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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 35.

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—The public debt was reduced $2,879,052.17 during August.

—Cotopaxi, the famous volcano of South America, has again been indulging in an eruption.

—Ten thousand Christian refugees from the scene of the recent massacres in Anam, are starving.

—At Warsaw, Poland, 140 Prussians were arrested, chained together, and marched out of the country.

—At York, Pa., a preacher was knocked down in his pulpit for attempting to preach a memorial sermon on Grant.

—The steamer Hanoverian was recently wrecked on a hidden rock in Portugal Cove, fourteen miles from Cape Race. No lives lost.

—It is said that if Harper's or the Century were dailies instead of monthlies, they would not exhaust the "copy" that is submitted to their consideration.

—The standing army of Spain is 100,000 men.

—The Rhine Valley has been swept by a terrible cyclone.

—Postage stamps have been in use in this country only since 1847.

—Bears are killing off sheep in the vicinity of Mount Shasta, Cal.

—Ex-Senator Gwin, of California, died in New York September 3, after a short illness.

—With 6,000,000 more population now than in 1880, we consume 12,700,000 pounds more tea.

—The British Museum has just received the Hume collection of birds, amounting to 63,000 specimens, of which 50,000 are new species.

—It is stated that in the event of an alliance between England and Turkey, Russia will withdraw from the trammels imposed on her by the Berlin treaty.

—Chas. H. Dimmicks of Binghamton, N. Y., possesses the old Spanish Bible upon which the first American governor of California took his oath of office.

—A terrible thunder-storm visited Pisa, Italy, August 30, and shattered two church steeples; but the noted "leaning tower" was uninjured by the storm.

—Four little amateur carpenters, who were working upon a shed in connection with Lincoln School, of this city, September 2, were seriously injured by the fall of the shed.

—A very destructive fire broke out in San Francisco on the evening of September 2, in which upwards of $125,000 worth of property was destroyed, and fifty families made homeless.

—The late riots between Germans and Czechs in Bohemia are causing much alarm to the Austrian Government for fear that Germany will demand indemnities for the Germans injured.

—It is asserted that there is a natural bridge between Arizona and New Mexico, twenty miles north of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which surpasses the famous bridge in Virginia.

—A procession at Galway, Ireland, attacked a detachment of soldiers on duty there. Clubs and stones were freely used on both sides, resulting in much damage to windows and injury to persons.

—Two women and nine girls who, on September 2, attempted to cross the river in a boat, near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, were caught in the swell of a tug which had just passed, their boat capsized, and six of them were drowned.

—French engineers have succeeded in finding water in the desert country of Southern Tunis. At the depth of 300 feet they struck a current which rushed forth with such velocity as to carry large stones high into the air.

—Electricity as a motor power was put to the test in New York, August 31. It successfully moved a car loaded with thirty persons from Fourteenth Street Station, up the steep grades, reaching Fifteenth Street Station in twelve minutes.

—A land-slide occurred in the White Mountains recently, started by the giving way of immense bowlders from the top of Owl's Head; these coming in contact with ground that was wet and loose, caused a mass of earth varying from 75 to 180 feet in width to slide down a distance of a mile and a half, killing several animals, and fatally injuring one man.

—News from the coal mines, at Rock Springs, Wyoming, is to the effect that on the 2d inst. the white miners attacked some three or four hundred Chinese employed in the mines there by the Union Pacific Railroad, and drove them from camp, killing some fifteen outright, and probably burning as many more in camp.

—News comes from Farwell, on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, that serious trouble has arisen there between the Dominion and Provincial police, caused by the seizures of liquors by the former from persons licensed by the province. It is reported that the provincials will be upheld by the British Government.

—At Fort Lafayette, N. Y., workmen are busy building a new torpedo boat, which, if successful, will prove a submarine wonder. The boat is fifty feet long and eight in diameter, shaped like a cigar, the smaller end being sharp so that it will penetrate the iron plating of any ship when driven by its immense propelling force, and then by the contrary motion back off, leaving the ship to sink.