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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1885

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 34

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—There were nineteen deaths from small-pox in Montreal, August 25.

—The steamer St. Paul, from Alaska, is said to have 80,000 skins on board.

—Ex-Governor Fenton, of New York, dropped dead in his office, August 25.

—The wheat crop of France is fair, while Italy’s crop falls behind twenty per cent.

—A dryer is being built at Riverside, Cal., to handle 50,000 pounds of grapes daily.

—Parnell recently made a speech in Dublin in which he declares for Irish independence.

—One hundred persons were drowned, August 25, in the Gulf of Aden, a seaport of Arabia.

—Baron de Stael, Russian ambassador to England, is in London, negotiating for a peaceful settlement of Afghan affairs.

—A servant girl in New York, recently stole from her employers a box containing money and valuables to the amount of $13,000.

—An explosion of 3,000 pounds of nitro-glycerine at Bradford, Pa., August 27, wrecked the building it was in, and shook the earth for miles around.

—The dredge Beaufort, which was said to be one of the largest boats of her kind in the world, was lost recently in a hurricane off Bermuda Islands.

—The Dominion Government has sent instructions to Victoria to enforce the collection of the fifty dollars head tax on every Chinaman landing there.

—Charleston (S. C.) was visited by a cyclone, August 25, and one-fourth of its houses were unroofed. Much damage was done all along the track of the cyclone.

—During the night of August 23, a severe chill passed over a considerable portion of the Northwest Territory. The temperature fell five degrees below freezing point.

—The fire at the fireworks factory at Civita Vecchia, Italy, which broke out August 26, was still burning August 27, and ten bodies had been recovered from the ruins.

—A Los Angeles County, Cal., paper advises the grape-growers to feed their fruit to the hogs rather than accept the low prices which the wine sellers are said to be offering.

—The false teeth of an elderly woman living near Logan, Ohio, became dislodged during a severe spell of coughing a few days ago, and, slipping into her throat, choked her to death.

—Ludwig, king of Bavaria, is utterly incapable of appreciating the value of money. It has been decided to place his highness under guardianship and publish his bankruptcy.

—Up to August 29, the number of deaths in Spain from cholera is 81,489, with a death rate at the present time of more than 1,000 daily. In France the scourge is known to be spreading.

—A young lady at Whitestown, N. Y., who was of robust constitution and an adept at roller skating, injured her spine, and finally became a raving maniac, as a result of her favorite sport.

—In County Killarney, Ireland, August 27, a collision between 100 police, sent to evict some tenements, and 2,000 persons who interfered, resulted in many on both sides being stoned and stabbed.

—At Salem, Ind., August 23, Fred Berkey, Jr., in a fit of drunken madness, began firing indiscriminately at persons on the street. He wounded four, one mortally, and then shot himself through the head.

—The meeting of the emperors of Russia and Austria, at Kremsier, a town of Moravia, August 25, is believed to have been for the purpose of maturing plans for acting in unison in case there is war with England.

—In Rathkeale, County Limerick, boycotting is carried on to such an extent, by the aid of a vigilance committee, that those who do not act in harmony with the National League can scarcely get provisions.

—On the night of August 28, in the vicinity of Calhoun, Ga., a gang of outlaws robbed a store and then blew it up with gun powder. The citizens were aroused by the terrific shock, and, at last reports, had captured six of the band.

—The Northern Methodists (colored) were recently holding a camp-meeting in Rutherford County, N. C., when they were fired into by a body of Zion Methodists who broke up the meeting and burned the camp. Seven of those fired into were wounded.