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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Oct 18, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 39.

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News and Notes.

—There were made in the United States last year 17,000,000 barrels of beer.

—Rev. Solomon Parsons has been nominated for Governor of New Jersey on the prohibition platform.

—The Mormon Church Constitutional Convention is in session, taking steps for the admission of Utah as a State.

—Upward of 1,100 Chinamen left San Francisco for Hongkong on the steamer Coptic, which sailed on the 11th inst.

—Two negroes who boasted of killing Dick Wirlock, a white man, at Russelville, Ky., were hanged by a mob last week.

—Near Ligonier, Pa., last week, six children were poisoned by eating weeds while playing in the woods, two of them fatally.

—All persons implicated in the Egyptian rebellion have been granted amnesty, excepting those convicted of murder and outrage.

—Ex-Postmaster-General James comes back from Europe believing that our postal system, as a whole, is the best in the world.

—Hon. James G. Blaine is writing a history of "From Lincoln to Garfield," and the publishers have advance orders for 100,000 copies.

—A jealous husband named Walker, a constable of Prescott, Arizona, shot and killed a young assayer, named Ralph, on the 10th inst.

—Prominent men of the various departments of trade in San Francisco are making a determined move for a world's fair in that city in 1887.

—A wonderful mineral is said to be found only in Missouri. It is called Adam's cobite, and is so hard that it will cut steel without losing its edge.

—At the Louisville Exposition a suit of clothes was presented to Governor Berry of Arkansas, made from cotton picked only forty-eight hours before.

—The Martin Luther Society of New York has completed its arrangements for the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's birth.

—A man named Weitna recently attempted to assassinate the President of San Domingo at Neyba, Hayti, when the President shot his assailant dead.

—An election fight between a party of thirty negroes and as many whites occurred at Cumminsville, Ohio, on the 10th inst. Four persons were wounded.

—A letter-carrier in San Francisco, named W. L. Turner, has been detected in robbing letters and packages; His bail is fixed at $1,000, pending trial.

—Iowa has gone Republican by a large majority. The election of Governor Sherman is a victory for the temperance cause, as well as for the Republicans.

—The mother of Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, over sixty years of age, married last week in Eugene City, Or., a young chap just above his majority.

—A negro was lynched at Huntsville, Ala., last week, for killing a Constable. He refused to give his name. A large reward is offered for his accomplice in the deed.

—The Lady Superior and seven ladies attached to the Maria Institute, at Warsaw, under the direct patronage of the Czarina, have been arrested on the charge of nihilism.

—A letter, upon which a Confederate two-cent stamp was affixed, passed through the mails at Richmond a few days ago without being detected by the post-office authorities.

—The prisoners in jail at Fort Madison, Iowa, escaped the other day by throwing pepper in the eyes of Deputy Marshal Young and knocking him senseless with a stick of wood.

—One hundred and eight applications for divorce are to be heard at the October term of the Divorce Court for Suffolk County, Mass., in Boston. The list for the last April term contained 210 cases.

—The Prohibition State Committee of Massachusetts has issued an address, in which it claims that the success of either the Republicans or Democrats will not effect the prosperity of the rum interest.

—The new Board of State Prison Commissioners consists of John Boggs of Colusa County, W. C. Hendricks of Butte, W. C. Van Fleet of Sacramento, D. G. Gelwicks and Chas. F. Robbins of Alameda.

—A couple of men lately made an important strike in an old mine in Cerro Gordo District, Inyo. The vein is twelve or fourteen inches wide, and consists of silver and lead assaying $1,000 to the ton.

—Under the auspices of the Women's Memorial Association, of North Carolina, the work of removing the remains of 107 Confederate so'diers from the Arlington Cemetery to Raleigh, commenced October 1.

—Hunters in Panther Creek Swamp, in Mississippi, recently shot a deer that had a human skull impaled on one of the prongs of its right horn. The prong had entered the eye and grown up around the skull bone.

—The stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railroad complain bitterly of the heavy expense—$250,000—of the late Villard excursion celebrating the completion of the road, while the company was already so heavily in debt.

—An epidemic has broken out among the children of Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, which the doctors can neither define nor control. It resembles scarlet fever, but baffles all remedies. Children take it and die within forty-eight hours.

—Rebel bands entered the city of Port-au-Prince, Hayti, last week, and pillaged the stores, set fire to houses, and murdered all those who resisted them. Among the killed were two Generals. The troops finally dispersed the rebels.

—The Democrats of Ohio have gained a decided victory, defeating both the Republican party and the temperance movements. Judge Hoadly is elected Governor, and a majority in both houses of the Legislature has been secured for the Democracy.

