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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 33.

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—It is reported that cholera is again spreading in France.

—A recent explosion at Kazan, Russia, attributed to nihilists, killed 100 persons.

—During last week there were forty-two deaths from yellow fever at Havana, Cuba.

—The California Cotton Mills, now being erected in Oakland, will be ready for operation in January next.

—The president of the First National Bank of Albion, N. Y., has absconded, and the bank has suspended.

—A sheet of fire from seventy-five to eighty miles long was recently raging on the prairie near Shoshone, I. T.

—It is intended to have the work of all the Government Indian schools represented at the New Orleans Exposition.

—There is great excitement in Jersey City over the reported discovery of leprosy among the Chinese laundrymen.

—A terrible plague of locusts has visited central Spain. The damage to crops about Ciudad Real is estimated at $10,000,000.

—Yellow fever is reported at Hermosillo and other parts of Mexico. In some places the cattle have been afflicted with the disease.

—It is thought that communication by rail between San Bernardino and San Diego, Cal., will be re-established within sixty days.

—The main building of the New Orleans Exposition will be completed in a few days. Machinery Hall has a total length of nearly two miles.

—Up to the present time 2,000 persons of both sexes, suspected of conspiring against the peace of the czar, have been expelled from Germany.

—Governor Stoneman has proclaimed that Sept. 9, the thirty-fourth anniversary of California's admission into the Union, be a legal holiday.

—The mayor of Carrollton, Ga., has published notice that "dissolute men and women" will not be allowed to live there "except in the chain gang."

—It is charged that the crew of a German man-of-war recently hauled down the British flag and substituted that of Germany at Bogeeda, West Africa.

—Judge Van Brunt, of New York, has decided that the Emigration Commissioners have full discretion under the present laws to keep out paupers.

—In the horticultural branch of the New Orleans Exposition will be a pyramid of twenty thousand plates of fruits, the largest exhibit of this kind ever made.

—Mrs. Treece, of Shelbyville, Ind., on the 21st inst., used arsenic for yeast powder in some biscuits, by mistake, and fatally poisoned herself, her mother, and her child.

—Rev. Dr. Hovey was arrested in the streets of Troy, N. Y., last week when intoxicated and on the verge of delirium tremens. He was sentenced to jail for ten days.

—The business portion of Roseburg, Oregon, was destroyed by fire on the 19th inst. Two persons were burned to death, and the financial loss is estimated at $100,000.

—The United States war steamer Tallapoosa was sunk by collision with a coal schooner off Martha's Vineyard, on the night of the 21st inst. Four persons are reported missing.

—The natives of the Zambezi country, Africa, have revolted and massacred the entire Portuguese force. Re-enforcements are asked for. The British Vice-consul is missing.

—A money-lender at Carlsruhe, in Baden, named Hausmann, has been fined 800 marks, imprisoned six years, and deprived of civil rights for five years thereafter, for excessive usury.

—The authorities at San Quentin, Cal., State Prison, have just discovered that they have a Chinese leper on hand, in the person of a prisoner. The only way they can isolate him is to keep him in a cell.

—Lieutenant Greely, when asked as to his ideas upon the probable results of Arctic exploration, said: "I do not think the North Pole can be reached unless every circumstance hitherto found to be unfavorable should prove favorable."

—Forest fires have done great damage in Michigan, in the vicinity of East Tawas. Farm buildings, fences, grain, and hay, as also a large area of timber, have been burned; potatoes were baked in the ground, and wet marshes dried up.

—The Chinese Government positively declines to pay the French indemnity; the French representative at Peking has hauled down his flag, and the Chinese Minister at Paris has been given his passports. In the ordinary diplomatic routine, the next thing is war.

—A couple of boat loads of drunken sailors, going from the wharf at San Francisco to their ship, last week, got so muddled that several found themselves in the water, and one was drowned. Others would have lost their lives, but for the presence of mind of the boatman and the timely assistance from the ship. A small boat is a dangerous place for a dozen or more drunken revelers.

—Late advices from Vera Cruz, Mexico, say that myriads of locusts have appeared in that State, and, notwithstanding an immense quantity had been killed, the greatest destruction to crops had resulted. In Yucatan and in southern Mexico 100 square miles of country are covered with the pests, and the corn, grass and other crops are utterly destroyed. It is said 1,000 families, dependent on small crops, will have to be supported by the Government during the next six months.

—A New York telegram positively states that "Negotiations have been concluded between the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern and Central Pacific Companies of California with a view to forming a close-working train service and traffic arrangement, extending from St. Louis over the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, and from Atchison and Kansas City over the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé Railroad, by way of the Atlantic and Pacific route, to Albuquerque, N. M., and thence to San Francisco and all points in California."