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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 9, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 34.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

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-Cotton is being grown in Arizona.
-Twenty-four per cent of the people of New Zealand attend church.
-Eighty-five hundred and thirty-six emigrants arrived in New York last week.
-The Temps declares that the Alsatian Jesuits, in Rue Lafayette, will be expelled like the others.
-Fifty cases of small-pox were reported in Troy, New York, the 3d. Two deaths had already occurred.
-Several persons were killed by a collision of trains on the Housatonic railroad, near Parlor Rock, Aug. 30.
-Three million persons perish from opium in China every year. There are 2,700 opium shops in Ningpo alone.
-The grading on the Northern Pacific Railroad is expected to be completed to the Yellowstone river early in October.
-Advices from the Scotch iron manufacturing districts say that the strike is likely to continue. Only 32 furnaces are in blast.
-Owing to the disturbed condition of affairs in Buenos Ayres, the International Exposition has been postponed till next year.
-The Evangel says that "all the Baptist ministers of Baltimore, black and white, meet together in a conference every Monday morning."
-From Havana comes the news that the yellow fever has assumed an epidemic character, causing the death of forty persons in a few days.
-Governor Perkins has declared the 9th a legal holiday, it being "anniversary day," and the day on which the President is expected to arrive.
-Sept. 2, the steamer Hardwick, from Odessa for Bristol with barley, shifted her cargo and foundered. All on board were lost, except one fireman.
-The Mormons in Utah set down their numbers at 112,000. Since 1870, the Mormons have increased 45 per cent, the non-Mormons in the State, 200 per cent.
-A special from Santa Fe, New Mexico, states that Louis Terrasis has offered $2000 for the scalp of Victo-rio, the Apache chief, and $250 for the scalp of any of his warriors.
-August 31, Richmond, Va., was visited by one of the fiercest storms ever known in that section. The streets were flooded, houses inundated, and the occupants driven out.
-Because of a prediction of unusually heavy gales, 42 life-saving stations along the New Jersey coast were ordered to be equipped September 1, one month earlier than usual.
-A severe storm swept over the central portion of Florida on the 1st and 2d instant. Post roads were flooded and bridges washed away, and mail communication was seriously interrupted.
-The Emperor of Russia has arrived safely in Livadia, notwithstanding the repeated attempts of the Nihilists to "blow him up" by placing explosives under the railroad over which he was to pass.
-Russian papers contain an account of the explosion of a thousand-ton floating tank of kerosene, on its way to Baker, at Tsaritzen, on the Volga. It is believed that thirty persons perished. A woman entered the reservoir with a naked light.
-The funeral of Rev. Dr. Wm. Adams, president of Union Theological Seminary, is said to have been one of the most impressive ever held in the city of New York. It was attended by at least four hundred ministers of various denominations.
-A flood recently swept down the Glen of Glendore county, Ireland, flooding the church at Cammienon, and drowning a number of persons, who were carried away by the rush of waters. Eleven bodies are missing. Five bodies have been recovered.
-The Canada Pacific Railroad is to be built 2,000 miles, including 646 miles from Lake Nipissing to Thunder bay. From Lake Nipissing to Puget sound the road is to be constructed at once. Rothschild, Erlanger and the Barings are said to be interested.
-A dispatch from Ottawa, Kan., Aug. 31, states that over one hundred deaths from small-pox have occurred among the Indians. Sept. 4 they were still dying in large numbers. As soon as taken sick they are abandoned by all the rest of the tribe, and left to die of starvation if not of disease.
-A report from Gibson, Indian Territory, states that the Cherokees are up in arms against the Creeks, owing to the latter failing to deliver up thirteen negro murderers. And the Cherokees are gathering near there in great numbers, armed with Winchester rifles.
-The statue of Germania was unveiled in Dresden the 2d. It was erected as a memorial to the share taken by the Saxon army in the war of 1870. King Albert, Queen Caroline, Count Herbert von Bismarck, Prince Milan of Servia, and French and American diplomatic representatives, were present.
