p. 87 | Notes of News

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 13, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 11.

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Notes of News.

—The labor troubles in England continue.

—The President has vetoed the anti-Chinese bill.

—In Schleswig, Germany, the snow was 15 feet deep on the 1st of March.

—A Pawnbroker in Edinburgh has 2,000 family Bibles in his stock.

—Harvard College has decided to admit women to all the privileges of students.

—It is probable that Russian occupation of Bulgaria will be prolonged six months.

—The castle of Tervueren, the residence of Carlotta, ex-empress of Mexico, was destroyed by fire, March 3.

—A Telegram from Constantinople says that an insurrectionary agitation has commenced in Thessaly and Epirus.

—The Rev. Noah M. Wells, of Vienna, Mich., is said to be the oldest Presbyterian minister in the United States. He is in his ninety-seventh year.

—Dr. H. C. Potter, rector of Grace church, New York, states that during the past 10 years that church has contributed $1,082,368 for missionary work.

—Sher Ali, Ameer of Afghanistan, died Feb. 21. His successor, Yakoub Khan, is making overtures for the resumption of friendly relations with the English.

—The King of Spain has accepted the resignation of the Cabinet. The purpose is to form a new Cabinet that will undertake simultaneously home elections and colonial reforms.

—Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, in recently signing the pardon of a criminal who is a Jew, said it was the first serious case ever brought to his notice on the part of any of that people.

—Mrs. Belva Lockwood has been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, under the act recently passed to admit women as practitioners in that court.

—Reno, Nevada, was entirely destroyed by fire, March 2. The fire broke out at 5:45 A. M., and as the wind was blowing fiercely, it was impossible to check it. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000; insurance, $150,000.

—Dean Stanley writes to an American friend that a wreath of autumn leaves from the Hudson, which he placed on André's monument in Westminster Abbey, attracts universal admiration.

—Madame Anderson, who recently walked 2,700 quarter miles in as many quarter hours, has commenced another “long tramp.” This time she is to walk 2,064 quarter miles in as many consecutive periods of 10 minutes each.

—Mrs. Hayes, in spite of prejudice and the imperious demands of fashion, has succeeded in banishing the wine-cup from the White House; and in doing it she commands the respect even of those who are less rigid in their personal habits.

—The London Times thinks that when Yakoub Khan becomes firmly established on the throne of Afghanistan, it would be policy for the Indian government to recognize him as ruler, and to admit favorably any advances he may make with a view to a termination of the war.

—An endowment of $130,000 is wanted to establish two additional professorships in the Harvard Divinity School, one of Theology and the other of Ecclesiastical History. This school is the only one of the character in the country without a regularly endowed ecclesiastical professorship.

—Several journals of Paris unite in furious attacks on Leon Say, Minister of Finance, which will probably lead to his resignation. The Rothschilds have made enormous purchases of 5 per cent rentes at greatly reduced prices, and Say is accused of complicity in the affair.

—Monday, March 10, was the 25th anniversary of the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company, whose object was to connect the New World with the Old by means of the telegraphic cable. Cyrus W. Field was to commemorate the silver wedding of this grand conception by a jubilee reception at his house.

—Mr. John Richards, a Philadelphia machinist, after seventeen years of experimenting, has invented a gauge which measures the twenty-thousandth part of an inch. This will enable American manufacturers of watches, firearms, sewing machines, and other articles requiring nicety of fitting, to produce the different parts of machinery precisely alike.

—Dr. Virchow, the famous German pathologist, than whom there is probably no better authority on contagious diseases, enhances the reasonable dread of the plague by declaring that it is contagious, but it is not known how the contagion is propagated. He urges more vigorous precautionary measures, notwithstanding the fact that the plague now seems to be abating.

—The help given by Christians for the relief of the famine-struck Chinese is bringing its results. Rev. A. H. Smith, of the American Board, reports 40 villages in which there are 120 applicants for church membership. In one village a temple was emptied of its 60 idols, which were buried in a pit, and the building and premises voluntarily made over to the church.

—The members of the Society of Friends in Philadelphia are taking active steps toward the formation of settlements in the West. It is the intention to form an association which shall purchase tracts of land and sell farms and lots to Friends, or those in sympathy with them, and to aid those whose means are limited in the erection of dwellings, etc. The association will lay out roads, and erect meeting-houses and school buildings. In all deeds a clause will be inserted prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.

—Reports from the South indicate that the yellow fever is not wholly eradicated from certain sections. It is thought by physicians that the exhuming and removal of bodies has caused a re-appearance of the disease, and that unless the authorities prohibit this, the fever will again occur with its former malignity. The bodies of many wealthy persons were buried in Potter's Fields, their relatives having fled to the North, and when it was thought that the weather was cold enough, arrangements were made to remove them. But it is now believed that the frost has not penetrated deep enough to destroy the sources of danger.

—The Pope has discontinued pay to those bishops who have not received the royal exequatur, i. e., civil authority to act as bishops. He, or some one without objection from him, is inciting the people to resume their abandoned political rights, this movement in Switzerland being prefatory to a similar change in ecclesiastical policy in Italy. In reply to the request of the Belgian bishops that he would condemn the recent Belgian elementary school legislation, the pope declined to interfere with internal national affairs not affecting matters of faith or spiritual interest. The Christian Union thinks these facts indicate that the pope is reconciling himself with modern civilization.

—A few weeks ago France passed a ministerial crisis, and Republicanism seemed stronger than ever, and “government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” seemed assured in France. But there has been another move on the great checker-board whose figures are the rulers of this earth, and this is what the London Times of March 4 says of it: “The news from France is much to be lamented. The Cabinet has been severely damaged, and has lost its position in the Chambers. The consequences may not merely be the fall of the Ministry, but the revival of a confusion and weakness which must tend to paralyze the French government and lower the influence of France abroad. England relies on the co-operation of France in the whole course of Eastern affairs.”