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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 29, 1881

ITEMS OF NEWS.

—A tank containing 30,000 barrels of oil was struck by lightning and consumed, at Bradford, Pa., on the 23d.

—A terrific gale on the Danish coast Sept. 22, has caused great destruction of property. Thirty ships and smacks are already reported lost.

—September 19, a lamp exploded in the millinery store of Miss Irene Hull at Texarkana, Ark. The fire spread and destroyed a block of buildings. Loss, $60,000.

—French religious communities own real estate in France worth over $140,000,000, and it is averred that they own much more under cover of private individual names.

—In 1842 the assessed valuation of property in the United States, was $2,574,940,000; in 1852 it was $6,117,531,013; in 1860, $12,044,083,615; in 1870, $13,898,096,899; in 1880, $16,258,064,100.

—The national expenditures of Europe in 1880 were $2,282,800,000 or an average to every person of $10.15. Our expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1880, were $267,642,957, or an average of $5.35 to each inhabitant.

—Another bold train robbery occurred in Arkansas on the 22d. The express train was boarded near Prescott, by three armed men, who robbed the passengers and the safe of about $18,000. A large reward is offered for their arrest.

—Ellis Lever, of Manchester, England, has suggested to the American Consul in that city the establishment of an International College, to be called the Garfield University, as a memorial to the late President Garfield, and offers to contribute $10,000 towards its erection.

—Queen Victoria has given a token of respect to the memory of our murdered President, as touching as it is unprecedented. She has ordered the English Court to go into mourning for one week from the 21st inst. No similar notice has ever before been taken of the death of an American President in office.

—Count Campello, the priest of the Basilica of St. Peters, in Rome, who has abjured Catholicism, stated in a recent discourse, that one reason for his action was that he objected to remaining in a church which prevented a man from expressing sentiments toward his country and government which a patriot should cherish.

—The United States Consul at Maracaibo, Venezuela, writes that owing to locusts and drought the Goazira Indians are driven to desperation by hunger, mothers offering their children for sale, in order to purchase food. The people of Maracaibo are offering rewards for dead insects, and 8000 pounds have been collected in one day.

—In London recently large quantities of imitation honey-comb, filled with glucose instead of honey, were found exposed for sale. The boxes bore the stamp of the New York Custom House, and were labeled "Sweet Clover Honey." The honey-comb had been made by machinery out of paraffine wax, and, after the cells were filled with glucose, a hot iron had been passed over the wax tops, thus closing them. The glucose had been made to resemble honey in both its taste and appearance.