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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 7, 1878

SECULAR NEWS.

—Seven hundred thousand persons died by famine the last year in India.

—About one hundred men are now daily employed at the Golden Gate Park.

—San Francisco has a population of 308,215 against 301,020 last year, 30,000 of which are Chinese, and 2,000 colored.

—Stanley's African expedition is said to have cost the New York Herald and the London Telegraph $115,000.

—It is stated that the 84,614 colored voters of Georgia own 457,635 acres of land worth $1,244,104, city property worth $1,199,725, personal property worth $486,522, stock worth 241,106, and other property worth $2,250,000.

—Great distress prevails in Palestine this year, owing to a poor harvest and prices which are double what they were last year. Many are poverty-stricken, and many are out of employment, for no work is to be had. Hundreds have to beg for food. The war has much to do with this distressed condition.

—The city of Chicago is said to be in a very unenviable financial condition. The Supreme Court has decided that the city debt having reached the ultimate limit, it is not lawful for the city to incur any debt in addition; that it cannot borrow any money in anticipation of its revenue, and that although it may issue orders on the treasury payable out of taxes actually levied when collected, yet that such orders must be issued in payment and without any recourse against the city. The result is, that the City Council has no money, the employees in various branches of the public service cannot be paid in a year and a half, and as there is hardly any likelihood that they will be able to live without money during that time, there seems to be no alternative but to dismiss them.

—One-sixth of all the corn raised in the United States was raised last year in Illinois, 130,000,000 bushels; she also cut 2,747,000 tons of hay, nearly one-tenth of all the hay in the country; she raised last year 2,500,000 hogs and packed 1,113,845, about one-half of all that were packed in the United States; she also takes the lead in the oat-crop, growing 43,789,581 out of a total of 282,107,159 bushels. Ohio raises the most winter wheat, 27,625,759 out of 175,195,193 bushels produced in the Union; and Iowa raises the most spring wheat, 28,707,312 bushels of the 112,549,533 bushels produced in the United States. Pennsylvania supplies one-fifth of the rye, or 3,577,641 bushels out of 16,918,705; and California the largest barley crop, or 8,783,490 out of a total of 29,761,305 bushels. New York produces 3,904,030 bushels of buckwheat out of a total of 9,821,721. Ohio produces one-fifth of the wool raised in the United States. Kentucky grows more than half the hemp, and Mississippi takes the lead among the cotton-growing States.