ITEMS OF NEWS
4%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1880
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 1.
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- Gen. Grant has received enthusiastic receptions in the South.
- The thermometer marked 40 degrees below zero in Minnesota on Christmas.
- The Principal part of the city of Paducah, Kentucky, was recently destroyed by fire.
- During the recent cold wave the thermometer fell to 58 degrees below zero at St. Vincent, Minn.
- A fire on Buchanan's Wharf, Baltimore, on Jan. 2d, did damage to the amount of more than $100,000.
- Oregon is moving in the matter of inducing colored people to immigrate from the South to that State.
- The Seine and the Danube are bank full, and portions of Paris and Vienna are in danger of inundation.
- Correspondence has been discovered proving an alliance between the German Socialists and Russian Nihilists.
- De Lesseps has arrived at Panama, and at the end of this month will commence the definite survey of a sea-level canal.
- The railroad and turnpike bridges at Millersburg, Ky., on the Kentucky Central, were burned the 4th inst., at a loss of $250,000.
- Paris has had 30 days of frost, and the thermometer went down to 8 degrees below zero; the coldest weather on record there.
- Two shots were fired at the king of Spain on the evening of December 3d, but without effect. The would-be assassin was arrested.
- Bishop Gilbert Haven died in Malden, Mass., Jan. 3, after an illness of several weeks. Bishop Haven was a man of rare ability, and an independent thinker.
- A Scottish lord has sent to Dr. Talmage a shepherd's crook, as an emblem of his calling. A secular paper suggests that a pair of bellows would be more appropriate.
- Gov. Wm. A. Howard, of Dakota, was stricken with neuralgia of the heart, Dec. 29, and his recovery is considered doubtful. Gov. Howard was appointed from Michigan.
- The suit long pending of the Alton and Terre Haute railroad against Samuel J. Tilden and others, has been compromised, the defendants paying the road a large sum of money.
- The Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle says some boys were fortunate enough to possess "eastern skates," and skating was done in the neighborhood of that city this winter for the first time.
- The political muddle in Maine which has excited the country for some time is supposed to be settled, the Supreme Court of the State having decided against the action of Gov. Garcelon and the Council.
- Mrs. Meeker, through the Pueblo Chieftain has made known the fact that herself, daughter, and Mrs. Price were outraged by the Utes during their captivity, and the Colorado papers are clamoring for summary vengeance upon the guilty Utes.
- Bishop Corrigan of New Jersey tells his parishioners that he is not a banker, and that hereafter he will pay no interest on any deposits they may please to leave with him. He will avoid the evil which befell the Archbishop of Cincinnati.
- It is announced with confidence that Edison has succeeded in perfecting his electric light to his own satisfaction, and that of all who have beheld it. No one who knew Edison could doubt his ultimate success. Already his stock is selling very high.
- A fire on Federal and Devonshire streets, Boston, on the night of December 28th, did damage to the amount of about $2,500,000. The printing and publishing houses of Houghton, Osgood and Co., and Rand, Avery and Co., were among those destroyed.
- The large force of Afghans which had occupied Cabul and invested the English cantonments at Shirpur, were crushingly defeated on the 23d ult., by Gen. Roberts. The English have been reinforced by Gen. Gough, and again occupy the Bala Hissar and Cabul.
- Of all railroad disasters, the worst probably is that of the fall of a bridge across the River Tay in Scotland. A gale was blowing. The bridge and the Edinburg train went down; the number of passengers is not known, but the loss is large. The bed of the river is quicksand, and it is quite possible that the actual number of the lost will never be known.
- Delegate Cannon, of Utah, fears the action of Congress, and acknowledges that, "without special divine interposition," polygamy is doomed. The departure of an apostle from Salt Lake to Mexico is supposed to look toward a settlement beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. It is, however, considered certain that Mexico will not permit polygamy in her territory.
- An English paper says the Duke of Armaale celebrated the feast of St. Humbert at Chantilly, by having his dogs blessed at the parish church. The "senior member" of the pack was chosen to represent them, and the priest poured holy water on the hound, and decorated him with the Orleanist cockade. Probably "the church" might be induced to "canonize" the dog for money.