenty years has been $1,320,000 a day, or nearly $1,000 a minute.
-A terrible hurricane passed over the village of Winsted, Conn., on the evening of the 15th, destroying much property and injuring several persons. Western and Central New York also suffered severely from wind and lightning.
-The special committee appointed by the Prohibition Convention that was held in July last, has issued a call for the Convention to reassemble on the 28th inst., to place a ticket in the field, on a distinctly Sunday and Temperance platform.
-In the Italian Parliament, the voting is done by electricity. Three buttons marked "aye," "no," and "abstain," on each member's desk, are connected with a central printing apparatus which records the votes automatically as the members touch the buttons.
-California has already had a touch of winter. On the 16th there was rain in the valleys and snow on the mountains quite generally through the State. Thunder and lightning accompanied the rain. In some places the storm is reported as having been very severe.
-Since the passage of the prohibition amendment in Iowa, the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company have issued an order that no ale, beer, wine, or spirituous liquors of any kind shall be sold on their dining-cars while passing through that State.
-While a Tennessee Sheriff and his deputy were on their way to Knoxville, with a murderer, several men boarded the train, killed both the officers, released the prisoner, took possession of the train, and when they had reached a convenient place, forcibly seized some horses and made for the mountains. The excitement is very great.
-The Anti-Prohibition Convention held at Omaha, Sept. 11, is said to have been an "eminently respectable gathering." Of course. "So are they all, all honorable men." They oppose prohibition in any form, and the Convention pledges its members to do everything to defeat prohibition. A resolution was passed to support no man for office unless he satisfactorily pledges himself to oppose any and all attempts to force upon the people a prohibitory law.
-Greece is very firm in her demands upon Turkey regarding the cession of points and the settlement of the frontier line. There are five points which she demands of the Porte, and the latest news is that unless four of them are conceded she will commence hostilities at once. Turkey will probably parley as usual, but Greece and Turkey so thoroughly understand each other's insincerity in politics, and Greece is so determined in her demands, that we may expect at once either war or concession.—Alta.
-The war in Egypt is virtually ended for the present, so far as actual fighting is concerned. On the 12th the British made a night attack upon the Egyptians, and completely routed them. Arabi Bey fled to Cairo, where he unconditionally surrendered to the British, who closely followed. The Khedive rules nominally, but everything is done through the English. Now that Egypt is conquered, the interesting question arises, What will England do with it? A dispatch from London says: "The ultimate fate of Egypt excites keen discussion here and abroad. The strongest feeling prevails in England that what has been gallantly won by the sword must not be whittled away by diplomacy, and Gladstone will have a difficult task to reconcile the wishes of the country with the demands of Europe." It is the general opinion that the most difficult part of England's self-imposed task is yet to come.