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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 5.

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-Gustave Dore, the famous French artist, died in Paris, Jan. 23.
-The production of beet-root sugar in Europe last year amounted to 1,920,000 tons.
-Prince Frederick Charles, brother of Emperor William, died in Berlin, Jan. 22.
-Differences in the French Cabinet have led to the resignation of all but three of the members.
-Last year the New York Excise Commissioners granted 9,083 licenses, the fees amounting to $530,990.
-The Japanese Government has introduced the electric light into the government buildings at Yokahama.
-During the past five years, 2,400 divorces have been granted in Maine, a ratio of one divorce to ten marriages.
-Dr. George M. Beard, of New York, of considerable note as a medical writer and electrician, died on the 24th ult.
-Two stage stations in Esmeralda County, Nevada, were raided by robbers last week, and five men were murdered.
-An insane woman murdered her three children at Milwaukee, last week, under the delusion that the Bible demanded the sacrifice.
-Over 2,300 men are employed in the Vermont marble quarries and works, and the yield of marble last year was valued at more than $2,000,000.
-There was an extensive cave-in Jan. 24, in a coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. On the surface, cracks are visible for acres in either direction. A number of houses have settled from six inches to two feet.
-The charge of murder against Frank James has been withdrawn, and his bail has been fixed at $3,500. The next act in the play will doubtless be to give him a pension, and pay him for the time lost while detained in jail.
-The last steamer from Australia brings news of a terrible accident in a gold mine near Creswick, Victoria. The men at work unexpectedly broke into an old shaft, when the mine was instantly flooded, and twenty-two miners were drowned.
-The queen of Madagascar has set an example that Christian rulers would do well to imitate. In a proclamation forbidding her subjects either to sell or drink rum, she says: "I cannot take a revenue from anything that will debase and degrade my people."
-Messrs. Davitt, Healey, and Quinn, charged with incitement to lawlessness, have been ordered by the Court to give securities for good behavior, or to go to jail for six months. A week's time was allowed them to make their choice, but they refused to give bail, and it is thought that they will be sentenced to solitary confinement at hard labor.
-The Coroner's jury in the case of the Tehachepi disaster, found the engineer and brakeman guilty of criminal carelessness, and they have been arrested. It seems that the engineer did not dare follow the runaway cars with his engine, until he received orders from head-quarters. This is equal to a man's refusing to rescue a drowning person, because he has not been introduced.
-The loss of life on the water within two weeks past, has been fearful. First came the loss of the steamer Cimbria, with its 450 passengers. Then the brigantine Mariposa was sunk in Long Island Sound, only one man escaping. At Lisbon, Jan. 22, the ship Forwaerts sunk, and eight persons were drowned. And during a gale on the English Coast, Jan. 26, a schooner and crew were lost at Yarmouth.
-Following the railroad accident in California comes the news of a terrible one in West Virginia. Three coal trains coupled together, consisting of three engines and sixty-nine loaded cars, started down the steep grade near Cumberland. The brakes proving unable to hold the train, it went flying down the hill. Coming to a curve it jumped from the track, landing in a mass in a ravine 100 feet below. Fifteen men are known to have been killed.
-Secretary of the Treasury Folger, has addressed a letter to the Senate, showing the urgent necessity for providing additional vault room for storing silver, or for discontinuing the coinage of silver dollars. The San Francisco Sub-Treasury is full, having on hand $21,788,606, or about 628 tons. To transfer this to some sub-treasury in the East, would cost $100,000 for each million transferred, and there are none in a condition to receive that amount. The amount of silver in the several offices, Jan. 1, was $120,538,534, or about 3,500 tons of coin.
-Paris telegrams are exciting intense interest and some anxiety. Bankers and merchants having business relations with France, say, as things stand now, it is impossible to tell what a day may bring forth, and some of the French financial houses are said to be acting with great caution. The Germans predict another revolution in Paris within thirty days. There are few observing Americans, however, who think that the situation has a sinister aspect. Private dispatches to financial houses from Berlin and Frankfort say there is also some uneasiness there.
-On the morning of the 22d ult., a band of fifteen robbers attacked a train on the Central Pacific Railroad, near Montello, Utah. The engineer and fireman were captured, but the express messenger, armed with a shot gun, successfully resisted all their attempts to enter the express car. Although severely wounded he held his position for three hours. The robbers were about to drive him out by burning the car, when they were frightened away by the approach of another train. It is thought that they were part of an organized band, who have a strongly fortified place of concealment in the northern part of Utah.