Items of News

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 21, 1876

All of Gen. Terry's troops, with the exception of two regiments of infantry, are now en route home.

One hundred and twenty-four clerks were, on Saturday last, discharged from service in the War Department.

Quite an excitement has been occasioned in New York City by the appearance of two cases of yellow fever. September 15, the deaths from this disease in Savannah were 27.

The Centennial International Regatta at Philadelphia resulted in a victory for the Americans. “Britannia rules the waves” no longer; Jonathan beats John Bull in both yachting and rowing.

The prevalence of opium smoking in Virginia City, Nevada, is appalling. In one of the fashionable dens 150 whites, of both sexes, held high carnival two weeks ago, the majority of them belonging to the best classes of the town.

The Cherokee Nation has 71 public schools employing 74 teachers, and having an aggregate attendance of 2,286. There are 654 pupils speaking Cherokee and 1,631 English. There are 59 native teachers.

In Florida, according to the New York Observer, the priests have succeeded in driving from the public schools nearly all the Roman Catholic children by threatening to withhold from them the sacrament, rites of burial, etc.

SALT LAKE, September 15.—Last evening about eight o'clock two masked men boarded the Utah Central Railroad train, eight miles to the north of this city, gagged Wells, Fargo & Co.'s messenger, opened the safe and took $15,200, and made their escape.

Out of the 20,108 arrests the last year in San Francisco, 7,642 were for drunkenness. In 1862–3 there were fifty policemen. In 1868–9 fifty were added, and in 1873–4 fifty more, making the force 150. During last year property to the amount of $139,013 was reported at the office as having been lost. The police recovered $83,751.75.

The Boston Journal remarks: “There was a class-supper not long ago, in this city, which the papers, next morning, characterized as brilliant and successful, but they omitted to mention that some of the young men who attended it were carried away in such a state of intoxication that they made their journey back to college lying prone upon the floor of the car.”

The next French Exposition, in 1878, will occupy nearly the same locality as the one in 1867, but will be fully one-half larger. It is intended to occupy ground upon both sides of the Seine, and to have a gallery built over the river, a mile in length, and one hundred and sixty feet wide, with shops on either side of a central passage. This gallery will connect the buildings on the Champ de Mars with those on the Trocadero, or Place du Roi de Rome.

Prof. Huxley dogmatically remarks that “Evolution is a matter of fact and history, as much as the monuments of Egypt.” Upon this the Interior says: “For our part, we should rather that the Professor should dogmatize in that way than not. There are people credulous enough to believe that the rationalistic scientific cat’s paw was all soft fur, perfectly gentle, ingenuous and harmless. When a representative man of that school states before the American Association in effect that to be ignorant of the truths of evolution is as gross as ignorance of the monuments of Egypt, it is only a scratch of the claws.”

A NOVEL EXPERIMENT.

Prof. Wm. H. Zimmerman, of Washington College, lately gave a curious exhibition of a device for lighting lamps by electricity. One of his hydro-electric lamps was placed on a counter and connected by wires with the Union telegraph line, when, at a given signal, the operator at the office in Townsend, Del., about 33 miles distant, lighted it instantaneously. The operator at Masseys, Md., also did the same. It was several times repeated by each of them. It was also contemplated to have the lamp lighted by the operator in Philadelphia, but that official was too busy to comply with the request. The lighting of the lamp would have been quite as instantaneous as from the nearest point above named. In fact, as stated by Prof. Zimmerman, with the entire line clear, an operator in San Francisco could as readily have performed the same feat. These lamps are shown at the Centennial Exhibition.—Christian Union.

THE EASTERN WAR

Fifteen Turkish officers implicated in Bulgarian atrocities have been sent to Constantinople under guard.

The Porta has informed the Embassadors of the Powers that it is impossible to grant an armistice, but it is prepared to accept peace based upon the following points: 1. Re-occupation of the fortresses held by Turkey previous to 1857. 2. Destruction of fortresses constructed by the Servians since 1857. 3. Investiture of Prince Milan at Constantinople. 4. Reduction of the effective Servian army to 10,000 and three batteries. 5. Construction of a railway across Servia.

At a banquet given in Belgrade in honor of the name and day of Emperor Alexander, Prince Milan, in proposing the health of the Emperor of Russia, said that the Emperor was the Servians' greatest friend and protector, and he thanked the Russian people for their sympathy and aid. Counselor Kartzoff, the Russian Consul-General at Belgrade, received delegations previous to the banquet, and in a speech acknowledging their congratulations he said that henceforth Russia and Servia were united.