ITEMS OF NEWS by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1880

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

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ITEMS OF NEWS

By Editor

Cetawayo is learning to read and write English.

The Brazilian cotton crop is estimated at 4,250,000 bales.

There are 82 Mormon churches in England and Ireland.

The capital employed in British railroads is $3,500,000,000.

Chicago proposes to raise a monument in memory of Thomas Paine.

Lowell is the first literary minister to England since Hawthorne.

Michigan's new capitol cost $15,000 less than was appropriated for it.

A rupture between Chile and the Argentine Republic is imminent.

Adolphe Borie, ex-Secretary of the Navy, died at Philadelphia, Feb. 5th.

During the year 1879, 175,589 immigrants landed at Castle Garden, N. Y.

Philadelphia has seven hundred miles of gas mains, and 12,252 public lamps.

The phylloxera is found in Sonoma and Fresno counties in small numbers.

Presbyterian Scotland is surrendering its opposition to the celebration of Christmas.

The combined length of new railroads projected for 1880 in this country is 9,000 miles.

The Phoenix Iron Furnaces at Phoenixville, Pa., are again in blast, after being idle five years.

A professor of the University of Leige has prepared a "history of Sitting Bull," in 400 pages.

Two miles of railroad track have been built upon the ice, crossing the St. Lawrence at Montreal.

The Herald relief fund amounts to $144,000. The Mansion House relief fund aggregates $275,000.

There are 60,000 Mennonites in the United States, located principally in Kansas and the Northwest.

The Sultan's establishment costs $14,000,000 a year, but Turkey has no money to pay her army or her debts.

James Gordon Bennett has started a Herald Irish Relief Fund, and heads the list with the princely gift of $100,000.

The Baptists were the pioneer missionary workers in Liberia, West Africa, their first church being organized in 1821.

An eminent Irish statistician estimates the loss occasioned by the failure of last year's potato crop in Ireland at $23,130,000.

An invitation has been extended to the French Government to participate in the celebration of the centennial of Yorktown.

A new Russian Church temple is to be dedicated at Moscow in August next. It was begun in 1833, and will cost over $13,000,000.

The Lord Mayor of London gives a bond of $50,000 for the safety of the official diamonds, and one of $100,000 for the safety of the plate.

By a recent hurricane in the Philippine Islands, twenty-five vessels, including four foreign frigates, were wrecked, and forty-six persons were drowned.

The Bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland have passed a resolution censuring the Bishop of Edinburgh for his affiliation with Pere Hyacinthe.

Near Barcelona, Spain, the family of a rich land-owner, consisting of seven persons, were found murdered in their beds. Robbery was the apparent motive.

The Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican Presidential Convention at Chicago has declared for Grant by a meagre majority of six votes over Blaine.

The Greek Government, in ordering that the Bible in Greek should be read in the public schools, specified that the original and not the modern Greek should be used.

In the Sandwich Islands Congregationalism prevails among the native Christians, although there are several Catholic churches and one Episcopal church in the Islands.

Four hundred bandits having driven the authorities from the Brazilian town of Januaria, in the Province of Minas Gerses, sacked the place, and burned twenty-two houses.

General Roberts, from Cabul, reports that up to November, 1879, he had ordered seventy-three executions for complicity in the attack upon the embassy, murders of camp-followers, etc.

New York Herald correspondents have made a very thorough canvass of the famine-stricken counties in Ireland, and report that 300,000 human beings are now or shortly will be in danger of starvation.

Throughout the East various manufacturing enterprises, which have lain dormant for years, car works, rolling mills, tool works, woolen mills, etc., have revived and are many of them running night and day to supply orders.

The liabilities of the City of Glasgow Bank which failed some time since were in round numbers $64,000,000, and the assets $38,000,000, leaving a deficiency of $26,000,000, to be made good by 1,819 personally liable shareholders, who were nearly all impoverished thereby.

Two persons lost their lives in a burning building at Fort Collins, Cal., Feb. 3rd.

Near Monterey, California, a woman, in a fit of somnambulism, attacked her three sleeping children with a hatchet, and did not awake therefrom until she had terribly cut them about their heads. It is thought they will recover.

During a severe storm on the Atlantic coast, Feb. 2d, the schooners Daniel Harding and Kate Newman collided off Tom's river, N. J., the latter sinking with all but one of the crew. Seven dead bodies have been washed ashore.

The California State Normal School at San Jose was burned to the ground Feb. 10th. The building cost $280,000, and the museum, library, etc., but little of which was saved, will bring the loss to about $300,000; insured for $50,000.

Near Colville, Pa., two men were carrying 100 lbs. of nitro-glycerine in a sleigh, the upsetting of which caused the nitro-glycerine to explode, tearing one man to fragments and seriously injuring the other. Several houses were demolished.

A terrible accident occurred on the circular railroad at Clichy, France, Feb. 3d. A fast express train ran into the rear of a slow train which preceded it. Twenty-two persons were killed, and one hundred sixteen wounded, several fatally.

A New York grand jury has found 25 indictments against Rev. Edward Cowley, Manager of the Shepherd's Fold, charging him with starving, beating and cruelly ill-treating the children in the Fold. In default of $12,000 bail Cowley was committed to the Toombs.

Terrible atrocities have been committed in Afghanistan by the Ghilzais against native tribes favoring the English. Two thousand families are reported to have been exterminated. As a reprisal several villages of Ghilzais were captured by the Hazores, and every soul in them slain.

A statue of young Louis Napoleon is to be erected in Westminster Abbey. The Queen is decidedly in favor of the project, and has prevailed upon Dean Stanley to consent to this desecration of England's national mausoleum, which is strongly opposed by public opinion throughout that country.

The first missionary on the western coast of Africa, Rev. Albert Bushnell, native of Rome, N. Y., died at Sierra Leone, Dec. 2d. He had just returned from a visit to this country. Mr. Bushnell first went to the Gaboon Mission in 1843. When he arrived at Gaboon river he found 900 slaves chained two and two, awaiting shipment to Cuba. He was very influential in procuring the abolition of the slave trade and ameliorating the condition of the natives.