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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1876

SECULAR NEWS.

—About 50,000 Sunday-school children were on parade in Brooklyn, May 24.

—In 1850 the area of cultivated land in Egypt was 2,000,000 acres; in 1874 it was 5,000,000.

—Col. Tom Scott expects to complete the Texas Pacific R. R. to Fort Worth. $1,500,000 have been subscribed.

VIENNA, May 24.—The Bulgarian insurrection is reported as growing to alarming proportions. The number of insurgents in arms is estimated at from 12,000 to 30,000.

—’Tis strange while many States have provided houses for disabled soldiers, that the rich State of New York has none. Brooklyn now leads off with thirteen thousand pledged for that purpose.

—France has one man under arms for every 82 persons of the population; Germany, one in 98; Italy, one in 124; Russia, one in 127; Austria, one in 150; and England, one in 212, without counting the men in the Indian service.

—Mexico is still in a state of anarchy. The prospect is on foot for Congress to declare the prolongation of President Lerdo’s term of office for one year as a political and military necessity. This scheme, if carried out, would greatly complicate affairs and cause an increase of anarchy and convert the Presidency into a dictatorship.

—The whisky war has broken out in good earnest in New York, beginning with twenty indictments and six arrests of prominent liquor dealers. The accused plead that if they handled crooked whisky they did not know it. If their connection with the Western revenue frauds is proved on trial, the fact that they were once respectable New York merchants must be deemed rather to add to than diminish their guilt.

—A new style of local railway is to be constructed in New York City, running from the Battery over the center of Church and Chamber Sts., West Broadway, South Fifth Avenue, West Third St., and Sixth Avenue to Central Park, a distance of five miles. It is to be supported by two rows of columns, with two sets of tracks, upon which trains will run every two minutes during the busy hours of the day. It is to be in operation by the first of August.

—Thirteen days’ skirmishing has sufficed to overthrow Salvador, and place her at the mercy of Guatemala. The decisive movement of the petty war was the landing of 1,300 Guatemalen troops near La Union, which they easily captured. They marched then on San Miguel, which, after three days’ fighting with the troops who barred the way, was entered in triumph. At last advices the President of Salvador was suing for peace, which has probably been granted.

—The obsequies of Baron de Palmacho, who died in Roosevelt Hospital, N. Y., was to take place at the Masonic Temple last Sunday. The ceremonials were to be carried out under the auspices of the Orphic Society, of which he was a member, with all the grand rites of the ancient Egyptian Ritual. The obsequies proper will be preceded by the singing of selections of the Orphic hymns. The baron had requested that no Christian priest or minister might officiate, but that the obsequies be purely Pagan.

MORE WORK FOR LAWYERS.—

A Chicago paper says, “The corruptions in our city government seem to be as bottomless as Dante’s Hell. The latest revelation is the defalcation of City Collector, Von Hollen, in the sum of about $100,000. It seems for four years he has been collecting the people’s money for taxes—putting a memorandum in the safe, instead of the money, and then visiting the low gambling dens of Clark street divide with his pals, or squander in gambling and carousing.” He has absconded, leaving his bondsmen to pay his debts if they are compelled to by long and expensive litigation.

—Unofficial reports from the Russian capital say that a change is near at hand. The Czar is old and weak. The Socialistic Propaganda, the financial embarrassments, and even the conquests in the East trouble him; for every new annexation absorbs many troops, and no one knows how soon they may be needed at the south to settle the Oriental question, or in the interior to keep down the people excited by “mischievous agitators.” If the Czar abdicates, trouble with Germany is anticipated, for the Grand Duke Czarewitch, is deeply attached to his wife, whose most prominent trait is hatred to the Germans.