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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 18.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

By Editor

-The Oregon grain crop promises well.
-The volcano at Calima is in active eruption.
May 1 two men were found hanging to a tree near the line of Denton county, Texas.
-Two detachments of troops have been detailed to drive squatters out of the Indian Territory.
-Three American miners were recently killed by a Mexican mob at Augaugueo, State of Michoacan, Mexico.
-Gen. Heintzelman, "the California veteran," was buried with civic and military honors, in Buffalo, May 5.
-Proceedings have been begun against Bremen which threatens to deprive that town of its rights as a free port.
-Representative Davis of California is asking that steps be taken to facilitate the taking of the census of the Chinese in the United States.
-Judge Daingerfield, the Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of San Francisco, fell dead on the bench about noon on Wednesday the 5th inst.
-A Russian exploring expedition which had penetrated the elevated passes leading to Thibet, wintered at an altitude of 16,000 feet above sea level.
-A report from Havana says: Fire at Palma Soeriano, near Santiago de Cuba, destroyed one hundred habitations, and many families are in distress.
-A correspondent says that Lubeck will shortly receive its death warrant. This new policy of Prussia must be regarded with the utmost interest by English and American merchants.
-Whittaker, editor of the Levant Herald, has been sentenced to seventeen months' imprisonment for publishing a new number of his journal, notwithstanding its recent suppression.
-The President has vetoed the Deficiency Appropriation bill, because of the "rider" put upon it, thus seeking to break up a practice which he believes is dangerous to the government.
-A Berlin correspondent says that the discontent in Germany may be judged by the tide of emigration. It is estimated that during the past 30 years two and a half million people have emigrated.
-The late move of the Postmaster General to prohibit Wells, Fargo & Co., carrying letters, has met with a most vigorous and a unanimous remonstrance from the Pacific States and Territories.
-New Orleans, May 4th, Governor Wiltz issues a proclamation establishing rigid quarantine against all infected ports, and against all vessels from or touching at Havana, Vera Cruz or Rio de Janeiro.
-The Board of supervisors of San Francisco at a late meeting passed resolutions declaring Kalloch unfit to fill the office of Mayor, and decided to take legal measures for his impeachment and removal.
-Considerable loss of life was occasioned by a storm on the night of the 4th instant, at the mouth of the Columbia river. The bodies of eight fishermen have been recovered, and many more are thought to be lost.
-Lyman Abbott, in the Christian Union, speaking of Christ's blessing little children, says: "From this incident some writers have drawn an argument in favor of infant baptism; but they have had to draw it a long way."
-The phylloxera has appeared in vineyards on Mount Vesuvius and on the opposite part of the gulf at Puzzuoli and Pianura. The phylloxera has hitherto been confined to Callarizetta. It is now reported near Messina.
-New York business reports say that the country has been trying to get rich too fast, and a check has come. Crop prospects are good in Europe, and economy ought to be practiced. But it is quite too early to calculate on crops in Europe now.
-The Indian Government budget shows a deficiency of $15,000,000, to $25,000,000, below the financial calculation. This is considered a hard blow on Beaconsfield's policy, showing that the cost of the war in Afghanistan was far greater than reported.
-The Ambassadors have presented a note to the Porte, asking for a categorical statement whether it intends to reoccupy the ceded positions in Albania and hand them over to the Montenegrins. Evidently "the sick man" of Europe is getting no better.
-The Legislature of Michigan passed a more stringent liquor law, when an injunction was asked against enforcing the law, in Detroit. This effort to make the city pay the expense of the fight of liquor interest failed, as the Court refused the injunction.
-Victoria, the Apache chief, who has been pursued by the U. S. troops all through Arizona, New Mexico, and occasionally across the Rio Grande, is reported at bay in Ash Creek valley, A. T. This sanguinary savage, whose band has committed hundreds of murders the past year, should receive no quarters.
-The address of Bishops was read in the Methodist Episcopal Conference, at Cincinnati. It favors strongly the retention of the present plan of presiding eldership, the maintenance of the doctrine of the fathers, and a general diocesan superintendence. The Conference received the address with great favor. Wednesday, May 12th, was fixed for the election of Church officers.
-Crops in the Caucasus are threatened with the beetle and locust.
-The Catholic Mirror said: "If the devil were nominated for President by the Republican party, the Independent would support him." To which the latter paper more aptly says: "If the devil were chosen Pope by the College of Cardinals the Catholic Mirror would support him."
-The Japanese authorities have promulgated a new code of education. Among other requirements, no teacher can be less than eighteen years of age; no pupil is allowed to attend who has neither had the small pox nor been vaccinated; and corporal punishment is forbidden.
-The Nashville Advocate asks why is it that the member of the "Lodge" is so much more punctual in his attendance upon its meetings than the member of the church is in his attendance upon the prayer-meetings? The "member of the church" has not yet answered this question. We anxiously wait to hear from him.
-Statistics for 1878 of railway travel in the United Kingdom of Great Britain show that "the total number of passenger journeys, exclusive of season ticket holders, was 565,024,455." The number killed during the year was 1,053. The proportion killed, "from all causes," not merely by accidents on trains, is calculated to be one in 4,520,000. This shows that railway traveling is very safe, in comparison with other methods. If complete statistics were compiled we believe it would be found that kerosene oil killed as large a number as the railroads.
-The London Times, approving the appointment of Earl Cowper as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, says: "The worst in Ireland seems to be over. The spring has been seasonable, and the promise of summer is excellent. If a good harvest succeeds the dismal experience of recent years, the exasperation of temper that comes from want will die away. The new Irish Administration has great difficulties to overcome, but if their counsels are equal to their opportunity, they may do much to remove the permanent causes of Irish dissatisfaction."