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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 1, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 45.

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ITEMS OF NEWS

-An attempt was made recently to kill the Italian premier Depretis.
-The unfinished city hall in San Francisco has already cost $3,418,619.
-At Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, instruction has been suspended.
-The Court at Montreal has declared that the society of Orangemen is illegal.
-A religious paper published in Boston, offers revolvers as premiums to canvassers.
-The merchants of Bakersfield, Cal., have determined to voluntarily obey the Sunday law.
-The first train on the Texas-Mexican railroad, crossed the line into Mexico, November 21.
-A short, but sharp shock of earthquake was felt in Hollister, Cal., on the morning of November 26.
-A new telegraph company—the Mutual Union—has been organized to run opposition to the Western Union.
-The Gospel of Luke has been translated into the Yahgan language, the language spoken by the Patagonians.
-In Paris land has been sold at the rate of $2,000,000 an acre; in London at $5,000,000; and in New York at $8,000,000.
-The iron ship Culcean, while being towed to the Clyde from Dundee, November 24, was wrecked, and seventeen people were drowned.
-A Berlin dispatch says: The Admiralty are arranging plans by which German trans-Atlantic steamers could be transformed into cruisers, in case of necessity.
-The steamer E. P. Dorr, with a cargo of oak and black walnut, valued at $15,000, went down off Port Colborne, Lake Ontario, November 20, with her entire crew of eight.
-Of affairs in Egypt it is said: The want of discipline in the Egyptian army is increasing. If energetic measures are not taken soon, the authority of the Khedive will fall to pieces.
-In consequence of Ingersoll's forty-six-page blasphemous article in the North American Review, the Appletons have withdrawn the imprint of their firm from that periodical.
-An attempt was made November 26, to assassinate the Minister of the Interior, of Russia, Gen. Tcherevine. The ball passed between the General's arm and side, doing him no injury.
-The District Attorney of Nevada county, Cal., announces that he is about to begin strictly enforcing the Sunday law in Nevada City. The Good Templars will enter the complaints.
-November 24, the steamer W. F. Gaylord, while ascending the Ohio river, came into collision with another steamer, and sank out of sight almost immediately. All but one of the crew escaped.
-Great destruction and damage have resulted from the freshet along the Sangamon river in central Illinois. The overflow covers an extensive area, and the losses aggregate from $250,000 to $300,000.
-The College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Buffalo, has united with Alfred University of Alfred, Alleghany county, N. Y., and hereafter it will be connected with that institution as its medical department.
-Advices from Panama of November 16 state that the steamer Albion foundered in a gale off Point Barbascoas, and thirty-two of forty persons on board were drowned. The vessel and cargo were valued at $60,000.
-The "Law and Order League" of Pittsburg, Pa., has determined to put a stop to the violation of the Sunday law by liquor sellers. Its members say they will do this peaceably if they can, but forcibly if they must.
-Within the last two weeks no less than five barns in which hay was stored for sale, have been burned in Oakland—the work, doubtless, of incendiaries. No reason can be given for such rascality, unless some individual wishes to get up a "corner" in hay.
-The Brooklyn, N. Y., City Mission reports for the month of October 1,342 visits made to families, seventeen to jails, and twenty-three to public institutions; fifty prayer-meetings held, sixty-eight Bibles distributed, and 5,000 tracts and religious papers distributed.
-Monsignor Termose, Prelate of the household of Pope Leo XIII., expressed the opinion at Montreal, that his Holiness will ere long change his residence to Malta, owing to the opposition he receives in Rome. The Pope foresees his departure, and has made a catalogue of all objects of value in the Vatican.
-The population of Liverpool in 1853, was nearly 380,000, and the number of church attendants was 101,982. The present population is 550,000, and church attendance has fallen to 63,576. The Catholic church has the best attendance; the church of England the smallest. The millennium is not dawning.
-A severe storm has been raging in Great Britain. In many towns, both in England and Ireland, houses have been unroofed and blown down, and the streets flooded. At Dublin the storm was especially severe. The shipping on the coast suffered very much. Several ships were lost with their entire crews. The loss of life and property was very great.
-Quite an excitement has been made in Philadelphia by the disclosure of frauds in the tax office. Large corporations, whose taxes never reached the city Treasurer, have given information from their books as to when their taxes were paid, together with the amount. It is believed that at least $1,000,000 was stolen during the five years of one receiver's administration. A close investigation is being made.
-Thanksgiving was kept in a very appropriate manner by the Central Presbyterian church of San Francisco. The city was canvassed to find the really deserving poor, and a list of 120 families made out. An appeal to the charitably disposed was made by personal application, and the result was that over $500 worth of provision was brought to the church, and was distributed by the wagons of the express companies, who volunteered their services. By this means over 500 persons were supplied with a bountiful thanksgiving dinner. Although the church presented the appearance of an agricultural fair, it is not likely that the services were any the less interesting.