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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 11, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 38.

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News and Notes.

-A family in Tucson, A. T., were recently poisoned by eating canned fish.
-In the Connecticut State Prison 500 convicts were recently poisoned by eating corned meat.
-A million of dollars' worth of property was destroyed by fire in Galveston, Texas, on the 6th inst.
-The public debt statement shows a reduction of $14,707,297 during the month of September.
-Heavy rain is reported throughout New England, accompanied by considerable snow in eastern Vermont.
-Six persons were killed and several wounded by a railroad collision near Fort Plain, N. Y., on the 1st inst.
-Los Angeles has decided not to license gambling. There was a unanimous vote against it in the City Council.
-The captains of two San Francisco tugboats are charged with smuggling brandy from a British vessel to the shore.
-An unusually fatal type of murrain is raging among the cattle in North Georgia and in the vicinity of Athens, Tenn.
-The Canadian Government is making an effort to minimize, as far as possible, Sunday labor in connection with the postal service.
-Notwithstanding the new rate of postage, old stamps are good—a three-cent stamp and a one-cent stamp will pay a double-rate later.
-At Deadwood, Butte County, a Chinese medical quack is making $500 a week out of white men by the practice of his "profession."
-Losses by fire in the United States during the month of September aggregated $10,000,000, and for the past nine months, 72,500,000.
-It is reported that a hurricane at St. Pierre, Martinique, Sept. 4, destroyed vessels and cargoes in the harbor to the value of $2,000,000.
-Sacramento is excited over the prevalence of leprosy among the Chinese population of the city. How would it do to license it?-S. F. Alta.
-It was stated in Court at Wheeling, Va., recently, that an organization known as "Redmen" has been formed for the protection of illicit distilleries.
-Weather reports of the 6th inst. include five inches of snow at Eureka, Nev., and thunder-storms from Stockton to Merced, in the San Joaquin Valley.
-In San Francisco, Stephen Jones, for the murder of Mary Ann Riley, and Joshua Hamblin, for killing John N. Massey, have been sentenced to suffer death, by Judge Toohy.
-Joseph Wharton has engaged to furnish the Government 20,000 pounds of nickel at ninety-one cents per pound, for coining purposes. This is the lowest price yet paid.
-A deaf mute at Iowa Station, Ill., was rejected by his brother's widow, whereupon he attempted to kill her with an ax. Being thwarted in this attempt, he committed suicide.
-The lake from which the city of Vallejo has been receiving its water is dry, and the supply is now received from the San Joaquin River by barges, at great expense to the contractor.
-A bronze statue of General Robert E. Lee has been cast in New York, by order of the city of New Orleans. It is sixteen feet high, and will be mounted on a granite monument ninety feet high.
-The Board of Supervisors of San Joaquin County have accepted the offer of the Central Pacific Railroad to settle the county's claims for bonds by paying $300,000 in cash and $100,000 in bonds.
-In Tapachula, State of Chiapas, Mexico, a panic reigns on account of the black small-pox. Out of a population of 10,000, 1,200 have died, decomposition in many cases setting in before death.
-A Dublin correspondent says an Invincible Vengeance Committee has been formed to hunt all informers. The committee has paid spies throughout the British colonies and in North and South America.
-A man named Houy was publicly beheaded in Paris on the 2d inst., for the murder of two women and robbery of the premises. It is said that most of the spectators were women and young girls.
-There are 12,000,000 copies of infidel publications, and 29,000,000 copies of immoral books, papers, and pamphlets published annually in London and distributed principally among the working classes.
-A very heavy thunder and wind-storm occurred in the vicinity of Atchison, Kansas, last week. Many buildings were blown down, and one was struck by lightning. Considerable loss of stock is also reported.
-Governor Stoneman has difficulty in finding successors to the recently-removed Board of Prison Directors. He does not wish to appoint all Democrats, and the Republicans he chooses do not seem to be disposed to accept.
-In Minneapolis, Minn., on the night of the 1st inst. some thieves entered a clothing store and carried off $2,000 worth of goods, hauling away the plunder in carts. They were seen, but got away before the police arrived.
-A Mormon missionary now visiting Washington, D. C., claims to have recently made seventy-six converts, mostly girls between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He is one of the company mobbed in Indiana.
-A man named Tinker, who was present at the murder of Lord Morris, who was killed near Ballinrobe, Ireland, September 5, 1880, has turned informer and given the names of the assassins, some of whom have left the country.
-Nihilists in St. Petersburg have issued circulars demanding that the Russian Government shall put a stop to the cruel treatment of prisoners, especially women, and enjoining the greatest caution upon all Nihilists in consequence of recent arrests.
