p. 466 | ITEMS OF NEWS

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 13, 1881

ITEMS OF NEWS.

-Nelson W. Aldrich has been elected United States Senator from Rhode Island, to succeed General Burnside.

-The Catholic College of St. Theresa, at Providence, Canada, 25 miles from Montreal, was burned October 6. Loss, $350,000.

-The captors of the Arkansas train robbers recovered nine thousand dollars of the money, which they divided among themselves!

-The internal revenue receipts on the 6th aggregated $2,894,000, which was $600,000 more than was ever before received in one day.

-The three robbers of the Arkansas railroad train have been caught, tried, convicted, and each sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary.

-October 7 a fire broke out in a hay ware-house in San Jose, Cal., and completely destroyed it. The building contained about two thousand tons of hay.

-The Government of Mexico has contracted with Mierceles & Co. for the drainage of the valley of the City of Mexico for $9,000,000. The company are all Mexicans.

-Frost has visited New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Virginia. In the latter States it did considerable damage and considerable good—nearly used up the tobacco crop.

-One hundred and twenty-five mail pouches, containing over 13,000,000 Internal Revenue stamps of the face value of $2,894,000, were sent out from Washington in one day last week.

-A fire in West Thirty-sixth St., N. Y., October 8, in a shoe factory, cut off the retreat of 25 men on the second floor. Some jumped from the windows; a man of 67 was suffocated, and others injured.

-A shock of earthquake was felt at Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y., Oct. 6. It passed from west to east and made a noise like the rumbling of a heavy train of cars, and shook the buildings perceptibly.

-A report from Fortress Monroe says: a gale Oct. 4 and 5 severely handled the smaller craft on the coast. Nearly all report losses of sails and spars, and some were driven ashore. One schooner lost seven men, another two. The life-saving crews rescued many seamen.

-The London Spectator, speaking of President Garfield, says: "The Queen's unprecedented act in ordering mourning for one neither a sovereign nor a relative, precisely expressed the universal feeling that an Englishman, who was in the place of a King, and worthy to be ranked with kings, had passed away."

-The New York Herald says: "Dispatches from Warsaw point to a startling event that may result from the coming meeting of the Emperors of Russia and Austria. This is nothing less than the dissolution of European Turkey into its natural elements and their absorption by the two great Empires that lie nearest to it."

-A dispatch from Oswego, Oct. 7, says: A fire broke out this morning in the business part of the village of Pulaski, and several buildings on both sides of Main street were burned. A steamer was sent there from this city. The entire business portion is in ruins. The telegraph, express and post-office burned. Loss, over $200,000.

-A dispatch from Wolfsboro, N. H., October 6, stated that the thermometer at that time marked 28.° Snow squalls were frequent. Fruits were frozen on the trees and blown off. Reports from Richmond, Va., say that the frost was very general throughout that State, and did considerable damage. The same was reported from North Carolina.

-Fletcher Harper of the publishing house of Harper & Brothers, of New York, died recently at the age of seventy-seven years. Although the youngest of the brothers, he was in reality the head of the firm. The great success of the firm may be due to the rare good management displayed in the training of the children. Two generations of sons have grown up and entered the business. It has been the custom in the house for the sons to begin work at the printer's case and then master each department of the business in succession. At the end of several years, when the work of training was ended, a department was given to the new-comer. No favors were shown, and all the sons were treated alike.