Notes of News

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 29, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 22.

Read the full edition

—A state of siege has been re-established in the Basque provinces of Spain.

—Agitation for the separation of church and state is beginning in France.

—The Darien canal congress will probably complete its labors by Sunday or Monday next.

—Switzerland gives a majority of 28,000 on popular vote against capital punishment.

—The suppression of gymnastic societies in Russia has been ordered, through fear of nihilism.

—A firman of the porte threatening death to any person attacking the Austrians, has been read at Bristina and Novi Bazar.

—The report that between 20,000 and 30,000 persons died of cholera while returning from a religious fair in India is confirmed.

—Several Russian government buildings at Nisinuralsk have been destroyed by fire, and a further portion of Orenburg has been burned.

—Crop prospects in Illinois, Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are, on the whole, very flattering.

—Wisconsin pays annually over $19,000,000 for liquor and $2,600,310 for her schools. Is that a fair comparative estimate?

—English papers state that fully one half of the beef sold in Great Britain as English, Scotch, and Irish, is really American.

—Seventeen students of the Japanese Agricultural Society, founded by Pres. W. S. Clarke, of Amherst, have joined the Methodist church.

—Yokohama, Japan, April 23,—The imperial residences in various cities are undergoing preparation for the occupancy of General Grant.

—Four heavy failures are announced in England, the past week, the liabilities of three of which aggregate nearly three millions of dollars.

—England now has a queen who is a great-grandmother, made such by the birth, on the 12th inst., of a daughter to Princess Charlotte of Prussia.

—A German savant, Immanuel Herman Fichte, a celebrated philosophical writer, has embraced spiritualism, says the “Religio-Philosophical Journal.”

—The Bishop of Manchester recently stated that the British working classes received annually £450,000,000 and spent £100,000,000 in drink and tobacco.

—Philadelphia has 564 churches and mission stations, of which 96 are Methodist, 84 each Presbyterian and Episcopalian, 67 Baptist, 44 Roman Catholic, 36 Lutheran, and 15 Friends.

—Distress and famine are on the increase in Cashmere, and cholera has appeared in most of the cities of the Punjaub. Mutiny and bloodshed are threatened.

—London, May 19.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg reports that a great conflagration is raging in Petropawlowsk, Siberia. Several parts of the town are in flames.

—The Poonah (British India) district is afflicted with armed gangs of robbers, who hesitate not to attack villages as well as houses. Near Poonah City 1,000 troops are engaged in suppressing the robbers.

—Simla, India, May 19.—The cholera has appeared in most of the cities of the Punjaub, a province of British India. The cholera in Peshawur is threatening to raise an obstacle to the prompt withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan.

—Pesth, May 19.—The River Theiss has inundated ninety square miles of grain fields near Beese, Becsa, and destroyed two villages. The River Drane overflowed its banks and destroyed hundreds of houses.

—The general secretaries of the Y. M. C. A. began their ninth annual conference at Baltimore, Md., Saturday, preliminary to the biennial international convention, which assembles in that city on Wednesday of this week.

The Sunday Law

To the Editor of The Inter-Ocean.

It having been stated that the advocates of Sabbath observance in Newark, N. J., had been compelled to yield and give up their work, I ask the publication of the accompanying letter, just received from a prominent minister of that city:

Newark, N. J., May 9, 1879.

Dear Sir: Yours, addressed to a Methodist or Congregational minister, was handed to me a few moments ago. I inclose herein the references of our two leading dailies of this city to the subject on which you are seeking information.

No compromise has been made, and none will be made. The Law and Order League will pursue their object—the enforcement of the Sabbath law—until they succeed.

The Sabbaths, when the Germans sought the enforcement of the law, were not disagreeable, but quiet and orderly, as God's day ought to be. You observe from the articles from yesterday's papers, that the Mayor pledges himself to enforce the law. The Germans are not to have their way. Their influence has emboldened them, but the law will be enforced, as it ought to be, indiscriminately against all needless violations of the Sabbath. I do not suppose, however, that either milkmen or street cars will be interfered with. These have, in a measure, become necessities. Foreigners will not be allowed to say that we shall not have these if they cannot have their bands, and concerts, and theaters on the Sabbath.

The only thing necessary in this city is for the moral and religious classes to unite, and the difficulty will be met. Public sentiment is deepening and spreading in favor of the law and order movement. The result is not uncertain. The right will triumph. Very truly, etc., R. VANHORNE.