p. 199 | Notes of News

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 19, 1879

Notes of News.

—Not many events have transpired the past week which we would care to notice, or in which the readers of the REVIEW would be particularly interested. There has been the usual amount of casualties, conflagrations, suicides, robberies, and crime of all classes and grades.

—CHOLERA of a severe type has made its appearance in the lower Bolan Pass.

—The famine in Cashmere is taking its course, and people are reported dying by hundreds.

—A DISASTROUS fire occurred in Dwight, Ill., June 8. Loss, not covered by insurance, $50,000.

—The Afghan treaty has created a strong impression in Persia, greatly increasing the British prestige.

—FORTY thousand camels belonging to the British transport service died during the war in Afghanistan .

—FERRARA, June 7.—Several thousand people have been rendered homeless by the inundation in the river Po.

—A SPECIAL commissioner has gone to Astrakhan to investigate the disease which has broken out among the Tartars.

—ANOTHER destructive storm has passed over various portions of Kansas, doing serious damage to buildings and crops.

—RECENT advices from Minnesota state that Sitting Bull counsels his followers to make peace with the Americans.

—DISPATCHES from London, June 8, state that an unexpected and happy termination of the war in South Africa has occurred.

—LATER dispatches from Rome state that the eruption of Mount Ætna has ceased, but the volcano continues to give forth smoke.

—LONDON, June 8.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that Alexander Solovieff, the would-be assassin of the Czar, was executed yesterday at 5 o'clock P. M.

—IT is stated that the pope has submitted definite proposals to end the clerical controversy, but the government is disinclined to accept his proposals.

—SIMLA, June 12.—Reports have reached the government of India of fresh massacres of royal princes at Mandalay, prompted by the king of Burmah.

—OFFICIAL intelligence was received in London, June 8, that violence and bloodshed occur daily in Janina, Arta, and Prevesa, caused by the insubordination of the Turkish troops.

Private dispatches represent that the inhabitants of Lebanon are preparing for a revolt, and demand the recall of their Governor.

—WASHINGTON, June 12.—A dispatch was received here to-day by Fred Douglass, from Hayti, stating that the United States Minister, the Hon. J. M. Langston, is dying of yellow fever.

—LONDON, June 8.—The North German Gazette states that the German Foreign Office has received confirmation of the reports of the destruction of the German mission station in Natal, and of the ill treatment of the missionary by the British. Communications are still proceeding with the British government on this subject.

—LANSING, Mich., June 10. Department of State.—The crop and stock reports of 496 townships, received at this office, representing 53 counties, show that there were 1,244,796 sheep sheared in 1878, yielding 6,062,242 pounds of wool, an average of 47 pounds per head. They also show that the number of sheep in the same townships in 1879 was 1,310,320 which is 19.99 per cent more for said townships than in 1874, as shown by the census of that year. If there has been a corresponding increase throughout the State, there will be 1,982,114 sheep sheared the present year, and the total clip, at the same average per head as in 1878, will be 9,652,895 pounds.