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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 5, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 10.

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—Dakota has given women the right to vote.

—Another earthquake occurred at Granada, Spain, on Feb. 22.

—The Prince and Princess of Wales propose to make a tour of Ireland soon.

—Five hundred families of Lutherans are to found a colony in Shasta County, Cal.

—A large portion of the business part of Vassar, Michigan, was burned last week.

—President Cleveland decidedly favors the suspension of the coinage of silver dollars.

—Four ocean steamships were lost in the hurricane of Jan. 27-29, with passengers and crews.

—During February up to the 19th there had been an average of eight fires a day in New York City.

—A man, woman, and eight-year-old boy were frozen to death last week near Toronto, Canada.

—America is furnishing pumps with which to supply water to the British troops in the Soudan desert.

—There is great activity among socialists and dynamiters in Pittsburg, New York, Chicago, and Baltimore.

—Mrs. Lowell, wife of the American Minister to England, died at the American Legation in London last week.

—General Grant is pronounced by one of his physicians as a very sick man, with little or no hopes of his recovery.

—Justus Schwab, the notorious socialist, has been held for trial in $2,500 bail, on two charges,—inciting riot, and resisting an officer.

—A bill has been introduced in the Michigan Legislature, “to prevent children from acquiring the habit of using tobacco.”

—The New York Tribune says: “What with El Mahdi in Egypt, and El Pahdi in Ireland, England has about all she can attend to.”

—Paper is used for many purposes. Its latest and most delicate employment is that by Swiss watchmakers, as the wheels for watches.

—The Swedish steamer Norden, was run into and sunk by the English steamer Cumberland Feb. 27. Twenty-one persons were drowned.

—An Act repealing the pre-emption land law has passed the Senate and is now before the House, with probabilities in favor of its passage.

—Experts who have examined elevated railway structures in New York City, pronounce them in better condition to-day than ever before.

—Terrific gales prevailed in Scotland and Ireland from Feb. 19 to the 22d. Great damage was done along the coast, and inland, and many lives lost.

—In the House of Lords Feb. 26 the Marquis of Salisbury moved a vote of censure on the Egyptian policy of the Government. The motion was greeted with loud applause.

—By the recent court-martial Judge Advocate General Swain was sentenced to twelve years suspension from rank and duty, and the loss of half his pay for the same length of time.

—The Pacific Mail Steamship Zealandia arrived at San Francisco Feb. 21, from Sydney, Australia, making the passage in twenty-two days and nineteen hours, the fastest time on record.

—In the Soudan, England has already lost General Gordon, General Earle, General Stewart, Colonel Burnaby, Lieut. Colonel Eyre, and Major Coveny, besides a good many men, and all for what?

—Holland has recently passed a law closing about 12,000 saloons. Statistics show that in one year two and one-half per cent. of her population have been convicted of drunkenness, and $18,000,000 a year spent for liquor.

—The Oregon Legislature adjourned last week without electing a U. S. Senator, and the Governor is in considerable perplexity whether to re-convene the Legislature in extra session for the purpose, or to appoint one himself.

—A committee of iron manufacturers from Cleveland, Chicago, and Youngstown, have visited the iron mines of Alabama, and they report the quality of the iron as being fully up to the Northern standard, and the mines as easily worked and inexhaustible.

—A bill recently introduced in the New York Legislature provides that any person “who shall send to a convicted felon, or to a person held for trial on a charge of murder, a bouquet of flowers or other sympathetic token,” shall be subject to fine and imprisonment.