ITEMS OF NEWS by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 22, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 3.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

By Editor

Gen. Grant is in Florida.
The Liverpool wheat market is dull.
Frank Leslie, the well-known publisher, recently died.
Diphtheria has become an epidemic at Deadwood, D. T.
Jules Favre, the French statesman, died January 19th, aged 71.
George Storrs, well known among the early Adventists, is dead.
The Union and Kansas Pacific Railroads have been consolidated.
It is reported from Berlin that Bismarck is much improved in health.
The City of Peking arrived at San Francisco Jan. 19, with small-pox on board.
The Pope is surprised and indignant at Cardinal McCloskey's reception of Parnell in New York.
The people of Sydney, New South Wales, have subscribed $10,000 for the Irish sufferers.
There are indications that the distress in County Kerry, Ireland, is likely to become a famine.
Insanity will be the defense of Gonzales, who attempted to assassinate King Alfonso of Spain.
A conflagration at Hakodate, Japan, Dec. 6th, destroyed 2,300 houses. Twenty lives were lost.
Richard Wagner, the German composer, is recovering from what was considered a fatal illness.
It is said that Irish laborers in America have sent back to Ireland, in the last twenty years, $65,000,000.
During the year ending Sept. 30, 1879, 405 persons were injured by railroad collisions in this country, 45 fatally.
The report of the Capitol Commissioners of New York show that the total expenditures up to December 1st were $10,299,000.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming extent in the city of Boston, and fears are entertained that it will become epidemic.
Secretary Shurz insists that the Utes concerned in the late massacre shall be surrendered, dead or alive, and that the rest of the Utes shall leave Colorado.
The Louisville, Ky., Savings Bank is closed for repairs, the cashier being a defaulter in the sum of $67,000, which he lost in California tule-land speculations.
During the years 1878 and 1879, there were two attempts upon the life of King William, one upon King Alfonso, and upon King Humbert, and two upon the Czar.
The village of Alcala del Jucar, Province of Albacere, Spain, has been destroyed by a landslide. Several persons were killed, and fifty families rendered homeless.
A colored boy has filed a petition in the U. S. Court in Cincinnati, claiming large damages from a teacher and the trustees of a district school in Clermont county, for ejecting him from the school.
During the past year, in the United States, 101 persons were judicially strangled, and 74 persons lynched. Texas leads in the first matter with 12 hangings; and Kentucky in the second, with 8 lynchings.
The papers have reported that the population of Palestine has been doubled in ten years by Jewish immigration. Mr. Hay, late United States Consul-General, says, "As a resident of the country since 1867, I can positively deny this statement."
The Republican Legislature of Maine has possession of the State House, and the Fusionists have recourse to sidewalk sessions. Daniel F. Davis has been elected Governor by the Republican body, and General Chamberlain has recognized his authority.
The Vermont Bible Society has canvassed ninety-nine towns in the State, and found American families destitute of any portion of the Bible in all but four. Of the 25,394 families visited, 2,323 were without a copy of the word of God, 524 of whom were American families.
Four deputies in the western part of Meeker county, N. C., were recently fired upon by illicit distillers. Organizations had been made by them to drive the revenue officers from the county, and that section has been thoroughly raided. Ten distillers and two men who did the shooting, were captured.