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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 20, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 48.

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News and Notes.

—A Chinese restaurant has been opened in Paris.

—Gen. Anson G. McCook has been chosen Secretary of the U. S. Senate.

—Mrs. Doody, of Galena, Ill., has recently celebrated her 113th birth-day.

—Reports from London say that the importation of frozen meat is overdone.

—J. H. Billings & Co., cotton merchants of New York, have failed for $400,000.

—Five stock-thieves have been disposed of by Dakota vigilantes in the last ten days.

—The town of Riverside, this State, will charge $75 a month license for liquor-selling after Jan. 1.

—Congressman Cox proposes to abolish the $20,000 office of Shipping Commissioner at New York.

—The November fires on the Pacific Coast cost the insurance companies $243,000. The fire at Dixon, Cal., alone, amounted to $103,600.

—Rubinstein, the Russian pianist, has been offered $125,000 to give 150 concerts in the United States.

—Parnell was honored with a banquet in Dublin, last week, and a present of £30,000 as a national tribute.

—Senator Miller of California has been honored with the Chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations.

—Articles of incorporation of the Oakland Glass Works have been filed with the clerk of Alameda County.

—A vein of coal six feet thick has been discovered in Los Angeles County, four miles from the Anaheim Railroad.

—Seventy men from the Paterson, N. J., locomotive works, have gone to Liverpool to work at iron shipbuilding.

—The Government of Egypt is preparing to send 10,000 fresh troops to Darfour, and 10,000 more to Khartoum.

—A woman in Cleveland, O., has been awarded $2,000 on account of a cough contracted in a newly-plastered hotel.

—Twenty-three ostriches arrived at New Orleans, on the 11th inst., from Cape Town, Africa, on route to the San Diego farm.

—Over 1,000 bills were introduced in the Congressional House of Representatives on Monday and Tuesday of last week.

—After a suspension of four months, work on the Oregon Pacific Railroad has been resumed; 300 Chinamen are at work.

—Las Vegas, N. M., is excited over the striking of rich pay-dirt while excavating for the foundation of a new Court House.

—The Italian Steamship Company have refused the application of the French Government for steamers for the Tonquin service.

—Some boys in Stockton, Cal., attempted to wreck a train because the conductor persisted in driving them off the car platforms.

—The Pacific Coast Congressional delegation have telegraphed their indorsement of the project for a world's fair in San Francisco, in 1887.

—The Yellowstone branch of the Union Pacific Railroad has been surveyed. It connects with the main line at Edson Station, Wy. T.

—A lively war is going on between the rival district telegraph companies of San Francisco; it has advanced as far as wire-cutting and box-breaking.

—A grand reception to have been given at the residence of General Sherman, at St. Louis, was headed off by the smallpox attacking one of his servants.

—The U. S. Supreme Court has decided in favor of Jefferson Davis, the case of the contested will of Mrs. Dorsey, who bequeathed to him a large property.

—Edison's electric has been successfully tried for a head-light to a locomotive. It renders the track distinctly visible to the engineers for a third of a mile.

—All the coal mines on the Monongahela River, above Pittsburg, have closed on account of depression in the trade. About 6,000 employees are out of employment.

—A Melbourne paper states that a member of the Salvation Army there has confessed to the murder of an actor who died sometime ago, it was supposed from inebriety.

—Mormon women are circulating subscription papers in Utah to raise means for employing ten first-class lawyers to thwart the efforts being made to overthrow Mormonism.

—Percy Jacobus, the embezzling Secretary of Eureka Consolidated Mining Company, has been imprisoned in San Francisco, on sixteen charges, covering the amount of $50,000.

—At a Tumwater, W. T., town election last week the women did their first voting under the new law granting them the right of suffrage. Their ticket was successful.

—A Paris correspondent coolly suggests that "the time has come for the neutral powers to dispel the illusions of the Chinese and urge upon China the necessity for conciliation."

—Bismarck is receiving petitions from different German cities asking the removal of restrictions on American pork. They fear retaliation on German productions in this country.

—There is a demand for American interpreters of the Chinese language in San Francisco, as the Chinese interpreters are wholly unreliable where the interests of their countrymen are involved.

—Another Egyptian army has been annihilated by the "False Prophet." The loss is 680 men. A holy war is being proclaimed in Upper Egypt; and there is great excitement in the adjoining countries.

—Major-General Hancock arrived in San Francisco on Wednesday of last week, and was enthusiastically received. It is expected he will be made Lieutenant-General of the army by the present Congress.

