p. 47 | SECULAR NEWS

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 7, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 6.

Read the full edition

SECULAR NEWS.

—The Russian losses to January 10 are officially stated at 82,195.

—Flattering accounts of oil discoveries in Dakota continue to be received.

—There were 1,890 failures in Canada last year; the liabilities, $250,510,147.

—It is calculated that six persons die every hour of the day in the city of London.

—The cost to Pennsylvania of suppressing the riots last summer foots up to about half a million.

—About 1,000 feet of Sterns' wharf at Santa Barbara was carried away recently by the waves.

—The public debt of Russia is about 1,193,809,956 roubles. A rouble is about seventy-five cents of our money.

—Aliens to the number of 45,536 arrived at New York last year—a decrease of 16,192 compared with the previous year.

—The State of Wisconsin has nine distilleries, two hundred and sixty-six breweries, eighty-one wholesale liquor houses, and 4,777 saloons.

—The mail between Green River and Sweetwater, Utah, was recently robbed of letters containing drafts amounting to about $500,000.

—A site has been chosen for the Cleopatra obelisk on the Thames embankment at the top of Adelphi steps, between Charing Cross and Waterloo bridge.

—Nine millions of people are reported as being destitute on account of the famine in China, and it is stated that children are daily sold in the market for food.

—New England is having the warmest winter known to old inhabitants. With the exception of one snow storm and cold "snap" the weather has been like that of October or April.

—Victor Emmanuel leaves four lawful children—Clotilde, married to Prince Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte; Humbert, now king of Italy; Amadeus, ex-king of Spain; and Princess Pia, married to King Luis I, of Portugal.

—The loss of property on the Western rivers during the past year is set down at $5,330,000. This includes ice and coal boat disasters on the Ohio river amounting to $4,000. The number of lives lost during the time was seventy, more than two-thirds by explosions and burning of steamers.

—The value of the grain and flour imported into France in the last nine months of last year, was $26,200,000, as compared with $34,000,000 in the corresponding period of 1876. On the other hand, the value of the grain and flour exported from France in the first nine months of this year, was $20,400,000, as compared with $19,200,000 in the corresponding period of 1876.

—A Rome dispatch says: The Pope is preparing an allocution against Russia for the persecution of the Church in Poland, and against King Humbert and his accession to the throne for the assumption of the title of king of Italy. The queen of Portugal, daughter of the late King Victor Emmanuel and the Pope's god-daughter, is refused admission to the Pope because she is residing at the Quirinal.