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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 22, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 21.

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Notes of News.

—The President has vetoed the new army bill.

—The khedive still refuses to appoint European ministers.

—In Hungary, floods have destroyed 300 houses in Kottori.

—Destructive forest fires rage in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa.

—The British government will not dissolve parliament this year.

—Hungary Mohammedans are plundering the stores in Adrianople.

—Four villages on the banks of the Plattensee, in Hungary, have been flooded.

—The French minister of commerce favors reciprocity with the United States.

—Moscow is to be subjected to a reign of terror similar to that of St. Petersburg.

—Heavy failures are reported in Great Britain, amounting to £790,000, or $3,950,000.

—Failures of trading companies in Rotterdam, Holland, are reported to the amount of $3,750,000.

—Magnezu, brother of the Zulu King Cetewayo, has with a few followers surrendered to the British.

—The greater part of Lubin, a city of 20,000 inhabitants in Russian Poland, has been destroyed by fire.

—Should the German tariff bill succeed, which is almost certain, it will probably disrupt the national liberal party.

—London, May 12.—The principal part of the town of Irbit, Russia, at the confluence of the Irbit and Nisa Rivers, has been burned.

—Hurdwar, Upper India, has experienced an outbreak of the cholera. The indications are that disease and death will hold high carnival in the old world the coming year. There are many elements encouraging and inviting disaster of this kind.

—An electric hailstorm extended over the southern part of Minnesota, May 12. At Modalia, hailstones were reported as large as goose eggs.

—A grateful community in the famine district of China, have presented a magnificent heathen temple to the Jesus “Church.”—Christian Weekly.

—Wholesale arrests of Nihilists continue in Russia, including noblemen and titled ladies. Some of these are charged with being the incendiaries of Orenburg.

—A conference was held at Barnsby, England, May 4, at which 120,000 colliers were represented. They will strike if an advance of ten per cent in crease of pay is not allowed.

—A Watertown (N. Y.) Times’ special says “a Mrs. Merrihead, of New Deer River, is suspected of poisoning her husband and brother-in-law, and an examination is now in progress.”

—Buildings 405 to 409 North Fifth street, St. Louis, Mo., with their contents, burned Saturday evening; loss $275,000; insured about $100,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery.

—London, May 12.—Lord Hamilton, Vice President of the Council, to-day stated in the House of Commons that in various cattle cargoes recently arrived from America, pleuro-pneumonia has been found.

—May 14.—Great conflagration at Poonah, India. The government school, Boodwar Palace, law courts, post-office, police office, and fifty houses were completely destroyed. Also another fire at Orenburg, Russia, still raging on the 12th.

—At Minden, La., a severe hailstorm occurred, May 16. The hailstones averaged the size of hen’s eggs, and fell to the thickness of a foot on level ground. All crops and vegetation in the path of the storm were entirely demolished.

—Frank E. Hayden has been arrested at Fitchburg, Mass., on charge of poisoning his sister. He is also suspected of having poisoned his father and mother, who died recently—all to secure about $8,000 worth of property wholly to himself.

—The South American War.—Valparaiso, April 19.—The Bolivians have retaken Atacama. It is announced from Jujuy, a town of the Argentine Republic, near the Bolivian frontier, that 15,000 Bolivians are marching to attack the Chilians.

—London, May 13.—The St. Petersburg Gazette reports that the losses of the conflagration at Irbit are enormous. The treasury, post-office, and town hall were saved. The fire raged all day Saturday and Sunday. A Berlin dispatch points out that Irbit is largely used as a place of exile.

—St. Petersburg, May 12.—Intelligence has been received from Tiflis that a disease with terrible mortality is raging in nineteen villages in the Caucasus. A solemn procession of holy pictures has been held in the district of Gori, and prayers offered for the preservation of the inhabitants.

—Pestilence in the Caucasus.—St. Petersburg, May 14.—The disease which has broken out in the Caucasus proves fatal in twenty-four hours. In Derby, which contains 150 houses, seventy persons died. In Medvricheni, with 200 houses, there are 100 persons dead. Mortality elsewhere is on the same scale.

—Irbit is in the government of Perm and is famous for its annual fair, in the months of February and March, a fair which, next to that of Nishni Novgorod, is the largest held in Russia. To this fair are brought goods to the value of $25,000,000 from China, India, Persia, and Europe. The population of the place is about 35,000.

—St. Petersburg, May 15.—Large numbers of Nihilist incendiaries are being made in towns throughout Russia. Revolution is rampant, and a feeling of dread and insecurity prevails everywhere. The trial of a large number of male and female revolutionists, many of whom are members of the nobility, is in progress at Kieff.

—London has more Roman Catholics than Rome, more Jews than all Palestine, more Irish than Belfast, more Scotch than Aberdeen, more Welsh than Cardiff; its beer and gin shops, placed one after another in a line, would reach sixty-two miles, and one entire quarter of the city is inhabited by three hundred thousand of the most miserable wretches and worst thieves to be found on earth.

—Nearly 2,000 southern negroes are awaiting transportation Kansasward, along the lower Mississippi. Gen. Conway and two members of the society of Friends have left St. Louis to see to what extent they have been denied transportation, and to bring suits against such steamboat owners as have denied to carry them when they offered to pay the way; also to devise means of transport for them.

—One of the most singular phenomena ever witnessed occurred in Louisville, Ky., at 11:30, May 15. An army of black clouds came up from the south, and one after another in quick succession burst, pouring such a flood of water upon a portion of the city that within thirty minutes the streets became the channels of roaring torrents, the water averaging three feet in depth. Passengers in the street cars were obliged to climb upon the seats to keep dry.

Rome, May 12.—At the consistory held to-day the pope appointed five cardinal priests and three cardinal deacons. Among the new cardinals are the Rev. Dr. John Henry Newman, of England, and the Rev. Dr. Herzenroether. The pope also made numerous appointments to bishoprics, among them those of Cardinal Hohenlohe to the bishopric of Albano, the Rev. Dr. McCabe to that of Dublin, and the Rev. Dr. Woodlock to that of Ardagh and Clonmacross.

—The power of the gospel to change a nation from half-naked savages to comfortably dressed, civilized, and enlightened people, is illustrated by the following extract from a letter from Pitus Coan, the veteran missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Mr. Coan says: “I once thought I should never live to see all our natives shod with leather shoes; but many of the men wear $14 to $17 boots, with other articles corresponding, and all are comfortably shod, and clothed in foreign fabrics.”

A Remarkable Meteor.

Washington, Minn., May 11.—A meteor, apparently about the size of an ordinary foot-ball, passed over this place about five o’clock this afternoon, and descending east of the town, exploded with a report equal to the discharge of a 300-pounder. The concussion shook the town, and the first impression among the people generally was that there had been a mill explosion. The shock and report were very great. The meteor was plainly visible in its passage through the air, looking like a ball of fire with a long train of vapor behind it. It exploded just before it struck the earth.—Inter-Ocean.