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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 31, 1879

Notes of News.

—THE German navy is to be increased.

—THE disunion of the Bonapartists is becoming more apparent.

—WAR between Turkey and Greece is thought to be imminent.

—THE Zulus lost 1,500 men and the two guns they captured at Isandula, in their latest engagement with Lord Chelmsford’s forces.

—DISASTROUS floods throughout Belgium, and floods in the valley of the Rhine, have caused great loss of property.

—THE English primitive Methodists have got up a petition to parliament for Sunday closing, which is three-fourths of a mile long.

—AT Kharkoff, Russia, the authorities have divided the town into 324 fire districts. Every householder is bound to keep a special night watchman, and have 30 buckets of water always ready.

—REPORTS from Memphis, July 21, represent the situation as alarming, and hourly growing more serious. Thirty-six new cases of yellow fever were reported the 20th. The citizens are fleeing from the place by thousands. Secretary McCrary orders 1,000 tents and 200,000 rations for the sufferers.

—DISPATCHES from Port au Prince, Hayti, give particulars of a reign of terror, growing out of political difficulties between the Nationals and Liberals, the latter party assuming the offensive, attacking the members of the Chamber of Deputies during its session, and killing the Minister of War, who endeavored to disperse the mob. They took refuge in houses which they barricaded, but were dislodged by a cannonading of shell which set fire to the buildings, and over one hundred houses were burned, and three hundred men were killed and wounded. At last accounts, the insurrection was suppressed, and the rioters had fled to the foreign consulates for refuge.

—CHINESE opinion of Christian missions from England may be inferred from a placard put up on one of the foreign houses in Shanghai: “How absurd that these strangers come to Shanghai, and think to gain the people by their preaching. Twenty years ago they might have succeeded, but now opium, the real cause of all the evil, has perverted the hearts of the people.”—Advance.

—THE remains of young Napoleon have been taken to England and buried with distinguished ceremonies. A very general feeling of indignation pervades English society at the recklessness of the officer who permitted the guest of the commander-in-chief, who was regarded by him as an imperial prince, to go on the dangerous expedition, and who then in cowardice deserted him to fall an unprotected victim of savage barbarity. His sorely afflicted mother is the center of universal sympathy. Fears are entertained that the terrible bereavement may unsettle her reason, and there are reports that she intends to retire to a convent. What will be the effect upon the political prospects of the Imperialists cannot yet be presaged. Indeed, France would be none the worse if, with the loss of the head, the party itself should go into dissolution.