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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 13.

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Notes of News.

—SZEGEDIN is now afflicted with earthquake.

—THERE are 30,000 persons out of work in Glasgow.

—MANY persons were drowned by the overflow of the Neva at and near St. Petersburg.

—A LAPEER, Mich., man has become insane by the use of tobacco, and has been sent to an asylum.

—WITHIN the past five weeks there have been 26 deaths from diphtheria in and around Caro, Mich.

—NOT only England and France, but Holland, Belgium, Italy and Spain, will be buyers of food in America this winter.

—AT the recent election in Maine the republicans gained a plurality of 20,000 over the greenbackers, and 40,000 over the democrats.

—THE harvest in Kings county, Ireland, is virtually destroyed by rains and floods, and that in the county Down greatly damaged.

—THE Ohio Sunday law exempts from the observance of Sunday, Jews, Seventh-day Baptists, ferrymen, emigrants and toll-gate keepers.

—A DISPATCH from Rangoon says that the Burmese have mounted twelve guns on the frontier, and have concentrated there 40,000 men.

—DISPATCHES from San Francisco state that the entire congressional delegation from California will be republican—the first time since 1871.

—LONDON, Sept. 11.—The Russian expedition is approaching Afghanistan. It causes great excitement in political circles throughout Great Britain.

—TWO U. S. naval officers have sailed for Alexandria, Egypt, their mission being to bring to this country Cleopatra’s Needle, the great obelisk whose companion was recently erected in London.

—THE length of the terrestrial telegraph lines of the world is about 1,250,000 miles; the total cost over $200,000,000. The length of the submarine cables is 66,000 miles; their cost, $125,000,000.

—OVER four and a half million bushels of wheat were shipped to Europe last week from our principal Atlantic ports, and during the six weeks ending last Saturday our exports of wheat exceeded those for the corresponding period of 1878 by the enormous amount of 9,970,000 bushels.

—THE Prince of Wales has acceded to the proposal to make arrangements for the conduct of the government in the event of the Queen’s dying before his return from his projected Australian trip, and there are rumors that a Provisional Regency bill will be introduced at the next session of Parliament.

—ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 5.—Violent storms in the Gulf of Finland have caused the river Neva to rise to the level of the streets. The canals in the center of St. Petersburg have overflowed, and the Faubourgs are under water. Iron roofs have been blown from houses and churches in all directions.

—BOMBAY, Sept. 11.—Serious riots are proceeding in Cabul, and many traders and citizens have been killed. Messages have reached Candahar from Cabul, urging a general rising against the British the 15th inst. Similar messages have been dispatched to other Afghan cities. The frontier tribes are still quiet.

—NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—Jay Gould has declined the invitation to join the “bear” side of the market. He says the present prosperous condition of the country is an assurance that no combination could depress prices. The demand of the world for food, which the United States can supply, gives evidence of profits which must, for the present at least, quiet the grumblers.

—LONDON, Sept. 9.—Disturbances at Tobolsk, the capital of the province of Tobolsk, in Asiatic Russia, threaten to assume formidable shape. The authorities have discovered a plot of an intended use of the torch, which, if carried out, would involve the utter ruin of the city. Soldiers have been detailed to guard against such a possibility, and are now patrolling the principal streets.

—INFORMATION comes by way of Simla, an important post in British India, that on Wednesday last twelve Afghan regiments revolted and attacked the Ameer's arsenal. Being joined by the populace, they assailed the British Embassy and finally set it on fire. Major Cavagnari, the Envoy, and his staff were killed after an heroic struggle. The Ameer was at the mercy of the insurgents. British forces have been ordered to advance on Cabul and Candahar.

—CHARLES DEMOND, former treasurer of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, was arrested in Boston on the 4th inst. and committed to jail. He is charged with embezzling the funds of the society. It appears from an examination of his books by an expert that he deliberately diverted the funds of the society to his own use, and began his criminal transactions, it is believed, almost as soon as he assumed the office several years ago. His defalcation is estimated at from $20,000 to $60,000.

—LONDON, Sept. 12.—A dispatch from Lahore says: Shikarpoor merchants trading with Central Asia report that the revolt in Cabul is due to Russian intrigues. Russian agents have been most active at Herat. They have for some months urged the Ameer's brother to declare against him, promising the support of the Heratee regiments. They were charged by the Ameer’s brother with being the cause of the revolt against the Ameer and the English.

—MANCHESTER, Sept. 11.—The great strike of cotton-mill operatives commenced this morning. All the mills at Ashton-under-Lyne are stopped. Harrock, Miller & Co.'s operatives go out to-morrow. This is the largest cotton manufacturing firm in the North of England. The Henwick, Padiham, and Oldham mills have closed. There is no disturbance, but over 30,000 working people are now idle. The Cotton Spinners Union's Committee on Finance report that the Union will not have to be drawn on for a fortnight. Many operatives are preparing to go to America. The colliers of West Bromwich will strike if an increase of wages is not acceded to.

—THE following are the heights of the principal monuments, domes, etc., in the world: St. Antoine column at Rome, 135 feet; principal tower of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 145; Trajan’s column at Rome, 145; Napoleon’s column at Paris, 150; Washington monument at Baltimore, 180; the great obelisk at Thebes, 200; Bunker Hill Monument at Boston, 223; column of Delhi, 262; Trinity church steeple at New York, 264; the contemplated new dome of the capitol, 300; dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 320; tower of Manlius, 350; tower of the cathedral at Strasburg, 460; dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, 465; Great Pyramid, 481.

—THE following is a correct list of the State officers elected in California: Governor, Geo. C. Perkins, Republican; Lieutenant Governor, John Mansfield, Republican; Secretary of State, Daniel M. Burns, Republican; Comptroller, D. M. Kenfield; Treasurer, John Weil; Attorney General, A. L. Hart; Surveyor General, J. W. Shanklin; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Frank W. Gross, all Republicans; Superintendent of Public Instruction, F. M. Campbell, Republican; Chief Justice, Robert F. Morrison, Democrat and Workingman. The Associate Justices are not determined.

—THE Civil Damage Law which passed the last Massachusetts Legislature is working well throughout the State. Landlords think a good while before going upon the bond of a liquor-selling tenant who is liable to suit for damages from an injured wife or bereaved widow. Some of the largest hotels have given up the sale of liquor. A Civil Damage Law has always seemed to us the best liquor law as yet devised. It makes the creators of crime—the liquor sellers—bear the consequences to a certain extent; makes the rum-seller’s pocket feel the misery wrought by his business.