ITEMS OF NEWS | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 26, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 8.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Victor Hugo is 78 years old.

—London has 872 Anglican churches.

—A revolution is in progress in Venezuela.

—The Czar is threatened with softening of the brain.

—Dean Stanley has just completed his 62d year.

—The Herald relief fund now amounts to $237,100.

—Forty inches of rain to date this season at Shasta.

—The distress in Ireland is declared to be on the increase.

—Prof. Nordenskjold purchased 6,000 volumes while in China.

—Seven hundred million oranges are consumed in London yearly.

—The sloop Pearl and all her crew are reported lost off Cape Hatteras.

—From eight to ten persons are dying daily of yellow fever at Rio Janeiro.

—At Atlantic, Iowa, 120,000 bushels of corn were burned in an elevator.

—The Czar wishes a state of siege proclaimed throughout the Empire.

—A freshet on the Tennessee river has done considerable damage at Nashville.

—England, Germany and France acknowledge the independence of Roumania.

—Heavy floods are reported in the provinces of Galicia, Asturias, and Biscay, Spain.

—Monday, the 23d inst., was quite generally celebrated as Washington's birth-day.

—The Duke D'Audifret-Pasquier has been received into the French Academy.

—The boring of the St. Gothard Tunnel will probably be finished inside of two weeks.

—Kearny has taken up a collection to build a gallows on the San Francisco sand-lots.

—The Southern Baptist Mission in Rome has been recognized by the Italian Government.

—At Bainbridge, Pa., Charles Lane killed his wife, and then poisoned his three children and himself.

—Three wood-choppers were crushed to death by a snow-slide near Franktown, Nevada, on the 21st inst.

—In the coal mines of Northern Illinois, colored men are being secured to take the place of striking miners.

—One-third of the business portion of Brewster, N. Y., was destroyed by fire on the 24th inst. Loss $160,000.

—The Imperial Cotton Mills, at Derby, Pa., were burned on the 19th inst. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $25,000.

—According to the last Year Book of the denomination, there are 1,136 Congregational ministers without a charge.

—A formidable insurrection has broken out at the chief city of Abyssinia, and the king has fled to collect an army.

—The steamer Assyria, from New York for London, lost 105 head of cattle during the recent severe storm on the Atlantic.

—The spoon factory of Holmes, Booths & Hayden, at Waterbury, Conn., was burned on the 20th inst. Loss $150,000; insurance, $82,000.

—The Republic of Liberia has peaceably annexed an important territory on its interior frontier known as the Kingdom of Medina.

—Mrs. Augustus Carto has started a Chinese Mission school in New York, and has ten promising Mongolian youths under her tuition.

—During the past week the State has been visited by heavy and general rains. At Santa Barbara ten inches fell in thirty hours.

—Baron Von Schell, Privy Chancellor, has committed suicide, his mind being affected by the explosion in the Winter Palace.

—The Krupp foundry at Essen, Germany, turns out 300 cannon of the largest caliber per month, and frequently doubles that number.

—The Board of Health of San Francisco have declared the twelve blocks comprising Chinatown in such a condition as to be a public nuisance.

—By the explosion of shells in the arsenal at Valparaiso, on the 27th of January, twenty persons were killed and half the building destroyed.

—The House Committee on Foreign Affairs has reported favorably on a bill appropriating $300,000 for the relief of the famine in Ireland.

—De Lesseps has arrived at New York from Panama. His estimate for the cost of the tide-level canal is $160,000,000, and the time required for its completion, eight years.

—Archbishop Purcell the ecclesiastic embezzler, is living in the Brown County Convent, Ohio, and is represented as being utterly broken down in health and spirits.

—Frank Lawrence, a Vermonter, insured his father's life, for $11,000, and then administered prussic acid to him, causing death. The parricide has been arrested.

—The severest snow-storm ever known in the Northwest is reported from Bismarck, Dakota. But three trains from the East have reached that point since Feb. 1st.

—The party of brigands who recently stopped the railroad train between Andalusia and Madrid, and endeavored to secure the Government treasure, have been captured.

—A London newspaper correspondent who visited the Western Islands in a government ship carrying provisions, reports considerable distress, but no immediate danger of starvation.

—A fire on Broadway, N. Y., on the 20th inst., destroyed property to the value of more than a million of dollars. Well covered by insurance. Two firemen were killed by the falling buildings.

—The steamer California, on its last trip from San Francisco to Sitka, met very rough weather on leaving the mouth of the Columbia and was obliged to put into Victoria in a disabled condition.

—The whole number of students enrolled in the Battle Creek, Mich., College for the term beginning Dec. 31, 1879, is 328. All but 16 of the 286 in attendance last term returned for the winter term.

—A new iron steamer, the Columbia, 332 feet long, 36½ feet beam, and 23 feet depth of hold, built for the Oregon Steamship Company, was launched at Roach's ship-yard, Philadelphia, on the 24th inst.

—Thirty passengers arrived at Fargo, February 25, from the snowbound train, walking eight miles. The Bismarck workmen have used up five locomotives. Breaking snow in the cuts is like battering a stone wall.

—A petition containing 3,200 signatures was lately presented to Dean Stanley, protesting against the erection of the proposed monument to Prince Louis Napoleon in Westminster Abby. The Dean refuses to alter his decision.

—Rev. Edward Cowley, late manager of the "Shepherd's Fold," New York, has been convicted of cruelly ill-treating and starving children under his care, and sentenced to one year in State prison and $250 fine—the extreme penalty of the law.

—Near Claysville, Pa., James Morrell, a divinity student who desired to inherit the family property, locked his father and five sisters in their rooms and fired the house. One sister escaped and aroused the neighbors in time to save the rest of the family.

—The Democratic party has taken upon itself the excision of the Mormon cancer from the body politic. Senator Garland of Arkansas has introduced a stringent bill for the suppression of polygamy, which the party proposes to push through immediately.

—The Nihilist Committee have notified the authorities at St. Petersburgh that it will be unnecessary for them to make arrangements for illuminating the city on the anniversary of the Czar's accession to the throne as the Nihilists propose to do this after the fashion that Nero illuminated Rome.

—In later accounts regarding the explosion in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburgh, ten soldiers are reported to have been killed and sixty wounded. But four pounds of dynamite were used. The Duchess of Edinburgh telegraphs to Queen Victoria that neither the Czar nor herself were terrified by the explosion. The Czarina, who was in a remate portion of the palace still remains unconscious of the disaster.