p. 563 | News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 13, 1883

News and Notes.

By Editor

—O'Donnell is to be hanged in London on the 17th inst. —The French have bombarded several Madagascar ports. —Cows are still used to draw plows in central Germany. —A dozen negro Mormons arrived at Salt Lake last week. —A man 99 years of age was naturalized at Marysville last week. —All Americans landing in Ireland are closely watched by the police. —More than 18,000 homesteads were entered in Florida the past year. —An effort will be made in Congress to stop the coinage of silver dollars. —The canton of Valois, Switzerland, has restored the death penalty for murder. —The Salvation Army is now under the ban of expulsion in four Swiss cantons. —A ten-story tenement house is to be erected in New York City, costing $350,000. —Ten men were lost in a hurricane off the coast of Nova Scotia, on the 3d inst. —It is estimated that 500,000 alligators were killed in Florida during the past year. —A chair of German and German Literature has been established in the State University. —Punta Arenas, in Patagonia, is a Chile convict settlement, and has a population of 30,000. —English capitalists are preparing to develop the gold-fields of Lumpkin and White Counties, Ga. —In six years the trades' unions of England have spent $10,000,000 for the relief of men out of work. —A fire in Constantinople, on the 6th inst., destroyed 600 houses, the Greek Church, and four synagogues. —Scarlet fever is said to be raging in Salem, Oregon, and the public schools have been closed in consequence. —The Presbyterians have an eye and ear charity hospital in Baltimore. In five years 15,000 cases have been treated. —North Iowa makes $2,000,000 worth of butter annually. Creameries are preparing to ship to the Pacific Coast. —The report comes from Gloucester, Mass., that three fishing schooners and twenty-eight men have been lost in a storm. —Two teamsters from Tombstone, A. T., were seriously wounded, last week, by ambushed Apaches, near Fronteras, Mexico. —About 3,000 discharged railroad Chinamen are reported to be in a destitute condition on the mainland opposite Victoria, B. C. —Prominent parties in Texas will bring suit against the Government to recover the value of slaves emancipated during the war. —The Woman's Christian Association of Chicago has, in six years, assisted over 1,000 young women to attain self-supporting positions. —The President recommends revision of our legislation upon the subject of paupers being sent to this country from Great Britain. —Geo. A. Wheeler, who strangled Della Tillson, his sister-in-law, three years ago in San Francisco, has been sentenced to be hanged Jan. 23. —Joseph Foster and wife celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of their wedding at Cairo, Ill., two weeks ago. He is aged 97, and she 95. —The National Temperance Society has adopted a resolution asking Congress to add a prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution. —The Dickey Bird Society of northern England comprises 80,000 children, who are pledged to feed birds in winter and protect them in summer. —A piece of an apartment house property, 100 feet square, on Seventy-third avenue, New York, has been bought by U. S. Grant, Jr., for $140,000. —A vessel which arrived at New Bedford, Conn., last week, brought an eagle which alighted on the mast-head when the vessel was 1,500 miles from land. —Five lines of narrow-gage railroad, aggregating 775 miles, are projected from Albuquerque, N. M., to coal mines and timber regions of the Territory. —Controller Knox fears that the present financial policy of the Government will effect the demonetization of gold and the establishment of a silver standard. —In Columbia County, Georgia, on the 2d inst., two colored children were burned to death in a cabin, where their parents had left them while absent at church. —In the event of war between France and China, the United States, England, Germany, and Russia will unite in protection of their subjects in Chinese ports. —While destroying an illicit distillery in Durham County, N. C., on the 4th inst., the Deputy Collector was shot and seriously wounded by parties in ambush. —As a result of the alarming dissatisfaction in Manitoba, the tide of immigration for some time past has been turning from the Canadian northwest to Dakota.

