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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 43.

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-The Chinese are swarming into Chihuahua, Mexico.
-Three free schools have been opened in Medellin, State of Vera Cruz.
-Another terrible hurricane has occurred at Manila. The damage was quite heavy.
-The Mexican Government is making great efforts to introduce European immigration.
-It is believed that not less than 50,000 new settlers have located in Northern Michigan this year.
-The late Jerome G. Kidder left bequests aggregating $175,000 to various institutions in Boston.
-More Mormon missionaries are working in Europe now than ever before, and with greater success.
-The amendment to the Constitution of New York, making the Erie Canal free, was adopted by over 200,000 majority.
-At Exeter, England, the canal has broken its banks, and the whole country in Cheshire, Warwickshire, and Somersetshire is flooded.
-The Guardian of the Workhouse Union declares that the prospect in Ireland is worse than at any time since the famine of 1846.
-The German Minister of War has made known his decision to extend the German forts and strengthen the fortifications on the Baltic Coast.
-In Delaware the total number of people over twenty-one years of age who cannot write is 2,946,976, of which number 921,000 are white.
-The battle between the black troops and the false prophet in the Soudan, was desperate. The number killed on each side was more than 1,000.
-The concentration of a large Chinese force on the Amoor River has compelled Russia to adopt precautionary military measures on the Russian side of the frontier.
-An explosion at Clay Cross mines, in Derbyshire, England, Nov. 7, caused the death of thirty miners. Houses five miles distant from the explosion were shattered.
-Russia and the Porte are unable to agree as to the time to commence payment of the war indemnity. The Porte claims it ought to begin in March. Russia claims it begins in January.
-Campaign slander bore its legitimate fruit in Henrietta, Texas, where the defeated candidate for County Judge shot and killed a young lawyer who had spoken ill of him during the campaign.
-The definitive treaty between Mexico and Guatala regarding boundary limits has been signed at the city of Mexico. It was one time thought that serious trouble would arise over the boundary question.
-The Eastern and Provincial Poor Asylum, at Halifax, N. S., was burned on the night of the 7th. It was an immense six-story brick building, and contained 400 people. Upwards of thirty persons were burned to death.
-A dispatch from South Africa says that two batteries of Transvaal Boers had an engagement with Mapoch, a Kaffir chief, who defeated them. Mapoch feigned to retreat, and drew the Boers into ambush, killing three hundred.
-It seems that Jay Gould's power is not supreme even in railroad affairs. At the election of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Railway Company, 32,420 votes were cast, of which the Gould ticket received only 5,246.
-The Mormons are becoming exceedingly insolent in their defiance of the law. John Taylor has issued an order compelling church functionaries, such as apostles, bishops, elders, and deacons, who have not gone into polygamy, either to do so, or step down and out.
-The successful candidate for Coroner of New York City was one William H. Kennedy. But now it turns out that there are no less than five persons of the same name in the city, and the question to be decided is, Which one was elected? as two or three claim the office.
-The excavations in the Roman Forum are finished, and 19,000 square feet of ground laid open to light and traffic. For the first time since the fall of the Cæsars, the Via Sacra was traversed by the populace for its entire length, from the beginning at the Colosseum to the end at the Capitol.
-The New York Court of Appeals has just decided that the elevated railroads must pay damages to the owners of property on the streets through which they are built. This will protect the citizens against the greed of a monopoly that has assumed that nobody else had any rights.
-The anarchists in Lyons, whose recent outbreak seriously alarmed Europe, have received a rebuke in the form of a notice from headquarters, and of advice from their brethren elsewhere, that their demonstration was inopportune. They have accordingly postponed operations for the present.
-Great excitement has prevailed of late in the Oil Exchange at Pittsburg. On one day last week, 11,375,000 barrels of oil were sold, the largest amount ever sold in one day. Of course this was mostly stock gambling, and not legitimate business, and as a consequence many firms have become bankrupt.
-It is rumored that the working people intend storming the Museum of Arms and the Town Hall of Vienna. Many arrests have been made. The whole of Europe, although it has the appearance of quiet, is permeated with the spirit of revolution and anarchy, and no power is safe. There is suspicion and distrust everywhere. Men's hearts are literally "failing them for fear."
-Leyroy Beautieu, the famous economist, writing to the Journal des Debats, declares the financial system of France—including the three elements of taxes, credit, and confidence—to be unhealthy, causing the gravest apprehensions. He calculates the deficiency in taxation for the current year as certain to be 60,000,000 francs, and it may reach 150,000,000 francs. The article has caused serious falls of Bourse and Government stocks.
-At Santa Ana, Cal., a man named Smith has killed his son aged about eight years, claiming that the Lord had commanded him to make the sacrifice. The mother, equally fanatical, consented to the deed, and held the boy while the father stabbed him. The murder was committed on the 4th, but nothing was known of it until the 9th, when upon being questioned as to the whereabouts of the child, Smith freely told all. They were asked whether they would make further sacrifices of their children, and both father and mother replied that if the Lord called upon them to sacrifice all, it would have to be done. The family are Mormons.