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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 9, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 30.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—Tucson, Arizona, is now lighted by electricity.

—The Catholics are about to establish a convent at Raton, N. M.

—The coinage of the mints for the month of July was $3,133,800.

—Several shocks of earthquake have recently been felt at Gilroy, Cal.

—The reduction of the public debt during the month of July was $8,000,000.

—July 30, a fire in the business portion of Tulare, Cal., destroyed property to the amount of $120,000.

—The Canadian Pacific managers state that 2,000,000 bushels of wheat will be sent to tide-water this season from Manitoba.

—One hundred and eighty houses have been destroyed by fire in the town of Semerov, Russia, in the government of Nijni Novgorod.

—Another severe shock of earthquake on the island of Ischia, has put a stop to the work of searching the ruins for the bodies of victims.

—A fire in San Francisco on the 4th, destroyed over thirty houses, the loss aggregating about $300,000. One man was burned to death.

—The latest reports place the number of victims of the Ischia earthquake at 8,000. It is also stated that Vesuvius is in a state of eruption.

—Two freight trains came in collision at Pawlet, Vt., Aug. 1. Both trains were wrecked, and twelve cars were burned. Four men were killed.

—Small-pox and malignant fever are raging on the coast of Guatemala. Yellow fever is making havoc among the foreign residents of Callao, Peru.

—A most dangerous nihilist conspiracy has just been discovered in Russia. A great number of people are implicated, and many arrests have been made.

—A powder mill explosion at Aujoulune, France, on the 3d, killed six persons, injured several others, and destroyed property to the amount of 1,000,000 francs.

—The total number of deaths from cholera in Egypt, since the first outbreak of the disease is 16,000. The death rate is not materially diminishing as yet. Cholera is epidemic at Bombay.

—Two parlor cars, one baggage, and one passenger car, and the engine of an express train were wrecked near North Troy, Vt., on the 2nd inst. Fourteen persons were seriously hurt and one lady was killed.

—James Carey, the Irish informer, was killed by one O'Donnell, at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, whither he had been sent by the British authorities for safety. The murderer admits that he had been appointed to do the deed.

—At a meeting in Sacramento, Cal., last week, to express sympathy for the striking telegraphers, and to indorse their action, Governor Stoneman presided, and the State, county, and city officials occupied the stage and took a prominent part.

—During the year closing June 30, 1883, the sale of public lands has amounted to 17,000,000, an increase of twenty per cent. over last year. Of this number 8,000,000 acres were disposed of in Dakota alone. This is twice as much as was sold in Dakota during the years 1881 and 1882.

—Two bridges on the Texas Pacific Railroad, about seventy-five miles west of Dallas, Tex., were set on fire on the night of the 31st ult. The engineer of the eastbound through express discovered the fire, on one of them, in time to stop within a few yards of it. A detachment of U. S. troops, that was on board, prevented the robbery of the train by men who were concealed by the roadside.

—A company with a large capital has been organized in New York, for the manufacture of the newly-invented multi-charge cannon, which is said to be the most formidable weapon in the world. One has just arrived in New York, and is described as follows: "It contains four 'pockets' underneath, each of which holds twenty-eight pounds of powder, while the breech itself holds but eighteen pounds. As the projectile starts from the breech the force of this entire one hundred and thirty pounds of powder is concentrated on it, one 'pocket' after another rapidly discharging its contents. The gun is twenty-five feet long and weighs twenty-five tons. It is rendered doubly strong by a steel lining, and, it is thought, can hurl a projectile through a solid piece of iron twenty-four inches thick. It will shoot, so it is claimed, from twelve to fifteen miles, and is intended for both harbor and naval defense. The present gun was manufactured at a cost of over $50,000. The projectiles with which it is loaded weigh from one hundred to one hundred and fifty pounds."