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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 24.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

  • The rebellion in Upper Burmah has ended.
  • Bishop Haven will be resident in San Francisco.
  • "130 in the shade" is the report from Tucson, Arizona.
  • President Hayes will come to California early in September.
  • Heavy floods are reported in the Willamette and Snake rivers.
  • Loss by a fire in King's Fruit Cannery in San Francisco was $50,000.
  • There is no hope of ascertaining the number lost on the Narragansett.
  • The 16,000 churches of the Methodist Episcopals owe an aggregate of $7,000,000.
  • The loss by the Titusville fire was one and a half million dollars, with little insurance.
  • Rosedale and Co.'s furniture factory in Baltimore, burned June 19, involved a loss of $200,000.
  • By an accident in a shaft at the Yellow Jacket mine in Virginia, Nev., six men were killed.
  • Another American vessel reports having been fired into by a Spanish cruiser. Spain loves trouble.
  • A hurricane in the neighborhood of Petersburg, Va., June 12, did much damage to buildings and crops.
  • The Reno Journal says the farmers in Nevada are becoming thoroughly alarmed over the rapid increase of grasshoppers.
  • The local option resolution passed in the British House of Commons, June 18. It was rejected in several previous sessions.
  • The Leadville strike is reported ended, after much trouble, and much evil, the miners resuming work at the old wages.
  • The Conference of the Nations is in session at Berlin; but nobody expects that Turkey can be induced to keep her promises.
  • Santa Cruz boasts a newly-found attraction—a cave both extensive and beautiful, which may prove a rival of the finest in the country.
  • The prospect is that Napa valley will have a much larger grape crop than ever it had before, and the prices will be higher.
  • A tract distributor in Dublin has been fined twenty shillings for offering to a Roman Catholic priest a printed invitation to a meeting.
  • It is estimated that the late North wind will cause a decrease of the wheat crop in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys of about 15,000,000 bushels.
  • On May 30 the sermon of T. K. Butcher in Elmira, N. Y., was taken down in the Gazette office in Williamsport, seventy-eight miles distant, being connected by telephone.
  • The first National Bank of Brattleboro, Vt., has failed through the swindling operations of its President, Waite. The amount of loss will reach nearly half a million.
  • A certain "Professor Northrup," speaking in Faneuil Hall, said that "science" has discovered that man, instead of being a little lower than the angels, is only a little above the apes!
  • Col. Gordon, says a Bombay correspondent, has gone to China to persuade the Chinese against war with Russia. Reports say that Russian troops are pressing eastward, and much uneasiness is felt in Russian-Turkestan.
  • Congress adjourned on the 16th inst. As the nominations may be considered made, the members think they can now better serve their parties in the field than in Washington. Nothing else could induce them to adjourn.
  • Ireland yields, poor as it is, $25,000,000 to the British revenue for the tobacco, whisky, ale, and porter consumed by its people. And its contributions to the Pope have been largely kept up in the midst of its destitution.
  • H. M. Paul, of Dedham, Mass., a graduate of Dartmouth College, and now Assistant Observer at the Naval Observatory at Washington, has received the appointment of Professor of Astronomy in the University at Tokio, Japan.
  • The last census in France showed that there were 35,387,703 Roman Catholics, 467,531 Calvinists, 80,117 Lutherans, 33,119 of other Protestant denominations, and about 50,000 Jews. Only 90,000 reported as belonging to no church.
  • The Oakland Times says the religion of the White House will be changed from Methodist to Baptist, as Garfield belongs to the latter denomination. A mistake. Garfield belongs to the Disciples, popularly known as "Campbellites."
  • In testimony given in the contest over the will of Mrs. Doursey, Jefferson Davis swore to his belief that "the Confederacy still existed." We do not understand those Southrons who professed to "accept the situation after the war," and who yet indorse Jefferson Davis.
  • Rev. George A. Peltz, the Baptist minister and Sunday-school worker, denies the charge of adultery, and the church exonerates him. But he confesses to such imprudence of conduct as to "compromise the reputation of a certain lady," and therefore retires from the ministry.
  • The "famine fever" has appeared in West and South Ireland.
  • A hurricane in Pittsford, N. H., destroyed property valued at $100,000. A great amount of timber was blown down.
  • The Greek government is taking measures to increase its army from 12,000 to 40,000 men. She is suspicious of any promises to do her justice. Other small States manifest a like want of confidence in the overtures for the settlement of grievances.
  • The village of Homana, in the county of Zemplin, has been destroyed by fire. Many of the inhabitants were burned and others injured. The famine having raged since the beginning of the winter, the misery is indescribable. One thousand and eleven houses were burned in Hungary during May.
  • General Sutter, the pioneer of California, at whose mill gold was discovered, died in Washington, June 18. He was possessor of a Mexican grant, the Mexican government having appointed him Governor. In the changes of government he lost his estate, and died poor. He was born in Baden in 1803.
  • Though Indiana had one of the best "war Governors," it had the misfortune to have her U. S. Senator expelled for treason. Now its Supreme Judges have immortalized themselves by declaring amendments to the Constitution unconstitutional! Congress should ask leave of Indiana authorities to open its next session.
  • The Negro Exodus has commenced again, and according to reports has but barely commenced, though large numbers have arrived in St. Louis. There will be a general leaving in Mississippi and Louisiana, as they expect another "bull-dozing" in the coming political campaign. Many who have been successful in business are leaving all to get away.
  • Minister Angell arrived in San Francisco the 12th, and the Commission left for China the 17th. To a reporter of the Alta Pres. Angell said: "The excitement, almost continually kept at fever heat, against the Chinese by Kearney, manufactures eastern sympathy for the Chinese. The more they are abused and threatened by Kearney and the sand-lotters, the more they are pitied and their part is taken."