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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Sep 6, 1883

News and Notes.

—A dispatch from Paris says that the Queen of Madagascar is dead. A niece of the late queen succeeds to the throne.

—The official report shows that there have been 27,318 deaths from cholera in Egypt since the outbreak of the epidemic.

—The "Postal Telegraph" promises well. Contracts for construction to the amount of $1,500,000 have recently been let.

—A high tide did much damage at Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 29. The surf was the heaviest ever seen there. Loss not less than $75,000.

—Report from Shelbyville, Ind., says a skeleton was found about fifteen miles from that city, in a gravel pit, of a man who was nine feet high.

—Twenty-two young men who were students in the university at St. Petersburg, have been sent to Siberia for contributing to a nihilist journal.

—It is reported from Mexico that an American syndicate has purchased the Real del Monico mines for $4,000,000. These mines are located in Huachuca.

—In a recent hot wave in Los Angeles the thermometer stood at 100 in the shade. The same also in Salt Lake City, the hottest ever known there in August.

—The Yellowstone National Park branch of the Northern Pacific road is now completed to Cinnabar, fifty-one miles south of Livingstone, and is open for business.

—About 20,000 tons of railroad iron will soon be received in Galveston, Texas, from Europe. About half of it is narrow-gauge rails for the Kansas and Gulf Short Line.

—Denver reports twenty-five flowing artesian wells sunk in that city within twenty days, and as many more under way. A large stream is struck at a depth of 325 feet.

—From 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 feet of lumber were destroyed by fire in Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 27. Same date a fire in Galveston, Texas, destroyed property valued at $220,000.

—The New York Herald says a treaty is not higher in authority than an act of Congress, which is proof that it requires more wisdom to run a Government than a New York paper.

—The poisoning of valuable cattle at the Boston quarantine station was caused by water impregnated with Paris green from a neighboring potato field. Farmers should take warning.

—A Jamesville (Wis.) dispatch says: "A furious hail-storm last night practically destroyed the entire tobacco crop in Rock County. The damage is estimated at fully $100,000."

—A Dublin dispatch says: "The Exchange Telegraph Company announces that alarming telegrams in reference to a revival of the Irish conspiracy have been received here from America."

—News comes from St. Johns and Halifax of a terrific storm on the coast. Ten schooners were driven ashore, some of them wrecked. About one hundred fishing dories and eighty men were lost.

—A naval court-martial has been ordered to try seventeen cadets charged with the heathenish practice of hazing at Annapolis. Perhaps we ought to beg pardon of the heathen for this expression!

—The plate on the coffin of the Count De Chambord was inscribed with the following words: "Henry V. by the grace of God King of France and Navarre." Few kings have had so little burden of State affairs as he!

—A determined war has commenced in New York on the church bells. They are declared by some to be a greater nuisance than the elevated railroads. The Herald, Times, World, and Post take sides against the bells.

—The steamer Riverdale, plying between New York and Haverstraw, exploded a boiler, Aug. 29, and soon sunk, opposite Sixteenth Street, New York. The number of passengers on board was not known. Several were killed and many injured.

—In a recent riot against the Jews in a town in Russia, 364 houses were wrecked and plundered. Including the Russians who were killed in quelling the riot, twenty-eight lives were lost. In another town eighty houses of Jews were fired.

—An excursion train on the Philadelphia and Atlantic Railroad, Aug. 30, was thrown from the track at Pleasantville, N. J., and the engine and baggage car were turned upside down and four passenger cars completely wrecked. About thirty injured, some seriously, but none killed.

—The shipment of freight to Oregon from San Francisco was so heavy Aug. 31, that the Queen of the Pacific had to stop receiving early, and when the Oregon commenced taking, the line of teams was more than four hours long. Those in line at 8 A. M. could not reach the dock till afternoon.

—A tenement house was burned in Thatcher's Court, Boston, Aug. 26, and four persons were smothered to death, and one fatally injured by jumping from a window. The fire is supposed to have originated in a quarrel between two brothers, in which one threw a burning lamp at the other. The men are appropriately named Savage.

—The war between France and Anam has speedily terminated in the complete submission of the Chinese. The French took possession of Hue, the capital of Anam, and a treaty has been made in every way favorable to the French. Admiral Meyer, who commands the French naval division in Chinese waters, has been formally ordered to arrest, even by force, every Chinese boat carrying arms or troops. He is also ordered, in case of a rupture between France and China, to make an immediate attack on Canton, and other Chinese ports.

—A collision occured, Aug. 26, in the English Channel, off Eddystone light-house, between the French steamer St. Germain from Havre for New York, and the steamer Woodburn, from the East by the way of the Suez Canal. The Woodburn immediately sank and eighteen of her crew were drowned. The St. Germain was disabled, but arrived at Plymouth and landed her passengers and those saved from the Woodburn. Also the steamer Palerme, from Hamberg to Lisbon, came in collision off Ushant with the steamer Rivoli, from Balboa to Middlesborough. The Rivoli was sunk and five persons drowned. There was a thick fog at the time.

—The great calamity, not only of this year of calamities, but of the century, has fallen upon Java and adjacent islands. Aug. 25 an earthquake changed the face of much of the country. Several islands disappeared entirely. Many villages were destroyed, some sinking out of sight. The disturbance continued for several days. Volcanoes which had not been active for a hundred years suddenly sent forth great quantities of lava, rocks, and dust, and in one case a large body of ice was thrown out of the earth. Added to these, fourteen islands appeared in the ocean, where none had been before, each an active volcano. The loss of life is very great; 75,000 is considered a safe estimate of the number destroyed. An island was engulfed in the sea half way between Java and Sumatra, ten miles from Java. The straits of Sunda are entirely unsafe for navigation. Vessels have been dispatched to warn merchantmen of the danger, and to explore the straits and coasts. It is supposed that the number of lives lost will never be certainly known, the extent of country destroyed being so great, and so many islands submerged. The tidal wave caused by it was registered at Saucelito, in San Francisco Bay.