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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 10, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 18.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—Five cases of leprosy are reported from Chicago.

—Union City, Ind., was partially destroyed by fire, May 4. Loss, about $250,000.

—On Wednesday of last week, 2,875 immigrants arrived in New York from Europe.

—Nearly 300 sheep, belonging to Mr. Dusy, of Fresno, were killed in a recent hail-storm.

—Judge McKee of Oakland has resigned his position as one of the regents of the State University.

—The steamer Grappler was burned last week off Vancouver's Island, and fifty lives were lost.

—The late rains are said to have been quite general throughout the State, and were quite welcome.

—Senator Edmunds, acting Vice-president of the United States, is sojourning on the Pacific Coast.

—It is believed in London that a wide-spread conspiracy to murder exists in County Clare, Ireland.

—There are 4,000 boats and 25,000 fishermen employed in the sardine business on the French Coast.

—In New York, April 29, a snow-storm raged all the forenoon, an unprecedented occurrence at this season.

—The telegrams from Tucson, Arizona, for one day include a robbery, two murders, and the lynching of a murderer.

—The last census of India gives that country fifteen times as many people in proportion to area as the United States.

—A San Francisco daily of the 1st inst., reports four suicides in the State the previous day, two of which were in that city.

—Milwaukee has a female lawyer, and she was recently fined $10.00 for throwing a glass of water in the judge's face in court.

—The reduction of the national debt in April was only $3,500,000, owing to the fact that $10,000,000 was paid out for pensions.

—A few nights since, four deaf mutes had a quarrel over a game of cards in a San Francisco saloon, and one of them was badly stabbed.

—Twenty-nine new national banks were established during the month of April, one of which is at Los Angeles, with a capital of $100,000.

—It is reported that the Government had special agents watching the proceedings of the late Irish-American Convention at Philadelphia.

—A former City Treasurer of Buffalo has just been sentenced to five years' hard labor in the State Prison, for misappropriation of city bonds while in office.

—Several Police Captains of New York have been indicted for giving notice to the keepers of gambling-houses of intended raids upon their establishments.

—A steamer recently arrived in Boston from Liverpool with 1,200 steerage passengers, most of whom were brought over at the expense of the English Government.

—Another great storm is reported; this time the northwestern part of Texas is the scene of disaster and destruction, houses being blown down and individuals killed.

—A storm of rain, hail, thunder, and lightning did great damage to property in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa., May 4. Several large buildings were struck by lightning.

—The inland sea which M. De Lesseps proposes to create by letting water into a part of the Great Sahara Desert, Africa, would be 200 times as large as the bay of San Francisco.

—A London dispatch, says a document, containing charges against a dozen persons now in America, has been forwarded to the British Minister. The charges are of murder in Ireland.

—Salmi Morse has been headed off so persistently by municipal officers, public sentiment, and finally by Legislative enactment, that he has given up the idea of producing the "Passion Play" on the stage.

—Poor and small as Egypt is, the khedive's income is $750,000 a year, and members of his family receive $600,000 more. He has magnanimously (!) given $15,000 a year to be devoted to the payment of indemnity claims.

—The Judson Manufacturing Company, at Oakland, have just mounted a pair of shears of their own make, which are said to be the largest in the United States. They weigh eighteen tons, and will cut a bar of iron four and a half inches square.

—A yacht, containing a pleasure party of forty-five ladies and gentlemen, was suddenly capsized in San Joaquin River, near Antioch, last week. Fortunately the entire party were rescued, and the citizens of Antioch came to the rescue with dry clothing.

—A terrible explosion occurred in a coal mine at Ashland, Pa., last week, and several lives were lost. One of the pillars gave way, which caused an immense quantity of coal to rush in, forcing down the gas with such velocity as to cause it to explode.

—In San Francisco recently, a Chinaman was shot through both legs, and although amputation was deemed necessary to save his life, his friends would not permit the operation. Chinese surgeons are trying their skill with bandages without any hope of success.

—May 1, the reduction in the tobacco tax went into effect, which will make cigars from $3.00 to $6.00 per 1,000 cheaper than heretofore, and cigarettes in proportion. Of course all the smokers will rejoice, but how about the revenue argument as an excuse for the use of the weed?

—The arrest of nihilists continues in Russia. Eight officers have been arrested in St. Petersburg, and sixteen in Smolensk. It is said that an extensive military conspiracy has been discovered; that although the coronation will be permitted to proceed unmolested, desperate doings may be expected soon afterward.

—It is reported that a Turkish official recently refused transmission through the mails of an American hymn-book on account of its containing the well-known hymn, "Hold the Fort!" which he declared to be revolutionary. So far as his Government is concerned, his suspicions are not wholly without foundation.

—Fred Douglass heads a movement for a convention of colored citizens in Washington next fall, to urge the matter of more appointments of men of that race to positions in the various departments of the Government service. Secretary Folger says they have already more than a pro rata of the places in his department.

—Great suffering is resulting from the effects of the recent cyclone in Mississippi, and several societies are receiving and bestowing aid. The track of the terrible storm is 300 miles long and from one to two miles wide, in which everything was demolished. About fifty deaths are reported, and very many wounded and destitute.

—A New York dispatch of the 29th ult. says: "The Central Labor Union discussed the relation of the labor question to the revolutionary movement of Europe, and the general sentiment favored the use of dynamite. The argument was that kings and potentates used every engine of destruction in their wars, and particularly against the people when revolutionary outbursts take place."

—In West Oakland, April 30, the engines of the local passenger train and a freight train from Sacramento collided at the intersection of Cedar and Seventh Streets. Both engines were badly damaged. The passengers had an exciting shake-up, but no one was seriously injured. The accident was occasioned by the failure of the man, whose duty it was, to give the proper signals.