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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 21, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 12.

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SECULAR NEWS.

—The Paris Omnibus Company employs 10,187 horses.

—Archduke Francis, father of the emperor of Austria, is dead.

—Two shocks of earthquake were recently felt at Milford, New Hampshire.

—Italy has a standing army of nearly 400,000 men, requiring a fearful amount of taxation.

—The grasshopper commission reports that no trouble from grasshoppers is anticipated this year.

—A colony of seventy-five families from New York are expected to arrive in Nebraska this month.

—It is said that within the last two months, upwards of 70,000 persons throughout northern New York have signed the temperance pledge.

—One hundred and forty-five thousand dollars have been taken in a few months from White Hall gold mines, in Spottsylvania, Virginia.

—The total estimated cost of the last Sioux war was $2,312,531. The number of casualties during the same war was killed, 283, and wounded, 125.

—A terrible explosion occurred in a colliery, near Bolton, England, on the 11th instant. Forty men were at work in the pit, and all of them perished.

—General Becente Garcia has been elected president of Cuba, in place of Cespedes, who was captured by the Spaniards several months ago. President Garcia joined the insurrection in 1868.

—The main building of the Merrimac county, New Hampshire Poor Farming Building, at North Boscawen, burned the 12th inst., with most of the contents. Loss, about $18,000; partially insured. The buildings were occupied by 180 paupers, all of whom, it is believed, got out safely.

—An exchange says: "A company has been formed for the construction of a tunnel under Detroit river for the purpose of connecting the Canadian and American shores to Detroit. It is intended to commence operations as soon as Congress grants the requisite permission."

—The heaviest storms ever experienced in West Virginia recently passed over Jefferson county. Hailstones larger than eggs fell for an hour, unroofing houses, breaking glass, killing cattle, hogs and sheep. A heavy rain which followed washed out the growing wheat, inflicting heavy loss. The damages are estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000.