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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 5, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 23.

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Notes of News.

—The German Reichstag has adjourned until June 9.

—Railway travel in Italy is much interrupted by floods.

—Decoration day was more generally observed this year than ever before.

—Blanqui, the French communist, will be pardoned before June 5.

—The Nihilists are reported as at work among the Russian troops in Roumelia.

—President Hayes thinks the negro exodus from the South will do good.

—Paul de Cassagnac will be prosecuted for his attacks upon the French government.

—The British parliament has adjourned until June 9, over the Whitsuntide holidays.

—There are 3,630 British soldiers and marines under orders to embark from England for Zululand.

—An earthquake shock has been felt at Reggio, Italy, and cinders from burning Ætna have reached there.

—During the year ending May 1, thirty-one brewers deluged New York City with 13,418,180 gallons of lager.

—The expelled Dartmouth college (N. H.) students have made written apologies to the faculty and been reinstated. The pumped individuals are mad.

—Germany is negotiating a commercial treaty with Japan, on the model of the Japanese treaty with the United States.

—The abandonment of the proposed Mexican exposition is probable, in which case Senor Zamacona, minister to the United States, will resign.

—T. DeWitt Talmage sailed for Europe, May 29. About 2000 of his Brooklyn admirers accompanied him in a steamboat down the bay.

—New York, May 28.—Three seamen, of the schooner Mary A. Witham, arrived to-day from Miragoane, died of yellow fever on the passage.

—Locusts are said to have made their appearance in innumerable myriads in the vicinity of Independence, Mo. The woods are resonant with their noise.

—Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the great abolitionist, and one of the fathers of that movement, died in New York, May 24. He was born at Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 12, 1804.

—The British India Steam Navigation Company's steamer, Ava, was sunk, May 26, in collision with another vessel, and sixty-six of the crew and four passengers were drowned.

—The great Roman Catholic cathedral in N. Y. city was dedicated, May 25. The building will accommodate 17,000 persons. But only about 7,000 were present. The ceremonies however were very imposing.

—The nomination of Chas. Foster for governor of Ohio, is considered a triumph for the administration at Washington. The election will be watched with great interest, as it will be taken as a strong indication of the result of the coming presidential contest.

—A treaty has been signed between the Ameer of Afghanistan and Great Britain. The boundary is now supposed to be “rectified.” The treaty is said to be very favorable to the English. The Ameer is braced up against all ideas of starving by the allowance of three million dollars a year!

—Hong Kong, China, April 9.—Li Hung Chung, Viceroy of the Province of Chili, and commander-in-chief of the army, is preparing for a grand review of all the troops at Tientsin for the enlightenment of General Grant. In Shanghai, Grant will be the guest of Vice Consul General Bailey.

—A feat well characterized by the papers as “foolhardy,” was performed by H. P. Pera, a native of Ontario, May 21. He jumped from the new suspension bridge into Niagara River, a distance of 192 feet. This time he escaped uninjured, which may not be the case on July 4, when he is to repeat the act.

—The new boundary line between Turkey and Greece suggested by Italy, gives to Greece about half of Thessaly, and about one-third of Epirus, or that lying east of the Arta River. This is put forward as a compromise, and gives to the belligerent Albanians the town of Janina, in regard to which they have exhibited so much sensitiveness.

—Further inundations in Hungary and Austria. Nearly all the Austrian villages between Pesth and Basseias have water in the streets. The riverside inhabitants informed the correspondent that the water is already within two feet of the highest point recorded, and is still rising. The floods continuing so late in the season must cause great damage to the crops.

—Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati was present at the dedication of the N. Y. Cathedral. A meeting of the papal dignitaries was held at Cardinal McCloskey's house to devise some method to relieve Purcell from his present financial embarrassment. An address will be issued to the Catholic congregations in the U. S. to assist him. An easy way, if it succeeds, to straighten up such crookedness.

—Nihilism in Russia, Socialism in Germany, Communism in France, and now comes the threat of insurrectionism and mutiny in India. Incendiary fires destroying public buildings are followed by manifestos demanding relief for the prevalent distress, under penalty of the assassination of the Governor, and the inciting of another mutiny of the native population against the British Government.

—St. Louis, Mo., May 29.—A St. Joseph, Mo. dispatch says: “At 6 o'clock this evening a cyclone swept part of Holt and Nodaway counties, near Barnard and Bolickow, about twenty-five miles north of St. Joseph. It moved at a velocity of sixty miles an hour, demolishing houses, uprooting and twisting off trees, and destroying property of all descriptions. Its track was half a mile wide.”

—The Congress which met in Paris to discuss the project of a canal across the Isthmus of Darien to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is drawing near the close of its labors. The estimates for the various routes are as follows: Wyse's Panama project, $213,000,000; Nicaragua, $123,600,000; the Atrato-Napipi route, $200,000,000; Menocal's Nicaragua plan, $168,400,000; the Tehuantepec route, cost not estimated. The question is narrowed down to the Nicaragua and Panama-Wyse routes. Later dispatches say that the Panama-Aspenwall route is adopted by a vote of 20 to 9.