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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 11, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 23.

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—Philadelphia has no public library.

—Cholera has broken out at Valencia, Spain.

—The prosecution of polygamists goes steadily on.

—The decrease of the public debt for May was $4,225,000.

—The Indians in Alaska are causing the miners some trouble.

—The net debt of the United States has now gone below $1,500,000,000.

—The Apaches of New Mexico and Arizona are still on the war-path.

—San Francisco, Cal., boasts of an increase of 5,000 school children in one year.

—During a storm at Chicago, June 2, three persons were killed by lightning.

—England’s acceding to Russia’s demands seems to be taken as a sign of weakness.

—Hay in Mason Valley, Nev., is reported to be selling at $1.00 per ton in stack.

—The Hessian fly is doing a great deal of damage to the wheat crop in some parts of Kansas.

—Dr. Jamie Ferran, who has brought to light inoculation for cholera, is but thirty-three years of age.

—Millions of grasshoppers are coming out of the sandy soil on the south side of the Arkansas River.

—At Pittsburg, Pa., several of the iron mills are stopped because of a strike among the workmen.

—It is estimated that the best beet lands will yield from 3,000 to 6,000 pounds of beet sugar per acre.

—England is likely to have trouble with Germany on account of German traders in Zanzibar, east Africa.

—Washington Territory farmers are now selling their last year’s wheat at fifty-three cents per bushel.

—It is stated that Spain and Cuba have already spent $700,000,000 in trying to put down the natives of Cuba.

—Washington, D. C., is now the eleventh city in size in the United States. In 1880 she was the fourteenth.

—Grasshoppers have appeared in Spanish Valley near St. Helena, Cal., and nearly destroyed every green thing.

—The ship Sherwood, when off the coast of New Zealand, March 14, experienced a terrific hurricane, which lasted eight hours.

—The New York Times says: “It now seems very clear that the wheat crop of 1885 will fall at least 125,000,000 bushels short of 1884.”

—The mayor of Chicago has issued an order for the closing of all gambling rooms, and the police are to see that it is continually enforced.

—Talmage comes out in favor of cremation. He says: “I really think that resurrection is easier after incineration than after inhumation.”

—Beecher’s second sermon on evolution filled Plymouth Church. He accepts as an hypothesis that man came from the great family of apes.

—Beckford Mackay, United States Consul at Rio Grande do Sul, has gotten himself into trouble by shooting an editor. His trial will take place this week.

—The return of 129 Nez Perce Indians to Lewiston, I. T., is reported. The men were gaily appareled in broadcloth, and the women and children had silk handkerchiefs and gold jewelry.

—Mutilated silver coin is to be purchased at the United States Mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans, in sums of three dollars and upwards. The price paid is the same as for bullion.

—A new bill for hastening the abolition of slavery in Brazil has been brought before the senate. The slaves have decreased in number since 1871, under the law passed then, from 1,547,660 to 1,346,648.

—The school board in Lewiston, Me., having voted to pay the teachers of the St. Joseph Catholic parochial school, are now called on to do the same for the teachers of the French Catholic parish school.

—A fire broke out in the colliery at Durham, England, June 3, shutting in 350 miners. The later dispatches state that all have been rescued but twenty-two persons who were killed by the explosion.

—The United States steamer Corwin, which sailed for a cruise in the Arctic, last April, returned to San Francisco for repairs. The Corwin reports that the whaling bark Rainbow was crushed in the ice. No lives lost.

—Over 4,700 persons have been inoculated with cholera microbes by Dr. Ferran in the province of Valencia, Spain, as a preventive of the disease. The new system is said to be entirely successful, and the epidemic is disappearing.

—Another tenement house, this time in Jersey City, N. J., has collapsed, killing four persons and wounding nine others, more or less seriously. How long will our American people allow this kind of criminal carelessness to go unpunished?

—At Astoria, Or., six of seven fishermen, convicted of rioting, asked that the seventh man, who was a married man, be allowed to go free, to care for his family, asserting their willingness to suffer his penalty for him if divided among them.

—Beaver Park reservoir, in South Sturan Canon, Nevada, burst its banks, and a column of water 120 feet high came rushing down the canon at a fearful rate, carrying away houses, barns, bridges, and destroying much property. No lives lost.

—In the fall of “Professor” Odlum, as he jumped from Brooklyn bridge, the tremendous force with which his groin struck the water tore the skin, parted the spleen, tore off one kidney, ruptured the liver, broke five ribs, and almost every important internal organ was injured by the shock.