p. 335 | ITEMS OF NEWS

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 22, 1880

ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Forest fires are raging in New Brunswick. —Reports of floods in England still continue. —Fifty-eight Jesuits have arrived in Valencia from Marseilles. —Of the white voters in Louisiana, 16,000 are unable to read and write. —A large emigration from Canada to the United States is reported. —Forty thousand volumes were lost by a fire in Prof. Momsen's library in Berlin. —Dr. Tanner, of Minnesota, has fasted for twenty days. He started out for forty days. —Rain fell in Sacramento July 16, and ice formed in Bodie, Mono Co., Cal., during the week. —The schooner Joe Duvall was capsized in Lake Michigan, and seven persons were drowned. —An explosion in a coal mine at Bisca, South Wales, occurred July 15, in which 115 persons perished. —Paine and 22 men, trespassers on the Indian Territory, have been arrested by U. S. authorities. —The anniversary of the French Republic was celebrated with great display in San Francisco, the 14th. —It has been decided that continued riding of bicycles makes the rider bow-legged and stoop-shouldered. —A cold wave swept over Utah, July 11, and snow fell to the depth of four inches on the Wasatch range. —It is said—and is it possible?—that French soldiers, ignoring the deity, are sworn by the regiment they enter. —The latest news is more unfavorable for the grain crop of England. In Russia there will be a large deficiency. —Mr. Bradley, a prominent citizen of San Jose, recently died from the bite of a kitten, received in his thumb. —A whirlwind passed over Hanover, N. H., July 16, wrecking a number of buildings, and doing other damage. —Kaufman, a Russian general, has been sent with 14,000 troops to Eastern Siberia, to quell the troublesome Chinese. —A telegram from New York, July 16, says, "The heat continues oppressive. Seventy-two children under five, died here yesterday." —A violent wind storm passed over Chester, Pa., the 16th, unroofing 36 houses, and blowing down 7 which were partly completed. —Intense heat still prevails in the East. On Wednesday last thirty cases of sunstroke were reported, thirteen of which were fatal. —Queen Victoria has written the king of Abyssinia, and as the result he will doubtless agree to terms of peace with the Khedive of Egypt. —There were 553 people killed and 1,581 injured in Pennsylvania last year by the railroads. —It is announced that Peru and Bolivia are about to consolidate into one government, to be known as the United States of Peru and Bolivia. —Cardinal McClosky writes to the New York Evening Post that the widely published congratulatory dispatch to General Hancock, signed with his name, was a forgery. —A stage was upset on Mount Washington, containing a party from Michigan. One lady was killed; five other persons were injured. The driver was drunk—nobody to blame! —The late census shows the population of San Francisco to be 233,066, being an increase of 33,593 since the census of 1870. San Francisco is the ninth city in population in the United States. —Col. Cash, the murderer of Shannon in a duel in South Carolina, has been arrested for murder on a warrant from the Coroner. It is a question whether he will be punished or sent to Congress. —A lady built a church at Newark, N. J., at her own expense, placing a condition in the deed that if fairs, festivals, and like entertainments are held in it, then it shall revert to its original owners. —Princess Louise is suffering from the wound received sometime ago, and it is reported that Lord Lorne will resign the Governorship of Canada, as she will return to Europe by the advice of physicians. —A construction train on the Long Island Railroad, with 100 Italian laborers, was carelessly run under an iron chain by which a derrick was sustained, and 26 men were seriously injured, several fatally. —In a recent storm in Colorado, ten miles of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad were washed away between Pueblo and Colorado Springs. Also, at Hugo, on the Kansas Pacific, ten cars were washed away while crossing the bridge. —A lively contest is going on between two parties, for and against the separation of Church and State in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. Meetings are held, and pamphlets circulated with a view of influencing public opinion. —The Christian at Work says: "We venture to predict that next century there will be a marked decline in the demand and manufacture of sermon paper. And perhaps with that decline the power of the pulpit will not diminish, but otherwise increase." —From Deadwood, July 16, comes the following report: A passenger from Fort Meade says that a courier from the Little Missouri brings news of a desperate fight between two companies of the Seventh Cavalry and a body of Sioux, in which the troops sustained a heavy loss. —Obedden Pasha, in a conversation with Goschen, the British Ambassador, regarding the state of affairs in Asia Minor, said: "You know what difficulties you have had in Ireland, and how long it has taken you to overcome them. In Asia Minor, where each province has its distinct peculiarities, we have fifteen Irelands to deal with." —July 18, a Constantinople dispatch says: Novikoff, Russian Ambassador, has informed the Porte, that the time has come for an answer in regard to the execution of the assassin of Colonel Comeroff. Goschen, English Ambassador, and Tissot, French Ambassador, have spoken very plainly to the Sultan in regard to the decisions of the Conference. Tissot told the Sultan that his throne would be in danger, and that the precedent of Egypt might be followed if he refused to carry out the decision. —The French Republic has a number of strong enemies, the meanest of whom are the Jesuits. This order has continued to exist in defiance of law; but last week a new act of parliament was put in force, and several of the Jesuit establishments were closed and the occupants turned out neck and heels. The difficulty of the situation must be clear from the statement of the fact. A republic ought to mean liberty; but there cannot be a French Republic if the Jesuit is let alone. Liberty, for him, means liberty to conspire and overthrow. Great effort is made to distinguish, in this action, between the Catholic Church and the order of Jesuits; but unfortunately the order is usually able to command a great influence over the Church in France.—Methodist.