p. 143 | Notes of News

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 18.

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Notes of News.

—A MEMORIAL chapel is to be erected in honor of the late Prince Imperial.

—THE prospect of a war between Russia and England is growing more serious.

—IN Russia the losses from fire during the month of August amounted to $16,000,000.

—THE strike of the colliers at Charleroi, Belgium, is extending, and assuming a threatening aspect.

—FROM private sources information has been received that more Protestant blood has been shed in Mexico.

—IT is said that the Ex-Khedive of Egypt retired from his governmental business with the modest fortune of $80,000,000.

—A LARGE party of British tenant farmers are visiting Canada for the purpose of ascertaining its advantages as a place of settlement.

—ROBBERY and murder are now so prevalent in Constantinople that serious disturbances are expected during the coming winter.

—PROF. CHRISTLIEB, of Bonn University, has been invited to deliver the course of lectures on preaching at Yale Theological Seminary, next year.

—THE Russians have been defeated by the Turcomans at Geok Tepe. Their advance into Central Asia, if it is not entirely checked, is very slow.

—THE year 1880 will complete a semi-millennium of the English Bible, Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament having been issued in 1380.

—FOREST fires are raging fiercely in different sections of the country, destroying houses, barns, and farm property, and in some places rendering roads impassable.

—A CONVENTION of Free-thinkers held a five-days' session at Chautauqua, N. Y., closing Sept. 21. The principal speakers were Mr. George J. Holyoke and Colonel Ingersoll.

—THE Duke of Beaufort says publicly that it is impossible to compete with American wheat production. He advises British farmers to devote their attention to cattle raising.

—BISMARCK is ill again, and such is the great part he plays in European politics that to all the world is carefully telegraphed the fact, and that his physician orders absolute rest.

—THE British Ambassador to Constantinople just from Asia Minor, reports the condition of that country unsatisfactory, in consequence of the disagreements between European inspectors and the Turkish officials, and the bad administration of justice.

—A LATE exchange says: “An authority who has made a close study of the Mormon problem says that of the 120,000 Mormons in Utah, not more than 2000 are polygamists. Yet these 2000 criminals defy a great nation of nearly 50,000,000 of people.”

—PITTSBURG, Pa., has the welcome news that a furnace which consumes its own smoke has been tested at the Exposition in that city, and pronounced a practical success by a committee of their experienced men. It would not be unwilling to lose its appellation of “the smoky city,”

—IN Washington there is a general jubilation over the late Republican victories in Ohio and Iowa. In Ohio the Republicans have not only elected their State officers, but they have a majority in the Legislature also. In Iowa, at the latest advices the Republican majority was about 75,000.

—ON the evening of Oct. 17, a hurricane, accompanied with rain, caused a severe flood in Spain. Several cities were flooded, and a large number of villages were more or less injured. Thousands of peasants are wholly destitute, and many lives have been lost. At the latest accounts, 119 dead bodies had been recovered.

—DURING the fiscal year just closed, the British and Foreign Bible Society have issued 3,340,995 copies of the Holy Scriptures. Of these 2,370,924 were in foreign languages. The aggregate issues of this Society for the seventy-five years of its existence reach the enormous number of 85,388,057 copies in 230 languages and dialects.

—THE Russian journals denounce England and Germany in bitter terms, and some of them declare that sooner or later a life and death struggle with England is inevitable. The war journals say the only question now to be considered is, Which is the most available route to Hindostan? The much-trumpeted Berlin treaty doesn't seem to have mended matters much.

—GEN. ROBERTS, in command of the British-Indian army of invasion in Cabul, has decided that no quarter shall be granted to any Afghans found in arms against his army. This movement has aroused a very bitter feeling on the part of the Afghans. A dispatch from Simla states that the Ameer is watched to guard against treachery, which, it is not doubted, he will manifest practically at the earliest opportunity.

—A PRIVATE telegram from Havana to the Christian at Work states that three slaveholders, owners of 4000, 1200, and 800 slaves respectively, have emancipated them, and contracted with them for their services for five years; and that other slaveholders intend following their example. Several Deputies are resolved to move in the Cortes the immediate abolition of slavery in Cuba, without indemnity to the slave-owners.

—THE land troubles of Ireland appear to be growing more serious in their character. A land agent and his son were recently fired upon. The fire was returned, and one of the assailants killed. The Christian Union of Oct. 8 says: “Even the London Times concedes that the present agitation would become formidable if it should extend throughout Ireland, and we hardly know why it should not do so. How the present land system can be improved and the condition of the tenantry ameliorated without revolution and the impairment of vested rights, it is difficult to see. The land problem is far more difficult than the church problem, and no statesman has yet been able to cope with it.”