—During the night of the 9th inst., two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in this city, San Francisco, and other places adjacent to the bay. About the same time, Algeria, Africa, was the scene of a like visitation, only a little more severe, some buildings being injured on that side of the globe.

—A rose farm is a new Georgia industry. Two gardeners in the vicinity of Savannah planted three acres in rose trees. This year they sold 22,000 trees to persons in the North, and had orders for 50,000 which they could not fill. The trees met with a ready sale at from $10 to $20 per hundred.

—Eight men of a threshing crew, near North Ruff, Minn., while sleeping near a granary, were suddenly covered with a large quantity of oats. Four were taken out dead, and the other four were with much difficulty restored to consciousness. The disaster was caused by the bursting of the granary.

—The Spanish Government is not satisfied with the French apology for the rabble insult offered to her king in Paris, although said apology was published in the President's official journal. The German Government is backing Alfonso in demands for reparation, and the much-talked-of European war is again hinted at.

—A number of cases of arsenical poisoning have recently appeared among the women who count the new greenbacks in the Treasury Department at Washington. The fingers are moistened by a sponge to facilitate counting, and the moisture brings out the arsenic in the green dye. The poisoning in some instances has been accompanied by quite serious results.

—A murderer named Ellis Craft was hanged at Grayson, Ky., on the 12th inst. Before the execution he was immersed by a Baptist minister. On the gallows he sang, "Did Christ O'er Sinners Weep," and then offered prayer. There was a large crowd present, and one lady gave him a bouquet. His near relatives would not go to see the execution, but his brother wrote him a letter urging him to confess his crime if guilty. However he asserted his innocence to the last.

—The advertising columns of the London papers furnish abundant evidence that there are proportionately many more unemployed persons there than with us. Servants continually advertise for places where no "remuneration is expected," and it is the usual thing for men to pay premiums to get their sons a situation.

—Mrs. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, granddaughter of Captain Truckee, delivered an address in New York on the 10th inst. She talked of her people and told the story of their wrongs. She was overcome with emotion, and there was not a dry eye in the audience. Mrs. Hopkins advocated the appointment of women as Indian Agents instead of men.

—Miss Clara Davenport, who forty years ago was one of the most brilliant and accomplished young artist in New York, counting among her patrons many of the then prominent men, has been lost to the world for some time. She married a young man named Thornton, son of a Vermont Judge. He lived a fast life and became insane. Recently Mrs. Thornton has been discovered living in New Jersey in squalid poverty. She was living in one room, with no windows, and the floor littered with dirt, the poor woman lying sick on a miserable bed.

—WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Inquiries from many persons as to whether they could be compelled to pay for newspapers sent to their address without authority, have called forth the following ruling from the Post-office Department: The liability of a party to pay for newspapers must be determined by the rules applicable to other contracts. When a publisher, without request from the party, either expressed or implied, shall send a paper, the mere fact that the party addressed takes the paper from the post-office does not of itself create an implied consent.

—Leroy has been convicted of the murder of Skerrett, in San Francisco, last August. The conviction was brought about by exhuming the body of deceased, when an examination of the throat convinced three physicians that death was caused by strangulation. The body of Skerrett, it will be remembered, was found in a vacant building, the Coroner's inquest at the time failed to find the cause of death, and the matter was wrapped in mystery, although circumstances pointed to foul play on the part of Leroy. The theory of strangulation was suggested by a detective, and the case was followed up on that idea, which has proven correct.

—The Chicago Board of Health has instituted a vigorous surveillance of the meat markets, to prevent the selling of diseased meat. Health Commissioner DeWolfe states that it is impossible to estimate the ill effects upon the people of Chicago caused by the number of cancerous beeves. "The effect of eating this beef," he says, "is septic fever, being a degree of blood-poisoning, very similar to fever from other causes, hence the inability of physicians to trace the cancerous meat." DeWolfe has no doubt but that a number of deaths have resulted from the consumption of this meat, sold without the knowledge of the health authorities.

—Henry M. Stanley is still at work exploring central Africa. A recent letter says: "Since I arrived on the Congo, last December, I have been up as far as the equator, and have established two more stations, besides discovering another lake, Mantaniba. I am really struck with the dense population of the equatorial part of the Congo basin, which, if it were uniform throughout, would give 99,000,000. The number of products and character of the people are also remarkable. Rubber, ivory, camphor wood, and hosts of other things would repay transportation, even by the very expensive mode at present in use. The people are born traders and are, for Africans, very enterprising and industrious."