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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 29, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 45.

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News and Notes.

—During last week 1,200 immigrants arrived in San Francisco overland.

—The next Congress will probably take the trade dollar from circulation.

—The yellow fever is again epidemic in Panama and along the Mexican coast.

—Ten persons have been shot for taking part in the recent insurrection in Servia.

—There is said to be an agitation in South Ireland in favor of a complete pillage of landlords.

—Several infernal machines have been found in the house of a leading Socialist in London, named Wolff.

—Hon. James Russell Lowell, U. S. Minister to England, has been elected Rector of St. Andrews University.

—Nelling, the murderer of Ada Atkinson, was lynched at Oxford, Ind., on the 19th inst., by a party of masked men.

—It is claimed in Albany, N. Y., that the introduction of the electric light has decreased crime forty per cent.

—According to the decision of a Baltimore Justice, a husband is liable and can be sued for slander his wife utters.

—Many disasters to shipping are reported on the Newfoundland coast. Several bodies have been washed ashore.

—The Mississippi Valley Bank, at Vicksburg, has failed for $800,000, leaving many poor depositors in distress.

—A. H. Rowland, Clerk of Courts at Pittsburg, has been held for embezzling $47,000 during his two terms of office.

—The Sisters of Mercy report sixty-seven Industrial School girls inmates of the Magdalen Asylum, in San Francisco.

—A 100-year-old carriage, in which President Monroe once rode, went for $7.25 at a Vergennes, Vt., auction the other day.

—A fire at Williams, Colusa County, on the 19th inst., destroyed $50,000 worth of property, including the post-office.

—Four hundred men have been thrown out of employment by the failure of the Novelty Rubber Company of New Jersey.

—A disastrous forest fire is raging at Jack's Mountain, in the vicinity of Mill Creek, Pa., and extends a distance of nine miles.

—The war on freight rates between the Missouri River and Salt Lake continues. The regular rate of $3 has been cut to fifty cents.

—Justice Field, of the U. S. Supreme Court, has issued an order restraining the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. from doing express business.

—O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, the Irish informer, has been officially recognized as an American citizen by the American Legation in London.

—An attempt was made last week to bring twenty-five Chinese into Washington Territory by means of affidavits. They were returned to Victoria.

—At a wedding in Currituck, N. C., recently, too much wine resulted in the shooting of two of the groomsmen. One was killed and the other mortally wounded.

—The Southern Pacific Railroad Co. will soon commence the erection of extensive salt works at Los Palmos, a station on the desert between Colton and Yuma.

—Harvard College has been disgraced by a cock-fight in one of its halls. Unfortunately both fowls were killed, instead of the abettors of the entertainment.

—Five masked men derailed the Southern Pacific express train, near Deming on the 24th inst., killed engineer Roberts, and secured $700 from the express car.

—The trustees of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers, at Boston, have commenced suit against Governor Butler to recover $18,275, for which he has failed to account.

—The Chinese Government declines to allow American Consuls to inspect certificates issued by Chinese officials to their countrymen who desire to come to the United States.

—Sergeant Mason, who fired at Guiteau while confined in prison for the murder of President Garfield, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, has been pardoned by the President.

—A multitude of fraudulent land claims have been discovered in Dakota. It is estimated that half of the Government land disposed of in any one year is taken in some irregular manner.

—A movement is on foot in New York to raise a permanent fund for the benefit of General Fremont, who is now old and in poor circumstances financially. General Grant heads the list with $1,000.

—In the Los Angeles Superior Court, Mrs. Amadon has been convicted as accessory to the murder of her husband. Her paramour had previously been convicted, and her sister's trial comes next.

—The United States Court, which has been in session at Solomonville, A. T., had to adjourn suddenly last week and flee from the vengeance of cowboys, two of whose comrades had been convicted of crime.

—In St. Louis, carpenters receive $2 to $3 per day; in Dakota, $3.50; in El Paso, Texas, $4 to $5; in Charleston, S. C., the range is from $1.50 to $2.25; in Chicago, $2.75 to $3; in San Francisco, $2.50 to 3.50.

—A cyclone in Izard County, Arkansas destroyed the town of Lacrosse, and did great damage at Melbourne. At the former place, three lives were lost, and four at the latter, besides several injured at both places.

—Egypt has received a severe blow. The grand army of over 10,000 men, under General Hicks, has been defeated,—report says completely annihilated,—by the army of El Mahdi, the "false prophet," at El Obeid, in the Soudan.

—Paschal Coggins, a somewhat noted journalist of Sacramento, and at one time an independent anti-monopoly candidate for Congress, died on the 19th inst., from the effects of a self-inflicted pistol wound, after lingering several days.

—Governor Crosby, of Montana, urges that polygamous Mormons be not only disfranchised, but prohibited entering Government land, thereby checking their spread in the Territories.

—The Natchez Crusader gives some thrilling accounts of political doings in connection with the recent election in Mississippi. One man, aged 68, was given 600 lashes, and another, aged 60, was shot dead in his wife's arms, because they opposed the "Bourbon" ticket.