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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 11.

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—Corn crop a failure in Servia.

—Armenia is on the verge of revolt.

—The revolution in Hayti has ended.

—The Russo-German antipathy increases.

—Almost a famine in the west of Ireland.

—Bad feeling between Austria and Russia.

—New York, Aug. 27.—The steamship Bothnia, from Liverpool, brought £131,000 in gold.

—Yesterday, Aug. 25, $340,000 in gold was drawn from the Bank of England for shipment to New York.

—London, Aug. 27.—Sir Rowland Hill, whose dangerous illness was announced a few days ago, died to-day. He was in his 85th year.

—London, Aug. 27.—The bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England on balance to-day, £382,000—$1,910,000, is for shipment to New York.

—London, Aug. 25.—A great fire has occurred at Sophia. The barracks have been destroyed and a magazine exploded. Intense excitement and disorder prevailed.

—The number of miles of new railroads opened in the United States during the past year is 2,694. This makes the total mileage in operation in the United States 81,841 miles.

—London, Aug. 27.—The Russian newspaper, the Truth, states that in consequence of the supplies sent by Russia, Bulgaria will soon be in possession of 47,000,000 ball cartridges for rifles, with which all the militia are armed.

—New Orleans, Aug. 30.—The work of disinfecting the city has again been begun, and the whole city is to be gone over again in the same manner as a few weeks ago. Weather hot at midday, but cold enough at night to render covering necessary.

—It is stated that diplomatic relations between the Austrian and Russian Cabinets are less cordial than between any other two Cabinets in Europe, and the friendly intercourse which existed between the two courts for many years has also entirely ceased.

—The differences between Russia and Germany are considered as passing from the stage of newspaper controversy to that of diplomatic precaution. The entire press asserts that the friendship between Austria and Germany will be proved in case of need by deeds.

—A dispatch from London, dated Aug. 25, states that six hundred more colliers have struck in North Staffordshire. The Fife and Clackmannan colliers resolved to ask for an advance of 12½ per cent in wages Aug. 23, which the masters declare they are not able to grant.

—Pittsburgh, Aug. 25.—The hard storm this morning did much damage on the lines of the Lake Erie, Pan Handle, and Fort Wayne railroads. Several serious washouts and slides occurred, and trains are seriously delayed. The suddenness and severity of the rain fall were remarkable.

—London, Aug. 28.—We have had thirty consecutive hours of rain. The corn fields are submerged, and the season has so far advanced that no hope now remains of retrieving the injuries inflicted by this unprecedented continuation of wet weather. Landlords as well as farmers are in a state of great agitation and depression.

—Memphis, Aug. 30.—The total number of yellow fever deaths since the fever began is 280. It is now taxing benevolent societies pretty heavily. The Knights of Honor have buried ten members, and including members and their families, 22. The Oddfellows have had 55 sick, including members and their families. Of these 14 have died.

—The Boston Bicycle Club went out on Sunday afternoon for a ride on their two-wheeled vehicles. Ten of them were arrested on a charge of violating the Sunday law, and a Justice fined them $10 each, on the ground that they had been “playing or sporting on the Lord’s day.” They appealed, and the legal question will be brought before a higher court.

—There are made in Kentucky about 250,000 barrels Bourbon whisky, consuming 3,000,000 bushels of corn, and 500,000 bushels of rye and malt. More than half this whisky is handled in Louisville, which has $3,750,000 invested in buildings for its manufacture and sale. The value of the whisky handled in Louisville is $8,000,000, thus making it the largest straight whisky market in the world.

—The immense export of fresh meat to European markets from the United States is attracting the attention of the world. Nearly every steamer has more or less of her cargo made up of this production of the great West. There never was a period in the history of the United States when the supply of every valuable production was so nearly inexhaustible, and, at the same time, the demand so great. It is a year of sunshine to the American people.—Inter-Ocean.

—London, Aug. 27.—The Financier says: “The American food purchases are now beginning to be considerably in excess of those thought of a week or ten days ago, and notwithstanding the purchases of iron and other manufactures, a conviction prevails that gold will be taken in payment to a considerable amount. It is known that large amounts of bills against wheat shipments, with the usual sixty days to run, have been steadily accumulating during the last month.”

—London, Aug. 25.—A Calcutta correspondent gives terrible reports of the starvation and misery that still prevail in Cashmere. Affairs in Eastern Bengal are also causing much anxiety. The Duke of Buckingham has not yet carried out his idea of visiting the scene of the Rumpa rebellion. The 17th and 29th Madras infantry are suffering severely from fever. Cholera is increasing at Cabul. The number of deaths in the regiments which lately returned from Criel is variously estimated at from 365 to 1,000.

—Nothing but trouble, sorrow, and disaster in the news from the old country, where nature seems to have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy mankind. It is nothing but rain, rain, rain, in the British islands, until the farmers are well nigh in despair. In France, where they wanted rain they got drought, where they wanted drought they got rain, where they got neither of these in excess they got snow, and where the weather suited them the phylloxera came and devoured everything. In northern Italy they first had floods which washed everything out of the ground, and then droughts to kill the seed on the surface. Austria, Germany, and Hungary have been drenched to barrenness, and insect pests in Russia have destroyed much of what the plague and tyrant ridden peasants could plant. It is a sad season altogether, and portends much misery for mankind in the coming year. Quiet Portugal and sleepy old Spain are the only countries from which the dispatches are not a daily complaint of disaster.—Detroit Evening News.