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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1879

Notes of News.

—It is estimated that $2,500,000 in gold has been started from France for this country.

—London, Aug. 13.—Nellie Grant Sartoris, only daughter of ex-President Grant, died at the estate of her husband to-day.

—Constantinople, Aug. 11.—Numbers of Turkish soldiers sent to Thessaly have deserted in consequence of privations.

—London, Aug. 11.—A serious riot occurred at Belfast to-night, caused by a Catholic procession. Many persons were injured.

—Madrid, Aug. 11.—The Correo Militar believes the government will shortly establish a large military station at Ceuta, Africa, opposite Gibraltar.

—New York reports the arrival of 103,245 immigrants in that city for twelve months ending July 31 the present year; there were 74,139 during the year previous. The tide of European emigration to this country begins to set strong.

—Constantinople, Aug. 14.—At a family council at the Sultan’s palace, attended by the Sultan and all the princes, the general opinion was that Mahmoud Nedil Pasha was the only man capable of saving the empire from destruction.

—Lightning struck one of the oil tanks of the United Pipe Line, at Parker’s, Pa., Aug. 14, tearing it to pieces, and igniting the oil, which flowed down the hillside, communicating the fire to other property, and making a total loss of $10,000.

—Constantinople, Aug. 11.—English officers surveying the frontier between Macedonia and Bulgaria were fired upon by a band of Bulgarians, but none were hurt. The governor of Salonica ordered the escort of the officers to be strengthened.

—The Standard of Chicago proposes that all religious papers in the country should publish fifty papers instead of fifty-two, and calls for a seconder to its propositions. This the Review has been doing for a number of years, and finds that it works well.

—London, Aug. 11.—A telegram from Para, Brazil, dated July 21, states that 14,000 distressed inhabitants had revolted in consequence of the stoppage of their relief supplies. There was much alarm in Para, as it was feared that the town might be sacked. The militia has been called out.

—Archbishop Purcell is so broken in mind and body that he was unable to receive five young ladies into the order of “Sisters of our Lady of Mercy,” Aug. 15, without being constantly prompted and assisted by attending priests. The scene was said to be painful to those who contrasted it with the former years of the bishop.

—Washington, Aug. 12.—The National Board of Health has the following dispatch from the United States Consul at Matamoras: “Reliable information from Tampico to Aug. 1 says: ‘We have a yellow fever epidemic worse than at New Orleans last year. People die like flies. The quarantine at Bagdad against Tampico is still efficient.’”

—Tremont Temple, Boston, was partially destroyed by fire on the night of the 14th inst., and the great organ, the pride of Boston, was ruined. The American Bible Society owned the building, which was damaged to the amount of over a hundred thousand dollars. Several firemen were injured, two hosemen being buried beneath the falling organ.

—Quebec, Aug. 15.—The Ship-laborers’ Society of Strocks, 2,000 strong marched through the lower town to-day, intending to proceed to the coves. As they entered Champlain street, the stronghold of the ship-laborers’ society from which the Strocks men seceded, a battle was begun. It was ended by the Strocks men falling back to the lower town. Several men were wounded by pistol shots, and others were badly beaten. One man is reported dead.

—The Imperial Bank of Germany has raised the rate of discount to 4 per cent. Interest on advances has been raised to 5 per cent. Thus do the European money centers begin to hedge against the draft of gold to this country. It is reported that gold received in London from Paris, Wednesday, was bought in the open market for the United States, and the steamship Scythia on the same day landed in New York, with $265,000 in gold bars and American eagles.

—Russia has formed an alliance with Persia. That is a bad blow for England, as it furnishes a new menace to her Indian empire. Persia with its traditional jealousy of Russia was a strong checkmate against the aggressions of the latter power in Asia, but it would seem that the barrier is now removed, so that it will not be strange if we soon hear of new troubles in the distant East. Russia seems to have been sleeping the past year, with at least one eye open, and she may have been found to have won more by her diplomacy with Persia than England has done by arms in Afghanistan.