p. 171 | NOTES OF NEWS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1878

NOTES OF NEWS.

—In recent riots in Santiago, Chili, eighty persons were killed and wounded.

—The Paris Exhibition was finally closed Nov. 10. The total receipts were 12,656,746 francs ($2,854,254).

—The sum of £250,000 has been raised for the relief of impoverished shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank.

—There is a report that Turkey officially organized and fostered resistance to Austrian occupation of Bosnia, notwithstanding the provisions of the Berlin treaty.

—The heat in the lower levels of the Nevada silver mines is intense. At a depth of 1,900 feet, where the temperature was 135 degrees, three men died last summer from exhaustion.

—The earnings of the Western Union Telegraph Company for the past twelve years amount to $86,000,000, and the shareholders have, during the same period, received dividends amounting to $14,250,000.

—The Ameer has made no reply to England’s ultimatum, and the Post of Nov. 20 says it only remains for the troops to execute the original order. The advance has probably begun.

—The Inter-Ocean thinks there is no danger of starvation in the West, as Chicago has in her warehouses 50,000 barrels of flour, 6,000,000 bushels of grain, 64,000 barrels of pork, 87,000 tierces of lard, and 61,500,000 pounds of meats.

—Thirteen of the oldest and most influential citizens of Lemberg were mortally wounded Nov. 17, in disturbances between the police and a procession in honor of Deputy Hausner. The procession had been prohibited by the Austrian government.

—Dispatches from London dated Nov. 19 seem to indicate that Lord Beaconsfield does not intend, in case of war with Afghanistan, to advise the Queen to summon Parliament until the war has commenced. The government has a legal right to take this course.

—The Mormon women of Salt Lake held a mass meeting Nov. 16, in opposition to the movement started by the Gentile ladies to petition Congress to put a stop to the further progress of polygamy. About 1,200 were present, and no gentlemen except the representatives of the press.

—A dispatch dated Peshawur, Nov. 20, says: “Traveling from Thull yesterday, I passed the Khurum force advancing. Thirty miles of the road was covered with troops, elephants, camels, and cattle. The Peshawur force is marching on Jamrood. The Ameer is again spreading the report that the Russians will defend Candahar.”

—The valley of the Cauca, in New Grenada, has suffered fearfully from grasshoppers. The prices of provisions of all classes are exorbitant; and as the poor cannot get work, they are unable to procure the necessaries of life. The government, with a view of furnishing means of support, is pushing the construction of the Cauca Valley Railroad.

—It is stated as a remarkable feature of the world’s commerce at the present time that the United States is the only country whose exports exceed its imports, with the exception of India, which has a small trade balance in its favor. The increase in the exportations to Europe is principally in breadstuffs, the United States being the great source of supply for European deficiencies in that line.

—As King Humbert of Italy was entering Naples in state, Nov. 17, a man who was bearing a banner among the trade associations in the procession attempted to assassinate him with a dagger which was fastened to the flagstaff. This attempt against the life of the king of Italy, following so close upon similar attempts on the lives of the Emperor William of Germany and King Alphonso of Spain, has aroused great excitement in Europe. Thousands of telegrams have been received by the King, congratulating him on his escape, and a general belief prevails in the existence of a widespread International plot against the lives of the leading sovereigns of Europe. Several arrests have been made.

—The 20th of July, 1878, was the 174th anniversary of the death of Peregrine White, the first white person born in what now is Massachusetts. Born on board the Mayflower, some time in December, 1620, he died on the 20th of July, 1704, in his 84th year. A young Pilgrim by birth, he lived to become a very old Pilgrim, and the last survivor of the Pilgrims; and he was the first of Americans, using that word according to its present meaning, which confines it to persons belonging to the United States, or to the English settlements out of which our country proceeded. He was a very favorable specimen of the new race that began with him; and a fine specimen, too, of the Old Colonists.

—The intelligence of a severe earthquake, Oct. 6, in the southern part of the republic of Salvador is fully confirmed. The destruction appears to have been complete. The loss of life and property is very great. Oct. 9, a severe earthquake was felt in Manizales, New Grenada. No lives were lost, but the damage done will exceed $100,000. In Salvador the volcanoes of Izalco and Santa Anna are in a state of tremendous activity. On the latter, from four or five distinct openings fire, smoke, and ashes are pouring forth in vast volumes. For miles around, ashes are falling, and the air is filled with smoke. The inhabitants of the neighboring villages are terribly alarmed, and many have fled to places of safety. A severe shock of earthquake was felt at Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 18. The foregoing is the record of loss and danger from earth’s internal fires in the daily Inter-Ocean of Nov. 19. The same paper contains accounts of serious losses of life and property from storms and floods. A dispatch from London, dated Nov. 18, tells of the inundation of Norwich by a freshet in the Wensum River. One or two deaths by drowning are reported; and there is great pecuniary damage, as the basements of all the factories, warehouses, and granaries along the river are flooded, 4 or 5 miles of streets are submerged, and from 3,000 to 4,000 dwellings are made uninhabitable. A telegram from Perth, Nov. 18, states that the river Save has overflowed its banks, involving serious loss of life, and immense destruction of military stores. The same paper reports marine disasters, involving loss of property and life.