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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 30, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 21.

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SECULAR NEWS.

—The revenue of the United States is about $285,000,000.

—New Jersey has established a State Inebriate Asylum at Vineland. It is to be fitted up at once.

—The Bill re-establishing capital punishment in Iowa has passed the State Senate, and is now a law.

—A recent rainstorm at Denver, Colorado, swept away seven bridges and destroyed other property.

—Within the last ten years the United States has sold $43,000,000 worth of arms and munitions of war to Europe.

—It is estimated that the wheat crop of California will reach fifty million bushels. This estimate is considered by many extravagant, but the crop will be the largest ever gathered, and when sold at fair prices it is thought the times will be flush.

—The women of Virginia have begun a movement to agitate in favor of paying the State debt. They have an organization with headquarters at Warrenton, in that State, and hope to render effective aid in bringing the voters of the commonwealth to a realizing sense of the disgrace of repudiation.

—The population of London for 1877 is estimated by the Registrar General at 4,286,607, or more than one million in excess of the returns of the census for 1871. The section embraced in the Registrar's tables, under the name of London, includes parts of three counties and comprises an area of 122 square miles.

—The sacred monkeys are aggravating the sufferings of the famine-stricken inhabitants in the northwestern provinces of India. Near Mooradabad a number of Brahmins keep thousands of these pests on holy grounds, and allow them to roam at will among the ripening fields, which they strip. The cultivators say they are helpless and must submit to fate.

—In the State of Mississippi there are ninety-two newspapers, whose combined circulation is about 60,000. In Arkansas there are seventy newspapers, whose combined circulation is about 35,000. Mississippi has 828,000 people, so that it circulates one newspaper to every fourteen souls. Arkansas has 485,000 people, which gives it in proportion to its population, about the same newspaper circulation as Mississippi.

—The New City Hall of Oakland has been finished and paid for, and the transfer of the public valuables to its different apartments began May 23. The inside of the building is light, bright and airy, neat and approximately handsome in its finish and admirably arranged in point of utility and convenience. It is presentable in appearance and it is questioned if there was ever a public building as good erected on this coast for the same money, viz. : $22,000.

—It is stated that New York city's population is about 1,200,000. The number of families living in the city is 185,789; dwelling houses, 67,200; houses containing three or more families are classed as tenements and number 20,000, with a population of 500,000. Of this number 523,198 were born in the United States, while forty different nationalities supply a foreign population of 419,094. During the past year there were 20,000 marriages, 35,000 births, and 30,709 deaths. The total value of property within the city limits is set down as $1,101,092,093, paying taxes to the amount of $32,000,000.