NOTES OF NEWS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 14, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 20.

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NOTES OF NEWS.

—The President has appointed Thursday, Nov. 28, as a day of national thanksgiving.

—The Universalists have recommended entire abstinence from the use of tobacco.

—It is estimated that not less than 80,000 Germans in the city of Chicago attend no church whatever.

—There are in London 1,030 charitable institutions, of which the total income for last year was £4,651,182.

—During the month of September, the government sold whisky stamps in Chicago amounting to $560,555.

—During the past year there have been 110 cases of leprosy in Spain, 71 of which ended fatally.

—A Cremation Society in London is about to erect a crematorium on the model of the one in Milan.

—In the present state of public opinion, the law of the Sabbath is relaxed beyond any known precedent in New England.

—London, Nov. 5.—In the mills at Wigan, 1,070 looms and 94,000 spindles are stopped, and 2,500 looms and 310,000 spindles are running on short time.

—The Russian imperial yacht sailed for Odessa with the Grand Duke Sergius, son of the Czar, and suite, Oct. 22. The yacht was wrecked, but all on board were safely landed.

—A party of sixty-five Bostonians, all Protestants, recently paid their respects to the pope, complying with the prescribed etiquette of kneeling in his presence.

—The native bishop of Hayti has recently preached in Westminster Abbey—the first recorded instance of a colored divine listened to in that venerable place of worship.

—A French Huguenot congregation that has for generations met in the nave of the Canterbury Cathedral has celebrated its 327th anniversary. The present members are about to join the Presbyterian church.

—On the announcement of the Cyprus clause in the Berlin treaty, a Constantinople banker invested £40,000 in property on that island; it is now worth £300,000.

—During the past year the Old Catholics in Switzerland have increased from 10,000 to 20,000. The prospects of that church in Switzerland are considered more favorable than in any other country in Europe.

—Benjamin Franklin, the great preacher and champion debater of the Campbellite church, died near Anderson, Ind., Oct. 22, after an illness of but four hours. He was, perhaps, the greatest man among them since the days of Campbell.

—Several towns in Central America have been destroyed by an earthquake, and others have suffered from it. The loss of life is serious. An eruption of the volcano of Santa Anna is apprehended, and serious consequences are feared.

—Professor Hayden, of the Geological Survey, has crossed the Rocky Mountain divide ten times during the present season. Several fine glaciers have been discovered, located and named, in the Wind River Mountains.

—The list of shareholders in the broken Glasgow Bank fills nearly two pages of the local newspapers. The estates of the larger shareholders aggregate £2,860,000, and range from £200,000 to £10,000 each. Among the smaller shareholders are many executors, guardians, and women, who will lose every penny they own. The directors are in jail to a man.

—Some idea of the value of the products of California aside from her precious metals may be had from the fact that in one week more than a hundred ships' cargoes of this year's wheat passed out of the Golden Gate at San Francisco. Their value is upwards of $6,000,000. An average of 100 carloads of freight pass over the Central Pacific Railroad daily.

—Mr. Edison's discovery, or invention, of the phonograph, has taken a singular hold on the popular imagination; and his announcement that he believes he has solved the problem of the electric light, and can divide it indefinitely, producing illumination at one-twentieth the cost of gas, has been received with a much larger share of credence than is usually given to similar announcements. The light is said to be softer, cheaper, and in every respect better, than gas.

—During the year 1877 there occurred 100 recorded earthquakes. In the three months of June, July, and August, there were only eleven earthquakes, while 34 occurred in September, October, and November; as usual, the most violent occurred in South America. Among the most noteworthy events of the year was the eruption of a new volcano in a district hitherto supposed to be free from volcanic disturbances, namely, on June 11, in a new crater near the Colorado River, California.

—Pope Leo XIII. does not like the limitations of his temporal power any better than his predecessor did. It chagrins him to find himself unable to crush with his right hand those whom now he can only hurl anathemas at. Right under the shadow of St. Peter's are Protestant Christian schools. How the pontiff aches to get those teachers and preachers over his gridiron. “It is greatly to be deplored,” he says, “that in this our Rome, the center of Catholicism, august seat of the vicar of Jesus Christ, it is permitted heterodox sects to erect temples, open schools, and diffuse corrupting publications among the people, while to us it is not given to oppose, as we would do, an efficacious remedy against inundating impiety.” History remembers but too well what is meant by Papal “efficacious remedies.”—Advance.

—The Presbyterian Witness says; “The state of affairs in Turkey still looks alarming. Neither Turkey or Russia seems disposed to fulfill in good faith the articles of the treaty of Berlin. A renewal of war seems by no means improbable; and should it come to pass, woe to Turkey! It would then be hardly possible for England to stand aloof. She has guaranteed Asia Minor, and that guarantee would virtually extend to the Turkish capital. Collision with Russia would be apparently inevitable. The trouble in Afghanistan is expected to employ many thousand British troops. Russia will foment that trouble and make the most of it, in order to weaken the British forces by division;—in order especially to prevent the employment of Sepoys in European warfare. The prospect is anything but re-assuring; and what makes it far worse is the terrible commercial depression that prevails everywhere, and that in Great Britain amounts almost to a panic. The jubilations in England over Lord Beaconsfield's diplomacy appear now to have been rather extravagant. The Scotch people were at no time carried away by the excitement of the time. They thought of fresh and unknown complications that were involved, and they would, if they could, count the cost.”

“Austria is unsettled, and her ultimate policy very uncertain. Divided by powerful contending parties, the empire is not able to take that place in the counsels of Europe which it should naturally assume. Italy, too, has her internal troubles; but not of a very serious character. Few expected the late Cairoli Cabinet to stand many months.”