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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 11.

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ITEMS OF NEWS

—Reports say the Afghan army is increasing enormously.

—The British revenue for 1879 fell about $17,000,000 below the estimates.

—The Episcopal church lost in membership in the State of Maine in 1879.

—Col. Blood, late husband of Victoria Woodhull, was on Governor Garcelon's recent staff.

—A famine prevails in Armenia and Kurdistan. It extends over 100,000 square miles.

—The New York Independent calls San Francisco's Mayor, Kalloch, "a full blown hoodlum."

—In a recent fire in Zadworri, Austria, twenty-five houses were destroyed and five persons killed.

—The bark Strathnairn, from London to Melbourne, was sunk by a collision, and sixteen persons drowned.

—An Eastern paper predicts that Havana cigars will rise in price, as straw paper has gone up 75 per cent!

—Prof. Swing refused an increase of salary from $7,000 to $10,000, desiring that it might be applied to charities.

—Denis Kearney was arrested in San Francisco on the 11th instant for using threatening and incendiary language.

—March 11, by an explosion in a mill in Frankfort, Indiana, ten men were killed. The mill was entirely destroyed.

—The Parliament of England has been dissolved. The approaching election promises to be one of great excitement.

—A snow-storm with heavy wind prevailed at New York the 9th. Storm signals were flying all along the coast, as far as Norfolk, Va.

—Twenty-five persons were burned to death and twenty-nine were injured in a great fire which recently occurred in Moscow, Russia.

—The Afghans have recaptured the village of Charikar fifty miles from Cabul, completely routing the English garrison and their allies.

—General Miles reports from Fort Custer that the Crows have formed a treaty with the Sioux. Settlers are fleeing, expecting an attack.

—At Sydney, Neb., March 10, the express office was robbed of $120,000 in gold bullion while the agent was at dinner. All was recovered but $13,000.

—The Atlantic forest, according to Prof. Gray, is composed of 66 genera and 155 species; the Pacific forest of only 31 genera and 78 species of timber trees.

—The Journal and Messenger, speaking of those who weep over sermons, says: "In our experience the weeping Christians have not always been the strong Christians."

—The steamship Great Eastern is being fitted up to carry live stock from Texas to England. Her carrying capacity will be 2,000 head of cattle and 56,000 head of sheep.

—The newspaper interest—the people's interest—is endeavoring to have the tariff on paper and materials reduced; which the manufacturers are strongly opposing.

—Herr Von Puttkammer, the Prussian Minister of Public Worship, stands by the Old Catholics. He defends the retention of Old Catholic professors in Bonn University.

—By request of the California authorities, 300 Springfield rifles in the arsenal at Benicia were, March 11, placed at the disposal of Governor Perkins, by the War Department.

—The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decided that the law under which the Post-office Department withholds the letters of lottery agents is constitutional.

—News from Silverton, Colorado, March 9, reports another terrible massacre by the Indians. Several bodies of the murdered have been found; the excitement is very great.

—The Nevada City Transcript states that several corporations in that county engaged in quartz operations are discharging their Chinese employes and putting white men in their places.

—The Australian steamer, City of Sidney, ready to sail on the 15th, took fire at her wharf in San Francisco on the evening of the 14th. The firemen labored all night. The vessel was saved.

Mayor Kalloch of San Francisco denounces government aid to suppress riot as "foreign interference." He must think he is on "the native sod" of Denis, or that he rules a government of his own.

—The Royal University, which is to succeed Queen's University, Ireland, will be governed by a senate of 36 members, of whom 18 will be Catholics, 9 Episcopalians, 6 Presbyterians, and 3 from minor bodies.

—The Jewish Progress, of San Francisco, says of religion among the Jews, "each rabbi has a religion of his own, elastic and vague," and hence it is "no wonder that the young generation is essentially irreligious."

—The gale of March 8, and the following night, was general in California, and did much damage to buildings, crops, trees, and shipping. Many vessels broke from their moorings in San Francisco harbor. Several were injured and one sunk.

—The Isthmus Canal may stir up trouble. While the United States seems determined to apply the "Monroe Doctrine" to the enterprise, the London Standard says England will watch American pretensions and resist them if necessary.

—Congress is taking action on the bargain between the Central Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company by which the former is enabled to keep up the fares. It is hoped that the public may be protected from this extortion.

—A Humboldt, Cal., paper says the prospect is gloomy, as the cold weather continues and stock is still dying. The news from British Columbia says there will be little stock left by the opening of spring; the weather is severely cold and the snow is deep.

—Lord Longford—long may his name be known—has suggested a remedy for the distress in Ireland. It is, "universal abstinence from whisky." But it will not be applied. Thousands would sooner see their wives and children starve than to give up their whisky and tobacco.

—A Vienna dispatch reports that the ice in the Vistula river is accumulating. On the Austro-Russian frontier, near Dzikow, the river broke through the dyke and flooded thirty villages, some of which were completely destroyed. A thousand persons are without shelter or food. Many cattle have been lost.

—Miss Rogers, a cousin of Richard Cobden, is the prodigy in the last examinations at Oxford University, England. She outstripped all the other students in Greek and Latin. Her knowledge in other branches is quite as wonderful. After passing her examinations she was at once appointed lecturer in Somerville Hall, one of the Oxford buildings for women students.

—The Observer (Presbyterian) is greatly alarmed at the rapid increase of Romanists in New York. It says it "is losing ground as an American Protestant city." And when the U. S. Constitution is so amended as to enforce "all Christian laws, usages, and institutions," the Catholic church will have a happy time in deciding what shall be considered Christian usages and institutions. It used to do so in Europe.

—In an article on California matters, the Chicago Tribune speaks thus: "The money capital and movable wealth of California are gradually, but pretty rapidly, leaving it. The employers are moving away, but the unemployed are left behind. Security to life and property is weakening, and between the collapse of gold and silver productions on the one hand and the fierce threatenings of the hungry, idle mob on the other, California is brought to face a new condition of affairs which should have been foreseen and been provided against in time."