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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 29, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 13.

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-Two thousand infantry have been ordered to protect the public buildings of London.
-Postmaster-General Howe died at Kenosha, Wis., on the 25th inst., of a sudden attack of pneumonia.
-A party of Cree Indians in Montana are on a marauding expedition, stampeding and murdering stock.
-The loss to those dependent on the fisheries at Gloucester, Mass., by the Wiggins' storm scare will reach $125,000.
-In Chicago "incompatibility of temper" is a legal ground of divorce, and the proportion of divorces to marriages is 5 per cent.
-The body of John Howard Payne, author of "Home, Sweet Home," has arrived in New York, and is to be interred in Washington.
-VIENNA, March 25.—Volcanic ashes have been falling at Drontheim, Norway. It is supposed an eruption of Mount Hecla has occurred.
-The immigration from Germany to the United States has fallen off 16,860 for last year. In 1881 there came over 210,547, against 193,687 in 1882.
-All the members of the Armagh Assassination Society, thirteen in all, on trial at Belfast, Ireland, for conspiracy to murder, have been convicted.
-The commander of the U. S. steamer Ashuelot, which was recently lost at sea with most of her crew, has been court martialed for neglect of duty.
-Several localities at the foot of Mount Ararat have been destroyed by snow avalanches. It is stated that 150 persons have been killed and 100 injured.
-The greatest flood ever known there is prevailing in Nova Scotia. Railroad communication is interrupted, and much property has been destroyed.
-An eruption of Mt. Etna, accompanied by an earthquake, has caused quite a panic in the vicinity of the mountains. Several houses were shaken down.
-Frauds have been discovered in the Russian Postal Department to the amount of 400,000 roubles. We do not believe that the defaulters will receive so much favor as is shown our star-route thieyes.
-Patton, the brakeman on the train that was wrecked at Tehachepi, has been acquitted of all responsibility for the disaster. The blame is placed upon the managers of the road, who neglected to provide sufficient help.
-Donations to the Irish Agitation Fund are increasing since the London explosion. O'Donovan Roosa, of New York says that a gentleman has offered him $10,000, on condition that it should be used in blowing up the houses of Parliament.
-Car wheels have already been made of paper, and it is announced that a western road is about to make a trial of paper rails. It is claimed that these rails are not subject to atmospheric changes, are more durable than steel, and can be made at one-third less cost.
-The Mormon delegates to Congress are now at home, boasting of the success with which they retarded legislation so as to defeat Edmond's anti-polygamy measures. Cannon said that the Lord was now with the saints, and they would continue to grow and spread over the country.
-The Apaches are again on the war-path, murdering and pillaging according to their custom. Their outrages as yet have been mostly over the border, in Mexico; but as they care little whom they kill, the people of Arizona are becoming alarmed, and are preparing to defend themselves.
-A telegram last week from the South said: "A Presiding Elder of the Mormon Church is in Chattanooga, Tenn., arranging for the emigration of converts to Utah. There are now ninety missionaries at work in the South, and he says the annual number of converts is 700; 150 will emigrate next week."
-Business at Erzeroum is at a stand-still, consequent on the movement of Russians in the Caucasus. The growing opinion is that a Russo-Turkish conflict is imminent. The Armenians are tired of the indifference shown by Great Britain to their wrongs, and would welcome Russian occupation. The Russians along the frontier number 100,000.
-The long-delayed rain has at last come, and California farmers are rejoicing. The rain was quite general throughout the State. Although it came too late to insure a full crop of wheat, it will help it much, and the amount harvested will probably be not much less than usual, owing to the increased acreage; a larger crop of fruit is expected than ever before.
-The Governor of Moscow has received a letter warning him that the Kremlin, where the Czar is to be crowned, will be blown up during the coronation ceremony if the Czar refuses to grant a Constitution. Two dynamite mines have been discovered in St. Petersburg, and forty persons arrested. The number of arrests in one week was 200. The Government has resolved to expel all Italians without permanent occupation.
-It has been thought a wonderful thing that from 2,000 to 3,000 persons would assemble in Boston to hear Joseph Cook lecture on subjects relating to religion. It was thought that the mass of the people were really interested in religion. But the following telegram tells the other side of the story: "The largest crowd ever brought together by any exhibition of the kind in this city attended the benefit to-night of John L. Sullivan in the Charitable Mechanics' Fair Building. There were 18,000 people present. The street before the entrance to the building was densely packed and thousands were turned away, it being impossible to gain admittance. The crowd in the main, though impulsive, was quiet, and the police had little labor in preserving order." Joseph Cook and religion are not to be mentioned in the same day with Sullivan and a Prize fight. Cook is entirely eclipsed.
-The Alta California makes the case of a young ruffian of San Francisco, who was recently arrested for a desperate assault with intent to rob, and who has, within ten years, been convicted on seven different charges, a text for an article on the "Rights of Society," in which the following just sentiments are expressed: "A penal system which punishes professional criminals by a few months or years of imprisonment and then turns them loose, until they are detected in fresh offenses against the laws and the peace of the State, fails in the first essential of justice. It does not protect society. It sacrifices the good of the many for that of a few criminals who have forfeited their safe passport and placed themselves on the same level, in respect to rights, with wild animals and poisonous serpents. We have no patience with a system which, on the precarious chance of the repentance of one professional criminal, jeopardizes the safety of a hundred thousand people. Professional criminals should be treated as are other evils that afflict society—such as small-pox, malaria, and leprosy. Absolute removal is the only remedy, and not temporary abatement."