News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 22.

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News and Notes.

By Editor

—May 24, Queen Victoria completed her sixty-sixth year.

—Philadelphia has one saloon to every twenty-nine voters.

—At Blackfoot, Idaho, May 23, seven polygamists were sentenced.

—Limbano Sanchez is again at the head of a Cuban insurrection.

—A falling off in the German manufacture of beet sugar is reported.

—From Russia large bodies of troops are still moving towards central Asia.

—The pope and the Irish bishops have recently held a two hours' secret meeting.

—The subject of Victor Hugo's burial has excited a good deal of attention in Paris.

—During the two weeks ending May 4, 188 deaths from cholera are reported in Calcutta.

—It is said that Bismarck is working for the restoration of Ismail Pasha to the throne of Egypt.

—One house in Dublin, Ireland, valued at forty dollars, is rented to eight families for $410 a year.

—The steamer City of Salem, valued at $28,000, was wrecked in Upper Willamette, Oregon, May 20.

—A fire at Somerset, Canada, recently destroyed 144 buildings, valued at $390,000, mostly uninsured.

—Over $17,000 was stolen in daylight, May 3, from the Misses Carpenter's residence in Philadelphia.

—The president of the State University at Berkeley, Cal., has tendered his resignation, to take effect August 1.

—The issue of Bibles by the American Bible Society in the sixty-nine years of its existence foots up 45,440,206.

—Peru has notified the United States that the treaties between that country and this will expire March 31, 1886.

—After the first of July, the rate of postage in the United States will be two cents for each ounce or fraction thereof.

—Great preparations for war are still going on in England. Twenty-five first-class torpedo-boats have just been ordered.

—The president and his cabinet have decided that the New Orleans Exposition cannot be held over for re-opening.

—In South San Francisco, May 25, a terrific explosion in a tripe-house scalded seven men seriously, one of whom died.

—"Zach" Montgomery was formally installed at Washington, May 25, attorney-general for the Interior Department.

—A party of excursionists to Yosemite, California, was stopped by two masked highwaymen and robbed of about $1,300.

—During the last nine years, France has spent nearly $45,000,000 in increasing and reorganizing her university institutions.

—A Pennsylvania court has decided that "store orders" do not constitute pay for work; and that "wages" so paid can be recovered.

—The steamship City of Rome ran down a French fishing-bark, May 25, in a fog, and twenty-two of the fishing crew were drowned.

—The Bulletin (S. F.) says: "Excessive use of tobacco caused the death of Wm. Courtworth, at Helena, M. T., last Thursday," May 21.

—Fifteen houses were buried, and twenty-four persons killed, by an avalanche at Seydis Fiord, in the east part of Iceland, a short time ago.

—Two thousand children at Belfast, Ireland, were kept standing two hours in the rain, waiting to do honor to the prince and princess of Wales.

—Mrs. R. B. Hayes has bought and fitted up a house in Savannah, Ga., where colored girls can be thoroughly trained in skilled housekeeping.

—The night of May 27, a water-spout caught a company of campers, numbering nineteen, in Richman Cañon, Nebraska, and only eight escaped.

—The annual cost of the armies of Europe is about $750,000,000, and the number of men withdrawn from industrial pursuits is fully 3,000,000.

—Mr. E. Peacock, of England, has invented a typewriter with which, it is claimed, one man can produce a dozen or sixteen copies as quickly as he would produce one the ordinary way.

—Quite a breeze was created in Dr. Sunderland's church by Fred Douglass escorting three white ladies into a pew in front of President Cleveland's pew.

—An English statesman says that "blood will have to be shed, and shed in torrents, before the Eastern question is closed." There is not the least doubt of it.

—A new insane asylum is to be located on the line of the South Pacific Coast Railroad, six miles from San Jose, Cal., where 280 acres of land have been purchased for the purpose.

—At Philadelphia, a mother and her high tempered daughter were sentenced to four months' imprisonment—the mother for being a common scold, and the daughter for contempt of court.

—The murderous Apaches are again on the warpath. Seventy-five white men were recently killed by these Indians in Arizona, and a stage that is missing is supposed to have been taken by them.

—The plague that has been ravaging Plymouth, a little town of about 3,000 inhabitants in Pennsylvania, is still progressing. Already, 905 persons have been stricken down, and 55 have died. Impure water is the cause.

—The steamship City of Berlin, from Liverpool, arrived at New York, May 23, and reported having struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, which did considerable damage by the falling of many tons of ice upon the forecastle.

—Ex-Congressman Budd delivered a short address to a crowd of men in Sacramento who were scoffing at the Salvation Army. He claimed for them the right to worship in any manner they chose as long as they did not interfere with others.

—The Sacramento mob, mentioned last week, did considerable injury to the Sixth-street M. E. church, and now the trustees of said church have presented a bill against the city for damages. That is right. If a city will have a mob, let it pay for the luxury.

—A railroad from London to Bombay, India, 7,000 miles long, is proposed. This distance, it is claimed, can be made in nine days; the route to be through Paris, Madrid, Gibraltar, Tangiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Cairo, Bassorah, Kelat, to Kurrachee and Bombay.

—In London, May 18, two dynamiters were sentenced to penal servitude for life. One of them, when asked if he had anything to say why sentence of law should not be passed, declared that he was innocent, but was condemned because the whole power of England and the United States was brought against him.

—Near Homer, Ohio, a short time ago, a mound was opened by some boys, who found a skeleton. Further search brought to light four, three of which were over seven feet in length, and the other one eight feet. About thirty stone vessels and implements were also found. It is regarded as the most valuable find in Indian relics, ever made.

—Ocean commerce on the Atlantic has suffered heavy loss for several weeks by the immense floes of icebergs off Newfoundland. It is reported by sailors that never before were seen there so many and so large icebergs. On one trip of a steamer, more than a hundred were seen, ranging in height from two hundred to eight hundred feet.

—An official at Washington, who is engaged in counting or weighing the money in the treasury vaults, estimates the silver in the vaults to weigh 543,700 pounds. The money is not counted dollar by dollar, but weighed on one of the most perfect scales in the world. Although one thousand pounds can be weighed at a time, a pin placed on the balance will tip it.

—It is to be hoped that Mr. Pendleton, the newly appointed minister to Prussia, will be able to amicably settle treaties on naturalization of Prussians, and their treatment by the Prussian Government on their return to that country. Prince Bismarck has recently reiterated Prussia's claim to the right of enforcing American citizens into service, who were born in Prussia and who left before they had served in their army.

—After a thorough and critical examination of the accounts of the United States Treasury for the past twenty-four years, they were found only two cents short, and the two cents were afterward found on the floor of one of the vaults. Considering the hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars that have passed through the hands of the Treasury officials in that time, if that does not show exactness, honesty, and efficiency, we should like to know what would.