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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 14, 1881

ITEMS OF NEWS.

—It is estimated that the pension list this year will amount to $70,000,000. —A terrible, contagious malady, like leprosy, has appeared near Toulouse, France. —The national debt was reduced twelve million dollars during the month of June. —It is estimated that there are 60,000 miles of telephone wire in the United States. —The U. S. mints coined $6,029,000 of gold, and $2,413,000 of silver during the month of June. —July 5, twelve buildings, including some of the finest in the city, were destroyed by fire at San Jose, Cal. —It is stated that the treaty between Russia and China, has been ratified without opposition by the war party. —The steamship Arizona, which was supposed to be lost, was signaled off Fire Island, N. Y., the night of July 10. —A French company, with $10,000,000 capital, is being formed in Paris to develop the mining resources of Canada. —Of 2546 immigrants that landed in New York in one day, recently, 735 were Mormon converts on their way to Utah. —Four men were killed, and six seriously scalded by the recent explosion of the boiler of a wheat thresher near Baltimore. —The mortality of New York City for the first six months of the year was 18,590; for the same time in 1880, it was 15,279. —A severe shock of earthquake, lasting thirty second, was felt in Hanford, Tulare Co., Cal., on the morning of the 3d inst. —The Baptist church at Wheaton, Ills., has called Miss. F. E. Townsly to the pastorate. The people say they like her preaching. —A locomotive designed to run eighty miles an hour without taking in water, is now building at the Baldwin works, Philadelphia. —Kalloch has formally stated that he will not again be a candidate for mayor of San Francisco. He intends to devote his time in future to his pastoral duties. —A dispatch July 4 says: "A large fire has occurred at Rovno, Russia. Five thousand families are rendered destitute, and all the public buildings are destroyed." —Hamilton Disston, the Philadelphia saw manufacturer, recently bought 4,000,000 acres of land in Florida. He is now the largest land owner in the world. —In El Paso, Texas, July 9, there was a terrible thunder-storm, in which seven inches of rain fell in less than two hours. Of course considerable damage was done. —A St. Petersburg dispatch says the harvest is expected to be very good throughout the Russian Empire. The crop prospects throughout Europe are very favorable. —A revised edition of the New Testament in Welsh has been undertaken. The basis of the translation will be the text of the new English version—a translation of a translation. —The action of the Regents in electing Mr. Reid, of the San Francisco high school, President of the university of California, is severely condemned by the leading journals of the State. —On the 7th inst. a fire in Cincinnati starting in a carriage factory resulted in a loss of $1,000,000. One man is reported dead, sixteen severely injured, and twenty-four missing, probably dead. —Siemens, the European electrician, has cleared $20,000,000 from his inventions, and expects to make as much more from his electric railroad which he has put in successful operation in Berlin. —July 5, a destructive grain fire occurred on the Glenn-Montgomery ranch, fourteen miles above St. John, Colusa Co., Cal. About two thousand acres of wheat, and 12 or 15 stacks, were destroyed. —The eastern and middle States are suffering from the heat. In Pittsburg, work has been suspended in the mills. Many cases of sunstroke, often fatal, are reported from all over the East and South. —Sir Stafford Northcote presented a petition in the Commons recently signed by 800 inhabitants of Northampton, the borough represented by Bradlaugh, praying that Bradlaugh shall not be admitted to the house. —The Dresden Official Journal publishes a ministerial order by which, in virtue of the Socialist law, any one suspected of imperiling the public peace may be refused the right of residing in Leipsic or its suburbs. —Lieut. Condor, of the Palestine Exploration, recently stated in Edinburgh that their survey had identified 140 Scriptural sites in west Palestine, so that 430 out of the 620 mentioned in the Bible were now fixed. —A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va., says a murder trial has been postponed because the public indignation against the attempted murder of Garfield has made it impossible for anyone charged with a similar crime to get a fair trial at present. —In October last, Mr. Charles Watson, of Halifax, offered to give a million tracts to clergyman and others who would distribute them. Applications come in so fast he extended his plan of operation, and has given away eight million tracts relating to temperance. —Secretary Blaine has declared the hog to be healthy, and every way worthy of the consideration of European people. If this decision would only result in such a demand for the hog in foreign countries that all of thm would be exported, it would be a blessing to us. —The Chinese Government having requested the services of an officer to organize for their navy a marine corps similar to our own, First Lieutenant D. Pratt Manning, of the Marine Corps, has been selected, and is granted permission to enter the service of the Chinese Government for that purpose. —The Rev. Arthur Edwards, D. D., editor of the Christian Advocate of Chicago, left, Monday, June 20, with his son, for a bicycle tour of Great Britain and the Continent. They propose to ride about 2,000 miles. Dr. Edwards is a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference which meets in England in the autumn. —It is stated that the internal revenue receipts for the year ending June 30, exceed those of previous years by $10,000,000, the increase being caused chiefly by the increased collections on cigarettes. This is due to the spread of cigarette-smoking among the boys. It is stated also that cigarette-smoking by women and girls is increasing every year. —A dispatch from Santa Fe, N. M., says that a traveling party recently came upon the dead bodies of thirteen Americans, near El Paso. They were a portion of the surveying party of the Mexican Central Railway, originally numbering thirty. It is supposed that the massacre was committed by a remnant of Victorio's band of Apache Indians. —The authorities of Madrid, Spain, are making raids on the gambling hells. A young man, the son of a gambling-house keeper, who was arrested in the act of laying a petard, confessed that he was the agent of a vast conspiracy of persons who for five months have alarmed Madrid, hoping thereby to force the authorities to tolerate gambling. Many arrests have been made in consequence. —The following from the Christian at Work may possibly have a point in it for the Regents of Cal. State University: "The University of Michigan has managed to keep out of politics wonderfully well. And it has graduated 6,166 students, and has some 1,500 in training now; and in the whole thirty-nine years of its existence it has cost the State only $570,000. The result shows that there has been a deal of good sense somewhere." —At the Reading, Pa., iron works an immense cannon is in process of construction. It will be twenty-five feet long, and have a bore of six inches in diameter. Experts have expressed the opinion that the gun will throw a ball a distance of 10 to 12 miles. The charge of powder will be 130 pounds, and the weight of the shot 150 pounds. It is calculated that a shot from the gun will penetrate through two feet of solid wrought iron. —Mr. George I. Seney of the Metropolitan Bank, New York, who has made so many donations to religious and educational institutions, has sent $1,000 to the People's Church, of Boston, for the building fund, saying: "Let it be spent in furnishing comfortable and cushioned seats for the colored friends in the best part of the church, toward which the white people in the 'little upper attic pews' may look to see the colored man worship in the broad aisle."