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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 21, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 21.

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NOTES OF NEWS.

—THE Northumberland coal-miners have accepted a twelve and one-half per cent reduction in wages.

—MONCASI, who attempted to assassinate the king of Spain, has been sentenced to death.

—A NOTE from the Czar gives assurance of his desire faithfully to respect the treaty of Berlin.

—THE Porte has accepted the principle of the rectification of the Greek frontier.

—A TELEGRAM from Berlin states that Germany will occupy the whole of the Samoan Archipelago.

—THE total number of deaths in the South from yellow fever is reported at 18,921.

—THE Afghans are preparing for war, and late dispatches indicate that hostilities may commence soon.

—Nov. 18, snowstorms of exceptional severity were prevailing in the north of England and throughout Scotland.

—A DISPATCH from Rome says that the very Rev. Monsignore McCabe, Vicar General to the late Cardinal Cullen, has been selected to the Archbishopric of Ireland, and will probably be made cardinal.

—GENERAL LOMAKINE'S Russian expedition, marching from the Caspian Sea in the direction of New Turkistan, by constant fighting has reached the Upper Attrek Valley. A Russian corps 8,000 strong, also stands on the road to Balkh and Herat.

—THE Porte has handed the Eastern Roumelian Commissioners a draft of a constitution for Eastern Roumelia. It embraces provisions for a partly elective council general, and popular election for certain local officers. The Commissioners have accepted the Porte's draft.

—THE elections for members of the Great Council of the Canton of Geneva resulted in favor of the Democratic Conservative party. This insures the return of dispossessed Catholic priests, the cessation of the religious war, and the eventual separation of the Church and State.

—PELEGRA, a malady which commences with the skin, but impairs the digestion, and finally becomes fatal, has attacked 40,000 Lombard peasants. The disease is induced by overwork, want of cleanliness, unhealthy dwellings, and eating flour made from damaged maize.

—A DISPATCH from Rome, dated Nov. 14, says that violent storms have been raging throughout Central Italy, and the damage caused by them is almost unparalleled. Travel on all railways between Rome and the North is interrupted. The 15th, the Tiber had overflowed its banks, and the lower part of the city was inundated. It is expected that the flood will become as widespread as the disastrous one of 1870.

—THE iron firms of Ashton, Hyde, Staleybridge, Newton, and Guidebridge, England, give notice of a reduction of two shillings per week in the wages of workmen. The Bolton cotton spinners have decided to make a reduction of 5 per cent in the wages of their employes. The cotton manufacturers of Glasgow will reduce the working hours one-third. This will affect 8,000 employes. At Blackburn 8,000 operatives are out of employment.

—THE new Art Museum in Boston is profusely decorated with panels of terra cotta, which is also used in the construction of mullions, window caps, sills, etc. All kinds of terra cotta articles are now made in this country. It will stand heat better than any other known substance, as indeed it well may do since it is subjected, during the process of manufacture, to a temperature of 2,000 degrees (Fahr). Nor is it liable to crack if cold water is thrown upon it when in a heated condition.

—THE Afghans, the dominant race in the kingdom of Shere-ali, now menaced by England, call themselves Jews and claim to be descended from King Saul. In defense of these claims it is asserted that they are unquestionably of the Jewish type, are divided into tribes, clans, and families, that they practice the ceremony of the scape-goat, and celebrate their religious rites on the hills. There is, however, no trace of Hebrew dialect in their language. In other respects their religion is that of the Mohammedan Sonnites, and they regard the Sultan as the legitimate successor of the Caliphs.