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The S.D.A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 8, 1880

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 14

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NEWS ITEMS.

—Floods still prevail in Spain.

—The Czarina is dying again this month.

—Six feet of snow in localities in Nova Scotia.

—Emperor William of Germany is 83 years old.

—Queen Victoria and the Princess Beatrice, are at Baden Baden.

—A $46,000 fire is reported at Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the 31st ult.

—Gladstone is likely to be returned to Parliament from Mid-Lothian.

—This week 134 members of Parliament will be elected in Great Britain.

—The Ponemah Mills, Taftville, Conn., were burned on the 29th ult. Loss $250,000.

—A cyclone passed over Lawrenceville, Va., on the 27th ult., doing great damage.

—The Lighter to convey Cleopatra's Needle to this country, has arrived at Alexandria.

—Scotch Presbyterians require their missionaries in China to return home once in seven years.

—The Methodists are rapidly increasing in Sweden, through the medium of revival meetings.

—Nihilist printing offices have lately been discovered and broken up at St. Petersburg and Warsaw.

—Great efforts are being made to stay the ravages of diphtheria in the province of Kharkoff, Russia.

—The Chileans are again aggressive, and are preparing to attack Africa simultaneously by land and sea.

—A terrible fire is reported in Montaimont, a village of Savoy, France, in which seventeen persons perished.

—It appears that the United States have been disgraced in Samoa by Consul Dawson. “I told you so.”

—It is reported that Chinese troops have crossed the Amour river into Russian territory, to the number of 20,000.

—Last year twelve persons in the United States and Europe, gave an aggregate of $3,000,000 to the cause of foreign missions.

—Lesseps characterizes the elegance of the private residences and the magnificence of the hotels of San Francisco, as astounding.

—The Columbians are indignant at the attitude assumed by this country in regard to the building of the Darien canal by European capital.

—According to the latest returns, Copenhagen has a population of 286,000. In 1850 it contained 129,000; in 1860, 150,000; and in 1870, 181,000.

—The Church of the Saviour, Moscow, Russia, which is to be dedicated in September, has been 47 years in building, at a cost of $15,000,000.

—A religious paper inquires, when a church building is dedicated with a “first-class mortgage” on it, which is dedicated to the Lord, the house or the mortgage?

—The Roman Catholic clergy in France numbered, in 1851, 52,855; in 1861, 58,321; in 1876, 55,269. The Protestant ministers and Jewish rabbis number about 6,000.

—Dr. Cuyler, in the Evangelist, says there are a number of Presbyterian clergymen who are threatened with expulsion from their pulpits for denouncing dancing and wine-drinking.

—The Central Presbyterian says: “The preacher now who preaches the terror of the law is apt to make himself unpopular.” But not so unpopular as he who attempts to keep the law.

—The past year there were reported $16,000,000 assessments on stocks in California, and about half that amount of earnings! Is it any wonder that hard times cling to this State more than to any other?

The Sand-lot received a severe set-back in San Francisco at the election for freeholders to frame a new city charter and for a joint Senator for San Francisco and San Mateo counties, the Citizen's Union Ticket receiving a majority of 7,500 votes.

—A cyclone in Kansas, April 2, destroyed over twenty buildings in Ottawa, and badly damaged others. It traveled thence north-east, destroying farm houses on its way. Near Girard, south of Ft. Scott, seventeen houses were destroyed, and some lives lost.

—President James B. Angell, of Michigan University, has been appointed and confirmed Minister to China, vice Seward removed; and John F. Swift, of California, and William H. Trescott, of South Carolina, Commissioners, to act with Angell in the forming of a treaty to supplant that now existing between China and this country.