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S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 7, 1882

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 34; Special Edition, No. 1

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News and Notes.

—England’s standing army numbers 132,210 men.

—A case of genuine Asiatic cholera is reported from Hillsdale, Mich.

—A heavy snow-storm was reported as raging at Leadville, Col., Aug. 30.

—On Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, 538 persons died of cholera at Manilla.

—Herbert Spencer, the English scientist, has come to this country for a three months’ visit.

—It is now officially announced that the coronation of the Czar will certainly not occur before May.

—The Siberian plague is appearing again to an alarming extent in the most widely separated quarters of European Russia.

—Cholera is raging in Japan. Of 775 cases at Yokahama, 572 proved fatal. At Tokio, about fifty deaths have occurred daily.

—The brokers of Richmond have again commenced to buy Confederate bonds. As much as $750 a thousand has been paid for them.

—The Sierra Lumber Company’s planing-mill at Red Bluff, Cal., was burned August 29. The fire is supposed to have originated from lighted cigarettes.

—Many prominent literary and business men of England have given their names to a scheme for the erection of a bust of Longfellow in Westminster Abbey.

—Mrs. Shaw, of Boston, the daughter of the late Professor Agassiz, supports thirty-three kindergartens in that city and vicinity, at an expense of $25,000 per annum.

—Virginia drinks up her entire wheat crop annually, and the liquor drank in Louisiana costs $47,000,000,—$2,000,000 more than its combined cotton, sugar, and rice crop.

—It is said that a movement is rapidly gaining strength in Kentucky to so amend the constitution as to prohibit the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors to be used as a beverage. What next?

—Later reports of the Texas floods state that 120 persons were drowned. It is estimated that 25,000 sheep, besides horses, cattle, and mules were carried away. Six inches of rain fell all over Northwestern Texas.

—Yellow fever is still on the increase on the border between Texas and Mexico. About one-half of the population of Brownsville is down with the fever. The infected district comprises four counties, which are rigidly quarantined.

—It is said that the adoption of prohibition in Kansas and Iowa is driving a large and undesirable class of people from those States into Nebraska. It is believed that the latter State will be compelled in self-defense to adopt a similar law.

—The manager of Robinson’s circus was fined $100 in the Oakland Police Court, last week, for having allowed a child of tender years to ride and perform in the circus while in Oakland. The case was prosecuted by the secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

—August 26 an excursion train was run from Toledo, O., to Grand Rapids, Mich., and on the return trip half a dozen desperadoes went through the coaches with cocked revolvers, and stripped everybody of their valuables. The conductor was badly injured, and only one of the robbers was captured.

—General Sherman intends to retire from the army in November. The law retiring all officers over sixty-two years of age, would compel him to retire next year. General Sheridan will succeed him as General of the Army. But it seems a strange policy that retires a man from office because he has age and experience.

—There has been fighting between the Greeks and the Turks during the last week. The cause was the alleged violation of Greek territory by the Turks. There have been some sharp engagements, but the difficulty is thought to be satisfactorily adjusted for the present. Nevertheless troops are being massed on the frontier.

—It was thought that the number of miles of railroad laid in July would not again be equaled in any one month, but it was exceeded in August by more than 300 miles. The total for the month is 1,274 miles of new main track, exclusive of side track. The construction for the eight months of the present year, in thirty-two States, is 7,048 miles.

—A German wine merchant, who was convicted and sent to prison for adulterating wine, was forced to betray the secret of his operation. It was this: Three thousand small casks of wine, by the addition of water, alcohol, potato sugar, wine dregs, and salt, were made to yield the enormous quantity of 52,000 casks, which he sold at about fifteen times the value.

—At a Methodist camp-meeting in Wheatland, Cal., last week, after an evening meeting, a man approached one of the preachers and asked him to pray for him, which was done. He then asked the minister to go and pray with his brother and sister. The minister complied with the request, and followed the man, who presented a pistol and robbed him of valuables to the amount of $150.

—The industrial schools for Indians are said to be meeting with success. The red men have begun to work well and to take a pride in their work. General Armstrong believes that within five years, with the 100 Indians at Hampton, Va., and the 300 at Carlisle, Penn., and others under instruction elsewhere, all the shoes and harness needed on the plains can be made by the young men at home.

—A revolution has taken place in Corea. The king was deposed, and the queen and two children were murdered by the mob. In all thirteen inmates of the palace were slain, some being high dignitaries. The Japanese at Soul were also slaughtered. The uncle of the king has seized the throne. This may nullify the recent treaty that has been negotiated between Corea and the United States.

—For some time there has been much discontent among the Irish constabulary at Dublin, concerning pay, and the whole force has left service in a body. As a consequence, the city is in great confusion. There has been a good deal of rioting in the streets. The special officers who have been sworn in are unable to quell the disturbances. A London dispatch says: “The discontent among the Irish constabulary, which has now spread to the Dublin metropolitan police, and it need hardly be said has been fanned assiduously by the national leaders, is looked upon by the authorities as a very serious thing. Indeed, the entire condition of affairs in Ireland is fully as bad as ever.” It is thought that the worst of the troubles in Ireland are yet to come.