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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 43.

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—Mr. Fawcett, Postmaster-General of England, died on the 6th inst.

—One-fourth of all the Government expenditures of Iceland is devoted to education.

—During the last ten years Italy has expended $100,000,000 on monster war vessels.

—The drink bill of Tennessee is said to be $2,000,000 more than the value of her wheat crop.

—Foreign syndicates and capitalists own nearly 30,000 square miles of territory in this country.

—The Argentine Government has suspended the bishop of Salta for issuing a curiously worded pastoral.

—The entire business portion of Napoleonville, La., was destroyed by fire, Nov. 7. A prominent citizen perished in the flames.

—During October British imports decreased, as compared with October of last year, £4,737,000. The exports decreased £725,000.

—The principal part of the mining village of Silver Plume, Col., was destroyed by fire, on the morning of the 6th. Several lives were lost.

—By the explosion of a dynamite mill near Robesonia, Pa., Nov. 6, three men were blown to atoms and a neighboring building badly shaken.

—During a religious riot of Arabs at Haiderabad, India, on the 1st inst., eleven policemen were killed, and many wounded. Many houses were plundered.

—In Germany a man dare not cut down the trees on his own land without consent of the proper authorities, so zealous is the Government in preserving the forests.

—The Georgetown and Placerville (Cal.) stage was stopped by a highwayman on the 5th, and a large quantity of gold-dust was taken from the driver, who had it in charge.

—The latest reports from Egypt are that Gordon's entire force, having been forced out of Khartoum, has been captured, and that he himself is now a close prisoner in the Mahdi's camp.

—A San Antonio dispatch says: "Thirteen thousand car loads of wheat from California to Liverpool are passing over the Sunset road. It will take from now until June to finish the shipment.

—President Solomon, of Hayti, on the fifth anniversary of his taking the presidential chair, the 23d ult., granted full and complete amnesty to all political offenders in the country, as well as all exiles.

—The earnings of the Union Pacific Railway for the past nine months were $18,370,000, a decrease of $2,449,235 from the same period of last year. The surplus earnings were $7,832,839, a decrease of $2,823,586.

—It is stated that on the Saturday night preceding the election, there was debauchery everywhere in New York City, and that more drunken men could have been counted in one hour than in any week previous.

—A storm of wind and snow, the severest ever known, raged on the coast of Quebec, Nov. 4-6. There was a high tide, the waves running to the height of sixty feet, which inundated the coast, destroying property to the value of a quarter of a million dollars.

—The director of the mint has prepared a statement in regard to the present money circulation in thirty-nine countries of the world as compared with the circulation as reported a year ago, which shows a decrease in the gold circulation of about $52,000,000, an increase in the silver circulation of $42,000,000 and an increase in paper circulation of $112,000,000. He attributes the loss in gold circulation to a reduced production and to the increased use of that metal in ornamentation and the arts.

—Floods at Alicante, Spain, destroyed the Faubourg Caradie, and a rock thrown down by an avalanche battered down the old stone walls of the town of Caroajente, near the river. Jucare and Alciria, on an island in the river Jucare, all in the province of Valencia, have been submerged. Great damage has been done to factories, bridges, and residences.

—The steamboat Fannie Freeze was burned to the water's edge at Madison, Ind., on the evening of the 7th inst. The fire caught from a torch igniting hay, 400 bales of which composed her cargo. The flames went up through the deck in less than half a minute, obliging the passengers and crew to jump into the river to escape. The boat and baggage of the crew are a total loss.

—The President of the Columbus, Hocking Valley, and Toledo Railroad has requested the Governor of Ohio to order out the militia, on account of the burning of bridges by the miners, in Hocking County. The Sheriff of Hocking County also requested the Governor to call out troops. He says that Murray City was attacked by 300 or 400 miners, who carried tin cans filled with giant powder.

—Great excitement has been caused in Paris by the acknowledgment by the municipal authorities of the existence of cholera in that city. The health officers have known of the prevalence of the disease for some time, but thought that it would disappear on the approach of cold weather. The increase of the plague in the last few days has been so great that no further deception was possible. Medical experts say they do not fear an epidemic during the winter months, but that the disease will probably break out in the spring in its worst form.

—Clawson, the Salt Lake Mormon who two weeks ago was convicted of polygamy, when asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, made a speech denying the constitutionality of the statute against polygamy, saying that he thought polygamy right, and he was determined to practice it. Judge Zane said he had thought to pass a light sentence upon him, but he could not now. A defiant criminal was not entitled to leniency. He therefore sentenced him to four years' hard labor in the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $800.