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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 10, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 2.

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SECULAR NEWS.

—Bangor, Maine, is closed to navigation by ice.
—England fed 606,392 out-door paupers last year.
—There was taken to China in treasure from here in 1877, $17,601,273.
—The net gain population of San Francisco by emigration in 1877 was 17,293.
—Fifty-two colored emigrants recently sailed from New York for Liberia.
—It is estimated that the drouth the past year has cost California $20,000,000.
—During the nine years beginning with 1868 and extending to 1877, 2,250 new stars were discovered.
—It is stated that the situation on the Caffre frontier, Africa, is very dangerous and troops are being sent from England to Cape Town.