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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 4, 1881

ITEMS OF NEWS.

The President's recovery is now considered by his physicians as absolutely certain.

The Governor of Arkansas has placed Perry county under martial law, because of desperadoes.

A mother and six children living near Lacrosse, Wis., were carried away by the flood in a recent storm.

The Japanese Colony in Paris are about to have a pagoda built in which to perform their devotions.

Sixty-three persons in eleven fishing boats from the Shetland Islands, perished in a gale, recently.

The emigration returns from Bremen, show that 77,303 persons left there for America, in the first half of 1881.

Prof. Eastman of the naval observatory, Washington, D. C., discovered another comet on the morning of July 25.

A lighted cigar stump thrown into a wheat field near Petaluma, Cal., recently, caused the loss of fifty acres of wheat.

The cotton crop for 1880 was fourteen and a half million acres, which yielded five million seven hundred thousand bales of cotton.

A chair of diplomacy has been established in Michigan University. Instruction in political economy and international law will be given by President Angell.

Bishop E. O. Haven, of the M. E. church has had a serious relapse, and is now lying dangerously ill at Salem, Oregon. His physicians think his recovery doubtful.

July 30, an explosion occurred in a distillery in Peoria, Ill., scalding sixty men, ten of them fatally. Unlike Samson, the number killed at the close of its existence was less than at any other time.

Midhat Pasha and the others convicted of the murder of the late Sultan, except the two actual assassins and Izzet Pasha and Slyd Pasha, who were implicated in the crime have been exiled for life to El Hedjaz in Arabia.

A New Orleans dispatch says that the steamer Cornie Brandon, loaded with railroad iron and supplies for the Northern Pacific Railway, sunk on Monday evening, July 25, near Cotton Point, and will, it is thought, prove a total loss.

The Deseret News, the Mormon paper at Salt Lake City, states that the praying circle of the Mormon church is praying unceasingly for the death of President Garfield. And this because in his inaugural-address the President condemned their vicious practices.

The Ameer of Afghanistan has been completely defeated by the forces under Ayoob Khan. The telegraph says the defeat of the Ameer of Afghanistan implies the complete overthrow of the only remaining representative of British influence in Afghanistan.

The German Government quite recently informed the Russian Government, that another plot to assassinate the Emperor was known to be on foot among the officers of the household, and reminded Russia that Germany had vainly given a similar warning just before the explosion in the winter palace.

A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, July 26, says;— "A flood occurred here this morning, doing many thousands of dollars' worth of damage. Several houses were washed away. The mud roofs peculiar to this town, let the water through like sieves. Several wash-outs on the railroad are reported, and the trains necessarily are considerably delayed." At Tombstone all the mill-dams in the San Pedro river were carried away. Many miles of the Southern Pacific railroad have been washed out.

Lord Granville has stated to the French ambassador, that in view of the unquestioned incorporation of Tripoli in the Turkish Empire as well as its proximity to Egypt, the English Government could not regard any interference with it on the part of France in the same manner as they viewed the occurrence in Tunis. In return, the French foreign minister stated that France regarded Tripoli as an indisputable part of the Ottoman Empire and had no intention whatever of invading it.

Now that France has captured her treasure in Africa, the trouble is to hold it. A telegram from Tunis says that the Arabs can be seen within four miles of Tunis. Great alarm continues and many shops are closed. Crowds of fugitives are coming in from the direction where the Arabs have been seen. At Sfax the French are only masters of the ground they stand on. It is unsafe to venture outside of the gates. The French commander in Algeria sent a confidential report to Paris that a serious insurrection might be expected to break out in September.

The Cardinal and Arch-bishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, in his letter, read in every church of his diocese, has most violently attacked the Italian people and Government, including all the Catholics—even princes, statesmen, politicians, and journalists—urging them to combine, and if necessary, use force of arms to restore the independence and temporal power of the Pope in Italy. The Italian Minister at Madrid immediately protested, and the Spanish Cabinet declared that it severely blamed the Primate’s language, and would cause a strong remonstrance to be made to him.

On a recent Sunday, at the church of the Immaculate Conception, in Oakland, Rev. Father King gave notice to his parishioners that he would deny absolution and admission to the Sunday-school to all the children of his parish who attended the public schools instead of the Roman Catholic school recently built upon the corner of Grove and Seventh streets. The announcement has caused a considerable stir among the Catholics of Oakland, all of whom are sending their children to public schools. Father King says in explanation, that he is simply acting in accordance with the Pope's encyclical letter.