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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1883

News and Notes.

—A violent earthquake shock was felt in different parts of Northern Ohio, Jan, 6.

—By the sinking of a flat-boat in North Carolina, Dec. 30, eighteen convicts were drowned.

—The number of failures in the United States in 1882 is reported at 6,738, with liabilities aggregating $101,000,000.

—Los Angeles, Cal., is now lighted by electricity. The lights aggregate 69,000 candle power, and illuminate fifteen square miles of territory.

—A correspondent of the Tulare Times states that Tulare Lake fell fourteen inches during 1881, but lost twenty-six and a half inches in 1882.

—By the census bulletins it appears that between 1850 and 1880 the number of farms in the United States increased from 1,449,073 to 6,008,007.

—The Illinois State Board of Health has driven from the State thirty-one persons who falsely made oath that they were graduates of foreign medical universities.

—Dispatches from Germany say that 10,000 persons are rendered homeless by the floods in the districts near Worms, and are in danger of starvation. The floods are now subsiding.

—W. H. Vanderbilt proposes, on certain conditions, to erect a picture gallery in New York, and fill it himself with the best pictures that can be obtained, at a cost of not less than $5,000,000.

—Advices from Cape Town to the National Board of Health state that during the past two months 9,000 people have been stricken with smallpox and 2,400 have died. The negroes object to vaccination.

—Smith, the man who murdered his child in Los Angeles County, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, jumped from the train, while on the way to prison, and received injuries from which he has since died.

—Brigands have carried off the Mayor, Justice, and Board of Aldermen of Ahuaclatan, Mexico. And now some of the newspapers are wickedly wishing that those brigands would visit a few cities in the United States.

—The Deputy County Clerk of Alameda County has left for parts unknown, after appropriating over $14,000 of the county money. His embezzlements have been carried on for over a year, and the proceeds were spent in gambling.

—The Naval Advisory Board recommends the building of the following vessels: One steel cruiser, to cost $1,500,000; three steel cruisers, to cost $1,041,000; one iron dispatch boat, to cost $460,000, and one cruising torpedo boat, to cost $38,000.

—Private letters from St. Petersburg state that the Czar recently found in his bedroom a letter from the Revolutionary Committee, demanding a commencement of the promised reforms and adding that the committee possesses power to forcibly obtain concessions.

—A Mrs. Stillwell of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, has made confession on her death-bed, than she had murdered her first husband, a stranger who was stopping at her house, her daughter, and her mother, and had also attempted to murder her second husband, in order to obtain his life insurance.

—The sand-storm on the Mojave Desert, Jan. 2, extended for 100 miles along the Southern Pacific Railroad, and was the worst ever known. Trains were delayed, and the passengers on the emigrant train were nearly suffocated, the sand sifting through the cracks and filling the cars.

—A Montreal firm failed in 1875, and resumed only after paying the English creditors eleven shillings on the pound. On the 1st inst., they paid up in full, the amount required being £82,000. It is a rare instance of honesty, since there was no legal claim upon them.

—The French General Chanzy died suddenly, Jan. 4. He was one of the most noted of French Generals, and was elected Senator for life, in 1875. The London Times says: “The death of General Chanzy, following so quickly that of Gambetta, must disturb many political calculations, and will increase the uncertainty prevailing as to the immediate prospects of the French political parties.”

—There is a deficit in the Tennessee State Treasury of $400,000. The Legislative Committee, appointed to investigate the matter, after consultation with the bondsmen of the Treasurer, recommend a suspension of the business of his office for the present. The missing funds are supposed to have been lost in speculation, or loaned to personal friends engaged in dealing in stocks. The Treasurer has left the State on a visit, and will not return until sent for.