News and Notes by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 17, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 27.

News and Notes.

By Editor

SECULAR.

—John A. Kasson, of Iowa, has been appointed minister to Germany, and Judge Taft, minister to Russia.

—It is reported that General Gordon has been murdered by his soldiers, and that El Mahdi has occupied Khartoum.

—The New York Times says that over 60,000 working people attended the first Sunday concert in Central Park, on the 6th inst.

—The Fitz John Porter bill was vetoed by the President. The House passed it over the veto, but the Senate sustained the President's action.

—A virulent epidemic is raging near Kerbela, Asiatic Turkey. The Russian Government is adopting precautions against the spread of the disease.

—No fewer than 150 persons were poisoned by ice-cream in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 4th inst. The ice-cream all came from one place, and the proprietor's wife was one of the victims.

—The Democratic National Convention nominated Governor Cleveland, of New York, for president, on the second ballot; and Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for vice-president.

—Sixteen polygamous marriages are just reported from Cache County, Utah, and the statement is made from there that the new temple has been thronged by seekers after exaltation ever since the dedication in May.

—As a result of the fight between the two factions of the narrow-gauge railroad from Ogden to Denver, all traffic of the Denver and Rio Grande was suspended last week. At the San Francisco office it was stated that it was impossible to tell when business would be resumed, and that the agency in that city is to be closed.

—The Central Pacific Railroad has been forced to surrender the Mojave division of the Southern Pacific, thus breaking its monopoly of the railroad traffic on the Pacific Coast. The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, and Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroads have not only the right to enter San Francisco, but do so over the lines of the Central Pacific.

—Cholera is spreading in France, and the prospect is somewhat alarming. There is almost a panic at Marseilles and Toulon, and people are leaving in large numbers. This migration, it is feared, will spread the disease. Eighteen hundred persons left Marseilles in one day last week. It is said that New York physicians are now admitting the possibility and danger that cholera may be brought from France to this country. There will no doubt be a rigid quarantine after the disease gets a fair start in the United States.