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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 31.

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—The Jordan has been bridged at Jericho.

—Samuel J. Tilden died at his home, Greystone, New York, Aug. 4.

—There are still 1,800 Cherokee Indians in Western North Carolina.

—The aggregate population of Brooklyn and New York is nearly 2,300,000.

—A child died recently at Fremont, Neb., of glanders contracted from a horse.

—Prince Alexander has prohibited the circulation of Russian coin in Bulgaria.

—A fire at Cincinnati, August 8, destroyed property to the value of $100,000.

—There was some further rioting at Belfast on the 6th inst. The police were compelled to fire on the crowd, and seven persons were seriously injured.

—The United States consumes over thirty million dollars’ worth of tin annually.

—Six members of a yachting party were drowned in Lake Huron a few days since.

—An explosion of coal gas, at Cardiff, Wales, August 5, fatally injured six men.

—It is said that Japan, with a total population of 37,000,000, has less than 10,000 paupers.

—August 6, a fire destroyed the entire business portion of the town of Mancelona, Mich.

—A man committed suicide at San Rafael, Cal., a few days since, by swallowing six feet of bale rope.

—Parliament reassembled August 5, and Sir Arthur Wellesly Peel, Liberal, was elected speaker.

—President Cleveland has signed the Oleomargarine Bill. It will take effect in ninety days from its passage.

—Belfast has again been the scene of Orange rioting. It is evident that Protestant is not a synonym of Christian.

—The War Department has issued orders for the immediate establishment of a new fort in Northwestern Utah.

—The police of Brussels have received a number of placards advocating anarchy and the establishment of the commune.

—A Reading, Penn., judge has decided that shaving is a necessity, and that it is legal on any day of the week, Sunday included.

—The National Grand Army Reunion was held in San Francisco, August 3. The number of visitors from the East was very large.

—August 3, A. P. Williams, of San Francisco, was elected United States Senator for the unexpired term of General Miller, deceased.

—August 3, one and one-half inches of snow fell on Mount Washington, N. H., and the thermometer registered 28°—four below freezing.

—The cholera is virulent in Bartel, Italy. One hundred and thirty-two new cases and forty-two deaths were reported there on the 7th inst.

—Thirteen divorces in three hours were granted in Minneapolis the other day, and even Chicago calls upon the Judge to pause and reflect.

—Another cyclone visited Kansas, on the 5th inst., doing a great deal of damage. In the town of Hartland twenty houses were demolished.

—A detachment of the United States Geological Survey is engaged in taking soundings of Crater Lake, Or. The greatest depth yet found is 1,959 feet.

—Samuel J. Tilden bequeathed to the city of New York his residence in Gramercy Park, together with his fine library. The property is valued at $1,100,000.

—The aggregate of the appropriations made by this Congress amounts to $365,000,000, which is $45,000,000 more than the appropriations made by the preceding Congress.

—Under the postal telegraph system in England—management by the Government—the number of messages sent annually has increased from 9,000,000 in 1870 to 34,000,000 in 1885.

—It is now thought that Geronimo, with about twenty followers, has gone over into the State of Chihuahua, and the rest of the renegades are making their way back to the reservation.

—The torpedo cruiser Destruction was launched July 29 at Glasgow. She was built for the Spanish Government, and it is claimed that she will be able to overtake and destroy any similar vessel afloat.

—It is now openly charged that the recent order of the Post-master General admitting liquids to the United States mails in direct violation of the law as passed by Congress, is in the interest of liquor dealers who wish to use the mails to send liquor into Iowa.

—The most destructive grain fire of the season occurred in San Benito County, Cal., August 5. It burned over an area of at least 10,000 acres. Several barns were destroyed, and at least 400 settings of grain, with hundreds of acres of standing grain. The loss is very heavy.

—Congress adjourned August 5, after having been in session nearly eight months. During that period there were introduced in both Houses 13,202 measures—bills, and joint resolutions. Of this number only 1,101 passed both Houses, and 113 of these were vetoed by the President.

—A Norwegian vessel from Aspinwall arrived at Ship Island, Gulf of Mexico, a few days since, with yellow fever aboard. Six of the crew had died.

—A Methodist minister was shot and instantly killed at Sioux City, Iowa, a few days since. The murdered man had rendered himself obnoxious to the liquor interests, and though there is no clue to the perpetrator of the crime, there is no doubt that it was a result of the war on the saloons.

—It is stated that upon unloading a British steamer which arrived at Philadelphia a week or two ago, it was found that about one-half the cargo of 2,200 tons of sugar was a fluid mass of syrup instead of sugar in bags as it had been shipped from India. The sugar had been melted by heat, and the syrup was eight feet deep in the hold of the vessel, which had come through the Suez Canal.

—The Parnellites have decided to give the Government time to prepare a new Home Rule bill, but will demand a measure for the suspension of evictions. Owing to the fall in prices, numerous tenants in Ireland are in arrears and are unable to pay their rents. If the introduction of an Irish bill be postponed until spring, the landlords will in all likelihood resort to wholesale evictions unless restrained from doing so.

—A recent London dispatch says: “The labor troubles in Holland are much more serious than is generally known. Dutch capitalists are seeking investments abroad. Probably the disturbances are reflections of those which have already afflicted Belgium. They are instigated by anarchists and socialists who flock to the low countries from all over Europe, attracted by the comparatively liberal laws. Then they stir the working people to revolt.”

—A recent London dispatch says: “Affairs in Burmah are, and have been, ever since the British occupation, in a condition of political discord and social confusion. In consequence of this the British Government in India has decided to intrust the supreme command in Burmah to Major-General Sir Herbert Macpherson, commander-in-chief in Madras. Five thousand troops will be sent into the country as soon as the cold season commences, to scour the country and drive out and subdue the insurgents, and 1,000 additional police will be sent to India to maintain order.”