p. 119 | Notes of News

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 2, 1879

Notes of News.

—THE total number of yellow fever cases in Memphis up to Sept. 19 were 1,216. The cases the week before numbered 80.

—LONDON, Sept. 26.—The Russian official Messenger states that 2,987 fires occurred in Russia during August, causing damage to property to the amount of 20,000,000 rubles.

—AFFAIRS continue very unsettled in Eastern Roumelia, is the intelligence cabled from Constantinople concerning the cloud no larger than a man's hand that appears in the horizon, full of portent to Europe.

—THE influx of gold into this country is indicated by the figures showing that the aggregate receipts at New York since the 1st of August, in round numbers, amount to $27,000,000. The rate at which gold has begun to pour into the country since the crop movement began is shown by the fact that up to the first day of August the total gold receipts for the year were but little over four millions.—Inter-Ocean.

—LONDON, Sept. 22.—A dispatch from Calcutta says reports from Cashmere are still very gloomy. All European eye-witnesses agree that great corruption prevails among officials. The Maharajah and his ministers show want of energy in relieving the wants of the people. A ghastly story has been going the rounds of the papers, that two boat loads of famine-stricken people were taken out into the lake and drowned. The story has been contradicted, apparently on the authority of Durbar; but it obtained general credence among people and visitors in the valley.

—DISPATCHES received Sept. 24 indicate how the complications are thickening in European politics. While at Vienna Bismarck and Andrassy confer as to the late alterations in the map of the continent, Disraeli at London conveys a quiet assurance to the French ambassador that Great Britain will take no action in the present crisis in European affairs without first agreeing with France upon a definite policy to be conjointly pursued by the two nations. The little game at which Germany and Austria are engaged is evidently one which they will not be allowed to play out alone.

—BISMARCK, D. T., Sept. 26.—The burning of Deadwood this morning threw all Dakota into a fever of excitement. This was the richest and largest town in the Territory. No details can be received during the day. The military telegraph line was occupied all day with commercial messages, ordering stocks of goods, and preparing for the emergency that was threatening the homeless people. General Sturgis, commanding at Fort Meade, twenty miles away, early responded to the cry of the sufferers, and tendered them rations and shelter at the barracks. The estimated loss of property in the city is $2,000,000. In fact, the whole town is in ashes.

—THE most terrible incendiarism of modern times is briefly detailed in the dispatches received Sept. 23, resulting in the almost total destruction of the city of Kiev, in Russia. During a severe storm the city was fired simultaneously in a number of places, including the powder magazine, and the flames raged unchecked until the second day after breaking out. Besides the vast destruction of property, necessarily impoverishing the mass of the population, a number of lives were sacrificed, adding the crowning horror to one of the most hideous crimes of the century. If it be the work of the Nihilists, Nihilism can have no more terrible definition than that furnished by the charred ruins of Kiev.—Inter-Ocean.