News and Notes by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 25, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 4.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—There were 95,000,000 gallons of beer drunk in this country last year.

—All the money for a $10,000 statue to Mr. Garfield, has been raised in Cincinnati.

—The books of Castle Garden show the arrival of 455,450 immigrants the past year.

—In the silk industry in Italy 120,480 women, 15,692 men and 64 273 children are engaged.

—Eighty savages and fifty white soldiers were killed in a recent Indian fight at Teahauntepec.

—The greater part of the city of Kherson, in the south of Russia, was destroyed by fire on the 16th.

—Chocolate lovers will be interested to know that chocolate cakes are now made from peanuts, without a particle of chocolate in them.

—The steamer Josephine blew up in Susan Bay, fifty miles north of Seattle, W. T., Jan. 18. Eight persons were killed, and several others injured.

—The month of January has been characterized by severe cold weather through the country. It has seldom been so cold in California as in the last few weeks.

—The president of the court trying the anarchists at Lyons, has received nineteen threatening letters. Several came from Switzerland, Germany, and Russia.

—Serious trouble is feared in France on account of financial matters. The excess of taxes has been steadily declining, and for the year there is a large deficiency.

—The crew of a ship that arrived in Brooklyn, N. Y. on the 15th inst, were so badly frozen as to be unable to perform duty. Only the captain and mate were left to do the work.

—On the 16th inst., there were eleven shocks of earthquake in the town of Orduna, Spain. Masses were said in the fields, as it was considered dangerous to occupy the church.

—A fight has occurred between a body of 500 Egyptian troops and the forces of the False Prophet. Two hundred and forty of the former were killed and the remainder taken prisoners.

—Mayor Edson, of New York, like his predecessor, Mayor Grace, has refused Salmi Morse a license to produce the Passion Play. By so doing he has pleased the respectable part of the community.

—The steamer Cimbria, of the Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company, was sunk in the German Ocean, Jan. 20. There were nearly 500 passengers on board, only fifty-six of whom were rescued.

—The French Chamber of Deputies have voted 1,275,000 francs to defray the expenses of M. de Brazza's expedition to Africa. It is considered possible to complete the exploration of the upper Congo in two years.

—The inaugural address of Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, contained a strong plea for universal suffrage, and Governor Waller, of Connecticut, recommends that women be allowed to vote for school officers.

—It is reported that the king of Italy is sinking into a condition of confirmed melancholy. For days together he does not speak a word to any human being. He appears at the queen's receptions, but does not open his lips.

—A large crowd gathered at a theater in Philadelphia, last week, for the purpose of witnessing an encounter between two noted pugilists; but by order of the Mayor, the police would allow no one to enter the hall. They do things differently in San Francisco; Philadelphia is behind the times.

—A dispatch from Dublin says the whole north of Ireland is in a most wretched condition, owing to the complete destruction of the grain crops in September by a terrible tornado and the rotting of the entire potato crop, caused by constant rains. In one place such general destruction prevails that twenty-two tons of Indian meal per week is required to keep the people barely alive. Relief is coming slowly, and despair is staring everybody in the face.

—An Eastern paper says: "The drought in North-eastern New York is a serious matter to mill-owners, some of whom are using steam power for the first time in twenty years, and to thousands of people whose wells have never failed before. In many spots the ground does not contain moisture enough to freeze." "Over a considerable portion of Western Vermont and North-eastern New York," says The Troy Press, "there has been nothing like a soaking, drenching rain since early last summer, and only from two to four or five days' rain all told during that period."

—The jury that investigated the disaster that occurred on the Troy and Boston Railroad in December last, are very outspoken in their decision. They find the superintendent, engineer, conductor, and train dispatcher, jointly and severally, guilty of causing the death of the men who were killed. There is a growing recklessness in regard to human life, and the remarks of the jury in this case will apply to others. They say: "Overworked, poorly-paid, and inexperienced employees, an overburdened single track, unsuitable cars and rusty brakes, may be necessary concomitants of indigent corporations, but the interest and safety of the traveling public demand something different."