News and Miscellany

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 29, 1875

News and Miscellany.

INTERRUPTED TRAVEL.

Reports from the breaks in the Union Pacific Railroad are still unsatisfactory. At the ticket office in San Francisco ladies are advised not to take passage before the 1st of May. Persons arriving in San Francisco report that the trouble did not arise so much from the amount of water as from the road being insufficiently supplied with culverts. The road bed formed a complete dam which could not withstand the flood.

—There is still no prospect of settling the difficulties in the Pennsylvania coal regions. The miners of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre companies are fully determined not to resume work unless their demand for an increase of 10 per cent. is granted. There are 10,000 men of these companies alone idle.

—The spinners' strike at Great Falls, N. H., is over—the men returning to work on the terms proposed originally by the employers.

—The strike of the cotton operatives at Blackburn, England, has ended.

PROVIDENCE, April 24.—The striking operatives at Natic and Arctic mills have notified the superintendents that they will return to work on Monday next.

—New York has a million inhabitants and ninety of them die of pneumonia every week.

—The New York Herald of March 25, gives an account of King Kalakawa's hotel bill for his eight days' stay in that city, as $6,286.91. At the same time there is reported more suffering from hunger in that city this winter than for the last thirty years.

GALVESTON, (Tex.), April 19.—A special dispatch from Corpus Christi says that a band of 35 or 40 Mexicans is reported to be robbing and burning houses between Brownsville and Santa Gertrude. All communication by telegraph is cut off from Brownsville. Firing was heard at Bareges last night, eight miles beyond Santa Gertrude. A courier reached here last night calling for help, and alarm bells were rung. Captains Clark and Culver have started to meet the raiders.

ANOTHER COLD SPELL IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.

CUFALA (Ala.), April 19.—A heavy frost prevailed here yesterday and continues today. About one-half of the coming cotton crop is up and has all been killed. There is considerable ice in this section.

CHARLESTON (S. C.), April 19.—A heavy frost here last night caused great damage to the cotton and other crops. The loss is estimated at $500,000.

DANVILLE (Va.), April 19.—The cold spell has destroyed nearly all the fruit and damaged the tobacco considerably.

RICHMOND (Va.), April 19.—Reports have been received from all the fruit growing sections between here and Greensboro. Fruits of all kinds have been killed by the cold spell, and the tobacco crop has also suffered severely.

OPIUM SMOKING.

Policeman Mahon, of San Francisco reports more than half a dozen opium dens in that city. They are visited all times of day and night by persons of both sexes who resort there for the purpose of smoking this abominable drug.

SAN JOSE, April 23.—At 3 o'clock this afternoon a small shed in the rear of the St. Joseph's Catholic church caught fire from some cause unknown. The fire communicated with the church totally destroying the building. The wind was quite severe, and at one time the southern portion of the city was threatened with destruction, but the fire was confined to the church. The total loss is about $40,000.

CINCINNATI, April 23.—Dispatches received here from New Orleans state that the large steamboats Exporter, Church, and John Kyle are now all in flames at a wharf in that city, and that they will be totally destroyed.

PETALUMA, April 12.—Reports incendiarism on Sunday morning are as follows: The first place set fire to was the railroad depot in East Petaluma, at about 12:30 A. M. The next was the hay and grain store of G. B. Williams, on Main, above Washington street, which was done about 2 A. M. Then the match was applied to the blacksmith and wagon shop of David Jay & Co., at about 3:45 A. M. From thence the incendiaries went immediately to Dr. Christy's place on Kentucky street, and to J. M. Lightner's on Kellar street. None of the attempts were well enough arranged to do much damage.