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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 7, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 37.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

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-Forty thousand men are under arms in Greece.
-There is a great demand for arms, especially rifles, in Ireland.
-The Mormon women suffragists have gained the victory in the courts.
-Still they come. Nearly 1800 immigrants arrived in New York last Sunday.
-There were seventy-eight deaths from yellow fever in Havana during September.
-Since July 1, about $35,000,000 in foreign gold has been received in this country.
-Dean Stanley is expected to visit this country in 1881, to investigate the church question here.
-Arrangements have been made to pay the Utes $75,000, in accordance with the terms of the bill of agreement.
-Owing to the lateness of the season, it is thought that the Utes will not be removed to their new lands until next year.
-A dispatch from Cheyenne, Sept. 25, stated that four inches of snow had fallen on the Union Pacific Railroad in Wyoming.
-The inhabitants of the Waldensian valleys, in Italy, number 23,000. The Protestants outnumber the Catholics seven to one.
-Secretary Schurz has arranged with the War Department to have the two thousand hostile Sioux now at Fort Keogh, M. T., fed out of the military stores during the winter, there being no appropriation available in his department.
-The horse distemper is gradually spreading in New York City. About one-third of the railroad and stage horses are said to be affected.
-The statue of Robert Burns was unveiled last Sunday in Central Park, New York. It is located directly opposite that of Sir Walter Scott.
-A dispatch from Dublin states that a proclamation has been issued, offering £1000 reward for the apprehension of the murderers of Lord Montmorris.
-The Prussian Government has requested that a state of siege be proclaimed at Leipsig and Hamburg, as those cities are considered hot-beds of Socialists.
-The growth of Catholicism in the United States is said to be creating a current feeling in favor of State and church union as a safe-guard against Catholicism.
-A Paris dispatch says that thirty feet of masonry and an immense amount of rock have fallen in the St. Gothard tunnel. Four men were killed and many wounded.
-A petition signed by three hundred members of the Ulena, and a number of high dignitaries, has been delivered to the Sultan, urging resistance to the demand of the Powers.
-Twenty indictments have been found against the firm which rented restaurant privileges on the Chautauqua Lake steamers the past season, for selling beer without a license on Sunday.
-The Chicago Times reports that President Hayes will not return to Washington till a week after the Presidential election. He is now making a tour in Oregon and Washington Territory.
-A new religious movement in London is the establishment of a large gymnasium, with cricket, football and boat-clubs, as a means to bring London youth into friendly contact with clergymen and layman.
-A serious charge of murder is brought against the contractor who furnished the supplies to Sir John Franklin's expedition. Commander Chegne charges that the tins labelled "Beef" and "Mutton," contained nothing but offal.
-The gospel tent used by the Baptist City Mission of New York, for regular daily services during the last three months, was closed Sept. 14, the mission having secured a hall for use during the fall and winter. Much good is said to have resulted from the meetings.
-An unsuccessful attempt by the school directors at Pittsburgh to establish separate schools for colored children causes intense indignation among the negroes of that city and Alleghany. At Quincy, Ill., there is equal commotion because colored children are excluded from the high school.
-The officers of the Union Pacific Railway intend to bulid at Sherman, Wyoming Territory, a monument to the memory of Oakes Ames. The monument is to be built over the Union Pacific track, in the shape of a pyramidal arch, the base of which will be sixty feet square. The capstone, weighing sixteen tons, will be eighty feet above the track. The material will be green granite, quarried near Sherman. The structure will be surmounted by a bust of Oakes Ames. The monument will be completed within one year.
-The artic expedition which sailed from New York June 1, 1878, for Baffin's bay and King William's Land, for the purpose of seeking further data upon the fate of Sir John Franklin, has returned. Though the special object of the search—the recovery of the records of the Franklin expedition, which, according to the Esquimaux's testimony, were known to exist at specified points—has not been attained, the explorers have nevertheless obtained many relics of Franklin's party, including the remains of Lieutenant Irving.
-The daily Alta of Oct. 4, contains the following: "Italy appears to have left all the other nations far in the rear in the matter of constructing huge ironclads. Great Britain has, heretofore, led off in this kind of naval architecture, she having afloat some ironclads having a tonnage of eight or nine thousand tons. Two or three of such are now rehearsing a farce in the Adriatic, in company with partners from the navies of the other nations. But now Italy's latest contribution to the warlike engines of destruction and defense, in her new ship just launched, with a tonnage of fourteen thousand tons, about one and a half times that of the Great Eastern, that leviathan of the sea, which has heretofore remained as a dead weight on the hands of her owners. This new Italian ship is called the Italia, and is covered with armor three feet thick. She was launched in the presence of King Humbert, and an immense crowd of people. This ship is pronounced the most powerful ironclad ever constructed."