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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 23, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 32.

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-A five-pound gold nugget was brought in from the gold fields near Guaymas, Aug. 12. Another weighed two and three-fourths pounds.
-It now appears that Cetewayo, the Zulu King, was not killed, as reported, but that he is alive and exceedingly active in warlike matters.
-The wife of Senator Allison, of Iowa, drowned herself in the Mississippi at Dubuque, on the night of Aug. 12. She suffered from nervous and mental diseases.
-A strike at the Bethlehem Iron Works, in Pennsylvania, has ended by the strikers applying for work. The most worthy were offered work, but not all who went out.
-Russia is not quiet. A dispatch to the London Times from St. Petersburg says, referring to the situation of affairs in that country, that arrests of students occur daily.
-The city of Galveston, Texas, is suffering a “water famine.” The cisterns are drained, the gardens dried up, and the effects of the drought are plainly seen in the poverty of the vegetable market.
-While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at a mine near the town of Redruth, Cornwall, Aug. 15, the rope attached to the car broke, and twelve of the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft and instantly killed.
-The prohibition of the importation of Egyptian cotton into Switzerland has called forth many protests from various quarters. If the authorities persist in enforcing the prohibition, 30,000 persons employed in manufactures where this cotton is used must be thrown out of work.
-Alarming signs of another earthquake on the island of Ischia. The springs are drying up and smoke is issuing from fissures in the ground. The Minister of Public Work has issued an order for the immediate erection of huts for the accommodation of the people in case they are compelled to vacate their houses.
-The Court of Criminal Correction in St. Louis holds that the State must prove that street cars are not necessary, in order to convict the officers or any of those who are on trial for violating the law by running cars on Sunday. All the cases instituted against street railroad companies under the Sunday law will, therefore, be dismissed.
-Judge Jeremiah Black died at his home near York, Pa., at 2 o’clock the morning of Aug. 19. Judge Black was 73 years of age. He has been prominent as a politician and jurist for many years. He held high positions, having been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and Attorney General in President Buchanan’s Cabinet.
-The plea in defense of the late Oakland City Clerk, who embezzled the city funds with which to gamble in stocks, was that he was insane on stock buying! Now let every burglar insist that he was insane on house-breaking, and then—abolish our courts. They are becoming unnecessary expenses. P. S. He was found guilty. Courts may be retained.
-The great event of the year in San Francisco is the Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar. The number in attendance is very large, and the display imposing and grand. In fact, if display were the object of life, we might well pronounce this assembling an “eminent” success. The corner-stone of the Garfield monument in Golden Gate Park will be laid the 24th inst.
-A dispatch from Suez, Aug. 17, says: “Two thousand Bedouins attacked the sanitarium at Sinkat and were repulsed with the loss of sixty killed. The soldiers defending the place lost seven men, the civilians five. Sinkat is fifty miles from Suakin, a town in Nubia, on an island in the Red Sea. The attack was incited by the False Prophet. It is reported Suakin is also threatened with an attack.
-A terrible railroad disaster occurred at Winchester, Ky., eighteen miles from Lexington, Aug. 17, at a crossing. A freight train on Kentucky Central stood across the track of the Chesapeake and Ohio. A train of the latter ran into the freight train, demolishing a car containing four hundred kegs of blasting powder. The powder exploded. The depot building, eating station, the Chesapeake and Ohio engine, and three cars were almost completely wrecked, and several persons were killed.
-A mob of 500 men attacked the Jewish quarter in Prague, the night of Aug. 15. The rioters were dispersed before doing much harm. The prevalence of riots has caused much alarm among the authorities of Austria. The police and military officers have been ordered to crush with the utmost energy every outbreak, however small. Forty of the populace and six were wounded in the riot at Agram, Aug. 14. The mob subsequently forced open the jail and released the rioters.
-A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 17, says: “A cyclone swept through the city yesterday afternoon. Three railroad depots were unroofed. A large number of other buildings were unroofed and several blown down. Several casualties are reported. There was a heavy hail-storm at the time, and many horses ran away. One was killed and many injured. Only one telegraph wire outside the town remains intact. The telegraph business in the entire South is delayed here, and business is seriously injured.”
-The strike of the telegraph operators in the United States is ended in a disastrous failure. Aug. 17 the President of the “Brotherhood” issued an order announcing the failure, and a permit to all who could to return to work. But so many positions have been permanently filled that a large number will be obliged to seek other employment. The following is announced as the result to those who are received by the Western Union: “Each person, as a preliminary of employment, signs a paper agreeing to abandon the present Brotherhood of Telegraphers, and not again become a member of any brotherhood while in the employ of the Western Union Company.” It is a hazardous proceeding for so many laborers to place themselves at the mercy of a few ruling men who can throw them out of their situations at any time by a word. This is the severest blow that Labor Unions have received for many years.