p. 143 | Notes of News

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 1, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 18.

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—THE BEY of Tunis has opened an Arabic printing house.

—THE RUSSIANS contemplate adding 150 battalions to their army.

—THERE are 144 ordained Presbyterian ministers and missionaries in India.

—NEW ORLEANS has been made accessible to the largest sailing ships and steamers.

—A DECREE has been issued forbidding evangelical work in the Austrian empire.

—ON Sunday, April 20, President Grevy was to sign the pardons of 800 French Communists.

—THE ALBANIANS, in their retreat from Kurshumlic, carried off a wounded Servian, and roasted him alive.

—A DISPATCH from Constantinople says that the inhabitants of one of the districts in Crete have risen in arms.

—A PLAN has been proposed in England that meets with favor, of forming a company to insure its members against blindness.

—BISMARCK has conferred with the Russian Ambassador on the expediency of adopting common measures against the Socialists.

—ONE sign of the hard times in England and Wales is the falling off in marriages. Only 189,657 were registered in 1878; in 1876 there were 201,874.

—DURING 1878 there were 879 novels and other works of fiction published in Great Britain, being about a sixth of the entire number of new issues.

—It is now Russia's turn to suffer an inundation. At Panza 500 persons have been rendered homeless, and traffic on trains in the vicinity of Moscow has been suspended.

—SIX THOUSAND blacks have reached St. Louis, and they are still arriving, but in diminished numbers. The result, of course, will be that some one will pay the bills and send them where they want to go.

—PRINCE TORLONIA of Italy, after expending 24 years and $10,000,000, has succeeded in draining off the waters of Lake Fucino in the Apennines, 2,000 feet above the sea, and has thus added 35,000 acres of the richest land to his valuable estates.

—THE beautiful villa at Baveno on Lake Maggiore, where Queen Victoria has been rusticating, belongs to Mr. Henfrey, who amassed his great riches as a railway contractor in Manchester. It is a stately palace, supplied with every convenience and luxury that wealth could furnish.

—THE Republican meeting called by General Garibaldi in Rome April 21, and was presided over by the General. It was resolved to agitate for universal suffrage, and for the abolition of the deputies' oath of allegiance. General Garibaldi says Italy must be armed, and ready to claim her unredeemed provinces.

—The Presbyterian argues that “the anti-Christ, the man of sin which is to be revealed,” is not popery, but the bloody-handed monster represented in Nihilism, Internationalism, Communism, Molly Maguirism, and Red Republicanism, that is ready to make common cause against God and all religions, Protestant as well as Papal.

—REV. F. L. PATTON, D. D., LL. D., Professor of Systematic Theology in the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Chicago, has been unanimously and very cordially elected to the Professorship of Apologetics in the Presbyterian College of London. This is the second professor England has called from Chicago within two years.

—GENERAL GARIBALDI has opened a subscription for the purchase of a million rifles to arm the Italian nation, and has sent an address to the inhabitants of Istria, Trieste, and Trent. The General declares he will sacrifice everything to the accomplishment of the national task. This doesn't look much as though he came to Rome to die.

—The scheme is revived to recover the treasures which are believed to have been buried for ages in the mud of the river Tiber at Rome. It is proposed to drag its bed in the hope of finding the golden candlestick from the temple at Jerusalem, and the statues, coins, and valuable ornaments from the Roman palaces that tradition says were thrown into the river.

—OURS is not the only country where John Chinaman proves a disturbing element. The Dominion Parliament of our northern neighbors is disturbed by the question that has so recently excited our Congress. And reports from Australia show that the advent of the Orientals, who seem to be competitors for the world's work, has seriously disquieted the labor market there.

—The reign of terror goes on in Russia, and hundreds of “suspects” are banished daily to Siberia, or locked up in the prisons, without form of law or trial; the German social and political association favors a moderately protective and retaliatory tariff; French and English men of war have been ordered to be in readiness to go to Alexandria to bring the Khedive to his senses.

—It is stated that a plan is on foot for the establishment of a colony of 3000 Italians on the south coast of New Guinea. The arrangements have all been completed, and a subscription of $6,000,000 already received. Communication with North Australia is to be maintained by a telegraphic cable. Every rank of life except lawyers is represented. Quite a number of men of science have enlisted.

—THERE are 61 graduates of Yale College, 35 of Princeton, and 30 of Dartmouth, occupying clerkships and other positions in the government service at Washington, and an equally strong representation from the other leading colleges of the country. A Yale professor, on being told the number of Yale graduates in the departments, exclaimed, “Bless my soul! is it the mission of Yale to graduate scholars to occupy $1200-clerkships in Washington?”

—The Inter-Ocean of April 21 says: “A body of two or three thousand men, half of them armed and uniformed, parading the streets on the Sabbath [Sunday], and flaunting red flags and incendiary mottoes in the face of the public, is not a pleasant spectacle, but that is what was witnessed in Chicago yesterday. . . . The Inter-Ocean has no objection to parades that are not intended as threats; but some one is leading these men into dangerous fields, where, unless checked, they will sooner or later involve themselves in serious trouble.”

—REV. A. BARNARD, of Traverse City, Mich., is engaged in a translation of Moody and Sankey's Gospel Hymns for the Indians. Some time ago he completed a first edition, but this is exhausted, and now he proposes a larger and more perfect work. It will contain the songs in English and Ojibwa. Mr. Barnard has a small printing press upon which he does his own work, setting his own type and performing all the labor himself. The Indians curiously and anxiously watch the progress of the work in which they are so much interested.

—Of the five million acres of land under cultivation in Egypt, the Khedive has managed to become the owner of one-fifth. And this is cultivated by forced labor, in very much the same way that the Pharaohs of thirteen hundred years before Christ made brick at the hands of the cruelly-tasked Israelites. But nearly all the industrial speculations of this enterprising enough autocrat have failed. Even his intended, “reforms” are sterile of any good results. The country has to pay $40,000,000 as interest to her foreign creditors. Bankruptcy proceedings seldom create new friends, as this autocratic financier is finding out. The present Egyptian crisis is one which must soon become, as Mr. Edward Dicey in the Nineteenth Century remarks, a struggle between Egypt and Europe, between the East and the West. The issue is predetermined; the West will prevail.