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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 9, 1879

Notes of News.

—London, Sept. 30.—A Berlin dispatch says the elections show a proportion of 28 to 3 in favor of the Liberals.

—Orders were issued Sept. 29, to the treasurer of the United States, and to the assistant treasurers, to pay out both gold and silver upon all government obligations.

—The people of Deadwood are pluckily rebuilding their town, in the neighborhood of a hundred shanties and inclosures of some sort having already been put up, while the saw-mills in the vicinity are running day and night without being able to supply the demand for lumber.

—A cable dispatch brings the information, that in consequence of the discovery of the foot and mouth disease in a lot of sheep, recently arrived at Liverpool from this country, the Privy Council is about to issue an order placing the importation of American sheep under the same restrictions as are put upon the importation of American cattle.

—The fair grounds at Adrian, Mich., were the scene of a dreadful disaster, Oct. 2. The grand stand collapsed under eight hundred men, women and children. It is reported that thirteen deaths have occurred, and that two hundred and twenty-four of the injured are under medical treatment in the city, besides numbers who have been removed to their homes in the country.

—Constantinople, Sept. 30.—The ambassadors of the great powers here and at Athens have been instructed to make a joint and identical representation, with a view of bringing about an understanding between Turkey and Greece. The situation in eastern Roumelia is considered very critical, and the Porte has sounded the great powers touching the recall of Governor-General Aliko Pasha, but Russia and some others of the powers oppose such a measure.

—The terror that reigns in Russia is indicated in a line in the cablegrams October 2, with a graphic force that no words could increase. During the summer, from the central prison at Moscow, 10,447 persons have been sent into exile in Siberia. And yet Nihilism is unchecked, and continues its work of undermining the empire, which, with its condemnation of conspirators by the thousand, but makes public confession at once of its alarm and incapacity to deal with the situation.

—The effect of the business depression in England is further manifest in the strike, Sept. 29, of all the workmen in the shipbuilding trade at Grimsby. The strike was not for an increase of wages—the workmen evidently realize that that cannot by any means be brought about—but against an increase of four hours and a half a week in the time of labor. By this increase of the working hours of the week the masters sought to sustain themselves against the competition that is undermining their trade. The success of the strikers would be a serious blow to the trade. Their failure would signify a material addition to their tasks without any additional compensation.

—Another Indian war is reported to have broken out, on Milk River, Montana Territory, in which Major Thornburg and others were slain, and his forces repulsed by the Ute Indians. For several weeks this tribe, who had heretofore been friendly to the whites, have manifested an insurrectionary spirit. Their grievances were that for a year and a half they have not had enough to eat. The Ute agent was accused of withholding supplies; and the Indians, in order to save themselves from starving, were at times forced to leave their reservation. Sept. 10, the Indian Agent at White River was assaulted by Indians, and further work prohibited. Sept. 14 the agency buildings were burned, raids were made, several prospectors shot, and the woods around the agency set on fire. It was to punish the ringleader and restore peace that the expedition under Major Thornburg was sent to the Ute Agency. It was feared some time ago by the military authorities that the whole Ute tribe would be driven to the war-path, and that the bloodiest of Indian wars be inaugurated. The disaster to the Thornburg command seems to indicate that a large number of warriors are in the field.