NOTES OF NEWS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 24, 1878

NOTES OF NEWS.

— Two millions of dollars have been spent upon the still unfinished Roman Catholic cathedral in New York.

— The deficit of the bank of Glasgow is £6,190,983, or $29,964,357.72.

— The volcanic activity of Vesuvius has greatly increased.

— The Chicago Tribune of Oct. 14 gives an approximate list of the deaths from yellow fever since its first appearance this year, which foots up 10,750.

— Since the opening of the Paris exhibition, 600,000 portions of the Bible, in 22 languages, have been issued from the Bible stand of the French Exposition.

— In Ireland there is one criminal to every 141 Romanists, one to every 162 Episcopalians, and one to every 429 Presbyterians.

— The Sandwich Islanders have for several years given voluntarily about $24,000 per annum for the support of the gospel at home and on adjacent islands.

— The most severe storm for fifteen years prevailed along the coast of Massachusetts, Oct. 12. There was immense damage to shipping, and some loss of life.

— Reports are given of serious disasters to shipping on the east shore of Lake Michigan—effects of the late storm.

— A dispatch from Berlin, dated London, Oct. 16, says the Porte has warned the press of Constantinople to avoid the expression of anti-Russian sentiments, as Turkey is again on the most friendly terms with Russia.

— A telegram received at Vienna, Oct. 16, states that the district of Northern Krdina has been subdued after various engagements, which cost the Austrians 500 men killed.

— There were between 4,000 and 5,000 persons in the Coliseum Theater, Liverpool, on the evening of Oct. 12, when a cry of fire was raised, causing a terrible and fatal panic. There seems to have been, not a fire, but a free fight in the pit. Thirty-seven were killed.

The Advance says there seems to have been “crookedness” at the bottom of the failure of the bank of Glasgow. Extensive financial troubles appear to be close upon Great Britain.

— The present Queen of Madagascar has formally repudiated the worship of idols. Three thousand three hundred Bibles have since been bought by the natives, and paid for, in a single week.

— A recent fire in Pittsburg, Pa., destroyed between $350,000 and $400,000 worth of property. Two hundred and twenty-five buildings were destroyed; there is much suffering among those thus rendered homeless.

— Dispatches from Bombay, dated Oct. 16, state that the Ameer of Afghanistan is endeavoring to raise a religious war among the Mohammedans of Central Asia against England.

— About 2,500 negroes recently surrounded Waterproof, La., threatening to sack and burn the town. Oct. 15, a fight occurred with the negroes, at Goldman's field, four miles above Waterproof. Later dispatches report all quiet.

— A letter from Shanghai, in relation to the famine in China, says millions of people in that country are eating the bark that makes the shoe roof. Human flesh is sold in the market. Parents are killing and selling their children to prolong their own existence.

— The Constantinople correspondent of the London Daily News writes that anarchy prevails throughout the whole Ottoman empire, and that, in both Europe and Asia, ambitious men are taking advantage of the state of affairs to advance their own interests.

— It is estimated that in the trouble with the Cheyennes who crossed the Union Pacific railroad, Oct. 7, the number of citizens killed was forty-three. Official reports state that destitution, lack of food, led the Indians to these hostilities.

— There is a growing feeling in England, it cannot be denied, that Beaconsfield did not make so good a trade for his country at Berlin after all; that the blaze of glory which so dazzled the English people for a time, and still dazzles them, means some very heavy bills for fireworks. Some who stood by Beaconsfield go so far as to say that he was no match for the wily Bismarck. Undoubtedly England has undertaken grave responsibilities and assumed weighty burdens. The growth of this feeling is increased by the depression of business in England, which begins to tell upon strong concerns, and by such shocks to confidence as was occasioned by the great failure in Glasgow. With all the “hard times” we have seen in this country, we enjoy advantages here for which we cannot be sufficiently thankful, one of the greatest of which is our freedom from entangling alliances.—Boston Herald, Oct. 13.