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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1879

Notes of News.

—The pope has for the present abandoned the idea of diplomatic relations with England.

—A Catholic mob has sacked a Protestant school-house at Moyrus, Galway county, Ireland.

—The will of the Prince Imperial leaves all his property to his mother, and appoints Prince Victor Napoleon his successor.

—There is in the Sandwich Islands an aged minister who has been in the missionary work 45 years, and during that time has baptized over 12,000 persons.

—Constantinople, June 24.—The Grand Vizier has submitted to the Sultan a new programme of policy, and requested a modification of the present ministry.

—Halifax, N. S., June 23.—The army worm has appeared in Colchester county in immense numbers. They have stripped the woods on two farms, and are moving toward the grain fields.

—The region about Mount Ætna was shaken by a violent earthquake June 18. Five villages near Aci Reale, a few miles northeast of Catania, were almost wholly destroyed, with serious loss of life. The eruption of Ætna had subsided materially.

—London, June 24.—It is stated that pending the result of the meeting of ambassadors at Constantinople, the Turks have prepared everything for war. Reinforcements of six battalions of infantry and three batteries of artillery have arrived at Volo. Large bodies of Bashi-Bazouks are assembling in Albania, ready to march into Epirus and Thessaly.

—The latest accounts from Singapore state that the volcanoes in both the eastern and western districts of Java are in full activity. A broad river of fiery lava was flowing from the crater of Smeru down to the southern coast, illuminating all the neighborhood at night with its ruddy light. The Gedeb mountain was ejecting an enormous amount of cinders, which were completely covering all the surrounding district.

—Three dreadful calamities in the shape of boiler explosions occurred June 27, as follows:—

At Youngstown, Ohio, two men were fatally scalded, and seven others seriously injured, by the explosion of the large boiler used in a rolling mill.

At Nebraska City, Neb., the little government steamer Clyde exploded her boiler, instantly killing two men, and injuring some besides.

A terrific boiler explosion occurred in Philadelphia, demolishing several buildings, and damaging others. Several lives were lost. An entire family was buried beneath the ruins of one of the buildings.

—The striking spinners of Fall River, Mass., whose refusal to work without an increase of wages has paralyzed the industries of the whole neighborhood, have passed a series of resolutions condemning their employers for refusing the conditions on which they offered to work, and calling upon the city authorities to use all the resources of the municipality to prevent suffering and want in their families, thus proposing that the whole community, including the obnoxious employers, shall be taxed to help the strike along.

—The situation in Egypt grows more interesting. England demanded the abdication of the Khedive. That stubborn but unfortunate gentleman referred the representatives to the Sultan. The ministers at Constantinople labored with the Sultan, and a threat was forwarded to the Khedive. He heard the message and referred the bearers to the Sultan. Informed that the Porte desired his abdication, the Khedive exacted conditions which were pronounced inadmissible. There is material here for a first-class disturbance among the Mediterranean powers.

—One cricket would stand a poor show trying to stop a railroad train, but millions of them can do it. The western bound railroad train, No. 6, met an army of crickets at Clarke's Station, about fifteen miles west of Reno, Nevada, says the Gazette, and was detained two hours and a half trying to get through. To make the passage, the train men were finally forced to take brooms and sweep the insects off the rails. The crickets covered the track for about three miles, and when the driving wheels of the engine would strike them, they would whirl around without going forward an inch.