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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 26, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 17.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

-The Parliament buildings at Quebec were burned on the 19th inst.
-Two drunken men stabbed each other to death in Stockton, Cal., one day last week.
-The license upon saloons at Minneapolis, which has heretofore been $100, has been raised to $1,500.
-Curley, another of the Dublin assassins, has been convicted and sentenced to be hanged the 18th of May.
-The report that crops in Colusa County, Cal., were badly injured by the late frosts, was without foundation.
-The Pennsylvania Senate has passed to the third reading a bill to prohibit one person from treating another.
-By the falling of the wall of the Grand Army Hall, at Sacramento, seven men were killed, and several others injured.
-The Bustiamente tract, consisting of 1,000,000 acres, in Zacatecas, Mexico, has been sold for $2,500,000 to a London syndicate.
-The Court House at Coleman City, Tex., was broken into one night last week, and all the criminal indictments were destroyed.
-The firm of James Marshall & Co., iron-pipe manufacturers, Philadelphia, have failed, with liabilities amounting to about $2,000,000.
-The Austrian Parliament building in Vienna, is entirely surrounded by mounted police, in consequence of threats to destroy it with dynamite.
-Three thousand emigrants from Liverpool, arrived in Chicago in one day last week. Their destinations were Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado.
-Fifty persons were arrested in Odessa for nihilism last week. They include military officers, young women, teachers, students, workingmen, and soldiers.
-Three rafts upset in the great tank at Secundenabab, India, while loaded with natives engaged in a religious ceremony, and sixty-two were drowned.
-The whipping-post has been revived in Maryland after an interval of sixty-four years. The first victim was a man convicted of brutally beating his wife.
-During the first nine months of the current fiscal year the internal revenue receipts were $108,825,798, an increase of $251,398 over the corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
-The House of Commons, in further recognition of the services in Egypt of Lord Wolseley and Admiral Seymour, have voted a grant of £20,000 to each yearly, which, at their death, is to pass to their heirs.
-The recent trial of eighteen prominent nihilists at St. Petersburg resulted in the conviction of all. Six were condemned to death, two to life servitude, and the rest to imprisonment for fifteen and twenty years.
-The Presbytery of New York decided that the religious education of the Chinese in that city comes under the head of foreign missions, and have therefore decided not to appropriate money for that purpose.
-Freeman, the insane man who killed his daughter at Pocasset, Mass., claiming to be acting under directions from Heaven, has recovered his sanity, acknowledging that he was under the influence of the devil, and is to be tried for his crime.
-It is thought the Mormon colonies in Arizona are in sympathy with the Apaches in their murderous raids, if indeed they are not directly connected with them. At any rate they refuse to furnish help to the rangers who are pursuing the Indians.
-Captain Eads has not abandoned the idea of a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. On the contrary, work has been commenced; and it is claimed that the road will be finished and in running order long before De Lessep's Panama Canal is opened.
-The manner in which the trial of the Phoenix Park murderers is being carried on in England, is in marked contrast to the way in which State trials are conducted in the United States. It seems that in England a murderer is not by virtue of his crime admitted into the best society and treated as a hero.
-A great deal that is printed in the newspapers is not news at all. Here, for instance, is an item that was written more than twenty-five hundred years ago, yet in its brief space it covers the greater part of the news of to-day: "By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood."
-In the North American Review for May, Professor Alexander Winchell announces his belief that communist doctrines have taken a deep root in this country and in the near future will burst forth in all their fury. No legislation can reach the source of the evil. Commenting on this, the Commercial Observer says: It is a fact that the man Most draws great crowds whenever he speaks, and we do not hear his doctrines repudiated by the classes he appeals to.
-A most terrific cyclone passed over a part of Mississippi about 4 P. M., April 22. The greatest damage was done in the villages of Wesson and Beauregard, in Copiah County. The latter place contained a population of about 500. Wesson is a summer resort for New Orleans people, and had a population of 1,600. The scene is described as appalling; the destruction of life and property was great. Thirty-six persons were killed; a large number was wounded, many of whom will probably die. Terrific thunder and lightning and heavy rain accompanied the wind. It is said that Beauregard was entirely swept away. Other towns suffered severely, and several lives were lost in them. The storm extended into Tennessee; Chattanooga, and surrounding country suffered considerably. As the telegraph wires are down, full particulars have not yet been given. A cyclone is reported near Des Moines, Iowa, at the same time. A snow-storm is reported in Central New York, April 23, and the snow-storm in Colorado continued with great severity at the same date. The elements are strangely affected.