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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 26.

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News and Notes.

—Hereafter liquor licenses in St. Louis will cost $1,000 a year.

—Damage to the amount of $200,000 was done by the Wisconsin tornado, July 2.

—Eighteen thousand immigrants arrived at Montreal during the month of June.

—The trial of Miller, the murderer of Dr. Glenn, resulted in a disagreement of the jury.

—There were heavy storms on the 6th inst. in New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

—The graduating class at Harvard this year numbers 210, the largest in the history of the college.

—The reduction of the national debt for the fiscal year which ended June 30, was $125,000,000.

—There were fifty-one cases of sunstroke in New York and Brooklyn on the 7th, thirteen of which were fatal.

—At Elberton, Ga., June 24, a cyclone blew down sixteen buildings, including three churches, and killed one man.

—The Massachusetts State Almshouse, at Bridgewater, was burned on the morning of the 7th. Loss $130,000.

—Seven persons were killed and several injured by a collision on the Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad, near Rasselras, Pa., July 1.

—There have been very heavy floods in India. In Surat many villages have been destroyed, and thousands of people are homeless.

—Four county officers were fatally shot in Grand County, Col., on the 3d. Some trouble over the removal of the county seat was the cause of the murder.

—The French Government is building eight new ironclads, two of which will carry eighty-ton guns. The cost of these vessels will be $2,200,000 each.

—Tombstone, A. T., was visited by a very violent storm on the 28th ult., which destroyed much property. A storm of hail and rain followed, accompanied by lightning.

—A Frenchman has formed a company and raised $150,000 for the purpose of dragging the Red Sea, in order to recover the chariots, treasure, and arms of Pharaoh's host.

—The cholera plague is spreading in Egypt. There were 112 deaths from it at Damietta on the 3d. European ports have imposed a quarantine upon a vessel arriving from Egypt.

—The steamer Daphne capsized and sunk while being launched at Glasgow, on the 3d, and 150 persons are supposed to have been drowned. Fifty-two bodies have been recovered.

—The receipts from postage stamps at the Post-office Department in Washington, for the quarter ending March 31, 1883, were $11,329,171, an increase of $354,103 over the previous quarter.

—The latest exploit of San Francisco hoodlums is to break the legs of sheep that are in the yards, so that they cannot be driven out, and then to steal them in the night and sell the carcasses.

—Immense damage was done to crops and highways at Brattleboro, Vt., on the 5th inst., by a tornado accompanied by rain, hail, thunder, and lightning. There were a number of land-slides on railways.

—The semi-centennial of the founding of Oberlin College was celebrated July 1, and through the week following. A hall capable of seating 6,000 people was built for the occasion by the students.

—By a collision of freight trains on the Northern Pacific Railroad, near Portland, Or., June 26, twenty-five persons were killed and many wounded. The collision was caused by disobedience of plain orders.

—On the trial trip of one of the largest engines in the United States, on the Central Pacific Railroad, the train was thrown from the track near the summit of the Sierras, and all the hands were severely injured.

—A French scientist has proved by some recent experiments that the electric resistance of glass diminishes when it is tempered, while annealing tempered glass, on the other hand, restores its higher resistance.

—The New York Herald prints a resume of the disasters by sea and land during the first six months of the present year, not including events wherein less than three lives were sacrificed. The list shows that nearly 3,000 persons perished.

—The Citizens Committee of Astoria, Or., are taking active measures to rid that city of roughs. Twenty-two desperadoes were recently escorted to the steamer, and forced to leave. Five of the most desperate were flogged with ten lashes on the bare back.

—Quite a number of Irish paupers, whose fare was paid to this country, have been returned to the place from whence they came. The British authorities claim that they were not responsible for the act, but that the guardians of the poor took that way of relieving themselves of a burden.

—The Oakland Times, noting the fact that the murderer of Dr. Glenn has been virtually cleared, says: "The Communistic press of the State, in effect declare that Glenn's life was duly forfeit to this bloody wretch because Glenn was rich and his murderer was poor. Will they say just how much a man dare be worth here and feel that his life is safe?"

—At an evening entertainment in the town of Dervio, on the shore of Lake Como, on the 25th ult., forty-seven persons were burned to death by a fire caused from sparks from the Bengal light which was used to represent fire on the stage. When the real flames appeared, and the alarm of fire was given, the audience, thinking it was part of the performance, kept their seats until too late to escape.

—The steamship Nevada brings 680 Mormon converts in charge of twenty-two missionaries. The converts are from Sweden, Denmark, Wales, England, and Norway. If these were Chinamen, the moral sense of the country would be shocked, and they would not be allowed to land. It makes considerable difference which of the commandments is violated, and more still if anybody's pocket is liable to be affected.

—The Tribune says that 20,000,000 acres are now devoted to wheat culture in India, with an estimated yield of considerably over 200,000,000 bushels, of which 37,000,000 bushels were exported last year. Recent experiments to test its quality, showed that it is superior to American wheat. With increased agricultural and railroad facilities, India would become a formidable competitor with this country in the European wheat market.

—The Panama Star and Herald of June 22 says: "The volcano of Omelepe, in Lake Nicaragua, is in eruption. . . . . The valley of the Atrats, in the State of Canca, continues to be the center of volcanic activity. At Rio Lucio, forty miles from the Atlantic, the earth opened in many places, throwing out very fine sand in a heated state, while a subterranean noise was heard resembling that made by boiling water. At Turbo, on the gulf of Urabo, the earth opened and water issued, flooding the streets to a depth of two feet. Many houses were shaken down. The small villages of Bujres and Nicurio were completely engulfed. The mouth of the river Leon, which empties into the Atlantic, is completely closed up, and all over the district the movement of earth is so continuous that the inhabitants are emigrating."

—Jewell, now confined in the San Jose jail, under sentence of death for a most deliberate and brutal murder, is visited daily by respectable women of the city, who condole with him, and give him presents of flowers, etc. The San Jose Times asks the sheriff to take the names of all women who make daily visits to Jewell's cell, and says that it "will be pleased to publish them, and let the world know who are the ones that neglect their household duties to pay their respects to a red-handed murderer." We have no words to express our disgust at such a sickening exhibition of sympathy with crime. Criminals should be treated like men, but they should not be made to feel that their crimes entitle them to special consideration, and make them heroes. Weak-minded persons of no moral development are often lead to commit murder and risk death for the sake of the cheap notoriety which they get from newspapers, and the fondling which they receive from silly women. Those who make martyrs of murderers should remember that by so doing they are in a measure accessories to the crime.