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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 10.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-The Arizona Legislature has appropriated $1,000 for fish propagation.
-Connecticut takes out more patents in proportion to her population than any other State in the Union.
-Eight hundred acres have been planted to flax in Santa Barbara county.
-The population of Ireland has decreased nearly three millions in the past forty years.
-Thirty persons have died of the plague in the province of Bagdad, within a short time.
-Henry Stanley, the African explorer, was seen last November. He proposed to stay at Vivi for a while.
-There are now in the United States 82,261 Sunday-schools, 886,328 teachers, and 6,623,134 Sunday-school scholars.
-It is stated that within forty days Portland, Oregon, and Walla Walla, W. T., will be connected by railroad.
-The writing on the sides of the New York obelisk is said to represent the chirography of Rufus Choate and Horace Greely.
-The 17th, St. Patrick's day, is likely to be a great day for Ireland. They are uniting to make the celebration a rousing one.
-The President of the Western Union Telegraph Company says that it has been decided to put wires underground in New York.
-Turkey, regarding war with Greece as unavoidable is trying to prolong negotiations until the military stores from America arrive.
-Yale began to confer degrees in 1702, and since that time has given them to 11,939 individuals—exclusive of 923 honorary degrees.
-Lieutenant Schwatka intends to visit his parents in Oregon early next month, and start on another Arctic expedition next spring.
-In order to encourage the coming of Protestant missionaries into Brazil, the Emperor has offered to pay the expense of their transportation.
-The inaugural address of President Garfield touches upon subjects of the utmost importance and is received with general favor by the people.
-There are now 2,269 lager beer breweries in the United States. These turned out last year one barrel for every four persons in the country.
-The Nebraska Legislature has passed a law that no screens shall be permitted in saloons, and that it shall be a misdemeanor for one man to "treat" another.
-In the year 1900 February will have but 28 days, although a leap year. This phenomenon occurs once in 200 years, and always in the odd 100.
-A telegram from Cork says: "The authorities are in possession of information that some 2,000 Fenians are now there, and secret drilling is going on."
-A burial lot for friendless young men who die in New York, has been given in Woodlawn Cemetery by the Young Men's Christian Association of New York.
-Mrs. Valeria G. Stone has given away $1,800,000 in less than three years. It was agreed upon with her husband before his death that she should dispose of the property, about $2,000,000, as she saw fit, for educational and benevolent purposes.
-Consumption of coffee in the United States, as shown by the warehouse deliveries, for three years: 1880, 2,203,733 bags; 1879, 2,243,002 bags; 1878, 1,903,157 bags.
-A telegram from London, March 6, stated that it had been snowing steadily in Scotland for seventy hours. Traffic was blocked, and many shipwrecks were reported on the coast.
-A Christian village has been founded in the heart of the slave district near Lake Nyassa, Central Africa. Eight new English missionaries joined Bishop Steere in that country last year.
-The Supreme Court of Maine has decided that "a church is not a corporation with authority to create debt in erecting a house of worship." It might be a good thing if such a law were to prevail in every State.
-Fifty ladies of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union who were at the Executive Mansion Tuesday, February 1, will present President Garfield with a portrait of Mrs. Hayes, to be placed in the White House.
-Remodeled regulations for the elementary schools in France have just been issued. They forbid corporal punishment, and provide that the wish of the father shall always be consulted as to participation in religious instruction.
-The Guardian, the conservative organ of Anglican churchmen, has opened its columns to the discussion of disestablishment. This is significant of the English feeling, as a proposal to have such a discussion in those columns ten or even five years ago would have been judged insane.
-A new park five times as large as Central Park is being talked of by Boston people. It lies six miles from the city, and is in the borders of six towns. It is described as a wild, rocky, picturesque wilderness, which Charles Sumner once remarked was a slice of Switzerland set down in Massachusetts.
-The Chicago Times says that the losses to the principal Western railroads by snow blockades, will more than equal the net earnings of those lines for January and February. Nearly one thousand miles of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul R. R. in Minnesota and Dakota, have practically been blockaded all winter.
-The New York World's City of Mexico correspondent says: "The Mormons, who perhaps anticipate difficulties with the new regime about to be inaugurated at home, have again been endeavoring to procure lands for a large colony of the saints. So far the Mexican Government has taken no action in the matter, but may when Congress assembles."
-A woman near Boston, who has been blind for five years, is rejoicing in having found a needle that she can thread herself, by means of a catch or spring in the eye, and is thus enabled to do plain sewing. The needles are fifteen cents a paper, and can be had by addressing Mr. Theodore Tillinghast, care of Wamsutta Needle Co., New Bedford, Mass.
-The French Government, it is said, is going on steadily with the work of separation of Church and State. The Supreme Council on prisons is to be reconstructed as the Educational Council has been. The representatives of the different religious denominations are to be excluded. The Archbishop of Paris, the chief Rabbi and the President of the Protestant Consistory have heretofore been ex-officio members of the Council, but hereafter they will not be so recognized.
-Terrible shipping disasters are reported on the Aberdeenshire coast, Scotland, Saturday, March 5. No less than nine vessels were wrecked and one hundred lives lost. One vessel was the Liverpool ship Ben Rhydding, from Calcutta. All the crew, thirty in number, perished within sight of land. No such storm is remembered within a century as has raged from Tuesday to Saturday.
-Garfield's cabinet, which has been the object of so much speculating by the press, as finally announced, gives very general satisfaction. It is as follows: For Secretary of State, James G. Blaine of Maine; for Secretary of the Treasury, William Windom of Minnesota; for Attorney-General, Wayne MacVeagh of Pennsylvania; for Postmaster-General, Thomas L. James of New York; for Secretary of the Interior, Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa; for Secretary of War, Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois; for Secretary of the Navy, William A. Hunt of Louisiana.
-A telegram from Rome, March 6, states that "the loss of life by the earthquake on the Island of Ischia is appalling. One hundred and two bodies have been found at Cassamaciate up to the present, and many others are under the ruins of the buildings. In the village of Lacco thirteen houses were destroyed and five persons killed. It is stated that three hundred houses have fallen at Cassamacciola. The Government is sending relief. No corpses have been recovered. Sixty-one wounded persons were sent to the hospitals. The fissures in the streets were fifty centimetres wide."