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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 15, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 2.

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-San Francisco's "Emperor Norton" is dead.
-Trevina has defeated the Revolutionists in Mexico.
-The Czarina of Russia is at the point of death at Cannes.
-Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, has been stricken with paralysis.
-The tendency of the price of wheat at Mark Lane, London, is downward.
-The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Board of Aldermen have a prize fighter for clerk.
-Sir Garnet Wolsley becomes Commander-in-chief of the armies of the Indies.
-A terrible famine prevails in the districts of Baskaleh and Bayazaid, in Armenia.
-General Daza, President of Bolivia, has been deposed, and has fled the country.
-President Prado, of Peru, has left for Europe, and Pierola is announced as Dictator.
-The Presse, Vienna, is of the opinion that a war between Russia and England is inevitable.
-A collision of trains occurred on the New York elevated railway January 4th. No one was hurt.
-The Unitarian and Jewish congregation at Kalamazoo, Mich., united in service on Thanksgiving day.
-The fund instituted by the Lord Mayor of London for the relief of the distress in Ireland, aggregates £5,000.
-Advices from Havana report the steamer Pico a total wreck, near Maracaibo. The passengers and crew were saved.
-By an explosion in a celluloid factory at Newark, N. J., January 5th, four men were killed and two seriously injured.
-Dr. Rudolf Falb claims to have discovered that the languages of the Indians of Peru and Bolivia, are from Semitic roots.
-The buildings of Carlton College, Northfield, Minn., were burned on the 23d ult. The college was closed at the time for vacation.
-Maine is now in the position which Louisiana occupied several years ago. It has two Governors and two organized Legislatures.
-As the result of General Mosby's pointing out the incapacity of Minister Seward, he is likely to lose his Consulship at Hongkong.
-The Kanawha Valley (Va.) miners are in a state bordering upon insurrection, and the militia have been called out to preserve order.
-The recently appointed supervising architect of the New City Hall, San Francisco, is denounced by the papers of that city, as thoroughly incompetent.
-Jan. 14, four hundred and eighty sacks of Australian mail left Omaha, via. San Francisco; the heaviest Australian mail that ever passed over the road.
-The St. Petersburg Golos considers that events are taking such a direction that in all probability the Balkan and adjoining provinces will come under Russian influence.
-The death of William Hepworth Dixon, the writer and traveler, and long editor of the London Athenaeum, at London, on the 27th ult, is announced. The cause was apoplexy.
-The Catholic Review says:- "A man cannot be a good Catholic and be ignorant." To which the Christian at Work responds:- What hosts of bad Catholics there must be!"
-The Philadelphia Times thinks that "a proud desire for showy and costly houses of worship is at the bottom of the financial troubles of nearly all the debt-burdened churches."
-Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is said to spend ten hours a day in preparing a book of his memoirs, writings, and speeches, which is to be published in five languages.
-The Commune of Oberammergau has built a new theater for the representation of the "History of the Sufferings and Death of Jesus," which will be given in the famous valley next summer.
-For the past week the overland trains have been frequently delayed by the snow in the Sierras. The storm there was one of the severest for years. Sheds were destroyed, the snow in some places being twenty-five feet deep on the wrecks.
-The Mt. St. Gothard tunnel is now within less than 500 metres of completion, but the difficulties encountered during the past few weeks, owing to a fault in the strata and an influx of water, will retard by a month, the junction of the two galleries.
-The Keene Wheat Syndicate have 16,000,000 bushels of wheat shut up in the Chicago elevators, and as the price of wheat at New York is lower than the prices paid for the wheat, the "corner" is evidently a failure, and the biters are likely to get bitten.
-The late Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland, if not a Ritualist, suffered the Ritualistic party to have all things their own way in Baltimore. But one of the first official acts of Bishop Pinkney, his successor, is a pastoral forbidding any Ritualist officiating in any church in the diocese of Maryland. It entirely cuts off from service, unless they submit, some Ritualists against whom it was aimed.
-Clerical intolerance in England is not confined to the church-yard, as the Rev. Carr Glyn, Vicar of Kensington, is finding out. This gentleman is lessee of a house in Kensington, the lessors being the vicar and curate of another London parish. Mr. Glyn has turned the house into a boys' coffee palace, and, it will hardly be credited, the reverend lessors have begun an action of ejectment against him for so doing. It is pretty well understood that if Mr. Glyn, who is one of the most hard working clergymen in London, had stuck to questions of candles, ornaments and vestments, instead of trying to do some real good in the world, he would have been free from such annoyance and parsonic opposition.—Christian at Work.
-Dr. Philip Schaff, President of the American Bible Revision Committee, says, concerning the work of Bible Revision, that the New Testament Company of the American Bible Revision Committee held their last meeting on Friday and Saturday, December 26th and 27th, and finished the second revision of the Book of Revelation. In their next meetings they will consider the final action of the British Company on their work. It is expected that the revised New Testament will be finished and published by the English University presses during the year 1880, which is the fifth semi-centennial of the publication of Wickliffe's Bible, the first complete translation of the Old and New Testaments into the English language. The Old Testament Company have at their last session revised for the first time the translation of the Book of Job up to Chapter 11:14.