Notes of News | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1879

Notes of News.

—LONDON, Sept. 16.—A Constantinople dispatch says telegrams from Adrianople represent that the Mussulmans in Eastern Roumelia are flying to Adrianople for protection, and are utterly destitute.

—A BOMBAY dispatch says it is believed there that the rumor of Ameer Yakoob Khan’s treachery was spread by mutineers to induce the Afghan hill tribes to join them. The story of an escaped trooper of Major Cavagnari’s escort, however, seems to confirm the Ameer’s reported faithlessness.

—GLASGOW, Sept. 15.—In consequence of the resolution arrived at by the Scotch iron masters last week, not to accede to the demand of the working-men for an increase of wages until the price of iron exceeds 50 shillings per ton, fifty-four furnaces have been blown out in various parts of Scotland, rendering 3,000 men idle.

—SAYS the Advance, Sept. 18, “A set of wagons marked ‘Hell-Gate Brewery’ go through the streets of New York distributing their liquid damnation along the way. Those Hell-Gate men are quite frank thus to confess their occupation. The farmers who raise hops for them to work up see by this where their produce goes, and what business they are engaged in.”

—RELATIVE to the apprehended distress among the working-classes in the thickly populated towns in the northeast of England, it is estimated that 20,000 persons in the district referred to have been thrown out of work during the three years past. There are thousands of empty houses in Darlington. Stockton and Newport are also seriously affected. The climax of distress has been reached at Middlesborough.

—THE revival of the Afghan war has cast a wet blanket on the apparently reviving trade of England. Merchants and manufacturers, not knowing what complication may grow out of it, naturally hesitate to undertake any new enterprises they can avoid. A wail of misery arises from all parts of the country. They are starving in England and Scotland, and they have commenced stabbing each other in Ireland, which, on the whole, is perhaps better than starving.—Detroit Evening News.

—THE Chicago Times says: “The extraordinary controversy now alarming Europe on the supposed misunderstanding between Gortschakoff and Bismarck shows what dangerous stuff is all around us. A ring of interested speculators in the confusion seems to have half persuaded the illustrious statesmen that the greatness of one empire is incompatible with the greatness of the other. For the Russian and German nationals at present the difficulty appears to be to manufacture reasons for flying at each other’s throats. Their interests are in no respect opposed; neither owns territory coveted by the other. We believe much of this flourishing of swords will be found to be merely exercises of fencing-schools; but it is time the masters should come forward and reassure mistrustful Europe.”

—THOSE who have watched the reports of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington have noticed the very significant change in the current of foreign immigration which has taken place within the year past. Every successive report has told of swelling numbers, as compared with the same time twelve months before. Just now there are many indications that we are on the eve of such a thronging influx from abroad as will greatly exceed every other experience of the kind in our history.

The eyes of the world are fixed upon this country, which has become “the desire of all nations.” Thither turn hopes of relief. The magnetism of our position is beginning to attract to our shores many thousands of people weary of embarrassments which grow heavier; rendered desperate by their darkening prospects; and seeing no escape from their thralldom except in emigration to the great republic between the oceans. Throngs of agriculturists, overjoyed with the expectation of acquiring in America a farm in fee simple at the cost of the annual rent they have been paying at home, are preparing to join the movement. Manufacturing capitalists, worn out with their unavailing struggles to produce and obtain markets at a profit, are making ready to follow; and a few have already come, bringing with them their entire outfit of men and machinery. Every passing month adds to the volume of the inpouring stream, which is rising and spreading with a freshet-like impetuosity.—Inter-Ocean.