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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 6, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 10.

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Notes of News.

—Extensive floods are reported in France.

—At Rio Janeiro from 5 to 10 deaths occur daily from yellow fever.

—The Japanese have a daily newspaper, the Japan Gazette.

—Steamships for Europe usually carry about thirty thousand letters each trip.

—A revolution of some magnitude has broken out in Sonora in the north-western part of Mexico.

—The Russian physician at Tashkend says that the almost immediate death of the Ameer of Afghanistan is certain.

—Dr. Daniel Gans of Baltimore, Md., has resigned the pastorate of the Third Reformed Church, and become a Roman Catholic.

—Prince Doudanoff Korsakoff threatens to close the Bulgarian Assembly if the proceedings contravene the treaty of Berlin.

—Severe shocks of earthquake were felt at Rome and Sienna, Feb. 25. Two priests and several villagers were killed at Sienna.

—The Nihilists are at work in Russia. The governor of Charkoff was recently fired upon, and severely injured. He has since died.

—36 Indians, the remnant of a band that raided in Idaho last summer, have been surprised and slaughtered in the Salmon River Mountains.

—Prince Louis Napoleon, son of Louis III. of France, is on his way to South Africa, to join the English army in their war against the Zulus.

—A petition has been presented in the Alabama Legislature, signed by hundreds of Presbyterians, praying for a law prohibiting the running of railroad trains on Sunday.

—It is proposed to construct a line of telegraph through the whole extent of the continent of Africa, connecting the English South African colonies with the Egyptian lines at Kartum.

—Sir Rowland Hill is to be presented with the freedom of the city of London in acknowledgment of the great benefits derived from uniform penny postage, introduced by him in 1840.

—According to St. Petersburg papers, large consignments of arms have been lately going forward to Persia for the use of the Persian troops, many of whom are now drilled by Austrian officers.

—A flood of petitions is pouring into the Wisconsin Legislature praying for prohibitory temperance legislation. Twenty-one were put in on one day, the signatures aggregating nearly 6,000.

—In the week after the close of the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance at Basle, Switzerland, the International Federation of Lord’s Day Societies will hold Conferences at Berne, from September 8 to 14.

—The waters of the Vistula have overflowed, submerging 40 villages in the vicinity of Warsaw in Russia. The dam above the city has broken, and there is a great inundation and a great loss of property.

—Dr. King, of Yonkers, set this sum for the taxpayers to cipher out there: “The police appropriations for Yonkers are $35,000 because we have 100 grogshops. In Vineland they are only $75 because they have no grogshops.”

—Feb. 21, the corpse of Bishop Foley, of Chicago, who had been for 10 years bishop of that diocese, was taken to Baltimore for the final funeral services and interment, after very imposing preliminary services in the Cathedral at Chicago.

—Fossilized remains of what is reported as a gigantic pre-historic man have been found two hundred feet beneath the earth’s surface in a cave recently opened in a mine near Eureka, Nev. The lower limbs, head, and neck are said to be clearly defined and natural.

—The Pennsylvania miners in the towns along the Monongahela are indulging in a strike. Sheriff Work of Washington county, with a posse of well-armed men, has made several arrests. Company B of the tenth regiment is at Sheriff Work’s command should he need them.

—Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson, who has recently made a missionary tour around the globe, says that while Bombay had not a complete Marathi Bible till 1847, it had ten anti-Christian papers in 1843, and that the commonest book offered in the Calcutta Bazaar is a cheap edition of Tom Paine.

—It is reported that 86 persons, including the ministry and the chief princes of the realm, have recently been massacred by order of the king of Burmah. The details of the massacre, as reported, are horrible. The king’s object is the re-establishment of a despotic form of government. British interference is hoped for.

—The Advance pertinently says: “The paucity of revival intelligence is remarkable. Do Christians realize that the payment of church debts, the increase of charitable donations, the increase of congregations, abundant and lucrative pew-lettings, excellent things as they all are, ought never to take the place of bringing souls to Christ?”

—A Chinese Religious Tract Society was organized at Shanghai, Nov. 19, 1878. It was resolved that the Publishing Committee shall consist of four foreigners and four natives, representing Presbyterians and Congregationalists, English and American Episcopalians, Baptists and Methodists. A second meeting was held Dec. 2, when a constitution was adopted.

—A remarkable phenomenon occurred in the voyage of the mission bark John Williams to Gilbert Islands and Ellice’s Group. Captain Turpie says they sailed through a mass of pumice-stone, which he estimated at 600 miles in length and 150 miles in width, and that on some of the islands a ridge six feet high had been washed up. It is supposed that a terrible sub-marine convulsion had taken place. The usual currents and trade winds were reversed, so that they had to communicate with some of the islands on what is termed the windward side.

—The Inter-Ocean thinks the census of 1880 will show a decrease during the last decade of not far from $3,000,000,000 in the property valuation of this country. This is partly owing to the fact that the census of 1870 was taken in the midst of the inflation and expansion period, when men put a fictitious valuation upon their property, and thought it permanent property. The Inter-Ocean says, “The effects of the war losses, the wiping out of slave property, and the expansion of the inflation period, will appear more vividly in the census of 1880 than in that of 1870.”

—The Romanists of Cincinnati are greatly disturbed at the condition of Archbishop Purcell’s financial affairs. Some intimations of mismanagement were published a few weeks ago, but recent developments show that things are much worse than was supposed. An investigation, which has been in progress by the trustees, already shows that the claims outstanding far exceed in value the whole amount of property transferred to the board to secure them. While no definite information can be obtained from the officials, it is frankly admitted by them that the amount exceeds $1,000,000, and to this is to be added claims not yet presented and interest on the whole. The feeling among the creditors is becoming bitter, and is finding open expression in many quarters. The bulk of the creditors are poor men and women, who have committed their hard-earned savings to the care of the church.—Christian Statesman.