-The transportation of mails over the Arizona end of the Southern Pacific Railroad has been ordered to begin September 20. This completes a continuous mail route by rail from San Francisco through the entire length of California, and nearly across the southern portion of Arizona, a distance of 1,000 miles.
-Negotiations are proceeding with French capitalists to raise funds for the construction of a tunnel under the St. Lawrence river. Preparatory steps have also been taken towards uniting New York and New Jersey by means of a tunnel, also of connecting England with the continent. How long before the ocean will be tunneled?
-The steamer City of Vera Cruz from New York to Havana and Vera Cruz was wrecked by the recent cyclone off the coast of Florida. A mail bag and trunk, and at latest accounts, five dead and seven living bodies had been washed ashore near St. Augustine. Her passengers were mostly Cubans who had been spending the summer in this country.
-Owing to the President not having issued a proclamation allowing Chinese ships to enter American ports like the more favored nations, the Ho Chung was obliged to pay ten per cent extra Custom House duties on cargo before entering San Francisco bay. It is thought that this money will be refunded after the matter receives further attention.
-Work has now begun on the ship canal across Cape Cod. This will save ninety miles in distance and eight hours in time between New York and Boston, besides the estimated annual loss by shipwrecks around the cape of 6,000 tons of vessel property and from thirty to forty lives. The canal will be 141 feet wide at the top, with an average depth of 30 feet.
-The Daily Telegraph reports that a preliminary treaty of peace between Chile and Peru has been signed, and the following are its principal articles: Peru surrenders the monitors Monco Capac and Atahualpa, razes the fortifications of Callao, surrenders all the artillery of Callao, engages to not augment her navy for thirty years, and will re-imburse to Chile the cost of the war. Chile engages to pay half of the exterior debt of Peru.
-The Rescue says: "Fifty thousand dollars in cash, and ten thousand in land and building material, have been raised to build in Wilton, Conn., a hospital for the treatment of women who have been ruined by alcohol and opium. The President and cabinet, and other high officials, with 1,500 clergymen, including Cardinal McCloskey, and a number of Methodist, Catholic and Episcopal Bishops, have contributed to this fund and given the enterprise their warm approval."
-A dispatch from Los Pinos, the 28th ult., states: "The crisis in Ute affairs has passed. Seventy Uncompahgre and White River head men and chiefs placed their bands under the direction of the Agent. They have accepted Sapovonari as chief, have agreed to keep Ouray's property intact, and to proceed immediately to complete ratification and enrollment." They have killed five of Ouray's best horses that they accompany him to the "happy hunting grounds."
-A terrible disaster occurred last Thursday near Logrono, Spain. A battalion of troops was crossing the river Ebro, on a large raft constructed on pontoons, and in the middle of the stream, which is deep and rapid, the raft began to leak, the men became alarmed and capsized it. The next day, in the presence of the garrison and an immense concourse, 110 bodies were laid in two graves. King Alfonso, the Queen, and the Royal family, have headed the subscription list with $6,000.
-The women of New York State have the right to vote at the school elections the 16th. The Methodist advises "every woman to do as she pleases about it," and adds, "We know of no reason why they should be limited in voting to such elections; and we are not convinced that any great good will come from their voting at all." If every woman would attend faithfully and cheerfully to home duties, we would, in our opinion, cast a mightier influence for good than by voting.
-The Jewish New Year, or anniversary of creation, was ushered in with appropriate ceremonies in the temples Sunday evening last. The first day of the new year is the commencement of ten penitential days, which continue until after the Day of Atonement. The reason why the New Year occurs in the seventh Jewish month is explained by the fact that the first month (Nisan), in which the Passover occurs, relates to Jewish independence from Egyptian slavery, whereas New Years is the anniversary of the civil year.
-A dispatch from Rome says: "The Vatican has decided to augment and reorganize the colleges for Asia and Africa, being desirous of largely developing the Catholic Church in those parts of the world. As the College of the Propaganda Fide is not sufficient to meet the requirements, branch colleges will be established in suitable localities. A Vicariate Apostolic will be created in Morocco, and the Vatican is also considering the question of a suitable place farther in the interior of Africa for the establishment of another Vicariate."