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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 25.

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—Athens, Pa., was visited by a destructive fire on the 17th inst. Loss, over $100,000.

—The threats of dynamiters against the life of the pope have caused much excitement at Rome.

—Depression in the iron trade has caused the shutting down of several furnaces in Pennsylvania.

—There is a tripartate disagreement about Morocco affairs, between France, Italy, and Spain.

—According to the report of the R. W. G. S., the membership of the order of Good Templars is 300,000.

—There are about 300 men engaged in killing alligators in southern Florida, for the hides and teeth.

—Sixteen cases of sunstroke occurred in New York and Brooklyn on the 21st inst., five of which were fatal.

—In South Carolina the farm labor force is on the basis of thirty per cent. white and seventy per cent. colored.

—Snow is said to be fifty feet deep in some of the gorges of the San Francisco Mountains, north of Prescott, A. T.

—Some squash vines at Anaheim, Cal., this season, are reported to have grown at the rate of seven inches per day.

—In Tonquin, and in all the possessions of France, duties on all except French goods are to be raised twenty per cent.

—Thirty-six attachments have been placed in the hands of the sheriff of Fresno County, Cal., against illegal liquor dealers.

—On the 21st inst., a tank of 35,000 gallons of oil was ignited by lightning, at Bradford, Pa.; and later in the day three smaller tanks were ignited.

—Two American and twelve Mexican laborers were killed by a premature blast explosion on the Tampico branch of the Mexican Central Railroad last week.

—A dead shark fifteen feet long was washed ashore near Port Harford, Cal., a short time ago, and in its stomach was found a small whisky bottle and some human hair.

—Colonel Linderman, of Philadelphia, is negotiating for the purchase of the island of Cuba from Spain by a syndicate of foreign capitalists. The sum mentioned is $60,000,000.

—The office of the Prescott, Arizona, Miner was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 17th inst. Adjoining buildings were blown up with giant powder to prevent the spread of the flames.

—The first car load of California fruit for the season arrived in Chicago on the 16th inst., and brought prices as follows: Apricots, per box, $3.00 to $3.50; peaches, $3.50 to $4.00; cherries, $3.00 to $3.50.

—Dallas County, Texas, has been waging a commendable war on gamblers and has been highly successful. One man paid the county $5,000 as a compromise, and agreed to not gamble any more within the county limits. Others left rather than stand the storm.

—It is asserted, strangely enough, that there is "harmony in Mexico." The breach between Diaz and Trevino has been settled, and the latter is to be made Secretary of War upon the former's accession to the Presidency. This ends all apprehension regarding the threatened revolution.

—More Chinese have arrived at San Francisco from foreign ports in the six months of 1884 than during the entire year of 1883. One case of small-pox was found amongst the crowd that came on the last steamer, after the captain and surgeon had given a certificate of no sickness on board.

—The steamer Mexico is quarantined at Victoria, B. C., in consequence of a telegram from San Francisco. There are no cases of small-pox on board, but the passengers are detained, and the steamer will be quarantined twenty-one days. The health officer is instructed to land mails after fumigation.

—The Santa Rosa Republican says: A redwood tree, cut in this county, furnished all the lumber for the Baptist church in Santa Rosa, one of the largest church edifices in the county. The interior of the building is finished in wood, there being no plastered walls. Sixty thousand shingles were made from the tree after enough was taken for the church.

—A New York banker regards the many failures of millionaires (nominal and real) during the recent panic as merely a division with the public. Usually the great traders in stocks combine to save one another and let the crash come upon the poorer dupes in the great games; but this time the heavy operators were the victims, and there are not many tears to shed outside of their own circles.