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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 40.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—England has another African war.

—According to the late census, Chicago has 1,714 Chinese.

—The insurgent Kurds continue their depredations in Russia.

—Trains have been blocked in western New York by ice and snow.

—President Hayes is returning East via Southern Pacific Railroad.

—The 24th, a storm passed over Denmark, doing incalculable damage to life and property.

—Reports of wrecks and lives lost during the late storm on Lake Michigan continue to be received.

—Five million salmon eggs from California have arrived in Chicago, for distribution among different Fish Commissions.

—The proportion of paupers is thirty times greater among those who cannot read than among those who can, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois.

—A fire in Christiansand, Norway, has destroyed two-thirds of the houses. Hundreds of families are homeless. The fine Gothic Cathedral was burned.

—A new English colony has been established in Rugby, Tennessee. The sale of liquor is to be absolutely prohibited. All denominations are to use the same building for worship.

—The issuing of $1,200,000 in paper in Chile has been followed by the banks ordering all depositors to withdraw their deposits, otherwise they will only earn one per cent interest per annum.

—The World's London special, of Oct. 25, says: "The post-office at Manchester is in flames, and will be destroyed. Great alarm is felt here, as there are plain indications that the fire was incendiary, and it is believed by many persons that this indicates an intention to organize disturbances in England in aid of the Land League in Ireland."

—The names of forty-two persons are known, besides the crew, who went down on the steamer Alpena, during the recent severe storm on the Northern lakes. Several bodies have already been washed ashore.

—The Indian chief, Victorio, having slain four hundred persons during the past year, has at last himself been slain, and, according to a late dispatch from Galveston, the most of his band have been killed or captured.

—The new method of teaching deaf mutes to speak has made so much progress in this country that the corner-stone of a new building, to be used for the "improved instruction of deaf mutes," has just been laid in New York City.

—The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company has issued a circular to the shippers of California freight, announcing that that road and the Southern Pacific will be completed and connected about January 1, 1881.

—Of sixteen cities in the Union having from 80,000 to 50,000 inhabitants, but two show a lower death-rate than Oakland, and in three of them the mortality is more than twice as great. The average of the cities is 20.08 per cent, while Oakland is only 12 per cent.

—The manufacture of sporting implements has assumed large proportions in this country. It is estimated that from 50,000 to 60,000 sets of croquet, 200,000 base-ball bats, and 250,000 base-balls will be made for this season's trade by a single firm in Chicago.

—A bootblacks' lodging house has been established in New York, by Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, with the object of providing the friendless boys with a comfortable home, and encouraging steady and provident habits. The boys pay five cents a night for all privileges.

—A serious accident occurred on the Shennandoah Valley Railroad at East Liberty, Page county, Penn., on the 16th. An entire trestle-work, 1,260 feet long and ninety-four feet high, went down with a crash in one promiscuous ruin, instantly killing one man, and seriously injuring several others.

—More than two hundred thousand people assembled in the old city of Cologne, the capital of the Prussian Rhenish Provinces, on the 15th, to celebrate the completion of the great Cathedral, which has been six hundred and thirty years in process of construction. The sums applied to the completion of this, the finest Gothic structure in existence, since 1821, amounts to $10,000,000.

—By a boiler explosion in Terre Haute, Indiana, six men were instantly killed, and as many more seriously injured. Three men were killed and fourteen injured by a railroad collision near Raleigh, North Carolina, and fifteen persons were wounded by a collision near Cincinnati, Ohio. Five women also perished in a burning shoddy mill in Cincinnati. This is enough for the record of Oct. 20, 1880.

—The Indian correspondent of an American journal says that the famous car of Juggernaut was not as usual dragged through the streets of Puri on the 9th of July; and it seems that, by religious custom or law, it be not drawn on the ninth day of the car festival, twelve years must elapse before it is again used. The fact of the car not being brought out this time is attributed by the natives to "an act of unpardonable negligence on the part of meddling Government officials."

—Charles Randolph, Secretary of the Board of Trade, has completed the census of labor and capital employed in Chicago manufacturing establishments, and returned the same to the United States Census Bureau. There are 3752 manufactories, employing 113,507 hands, and representing a capital of over $80,000,000. The number of woman employed is 15,718, and boys and girls under 16 years, 4797. The value of the product made per annum is $249,000,000. The value of material used is $178,000,000. The wages paid are $37,000,000.

—A large number of prominent members of the Land League in Ireland are to be arrested for conspiracy. In view of the difficulty of obtaining a verdict from an Irish jury, the accused are to be taken to England, and tried before an English jury. In view of such a contingency, the Land League have named men to fill the offices in the organization, which would be made vacant by the removal to London of the officers charged with conspiracy. England certainly has something to do now other than watching the bedside of dying Turkey.