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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Oct 25, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 40.

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News and Notes.

—Chile and Peru have at last agreed upon a treaty of peace.

—Eight fishermen were lost in a squall off Gloucester, Mass., last week.

—Gen. Crook is preparing an expedition to operate with the Mexicans at Casa Grande.

—The Attorney-General of Massachusetts has decided that a woman is not, legally considered, a person.

—A new adulterant of ground pepper is a finely-ground preparation of the kernels of olive-berries.

—The average wealth of Massachusetts per capita is $1,500, which is the largest average of the States.

—The town of Weston, Umatilla County, Oregon, was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 18th inst.

—The Government of Alsace-Lorraine has prohibited the publication in French of papers in that province.

—John Demond shot his landlord at Vallejo because he was refused a latch-key to the door of his lodgings.

—The British indemnity claims against France on account of the Madagascar outrage, amount to $2,500,000.

—The anti-Butler Greenbackers of Massachusetts have nominated A. F. Arnold of North Adams for Governor.

—Miss Laura Clark, of Cottage Grove, Or., committed suicide because her lover did not say good-by when he went away.

—In Yorkshire, England, on the 19th inst., twenty men were killed by an explosion in Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery.

—Staten Island, near Stockton, has been submerged by the breaking of a levee, and immense quantities of wheat destroyed.

—At Statesville, S. C., on the 16th inst., a negro was lynched for killing one white man and wounding another in a row.

—The Chinamen at Woodland refused to take any washing last week, in retaliation for the order compelling them to move their wash-houses.

—The Algerian Insurgent Chief, Si Silman, was invited to a feast by two other Chiefs, who slew him and sent his head to the Sultan at Morocco.

—The remains of Dr. Chas. E. Blumenthal, deceased, of New York were taken to the Pittsburg cremating furnace, last week, and reduced to ashes.

—The only international street railroad in the world is the one which connects El Paso, Texas, with Paso del Norte, Mexico, two and one-half miles long.

—Philadelphia is to have a street car with a patent spring motor. The inventor says that after the spring is wound up it will propel the car eight miles.

—An outbreak of trichinosis is reported at Ermsleben, Prussian Saxony. One hundred and eighty persons are suffering. There have been four deaths.

—In a recent storm on the Gulf of Finland, sixty vessels were stranded, and a number of lives lost. Sixteen bodies had been found at the date of the report.

—Fruit shipments from California to the East for the past fruit year will amount to twelve thousand tons, an increase of over eight hundred per cent. in three years.

—Three skeletons were recently found near Glorietta, Texas, supposed to be the remains of some cattle-thieves who mysteriously disappeared from that region about four years ago.

—A freight train was blown from the track by a cyclone, near Sulphur Springs, Texas, on the 19th inst., and completely demolished. Several persons were severely injured, but no lives lost.

—A solitary highwayman robbed the Sierra Valley and Truckee stage last week. From the express-box (which he compelled the driver to open) and three passengers the robber secured about $300.

—A Las Vegas, N. M., special says: "A bad state of affairs exists along the advance of the Mexican Railway. Six men have been murdered in the past two weeks. Parties returning say that life is at a great discount."

—A Constantinople dispatch of the 17th inst. reports a severe earthquake on the southern coast of the Gulf of Smyrna. Several villages are said to have been destroyed, with the loss of 1,000 lives, and survivors are suffering fearful privations.

—Near Craigsville, West Va., on the 13th inst., the wife of a farmer named Manfin and her infant child were murdered in bed, during the temporary absence of the servant, and the bedding set on fire. No clue to the perpetrators of the deed.

—It is expected that the Washington Monument will reach a height of 410 feet before cold weather stops the work, and that it will be completed in the spring of 1885. There is to be 500 vertical feet of masonry, topped off with a pyramidal cap of fifty feet.

—Five counterfeit postal notes were the other day redeemed at the Indianapolis post-office. They were on genuine paper, and purported to have been issued at Youngstown, Ohio. The banks at Indianapolis now refuse to receive any postal notes.

—In the Cherokee Nation, two weeks ago, a Deputy U. S. Marshal and two assistants were killed in a corn-field fight with three Cherokee desperadoes whom they were endeavoring to arrest. One of the outlaws was wounded, and afterwards captured.

—At East Haven, Conn., on the 15th inst., twenty persons were fined $3 each and costs for driving on the highway on Sunday, in violation of a law of 1720. The parties could not show that they were upon any errand of necessity or mercy, hence the fine.

—The widow of the late W. C. Ralston, of Bank of California fame, is now living in a new mining camp named Ralston, above Michigan Bluff, Col., where her sons own considerable property. The boys have erected a comfortable dwelling for their mother.

—A negro girl aged 18 years was hanged for murder at Calhoun, Ga., on the 20th inst., in presence of 5,000 spectators. She proclaimed her innocence to the last. The minister sang, "In the Sweet By-and-by," and the prisoner and spectators joined in the chorus.

—There is a perceptible rise in the demands of the Chinese in this section of the State for nearly all kinds of service performed by them. They are not ignorant of the law of demand and supply, which has been considerably affected by the Chinese Restriction Law.

—A man named Jacob Nelling has confessed to the mysterious murder of Ada Atkinson, in Indiana. An attempt to lynch him was frustrated by the officers, but threats are freely made that he shall not escape. It is feared that he may get clear on the insanity dodge.

—The Treasurer of the Irish National League at Dublin has returned to the donors at San Francisco a draft letter for the benefit of the families of the Phoenix Park murderers, on the ground that the League would encourage assassinations should it distribute the money.

—Work on the Corinth Canal is going forward with activity. Over 1,000 laborers are employed, exclusive of officials and those engaged in the transport service. At the Corinth end a temporary harbor has been constructed, and a breakwater 312 feet long erected at Isthmia Kalamaki.

—A colored woman, Jane Lennon, who died a few days ago at Akron, O., about 100 years of age, was, it is claimed, the sole survivor of all Northern slaves. The story of her life dates back to 1775, when the Pennsylvania Abolition Society was founded, with Benjamin Franklin as its first President.

—A cablegram dated Paris says that Bennett, of the N. Y. Herald, and Mackay, of Comstock mines fame, have contracted for two Atlantic cables, which are to be ready for operation by next June. Ex-Postmaster-General James is also at the head of a cable enterprise, backed by heavy business men and firms.

—A heavy forger named C. F. Dewey, but who has assumed other names, was arrested last week in San Francisco. A Boston bank had been victimized to the amount of $50,000; a Montreal bank lost $30,000 by him, and a New York firm, $12,000. The police found on his person $1,700, and traced amounts forwarded by him to friends aggregating $48,500.

—The Russiche Revue gives some statistics of the universities in Russia. As regards students, Moscow stands first, with 2,430; then St. Petersburg, 2,052; Kiev 1,475; Dorpat, 1,426; Warsaw, 1,003. Kazan, however, has the greatest number of teachers (109), and Warsaw the largest library (362,000 volumes), Dorpat coming next with 219,000 volumes. Harvard University has 1,450 students and 175 instructors.