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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 26, 1881

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 20

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Missouri has an immigration agent in Germany.

—A large emigration is in progress from Kansas to Wisconsin.

—Two million copies of the revised New Testament have already been sold in London.

—The United States Signal Service office will in future receive weather reports from Mexico.

—Thomas Sherman, the General’s only son, has just been ordained a Catholic priest at Baltimore.

—A Madrid dispatch says there is a deficit of $3,000,000 in the estimates for the fiscal year 1880-81.

—A bill introduced into the Vermont Legislature forbids running railroad trains and locomotives on Sunday.

—A new steamship line has been organized at Hamburg, and its vessels will soon be running to New York.

—Archbishop Purcell is sinking steadily, and lies at the Ursuline Convent in Cincinnati, in an unconscious state.

—Two strong shocks of earthquake occurred on the island of Chio, Friday evening, May 20. Several more houses fell.

—The United States Consul at Bangkok, Siam, refuses consular protection, and the use of the United States flag, to dealers in opium and liquors.

—In 1844 there were in this country forty miles of telegraph line. In 1880 there were 142,364 miles of line, and 350,018 miles of wire.

—A shoddy factory in Chicago has shredded up three million pounds of polluted street rags to make stuffings for cheap mattresses for people to sleep on.

—A dispatch from Vallejo, Cal., May 21, says: “The nights have been cold. Ice formed last night three inches thick in front of a store where water was left in a trough.”

—The Jewish Chronicle says there are ten weekly journals printed in Hebrew, and eight monthly magazines. Hebrew is hardly a “dead language” in all parts of the world.

—The total number of immigrants arriving in this country during the first quarter of 1881 is 45,543, an increase of 10,868 over the number of arrivals during the same period of 1880.

—Col. Thomas A. Scott, of the Pennsylvania railroad, and projector of the Texas Pacific R. R., died at Clifton, Pa., May 21. He had the reputation of being the best railroad manager in the country.

—The fate of Peru is still doubtful. Pierola’s party refuse to recognize the national defeat, and it is doubtful whether annexation to Chili, or at least a Chilian protectorate may not become unavoidable.

—The report of the Secretary of the Treasury shows that the government receipts last year from spirits, were $61,000,000; from fermented liquors, $13,000,000; from tobacco, $39,000,000; total, $113,000,000.

—A cave occurred in the Golden Terra mine, Terraville, D. T., on the evening of the 19th, just as the night force was going in. Thirteen men were imprisoned in the mine, of whom three were killed and five injured.

—The secretary of the Kansas State Board having the charge of the colored immigrants, reports that the Board has received, cared for, and distributed more than 100,000 of these people, and has been the means of turning 10,000 of them into other States.

—The business community at Cracow have been warned from Warsaw not to send Jewish travelers thither. Placards have been posted at all the street corners, inciting Christians to attack the Jews. Many refugee Jews have crossed the frontier in consequence.

—New York has double cause for alarm. Besides the unclean condition of her streets, which threatens to bring on a plague, it is alleged that the Croton water is impure. A good move toward cleaning out the streets would be to “clean out” a rabble of corrupt office holders.

—The Grand Duke Nicholas has been sentenced to imprisonment for life, on account of his connection with the Nihilists, and his supposed complicity in the murder of the Czar. Several high officers in the navy have been arrested, charged with being connected with Nihilistic plots.

—At a meeting of the Spanish-American Claims Commission, in Washington, May 21, Count Lowenhaupt, the umpire, awarded to Jose M. Macias, a naturalized citizen of the U. S., $225,000 for losses caused by the seizure of his sugar plantation near Matanzas, Mexico, in 1869.

—It is reported that there are numerous little saloons in Cleveland, Ohio, where ladies can enjoy a drink, and treat their friends. These saloons are not placed in public sight and properly called such, but are under the guise of bakeries and millinery stores, where the female tipplers can enjoy their “bitters” unperceived. They are said to be very popular.

—The steamship Ganos, from Matanzas for Boston, with a cargo of sugar, sunk 20 miles east of Boston, on the night of the 20th. The loss on the cargo is $350,000, and on the steamer, $160,000. The Ganos collided with the Warren Line steamer Pembroke, bound for Liverpool. The crew were all saved with the exception of one seaman. The Pembroke was not seriously injured.

—A company has been organized in Bradford, Pa., to work the placers of the Santa Rita mountains, 30 miles south of Tucson, Arizona. Heretofore the mines could not be worked successfully except in the rainy season, on account of lack of water, but the company propose to conduct water to them, and have shipped the necessary iron pipe. The placers are reported to be very rich.

—A dispatch from Cairo states that two pyramids at Sakkara, inclosing the tombs of the kings of the fifth dynasty, have just been opened. The mortuary chapels of each contain texts giving details of the religious belief of that age. The Masonic theory and all previous conceptions are entirely upset. Except the finding of the rosetta stone in 1799, no discovery in Egypt equals this in scientific value.

—The British Navy has, in the aggregate, 317,000 tons of armored ships, which cost the nation £18,000,000. England possesses 55 ironclads, exclusive of 10 vessels condemned. France has 53 vessels, including those now being built; Turkey, 24; Italy, 18, including the two most powerful fighting ships afloat; Germany, 12; Holland, 17; Austria, 14; Spain, 7; Denmark, 6; Sweden and Norway, 8; Greece, 3; Portugal, 1.

—Sunday, May 22, a fire was discovered in a wheat field near Peters’ Station on the Stockton and Copperopolis railroad. Before it could be extinguished, over 600 acres of grass and grain, including 200 acres of good wheat, were burned. The same day, as a pleasure excursion was passing Clyde, one of the party threw a lighted cigar stump from the window, which kindled a fire that consumed 400 acres of good wheat. The loss was $15,000.

—The London Morning Star characterizes the attitude of France as one of perfidy and unblushing falsehood. The New York Trib’s London correspondent says, however, that the English outcry against the seizure of Tunis by France, has necessarily diminished since the publication of dispatches, proving that the consent of England was pledged in advance by Lord Salisbury. But the general feeling remains that France has committed an act of wanton violence, cloaked till the last moment by false professions of innocence.

—It is only a question of time as to when the new Czar will be assassinated. The spectacle of 12,000 exiles on their way to Siberia, many of them on the mere suspicion of hostility to the government, has not tended to quiet the madness of the Nihilists, and they are dangerously active. A dispatch of the 17th, says that on the 12th one of the palace scullions, who has since been arrested, sprinkled arsenic over a bowl of salad of which Alexander is known to be fond. The attempt was detected. On the day previous the Emperor received an invitation to his own funeral. The same day an ensign found a mine of thirty-seven pounds of gunpowder under a stone bridge at the steamer landing, in the street leading to Tzarkalztorati way station.