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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1881

ITEMS OF NEWS.

The N. Y. World says that Beecher has announced that he will complete his "Life of Christ."

Beecher is trying to get up a revival in Plymouth church, but with little prospect of success.

A telegram from Geneva says that if Sophie Pieoffski is condemned and executed, the Czar will perish.

The plague has appeared at Kufa, ninety miles south of Bagdad. The mortality in Wedjib is increasing.

It is estimated that $600,000 of specie were purchased in open market for America, March 23, in London.

We have the usual wail in the papers of impending war in Europe, but none of this is news. But it will come.

The emigration from Germany to America is so large that the steamship companies have to charter extra steamers.

The Sultan has sent a communication to his Egyptian agent, asking a contingent of Egyptian troops in event of war.

Russian proposals for arranging international measures for the extirpation of the Nihilists are favorably received in Berlin.

Gen. Grant has resigned the presidency of the World's Fair in New York. Other interests demand all his time and attention.

A Berlin correspondent of the London Times says that whole villages of Germany are preparing to emigrate to Illinois and Nebraska.

The Canadian Pacific Railroad, so far as completed, has cost $45,526,827, and during the last three years it was operated at a loss of almost $2,000,000.

Blaine has been printer, editor, and school-teacher. Postmaster-General James was once a printer. The type-case is fairly represented in the Cabinet.

Judge Treat, of the United States Court, has decided that the Singer sewing machine patents having expired, anybody can manufacture the machines.

The Thomas Corwin is now being fitted out for another Arctic cruise. She will leave about May 1st, with instructions to search for the Jeannette and the missing whalers.

An extensive forest fire is reported along the line of the Lehigh and Susquehannah Railroad to Pennsylvania, and between Attleboro and Mansfield, Mass.

A lady obtained a private audience with the Pope, and warned him that the day and hour were fixed for the murder of himself and Cardinal Peccie.

The farmers in Carson valley fear their crops will be destroyed the coming season by grasshoppers, as the land in that valley is covered with grasshopper eggs.

Track-laying has been commenced on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, above the Lower Cascades, on the O. R. & N. Co.'s line between Portland and The Dalles.

A railroad man of prominence estimates that at least eight thousand miles of new track will be laid in the United States and Mexico within the next twelve months.

Oscar de la Fayette, a grandson of Gen. La Fayette, one of the French representatives to the celebration at Yorktown, has been dangerously ill, and is now reported to be dead.

By a law recently passed, opium smoking is a misdemeanor in California, and three young men have been fined in Marysville $100 each, or 100 days in prison for the offense.

Virginia City, Nev., seems to be on the "down grade." There is a fissure reported "all along the side of Mt. Davidson, from Bullion ravine to Carson street," which has severed the water main and is increasing in size.

The Boers have accepted the British terms, including the cessation of war and the appointment of a Royal Commission. Peace is regarded as certain. England seems to have been guided by a spirit of justice in this case.

The latest news up to our going to press from the Union Pacific railroad is that the floods have not yet abated, the destruction is great, and the telegraph down where it cannot be reached, so that news from the flooded district is not full.

A report from Nice says: The Italian Opera House was burned March 22. The fire broke out at the beginning of the performance. The bodies of nearly one hundred persons who were suffocated were taken out, and it is known that over one hundred men and women perished in the flames.

An abolitionist banquet was held in Madrid, March 23, at which several Senators and Deputies, also Democrats and Radicals, and West Indian members were present, speeches were made insisting upon the urgent necessity of abolishing the species of slavery which is still continued in Cuba under another name.

Thomas M. Halpin, aged 58, and widely known as an Irish leader, died in Chicago, March 27. The deceased was Secretary of the Irish Confederation movement in 1843, and was associated with D'Arcy McGee in the publication of the New York Nation. He was a member of the Illinois Legislature from 1872 to 1876.

The feeling of disaffection grows in British Columbia. The resolutions of the Government concerning the Island Railway and providing for an appeal to the Queen, came before the House at Victoria, March 23. The Attorney-General made a speech in favor of the resolutions, and said the only recourse left the province was to appeal to the Queen.

The last steamer from Japan brought news of a great fire in Tokio on the 11th of February. It appears that there were consumed, in the short space of nine hours, or forty-four streets, 7416 houses, warehouses, etc. The destructions of these fearful conflagrations is very great. The fire of January 25th consumed about 10,000 houses, so that one-tenth of the city has been destroyed in two fires.

The spirit of lawlessness and murder is loose in the world. A correspondent says the petards in the recent explosion in Madrid were sprung at ten at night, when the streets were much crowded. One explosion near Alcala street, caused indescribable confusion, the people running away frantically. Arrests made, have led to the discovery of a large petard full of powder and glycerine, near the church of San Justo.

In Paris the editor of the Citoyen, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment and 2000 francs fine, and the manager of that journal to three months and 2000 francs fine; the editor of the Jouvenil to six months and 2000 francs, and the manager of the Revolution Sociale to same, and Rochefort and Del Pere, editor and manager of the Intransigeant, to 1000 francs each for articles applauding the assassination of the Czar.

The opening of the Arizona route to the East promises to give an impetus to business all along the line. A Kansas City special says: The first train from San Francisco over the Banana line arrived here this morning, in charge of Conductor Hallet. The train consisted of twelve cars. The coaches were all crowded and seventy-five through passengers were aboard. The run was the most remarkable on record, the train having left San Francisco on time, was on time at every station on the long line, 2300 miles, and arrived here on time. A large party of Chicago capitalists arrived here by the Chicago and Alton Road this morning, en route to New Mexico and Arizona, to invest in mines, and left this evening for the West on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Road.