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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1879

Notes of News.

—Philadelphia has naturalized its first Chinese citizen.

—The Greek Church of Russia has appropriated $37,000 to propagate that faith in Japan.

—The first English Episcopal church built in Spain was opened last June at Portugalete near Bilbao.

—The body of Major Thornburg, who was killed in a recent charge on the Ute Indians, is en route for Omaha.

—The second Sunday in November is to be devoted by the Congregational ministers of England to the subject of temperance.

—An eminent Welsh literary authority says that a bad book, meaning a thoroughly immoral one, does not exist in the Welsh language.

—The Indians at the White Earth Reservation, at an agricultural fair last month, made 1,520 different entries of their productions.

—The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided that Allegheny county is liable for the damage done by the great riot of 1877.

—Many of the favorite Sankey hymns have been translated into the Hindoostanee language by the native pastor of the church at Lucknow, India.

—It is estimated that China lost 9,500,000 of her people by the late great famine. During the height of its ravages, the buried dead were eaten with ravenous relish.

—The Secretaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union estimate that in the whole foreign field under their care the number of native converts baptized last year will reach nearly 17,000.

—Prince Gortschakoff believes Austria is in danger of becoming a humble satellite of Germany, who is extending her influence from the mouth of the Scheldt to the mouth of the Danube.

—It is said that capitalists have purchased the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, paying therefor the sum of $200,000. They intend to light up its darkened caverns by the use of electric lights.

—The flood in Spain proved more serious than was at first reported. The damage to property is estimated at 30,000,000 francs. It is believed that over 2000 people perished; 570 bodies have been recovered.

—In the belief that a religious persecution is imminent in France, some Catholics and Royalists have united in a scheme for emigrating to the island of Papua, there to found an essentially Catholic colony.

—The Inter-Ocean of Oct. 22 says: “The abdication of the Ameer in Afghanistan is but another way of saying that that country is to acknowledge no ruler but England. This time British soldiers have gone to Cabul to stay.”

—In the State Conference of the Congregational Church of Minnesota, held at Minneapolis, Oct. 8–12, a paper was read on the Sunday question; a question which the Christian Union says is coming to the front as one of the live questions of the day.

—There is a prospect that New York City will have a zoological garden, an attraction which many of the European cities have, and which Philadelphia has here. A stock company with a capital of $2,000,000, has been organized, and grounds have been purchased.

—The state of affairs in Herzegovina is becoming serious. The Christians refuse to pay rent to the Turkish landlords, and threaten to shoot them if they attempt to collect. It is believed that the Christians are being supplied with money and arms from Montenegro.

—A correspondent of a Chicago paper, who has been making something of an examination of the situation of the negroes in Kansas, states that of the 7,000 to 8,000 who arrived in that State during the late rush from the South, not more than a dozen are dependent on the alms-giving of any one. They are no detriment to Kansas.

—A great movement has just been inaugurated against intemperance in Great Britain. It is the formation of a joint stock company, with a million of capital in shares of one pound each, to provide temperance coffee houses, and temperance places all over the kingdom. The Archbishop of Canterbury is at the top of the list of clergy.

—The International Exhibition in the Australian province of New South Wales was opened at Sydney, Sept. 17. The exhibition building is more than a third larger than the Crystal palace occupied by the first exhibition in London, covering seven and a half acres of land. America and most of the European countries are represented among the exhibitors.

—The enormous military and governmental machine established in Germany is also enormously expensive. The deficit of ten and a half millions, which, according to a cablegram, the Prussian budget for the past fiscal year shows, and the contribution of five and a half millions which Prussia, it is estimated, must make to the exchequer of the Empire, go to indicate how heavy the cost is.

—A glimpse of the misery inflicted on homes by greedy liquor sellers is furnished in the fact that during last month the Philadelphia Society to Protect Children from Cruelty acted upon 74 cases, involving the custody of 197 children, of whom 55 were removed from the custody of their parents. Nine-tenths of these cases of cruelty were owing to the intemperance of the parents.

—The distress in Hungary on account of the bad harvest is very great. The government has suspended the collection of taxes until the next harvest has been gathered. In 57 towns and villages in Temes county the greatest distress prevails. In Saros county, where some cases of starvation have occurred, 40 parishes are threatened with famine. Frightful accounts have also been received from the counties of Abauj, Heves, and Zemplin.