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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 15, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 23.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

-A meeting of the National Prohibition Alliance is to be held in Chicago, August 22.
-Active preparations are being made for the shipment of grain from California to Europe via New Orleans.
-There are said to be 7,000 American students in Germany, who spend, it is estimated, about $4,500,000 annually.
-Another appropriation of $10,000 to the persons made destitute by the Mississippi floods, has been found necessary.
-Five hundred cattle that were to be shipped to England, were poisoned recently near Montreal, by eating a noxious plant.
-A gang of four counterfeiters, with 6,000 counterfeit dollars, tools, dies, etc., were captured in Chicago by the Secret Service officers, June 8.
-A bill has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies providing for the immediate abolition of slavery in Cuba, and granting the slaves civil rights.
-A dispatch from Milwaukee, June 7, says: "Heavy forest fires are raging in the vicinity of Merrillton, Wis., and considerable damage is being done to standing timber."
-Another explosion occurred in the Powder Works at Stege Station, near Oakland, on the evening of the 8th. The building was blown to atoms, but no lives were lost.
-In Japan 90 per cent. of the people are able to read; in the United States only 80 per cent.; in England, 67; in China, 50; and in India 5 per cent. can boast that accomplishment.
-A State Prohibitory Organization has been incorporated in Wisconsin. Its objects are to secure the submission of a prohibitory amendment to the people, and to compel its enforcement.
-"White labor laundries" run solely by Chinamen, are among the tricks which the "heathen Chinee" adopts in order to secure the custom of those who are unfavorably inclined towards him.
-A severe hailstorm swept over Northampton County, N. C., and Southampton County, Va., June 6, demolishing houses and ruining crops. Some hailstones were said to be a foot long, and to weigh a pound and a half.
-There is no suspension of the outrages in Ireland. The latest is the shooting of a landlord and his escort. Such events are getting so common as to scarcely excite remark.
-Reports from Patrick County, Virginia, state that owing to the drought last year, which ruined the corn crop, many persons are actually starving. The county is very mountainous and isolated, and distant from the railroad, which renders it difficult for assistance to reach the people.
-According to the official figures of the Internal Revenue Commissioner, the number of barrels of beer made in the United States, in 1863, was 1,765,827; the number in 1880, was 13,147,110, an increase of over 11,000,000 barrels. What a shockingly temperate nation we are getting to be.
-A paper was read before a recent meeting of the New York Historical Society, in which it was emphatically denied that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, as is generally supposed. The original manuscript was brought forward to prove that it was written by one John Dennison.
-It is stated that the Khonds, an aboriginal tribe in the Central Provinces, have taken Bhowra Patra, the chief town of the tribe called the Cultahs, whom the Khonds accuse of agrarian encroachments. They robbed the treasury and murdered over four hundred people. Portions of the hair and flesh of the victims were distributed among the Hill Khonds to induce them to join the revolt.
-On the evening of the 4th inst., the schooner Industry capsized just outside the harbor of South Haven, Mich. All on board were drowned. The wreck was near the shore and was witnessed by hundreds of people, but owing to the terrible sea it was impossible to render any assistance to the drowning crew. A severe storm was raging all along the eastern shore of the lake at the time, and many wrecks are reported.
-It is said that the American Society of Civil Engineers is arranging a scheme for a standard time for the whole world. Among other changes, it is proposed to have only one series of hours in the day, extending from midnight to midnight and numbering from 1 to 24, without interruption; to number the hours between midnight and noon (1 to 12) precisely as at present, and to denote the hours between noon and midnight by letters of the alphabet.