News and Miscellany by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 19, 1875

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

—There are 90 pupils in the Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institute.

—There are forty-five thousand men in Pennsylvania who work under ground in the mines.

—The crops have failed in Portugal and a famine is imminent. The cattle are dying of hunger.

—The New York Tribune says : “The thieves on the police force aid and abet the thieves off of it, and then hold their names and transactions in the sacred confidence of assumed ignorance.

—During the last week or ten days the display of meteors observed at San Diego every night has been phenomenal. Some of them have been very brilliant, carrying long trails of light in their wake, fairly illuminating the sky.

—Lady Franklin is dead. Through her great love to her husband, Sir John Franklin, she induced England, and private parties to send out twenty different expeditions in search of his lost ships and his frozen body, at a cost of $6,000,000.

—The colored citizens of San Francisco strongly protest against the colored schools, claiming that they are not wisely managed. They demand admittance for their children to the city schools, and that the colored schools be abolished.

—The miners are preparing to leave the Black Hills. There were about 1,500 whites in the Hills. The Indians still demand that the whites be driven out. Troops are en route to establish posts for the purpose of keeping out miners.

—The General Medical Council of Great Britain, which registers the licenses granted by colleges and other licensing bodies, has decided to register the licenses granted to women by any of the nineteen licensing bodies. This is a long stride in advance in a country where now but one female practitioner, Mrs. Anderson, has a legal status as such.

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.—The disastrous rains of the year it is to be hoped culminated on last Friday and Saturday in a flood which came down upon Missouri, Tenessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Western Pennsylvania, carrying devastation to the unsheltered harvests, flattening the corn, and sweeping uncounted wealth away down the vallies.

SALT LAKE CITY, August 10.—Considerable excitement prevails in the neighborhood of Corinne, on the Central Pacific Railroad, growing out of the demonstrations by a large body of Indians camped near there, belonging to the Snakes, Bannocks and other tribes. Nearly 1,000 of them were lately baptized into the Mormon church. They have supplied themselves with ammunition and guns, and to-day, it is reported, have sent all the squaws away and made threats of driving the Gentiles from the west side of Bear River, which they claim has been granted them by the Mormons for a reservation. Governor Emory has asked for a company of troops to be sent to Corinne for the protection of the people.

—Icelanders are looking to Alaska as a congenial place of retreat from their ash-sown land. The matter was under consideration last year, and a commission was sent to examine the country. They selected St. Paul, Alaska, as a satisfactory point. The climate of St. Paul, though cold, is not too variable; it is tempered by the warm current from the Japanese seas; which sweep up the coast. The islands abound in feathered game, and the waters literally teem with fish. The commissioners suggest that an Icelandic colony can supply the Pacific States with beef, butter, and cheese; that they will manage the fisheries in a far better manner than has heretofore been done; and that they will supply timber to the Pacific States, besides building ships for their own use.