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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 31, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 33.

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-The Democrats and Greenbackers "fused" in Michigan.
-There are 1,700 acres of water-melons in the vicinity of Lodi, Cal.
-The Fishery Inspector of Canada has stopped Americans from fishing in Canadian waters.
-There has been heavy washouts on the railroad in Arizona, attended with detention of trains for days.
-The "Ann Arbor School of Music" has been established in connection with the University of Michigan.
-An English steamship has been chartered to load five hundred mules in Philadelphia to be taken to the army in Africa.
-The main mills of the Syracuse Iron Works were burned Tuesday night, Aug. 22. Loss, $200,000. Three hundred men are thrown out of work.
-A recent telegram from Hongkong says that 4,000 natives have died of Asiatic cholera in a single Philippine province. The epidemic is now decreasing.
-Fishermen on the Mediterranean say there were no sharks in that sea before the Suez Canal was opened; but now they are making sad havoc of marketable fish.
-Over one hundred women are on trial at Grossbeckskirk, Hungary, charged with poisoning their husbands. The guilt of thirty-five of these women has been proved.
-San Diego, Cal., now has railroad connection with San Francisco, Sacramento, and intermediate points, the California Southern Railroad having been completed to that city.
-The widow of "Old John Brown" has received a "public reception" in Chicago. Efforts are being made to secure to her the ranch on which she resides in Santa Clara Co., Cal.
-Terrible floods have occurred in Texas. Large loss of property is reported in several places. The town of Ben Ficklin is nearly all washed away, and about forty deaths reported.
-A dispatch from Antwerp, Aug. 26, said: "The extensive wooden wharves here are on fire. Damage to the amount of $200,000 has already been done. The fire is still spreading."
-From Halifax, Aug. 26: "The spool factory, box factory, saw-mill, and forge, owned by Moire Sons & Co. at Bedford, were destroyed by fire. The loss is heavy. A large number of hands are thrown out of employment."
-General Hazen states that the Post-office Department has turned into the treasury a surplus of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year. Some good has resulted from the exposure of the Star Route frauds, if no convictions are had.
-The French generally complain of England taking possession of the Suez Canal, but console themselves with the thought that it may be a precedent for America to take possession of the Panama Canal if occasion calls for it.
-A brutal "prize fight" took place in Saucelito, near San Francisco, Aug. 25. One of the fighters was found dead in the bed next morning. It is said he wished to retire soon after the fight commenced, but was urged on by the spectators.
-It is difficult to tell what is the exact state of things in Egypt, but it appears most probable that not much progress is being made on either side at present. The rise in the Nile is late this year. It is not known what effect the flood, which is now occurring, will have on the war.
-Yellow fever is on the increase at Brownsville, Texas. Mails are not running, and business is suffering. New cases are also reported at Matamoras. The physicians say that many are dying of fright. Port-au-Prince, Hayti, is also suffering severely from the yellow fever scourge.
-The Riverside Press says: "A. B. Clark, postmaster at Orange, will this season gather 1,600 boxes of oranges—about 246,000 oranges—from six acres of orchard planted six years ago last summer, to trees budded to the Wilson's Best. This, as far as we know, is the best yield of fruit ever reported in this State—age of trees considered."
-The government of Victoria, Australia, has been authorized to expend more than $12,000,000 in building new lines of railway. Most of the roads will be for the purpose of opening up the agricultural districts. They will not be costly or intended to carry fast trains. In all there will be fifty-six lines built, and their aggregate length will not exceed 827½ miles.