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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 15, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 3.

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—The Bank of England now covers three acres of ground.

—American apples sell on the street stands in London at from eight to twelve cents apiece.

—The estimated cost of collecting the revenue in all parts of the country is $6,455,762.

—Rome, with its 300,000 inhabitants, has about thirty daily papers and more than a hundred weekly papers.

—Russia is about to expend $7,000,000 in transferring her naval headquarters in the Black Sea to Sebastopol.

—The Berlin police assert that they have found proofs of an extensive plot to enroll the soldiers in socialist societies.

—Southern manufactories are generally reported to be running on full time, and to be meeting with a good demand for their wares.

—The weekly influx of immigrants to California, is sometimes as high as 1,500. Most of them settle in the southern portion of the State.

—The boiler of the tug Sol. Thomas exploded Jan. 4, near Empire City, Oregon, killing four men. The captain alone escaped, though very much bruised.

—All but one of the cotton mills within the vicinity of Baltimore have resumed operations. The owners are much cheered by the brighter prospects.

—Here is an item for cigar smokers. A Chinese leper was found last week, by the San Francisco police, working in a cigar factory. He was covered with repulsive looking sores.

—The Daily News of Washington, reports that the present illness of General Grant is mainly caused by numerous sores in the mouth, and on the tongue, the result of excessive smoking.

—Senator Vest, of Missouri, has presented in the Senate, a resolution to abolish the practice of printing in the Congressional Record, speeches never delivered in Congress. It is a public abuse that ought to have been abolished long ago.

—Hiram Price, Commissioner of Indian affairs, says there is more drunkenness and crime in Washington with its 200,000 inhabitants, and all its refinement and culture, than among the 250,000 Indians of this country, who are savages.

—Three collisions occurred on the New York elevated railroads, a few days ago, within half an hour of each other, resulting in the smashing of half a dozen cars and two engines, the wrecking of a station, and the wounding of a number of persons.

—The earthquakes in Spain still continue. Official reports state that up to the 8th, in the provinces of Granada and Malaga, 1,400 persons were killed, 900 were wounded, and 43,000 were homeless. The village of Quekejar is slowly sliding downward to the valley.

—Butler County, Pa., furnishes a sensation in the form of a burning oil well. Dec. 19 this well, which was flowing 100 barrels of oil an hour, took fire, and the flame instantly shot up 175 feet, with the velocity of a cannon ball. The scene attracts many visitors from all parts of the county.

—A powerful secret society of dynamiters is said to exist in Westmoreland County, Pa. English detectives, it is claimed, have mingled with them for a year, and are in possession of indubitable proof that the society has been sending trusty men to England with large quantities of dynamite.

—In a suit brought by a Brooklyn lady against a firm of grocers, to recover $50,000 for being poisoned by muriate of zinc in a can of tomatoes, Judge Brown holds that a good cause of action lies in negligently labeling a can of poisoned fruit as good and wholesome, and selling it according to the label.

—The examination of an iron railroad bridge in Indiana, has disclosed the fact that the iron of which it was constructed has become rotten and brittle, like cast-iron. Experimenters say that the best of iron, when subjected for a time to continuous strain, undergoes changes which render its use in such structures dangerous.

—A Mormon delegation has been to Mexico to negotiate with Cajeme, chief of the Yaqui tribe of Indians, for territory in his country upon which to colonize. Their idea, it appears, is to acquire a certain right to all of the benefits of this territory, and then to place themselves in a position to demand of the United States a right to carry on their religious doctrines, or, if refused, to place an insuperable barrier to the advancement of American enterprise across the border.