News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 27, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 33.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—It is estimated that India will produce 286,000,000 bushels of wheat this year.

—It is said that the undertaker's bill for General Grant's funeral will not be less than $20,000.

—The Mormons are preparing to make a settlement in Mexico, near the boundary of Arizona and New Mexico.

—It is said that the corn, cotton, and tobacco crops of the South will greatly excel those of any previous year.

—A number of the minor employes of the State Bank of Russia succeeded in robbing it of 143,000 roubles, something over $100,000.

—The schooner Pohoiki capsized recently off the coast of Hawaii, and the captain, his wife, and child were immediately eaten by sharks.

—The Benedictine monks at Mount Angel, Oregon, have been running an illicit distillery. The revenue collector has seized the outfit.

—The noted Maxwell Brooks has now admitted killing Preller, but claims it was done by accidentally administering too much chloroform.

—Cholera continues its daily slaughter in Spain and the southern part of France. King Alfonso has donated $20,000 to the Granada cholera fund.

—Superintendent Wilkins, of Napa Insane Asylum, Cal., has requested the city of San Francisco to send no more insane there, as the asylum is crowded.

—The transfer of gold coin from the sub-treasury in San Francisco to the sub-treasury of New York has commenced and about $11,000,000 has been shipped.

—In a cyclone on the Red Sea, the German covette Augusta, with her crew of 238 officers and sailors, was recently lost. Her value was estimated at $1,750,000.

—A cloud burst on the line of the Central Pacific in Utah, causing a washout into which a freight train plunged, wrecking the engine and a number of cars of coal.

—The Sultan of Zanzibar claims indemnity from Germany, on the loss of native soldiers who were killed on the East African expedition. The matter has been submitted to Sir John Kirk, the British Consul-General.

—It is reported that all the distilleries in California are about to shut down in consideration of a subsidy to be paid them by the Western Export Association. If the report prove true all sensible people will rejoice.

—The British general, Lord Wolseley, is anxious to push on up the Nile this fall, and wind up the Mahdi's troops, but Lord Salisbury is evidently afraid to make the attempt, lest Russia take advantage of it and capture Herat.

—A terrible storm swept over Hawaii last month, the tidal waves carrying away a number of wharves and doing much damage generally. The damage done to the cane-fields is estimated to be from eighty to one hundred thousand dollars.

—The bark Jorsalferer, which arriv'd in San Francisco Bay, August 18, with a fever-stricken crew, was boarded by quarantine officer McAllister and thoroughly fumigated. Some of the ship's water was examined and found to be alive with animalcule vegetable matter.

—Ten members of a criminal society which has been operating in Rome, Naples, and Spoleto, have been arrested. A search of the house of a member of the society, revealed the fact that correspondence relative to the sale of Italian girls at from £40 to £80 sterling was had from agents in New York.

—The poet and dramatist Will Carlton was buried August 21, at New York. He who has touched the sympathies of the American people by such poems as "Over the Hill to the Poor-house" and "Betsy and I Are Out," was carried to his last resting place without religious service or a friend to mourn his loss.

—At Port Washington, L. I., a fire broke out on board the steamer Colorado, and spreading from it burned to the water's edge the following ships: Minnesota, Susquehanna, Congress, South Carolina, Iowa, Lotta Grant, and Fair Play. All, with the exception of the last two, were formerly doing service in the navy, but had been condemned, and were to be broken up for the iron and lumber they contained.