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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 17.

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Notes of News.

—ABOUT 30,000 telephones are in use in this country.

—THE big fair of Brazil will open at Rio Janeiro, Jan. 1, 1880.

—DURING the late war the Russians built 1,447 miles of telegraph in Turkey.

—ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 7.—The Golos reports China actively preparing for war with Japan.

—A LARGE majority of the claims for arrears of pensions, amounting to nearly $21,000,000, have been settled.

—AMERICAN watches, with the dials suited to the Arabic divisions of the hours of the day, are exported to Syria.

—IT is estimated that the yellow fever of 1878, cost the country 22,000 lives, and $200,000,000 of pecuniary loss in one form or another.

—IT is a curious illustration of the ups and downs of life that Napoleon III.'s “Life of Cæsar” now brings in Paris the price of waste paper.

—THE Interior Department has decided that no wife of a polygamist can be permitted to obtain title to 160 acres of public land under the Pre-emption or Homestead laws.

—IT is a significant fact that a recent advertisement for 25 skilled workmen brought only one application, while two others, one for a book-keeper and the other for a clerk, brought 347 and 130 respectively.

—THE destructive ravages of the rinderpest in southern Russia are disclosed by the figures in a dispatch from Odessa, showing that nearly 6,000 cattle have died of the malady since the beginning of the year.

—LONDON, Oct. 7.—A Berlin correspondent announces that if the Russian army is further increased, it is considered that proportionate increase of the German army will be absolutely and immediately necessary.

—THE Russian government proposes to sequestrate the property of the monasteries of the Greek Church, whose wealth is estimated at from $150,000,000 to $300,000,000, and whose annual revenues are estimated at $2,500,000. The monks will be allowed a suitable support.

—ON the morning of Oct. 10, a Michigan Central passenger train, while running at high speed to make up lost time, ran into a switch engine near Jackson, Mich. The scene that ensued was simply terrible. The latest accounts are that 19 were killed, and more than 50 were more or less injured.

—THERE is an imminent prospect of outbreaks in Ireland, where the tenants are unable to pay their rent, and are disposed to resist all measures to dispossess them. The whole question of land monopoly is assuming a fearful importance, and the Liberal party will make it a test question at the next election.

—THE settlers in southern Colorado are in great fear of the attitude of the Indians. Alarming dispatches are received by governor Pitkin, from various points throughout the State, all calling for arms and ammunition with which to defend themselves against the savages. Leadville is to be made the base of operations against the redskins.

—IN the British Cabinet council, the temporary occupation of Afghanistan was decided upon. There is a fresh outburst of hostility against England and Germany by the Russian press. In case of war, Austria and Germany are to unite their armies for defensive purposes. The British troops are before Cabul, and scenes of bloody retribution are feared.

—THERE is a significance that cannot be mistaken, in the brief announcement in a dispatch this morning, Oct. 9, that Russian staff officers have been ordered to the Austrian frontier for “exercise” in studying how best to repel invasion from that quarter. It is another indication of the activity with which Russia is getting in readiness for a great European conflict.

—THE few words in a cablegram from Madrid, Oct. 10, stating that 4,000 more troops are to be sent to Cuba, foretell more outrages and inhumanity than might be writ in columns. It signifies that the atrocious policy of Spain in the island is to be inflexibly carried out. Possibly it may precipitate the explosion, and hasten the reckoning which the Spanish are storing up against themselves.

—SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 7.—From the Hong Kong mail it is reported among the Chinese that some great catastrophe happened within the walls of the imperial palace at Pekin. Some say the emperor, and others that one of the empresses, is dead. A great fire occurred in the French concession in Shanghai. Nine hundred and ninety-one houses burned. No lives lost.

—AT the session of the American Board of Foreign Missions, at Syracuse, Oct. 9, a summary of its work since its organization was presented, showing that it has received and expended, in all, about $17,000,000; has organized nearly 350 native churches, with upward of 80,000 communicants; has sent about 550 missionaries, some 260 of whom were women, and has issued religious publications in forty-six different languages.

—VIENNA, Oct. 4.—The breach between Austria and Russia is widening daily. This is an indication that the relations between Germany and Russia are also growing more delicate and strained. What Russia feels most keenly as respects the new political attitude of Austria is the development of the latter’s power and territory toward the east, thus placing herself directly across Russia’s road to Constantinople and the Aegean sea. The aspect of eastern European politics grows daily more serious.

—WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—A correspondent called the attention of the Hon. Horatio C. Burchard, Director of the mint, to the extraordinary movement of coin that is going on at present from Europe to this country. “Yes,” said Mr. Burchard, “it is extraordinary. We have never known anything like it. Within the last three months $34,312,745 in coin has been imported into this country, and I notice that more than five and a half millions are on the way, so that before many hours the importations will have amounted to over $40,000,000.”

—THE thickening of European complications is indicated by the retirement of Count Andrassy from the Austrian Cabinet; the announcement that a special envoy from the Emperor of Russia to the Emperor of Germany is expected at Baden-Baden; the statement that the German-Austrian alliance embraces provisions in certain contingencies for defensive and offensive action; the dispatches from Vienna that the breach between Russia and Austria is daily widening, and the rumor that Russia is reorganizing the navy yard at Cronstadt and mobilizing her armies. Granting that these dispatches are to some extent based upon conjecture, they denote the readiness that is being made for another great struggle, the result of which may be the reconstruction of the map of Europe, and which is liable to be precipitated almost any day.—Inter-Ocean, Oct. 6.