News and Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 9, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 10.

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News and Notes.

—The widow of Daniel Webster died at New Rochelle, N. Y., last week.

—The number of paper mills in the United States is set down at 960.

—The coinage at the Mints during the month of February was $9,049,870.

—During sixteen and one-half years, the public debt has been reduced $833,000,000.

—By the burning of an old building in East St. Louis, Feb. 26, a library worth $120,000 was destroyed.

—Mississippi floods still continue and the river is rising. Many people are on the verge of starvation.

—President Vidal of Buenos Ayers has resigned his position, and Senator Santos has been elected as his successor.

—In the Parliamentary election, March 2, Bradlaugh was re-elected to the seat from which he was recently ejected.

—One hundred and fifty persons are reported to have been killed by an explosion in a coal mine at Leoben, Styria.

—February 28, a car containing twenty-five sea-lions, was shipped from San Francisco to a firm in New York, for transportation to Europe.

—It is calculated that the drink bill in Philadelphia last year amounted to $23,220,000, or more by $1,000,000 than the entire rental of the city.

—Ten of the nihilist prisoners, including one woman, have been sentenced to death. The remainder were sentenced to various terms of penal servitude.

—In skirmishes with the insurgents in Herzegovina, during the last twelve days of February, the Austrians lost 116 killed and wounded, including ten officers.

—Conkling and Sargent have both been confirmed by the Senate as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Minister to Germany respectively.

—On the 2d inst. Queen Victoria was shot at as she was entering her carriage at Windsor. No one was injured, and the would-be assassin was immediately arrested.

—It has been decided that mutilated coin should be considered as bullion, and that refilling with silver or gold does not make the coin fit for circulation as legal currency.

—Advices from London, March 2, state that a ferry-boat while crossing a lagoon in West Africa, capsized, and forty-seven of the sixty persons on board were drowned.

—The Iowa State Senate has agreed to the constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. The measure will now be submitted to the people.

—A Judge in Japan has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for having accepted a bribe of $300. If he had not been of exalted rank he would have been sentenced to imprisonment for life.

—A dispatch from Constantinople says: The mobilization of 150,000 troops is projected, in view of the probable complications is Bulgaria, which make necessary the occupation of the Balkans.

—A passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was thrown from the track, near Parkersburg, W. Va., by a stone. The engine ran into a store, setting fire to it, and the whole train, with the exception of one sleeper, was burned. The engineer and fireman were instantly killed.

—A party of men in a Texas town, lynched a man recently, and the Sheriff was compelled to arrest the ringleader, in order to prevent him from being lynched by the friends of the man who had been hung. Lynching will probably be the order of the day in that town or else it will stop entirely.

—Forty tons of blue gum timber have been shipped to the State Prison at San Quentin, Cal., there to be experimented upon to see if it is suitable for the manufacture of furniture. Should the experiment prove successful, the raising of blue gum will be profitable business, on account of its rapid growth.

—The Baptist Church at San Jose was burned on the night of the 26th ult. It was the work of an incendiary. Two attempts had been made before to burn the same building, and one week before an attempt was made to burn the Methodist Church. Six months ago the Jewish Synagogue was nearly destroyed in the same way.

—A special delegate of the Jewish alliance has returned to Vienna from Broody, whither he went to assist 1,300 Jews to return to Russia. He was not successful, as it was learned that if sent back they would be exposed to certain death. One thousand florins will be devoted toward the expense of their emigration to America.

—Saturday March 4, was declared a legal holiday by the Governor of California, to allow the people of the State to give expression to their anti-Chinese sentiments. Business was largely suspended, and mass-meetings were held in all principal towns. Resolutions were adopted, begging Congress to speedily take measures to stop Chinese immigration.

—According to Mr. Comstock, the President of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, half the criminals arraigned in the courts of New York are twenty-one years old or under, and one-fourth are sixteen years or under. He attributes this state of things to the "half-dime periodicals and novels, which fill the minds of the boys with criminal fancies."