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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 8, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 10.

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News and Notes.

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-Congress adjourned at noon, Sunday, the 4th inst.
-A severe shock of earthquake was felt in Connecticut, Feb. 27.
-After a long contest, Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, has been elected Senator from Michigan.
-Two more attempts have been made to burn the Missouri penitentiary, since the one noted last week.
-The public debt was diminished $9,630,678 during February. The decrease since June 30, 1882, is $102,638,346.
-The steamer Yazoo sunk on the Mississippi near New Orleans, on the 4th inst., and sixteen persons were drowned.
-Seven hundred feet of the Mullen tunnel, on the Northern Pacific Railway, have caved in, causing heavy damage.
-Hank Monk, famous throughout the whole country as the great stage driver of California, died at Carson, Nev., Feb. 28.
-Since publishing the account of the death of seventy Michigan lumbermen, we have learned that the report was a false one.
-An immense warehouse is now building on Carquinez Strait, near Port Costa, Cal., which will have a capacity of 60,000 tons of grain.
-Five children in Pine Grove, N. Y., have been attacked with trichinosis from eating raw pork. One died, and two more are not expected to live.
-The town of Vina, Tehama Co., Cal., claims the largest vineyard in the world, owned by one man. It is the property of Ex-Governor Stanford, and contains 3,500 acres.
-The authorities of San Francisco, in a fit of economy have shut off the gas from the street lamps, and that city is now in darkness, whereat the hoodlums no doubt greatly rejoice.
-David Davis having resigned his position as President pro tem. of the Senate, Senator Edmunds of Vermont has been elected to that position. A better choice could not have been made.
-The Massachusetts House defeated the bill giving female citizens the right to vote for city and town officers, to hold city and town offices, and vote at town meetings, by a vote of 127 to 60.
-Elementary physiology and hygiene, with special instruction upon the effects of stimulants and intoxicants upon the human system are now among the required subjects in the Vermont schools.
-A fellow in Los Angeles, Cal., was convicted last week of whipping his mother, with a blacksnake whip, and it was shown that he compelled her to remove her cloak for that purpose. The brute was fined only $175.
-The men who attempted to rob the train near Montello, Utah, have met with speedy punishment. All of them pleaded guilty, and were sent to the penitentiary—three of them for fourteen years each, and two for twelve years.
-Governor A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, died at Atlanta, March 4, aged 71. For years he has been an invalid, being scarcely more than a skeleton, yet he was constant in his attendance on the floor of the House, and was an indefatigable worker.
-It has been estimated that the area of wheat sown in California this year is 3,200,000 acres. Should there be an average yield, the crop will be enormous, as in 1880 the crop was the largest ever produced in the State, and the area was only 1,832,429 acres.
-There is talk of introducing the steel-rope system of street-cars in New York, the same as in San Francisco and Chicago. It is claimed that such roads in New York could make profit at the uniform rate of three cents a fare, the cars running at the rate of eight miles an hour.
-A valuable lead discovery has been made in British Columbia. A gentleman returning from Koohenay brought specimens that were absolutely pure. He says the mines there are of vast richness. At least 250,000 tons of ore are in sight. The main seam is 100 feet in thickness.
-Lieutenant Commander Gorringe, having resigned his position in the United States Navy, has leased the ship-building yard of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, and will undertake the construction of iron and steel ships of all classes. The company has already received orders for more work than it can do.
-We read lately of two idiots who, for lack of any better employment, smoked for twelve hours on a wager, refilling their pipes as soon as they were empty. The mouth of one was very badly blistered; the report did not say whether he recovered from the effects, or not. The other, unfortunately, was apparently uninjured.
-In view of the recent disaster in the parochial school in New York, the City Building Inspector is making a special examination of the public schools at the request of the Board of Education. Thus far, almost without exception, they have been found faulty in construction and dangerous. Steam pipes pass close to wooden partitions and the doors open inward.
-Reports from Oregon and Washington Territory say that the fruit crop will be very short this year. Peaches, plums, pears, and cherries, and nearly all the apples, have been nipped in the bud. Many fruit-trees were prematurely filled with sap by the warm weather last fall, and were frozen by the intense cold which followed. It is thought that the loss in the vicinity of Dayton, W. T., will be not less than $1,000,000.
-The Union Signal says that the Sunday attendance at the beer gardens of Cincinnati is greater than the attendance at the Protestant places of worship; and that the husbands of women who are engaged in the temperance work were encouraged that if their wives did not cease their agitation in favor of temperance, steps would be taken to destroy their husbands' business.
-As might be expected, the distress caused by the recent floods, is on the increase. The agent who was sent to Shawneetown, Ill., to investigate and report, says that the situation is terrible. There are between 500 and 600 houses in the town, every one of which is under water. Only thirty-one are habitable, and those only in the upper stories. More than one hundred houses have floated from their foundations. Five hundred people are receiving relief. One-half to two-thirds of Gallatin County is afloat; fences are gone, corn destroyed, stock drowned and people driven from their homes. Dysentery, pneumonia and malarial fevers prevail and are increasing.
-A Chronicle dispatch of Feb. 25 says: "The success of the Mormon Church in securing the balance of power in Idaho and controlling legislation in that Territory has caused the leaders to turn their attention to Arizona, where small colonies have already been planted and larger ones are in contemplation. It is understood here that orders have been given for five hundred families to leave for that Territory on the 1st of March. They are to be sent from various settlements in Utah, and their places are to be filled by foreign emigrants expected in April. To seize and possess the Rocky Mountain country is the determination of the Mormon Church, and it is making strides in that direction."