News and Miscellany by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1875

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

—Small-pox is raging in New York. Several hundred cases have been reported in the last two months. It has now assumed the form of black small-pox.

—The new Atlantic cable running from Rye Beach, N. H., to Ballinskellings Bay, Ireland, is now complete. The laying of the cable commenced the 10th of May, 1874. The cable connects with first class lines in both countries.

—The Khedive of Egypt is turning his African conquests to good account. He is building a railroad along the valley of the Nile, and has been transporting wire and posts for the construction of telegraphic lines.

—There are 348 theaters in Italy, 337 in France, 191 in Germany, 168 in Spain, 152 in Austria, 150 in England, 44 in Russia, 34 in Belgium, 22 in Holland, 20 in Switzerland, 16 in Portugal, 10 in Sweden, 10 in Denmark, 8 in Norway, 4 in Greece, 4 in Turkey, 3 in Egypt and 1 in Syria, making in all 1,522 theaters.

—Several instances of quick telegraphing have been brought under our notice of late, but the following shows the perfection to which the cable telegraph service has been brought: A message was sent from New York to London, and in thirty minutes, actual time, the answer was received in New York. Another dispatch was sent to London, to which a reply was received in thirty-five minutes, actual time. In neither of these instances was any special effort made to hurry the answers, but the party addressed sent the reply to the London office by the messenger delivering the original message.

LONDON, June 9.—The Times reports that several Russian men-of-war at Odessa have been ordered to proceed to Greece, and three others are expected at Greek ports from the Baltic.

BERLIN, June 12.—The circulation of the Catholic Gazette, published in Baltimore, America, has been prohibited in Germany.

SANTANDER, June 10.—The authorities of this city to-day seized a lot of Protestant books imported from the United States for its American mission in Spain.

LONDON, June 10.—The pope in reply to an address presented to him on the 1st inst. from the students of colleges in America, thanking him for the elevation of Archbishop McCloskey to the Cardinate, says "the harvest in America is ripe and laborers alone are wanting. You are preparing yourselves for that work; preach, especially by example, in order to convert that great nation."

HAVANA, June 11.—News has been received here, by way of St. Thomas, of a terrible earthquake in New Granada. The destruction was greatest in the valley of Cuena on the Venezuela frontier. It is reported that 16,000 lives were lost.

REFORMS IN JAPAN.—Budhism seems to be on the decline. Early in 1873 religious persecution was stopped, and the edict against Christians was suppressed throughout the empire. From June 22 of the same year, Budhist priests and priestessess were allowed to marry, but were at the same time deprived of the sallaries formerly paid by the State, and were left to be supported upon the American voluntary system. Now there is a movement on foot to do away with the Department of Religion altogether, and to use its funds for educational purposes. The Conservatives who object to this, say that it would throw the entire nation into the arms of Christianity.