-Last week fourteen tramps were arrested at Merced; they had taken possession of a box-car on a southbound freight train and defied the conductor and employes of the train. They had considerable money and valuables in their possession.
-The Irish Catholics have obtained full possession of the City Government of Cleveland, and are filling all the offices. This fact is causing considerable agitation in that vicinity. The newly-elected Congressman from that district is also a Catholic.
-At Hillsborough, Ky., Sept. 26, Mrs. Mungel, a young widow, and a miner named Kelly, were taken by a mob, on a charge of too much intimacy, tied to trees naked, and whipped. They were allowed ten days in which to leave the neighborhood.
-The exposition building at Pittsburg, Pa., and all its contents, were destroyed by fire on the night of the 2d inst. Loss, about $1,000,000, besides many relics and curiosities not valued in money, among which was the first railroad locomotive built in the United States.
-Four hundred workingmen employed in a wire factory at Joliet, Ill., went out on a strike because the proprietors would not give them a day off to go to the circus. It is to be expected that in a free country men will stand for their rights, but it is sometimes hard on their families.
-The rain of the 29th and 30th ult. was quite prevalent throughout the northern part of the State. At Shasta four and a half inches of rain fell. At Chico a heavy thunder-storm is reported, with "torrents" of rain. At Yreka the storm was said to be "violent," but no damage is reported.
-Survivors of a Confederate Brigade at Norfolk, Va., made application for their old battle-flags, now in possession of the War Department, for use at a reunion. The request was denied, Adjutant-General Drumm alleging that he had no authority to comply with it without an Act of Congress.
-There was almost a riot at the funeral of a Chinaman at Philadelphia last week. A mob of 5,000 followed the funeral cortege to the grave, and vainly strove to gain entrance to the cemetery. Twenty policemen were powerless to keep the crowd back. Men and boys besieged the gates, yelled, groaned, and hooted.
-There was a time, about thirty years ago, when steamboat disasters became so common that Congressional action interfered to stop them, and was quite successful. The frequency of railroad collisions now calls for action somewhere. They occur almost daily, and nearly every instance can be traced to criminal carelessness.
-The new postage rate made lively business in the New York post-office on the 1st inst. There were sold on that day, 1,230,000 two-cent stamps, 85,000 four-cent stamps, and 40,000 two-cent envelopes. One man at each end of the office was kept busy telling people that old two-cent stamps were good to any point in the United States.
-In a church at Comanche, Texas, Sept 30, after the congregation had gone out to a creek to attend to the ordinance of baptism, a man named Harris and another named Butcher got into a quarrel and Harris shot Butcher, killing him instantly. Butcher's brother then engaged in a scuffle with Harris and beat him so badly as to cause his death.
-Notwithstanding the report of the United States Commissioner that there was no Chinese immigration to this country via British Columbia, it is said that the mail steamer from Victoria brought nineteen contrabands to Port Townsend. They were promptly returned by the authorities. Persons who claim to know, still insist that large numbers are crossing the line into Washington Territory.
-There is much complaint in the East, of the high rate of fare on the Pacific railroads. There were high hopes of a reduction, on the completion of the Northern Pacific Road, but the result has been a reduction of only $3.00 on first-class tickets. A fierce attack was made on Northern Pacific stock, and its managers were compelled to compromise, so that now, with three roads, the price of a through ticket is only $5.00 less than when there was only one.
-Alfonso, King of Spain, met a most discouraging reception in Paris, whither he went after his visit to Austria and Germany. While passing through the streets he was greeted with groans and hisses, men and women crowding right up to his carriage to offer insults. The newspapers and Government officials all deprecate the deed, and it is understood to be owing to favorable reception in Germany, rather than any bitterness toward himself or his country, that the ill-feeling was manifested. A special escort was afterward tendered him during his stay in the city, which he declined, and this display of personal courage has added materially to his popularity at home.
-A few weeks ago, a Dr. Newton, of Pittsburg, Pa., committed suicide. This act is followed by the suicide of a Mrs. Bryant, aged 25 years, and mother of a child 15 months old, who alleged that without Dr. Newton life had no charms left for her. She left a letter to an undertaker, giving directions in regard to her funeral, giving her name as Fannie Bryant Newton. Another letter, addressed to the doctor's partner, states that she had promised him faithfully to commit suicide, and that she would die happy if her boy could only go with her. She left advice for the child to "try and be a good moral and Christian boy and man," and promised to watch over him from her resting-place.