—Reports of murder, robbery, suicide, defalcation, etc., come in rather numerously from all parts of the country to justify the theory that the world is growing better. —The Adjutant-General of the army has received information of the surrender, at Camp Poplar River, of five lodges of Sitting Bull's forces from the British provinces. —President Arthur recommends that Congress assume the entire political control of Utah, and establish a commission with such powers as may be delegated by law. —At Water Valley, Miss., a few days ago, while trying to amuse a sick child, one lady snapped a pistol at another lady's head. It went off, and the victim lived but a few minutes. —The Musselman fanatic, Khof Seyd, has entered Persia with 2,000 Ottomans. He is preaching a holy war against Russia. Two smaller bands have also entered Persia. —Five young men, who had just arrived from Kansas City, died of yellow fever at Mazatlan last week. It is said that the real extent of the disease in Sonora has been covered up. —Another girl has been found murdered in a mysterious manner. This time it occurred near Orange, N. J. The girl's name was Phebe Paulin, aged 17, and she was found in a field with her throat cut. —Mrs. Ruth Everett, of Salt Lake City, recommends the abolishing of woman suffrage in Utah as the first step toward putting down polygamy. The men compel their wives to vote the Church ticket. —One of the forty train robbers, whose depredation on the Mexican National Railroad was noted a few weeks ago, has been arrested, and under threats of hanging, has divulged the names of the entire gang. —The New York police recently raided an opium den, where they found twenty-six customers. A brother and sister were among the company, who had come from Greenville, N. J., to try the experiment of a smoke. —The Piute Indians of Nevada complain of the new railroad regulations, which require that they shall pay freight for the game they catch and kill. Heretofore the roads have been carrying their game without charge. —Miss Purriance, a school teacher at Indiana, N. Y., stepped on the porch of her residence on the evening of Nov. 27, and was instantly seized, silenced, and carried a mile by two men. She was found insensible next morning. —J. W. Niles, the colored separatist, in a petition to the Senate, sets forth that he and his people are prevented from exercising their right to enter public lands by white citizens of Arkansas. He avers cruelty, and asks for relief. —There is great complaint of monopolies in Manitoba and the Canadian Northwest, indignation meetings and resolutions being directed against railroad monopoly, manufacturers' monopoly, land monopoly, elevator monopoly, etc., etc. —The present Congress will be noted for efforts to declare forfeited all unearned railroad land grants. More than a score of bills are being prepared, whether any of them pass, remains to be seen. The power of the corporations is immense. —The Japanese Government has elaborated a scheme for creating Courts of Justice which, if the interior of Japan is opened, will try cases in which foreigners are concerned. The scheme has been submitted to the Western Powers. America and Germany favor it. —A young Jew of Berditschew, Russia, has invented a watch that goes by electricity. It is very simple, having no spring and only two wheels. It keeps accurate time, is very cheap, and is expected to revolutionize the watch business, besides being applicable to other purposes. —An inquiry into the pension agency business in Washington, has exposed some peculiar features of the calling: Among other practitioners, were found two hardware merchants, two grocers, one pressman, a tailoress, an inventor, a copyist, a shoemaker, and a colored rag-picker. —Fifty persons attacked by trichinosis in the city of Thorn, West Prussia, November 20. Moral to people of all countries: Cook your pork thoroughly."—N. Y. Tribune. A better moral would be, Don't eat pork. The idea of eating such a disease, even when "thoroughly" cooked, is repugnant. —The U. S. Minister at Constantinople still complains of the inaction of the authorities at Bitlis in regard to furnishing names of the parties who assailed American missionaries. He demands that the trial of the offenders shall take place at Constantinople, as no confidence can be placed in the Governor of Bitlis. —A delegation of fourteen Congressmen, headed by S. S. Cox, and several citizens, waited upon President Arthur, on the 8th inst., and asked that the Government intercede in behalf of O'Donnell, to obtain a commutation of sentence. The President promised to inquire into the matter, through Minister Lowell. —A young woman in Erie, Pa., recently hired a stranger to marry her and then "go about his business," she to "go home and live as she had always lived." The ceremony was performed by a Justice, and the woman gave as a reason for the act, that she wanted a permanent excuse for refusing a man whom she loved but for some reason did not want to marry.

—A few weeks ago, Mr. Geo. F. Parsons, formerly editor of the Sacramento Record-Union, published to the world his conversion to Spiritualism, based upon the materialization of his daughter, at various times, to the entire satisfaction of himself and wife. A Mrs. Reynolds was the successful medium; but now we have a full expose of the fraud, through the confessions of confederates and assistants at the seances. The expose includes several other prominent cases.