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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 7, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 7.

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Notes of News.

—CORK, Ireland, now has the American potato bug.

—LONDON, July 30.—Turkey is still arming the Greek frontier.

—IN renaming the streets of Paris, one of them will be named in memory of President Lincoln.

—ENGLAND has for a year been bolstering up the sultan of Morocco for a conflict with Spain.

—ON account of the state of the crops in France, 40,000 soldiers are to be furloughed August 31.

—A LARGE portion of the wall of the East India docks, at Blackwell, England, fell July 29; damage $500,000.

—TWENTY British officers and 400 men died of cholera on the return march from the Afghan campaign, while only about 100 men were killed in action.

—THE Siberian plague has appeared among the animals of the Nova Ladoga district of Russia. The loss by this plague in 1877 was 212,768 cattle and 23,630 horses.

—ST. PETERSBURG, July 26.—The Minister of the Interior reports 3,501 fires during June, causing damage to the amount of over 12,000,000 roubles; 508 of the fires were incendiary.

—DISPATCHES received July 30 state that for two days a terrific fire has raged at Orta Keni, on the Bosphorus. The Jewish quarter has been destroyed, and hundreds of families are encamped on the roads.

—A DISASTROUS flood affected various portions of Pennsylvania July 26. The destruction of property in the oil regions was great, and many of the coal mines were flooded. The losses of property at Petrolia were roughly estimated at $200,000. Many of the people lost all their effects, and are left in a state of destitution.

—A SMALL pleasure steamer on Lake Goguac, Battle Creek, was burned Thursday morning, July 31, together with the boat-house and the residence of the engineer, whose wife and two of his children were so badly burned and injured as to result in their death. The two remaining children narrowly escaped, one of them being seriously burned.

—THE Zulu war seems to be drawing to a close as a military campaign, though it may degenerate into a chronic guerilla warfare. A pitched battle has been fought at Ulundi between 5,000 British soldiers and 15,000 or 20,000 Zulus, on ground of Cetewayo’s own choosing, in which the Zulu army was defeated, with losses variously estimated at from 800 to 1,500. Sir Garnet Wolseley telegraphs his belief that the war is over, and that he does not want any more men or supplies at present.