Notes of News | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1879

Notes of News.

—France is still pardoning communists.

—A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, dated April 14, says a great fire is raging in Cairo.

—An enormous avalanche lately fell in the Austrian Tyrol, crushing nine houses and killing over thirty people.

—The Oneida Communists are experiencing the results of advertising, in the way of increased applications for membership.

—Peru and Bolivia have concluded an offensive and defensive treaty, and both countries have declared war against Chili.

—A prophetic conference was recently held in Mildmay Hall, London. Dr. Horatius Bonar and other distinguished Adventists were present.

—The corpse of a Russian student was recently found labeled: “Sentenced as a traitor by the Socialists’ Revolutionary Committee.”

—Another failure is reported from England, that of the old established firm of Charles Gumm & Co., ship and insurance brokers.

—The Revolutionary Committee of Russia have issued a proclamation threatening the life of the Czar, and a second St. Bartholomew.

—The Boston Herald of March 21, says: “Zion’s Herald wants a revival of the old-fashioned Sabbath. But that would be Saturday.” The Herald is right.

—The Presbytery of New York has felt called to protest against the habit increasing among their families of buying and reading Sunday newspapers.

—Chin Lan Pin, the Chinese Ambassador, has sailed for Spain, with his suit, to open an embassy at Madrid, leaving Yung Wing to attend to matters at Washington.

—The municipality of Paris propose to honor Washington and Lincoln by changing the names of two of the streets of that city to Rue Washington and Rue Lincoln.

—General Garibaldi has written a spirited letter in favor of universal suffrage, convoking a meeting of the Republicans of Italy for the 21st inst., to take measures for the agitation of the subject.

—The population of the Hawaiian Islands, December 27, 1868, is officially stated at 57,985, of which 44,088 were natives. There has been a decrease in the number of natives and half-castes of 4,023 since 1872.

—Sunday, April 13, two bombs were thrown into the Church of San Antonio Seville, in Spain, with the object, it is believed, of creating a panic, and stealing the valuable sacramental plate belonging to the church. Several persons were injured.

—A great storm occurred at Szegedin, Hungary, Sunday, April 13, which destroyed 60 pile-driving stands, and carried away and sunk rafts and lighters laden with materials and provisions. The loss of life from the inundation is now known to be much less than was at first estimated.

—On Mr. Henry Morgan’s 20th anniversary as a reform lecturer, he addressed a large assembly of the citizens of Boston on Boston, comparing 20 years ago with the present. In the course of his remarks Mr. Morgan said, “Then, sin was considered a transgression to be punished; now, it is considered an infirmity to be condoned.”

—On the evening of the 16th, a terrific tornado swept through the lower part of the State of South Carolina, causing great destruction of life and property. In the village of Waterboro more than 100 dwellings and all the churches were swept away, and three-fourths of the inhabitants are homeless. Fifteen persons were killed, and many wounded.

—On the morning of the 14th of April an attempt was made to assassinate the Czar of Russia, the assassin firing several shots at a distance of only two paces. The Czar’s escape is considered little less than miraculous. This is the third attempt that has been made on his life. Of it we may say, More Internationalism! And in this connection we read that 1,140 Revolutionists have been arrested in Russia within the last two weeks.

—On the afternoon of April 14, a terrible cyclone struck the town of Collinsville, Ill. Ten houses were leveled to the ground, a little girl was killed, and several persons were badly injured. The loss is estimated at about $50,000. It was a curious incident of the storm, and one which well illustrates its force, that a horse and buggy were carried to the height of 20 to 30 feet, and dashed to the earth, crushing the horse to jelly, and smashing the buggy to splinters.

—Harper’s Weekly speaks as follows of the trial of T. DeWitt Talmage: “The trial of Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage before the Brooklyn Presbytery on the charge of falsehood, is likely to be protracted. As might be expected, the proceedings have revealed bitternesses which might better have been left to die out of the memory of men. The defense has been conducted by Dr. Spear and his associates, with great skill, and in both direct and cross examination painful scenes have occurred.”

—Another engineering scheme on a great scale is proposed by General Fremont, for bringing back the waters of the Gulf of California to their old basin in Southern California, and thus creating an inland sea 200 miles long by 50 broad. He insists that it can be done at a cost of $1,000,000, and that it would result in transforming what is a desert into a habitable district, and bring incalculable gain to Southern California and Arizona, whose great wants are water and moisture, which this change would supply.—Christian Weekly.

—The scandalous law of the Territory of New Mexico which gave the control of public education to the Jesuits, has been, very properly, abrogated by Congress. The advocates of free and unsectarian education now demand a general school law; this the Jesuits oppose, and they are holding the rod over the Catholics, especially over the Catholic editors. The Vicar-General of the Catholic Church in the Territory has issued a notice to the press, in which he calls the public-school system “the pampered and legitimate child of impiety,” and the papers that advocate it impious. It is well for our people to learn the temper of the church in a region where it has, or its leaders think it has, complete sway over the popular mind. New Mexico offers an interesting study of Romanism.—Harper’s Weekly.