News and Notes
3%Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 7, 1883
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 22.
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- A Chinese Consulate has been established in New York City.
- On Wednesday of last week 1,500 immigrants arrived in New York from Liverpool.
- The town of Bismarck has been selected as the permanent capital of Dakota Territory.
- During the month of May, the San Francisco police made 883 arrests for drunkenness.
- The census of 1880 gives 11,314 as the total number of periodicals published in the United States.
- What next? Turkey is said to be seeking a coalition with Russia against British influence in Egypt.
- There were 675 births in Oakland the past year, and the number of school children has increased 607.
- Philadelphia is having some opium-den experience, and her young men and women are being inveigled and ruined.
- The French have been defeated in Tonquin, and are sending reinforcements and growing enthusiastic over the war.
- The Baptist Church and some adjoining buildings in Virginia City were destroyed by fire on the 31st ult. Loss, $30,000.
- Storms last week did great damage in Shelby, Decatur, and Bartholomew Counties, Ind., and in Little Miami Valley, Ohio.
- The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union has organizations in three thousand towns and cities of the United States.
- Lynchburg, Va., had a great fire May 30, in which five persons lost their lives and over $300,000 worth of property was destroyed.
- Fifteen temperance sermons were preached in Oakland last Sunday evening. The coincidence was quietly brought about by the Good Templars.
- Yellow fever prevails to an alarming extent in Havana, and measures have been taken to quarantine against it in Gulf ports of the United States.
- During the twelve months ending March 31, there were 1,606 suicides in the United States, nearly double the number for the preceding twelve months.
- In 1790 one-thirtieth of the population of the United States lived in cities; 1880, ninety years later, the proportion living in cities was one-fourth.
- Mail and express time between Omaha and Ogden, on the Union Pacific, is to be shortened about ten hours. The distance is 1,082 miles and will be made in forty-four hours.
- Council Bluffs, Ia., has had a severe storm. All bridges down, many houses damaged, and hundreds of families driven from their homes in the vicinity, are the reported results.
- Three little girls in Winona, Minn., while on their way to Sunday-school, were struck by lightning and two of them instantly killed. The third recovered from the effects of the shock.
- The heavy emigration to Oregon and Washington Territory continues, 5,170 passengers arriving in Portland from San Francisco last month. The freight list is correspondingly large.
- The Paris Figaro is raising an alarm over the supposed secret alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy. It considers this a scheme of Bismarck aiming at the segregation of French territory.
- Germany excludes American pork, and the papers are urging that America retaliate by excluding German beer. If this should be done it would show that both nations are unintentionally very sensible.
- The new Brooklyn Bridge has already been the scene of a disaster. On decoration day it became so crowded with passengers that fifteen persons were crushed to death, and many more were seriously injured.
- Difficulty has arisen between France and the Madagascar Government. French vessels have bombarded two ports on the northwest coast of Madagascar, causing great destruction of British merchandise and other property.
- Last Sunday the trains on the Housatonic Railroad were stopped by the Massachusetts authorities. The clergymen of Berkshire County presented petitions against running trains on Sunday, but the railroad company disregarded them.
- Decoration Day was more extensively observed throughout the country than ever before. This popular holiday bids fair to rival the Fourth of July, the scope of the ceremonies enlarging from the decoration of soldiers' graves to the remembrance of dead friends and relatives.
- At San Jose, Judge Belden has passed sentence on Jewell, Majors, and Showers, convicted of the murder of W. P. Renowden on the 19th of March. Jewell was sentenced to be hanged on the 27th of July. Majors and Showers were sentenced to the State Prison for the rest of their natural lives.
- A curious accident occurred recently to the Knoxville, Tenn., water works. The bottom of one of the reservoirs suddenly dropped out, emptying in five minutes 500,000 gallons of water into an immense cave beneath. The reservoir was on a very high hill, and the existence of the cave was never before suspected.
- A Washington dispatch of May 30 says: "The State Department has received telegraphic advices via Japan, that the ratification of the treaty between the United States and Corea has been exchanged at the Corean capital. This is the first treaty between Corea and a Western power, all the preliminaries of which have been fulfilled."
- Postmaster-General Gresham has issued the following general order: "Postmasters at first and second-class offices will hereafter give personal attention to the business of their office, and not absent themselves therefrom, without authority granted upon the written application to this Department. A violation of this order is deemed sufficient to cause a removal."
- Lord Charles William De-La-Peor Beresford, Commander of Her Majesty's gun-boat Condor, which won the chief laurels at the bombardment of Alexandria, has won the additional honor(?) of conquering Jem Mace, the champion pugilist. This last achievement adds tenfold to his fame, making his reputation world-wide. The contest was witnessed and applauded by the Prince of Wales, and many other aristocratic sportsmen.