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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1879

Notes of News.

—Liverpool, Aug. 22.—The injury done to the growing crops in many districts the past few days, is to a great extent irreparable.

—The loss of property in Russia by fires in July alone is stated at 8,300,336 roubles. An enormous fire occurred at Batoum on the 6th inst.

—Denmark has been visited recently by a storm which killed 50 persons, destroyed over 100 farmhouses, and extensively damaged the crops.

—Three of the five male Nihilists, sentenced by the military tribunal at Odessa to be hanged, were to be executed at 10 this morning. The woman sentenced to exile in Siberia is only 15 years old.

—Nellie Grant Sartoris, the only daughter of General Grant, did not die Aug. 13, as reported last week. The papers have discovered that it was another Sartoris, a relative of the former’s husband.

—London, Aug. 22.—A Vienna correspondent reports that disquieting rumors are in circulation there regarding unfriendly intentions of Russia toward Germany and Austria. Weighty influences are said to be at work in St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg, Aug. 22.—Very serious signs of disturbance are observed among the peasantry. The recent proclamation affirming the permanence of the present disposition of the land was designed to meet a grave and increasing danger.

—A Berlin correspondent reports that owing to additions to the fortifications of Russia on its western frontier, the construction of those of Germany at Thorn, which it had been expected would be finished within four years, will be so hastened that it is now thought they will be finished within a year and a half.

—Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20.—News of the sinking of the Angolo mountain in North Georgia is fully confirmed. It is a large mountain, being over two miles around its base, and has broken loose and has fallen into what appears to be a chasm beneath. It first fell about two-thirds under ground, but has since sunk further.

—Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 22.—To-night is dreary and gloomy. A steady rain began falling at dark, and at this writing (9 P. M.) continues falling. The streets are deserted, and none, save perhaps a belated Howard visitor, can be found abroad. The day’s record shows a decrease in the number of new fever cases, but an increase in the death roll.

—Scandalous doings are not confined to this country. A gross series of frauds has just been discovered to have been committed on the government at Portsmouth, England, and will form the subject of a Treasury prosecution. The frauds were in connection with supplies of milk to invalids in the Military Hospital, and have occasioned considerable excitement in the garrison.

—The United States Consul at Manchester, England, writes to the Department of State at Washington that the British demand for American grain and meat will be enormous this year. Business in England is greatly depressed, and it is estimated that in the city of Manchester alone, 80,000 persons are supported by the public. The bad harvest is likely to make this state of things much worse.

—Washington, Aug. 22.—The United States Consul at Quebec says that $5,500,000 capital has been wholly wiped out by the failure of the Consolidated Exchange and Ville Marie Banks, besides a loss to the depositors and bill-holders of about half a million more; but worse than all is the condition of the working classes. During the past winter there was scarcely any employment, and it is estimated that there are not less than 7,000 workingmen at present out of employment in Quebec and its suburbs. Controversies about the distribution of the small amount of work to be done culminated in the riot of the 15th. It is entirely a question of bread, and, as a repression does not feed the hungry, the situation is anything but agreeable.