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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 17.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-A fire at Jacksonville, Ill., April 30, destroyed two entire blocks.
-Postmaster General Key, has been appointed to a Judgeship.
-A piercing cold wind, and blinding snow storm prevailed in Ottawa, Ontario, April 30.
-A dispatch of May 2, says: "Two large hotels at Battle Creek, Mich., were burned yesterday."
-Memorial Hall at the Dayton, Ohio, Soldier's Home, was burned May 2. It will be rebuilt.
-The English training ship, Atalanta, is given up for lost. She carried 11 officers, and 300 young men.
-Politics are mixed. An unusual amount of bickering over rival candidates is going on in the two parties.
-Bismarck's physicians have at last compelled his retirement from business on account of his failing health.
-Accounts from Afghanistan are considered very favorable to the English, but they are not altogether consistent.
-The town of Keytesville, Mo., was consumed by fire April 19. A fierce gale spread the fire in every direction.
-Grace Methodist Episcopal church of New York was burned May 2. The fire is supposed to have been incendiary.
-Two boilers exploded at the Tod furnace on Briar Hill, near Youngstown, Ohio, April 30, killing two men, and wounding five.
-The supreme court of Illinois decides favorably to the board of education directing the reading of the Bible in the public schools.
-The German South Sea Trading Company are taking steps to wind up their affairs, because the government refuses to grant a subsidy.
-Seventy houses were recently burned at Rodoanyal, Russia, and one hundred and thirty at Nemeroff; more than 200 families are homeless.
-A Catholic paper in writing about the Catholics and the Ritualists of the English church, heads the the article "Papacy and Apacy."
-The coal mines at Belleville, Ill., have been closed in consequence of the dictatorial conduct of the miners. The Governor has sent the sheriff to preserve order.
-A Paris dispatch of April 30, to the London Daily News says: Wheat has declined considerably, and the position of the American and French Corn Syndicate is considered precarious.
-President McCosh says only four graduates of the one thousand during his connection with the Princeton College were skeptics, and three of them have now become preachers of the Gospel.
-An emphatic denial is given to the story that foreign Jews are being expelled from Russia. On the contrary, the regulations against the residence of Jews in several provincial towns have been suspended.
-Gladstone has been made Premier of England in spite of the Queen's well-known coolness toward him. So strong is the expression of the popular will in the kingdom. His cabinet is considered a very strong one.
-The leading grain circular of Liverpool, April 30, says: "The grain trade during the past week has been dull and lifeless, with an almost entire cessation of demand. The improving tendency recorded last week has entirely disappeared."
-The New York daily Witness, the only daily religious paper in the world, has suspended, died, for want of patronage. The Independent says it was a paper having only piety and not brains. This is a cruel criticism from a co-religious paper which has often been suspected of having only brains and no piety!
-California storm notes of April 21: Healdsburg, 9.73 inches in 48 hours; Grass Valley, 4.50 inches in 18 hours; Georgetown, El Dorado Co., April 21, raining one inch in three hours,-8 inches to 24 hours; Placerville, several houses blown down by wind, with heavy rain; bridges carried away, and railroad wash outs in many parts of the State, with much injury to the crops; Nevada, (Nevada Co.,) 5.20 inches in 24 hours, with 22.98 inches in April, six times more than usual in the month; a camp of Indians have lived for several years on an Island in Alameda creek; their houses floated away, and they escaped into sycamore trees.