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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 4.

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Notes of News.

—A reign of terror is reported from the city of Mexico.

—At Liverpool, July 7, 1,300 diseased sheep from Boston were slaughtered.

—Two hundred and fifty Icelanders have arrived in England, en route to Minnesota, U. S.

—Cincinnati estimates that $350,000 was spent for beer in that city during the Sangerfest.

—During the session of congress just closed, a grand total of 3,287 bills was introduced.

—A church at Cynthiana, Ky., gave a grand picnic and horse race last week, for the benefit of its fund.

—A Nihilist fire at Iskutsk, Russia, burned 400 houses on the 4th. The burning of Tula is also threatened.

—Bad crops will necessitate the purchase by France of $100,000,000 worth of foreign grown breadstuffs and produce.

—The yellow fever has again appeared in Memphis, Tenn., and crowds are leaving the place in every kind of available conveyance.

—Paris, France, July 6—By a hurricane on the River Doubs, a steamer with fifty-three passengers was sunk, and only five persons saved.

—Two young ladies, one at Poughkeepsie, and the other at Newcastle, Pa., were burned to death, July 4, their dresses having been ignited with firecrackers.

—There was a severe frost in some portions of the province of Quebec, July 5. In Eastern Hants, beans were killed, and potatoes in bloom were cut down to the ground.

—A dispatch, dated July 8, says that Port au Prince, Hayti, is in flames. Blocks of buildings are in ashes, the custom house is closed, and business suspended, owing to the revolution.

—A correspondent at Berlin draws a gloomy picture of the state of Russia, owing to the Nihilists, the failure of the crops, and the ravages of the corn-beetle. Fifty thousand rubles have been appropriated to exterminate the beetle.

London, July 11.—A Berlin correspondence says there are marked symptoms of estrangement between Germany and Russia. Prince Bismarck will meet Archbishop Masilla, the Papal Nuncio to Bavaria, at Kissengen in July, when it is thought a final understanding between Germany and the Vatican will be reached.

London, July 6.—The Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage, of Brooklyn, preached at Agricultural Hall this afternoon to two congregations of 20,000 people each. Thousands upon thousands of persons thronged the streets leading to the hall for miles, almost blockading the passage of vehicles and pedestrians. Many people were severely crushed, and Dr. Talmage’s carriage was almost demolished by the crush of the great crowd, every individual of which was anxious to see the distinguished American preacher. His presence here is creating a furore through Great Britain. The press comments deal with him daily from various points of view, as preacher or lecturer, but all admit his power and originality.—Bismarck.

—A terrific storm swept over a large portion of the country, Friday, July 11. In eastern Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, the damage was very great. The storm in Detroit was the most severe that city has ever experienced. The sewers were utterly inadequate to carry off the water, and cellars were flooded in all directions. At Pontiac, crops, orchards, and buildings were greatly damaged. Every building on the fair-ground was blown down, the spires of the Congregational and Episcopal churches were blown off, and chimneys strewn over the roofs of houses all about the city. At Port Huron the storm was still more severe. A brewery, photograph gallery, and new Methodist church were entirely demolished. The enormous roofs of the Grand Trunk freight houses at Fort Gratiot and Point Edwards, were blown off. In Ohio and Pennsylvania, the damage has also been severe. Several lives have been lost, and others seriously injured.