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

News and Notes.

—The number of immigrants arriving in San Francisco last week was 990.

—A strong and prolonged shock of earthquake was felt at Lima, Peru, the morning of the 19th.

—The revision of the Old Testament is now undergoing the final review, which has been carried as far as Ex. 27.

—It is said that Japan has declined the proposal of the French Ambassador at Shanghai to form an alliance against the Chinese.

—Four lots, on which will be erected a Catholic college for young men, have been purchased in the outskirts of Stockton, Cal.

—It is estimated that New York farmers will lose not less than five million dollars by damage to the grain crop this year.

—The local preachers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, of England, number one for every twenty-eight of the membership.

—Dispatches from Cairo, Egypt, agree that the number of deaths there from cholera far exceeds the number given in the official reports.

—Charles Stratton, known to the public as General Tom Thumb, died July 15, of apoplexy, at his home in Middleboro, Mass., aged forty-six.

—A fire among the shipping at one of the docks in New York, on the 19th, resulted in a loss of over $1,000,000. Several lives were lost.

—A company of Kansas City capitalists made last week the largest entry of public lands ever made in Kansas. It amounted to 43,000 acres, at one dollar an acre.

—Out of fifty-one persons received into the Presbyterian Church at Hokendauqua, Pa., during the past year, forty were teachers or scholars of the Sunday-school.

—Southern Missouri was visited by a severe storm on the evening of the 17th. Several buildings were struck by lightning, and fences, crops, etc., suffered much from the wind.

—A bill has been introduced into the Spanish Cortez for a credit of $1,000,000 to defray the cost of the adoption of all possible measures against the introduction of cholera into Spain.

—Dr. Young, author of the “Analytical Concordance,” has ready for the press, a “Concordance to the Hebrew Bible,” a “Concordance to the Greek New Testament,” and a “Greek Concordance to the Septuagint.”

—The S. F. Chronicle has a column on the quirks of prominent men of the State. It says: “Chief Justice Morrison of the State Supreme Court is a religious enthusiast. He is a Roman Catholic, and Catholicism is his hobby.”

—Fifty corpses of Zulu men, women, and children were seen on June 30th, at the White River, on the border of Zululand. They were massacred in their hiding place by Cetewayo’s followers. It is said that Chief Mapoch has surrendered to the Boers.

—The Cairo correspondent of the London Daily News writes that the actual number of deaths from cholera in the twenty-four hours of July 21, was nearly 600. Each death only aggravates the disease, as there is an utter disregard for all hygienic precautions.

—The Texas exhibit at the Louisville exhibition will show, it is said, that that State takes the lead in the production of cotton, her cotton product for the past year being over one-fifth of the entire crop of the United States. The crop for this year is estimated at 1,800,000 bales.

—The British Government has been notified that several cases of Asiatic cholera have appeared in East London. Much excitement has been caused by the reports. The disease was doubtless carried by vessels that have been allowed to pass through the infected districts of Egypt.

—Eight boilers in an anthracite furnace at Reading, Pa., owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, exploded on the 17th, utterly demolishing the furnace. Several employés were killed. The force of the explosion shook the earth and aroused the people for miles around. The damage to the furnace will amount to many thousands.

—Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen, the scholarly leader of the Indian Theistic Church, recently declared that fifty per cent. of the educated natives of India die through over-indulgence in intoxicants, having the habit of drinking, from their contact with western civilization. From this it seems that India has not much cause for gratitude to the “civilization” of the West.

—Promptly at noon, Washington time, on the 19th inst., over 13,000 telegraph operators, in various parts of the country, struck for higher wages. As a consequence, business has been very much hindered, although the companies say that they will soon succeed in filling their places. The operators themselves feel confident of success, and it is probable that they will carry their point.

—The engineer of the steamer Pilot, which was blown up in Petaluma Creek last spring, has been suspended from steamboat engineering service for five years. The Commission found that no portion of the boilers was of less textile strength than 60,000 pounds to the square inch, and that the accident, which caused the death of nine persons, was due to the carelessness of the engineer.

—Near Knoxville, Tenn., July 18, an express train going at full speed, was thrown from the track by a misplaced switch. The train struck four coal cars on a side track, demolishing the engine, jumped the track, and ran into the main building of the works of the Valley Zinc Company, tearing away the whole side of the building, and destroying much machinery. The loss, of property only, was considerable.

—In a recent pastoral, Cardinal Manning used the following words, which have too much of truth in them: “No civil order in the world ever sank so low as the Christian world is sinking now. . . . For the first time since the world began, it is openly rejecting God. . . . Now God is nowhere, and exists no longer; the world is dead. . . . If men libel their neighbor, they may be heavily punished. If they only libel God as our Divine Redeemer, we are told that no man should judge them.”

—The American Consulate in Monterey, Mexico, was entered on the 17th by a mob of Mexicans, who attacked and beat the Acting Consul, Rev. Mr. Shaw, nearly to death, and destroyed the furniture and papers. The outrage is the result of the jealousy which the lower classes of Mexicans feel towards the Americans on account of the improvements which the latter are making in that country, by means of railroads. This jealousy is not shared by the better class of the people, who wish to see the resources of the country developed.

—Of a Missouri storm that was merely mentioned in our last week’s news, additional reports say: “At Joplin and Webb City, in the lead-mining region of southwestern Missouri, an immense amount of rain fell, which flooded the mines to such an extent that it will take a month or two to put them in working order. In the meantime several thousand miners are out of work. In addition to this the wind and hail did great damage to buildings and crops. At Macon and Louisiana, in the northeastern part of the State, much damage was done to crops and buildings. Burlington Junction is a pile of ruins; nearly all the houses in the town were destroyed or badly injured.”