p. 35 | ITEMS OF NEWS

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 20, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 3.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

— Cyrus W. Field sailed for China, Dec. 15.

— South Carolina has passed a stringent law against dueling.

— War between Greece and Turkey is considered inevitable.

— During 1880 the police of Portland, Oregon, made 2,578 arrests.

— The anti-Jewish agitation has extended to Saxony and Bavaria.

— The Hindoo has 33,000,000 gods. Very few Christians are content with one.

— It is thought that the prosecution of the Land Leaguers will cost over $500,000.

— Jay Gould controls one-ninth of the entire railroad mileage of the country.

— The United States now rank third among the commercial nations of the world.

— Miss Lizzie, daughter of ex-Senator Sargent, has been admitted to practice medicine.

— General John F. Miller has been elected to the United States Senate from California.

— The gross earnings of sixty-eight railroads show an increase of $38,000,000 for the year 1880.

— A petition for the appointment of a woman on the police force has been circulated in Milwaukee.

— General Grant has received the presidency of the World's Fair, to be held in New York, in 1883.

— 159,000 letters were taken from the New York post-office, by the foreign steamers, in one week.

— Col. James G. Fair has been chosen United States Senator from the State of Nevada, to succeed Senator Sharon.

— At Council Bluffs the severest spell of cold weather is reported since 1858. Thermometer 35 degrees below zero.

— The last steamer from Hongkong brought $115,500 in Japanese gold coin for recoinage at the San Francisco mint.

— In the Pennsylvania Legislature, on the 12th inst., thirty-eight names were put in nomination for U. S. Senator.

— A railroad around the great desert of Sahara is projected, the line to run from Algiers to the Niger and thence to Senegal.

— A house in ruins and two children burned to death by the explosion of a kerosene lamp is reported from Reading, Penn., Jan. 11.

— A Chicago correspondent of the Alta says that "the original Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel is lecturing in this city."

— The new Chinese treaty has at last been presented to the public, in full. It harmonizes with previous statements in regard to it.

— The king of Congo, Africa, is reported to have joined the Baptist church, and to be the only crowned head in the denomination.

— During the last year 909 less Chinamen arrived at this port than during 1879. The number of departures cannot be definitely ascertained.

— Russia is this year importing grain, tallow, and wool, the very things with which she has been accustomed to supply half the world.

— The new city hall of San Francisco has cost over $3,000,000 so far, and the architect estimates that it will cost over 1,500,000 to finish it.

— It is reported that 750,000 peasants are starving in the province of Saratoff, Russia, and over a million are in absolute destitution in Samaria.

— The total arrivals in California during 1880 by both land and sea were 47,853; departures, 43,531, a gain of 4,322. In 1879 the gain was 9,484.

— From forty to fifty thousand colliers in Lancashire are striking, owing to the masters trying to evade the law, which compels them to pay for accidents.

— The total population of Utah is 143,907. Of this number, 43,933 are foreign. There are 501 Chinese, and 804 Indians and half-breeds in the Territory.

— The most costly building in the country, when completed, will be the Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City, the cost of which is estimated at $27,000,000.

— Four Chinese steam-ships are to be finished and put on the route between China and San Francisco next August. They are to be manned by American Captains.

— A dispatch from St. Louis, dated Jan. 11, says, "The sale of season tickets for the Bernhardt season began this morning, and up to one o'clock $9,760 were realized."

— About 600 miles of the Northern Pacific railroad are completed and in operation, and 1,600 miles remain to be built. Eastern capitalists have raised $40,000,000 to do this.

— The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, started in 1820, has treated about a quarter of a million patients, most of them gratuitously. It is an admirable and useful charity.

— While a clerk in J. P. Andrews and Co.'s store, Climax, Mich., was weighing out some powder for a customer, it was unaccountably ignited, and an explosion followed by which nine persons were seriously injured, several of whom will probably die.

— It is stated that the examination of the Land Leaguers is proceeding in the Tralee jail, the police fearing to remove the prisoners to the Court owing to the excitement.

— Twelve American Union telegraph men have been arrested at Elizabeth, New York, for interfering with the Western Union wires, and held in $500 bail each, to appear for examination.

— The directors of the permanent exhibition, Philadelphia, have decided to recommend to the shareholders that the show be closed, the building sold, and the affairs of the concern wound up.

— There is an old law still on the Connecticut statute books which declares that "every horse used in any horse race, and on which any wager is laid or any purse or stake made, shall be forfeited to the State."

— Rev. E. P. Hammond has been laboring since October last in Manitoba and Northern Dakota. One thousand converts are reported. If these are truly converted to God and not to Hammond merely, the work is a glorious one.

— Two men on harnessed horses rode up to a circus ticket wagon at Leadville, Colorado, hitched the beasts to it, and dashed off with the vehicle, in which were the treasurer and $1,500. The showmen gave quick chase, and regained the treasure, but the robbers escaped.

— The Oakland Times thinks that in the Southern States where there is a school population of over 5,000,000, with an attendance of a little more than 2,000,000, would be a good place in which to test the system of "parental education" as advocated in the "Poison Fountain" by Zach Montgomery.

— There are at present laboring in India at least twenty-eight different church organizations, representing bodies in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, the United States, Germany, Denmark, and Switzerland. In all there are now at work in heathen countries two thousand Protestant missionaries.

— Two men fired simultaneously at each other in a Salt Lake bar room, and the bullets came into collision. There could be no doubt of this, for one bullet dropped to the floor midway between the antagonists, who were ten feet apart, and the other was turned upward to the ceiling, while both were flattened.

— The Nihilists are giving the Czar no peace of his life, and it is rumored that he intends to retire in favor of the Czarowitz. The last attempt upon his life was a dynamite tunnel running from a barn near the railway. As if to save suspense and waiting, the owner of the barn blew his brains out as soon as he knew the plot was discovered.

— The storm of the past week has been very general throughout California. In the East, intense cold and heavy snows are reported. Terrific storms and disastrous snow-slides are also reported from the Wasatch mountains. In Alta, Utah, several slides have occurred, doing much damage to buildings, burying several persons, and causing the death of three.

— The deputation of Ponca chiefs failing to make their real wants understood in Washington, a Commission appointed by the President to visit among the people themselves and learn the facts of the whole matter, have set out on their journey with, as the Examiner puts it, "a three-month's prospect not much more inviting than a voyage to Iceland."

— Jan. 7, nine deaths occurred from an explosion in the Allentown, Pa., rolling-mills. The same day thirteen inmates of the poor-house near Dover, N. H., perished in the flames of the burning building, also seven persons were burned in a cigar factory in Havana, Cuba. One hundred men were thrown out of employment by the burning of the Bentwood works, near Lancaster, Ohio.

— A Dublin correspondent of the Associated Press writes of 1880 that "a more repulsive and terrible year has never come upon the country. Its history may be written in two words: 'Distress—Disturbance.' It came in a begging box and has gone out with bludgeons. It will take many years to reconstruct the social system now in ruins, and few can be sanguine enough to hope the task will be accomplished in the present generation."