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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 29.

SECULAR.

—The peach yield in Delaware this year is estimated at nearly 30,000,000 baskets.

—Three little girls at Eureka, Cal., went out blackberrying July 20, and were lost.

—M. Lessar states openly that the possession of Herat has become necessary for Russia, and ought not to cause war.

—Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, was married July 23, to Prince Henry, of Battenberg.

—The Salisbury Government was defeated in the House of Commons July 23, by a vote of 180 to 130, on a clause of the Medical Relief Bill.

—At Cologne, Prussia, two tenant houses, inhabited by sixteen families, collapsed, June 24, killing forty-five persons and injuring many more.

—The cholera continues its ravages, unabated. The inactive Spaniard, with his filthy home and sewerless streets, invites the virulent disease.

—At Modesto, Cal., July 19, a quarrel over fifty cents resulted in the death of John Leshler, proprietor of the Riverside saloon; the murderer made his escape.

—The water in the Sacramento River is reported to be lower than ever before. Barges and steamers are experiencing considerable trouble from snags in the channel.

—The steamer Hecla came in collision with the Liverpool and London steamer, Cheerful, in a fog; the latter was foundered, and thirteen passengers were drowned.

—The French Minister of Marine states that more than 30,000,000 francs will be required to repair the damages done to the French navy in the recent war with China.

—The weather in the East last week was intensely hot. There were many cases of sunstroke in New York. At a military parade in Boston, on the 25th, over 100 men fell to the ground, overcome by the heat.

—The earthquakes in Cashmere (a small kingdom in the north of India) last May are reported to have destroyed 3,081 human beings, 25,000 sheep and goats, 8,000 cattle, and 75,000 dwellings.

—The South has entered an era of unusual prosperity. Manufacturing establishments are being located south where they raise the cotton and grow the corn. The prospects for large crops in this region were never better.

—A dispatch was received in London, July 21, that the king of Dahomey (a country in the western part of Africa) with a large army has massacred the unprotected French villagers, and taken captive 1,000 prisoners which he and his followers propose to eat.

—The Yaquis Indians, whom the Mexican Government has been trying to rob of their lands, have been victorious in nearly every engagement with the Mexican troops. And now comes a report of an engagement June 24, in which the Mexicans attempted to dislodge the Yaquis from their strongly fortified position on the side of a mountain near the Yaqui River, but failed, with a loss of 113 killed or mortally wounded.

—In an editorial on the Mormons, the S. F. Chronicle says: "Those who persist in polygamy cannot escape the fate that is now impending. One by one, beginning with the richest and most prominent, all the polygamists are going to be punished. Nothing can save them. They roused the sleeping lion when they hoisted the flag at half-mast on the Fourth, and the officers of justice will not halt in their work until polygamy is as dead as slavery." The Chronicle thinks that the prudent Mormons will join the "Josephites," and thus escape the punishment which is sure to be meted out to polygamous Mormons.