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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 30, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 45.

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-The Prohibition vote cast at the late election in the State of New York was about 25,000.
-It is stated that the mails between Denver and Eastern cities are being systematically robbed.
-Thurlow Weed died at his home in New York the 23d inst. He had just passed his eighty-fifth birthday.
-It is said that it will require fifteen tons of white lead to repaint the dome of the Capitol at Washington.
-The North Pacific Railway company have offered for sale 3,000,000 acres of land east of the Missouri River, at $4 an acre.
-The Sultan of Morocco has authorized Spain to take possession of the ports of Santa Cruz, Delmar, and Pequna, on the coast of Morocco.
-A severe storm occurred on the Lakes last week. Several vessels foundered in the harbor at Buffalo. Four schooners were wrecked near Big Point Sable.
-The Czar of Russia has at last ventured to appear in public. In company with the Empress, he recently drove through the streets of St. Petersburg in an open sled.
-The Board of Health of Iowa City, Iowa, reports that not a death occurred within the limits of that city during the month of October. The city has 10,000 inhabitants.
-According to a report from the English Colonial office, the island of Cyprus has expended $120,000 this year in the destruction of locusts' eggs. This is supposed to represent the destruction of 16,000,000,000 embryo locusts.
-Woman's rights are obtaining recognition in Norway. Parliament has just passed a law giving women the privilege of attending the universities and applying for degrees in all the arts and sciences; but the right to hold office is not yet accorded to them.
-Several attempts at train wrecking have been made near a certain point in San Bernardino Co., Cal. After some sharp detective work, it has been found that it was all done by one family, who make a business of train-wrecking, in order to live off from the plunder.
-There is no accounting for the freaks of the courts. It is a common pastime of small boys in some places to stone Chinamen. In Marysville a Chinaman who had been pelted with stones turned on his tormentors and threw one stone. For this he was fined $20, while the boy, who was the aggressor, was let off with a fine of one dollar.
-A newly-elected Congressman in this State is eulogized by an exchange, as being "genial, jovial, jolly, and careless, with a fondness for variety entertainments;" one who is intimate with minstrel performers, and sometimes appears as one himself. He will be a valuable acquisition to Washington society. Such talent is in demand there.
-President Arthur has dismissed the Marshal of the District of Columbia, the Postmaster for the city of Washington, and his assistant, and the foreman of the Congressional Record, for interfering with justice in connection with the Star-route trial. Attorney-General Brewster says that he is satisfied that the men who were indicted are guilty, and are deserving of the severest penalty of the law, and that he is determined to pursue the case with vigor and rigor.
-The hold which whisky has upon politics may be seen from the fact that the New York Times printed an article on local politics just before the election, and said that rumors were being circulated that a certain politician was a pronounced prohibitionist. This the Times denounced as a plot to injure him. The same thing occurred not long since in San Francisco, where a daily paper defended a candidate from the charge of being a temperance man, and said that he had always voted against local option. This was the surest way to win votes for him.
-And now it is said that Iowa will have to vote again on the prohibitory amendment to the State constitution. Judge Haight of the District Court has set aside the amendment on account of a clerical error. The clause which the House voted upon was not worded exactly the same as the one which passed the Senate. The case is to be appealed to the Supreme Court, and some journals think it possible that the deliberate intention of the voters will not be allowed to be overthrown by an error in copying. The case is open to the suspicion that the error was due to something besides an accident. It is said that the Mayor of Iowa City has commenced issuing saloon licenses again. It is too bad to see the will of the people thus ignored on a technicality.