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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 17, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 43.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—There were 9,238 immigrants landed in New York last week.

—The State of Nebraska has planted 53,000,000 forest trees.

—The price of seats in the New York Cotton Exchange is $10,000 each.

—The Massachusetts Paper Company at Springfield has failed; liabilities $300,000.

—The Michigan coal company, at Jackson, Mich., are taking out 250 tons of coal a day.

—By the burning of a tenement house in New York, Nov. 7, several of the inmates lost their lives.

—By a rise in the Vermilion river at Streator, Ill., Nov. 11, a coal mine was flooded. Loss $100,000.

—A society for the promotion of experimenting in the navigation of the air has been formed in Berlin.

—A Methodist lay college has been opened at Boston, to suitably prepare young persons for religious work.

—Charles Crocker has recently given $20,000, in Pacific Railroad bonds, to the California Academy of Sciences.

—By the capsizing of a small ferry-boat on the Hudson, at Troy, on the night of Nov. 11, ten persons were drowned.

—At Paw Paw, Mich., arsenic was mistaken for baking powder, whereby a man and two children were fatally poisoned.

—The City Council of Oakland, recently passed an ordinance granting the right to light the streets with the electric light.

—Two tenement houses in New York recently fell in, burying the occupants in the ruins. Ten dead bodies were found in the debris.

—A statue of Lord Byron has recently been unveiled at Missolonghi, Greece, where he died. Great enthusiasm was manifested at the ceremony.

—John Maguire, Mail Agent on the Central Pacific Railroad has been sentenced to two years' hard labor in the California State Prison, for opening letters.

—A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., reports a cyclone which demolished all the buildings on a plantation near Madison Station, Nov. 11, severely injuring six persons.

—Mint Director Burchard estimates the production of the precious metals in the United States, during the fiscal year, to have been $36,000,000 gold, and $39,200,000 silver.

—A conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad says that there is a considerable falling off in travel on Fridays, which he refers to existing superstitions connected with that day.

—Heavy snow-storms and high winds have prevailed in western Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. Trains on the Santa Fé railroad were delayed thirty-six hours, up to Nov. 12.

—The American Baptist Publication Society has appointed Dr. G. S. Abbott, the editor of the Herald of Truth, Superintendent of Sunday-school Missionary work in California.

—The police of San Francisco made a raid on the gambling houses of that city, a short time ago, making numerous arrests, and the city treasury is better off by $4,000 in fines and forfeited bail.

—A violent gale, the most severe ever experienced in southern California, burst upon the country surrounding Los Angeles, November 9, destroying houses, prostrating telegraph wires, and doing great injury to fruit trees.

—General Sherman urges that the regular army be increased 20 per cent., believing that the additional expense will be less than that now incurred by transporting re-enforcements long distances whenever an outbreak occurs.

—The first case under the Sunday law was tried at Greenville, Cal., November 10. The jury were unable to agree, and were discharged. Several other cases have been continued until December, to await the decision of other courts.

—Albert Madden, a mail agent of the Keokuk and Des Moines branch of the Rock Island railroad, has been arrested for robbing the mail, a crime to which he plead guilty. It is said that some 800 missing letters have been traced to him.

—The Christian Union says: "Over 300 girls have recently been removed from the public schools of Lewiston, Me., and placed in a Catholic parochial school, and their withdrawal will involve the closing of at least six of the public schools.

—November 9, the State Capitol at Austin, Texas, was destroyed by fire. The archives of the Republic of Texas, battle flags, State library, and revised Statutes were destroyed. Incendiarism is supposed to be the cause of the fire. Loss about $300,000.

The Sonora and Milton stage was stopped by four masked highwaymen, near Sonora, Tuolumne county, Cal., Nov. 7. The express box, which contained considerable money, was robbed of its contents, and $500 in gold-dust was taken from a passenger.

—The New York Board of Emigration has authorized the prosecution of D. J. Tyson, Coroner of Tompkinsville, Staten Island, who is accused of causing the serious sickness of forty recently arrived Germans, by improper treatment and lack of nourishing food.

—Dr. John M. Leonard, a practicing physician of Burlington, Calhoun Co., Mich., aged 74 years, has plead guilty to having made and circulated bogus silver coins, and has been committed to jail to await trial. A trunk full of dies and counterfeiting apparatus was found in his possession.

—The schooner Carlingford, loaded with wheat, from Duluth, and bound for Buffalo, and the steam barge Brunswick, bound up the lakes with 16,000 bushels of coal from Buffalo, came into collision when off Port Colborne, November 12, and both vessels sank. Four men were drowned.

—A report comes from Cape Coast, Africa, that the King of Ashantee has killed 200 young girls for the purpose of using their blood for mixing mortar for the repair of one of his State buildings. It will certainly be a costly palace; but such proceedings are in keeping with the character of the king.

—Proceedings in the Star-route cases have been quashed through a technicality. Information had been filed against the accused, and the Judge decided that they should have been proceeded against by indictment. This will probably be done, although no very great interest seems to be taken in the prosecution.

—The brewers' and grocers' protective unions, the retail and wholesale liquor dealers, the wine growers, and the wholesale cigar manufacturers, have joined the "League of Freedom," whose object is to "fight the Sunday law to the bitter end." A member said:

"The League is supposed to do for its members just what the Good Templars are doing for their side of the question." The League will defray the legal expenses and pay the fine, if a conviction be obtained. At the next State election they will not support any candidate who will not pledge himself to vote for a repeal of the Sunday law.