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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 20, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 8.

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Notes of News.

—A COLONY of Swedes intend to settle in Northeast Georgia.

—FLORIDA orange-growers are experimenting in making wine from oranges.

—FLORIDA proposes to hold its first Sunday-school Convention during the coming summer.

—SHOEMAKERS in Japan are now making boots for the American market out of American leather,

—REV. R. W. McCALL is about to open the twenty-third evangelical station in Paris.

MR. SANKEY has been having overflowing meetings in Newcastle, Eng., sometimes holding four a day.

—It is estimated that the snow in Scotland this winter has occasioned a loss to the Highland sheep-farmers of £100,000.

—THE French Evangelical Society has sold 400,000 copies of Scriptures among the 35,000,000 of France, besides what it has given away.

—THE total receipts of the recent Fair in aid of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York city, where there was so much gambling, were $172,625.48.

—THE German Reichstag was opened by the Emperor in person on the 12th of February. It is thought the present session will be a stormy one.

—CARDINAL GUIBERT, Archbishop of Paris, thinks that the Radicals, with President Grevy at their head, will insist on the separation of Church and State.

—THE Daily Inter-Ocean says: “Cincinnati has cut down the salaries of its school teachers, so as to meet the extra expense of lawyers’ fees, etc., of the Southern Railroad. Nothing like economy.”

—THE pope has sent 10 Jesuits to Central Africa to evangelize the countries traversed by Stanley and Livingstone. The mission will cost $40,000, and includes 500 porters, servants, etc.

—It is stated as a proof of the strength of infidel principles in Germany, that a weekly paper in opposition to Christianity, published in that country, has a circulation of 600,000 copies.

—A CHICAGO doctor recently prescribed for a baby a mile away, attacked with the croup, which was held up to a telephone so that he could listen to its breathing and hear its shrill cough.

—ENGLAND is again in trouble on the labor question. A dispatch from Liverpool dated Feb. 10 says that the number of strikers of all classes is estimated at from 50,000 to 60,000. There have been some riots, but they were promptly suppressed.

—THE directors of the City of Glasgow Bank have been tried and convicted of falsehood, fraud, and wilful imposition with intent to defraud, and also of theft and embezzlement, and they have been promptly sentenced to imprisonment.

—THE Vatican, which contains so many choice works of art, was built by Pope Symmachus and has been beautified and enlarged by subsequent popes till it is now the largest palace in the world. It contains 11,000 rooms, the greater part of which are occupied by works of art.

—THE balance-sheet of our foreign trade for last year is an encouraging one. We sold abroad merchandise to the amount of over $726,000,000, exceeding our imports by $304,540,000, while our specie imported was nearly $2,000,000 in excess of that exported.—Christian Weekly.

—On the 22d of January a disastrous engagement occurred between a small body of British troops stationed at Rorke’s Drift, Cape Colony, and an overwhelming number of Zulus. The British force was nearly or quite annihilated. Reinforcements sufficient to put down the Zulus will be promptly sent to Southern Africa.

—THERE will soon be no necessity for encountering the dangers of the St. Gothard Pass in winter. A tunnel through the mountain is being bored from Switzerland and Italy. It will be the longest tunnel in the world, having already reached 13,481 yards, and nearly 3,000 yards are still to be excavated, which will require another year.

—A PROMINENT feature in Henry Varley’s new Tabernacle in Melbourne Australia, will be a large coffee-house, where eatables will be furnished at a little over cost price. The whole edifice will cost about $100,000. A “Working-man’s Club” will find shelter under its roof, with reading-rooms and other ample conveniences.

—A DECIDED change has come over the morals of New England within the last decade. It used to be that that section of the Union was noted for its morality, and for the model deportment of its people. Occasionally a brutal murder was committed there, but such crimes were of rare occurrence. Of late years the happy state of affairs has undergone a marked change. Murders, attempts at murder, poisonings, wife-beatings, burglaries, embezzlements, etc., have prevailed to an extent that is absolutely shocking, and which takes from New England all right to claim its pre-eminent morality.—Phila. Star.

—It is a startling fact that in a single year fifty American preachers should have been found guilty of crimes or misdemeanors by the secular courts. The list of these reverend offenders, printed by the Cincinnati Commercial, is an interesting contribution to the statistics of 1878, and deserves the serious attention of the class chiefly concerned. Naturally the larger denominations furnish more black sheep than the smaller ones; thirteen of the fifty were Methodists, and eleven Baptists.

—A CORRESPONDENT sends the following item concerning the dark day, clipped from the Grand Rapids Eagle: “An old lady living on the little Colorado, says the Arizona Miner, who has attained to the comfortable old age of 128 years, was 30 years of age at the time of the dark day, of which she has a vivid recollection, and she recalls many interesting incidents which took place with her people, the Spanish, and also the Indians, who were more superstitious. The Spaniards buried all their saints, of which they had a goodly number, while the Indians took to feasting on dogs and other animals.”

—In St. Petersburg, Russia, there is general unhealthiness and predisposition to epidemic. In the government of Tver typhus fever and small-pox are increasing in an alarming manner. Of 2,000 head of cattle attacked by the cattle plague in the vicinity of Ekaterinoslav, half have perished. Small-pox, the plague, and an unknown epidemic, have broken out in several other localities. The St. Petersburg Golos says that several hundreds of bodies of those who died from the plague in Astrakhan last December are still unburied. The Russian army in the Balkan peninsula suffers much from spotted typhus. The President of the Board of Health at Rome predicts that if the plague enters Europe it will destroy one-third of the population.

—THE following extract shows what suffering prevails in the beautiful and fertile regions of Alsace and Lorraine: “From all parts we hear the same cry of desolation. Misery exists everywhere, and business has come to an end. The economical crisis which has generally affected Europe has not spared our country; trade languishes, and purses are closed. The same cause which leads to economy in high circles produces want a degree lower, and starvation lower still; and all this occurs at a moment when winter brings to the poor its ordinary increase of suffering and sorrow. Some time ago we stated that the Charitable Society of Strasburg had 3,800 families on its books, and this is now the case throughout Alsace-Lorraine, where the people are suffering as much as in the neighboring countries. In Lorraine it is stated that there never existed so much distress, and that there is every appearance of its being aggravated by the continuance of winter.”