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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 17, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 36.

SECULAR.

—A Healdsburg winery is offering $7.00 a ton for common grapes.

—The American honey product for 1885 is estimated at one hundred million pounds.

—Of 629 bills introduced into the Wisconsin Assembly, only four have passed both houses.

—Washington, the county seat of Fayette County, Ohio, was made a wreck by a terrible cyclone that swept over it on the evening of September 8. Five lives were lost, 600 persons were hurt, and about $1,000,000 in property destroyed.

—In a local option election in Milan County, Tex., the Prohibitionists prevailed by a majority of 86.

—The schooner Guardian Angel was capsized near St. John's, Sept. 9, and all hands but one were lost.

—The public indebtedness of the Government, less cash on hand, on the last of August, was $1,473,692,307.52.

—Small-pox is still doing deadly work in Montreal, Canada. Twenty-three deaths from it were reported, September 8.

—A tradesman giving short weight in Madagascar and detected, is fined five oxen and $5.00, or to hard labor in chains for one year.

—The German Government has forbidden the circulation in Berlin of the American journal Turn Zeitung, an organ of the free-thinkers.

—It is said that a Philadelphian pays a board bill of $70 per day at a Long Branch hotel, where the expenses for the season are $400,000.

—Floods have destroyed the crops in Bengal. The Calcutta district is submerged. Several land-slides have occurred, causing much damage to railways.

—The English express surprise and regret, because Hendricks, vice-president of the United States, expressed sympathy for Parnell in his issue with England.

—The House of Representatives of New Zealand has passed a resolution extending the subsidy for a mail service to San Francisco from the date of its expiration on the first of November next.

—A cotton picker is reported at Chattanooga as the invention of Mr. G. Seers, which it is expected will do the work of thirty-five men, and will cost but $500. It will revolutionize the production of cotton and greatly cheapen it.

—A new journal published in England, and called the Linguist, is printed in five languages—English, French, Spanish, German and Italian; and, if necessary, a supplement will contain articles in Modern Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, and Hindustani.

—It is stated that among the professors at German universities, there are no fewer than 157 who are between the ages of seventy and ninety, of whom 122 still deliver lectures, seven of these being between eighty-five and eighty-nine years of age.

—As a gang of fourteen miners were coming out of the Alto colliery at Branch Dale, Pa., on the morning of the 9th, a tremendous explosion occurred. John Linn, aged 17, was instantly killed and 13 others were more or less burned and mangled, some fatally.

—The lenses for the Lick telescope are now ready for shipment from Paris. They are thirty-nine inches in diameter, and were ordered over four years ago. The telescope, when completed, will be fifty-five feet long, the largest refracting telescope in the world.

—A mob visited the Pike County jail at Murfreesboro, Ark., and made an attempt to shoot the Polk boys who had murdered a man last year and had had several trials, and as they were unable to shoot them, they piled wood around the cell and literally roasted the murderers alive.

—In a little blacksmith shop on Dupont Street, San Francisco, is to be seen a man wearing a steel hand. He lost his hand and arm to the elbow by the premature explosion of a cannon, and the deficiency is partly supplied by this steel hand, with which he drives nails or uses a file or knife.

—A cotton mill has just commenced operations in this city, employing at present 120 hands. The hands are mostly apprentices, and therefore the work turned off is small compared with what is contemplated. For this mill, 600 bales of cotton grown in San Joaquin Valley, Cal., have been purchased.

—The New York World says that certain districts of that city present the anomaly of a perpetual guerilla warfare carried on between the police and organized outlaws, which internecine strife gives the outlying precincts something of the romance and a great deal of the animation of the Western border.

—The expulsion of foreigners from Germany and Austria continues. Hundreds of the destitute Poles expelled from Silicia are flocking into Warsaw and Cracow. According to Austrian papers over thirty-five thousand more Poles will shortly be ejected by the Prussian authorities, among them twenty thousand Austrian subjects and thousands of French origin.