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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 15, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 27.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—The war in Buenos Ayres has ended.

—A heavy earthquake has visited Switzerland.

—A mill company at East Douglass, Mass., lost $130,000 by fire.

—A fire at Pensacola, Fla., July 5, burned a block, valued at $75,000.

—The hot weather continues in New York, and great mortality is the result.

—The papers record a large number of fatal accidents on the 4th of July.

—Recent reports of Chinese victories over the Russians are contradicted by the latter.

—A $150,000 fire occurred at Tyrone, Pa., July 8; about fifty buildings were burned.

—A Prince Demidoff gambled away at Madrid $1,600,000 in one night. Nothing lost nor gained.

—Russia made overtures to Portugal and Japan for aid in case of war with China, but it was refused.

—The famine fever is still spreading in Ireland. The peasants are arming, and trouble is expected.

—A San Francisco boy of 12 years committed suicide by poisoning, to avoid going to Berkeley school.

—Mail from the Corwin has been received. Behring Strait was still closed, and no news from the Jeannette.

—The loss to Illinois farmers by the overflow of the Mississippi near Quincy, is estimated at half a million dollars.

—A disease called "black knot" has attacked grapevines in California. It is said to prevail quite extensively.

—A heavy rain storm in central Iowa the night of July 7, detained trains on the Rock Island Road about fifteen hours.

—Detroit, Mich., prohibited fire crackers and all powder explosives, on the 4th. No accidents, and the citizens were pleased.

—Recent examination of the Nicaragua route show that the distance and cost of a canal may be materially reduced from former estimates.

—The Clearing House transactions for the first half year of 1880 show that San Francisco is the only city which shows a decline in business.

—Russia has just dispatched the sixth cruiser to the Pacific, and it is said she intends to send six more. Will they cross the Pacific after coming to our coast?

—It seems to be settled that an English company will take and finish the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Dominion giving a bonus of 60,000,000 acres of land.

—The New York Evening Post says it has reliable information that lying reports of failures of crops in the West, are being made up and circulated to influence the market.

—Crop prospects in France are reported good, except probable deficiency in wheat. Prospects in northern Prussia, Hungary, and Russia, indicate a great deficiency.

—The Indians of the Wesqually and Puyallup Reservations in Washington Territory, are discussing the question of petitioning to become citizens and take homesteads.

—In a fire in San Francisco, the night of July 5, a falling building engulfed the firemen. Six men were taken out, all alive, and it is not certainly known if any were left.

—John Bright, in his argument in the case of Bradlaugh, said that the lower classes of England believe the teachings of Christianity as little as the higher classes practice them.

—During a thunder storm in Yreka, Siskiyou Co., Cal., the night of July 5, a cloud burst, the falling water tearing the ground twenty feet deep, doing considerable damage.

—The coroner's jury at St. Paul's, Minn., have found that the owner of the boat which exploded its boiler with fatal effect, is criminally liable. The boiler was not considered safe.

—The S. F. Alta foots up the losses and injuries to persons and property, and concludes that it is not profitable to the city to celebrate the 4th of July by the noise and burning of powder.

—A large number of officers in French cities have resigned rather than enforce the decrees against the Jesuits, and the French Republic congratulates the government on having so easily got rid of so many disloyal officials.

—The taking of the census shows that Vermont has lost in population so that she will lose in her representation in Congress. Of the large cities Pittsburg, Pa., shows the greatest relative increase, it being 90 per cent. in ten years.

—Kearney has felt the effects of training desperadoes. On Sunday, 4th, the mob turned upon him at the sand lots, and he was taken from the ground under the protection of about 40 policemen, who only saved him from violence by the most strenuous efforts.

—The San Francisco Alta believes that the population of that city has been considerably larger than the census shows it to be at present, and attributes the decrease to the Kearney excitement which has depressed business, stopped building, driven away capital, and compelled laborers to seek employment in other fields.

—There is now in Europe a general expectation of war between Turkey and Greece, as the former does not accept the decision of the Berlin Conference; and the general opinion is that war means the disruption of Turkey. Then for the spoils, and what next?

—The weather all over Ireland has been most favorable. It is expected that the potato crop will be enormous. It promises to exceed anything seen in Ireland since the period anterior to the famine of 1847. The root and cereal crops are also luxuriant.

—The total amount of the world's public indebtedness is somewhere between $20,000,000,000 and $30,000,000,000. All this vast amount of debt has been created within the present century, and all nations are rapidly increasing their indebtedness except the United States.

—At Minneapolis, Minn., July 3, was celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the discovery of St. Anthony's Falls, by Father Hennepin. Gen. Sherman, Secretary Ramsey, Hon. E. B. Washburne, and other eminent men were present. Gen. Sherman said he was glad gold was not discovered there—the wheat fields are better.

—The Turkish Sultan and the Ministers have determined not to accept the recommendations of the Berlin Conference. Mahomed Nadirm Pasha, now identified with the English party, was the only Minister who counseled acceptance. A strong party is in favor of sending an immediate declaration of war to Athens, if the Greeks effect any military concentration on the frontier.

—At the village of Troy Mills, Linn Co., Iowa, a fourth-of-July fight occurred in which over 300 persons engaged. The origin of the difficulty dates back several years to voting a railroad tax. It began by the marshal of the day striking a man for insulting a woman, and the blow was the signal for a free fight lasting two hours, in which every serviceable weapon was used. The result was that four men were probably fatally wounded, and the serious injury of twenty-five others. The Irish element were the aggressors and were badly worsted. The best citizens of Troy Mills participated.