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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 30, 1877

SECULAR NEWS.

—The number of the Sioux who have migrated to the North-west is estimated at 4,200 souls, including 1,800 warriors.

—The United States, within the last ten years, has sold $43,000,000 worth of arms and ammunition to Europe, and still the demand continues.

—A train to Long Branch ran off the bridge at Oceanport, on Wednesday last, injuring over sixty persons, two of them very seriously.

—The covered bridge spanning the Tuscarawas river just south of New Philadelphia, Ohio, was burned Aug. 25. It was a three-span double-track bridge, 325 feet long. The loss is thought to be about $40,000.

—The Southern Pacific railroad bridge across Colorado river will be completed this month. The Company now have ties for 600 miles beyond deposited on the bank of the river, and the iron is on its way, some of it due.

—Of 3,447 certificates of citizenship issued by County Clerk Reynolds in San Francisco last year, 1,502 were given to natives of Ireland, 343 to natives of Germany, 306 to natives of Prussia. During the year 1,407 declarations of intention were made.

—It has been reported that Jay Gould, the Railroad King, has announced that he sees in the labor strikes the beginning of a social revolution which he hopes and believes is the beginning of the destruction of our Republic, and upon which will be erected an Empire.

—The Spanish Government on Saturday deposited, through its minister at Washington, with the Secretary of State $30,000, being the interest on the invested amount of American claims upon the Spanish Government, and distribution will be made to claimants by the secretary of State.

—A hurricane at Omaha, Aug. 24, blew down two spans of the Union Pacific Railroad bridge across the Missouri river. All telegraph lines in the vicinity are prostrated. The storm extended as far south as Kansas, cutting off communication via that route. The piers are left standing uninjured, but the rest of that part of the bridge is a total wreck. For the present all trains from the west will probably have to transfer passengers and freight via Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and Missouri valley.

—In this city, at 9:15, on the evening of Aug. 25, the City Hall, on San Pablo avenue, caught fire and was entirely destroyed. The fire started in the unfinished third story. The large bell which hung in the cupola fell crashing to the ground in twenty minutes after the flames were discovered. The engines were unable to reach the flames. At least 20,000 people viewed the conflagration. The building was erected seven years ago, and cost $60,000; insurance $30,000. The papers and books in the building were saved. The prisoners confined in the lower portion were taken to the County Jail. It was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary.