SECULAR NEWS
6%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1878
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 47.
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- The Government has decided to buy trade dollars as bullion.
- U. S. Senator Mitchell moves for $500,000 for the construction of a canal around the Cascades of the Columbia River.
- The experiment of sending honey in the comb from America to England has proved successful, and a large trade in that direction is predicted.
- The captain of the Pomerania, who was reported as lost with his ship in the English Channel, was rescued after being an hour and a half in the water.
- Yale College has decided that if any Sophomore engages in hazing or anywise insulting a Freshman, he will be dropped into the Freshman grade without any regard to his standing. Whereat all good people rejoice.
- The San Francisco "Loper Hospital" received three patients in November. There are twelve lepers there at the present time.
- The Los Trancos Water Company intend to erect a dam in a canyon west of Menlo Park one hundred and forty feet high. This will be about three hundred feet above the base of San Francisco.
- During the present year the Russian navy has received additions of one hundred torpedo boats, and several cruisers, seven clipper steamers, and two iron-clads. Several others are nearing completion.
- There was a great deal of tobacco smoke in Burlington, Iowa, Dec. 4, when the Mississippi Valley Tobacco Works were burned, which is better than to have it smoked in your face in cars and halls.
- Manuel Pardo, ex-President of Peru, has been assassinated. Manuel Pardo governed Peru from 1872 to 1876. He was the candidate in 1872 of the popular party, and his election was preceded by the desperate riot during which President Balta was assassinated.
- A report comes from Berlin that the government intends to send to America a lot of their worst communists. Murder and arson are now publicly advocated in the United States and the speakers are unmolested by the authorities and cheered by the crowds of listeners. Peace and safety!
- The English troops in Afghanistan moved on victoriously until they got into a "pass," in which they had been fighting several days at last accounts. Gen. Roberts is convinced that the Ameer has a large force there. It looks as if the English leader had been entrapped.
- An Italian sausage-maker has been convicted before the city court of San Francisco of "cruelty to animals" in cutting off the tails of several dozens of cats which he bought. One boy testified that he sold him two dozen, caught in traps. This has been a very interesting trial to the patrons of the restaurants. He was fined $50.
- Unscrupulous speculators have endeavored to buy up the gold to prevent the resumption of specie payment on Jan. 1st., unless the specie is bought of them. Secretary Sherman has stopped the issuing of gold certificates which has checked their operations. To check the action of the government at such a critical time as this is the worst treason.
- The method of examining candidates for teachers' certificates in California by means of printed questions sent out from the Superintendent's office, has been considered defective, and nearly a farce, so far as proof of efficiency as teachers is concerned. It now comes to light that these question lists have been largely sold by private sale before examination! What next?