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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 6, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 46.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—Three hundred miners from Hungary are on the way to Pennsylvania.

—Underground telephone cables have proved successful in Washington City.

—The sale of flash illustrated papers has been prohibited at Indianapolis, Ind.

—The German Emperor is confident that the peace of Europe will be maintained.

—King Alfonso of Spain says he hopes to see the Comte de Paris king of France.

—The bones of 100 deceased Mongolians were shipped from Stockton for China last week.

—The receipts on the New York and Brooklyn bridge, for one day last week were $2,150.

—El Mahdi, the “false prophet,” is said to be gaining adherents in Tunis and Algeria.

—Two men were found murdered on American River, ten miles from Auburn, last Friday.

—A careful estimate places the financial damage by the Ischia earthquake at $1,000,000.

—At Baltimore, last week, a Mrs. Riall killed her two children and then committed suicide.

—An explosion in the basement of a drug house in Kansas City, Nov. 28, caused a $200,000 fire.

—There is much excitement over the discovery of a gold and silver mine near Ellenville, N. Y.

—The possibility of war between China and France is said to be paralyzing business in Hongkong.

—The Sultan of Turkey has made a present to the Emperor of Austria of a palace valued at $500,000.

—The latest freight cuts between the Missouri River and Salt Lake has been to twenty-five cents a hundred.

—Professor Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arctic explorer, is planning an expedition to the South Pole, for 1885.

—The captain of the steamer Dora, just returned from Alaska, reports a new volcanic island near Ounalaska.

—Windsor Theater, New York, and several adjoining buildings, were burned on the night of Nov. 30. Loss, $500,000.

—After occupying Bacninh and Sontay, the French will ask the mediation of England in the difficulty with China.

—On the 30th ult., two colored men were hanged for murder,—one at Shreveport, La., and the other at Macon, Ga.

—Gen. Rosecrans, one of California's Congressmen, proposes an anti-polygamy amendment to the Federal Constitution.

—A bill is now before the South Carolina Senate for the repeal of the Civil Rights Law passed by the Legislature in 1870.

It is believed that El Mahdi means to march his army to Mecca, and proclaim himself the head of the Musselman Church.

—In Matthews County, Va., the militia has been called out to stop the illegal dredging of oyster beds in Rappahannock River.

—A family of four persons were poisoned at Cleveland, recently, by eating cabbage on which Paris green had been used to kill worms.

—Owing to its alleged irreverence, the Thanksgiving proclamation of Governor Butler was not read in the Protestant churches of Boston.

—A Portland, Me., woman, whose will has just been offered to probate, left her property to the United States toward paying the national debt.

—An eye-witness of the defeat of Hicks Pasha says the Egyptians fought three days and were beaten because their ammunition gave out.

—An effort is being made to establish an international monetary standard, fixing a uniformity of values of gold and silver all over the world.

—The ship William A. Campbell, just arrived at San Francisco from New York, reports a seventy days' storm off Cape Horn. She is badly used up.

—Los Angeles justice has done a good business the past year; it has sent fifty-four criminals to the State prisons. There are yet thirty-four on hand.

—Counterfeit standard dollars have come into circulation in San Francisco. The noticeable difference between them and the genuine is in the weight.

—Nov. 30, four men robbed a safe at New Washington, O., and being pursued, they shot the Marshal, whose posse killed two of them and captured one.

—The American Bishops are preparing an address thanking the Pope for summoning them to Rome and expressing unchangeable devotion to the Holy See.

—Major-General Pope has taken command of the Department of the Pacific, and General Schofield goes to Chicago as commander of the Department of the West.

—A recent gale destroyed thousands of acres of timber in New Hampshire and Maine. The homes of wood-choppers were destroyed, entailing considerable suffering.

—Seventy-five thousand cotton operatives in Northeast Lancashire, Eng., are determined to resist a proposal to reduce their wages five per cent. A great strike is feared.

—Jewell, the San Jose murderer, was hanged last Friday. On the day previous, Dr. Bentley, of the M. E. Church, administered communion to the culprit, and sprinkled him.

—The Emperor of Japan has taken the initiative in the cause of temperance in his empire by appointing a commission to devise methods for the suppression of the liquor traffic.

—Pere Hyacinthe says: “I mean to visit Utah and learn, if I can, the source of the strange power that has reared up an imperialism under the shadow of the Rocky Mountains.”

—The telegraph informs us that the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. has been bought off from California business by a percentage on the through business of competing Pacific lines.

—A fire in St. Paris, O., on the 28th ult., destroyed thirty-five houses. Engines from Urbana, seven miles distant, began throwing water twenty-seven minutes after receiving the telegram.

—About 80,000 acres of land in Gilmour and Bracken Counties, West Virginia, have recently been sold to Boston and Baltimore parties for half a million dollars. It is believed to be rich in petroleum.

—Hon. J. G. Blaine proposes, as a means of reducing the surplus revenue of the Government, that the tax on spirits be distributed among the States. Last year it would have amounted $1.70 per capita.

—Surgeon Van Sant's report to Surgeon-General Hamilton charges that the health authorities of San Francisco have not exercised due care in the matter of yellow fever patients arriving from Mexico.

—The Porte has addressed a note to the powers informing them that Turkey offered to send troops to suppress the rising in Soudan, but England refused the offer. Egypt now asks England's assistance.

—A wealthy man named Nathan Morris, living near Montezuma, Ind., went crazy over the loss of some money invested in Chicago ventures, and driving his wife away from home, burned up his house and store.

—O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, the Irish informer, has been convicted and sentenced to death. His American counsel took no part in the trial, as the other counsel thought it would prejudice an English jury against the defendant.

—Governor Murray of Utah advocates a new Organic Act for that Territory, vesting the Government in three commissioners, similar to the Government of the District of Columbia, except that the U. S. army shall be used to serve processes.

—A Chihuahua, Mexico, dispatch says: “Four hundred frontiersmen, with two Arizona scouts, have started north in the Sierra Madre Mountains, armed to the teeth, to war on the Apaches without mercy, and for $250 each for all male scalps.”

The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided that cotton “future” notes are utterly void; that dealing in futures is as much gambling as betting on faro. Then how about our California grain futures, which constitute a large part of the “business” of the Produce Exchange?

—At a recent seance of Dr. J. Matthew Shea, a materializing medium, in New York, a materialized spirit walked boldly out into the room, and was pounced upon by some policemen. The “spirit” proved to be the “doctor” himself, and his cabinet was found to be full of wigs, costumes, and other devices of the trade.

—Sojourner Truth is dead at last. She was born a slave in New York, and was liberated by the Act of 1817 emancipating all slaves over 40 years of age. This is all that is known concerning her age. She has resided in Battle Creek, Mich., for the last quarter century, and retained her faculties in a remarkable degree.

—On Sunday, Nov. 25, Archbishop Alemany (R. C.) confirmed 13 boys, 28 girls, and 90 adults at Haywards, this county; and then went on to San Leandro, where he confirmed 33 boys, 36 girls, and 57 adults. He was accompanied by several church dignitaries. For two country towns, but a few miles apart, the addition of 257 members to “the church,” at one sacrament, is a pretty good increase.