Items and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 8, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 6.

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Items and Notes.

By Editor

—Utah is third on the list of bullion-producing countries, ranking after Nevada and California.

—The estimated reduction of the National debt for January is $8,000,000.

—News comes from the East of intensely cold weather, the thermometer ranging from zero to 30° below.

—Cetewayo is the re-installed King of Zululand. About 5,000 Zulus were present at the ceremony.

—Two thousand exemplars of Oregon have sent a petition to Congress asking for legislation to suppress the liquor traffic.

—At Odessa, Jan. 30, four steamers, ice-bound in the roads, were blown out to sea in an ice-floe. Their fate is unknown.

—The business men of St. Louis have determined to erect a mammoth exhibition building in the heart of the city, to cost $400,000.

—The steamship Clyde, from San Francisco, was wrecked on her first trip, near Coos Bay, Oregon. Nine sailors were drowned.

—The Berlin Anti-Cruelty Society has secured the prohibition of public performances of tamers of lions and other dangerous animals.

—The Committee on Foreign Relations has favorably reported to the Senate, on the bill to abrogate the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty.

—The Ansonia, a large Italian steamer, has been wrecked on the coast of Tripoli. Twenty of the crew were lost; the passengers were saved.

—Accounts from the Canadian Northwest state that settlers in the Bow-river district have lost their herd and head of cattle owing to the severity of the winter.

—Defalcating officials are all the rage now. The last one heard from is the Treasurer of Jackson County, Mo., who skipped with $25,000 of other people's money in his pocket.

—It is now stated that the date of the coronation of the Czar of Russia is finally fixed for the 27th of May. But the nihilists have not yet expressed their opinion of the matter.

—The steamer Agnes Jack from Sardinia, laden with lead, was wrecked near Swansea, Wales. Witnesses of the disaster saw the crew of twelve men swept from the masts. All hands perished.

—The Vestnik newspaper says that famine prevails in the Government of Kherzon, Russia. Several peasants have committed suicide to escape witnessing the misery of their starving families.

—The Inman pier and the warehouses adjoining, in New York City, were burned on the morning of the first. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. The fire is supposed to have originated from a laborer's pipe.

—The State Treasurer of Alabama has gone away, having appropriated to his own use about $300,000 of the State funds. An examination showed that he had been speculating largely in cotton futures.

—A young man was hung by a mob in Winfield, Kan., last week, for a murder committed a short time previous. Just before his execution he stated that he had been led to a life of lawlessness by reading the exploits of Jesse James.

—At the annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, Anthony Comstock stated that during the year he had seized six tons of gambling furniture and apparatus and made 118 arrests for offenses against decency.

—The Russian Nihilists have given another significant warning. A placard was posted a few days ago in a public garden in St. Petersburg, enjoining people to avoid the places frequented by the Court, lest they should be hurt by anything that might happen.

—A dispatch from Vienna, Feb. 1, says: "The conviction is gaining ground that France is on the eve of fresh trouble. The position of affairs is likely to grow worse before it improves. The crisis has thrown France's relations with the Powers into confusion."

—Father Gallagher, of Ireland, who has charge of the relief fund, says the people of Donegal are subsisting on food fit only for beasts; that private charity could not cope with the wide-spread distress there; that the Government alone can do it, and that things will very soon come to a crisis.

—The men who recently attempted to rob a Central Pacific express train near Montello, Utah, have been captured. There are five of them, ranging in age from 19 to 40 years. They have been committing depredations in Utah and Nevada since last September, when they built their stockade in the mountains.

—The effects of the cold weather are seen in Colorado in terrible snow-slides. At Crested Butte, on the 31st ult., a snow-slide carried all the buildings and machinery of several mines a mile down the mountain. Thirty men were buried, twenty of whom were killed. Quite a number of others have resulted in loss of life.

—The Secretary of the Interior has decided a question of much importance to settlers on lands within the limits of railroad grants where settlements have been made after the withdrawal of the lands and before the date of definite location of the line of the road. The Secretary holds such withdrawals inoperative against settlers, and that settlers are protected by statute up to the time the line of the road is fixed.

—Mace and Slade, who make their living, not with their hands, but with their fists, have been prohibited by the police of New York in that city. Mace thinks it a pity that he can't be allowed to exhibit anywhere in New York, when they gave him a church in San Francisco. The pugilists declare their intention of leaving this unappreciative country. We have not heard that anybody has tried to prevent them from so doing.

—Dispatches from London, Jan. 29, say: "The bark Royal Tar, from Philadelphia for Liverpool, was driven into Penarth Road with decks swept and other damage done. Ten bodies were washed ashore near Penarth." "A steamer is supposed to have foundered with all on board, twenty in number, near Port Hall." "A vessel, supposed to be the steamer Black Watch, was sunk off Mumbleshead and twenty-six persons drowned. She was 1397 tons, and belongs to Cardiff. The storm continues."