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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 26.

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NEWS AND NOTES.

—Tennessee has seven Baptist weekly papers.

—Heavy storms suspended sending news, July 3.

—Fighting between Peru and Chili still continues.

—The Pope has decided to accept the Prussian church law.

—A stately "palace" is to be built in New York for Cardinal McCloskey.

—July 1, report from New York, seventy-nine fatal cases of sunstroke in twenty-four hours.

—A sulphur mine near Winnemucca, Nevada, is on fire, making a splendid display in the night.

—Dr. W. H. Milburn, the eloquent "blind preacher," is making a two-months' visit to the Pacific Coast.

—The annual tribute paid as rent to the landed aristocracy of England, is estimated at $500,000,000.

—The damage to property by flood on the Columbia river is large. The water is nearly as high as in 1876.

—It is said to cost as much to raise one acre of tobacco as it does to raise eight acres of corn. Shameful waste.

—The Congregationalist says: "It is quite time it were understood that the Westminster Confession is not the Bible."

—The number of immigrants landed at New York in June last was 42,026; in June 1879 the number was 15,330.

—An accident on the Lachine canal, Canada, caused a direct damage of $500,000, and an indirect loss of over $1,000,000.

—During the past fiscal year more settlers have occupied homesteads on United States lands, than in any former year.

—Gladstone introduced a resolution in Parliament which resulted in seating Bradlaugh. Strong feeling was raised in his favor by his rejection.

—The number of victims of the late Long Island Sound disaster increases. Thirty-two bodies have been recovered, and thirty are yet missing.

—In a recent speech Sitting Bull said: "There is not one white man who loves an Indian, and there is not a true Indian but hates a white man."

—Lightning struck an oil tank at Olean, N. Y., the evening of June 30. The tank contained 25,000 gallons. By great effort the fire was prevented spreading.

—The United States steamship Pensacola, which left San Francisco for Alaska, to relieve the Jamestown, had to return on account of defects in her machinery.

—A meteor described as large as a barrel, fell at Macon, Ga., on the night of June 28, lighting the heavens, and exploding with a report which shook the earth.

—Accounts from Fort Stockton, Texas, give description of the terrible sufferings of a party of Texas-Pacific Railroad men in the White Sandhills, from thirst.

—The "Mollie Maguires," a murderous band, which was supposed to be broken up, has become strong again in the Eastern Pennsylvania coal regions, and murders are frequent.

—The Grand Republic ran into the Adelaide, in New York harbor, and the latter sank in a few minutes. Both were excursion steamers; the Republic had just landed 2,000 passengers.

—Dr. George R. Crookes, LL. D., has been appointed to the chair of Historical Theology in Drew Theological Seminary, made vacant by the election of Dr. Hurst as bishop of the M. E. Church.

—A vessel arrived in New York June 16, with 330 Mormon converts on board. They were from England, Scotland, Wales, Switzerland, Schleswig-Holstein, and the northern part of Germany.

—Gen. Hancock is placed in an awkward position. The "platform" on which he stands nominated strongly denounces President Hayes, who is his superior officer, being commander-in-chief of the army.

—A pleasure steamer was completely wrecked by explosion of her boiler, on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., July 1. Four persons were killed and seven badly hurt. An excursion party of 100 was just about to embark.

—By the running of fast trains east of Chicago the time from New York to San Francisco has been reduced ten hours. Travel would be greatly increased if the fare west of Chicago were brought to reasonable rates.

—Invitations to revolt have been largely circulated in Syria, and find great favor among the Moslems. Arabs in Pera profess to know that a great movement is on foot for the establishment of a Syrian-Arab State.

—The Secretary of War is considering the propriety of ordering Cadet Whittaker before a court martial, where he may have opportunity to vindicate himself, which, it is claimed, he had not at the examination at West Point.

—The Sultan of Turkey is said to be preparing to render the Dardanelles impassable by means of forts and torpedoes. This looks like resistance to the decisions of the conference, which are favorable to Greece on the border question.

—Thirty miles of sewer pipe, and nearly as many miles of draining tile, have been laid in Memphis. Ground which was low and swampy has been rendered dry and hard, and the health of the city is improved in a corresponding degree. Thus a "terrible and mysterious providence" is cleared up.

—The Russian railway system presents one striking feature. The companies are bound to maintain at each station, at their own cost, a mounted Cossack gendarme who is armed with a Berdan and revolver, and forms a part of the powerful "railway police" of Russia.

—It is said (and if true it is worth knowing), that one spoonful of coarse powdered saltpetre to a pail of water will destroy potato bugs, squash bugs, and other insects. For roses it is unsurpassed. Pour a pint of the liquid at the foot of the squash vines where the roots are attacked.

—A despatch from Constantinople says the Foreign Ambassadors have given the Porte clearly to understand that if the Porte accepts the suggestion in regard to the surrender of Dulcigno, it must execute it without delay, or the Powers will insist upon the immediate execution of the previous Convention.

—Great disappointment is felt in many cities over the census returns, the population being so much less than the estimates. St. Louis is talking of another enumeration. Oakland, Cal., which counted on 45,000, falls to about 35,000. San Francisco, which was counted sure of 300,000, is set down for 240,000.

—The work of expelling the Jesuits from France has been commenced, energetically. The strong measures pursued will doubtless cause a reaction and prove disastrous to the cause of the government. Even in the United States it is denounced as persecution; but treason is tolerated in this country more than in Europe. The Minister of the Interior and Worship has received a letter threatening him with assassination "in the name of the Sacred Heart."

—What is known as the Suy levee, an embankment which protects the Illinois bottom for many miles north and south of Quincy from overflow of the Mississippi river, broke at 3 o'clock the morning of June 30, near the Cincinnati Landing, about eight miles below Hannibal, Mo. There is a break of about half a mile wide, and the water is rushing through and backing up with great rapidity. The loss in the Illinois bottom will be immense, and many of the farmers will be ruined. Wheat which was cut and shocked floated off, and the corn crop will be destroyed. Another break has occurred near the first, and the water pours through with great velocity. The break is long, and embraces fully a quarter of a million acres of the most highly cultivated, and most fertile bottom lands in the State, more than half of which was in wheat.