Notes of News | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 24, 1879

Notes of News.

—NINE States of the Union give women the privilege of voting on school questions.

—TEN white and five colored persons died of sunstroke at Charleston, S. C., July 12.

—TWO hundred Bavarians are to start in a few days for the United States, to join the Mormons in Utah.

—ENGLISH millers are going out of the business, being unable to compete with American new processes.

—OF the insane in Massachusetts, nine-tenths are uneducated paupers, which argues that culture is a preventive of disease.

—THE first prize for proficiency in Latin at Worcester University, Ohio, was given to a young Creek Indian, at the late commencement.

—REPORTS that the Chinese were preparing to march on Kuldja, and were ill-treating Russian merchants on the frontier, are confirmed.

—THE “Golos,” a St. Petersburg journal, estimates the cost to Russia of the war with Turkey at £150,000,000, and the deaths in its army at 200,000.

—A DETACHMENT of Russian troops in Asia was compelled to retrace its steps by swarms of locusts that settled thickly on their faces, uniforms, and muskets.

—THE Austrian elections show 173 liberals and 175 conservatives chosen to the reichsrath. Five of the seats must be again contested, however, because of declinations and double elections.

—A MAN has been arrested at Brussels for insulting the king of the Belgians. The insult consisted in a declaration that the king was a fool or knave, and that he had been chosen by lot to assassinate him.

—A FEW years ago, millions of pounds of cream of tartar were annually exported from England and France to this country. Last year our own supply was sufficient for our demand, and cream of tartar fell 30 per cent.

—AH CHING, a native Chinaman, has been ordained as deacon of the Trinity Episcopal church in San Francisco. He now takes the name of Walter C. Young, wears his hair short, and wears an American costume. This is probably the first case of a Chinaman being admitted to orders in the church.

—HONG KONG, June 29.—General Grant was greeted at Tientsin by an address from the foreign residents, delivered by the Chairman of the Municipal Council. On May 30 a grand banquet was tendered him by the Chinese authorities, at the principal native temple. The Viceroy of Chihli, Commander-in-Chief and Grand Secretary, Li Hung Chang, presided. No such attentions were ever before bestowed upon any foreigner.

—DR. J. L. PICKARD is not a minister; he is president of a non-sectarian State College, the Iowa State University, and his “baccalaureate address” has no text, but as printed in one of the Iowa papers, we find it to be a remarkably spiritual, strong, tender, and impressive gospel sermon. The strong men of the day, he affirms, are those who have sought and discovered a foundation for their faith. “To let down an anchor into the hold of a vessel during the raging of a tempest, rather than into the bed of the ocean, would be wisdom, compared with the conduct of that man who finds nothing worthy his assent outside of himself, and is anchored to a bundle of negations within his narrow and weakened soul.”