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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 10.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-The U. S. military force available in San Francisco is 700.
-France thinks of spending $40,000,000 on new railroad lines this year.
-350 musicians were employed in a serenade to Gen. Grant in the City of Mexico.
-The framing of a new charter for San Francisco, is demanded by the new Constitution.
-The city election in Oakland on the 8th resulted in a complete victory for the Republicans.
-It is asserted that 5000 persons have been arrested in Russia since the Winter Palace explosion.
-The Congressional inquiry into the cause of the colored exodus has failed to show that it had a political origin.
-Leo XIII. has sent special instruction to Russian Catholics to take no part in any plot or political complication.
-A bill has passed the Senate, appropriating $150,000 for the rebuilding of the State Normal School, the work to be done by the day.
-One of the contestants of the will which a Southern lady made to Jeff. Davis, has withdrawn. It is asserted that she was bought off by Davis.
-A convention has been concluded between Great Britain and Germany, securing the co-operation of their war vessels in the suppression of the slave traffic.
-In expectation of a "strike" in Chicago many Chinamen are going to that city, hoping to fill the places vacated by the strikers.
-Prince Bismarck becomes so nervous by attention to business that he has expressed the desire that the Reichstag proceed without him.
-The Globe asserts that France has entered into negotiations with England and the United States, with a view to terminating the war between Chili and Peru.
-An agreement has been made between Secretary Schurz and the different bands of Utes, by which it is expected that the latter will be entirely removed from Colorado.
-Tuesday, March 2, a man who was examining the piling about the Oakland ferries is said to have had his boat nearly overturned by a shark about twenty feet long.
-The Court of Common Pleas of Lake county, Ohio, has confirmed the title of the old Mormon temple at Kirtland to the "Josephites," declaring the Utah Mormons impostors.
-The text of the pope's encyclical letter against divorce is published. It insists on the eminently religious nature of marriage, and exhorts the bishops to urge that view upon their flocks.
-Ex-Congressman Smalls of South Carolina says there is no chance for his party in that State, but says killing will not be resorted to, "because tissue-paper ballots are cheaper than bullets."
-Gen. Logan is vigorously opposing in Congress, the proposed re-instating of Gen. Fitz John Porter with grant of back pay. He claims that the evidence fully proves that Porter disobeyed orders in the face of the enemy.
-President Angell of Michigan, is said to have been selected to head a commission to effect a new treaty with China, which the Administration has been for some time favoring. It is also reported that the Emperor of China is favorable to restricting emigration.
-A heavy cattle raiser in Modoc Co., Cal., expects to lose four-fifths of his stock because of the unusual severity of the winter. He had 800 tons of hay put up, but it went only a short way toward carrying through his large stock. This is but the experience of many others.
-The President has been strongly urged to order the officers in command of the troops in and around San Francisco to use them to put down any mob that may attack the Chinese quarter. He, however, holds that the law precludes such interference, unless assistance is asked by the State Executive.
-History repeating itself has again elevated a Jew in Egypt. The Khedive has raised an Austrian Jew, named Julius Blum, to the rank of Pasha and Assistant Secretary of State. This calls to mind the advancement of Joseph in olden time. It is said that no Israelite has, since the time of Pharaoh's favorite, reached so high a position in Egypt.
-A license war at Highland, Ulster county, N. Y., has lead to the destruction of a large orchard, by girdling, belonging to Newton Ransom, an Excise Commissioner who opposed licensing. The farmers have risen up in arms and are ready to lynch the perpetrators. They say the plot is laid to destroy more orchards.
-The Rev. Alexander Keith, the author of "The Evidence of Prophecy," and other valuable works, died recently in England in his eighty-eighth year. For twenty-seven years Mr. Keith was a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, and subsequently of the Free Church, but for many years he has been unable to attend to ministerial duties on account of failing health.
-The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch announces the death in that city of Rev. Dr. J. R. Jeter of the Baptist Church, in the 78th year of his age. At the time of his death, Dr. Jeter was the senior editor of the Religious Herald, to which he had devoted the last fourteen years. He was also President of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville, Ky., President of the Board of Trustees of Richmond College, President of the Board of Trustees of the Richmond Female Institute, Vice President of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Vice President of the State Mission Board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia.