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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 21, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 24.

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News and Notes.

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-There are no Sunday newspapers in Australia.
-A tornado on Long Island, on the 13th inst., did $50,000 damage.
-Beebetown, a small village in Iowa, was destroyed by a heavy wind, June 14.
-American manufacturers of fire-arms are now shipping large quantities to China.
-The record of the star-route trial, printed in small type and octavo size, makes over 6,000 pages.
-Last week tornadoes were reported from Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
-During the week ending June 16, the number of immigrants arriving in San Francisco by the overland trains, was 1,141.
-The season of severe storms in the East has fully come. Nearly every morning paper has an article headed, "Another Tornado."
-By the recent explosion of a powder magazine at Scutari, 153 persons were killed, and 53 wounded. The explosion was caused by lightning.
-George H. Corliss, at whose works in Rhode Island the big centennial engine was built, is building the engines for the first cotton mills to be erected in China.
-The village of Valoires, in the department of Savoy, France, was burned, on the 14th inst., the inhabitants barely escaping with their lives. All the livestock perished.
-At Los Gatos, Cal., June 17, two Mexicans engaged in a fight over a game of cards. One of them was stabbed to the heart, and the other was immediately hung by the citizens.
-There has been fighting in Albania since the 12th inst. Other tribes are expected to join in the revolt. Montenegro has established a cordon on the frontier to prevent the belligerents entering her territory.
-Ernest Hart, agent of the Irish Political Committee says that in Donegal there are 14,000 destitute persons living on alms from America. Four million acres in Ireland have been allowed to fall out of cultivation.
-A Hamburg dispatch of June 11, says: "A number of prominent shipping firms to-day expressed sympathy with the prospect of a second Suez Canal and resolved to communicate with the British committee with a view of eventual participation in the undertaking.
-From the Los Angeles Times we clip the following item: "Some of the wells in Santa Barbara that have not been dry for thirty years, are now yielding no water, and several heretofore living springs upon the foot-hills to the north of the city are also failing. Does this foretell the coming of an earthquake?"
-General Crook has returned from Mexico victorious, bringing over 200 Apache prisoners with him, and now the query is, What shall be done with them? They are not wanted on the Reservation, and the probability is that they will be turned loose to make another raid. The captives are reported as having a large amount of gold in their possession.
-For the first time in four years the books of the City Clerk and Treasurer of Oakland were examined last week. The examination showed that there was about $50,000 less cash in the treasury than the books called for. The Treasurer, James Dods, confessed that he took the money, and he is now in jail awaiting trial. Gambling in stocks was the cause of his downfall.
-A telegram from Mansfield, La., June 16, says: "Rev. Ben. T. Jenkins, Jr. this morning killed Rev. J. Lane Borden, President of Mansfield College." The dispatch says further that Jenkins has the sympathy of the community. This may be gratifying to him, but we are left to wonder what position he will take hereafter in his preaching in regard to the ten commandments.
-The S. F. Chronicle says of the temperance issue in the Ohio Republican platform: "Total abstinence is not proposed, but the platform declares in favor of a tax on the liquor traffic, which will aid in supporting the jails, penitentiary, and poor-houses, rendered necessary by excessive use of stimulants, and in paying the expenses of the police and of courts, a large part of whose business comes from the same source." Very well stated.
-A terrible calamity occurred in the town of Sunderland, Eng., on the 16th inst. An entertainment was given in a theater, at which several thousand children were in attendance. At its close 1,200 little ones came rushing down from the gallery. At the top of a flight of stairs was a door which opened only twenty inches, in passing through which one of the children fell. The crowd behind kept pushing ahead; and as the result 197 children were trampled to death.
-Governor Irwin, of Idaho, recently stated that politics in Idaho turned only upon the Mormon question. Said he: "The Mormon element is a strong one. The Mormons are subservient to the dictation of the priesthood, and slavery in the South was never half so dangerous and bad as Mormonism in Idaho. The Edmunds bill is all right, so far as it goes, but being founded upon the basis that the Mormons will not commit perjury, the provisions of the bill are inadequate to the situation."
-The trial of the star-route conspirators closed last week with a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was received by the mob with yells of joy, and was fittingly celebrated by drunken orgies. One of the counsel says, "It was a day of debauch to be remembered by the citizens of the capital." The feeling of sympathy for criminals seems to be growing stronger, and shows a low state of morals. One cannot read the record of this and other trials, without recalling the words of the psalmist: "The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted." The only satisfaction that honest men can take in the outcome of this case is the poor one that the conspirators have had to disgorge the greater part of their ill-gotten wealth in defending themselves.