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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 19, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 7.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

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-Senator Blaine was fifty years old on the last day of January.
-Small-pox is creating great ravages among the Sioux at Spotted Tail Agency.
-A fire in Hornellsville, N. Y., Feb. 15th, destroyed property to the amount of $50,000.
-The bakers, barbers, etc., are petitioning the California Legislature for Sunday laws.
-Prof Nordenskjold in the Vega has arrived at Naples, and had a magnificent reception.
-Letters patent was granted to Thomas A. Edison, on the 27th ult., for his new electric lamp.
-The English Liberals have been defeated in the late elections at Liverpool and Southwork.
-A bill has passed the New York Legislature giving the women the privilege of voting for school officers.
-King John, of Abyssinia, in addition to a war with Egypt, has an internal revolution on his hands.
-The total expenditure and loss of resources to France by the Franco-Prussian war was $2,787,800,000.
-Trinity church, New York, was burned Feb. 11. The building and organ cost $135,000; insured for $57,000.
-Philadelphia and St. Louis are both moving to send ship-loads of grain and provisions to famine stricken Ireland.
-A bill to abolish primogeniture is to be introduced by the British Government at the next session of Parliament.
-A severe tornado passed over Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 12, doing considerable damage to church spires and roofs.
-The Steamer Constance, coal-laden, from Cardiff for Malta, foundered off Land's End, and all but two of the crew were lost.
-Four men were killed and one injured by the explosion of the boiler in a saw-mill at Randolph, N. H., on the 17th inst.
-The Steamer Tokio, which carried a small party of Seventh-Day Baptist missionaries to China, has arrived safely at Hong Kong.
-An increase of from 6 to 10 per cent in wages goes into effect March 1st, in the Amoskeag, Manchester and Stark mills, Manchester, N. H.
-Benjamin Moran, American Minister to Portugal, is said to be an almost helpless paralytic, and it is feared he must abandon his post.
-Two hundred families of Philadelphia Quakers will form a colony in Minnesota on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, next spring.
-Illinois farm products amounted to $200,000,000 last year, which is double the product of all the gold and silver mines in the United States.
-For the fourth time during the present century the Lake of Zurich is frozen over. The Lakes of Morat, Neufchatel and Bienne and the River Arve are also frozen over.
-The editor of the Hollister Enterprise, was fatally shot by the editor of the Telegraph at that place Feb. 12th as the culmination of a newspaper quarrel between the parties.
-The Empire Warehouse, Chicago, was destroyed by fire Feb. 15th. The loss on building and contents is in the vicinity of half a million of dollars; insured for about $175,000.
-By the collapsing of an elevator in Chicago, Feb. 12th, 125,000 bushels of wheat were spilled on the ground, and a twelve-stone mill adjoining was ruined. Loss estimated at $200,000.
-The miners in the Scharley mines, Breslau, have indulged in riotous proceedings, demolishing the buildings at the mouth of the pit, destroying the books, and maltreating the officials.
-The command of Captain Rucker, which had been on the trail of hostile Indians in New Mexico, came up with them Feb. 8th, in the San Andreas mountains, and was utterly routed by them.
-In Lower California political strife prevails, and long-named generals with armies of fifty men at their backs shake their armies and breathe death and devastation across the borders of contiguous States.
-General Grant and party left Havana for Vera Cruz on the 13th inst. Just before leaving Cuba the train bearing the party was ditched and they were compelled to pass the night on a lonely plantation.
-A violent storm on the Atlantic, Feb. 1st, is reported by vessels arriving at Eastern ports. The Guion steamer Wyoming had an entire deck watch of eight men disabled, two having their legs broken.
-The Pioneer and Mission woolen mills, San Francisco, employing 500 Chinese, and the Oakland jute mills, employing between 700 and 800, have discharged all of their hands and closed their mills, until it shall have been decided whether the State has the right to restrict corporations in their choice of labor.
-Letters received from Japan give the information that the mission established in Tokio, by the Woman's Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was completely swept away by the late fires.
-The daily papers teem with Presidential possibilities, to the exclusion of other news. Blaine seems to take the lead among the Republicans, while with the Democrats Bayard and Thurman are about equally strong.
-Baroness Burdett-Coutts has decided to devote the sum of $2,500,000, to the amelioration of the condition of the Irish peasantry. The money will be invested in land which will be let to small tenants in long leases and at moderate rents.
-A demonstration of the San Francisco workingmen is in progress. A large delegation of unemployed men are visiting the various corporations, and demanding that they discharge the Chinese in their employ, and substitute white labor therefor.
-Between 6,000 and 7,000 seaman's libraries are kept on the water by the American Seaman's Friend Society, the number of volumes being over 300,000. Many thousand vessels are, however, still in need of books, and gifts and donations are solicited by the Society in furtherance of their good work.
-The dining-room and guard-room of the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg, were blown up by Nihilist conspirators on the 16th inst. by means of a mine placed under the guard-room. Five soldiers were killed and thirty-five wounded. The lives of the imperial family were saved by the fact of their being behind time.
-The contract existing for a long time between the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. and the overland railroads has been dissolved, and low passenger rates between California and the East result therefrom. Rates are now as follows: Steamer, to New York, cabin, $75; steerage, $45; overland, first-class, $100; second-class, $75; emigrant, $45.
-A noble instance of true Christian charity, which illustrates forcibly the Master's injunction as to not letting your right hand know what your left hand does, is announced by the secretary of the London, England, Hospital. They have received a splendid Christmas box in the shape of an anonymous contribution of $25,000 to the funds of that charity.
-Considerable excitement is said to have been caused in Lyons by a discovery which purports to give to flax all the qualities and appearance of silk. It has long been known that silk is soluble, not only in powerful acids, but also in soda and chloride of zinc, and it is said that these qualities are made use of in the new process. A company is being formed with a capital of $6,000,000 for the manufacture of the new textile.