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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 31, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 21.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—The famous Arab Chieftain, Abdel-Kader, is dead.

—An English syndicate has invested $3,000,000 in Texas land.

—Queen Victoria's ill health is causing great uneasiness in England.

—Wm. Lambert of California has been appointed U. S. Consul at San Blas, Mexico.

—A $20,000 fire, from the explosion of a kerosene lamp, occurred at Bakersfield, Cal., on the 26th.

—An amnesty to a limited extent has been granted to Polish exiles by the Czar as a coronation act.

—Chicago dispatches report the loss of two lake schooners with all on board—seventeen persons in all.

—The Indian Gap silver mines of Pennsylvania, upon which $20,000 had been expended, were recently sold for $10.

—Within a few days 8,000 emigrants have passed through Hull, England, for America. They are mostly Mormons.

—Gen. Crook has had a fight with the Apaches in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Mexico, and report gives him the victory.

—The southern part of Missouri, and that part of Illinois recently swept by tornadoes, are suffering from severe frosts.

—Plots to assassinate the King of Roumania at the opening of Parliament have been discovered and some arrests made.

—The entire village of Merenkinshon, Prussia, was destroyed by fire last week, and its 1,300 inhabitants all left homeless.

—The Japanese Government has purchased a man-of-war in England which was originally intended for the Chilean navy.

—Work has been commenced on the Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge at Portland, Oregon, across the Willamette River.

—Last week a pitch-battle between Irish and Italians took place in New York City, and several persons were injured, two fatally.

—A Detroit dispatch reports a heavy snow and rain-storm in that part of Michigan on the 21st, which was very disastrous to the fruit prospects.

—Five hundred Mormon families have gone from Utah to Idaho, and the church leaders boast that they will control the politics of that Territory.

—Heavy snows and floods are reported from Deadwood, D. T., with a great loss of property, ruination of mines, destruction of roads and bridges, etc.

—A snow-storm in Auglaise County, Ohio, on the 22d inst., and heavy rain-storms in Fairfield County are said to have seriously injured grain and fruit crops.

—There was a grand Communist demonstration in Paris May 27, 1,500 persons participating. Red flags were displayed, and frantic speeches made, but no arrests.

—There are fair prospects for the continuation of the Pacific Mail service between San Francisco and New Zealand and Australia, for which the contract has about expired.

—The Pope has notified the French authorities that he has great difficulty in restraining an open rupture between that Government and the Vatican. An amicable reply was made.

—The post-office safe at Healdsburg, Cal., was blown open by burglars the night of the 25th, but they were frightened away before getting the contents. They robbed the office of about $50.

—The gambling evil is said to be sadly demoralizing high military officials at Washington. It is claimed that leading officers dare not enforce the regulations in this respect for fear of exposure.

—Johnson County, Arkansas, was visited by a cyclone last week. Over twenty houses, including a church and school-house, were blown down. One man is reported killed and several others injured.

—Two Chinese shop-keepers were expelled from Waynesboro, Ga., and eighteen citizens indicted for the offense. The time for trial having arrived, great difficulty is experienced in procuring a jury.

—At Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 22d inst., there was a reunion of the Fifth Virginia Infantry and the Twenty-eighth New York Volunteers. The Virginians presented to the New Yorkers the flag captured from them during the rebellion.

—Near Portland, Oregon, on the 25th, a well-known contractor named Huntington, while driving along the road with his wife and child, was assaulted by a party of workmen and cruelly beaten, and then put into his carriage to be driven home by his wife.

—A terrible tragedy occurred at Visalia, Cal., on the 25th. A man named Elliott, in endeavoring to shoot another, named Harlan, killed his own child, and was afterward killed by Harlan, who was also wounded. Jealousy, divorce, etc., were at the bottom of the trouble.

—Two harmless explosions are reported from the palace of the Czar of Russia about the time he was to leave for Moscow on his coronation mission. It was supposed that all was safe within the palace, but this demonstration proves that the Czar's foes include those of his own household.

—From Nelson, Illinois, comes the report of a fiendish attempt to burn a whole family named Boyd. The doors were fastened upon the outside, and the premises saturated with coal-oil and fired. Fortunately the inmates were awakened and succeeded in breaking out of their flaming prison.

—The Steamer Pilot burst her boilers in Petaluma Creek, near Donahue, Cal., last week, and the result was thirteen deaths, and several others severely injured. The vessel plied regularly between Petaluma and San Francisco, and it is said the boilers were known to be defective two years ago.

—A New York dispatch of the 26th says: "Collector Robertson yesterday received a dispatch from Assistant Secretary French, requesting him to take proper measures against a party of 100 Mormons now on their way to New York from Switzerland. The United States Consul at Basle writes to this Government that they are mostly women recruited from the lower ranks, who have been shipped at the expense of the communes. The party numbers in all 600 proselytes, who have been collected by Mormon emissaries from all parts of Europe. The 100 persons from Switzerland are said to be poor, ignorant, and in many cases imbecile creatures, to get rid of whom the communes are willing to pay 160 francs a head. The party is coming by the steamship Nevada of the Guion line, which left Liverpool on May 16th."