p. 131 | News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 16, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 11.

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--Bradlaugh has again been refused a seat in Parliament.

--Brady has been held in $20,000 bail in the Star-route cases.

--A bid of $2,900,000 has been made for the Sprague estate at Providence.

--The "Chinese Bill" has passed the Senate and bids fair to pass the House also.

--Chicago boasts that its cable roads are an improvement on those of San Francisco.

--The Chicago clergy are moving unitedly to stop the Sunday theatrical performances.

--In a late daily we noticed accounts of four murders of women in a half column of news.

--McLean, the Queen's assailant, has been committed for trial on a charge of high treason.

--The U. S. Commissioner at New York refused to allow naturalization papers to a Chinaman.

--The entire city detective force of Philadelphia has been disbanded on account of charges against its character.

--The floods on the lower Mississippi are disastrous beyond any precedent. The suffering can hardly be estimated or realized.

--The Lake Superior Powder Company's packing house at Marquette, Mich., was recently blown up, and four men were killed.

--A report from Cincinnati says the steamer Sidney burst her steam pipe March 10. Two persons were killed and fifteen wounded.

--A. N. Towne, Superintendent of the Central Pacific Railroad, has been reported dangerously sick. He was at Indianapolis when taken down.

--Two Indians were hanged in Lake Co., Cal., March 10, for an unprovoked murder committed in 1881. Both were drunk when the crime was committed.

--Farmers in some parts of California are having their wheat entirely destroyed by wild geese, which are so numerous that they cannot be kept off the fields.

--Considerable rain has fallen lately in California, though not enough to spoil the reputation of this, as a "dry winter." There have been no heavy rains or floods.

--Ex-Senator Conkling has declined the Associate Justiceship of the Supreme Court of the United States. Senator Edmonds of Vermont also declined, but later reports say that he will accept.

--A meddlesome "masher," in San Francisco, who tried to ruin a lady's reputation because he could not succeed in ruining her character, was severely chastised by the lady, in a Fourth Street Restaurant, whereat good citizens rejoice.

--The House Committee on Commerce has instructed White to report the bill appropriating 25,000 to enable the Secretary of the Navy to transmit to maritime cities and all cities of over 15,000 inhabitants desiring it—the standard Washington time daily at meridian.

--Sergeant Mason has been sentenced to eight years' confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary at Albany for shooting at Guiteau. However just the sentence may be, many will sympathize with him. Mason received the news of his sentence with apparent indifference.

--Strikers and Trades Union men have been so violent in their actions at Omaha that the military have been called out to protect the laborers. Trades Unions might perhaps exist without making nuisances of themselves, but they do not seem to achieve great success in that way.

--The captain of the Cunard steamer Catalonia, which arrived at Liverpool from New York March 10, reports that when off Point Linas on the outward passage, his vessel came in collision with an unknown barkentine during a dense fog and he believes the latter sunk with all on board.

--England sent $18,000,000 worth of merchandise into Japan last year and imported from the same country $3,400,000. The United States sent $1,742,000, and took away $12,338,000. It is prophesied that in twenty years Japan herself will have a larger merchant marine than the United States.

--A World letter from Panama, dated February 28th says that work on the canal is almost suspended, that the shareholders are becoming dissatisfied. The death-rate among officers of the canal company has slightly increased. The number of deaths up to February 23d was eighty-one.

--The Times' Constantinople special says: It is feared in official circles that war between Russia and Austria is inevitable. The question of calling out the reserves is being seriously discussed. It has at least been decided that some preparatory measures should be taken. The exaggerated apprehensions of the Palace party caused them to look favorably on an alliance with Austria.

--Specials say that nothing has been heard from Deputy Marshal Healy, who is a prisoner among the half-breeds at Milk River, since the 20th ult., and his friends are anxious for his safety. He sent word of his condition by smuggling a dispatch through the half-breeds with the aid of an old friend who was in company with them. He is a man not likely to call for help if he had any chance to help himself.

--A terrible storm visited the city of Mexico March 6, causing great consternation among a crowd at a circus. Within five minutes tons of hail fell and tore down the canvas, and with it the poles, extinguishing all the lights. The scene was frightful, women were screaming and fainting, and the panic-stricken people scrambled for the exits, rushing ankle deep through the water. Fortunately the casualties were slight.

--The manufacturing towns at the East have grown rapidly in population. Jersey City increased from 82,000 in 1870 to 120,000 in 1880; Newark from 105,000 to 186,000, and Pittsburg from 86,000 to 153,000. No Western cities of like population in the most rapidly advancing States show such growth as this. Pittsburg, a purely manufacturing town, heads the entire list of cities of the country in growth during the last decade.

--When "Colonel Fremont" was in California he purchased Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, for the United States, but the Government officials repudiated the purchase. Afterward the Government took possession and has spent about $8,000,000 on it, making it the chief defence of the harbor. General Fremont now sues for possession, with good prospects of success. He paid $5,000 for it, and the right seems to rest in him as the Government would not accept the purchase.