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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 25.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-The famine fever is spreading in Ireland.
-A revolution has broken out in Buenos Ayres.
-There has been severe fighting at Buenos Ayres.
-A fast mail service from ocean to ocean is expected.
-Religious liberty is likely to be given to the Jews in Morocco.
-At Woodsdale, Butler Co., Ohio, a paper mill was burned; loss $80,000.
-Over 12,000,000 of shad have been planted in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers.
-June 23 the steam cordage company's storehouse in Elizabeth, N. J., was burned; loss, $75,000.
-The leading hotel in Dundee, Scotland, is furnished throughout with furniture made in Grand Rapids, Mich.
-A turquoise mine, the only one on the continent, closed since 1680, has lately been re-opened in New Mexico.
-The St. Gothard tunnel is in great danger of falling in. Engineers decide that its course must be changed.
-Dr. R. S. Storrs says we have most to fear the dry rot in the church, rather than the skepticism outside of it.
-There is some prospect that English capitalists will aid in the construction of the Canada Pacific Railroad.
-A fire in a small village near Bradford, Pa., consumed thirty-one buildings, including the post-office and four hotels.
-Reports from Berlin of June 22 say that near Breslau, Prussia, the rain fell with such violence as to destroy 105 houses and kill 56 persons.
-The Prohibition Party have a national ticket in the field—Neal Dow of Maine for President, and A. H. Thompson of Ohio for Vice President.
-An imperial ukase published at St. Petersburg, fixes the number of men to be enrolled in 1880 for the completion of the Russian army at 235,000.
-A lady in Titusville, Pa., died from kissing her father who had died of erysipelas, and her little daughter was expected to die from kissing her mother.
-The Attorney-General of Texas reports that there are in that State six thousand fugitives from justice, of whom one thousand are charged with murder.
-An anti-dueling association has been organized in South Carolina, with judge Kershaw as president. It proposes to prosecute all violators of the law against dueling.
-It was decided at the M. E. General Conference that the following question shall be asked to all candidates for the ministry: Will you wholly refrain from the use of tobacco?
-A storm near Neponset, Canada, June 21, did much damage. Five and a half inches of water fell in two hours, and for one hour hail, as large as walnuts, destroying small animals and grain.
-The government of France meets with difficulties in enforcing the decrees against unauthorized religious societies. All the judges and public prosecutors at the Court of Versailles have resigned.
-A stringent Sunday law in San Francisco applies only to bakers, who are relentlessly prosecuted if they make or furnish bread on Sunday. Of course liquor is dealt out freely on Sunday as usual.
-Suits have been commenced against ex-Governor Grover, now Senator of Oregon, and his associate officials, for swindling the State. There seems to be no doubt that this was a very corrupt administration.
-There seems to be no doubt that "the powers" consider it necessary to begin administration of the "sick man's" effects. And the Porte begins to realize that affected dignity will not avert speedy humiliation.
-The Examiner and Chronicle says the celebrated trial of Prof. Swing "taught thousands of Presbyterians how little they knew about doctrines to which they had subscribed, but by which they never had thought of living."
-Bradlaugh, the well known atheist, has been refused a seat in the House of Commons. He would not take an oath of office, lest he should appear to recognize the existence of God. His personal unpopularity probably had something to do with his rejection.
-General Hancock is the Democratic nominee for President. He was a good officer in the war, and has always been in the army. Whether he will be capable as a civil officer remains yet to be seen. Wm. H. English of Indiana is nominated for Vice President.
-There is a complete absence of security for life and property about Constantinople. Assassinations in and about Pera are of daily occurrence, and the assassins are permitted to escape. Some Turkish refugees have murdered an Armenian steward of Robert's College, in open day. Colonel Commeroff's assassin remains unpunished.
-The N. Y. Independent, in a notice of a warm discussion of Masonry in the General Synod of the reformed church says: "We do not mean hereby to defend Masonry, for we have no admiration for its system and we despise its pretended antiquities. It has never seemed to us wicked, but only, at worst, puerile. But good Christian people must not be denied all puerilities. Saints may be silly."
-General Fairchild, U. S. Minister at Madrid, has been instructed by the State Department at Washington to make an energetic protest against the conduct of the Spanish gunboat and revenue cutters in Spanish waters in molesting and otherwise interfering with American vessels. It has been determined by the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, that these repeated aggressions by Spanish cruisers shall come to an end.
-Intelligence was received by the steamer Belgic, which arrived on Tuesday last, that the Chinese Government had concluded a contract with Messrs. Remington & Co. of Illion, N. Y., for the manufacture of 50,000 Winchester repeating rifles. The terms of the contract call for the speedy completion and delivery of the arms to the agents of the Chinese Government in this city. This is but one of several similar contracts recently made by the imperial Government, and the disposition displayed leads to the belief that the trouble between Russia and China has not entirely blown over.