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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 28.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

-The army worm has appeared near Fall River, Mass.
-Shasta, Cal., has been treated to some heavy thunder-showers lately.
-The number of deaths in New York City in one day last week was 159.
-Key West, Florida, has sixty vessels and 600 men engaged in the sponge business.
-It is said that 500 jails are standing empty in Kansas, as the result of prohibition.
-The total value of the exports of breadstuffs for the twelve months ending June 30, 1882, is $176,977,496.
-The census shows that the value of products manufactured in the city of New York in 1880 was $448,209,248.
-The Connecticut Supreme Court of Records has decided that women are elegible to admission as attorneys.
-Since the hot season began, forty ship captains have died of yellow fever at different ports on the island of Cuba.
-A shock of earthquake was felt at Cairo, Ill., on Thursday, July 20, lasting ten seconds. It passed northwest.
-Fifteen persons were drowned by the sinking of the steamboat John Wilson, in the Atchafalaya River, Louisiana, Sunday, July 16.
-The Apaches are rampant in Arizona again, and are committing their usual depredations. A number of persons have been massacred.
-The Providence Press suggests that as Congress is in the Chinese prohibition business it ought to prohibit the Chinese fire-cracker. We coincide.
-The loss on merchandise in New York, in consequence of the delay in handling, caused by the freight-handlers’ strike, is estimated at $1,000,000.
-The Darwin Memorial Fund in London now amounts to more than £12,000, which will be expended in the erection of a marble statue of Darwin.
-A fire raged for seven hours in Smyrna, Asia Minor, the 19th inst. Fourteen hundred houses were destroyed, and 6,000 persons rendered homeless. Only one life was lost.
-The Walker Nail Factory has secured a site for their works at the foot of Market Street, Oakland, and will commence the erection of their buildings early next month.
-Golden Gate Academy, Oakland, has been relieved of all embarrassment by the gift of $50,000 from Moses Hopkins, and will henceforth be known as Hopkins Academy.
-Bradlaugh and three other defendants connected with the publication of the Free Thinker have been committed for trial on a charge of publishing blasphemous libels.
-Mrs. Lincoln died on the 17th inst., and was buried in the vault at the Lincoln Monument, Springfield, Ill. All business in Springfield was suspended on the day of the funeral.
-A terrible fire occurred in Fresno, Sunday evening, July 23. About fifty houses were burned, most of them business houses, including five hotels. The loss is about $200,000.
-President Barrios, of Guatemala, is now in Washington. It is understood that he wishes the United States aid in bringing about a union of the Central American States.
-It is encouraging to learn that a man in Virginia, who lately murdered another man in a duel, has been held for murder, without bail. It is a sign that the “code” is falling into disrepute.
-A severe shock of earthquake, lasting two minutes, was felt at Mexico, the 19th inst. Many walls in the city fell. The national and municipal palaces and the chapel of the cathedral were slightly injured.
-The complete returns from Iowa show a majority of 29,751 for the prohibition amendment. Of the ninety-nine counties in the State, seventy-four gave majorities for the amendment, twenty-four against it, and one a tie vote.
-A deluge of rain has occurred in Bohemia and the destruction of property and crops is incalculable. The bodies of forty-seven persons, who were drowned, have been recovered. A large part of the harvest in Bohemia is destroyed.
-The Siamese Government is sending a representative to this country for the first time. This action will be taken on the recommendation of General Grant when he visited Siam, and on receipt of the information that this government had appointed a representative to that country.
-An illustration of the slow progress of legislation on private claims occurred last week. Phillip Reich, aged eighty-two, visited Washington and found Congress wrestling with the same bill that it was considering when he was there over sixty years ago, it being a Spanish war claim of R. R. Meade.
-A fight between two human brutes in New York, last week, was witnessed by 15,000 people, whose presence was sanctioned by the police who were present to see that the fight was conducted decently. Fully as many more people were unable to gain admittance. And yet we send missionaries to the heathen!
-The experiences of the Jeannette party are cited to prove that education makes men able to endure hardships. Of the twelve men in the party after Ninderman and Noros left it, the eight sailors died first, leaving still alive the three men of education, De Long, Amber, and Collins, and the Chinese cook. In the Melville party, all the sailors were first unfitted for duty.
-A native Chinese journal informs its readers that the story recently circulated that the Kaiping coal mines had been closed is untrue. It is added that more and more coal is being taken from them daily, and that the prospects are good. It is stated, however, that the copper mines will be closed, as they interfere with the repose of the soul of the mother of the present Emperor, being too near the Imperial mausoleum.
-Second Assistant Postmaster-General Elmer reports that the star service in the Pacific section is now in operation at a cost of 94.78 per cent. cheaper than under the former contracts, and also that the per mile is 49.10 per cent. less. These figures represent a saving of over $2,000,000 annually in a contract term of four years. The section of country referred to embraces localities, the star service for which is now under discussion in the star-route trials.
-The Chronicle makes a statement of Egypt’s liabilities and assets, showing the former to be $460,490,000, and the revenues at least $10,000,000 short of the expenditures, and steadily declining. From these facts it draws the conclusion that Egypt is a bankrupt power, and that no one can save the foreign bondholders but the substitution of European population and methods in place of Oriental.
-Among the arrivals in San Francisco on the steamer Granada were four Arab merchants from Jerusalem, who came with the intention of opening an establishment here for the sale of Turkish goods and curios, under the firm name of Bicharar, Michel & Co. The Arabs not only speak English fluently, but claim to speak all of the principal languages. As they wear their native costume, consisting of a long, bright-colored gown, or kibir, and fir head-dress, a cone-shaped cap of red cloth, they naturally attract a great deal of attention.