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Pacific Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 19, 1877

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 16.

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SECULAR NEWS.

—Miss Alta M. Hulett, the famous lady lawyer of Chicago, died in San Diego, Cal., March 26, aged 22.
—The organizer of the Chico Labor Union, who is under arrest, confesses that the recent reign of terror was maintained by that body.
—It is estimated that Jessup and Moore's paper mills, of Wilmington, Del., lost by the fire in that city April 5, $250,000. Insurance $125,000.
—The factory of the American Knife Company, Northfield, Connecticut, was burned the 7th inst. One hundred hands were thrown out of employment.
—There are now 102 branch organizations of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Mass., and together they have 10,000 members. There is a vice-president in every county in the State. The reform clubs of men in Massachusetts are 120, and enroll 30,000 members.
—A very valuable mail, including 500 registered letters, from Toledo to New York, was destroyed by the burning of a postal car near Sedan, Indiana, on the 8th inst.
—A telegram from Chicago, April 13, states that Frank Leslie, accompanied by his wife and a staff of twelve journalists, artists, and photographers, are in that city en route to California.
—A life-size statue in bronze of the poet Fitz Greene Halleck is to be erected in May, in Central Park, New York, near the place already adorned by the statues of Shakespeare and Walter Scott. This statue will be the first one ever erected to an American poet.
—Extensive revenue frauds in the manufacture of tobacco in North Carolina have recently been discovered. Some thirty manufacturers in the county of Surrey, charged with participation, have been indicted. The frauds are estimated to exceed one-third of the total amount of internal revenue taxes collected in that State.
—Brigham Young telegraphs to the Herald, saying: “If Lee has made a statement in his confession implicating me, it is utterly false. My course of life is too well known by thousands of honorable men for them to believe for one moment such an accusation.” It will, however, take more than this assertion to free him in the minds of the people.
—The Modoc Indians, now numbering fifty-four males and sixty-three females, are located on a very fertile tract, containing 4,000 acres, in the north-east corner of the Shawnee Reservation, Indian Territory. They have engaged energetically in labor during the past year, and as a result, they have a large and valuable crop on their farm.
—A terrible disaster recently occurred at Staffordville, Conn., through the breakage of a dam. For some time the reservoir had leaked, but every effort taken to mend it, proved unsuccessful. The damage is estimated at $350,000. Rev. Dr. Hawly, of the Episcopal Society, lost five hundred volumes of his fine library by this flood. He had been collecting them for forty years.
—The following is a statement of the circulation of the Odd Fellows' Library for March: Novels, 7703; histories, 243; magazines, 264; poetry and drama, 184; biographies, 242; travels, 265; science, 213; theology, 37; belles lettres, 237. Total, 9388. By this it will be seen that during the month, there has been a circulation of 6,018 more novels, than all the other books of the library put together.
—April 13, the following telegram was received from Roundout, N. Y.: “Fires are raging in the woods in this vicinity. On Stony Hill, six miles from this city, an area of ten square miles has been burned over. The house of George Purdy was destroyed, his family barely escaping with their lives. By the earnest efforts of all the men in the vicinity the flames were beaten back from the settlement, but are still raging in the woods, and unless a heavy rain comes soon the destruction will be great.”