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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1879

Notes of News.

—GREECE is said to be preparing for defense against Turkish aggression.

—IN Staffordshire, England, 3,400 miners have struck against a reduction of wages.

—TWENTY thousand people attended the funeral of Gieb, the socialist deputy, at Hamburg.

—OWING to increase of crime a demand comes from county Westmeath, Ireland, for an increased constabulary.

—It is said that there are probably not 5,000 people who can read an Irish book, and not an Irish paper is published in Ireland.

—SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 2.—Mexican troops are pursuing Indians who have carried off 250 horses and killed fifteen persons during the past week.

—SINCE October 19, 1878, there has not been a dry week in England, and the rainfall there for the last 18 months has equalled that of three ordinary years.

—It is stated that the religious questions between Germany and the Vatican are not settled, and that Bismarck will not yield any essential point in the Falk laws.

—AN illustration of the daring of the Russian Nihilists, is the fact that a hundred were arrested July 27, on the estate of the Czar’s brother, the Grand Duke Constantine.

—A PROTESTANT meeting at Gorrequella, Spain, was broken up by the Spanish police, the pastor arrested, the women driven out, and the names of the men present recorded in the police books.

—LONDON, Aug. 4.—A dispatch to the Times from Calcutta says the Madras Government is taking more energetic measures to suppress the Rumpa rebellion, and has increased the number of troops.

—THE Peruvian war ships Huascar and Union have visited Chilian ports, destroying launches and capturing the steamer Rimac with the entire Zungay regiment of cavalry, fully armed and supplied with horses, besides three vessels loaded with coal and copper.

—THE sacred mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople, which has for centuries been guarded against the intrusion of unbelievers, is to be open every Tuesday and Friday for believers of all faiths to attend a lesson for the reconciling the differences of religions.

—BOMBAY, Aug. 2.—It is stated that Serinagur, the capital of Cashmere, ordinarily containing 300,000 inhabitants, has only 30,000 since the famine. The rubbee crop will suffice to keep the people alive until rice is ready to harvest. The cholera has disappeared from Cashmere.

—THE Zulu King Cetewayo is now a fugitive with a price upon his head, 5,000 cattle being offered to the tribe that captures him. The Zulu chiefs want no more black kings, and seem to favor John Dunn for ruler. The country will, however, probably be divided into three or four principalities.

—MORE storms and floods reported from England, with hailstones five inches in circumference. Thousands of pounds worth of glass were smashed in London. The crops in greater Bedfordshire and the valley of the Thames were ruined, and Buckinghamshire was flooded. Immense damage is reported from Cambridge, Norfolk, Guildford, Leicester, Bath, Monmouth, etc., and the loss of life is serious.

—MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 3. Owing to the increase in the number of new cases and deaths within the past three days, the board of health will to-morrow night declare the fever epidemic. A notice at the same time will be published warning every one to remain away from this plague-stricken city until official announcement is made of its being safe to return. The increase in the number of deaths is attributed to the sudden change in the weather which occurred during last night, the thermometer dropping down to about 72 degrees, where it has remained all of to-day. The weather is chilly and damp, unfavorable alike to sick and well.