ITEMS OF NEWS AND NOTES
3%Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 12, 1880
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 30.
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- Dr. Talmage and wife arrived in San Francisco the 7th.
- Juab county, Utah, is being devastated by grasshoppers.
- There is a lock-out of 2,400 operatives at Rochdale, England.
- Illinois Congregationalism shows a loss the last year of 753 members.
- August 7, the Healdsburg Flouring Mills were destroyed by fire.
- The Utes refuse to ratify the Washington Treaty in its present form.
- Quite a severe shock of earthquake was felt at Watsonville, Aug. 5.
- The steamer N. J. Dexter was burned to the hull at Louisville, July 25.
- News from Naples states that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius began July 25.
- Secretary Schurz arrived in San Francisco, July 29. Started for Yosemite, Aug. 1.
- The fire at White Sulphur Springs, Green Briar, West Va., Aug. 1, burned forty-four horses.
- J. Lloyd Haigh, who wrecked the Grocers' Bank, New York, has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment.
- A Hartford man, while talking through a telephone during a thunder-shower, was knocked down by electricity.
- In view of possible disturbances, the English government has resolved to dispatch a large body of troops to Ireland.
- There are now about 1,900 U. S. Government prisoners confined in various State prisons throughout the country.
- There are 43,000 postoffices in the United States—an average of almost one postoffice to every one thousand inhabitants.
- President Hayes will attend the State Fair at Sacramento this fall. He will be the first President to visit this Coast.
- New Zealand has now over 1,100 miles of railways, all built within about 12 years, and all narrow-gauge, or three feet six inches.
- A heavy freshet is reported in North Carolina. Immense damage is resulting to the corn and cotton along the Cape Fear river.
- The most disastrous fire which has occurred for a number of years in the vicinity of Buffalo, occurred in that city July 29. Loss, $225,000.
- The hight of the summit of Mount Diablo has just been established by Professor Davidson, of the Coast Survey, at 3,848.63 feet above the tide level.
- A Mrs. Gunnells, of Webster Co., Ga., recently administered morphia to herself and nine children. She left a note declaring that she did it deliberately.
- A disgraceful riot occurred in Toronto recently. The Roman Catholic societies of that city and Hamilton being out for a holiday, encountered a gang of 300 Orangemen, and as might be expected, serious trouble resulted. No lives lost.
- Complete census returns for the State of Oregon show a total population of 175,535 against 90,923 in 1870, an increase during the decade of about 100 per cent.
- A hailstorm on Bear creek, southern Oregon, recently destroyed many gardens, and a windstorm in the same locality blew buildings down and injured cattle.
- A dispatch from Madrid states that the total loss of life by the recent earthquakes at Manila is estimated at 320, including 200 Chinamen. Almost every family is houseless.
- The Public estimates that the public debt, in view of fractional currency and bonds lost or destroyed, is about $28,000,000 less than the statements of the Treasury would indicate.
- Three passenger cars on the Springfield Southern R. R. at Waverly, Ohio, went through a bridge twenty feet high into the canal. Two persons were killed, and nine severely injured.
- 120 Uncompaghre, and 36 White River Utes have signed the treaty. The commission, escorted by the 23d Infantry, are on their way to the Southern Ute agency to obtain consent of the White River Utes to the treaty.
- The murderous Bender family of La Bette Co., Kan., are likely to come to justice. The old folks have been caught in Iowa, and the young folks are being pursued in Iowa, with a prospect of their being arrested.
- The Christian at Work says: "For rank heresy and the looser sort of generalization, commend us to some of the evangelical press; you will find the article there, supply unlimited." As an illustration it refers to an article in the Pacific Christian Advocate.
- The city of Hangchow, China, with 750,000 people, conducts its affairs with such quietness, friendliness, and freedom from disorder that no policemen are required, and none employed. Violence is very rare, and murder does not occur oftener than once in two or three years.
- Some 800 acres of cotton have been planted this year on the rich bottoms of the Merced river, below Snelling, the product finding a local market at the Merced Falls Woolen Mill. It is no longer an experiment there, as it has been cultivated for years, and the area planted is increasing steadily every year.
- Rome spends $200,000 on its public schools, of which, ten years ago, it had none at all. The Romans now evince great alacrity in attending the schools, and the latter are inadequate to the demand of the population. Rome would not yet have had any public schools had Catholicism maintained its supremacy.
- Mr. G. Muller, the founder of the Orphanages at Bristol, England, has arrived at home safely, after his visit of nine months to the United States and Canada. He had an enthusiastic reception at Bristol, 2000 children being drawn up on each side of the road to greet him. Mr. Muller is now seventy-six years of age, and in vigorous health.
- An examination of the accounts of the navy departments, covering four years, from July 1, 1875, to June 30, 1879, shows that money transactions have been made during that period to the amount of $70,541,710, and "that no single officer has defaulted, nor has a dollar been lost to the government." Is it not becoming easier to tell where defaults have been made, than where they have?
- The late battle in Afghanistan was a crushing defeat to the English—even worse than that first reported. Of a force of 2,800 their loss was 1,100. They have evacuated Cabul, concentrating all their forces at Candahar, which is reported as not good for defence, as the hights about it command the city, and the water supply can be cut off. The outlook for England in Asia is anything but cheering.
- The Independent says: "Is not this a free country? If so, by what right does the 'Quarterly Conference of the M. E. church, South,' at Viney Grove, Arkansas, notify the Rev. James Lakey, of the northern Methodist church, that he cannot preach any more in Viney Grove? The Methodist Advocate gives this case, which ought to be confirmed or disproved. If true, there is something radically wrong in Viney Grove."