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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1880

ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Bismarck is again ill. —Complete anarchy prevails in Abyssinia. —New Orleans is threatened with an inundation. —A disastrous fire is raging at Copenhagen, Denmark. —Grant and party arrived in the city of Mexico, February 21. —The decrease in the public debt during February was $5,672,019. —Vera Sassulitch, the noted female Nihilist has been arrested in St. Petersburg. —Lowell manufactories have advanced wages without any appeal from the operatives. —A steamer has sailed from London with a cable to connect Manilla and Hong Kong. —Bi sulphide of carbon and petroleum are mentioned as a new motor to supplant steam. —The Princess Louise is quite ill at Ottawa, Ont., the result of a recent sleighing accident. —Printing paper has risen in price, nearly 50 per cent, since the business revival in the East. —The king of the Belgians is sending six small steamers to Stanley, for use on the Congo river. —A fire at Albany, N. Y. on 26th ult., destroyed eleven blocks. Loss estimated at over $100,000. —The immigration to Kansas this year from the East promises to be heavier than any previous year. —An Indian steamer, name unknown, is reported foundered, and five Europeans, and fifty-nine natives lost. —The U. S. Steamer, Marion, has arrived at Montevideo with six officers, and fifteen men prostrated with the yellow fever. —The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the railroads have about arrived at an understanding, and the recent low rates will soon be a thing of the past. —The total coinage of the U. S. mints during February was $8,169,969, of which $2,300,400 were silver dollars. —A Socialist school has been opened in New York. Its avowed object is to counteract the teaching of priests. —34,000,000 bushels of wheat, and 64,000,000 bushels of corn were received in the Chicago market during the year 1879. —The new French Atlantic Cable Company, has adopted a schedule of rates 33 per cent lower than the existing rates. —The German Government has revived the scheme of cutting a ship canal between the Baltic Sea, and the German Ocean. —Seven hundred and fifty pieces of property have been sold for delinquent taxes in Oakland. The list embraced about 1800 pieces. —Indictments have been found against the Controller, City Treasurer, and City Clerk of Elizabeth, N. J., for conspiracy to defraud the city. —A company of U. S. Infantry has been ordered to Coffeyville, Kansas, to prevent a threatened invasion of the Indian Territory by white settlers. —Beecher's sentiment: "We must see to it that the Mongolian shall be as free to set his foot on the western coast, as the Irishman is to set his foot on the eastern coast." —The Sunday evening service at a school-house near Seward, Neb., was ended in a free fight, in which one man was mortally, and four others seriously wounded. —Dr. H. H. Toland, who for many years had stood at the head of the medical profession on the Pacific Coast, died suddenly at his residence in San Francisco on the 27th ult., aged 72 years. —On the 25th ult., a large tenants-rights meeting near Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland, was attacked by 3,000 Orange men armed with clubs, who dispersed the meeting. Twenty persons were seriously injured. —By a snow-slide in Logan Canyon, twenty miles from Logan, Utah, on the 27th ult., six men and several teams were buried. Four men were dug out, but two men and three teams at last accounts, were still under the snow. —Rev. Edward Cowley has been sent to Blackwell's Island prison to serve a sentence of one year for maltreating children in his charge, which is rather embarrassing for him, considering that he was once chaplain at that place. —Two of the Ute murderers concerned in the White River massacre, have been forwarded to Washington, and are confined in Fortress Monroe. One other chief, Douglass, is confined at Fort Leavenworth. No more have yet been surrendered. —Of 5,000 inhabitants in the winter Palace, St. Petersburg, recent investigations show that there were more than 100 who had no occupation or right in the Palace; mere vagabonds, friends of workmen, etc. This human rubbish is being cleared out. —In the interior of Russia diphtheria is raging as an epidemic, and committing terrible havoc. In two provinces alone more than 50,000 people have been carried away by it, whole villages being almost depopulated. The distress is heightened by shortness of crops which foreshadows a famine. —The Berlin police seem to know much more about the Nihilists movements in St. Petersburg, than the authorities of that city. They forewarned the Czar of the Winter Palace affair, and have now declared that the Nihilists intend to blow up three principal streets in St. Petersburg on the 2d of March. —In defiance of injunctions issued by the courts, Jay Gould's new telegraph company, the American Union, has seized the wires of the Western Union telegraph company, along the lines of the Kansas Pacific, Central Branch Union Pacific, St. Joseph, and Western, and Denver Pacific Railroads, and cut the connections with the Western Union offices. —The Legislature of Oregon at its last session passed a law prohibiting contractors from employing Chinese on any public works of the State under severe penalty. The Common Council of Portland also passed an ordinance prohibiting the employment of Chinese on street improvements and other public works of the city. The contractors brought suit in the State Circuit Court to test the validity of the law. This case was decided by Judge Bellinger in favor of the constitutionality of the law, and was appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court reversed Judge Bellinger's decision.