—The Crown Prince of Germany will visit the Vatican. It is said the Emperor wishes to have domestic peace restored to the empire before he dies. This is but the beginning of victories for the pope.

—It is thought that the Mayor of New Laredo, Mexico, is involved in the recent train robbery on the Mexican National Railroad. He has seriously obstructed the process of making arrests of guilty parties.

—A hurricane in the province of Alicante, Spain, on the 13th inst., uprooted 400 olive trees. Simultaneously at Dema, an immense sea wave demolished the quays, inundated the town, and wrecked fourteen vessels.

—The new Peruvian Minister, just arrived at Washington, says his country would now be prosperous, despite the results of the war, were it not drained by the Chilean indemnity, which amounts to $300,000 monthly.

—A sailboat containing seven decomposed bodies drifted ashore at Sebes Island, near Toronto, last week. The bodies are believed to be the remains of Captain Quick and sons, who left two weeks previously for a trip around the island.

—At Caldera, a seaport of Chile, 8,500 sacks of saltpeter became ignited last week, destroying a great portion of the railway coal deposit. The saltpeter ran along the railway track to the sea, burning the sleepers, fence, machine-shops, etc.

—It is now thought that the tariff question will be the leading issue in the Presidential campaign next year, the Democratic party in Congress, having asserted its position by the election of a free-trader (Mr. Carlisle of Kentucky) to the Speakership.

—Representative Sumner of California, who has introduced a postal telegraph bill, says he has investigated the subject, and finds that it costs the telegraph companies on an average one mill and a half per word to send and deliver a message. All the rest is clear profit.

—A number of capitalists have just purchased 800 acres of land in Pickens County, Ga., for the purpose of quarrying marble. This promises to be one of the most important of the new industries of Georgia. There is said to be a mountain of marble on the premises mentioned.

—The Portugal papers complain because their Crown Prince visited England and was not honored with either banquet or ball. The London Times replies that he came out of season, and it could not be expected that all English society custom would be remodeled on his account.

—The Government of Egypt professes to discountenance slavery; but the bulk of its army operating against El Mahdi in Soudan are purchased slaves, who are reluctantly fighting against their free brethren, and against their fanatical faith. No wonder they are defeated on every hand.

—Seven marauders rode into Bisbee Camp, A. T., on the 8th inst., and robbed a store of $1,200. Two men were killed in the store, and a man and woman attracted to their own doors by their noise, were shot and mortally wounded. The marauders are supposed to be the Deming train-robbers.

—Chas. McLaughlin, the well-known capitalist and railroad contractor, was shot and killed in his office in San Francisco, Dec. 13, by Jerome B. Cox. The affair grew out of prolonged litigation, Cox having been a subcontractor under McLaughlin in the construction of the Western Pacific Railroad.

—The New York Bar Association has adopted a resolution expressing the wish that Judges of the Court of Appeals should appear in silken robes on the bench; and has also appointed a committee for the prosecution of disreputable lawyers. The last-mentioned act should be imitated in other cities.

—Sometimes the executors of Lynch-law justice make mistakes. As an acknowledgment of this fact, several white citizens of De Soto Parish, La., have just been arrested for the murder of Judson Scott, at Kingston, in July, 1881, a crime for which a negro who had been arrested on suspicion was taken from jail and hanged a few days after its commission.

—The Louisiana sugar-growers have begun a war in Congress on the Hawaiian Treaty. It is claimed that free importation from the islands, owing to a monopoly of the business, has tended to increase rather than diminish the price of the article. The freight tariff on sugar from the East and South has shut off competition with the islands, on the Pacific Coast.

—Henry G. Milligan, book-keeper for Dr. Merritt of this city, who lost six or seven thousand dollars of his employer's money in stock-gambling, has been released. The Dr. was induced to withhold complaint against him by the influence of his pastor and his brethren in the church and various societies. It is claimed for him that "he is too good a man for San Quentin." Perhaps so; "the world is growing better."

—The Louisiana Lottery scheme is getting to be a power in the land. Its profits are immense, and it has influence enough to silence officers and go unmolested. The advertised prizes are but a small per cent. of the money received, and most of these go to "cappers" of the concern. It is said to be largely patronized at Washington, notwithstanding the efforts of the Postmaster General against its use of the mails.

—Dr. Platt, American consular representative at Chee Foo, China, who has just returned to this country, expresses alarm on account of the report that a Chinese mob has destroyed a Christian chapel in Canton. He says the feeling is very bitter, and a mob might massacre the whole foreign population at any time, and he entertains fears of the worst in the event of war with France. Our Restriction Law is not understood by the people, and officials look upon it as a breach of faith.