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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 38.

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-The Oakland Clinton Mills were burned Oct. 4.
-A large strike commenced in St. Louis, Sept. 29.
-Two inches of snow fell near Quebec in September.
-Serious trouble is apprehended in Ireland because of the anti-rent agitations.
-Senator Zachariah Chandler has been made an LL. D. by Hillsdale (Mich.) College.
-From January 1st to June 1st this year, the receipts of gold from Europe amounted to $27,000,000.
-At a meeting of the council of the Massachusetts Medical Society it was resolved to admit women to membership.
-It is estimated that Dr. H. J. Glenn has raised this year 1,200,000 sacks of grain on his ranch in Colusa county.
-It is thought an understanding between Greece and Turkey is impossible. Warlike preparations are progressing on both sides.
-A deficiency of small coin in the U. S. Treasury is to be supplied by recoining the foreign gold received at the N. Y. assay office.
-Eastern Siberia is menaced with famine. Grain is dearer than ever before, and the poor are suffering severely. The harvest was very bad.
-The Sons of Temperance in San Francisco, adopted resolutions of respect to Gen. Grant, for his refusal to drink wine at a reception.
-The rinderpest is raging in Russian Poland with great virulence, and precautions have been taken to prevent its introduction into Germany.
-Judge Tourgee, after residing fourteen years in North Carolina, has returned North. He says there is more bitterness now to Northern people than existed in 1865.
-Daniel Drew, once a prominent speculator and stock-broker, recently died at the age of 82. He amassed a fortune of $8,000,000, but lost it as he gained it, and died poor.
-Affairs in Afghanistan are in a dubious state. The rulers profess friendship for the English, but are suspected of sympathy with the rebellion. Peace is not restored.
-The British ship Langdale, which sailed from San Francisco in June, was wrecked near Wexford. Capt. Jenkinson, his wife, three children, and four of the crew, were lost.
-A large exodus of Chinese embarked on the City of Tokio Oct. 4. It is stated that the Tokio is freighted with the most valuable cargo ever shipped from San Francisco to the Orient.
-The loss caused by the Deadwood, D. T. fire is estimated over $3,000,000. All that was saved of the county records, books, etc., was one set of books from the Treasurers office.
-There have been discovered in the shop of a Parisian bookseller forty-five volumes in MS., written in utterly unknown characters, and the French savants can make nothing of them.
-A dispatch from Geneva says the district of La Roche, in the Canton of Fribourg, was visited by a waterspout on Friday, Sept. 26. Twelve bridges were destroyed, and houses, fields, and vineyards flooded.
-A tax collector in S. F., being unable to collect of a Chinaman, levied on one of the wooden gods and had it placed on a wagon. The Chinaman soon made good the delinquency and recovered the idol.
-Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-office Department decides that letters addressed to lottery companies or to agents for such companies are unmailable per se, and Postmasters should refuse to register letters when so addressed.
-A Rome correspondent telegraphs that Sicily and Southern Italy have been visited by a great storm, on Sunday, Sept. 28, which carried away a railway bridge between Ciro and Crucoli, hurling a passenger train into the torrent. The engineer was killed and all the passengers more or less injured.
-On the morning of Oct. 2, a sharp shock of earthquake was felt at San Francisco. Although very brief in duration, the shock was one of the severest experienced during the past five years. It appeared to travel from west to east, and was felt nearly all over the city, and at various points in Oakland.
-Governor St. John, of Kansas, gives a very flattering account of the 6,000 colored refugees who have taken up their homes in that State. They have gone to work, so that not more than seventy-five of the whole number are receiving aid. To prevent others leaving the South, the whites are resorting to such rigorous and unjust measures as will be sure to drive them northward.
-Major Thornburg, with a body of soldiers in Colorado, fell into an ambuscade of Ute Indians and was killed, with fifteen others, and forty wounded. Intelligence being sent to Gen. Crook at Omaha, he ordered all available help by rail to Rawlins, whence it is hoped the remainder of Thornburg's men may be reached before they are destroyed. The Utes are formidable warriors, inhabiting a rough, mountainous country, heavily timbered. As usual, it is considered that the ill conduct of Agents, and the neglect of duty by last Congress, has brought this calamity, which will probably be more serious before it ends.