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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 10, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 3.

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Notes of News.

—A heavy thunderstorm visited Paris June 30. Several persons were killed.

—Great distress is reported in the west of Ireland, on account of continued rains.

—Mt. Hood, Oregon, has lately been giving out volumes of smoke from its long extinct crater.

—Crops in all parts of France have been injured by the rains. Beet root vines suffered heavily.

—Nashville, Tenn., is already beginning extensive preparations for the celebration of her centennial in April, 1880.

—Official reports of the Italian harvest say that the rain and inundations have rendered the prospects in the North deplorable.

—New York, July 1.—Two seamen were admitted to the Quarantine hospital in the Lower Bay yesterday who were sick with symptoms of yellow fever.

—London, July 1.—The correspondent of the Times at Odessa says General Todleben has ordered the abolition of all money subscription, to prevent aid being given to political offenders.

—The Times' Constantinople special says there is reason to believe that the powers have disagreed with regard to the recommendations to be made to the Porte for settlement of the Greek frontier question.

—St. Petersburg, June 29.—The Minister of the Interior has ordered the local authorities to take measures against agitators inciting the peasants to disturbances by spreading false reports of an impending redistribution of land.

—A Berlin correspondent reports that there is a mysterious coolness between Russia and Germany, and the Czar, in consequence of it, will not visit the empire. Many persons believe that this state of things is owing to the influence of the Czarowitz.

—Both houses of Congress were finally declared adjourned at 5 o'clock July 1. The first question that will occur to most people on this event is, “What have the two great parties respectively gained or lost in the light of the extra session?”

—London, July 2.—The Etoile Belge states that Sunday last a placard was posted on the wall of the royal palace of Lacken, threatening the king with death if he ratified the bill passed by the Belgian Parliament, depriving the clergy of the control of elementary education.

—Trustworthy advices from Constantinople speak of the endeavor of Russia to come to an understanding with France relative to the Eastern question. It is said also that Russia is endeavoring to conciliate Turkey by dwelling on the possibility of the release of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Austrian domination.

—Ten thousand people witnessed the race between Yale and Harvard, and shouted themselves hoarse. You could not have got one thousand to listen for ten minutes to their best scholar displaying his mental acquirements. Wind, muscles, and legs are the three cardinal requirements of the present civilization.—Inter-Ocean.

—Captain James B. Eads writes a letter to the New York Tribune, in which he proposes, as a substitute for the Panama ship canal, a railroad for monster trucks, on which ships can be placed and taken across the isthmus. Such a road can be constructed, Captain Eads believes, at one-third the cost of a ship canal, and he argues that the largest ships can be transferred, when fully loaded, with absolute safety.

—According to Odessa newspapers, the situation of the crops in southern Russia and the Caucasus has scarcely ever been so bad as at present. What was left by the drought and hail is now, it is asserted, being annihilated by frightful swarms of grasshoppers and corn-beetles in the neighborhood of Odessa, and in the governments of Bessarabia, Ekaterinoslav, Kherson, Poltava, Tiflis, Terek-Baku, Stavropol, and Kutais.

—Telegraphic dispatches inform us of the completion of the Sutro tunnel, the greatest mining enterprise that has ever been undertaken in this country. The Sutro tunnel is three and a half miles in length, and passes through all the ramifications of the Comstock lode in Virginia City and Gold Hill, Nev., draining the mines at a depth of nearly 3,000 feet. The work was begun in the fall of 1869, and has been going on since, without interruption, day and night. It has involved an expenditure of $6,000,000.

—July 2, P. M., a terrible storm visited portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Dakota, and Iowa. The storm consisted of an unprecedented rainfall in St. Paul, Minn., thunder and hail throughout the State, and a cyclone sweeping across southern Minnesota from the southwest corner to a point on the Mississippi River above Red Wing, where it crossed into Wisconsin. Houses and barns were leveled under its tread as though threshed with a flail. Great damage was done to crops, and trains were delayed by wash-outs. At Vasa, Minn., seven persons were killed and thirty injured by lightning and the falling of buildings. At Menomonee, Wis., a house with two inmates was carried away by the flood. In Lansing, Iowa, two young men saw the storm coming, and took refuge in a barn, but the wind struck the building with such force as to demolish it, crushing them to death in the ruins.