Rules of News | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 6, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 20.

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Rules of News.

—Cashmere is suffering from a severe famine.

—The Apache Indians have been committing violence in parts of New Mexico.

—The Russian advance on Merv continues without interruption, but very slowly.

—It is said that 200 persons in Injumpoint, in Eastern Siberia, have perished by famine.

—An energetic movement to establish colored teachers in the colored public schools has begun in Baltimore.

—The yellow-fever epidemic in Memphis has abated; business has been resumed, and large numbers of refugees have returned.

—The interests of 28,000 men are involved in a strike which the nail-makers of South Staffordshire, England, have resolved to make.

—Sixteen veterans of the war of 1812 lately met in Boston, and voted to disband their Association. The youngest was 79 years old, and the oldest 92.

—Russia has a new revolutionary party. The first number of their paper, The Will of the People, declares war on the government, and its tone is very violent.

—Louis Kossuth, now 77 years of age, is living in voluntary exile near Turin, Italy, where he has mainly occupied himself with scientific studies since 1862.

—It is a good illustration of “the power of the littles” that the receipts of the British government last year from its penny stamps was £825,559, 11s., 1d., or over $4,127,000.

—Since last April there have been 150,000 cases of cholera in Japan, and 85,000 deaths. The epidemic is now rapidly subsiding under the sanitary enforcements of the government.

—During the first nine months of this year the revenue receipts of France have exceeded the estimates by 108,000,000 francs. If it continues as favorably the next quarter, the treasury will have a surplus of between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000.

—The Inter-Ocean says: “Since specie resumption, the total importation of the precious metals into the United States amounts to over $56,000,000; and still the golden tide pours in upon us, as, with our enormous stock of grain and provisions for export, it must continue to do.”

—At a conference of delegates representing 140,000 miners, which was recently held in Leeds, England, the subject of American emigration was discussed; and it was suggested that emigration be directed only to localities where a demand for labor had been previously known to exist.

—The congress held at Naples on the 26th of October to promote a general disarmament throughout the world, terminated in a scene of indescribable confusion. A bitter feeling toward Austria was manifested by the Italians, a feeling in which General Garibaldi fully sympathizes.

—Alfonso, the young Spanish king, has not only subscribed 50,000 francs for the relief of the sufferers by the recent flood, but has also requested those who propose to give him or his bride wedding gifts on the occasion of their coming marriage, to devote the amount instead to the same purpose.

—Miss Florence Lincoln, daughter of a leading attorney of Cincinnati, has taken the white veil as a novice of the Ursuline religious order of the Congregation of Paris, at the Ursuline Convent at St. Martins, Brown Co., Ohio. Miss L. is 22 years of age, is beautiful, and has a fine European education.

—The interference of Austria in Egyptian affairs, noted in the cablegrams of Oct. 30, is significant. France and England have large interests there. The Austrian interposition is prejudicial to these. It denotes with what assurance Austria reckons upon her alliance with Germany, without which the balking of the Anglo-French policy would hardly have been ventured upon.

—Charles Tomlinson, of the firm Tomlinson & Co., English cotton brokers who have recently failed with liabilities estimated at from £60,000 to £100,000, has been arrested on a charge of intent to defraud. His frauds are said to amount to £40,000 against Liverpool and London banks, but these figures must be accepted with caution. There is no evidence that his partners knew of his dishonesty.

—The dimensions which the conflict in Central Asia is likely to assume are indicated by the cable dispatches this morning, Oct. 29, which announces that Russia has ordered a division of 40,000 troops to the seat of war, and that they will be followed by a number of officers of the general staff at St. Petersburg. An army division of that size, with picked officers to lead it, signifies a very much more considerable movement than would be projected against the natives. It indicates that one at least of the actual combatants in the struggle for supremacy in the East is making ready to drop the mask, and carry on hostilities direct, instead of under the guise of a campaign against the natives.—Inter-Ocean.

—China and Japan are getting ready to fight. China is at the same time pushing her conquests westward and rousing the hostility of Persia, which, offended by the new friendship of Russia for China, gravitates to the side of Great Britain. Germany having got all she wants toward the west, having made her Rhenish frontier invulnerable against France, having protected her southern border by an Austrian alliance, having strengthened her Baltic shore by tremendous port fortresses, and having made up her mind that some time or other she must fight Russia, seems to have resolved to do it now while Russia is weak. She has therefore raised her available forces to two and a quarter millions and is waiting for an excuse to hurl them across the Vistula. England, satisfied with the Austro-German alliance, is content to see her big Asiatic enemy threshed by Germany, or would be glad to see both of them wear themselves out in a gigantic struggle, which would furnish abundance of work for her shipyards, foundries, and factories, and leave her an opportunity to pick up any unconsidered territorial trifles that may be lying around loose. Meanwhile she will hang on to Afghanistan, and cultivate amicable relations with Persia.—Detroit Evening News.