News and Miscellany by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1875

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

—Marshall Bazine is reported dead.

—In London one hundred workmen were injured on the 16th, it is feared fatally, by an overflow of molten metal at the Walsam Iron Works.

—The loss by the burning of the Kaizer Hotel, of Berlin (Ger.) on the night of the 10th is estimated at 1,000,000 thalers, or about $730,000.

—It is rumored that the Sublime Porte has offered Hon. William E. Gladstone £50,000 yearly to establish a sound financial administration in Turkey.

—An enthusiastic meeting to protest against Vaticanism, was held at Glasgow, Oct. 5. A letter was read from Gladstone expressing sympathy for the object of the meeting.

—A lot of wild hemp brought from the Colorado basin, and worked by a cordage company, proves equal to the best American article. Thousands of acres have been discovered in Colorado.

—The little republic of Switzerland has no less than 7,000 schools, and attendance is compulsory in all the cantons but two. Another fact of kindred importance is that Switzerland has always retained her freedom.

—Army officers in India say that no attempt is made to conceal the hostility of the people there to the British Government. The object of the Prince of Wale's splendid visit to that country was to remove this feeling.

—The London Daily Telegraph Sept. 16, stated that the pope recently informed cardinal Borromeo that the Vatican Council would re-assemble to complete its labors in 1876.

—In Sacramento, a Chinese parent has petitioned to have his children admitted to the public schools. Instead of holding the privileges of American citizenship in contempt they will soon be clamoring for their rights under the starry flag.

—Some idea of the immense capacity of our large ships, is gained from the fact that on the first Saturday and Sunday in October, six special tea trains were forwarded to the East from San Francisco, conveying 102 car loads of tea which arrived a few days since by the steamer Ocianic.

—Dispatches from Bombay report the occurrence of disastrous floods in the province Guiserat. The town of Ahmedabad has been been inundated and many of the inhabitants drowned. The destruction of lives and property has been very great. Over 20,000 people have been rendered homeless.

—The Official Gazette states that in the month of July, 1875, were sold 836 lots of church lands for the sum of 2,352,579 lire. In the preceding months of the same year, 1875, were sold 3944 lots, at prices amounting to 10,666,833 lire. From the 26th of Oct. 1867, to the end of the year 1874, the total number of lots of church lands sold by the State in public auction was 106,342, and the total sum they realized 480,778,827 lire.

—Education in Japan is assuming a hopeful state. The officer at the head of the educational Bureau, who decided that no clergyman should hereafter be engaged in government schools, has been dismissed, and his place is filled by a Christian, one of the returned students converted in America. In consequence of this change, missionaries in the college at Yedo, whose terms of service were about to expire, have been invited to remain, and an order has been issued permitting the people to employ foreign teachers wherever and whenever they chose to do so.

—The salaries of the different monarchs of Europe are given as follows by a German statistian: Alexander II., $9,152,000, or 25,000 a day; Abdul Azir, $900,000,000, or $18,000, a day; Francis Joseph, $4,000,000, or $10,050 a day; Fredrick William II., $3,000,000, or $8,200 a day; Victor Emmanuel, $2,4000,000, or $6,840 a day; Victoria $2,200,000, or $6,270 a day; Leopold $600,000, or $1,643 a day. In addition to this salary, each of these individuals is furnishad with a dozen or more first-class houses to live in without any charge for rent.