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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 22, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 24.

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-A fire in Victoria Square, Montreal, June 14, destroyed property to the value of nearly a million dollars.
-Ex-Governor William Dennison, known as the War Governor of Ohio, died June 15, aged sixty-seven years.
-A severe storm on the night of the 15th inst., prostrated four railroad bridges between Guilford, Ind., and Indianapolis.
-The gold obtained in Australia during the past year is valued at £838,378, the largest yield reported for the last five years.
-The four robbers of the Brookfield (Mo.) bank pleaded guilty, and were each sentenced to twenty-five years' imprisonment.
-The steamship Pera, from Montreal to Great Britain, foundered off Cape Race, June 14. The cargo and ten persons were lost.
-During a severe storm at Indianapolis, the 13th inst., a bridge was carried away by the flood, and ten persons were drowned.
-A gang of horse thieves are operating in the vicinity of Gridley, Cal., and several valuable animals have disappeared within the last week.
-People are being warned against the danger of taking small-pox from cigars made by Chinese. There is one sure preventive: don't smoke.
-A man in Los Angeles, while digging a well, June 15, struck a bed of rock salt at a depth of twenty-two feet. The find is considered valuable.
-The net loss to strikers in Cleveland, for the month ending June 15, was $160,000. There is evidently more money to be made by working than by striking.
-Attorney-General Nash, of Ohio, has decided that organizations forming to resist the execution of the prohibitory laws, cannot be incorporated under the laws of the State.
-A member of the Chinese Legation says that the Chinese Government will return fifty students to American colleges, having discovered that their removal was a mistake.
-A locomotive provided with an electric head-light has been placed on the French Northern Railroad. The electricity is furnished by the application of the surplus power of the engine.
-It is said that the Czar, in his self-imprisonment for fear of nihilists, gets the exercise necessary to his health by sawing wood. Tastes differ; but we should prefer to saw wood at liberty.
-The captain of the British Steamer Genelg was fined $5,250, in the United States District Court, in Portland, Oregon, June 14, for carrying 105 passengers in excess of the legal number.
-The prospects for an abundant harvest, it is stated, were never before so good in Colorado. The cool weather in May, and the abundant rains, have insured a large yield of wheat and oats.
-In the case of the People vs. the Gold Run Ditch and Mining Company, the injunction is sustained and made perpetual, preventing the company from running mining debris into the American River.
-The Illinois Department of Agriculture publishes reports which show the growing corn crop to be in a backward condition. The indications are that there will not be more than three-fourths of a crop.
-Miss Lizzie Sargent, the younger daughter of the minister to Germany, intends to pursue her medical studies at a German university. She is already a qualified physician, having been graduated at the Pacific Medical College.
-A report comes from North Queensland, Australia, that the brig Jane Stewart was taken by the natives of Maylayta, one of the Solomon Islands, and that all on board of her, except one seaman, were murdered, and the vessel set on fire.
-General Ignatieff, the Russian Minister of the Interior, has been relieved from his position, at his own request. In a conversation after his resignation, he stated that it had been a part of his policy to rid the country of the Jews.
-An effort is being made in Canada to stop swearing on the public streets. If it succeeds, conversation may be limited in quantity, but it will be vastly improved in quality. There is a law which imposes a sentence of three years in the penitentiary for such an offense.
-A heavy rain storm, accompanied by waterspouts, swept over Denver, Col., June 11, doing thousands of dollars worth of damage in the city and surrounding country. Cellars and basements were filled with water, and several warehouses were swept away. Five persons are known to have been drowned.
-British Columbia is now suffering from severe floods. Frazer River is higher than ever known before, and is still rising. The latest news from the farming districts of Chillinhack and Sumas is that everything is submerged. The loss of stock and crops is very great, and considerable damage has been done to the railroads.
-For months past the West, and especially the Yellowstone Valley, has been swarming with eastern speculators, who were buying up large tracts of the Northern Pacific lands, to hold them for a rise. These operations have been checked by an order that hereafter not more than 160 acres of these lands shall be sold to one person.
-The first consignment of frozen meat from New Zealand has reached England in fine condition. The shipment was by a sailing vessel, which was ninety-eight days on the passage, and the hold of the ship containing the meat was kept at 20° below freezing point, by mechanical refrigeration. The vessel had on board 5,000 sheep.
-A Dayton (O.) Journal's special from Warren and Butler Counties states that the army worm is totally destroying the grain. The worms appeared in millions, and are passing northward through the Mississippi Valley. In a few hours they almost totally destroyed fields of hay and of wheat in fine condition and ready for harvest in a week.
-The British steamer Strathairly, now in San Francisco Bay, has been taken possession of by the authorities, under a libel filed against her to recover $22,580 penalty for bringing a surplus of passengers into port. One hundred and fifty Chinese passengers have also sued to recover $4,000 damages for a breach of contract to land them at Honolulu. Bringing Chinese to the United States is not particularly paying business to ship owners just at present.
-There is no present prospect of quiet in Egypt; but what the result of the trouble will be, no one can well determine. The Khedive is powerless, and the natural jealousy existing between the powers, keeps them from interfering to any purpose. On the 11th inst., there were serious riots in Alexandria, between the natives and Europeans. The soldiers were called out, but they looked on without interfering with the work of bloodshed. They were evidently in sympathy with it. The British Consul was dragged from his carriage, and beaten. The number of bodies of Europeans that have been found, who were killed in the riots, is said to be 340. Thousands of foreigners are leaving the interior, and all the men-of-war are crowded with fugitives. All the countries of Europe have troops in readiness to send to Egypt.