News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 3, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 29.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—Nebraska has a woman suffrage amendment to be voted on in November.

—Yellow fever of a most virulent type has broken out in Mexico and several Texas towns.

—General Ulysses Heureaux has been elected President of Santo Domingo, by a large majority.

—It is stated that the manufacture of glass shingles is about to begin on a large scale at Pittsburg, Pa.

—It is reported that the Russian steamer Moskow has been sunk by a boiler explosion, and 200 men lost.

—John Church Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, died at Long Branch, July 25, in his ninetieth year.

—More reapers have been sold in Georgia this year than were sold in the entire cotton States a year ago.

—A series of Sunday-evening lectures has been started in San Francisco, in support of the Sunday Law and temperance.

—It is reported in London that one of the assassins of Lord Cavendish and Secretary Burke has been arrested in Venezuela.

—A careful computation of the sugar crop of Cuba fixes it at 601,500 tons, being an excess of 22 1/4 per cent. over the last crop.

—Fierce forest fires have been burning in Northern Michigan. Fields of fires, houses, fences, and orchards have been destroyed.

—Three hundred houses and some large warehouses have been destroyed by fire at Radziwillow, Russia, and 3,000 people are homeless.

—The sawed lumber received at Chicago in 1881, it is said, was sufficient to lay an inch flooring fourteen feet wide around the globe at the equator.

—Fifty thousand bushels of wheat were sent direct from Cleburne, Tex., to Florence, Italy, and the same amount to Liverpool, one day last week.

—Herr Meiling, arrested for selling plans of the coast defenses of Germany to the Russian Government, has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment at hard labor.

—On the 20th ult., a gale of wind passed over Guaymas Harbor, Mexico, resulting in considerable destruction. Ships at anchor were dragged over three-quarters of a mile.

—Several districts on the frontier of the provinces of Kwangtung and Kuangsi, China, have been inundated by heavy rains, and the inhabitants have suffered much in consequence.

—The oldest presiding Judge in the world is said to be James Garland, of Lynchburgh, Va., who, though ninety years old, still administers justice in the Corporation Court.

—Bob Ingersoll's loss of his entire fortune, in mining speculations, will be felt as a calamity by the whole country, for he intends to retrieve his fortunes by returning to the lecture field.

—July 24 was the thirty-fifth anniversary of the gathering of the Mormons in Salt Lake Valley, and was observed in Salt Lake City by the closing of business houses and a general celebration.

—The number of deaths in New York City for the week ending July 29, was 1217, the largest number in ten years. A large proportion of this mortality, especially among children, is due to the intense heat.

—George P. Marsh, American Minister to Italy, died at Vallambrosa, July 24. He had held the position of Minister to Italy for twenty years, and was widely known and respected, both as a scholar and a diplomat.

—All the cases against the gamblers, lottery men, and other frauds, in St. Louis, have been either nolle prosequied or deferred till the September term, when they will be dropped. This ends the fight against that species of crime in St. Louis.

—There is very great mortality among the Russians and Creoles in Sitka, Alaska, from the plague, a combination of scarlet fever and measles. They are very destitute of the necessaries of life, and there is nothing to stay the plague except a lack of victims.

—A large number of persons have been poisoned at Moncton, N. B., by using canned corned beef. One physician has over twenty patients. Several persons who did not believe the beef was injurious partook a second time, and are in a dangerous condition.

—Another massacre is reported from the South Sea Islands. While the recruiting brig Janet Stewart was at Malayta, Solomon Island, the crew, with the exception of one man, who escaped, were murdered during the absence of the captain and second mate. The vessel was afterwards burned.

—The Lever (Detroit, Mich.) notes the fact that the Modoc Indians have entirely prohibited the sale of liquors on their reservation, and that the name of every one of them is on the temperance pledge, and expresses the hope that in due time the people of Michigan will become as well civilised as the Modocs.

—The Fresno County Democratic Convention assembled July 28, and nominated officers. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the platform of the State Convention, save the plank pertaining to the Sunday Law. On this point the Convention resolved that it was wrong to mingle Church and State. The Convention was full and enthusiastic.