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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 26, 1882

News and Notes.

—On the 17th inst., a mountain fire destroyed about $10,000 worth of property near Santa Barbara, Cal.

—The Prohibitionists of the Fifth District, Massachusetts, have nominated Wendell Phillips for Congress.

—The president of the California Viticultural Society estimates that 20,000,000 vines will be planted this year in this State.

—In the south and west of Yorkshire, England, 24,312 miners have given notice of a strike if wages are not increased.

—The Home Protection Society of Oakland have passed resolutions endorsing the Republican platform, and pledging themselves to support the party.

—The largest steel spring ever made has just been rolled at a Philadelphia factory. It is 310 feet long, six inches wide, and a quarter of an inch thick.

—The long contest in the Oregon Legislature over the election of a Senator, was ended on the 20th inst., by the election on the seventy-fifth ballot, of J. N. Dolph to that position.

—During the last nine months, the value of imports in France, as compared with the same season last year, has increased 99,000,000 francs. The value of exports has increased 246,000,000 francs.

—Hog cholera of a new and virulent type has broken out in Iowa. One farmer near Iowa City has lost about 400. The animals, before death, are covered with putrid, cancerous sores. Pork eaters will take special interest in this item.

—The Turkish Government has made a demand upon the Providence Tool Company for 48,617 rifles, with bayonets and scabards, manufactured by the Tool Company for the Turkish Government, and held, as alleged, in store by said company for the Turkish Government.

—After January 1, 1883, stamped envelopes will be sold to the public at a reduced rate of ten per cent. on present prices. General Hazen states that when stamped envelopes are spoiled through misdirection, or other causes, they can be exchanged for stamps of the same denomination at the nearest post-office.

—A letter from the Official Department of the Public Domain at Alexandria, has been published, declaring that the country is in a state of ferment which can only be cured by the execution of the leaders of the rebellion. It is also stated that the Arabs are only awaiting the withdrawal of the British troops to again massacre the Christians.

—Last April, Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, of St. Louis, offered a prize to the pupils of Kirkwood Seminary for the best essay on “Common Sense About Women.” The essays were sent in without names, and Mrs. Henderson was the judge. The girl who won the prize proved to be a Cherokee Indian, who has since graduated and gone home to the Territory to live.