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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jul 28, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 28.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Dean Stanley died in London, of erysipelas, July 18.

—Small-pox is raging in San Domingo to a fearful extent.

—A salmon weighing eighty-four pounds was recently caught in the Columbia river.

—Joseph Young, brother of the late Brigham Young, a leader among the Mormons, is dead.

—A treaty is proposed between Italy, Austria, and Germany, for the protection of singing birds.

—The Sultan has decided to allow the children of Abdul Aziz to decide the fate of Midhat Pasha.

—The Brooklyn bridge has so far cost about thirteen million dollars, and another million is called for.

—Sixty-five liquor dealers in Wilkesbarre, Penn., were arrested July 20, for keeping open bars on Sunday.

—About $300,000 worth of property was destroyed, and a dozen persons killed by the cyclone at New Ulm, Minn.

—A portable boiler exploded near Marietta, Ohio, July 20, killing three persons and fatally injuring two others.

—Owing to heavy rains in southern Arizona, the trains on the southern Pacific road have been much delayed.

—The Albany struggle is at last ended. Elbridge G. Lapham was elected to the U. S. Senate, in place of Conkling.

—On the morning of the 23d, quite a shock of earthquake was felt in the eastern part of France and Switzerland.

—Seventeen cases of lock-jaw occurred in Baltimore, as the result of wounds received on the Fourth of July from toy pistols.

—It is reported that the grasshoppers have made their appearance on the Dakota prairies, and the wheat crop is threatened.

—A French company with $10,000,000 capital has been formed for the purpose of developing the mining resources of Canada.

—A fire at Syracuse, N. Y., July 19, resulted in the loss of some of the finest buildings in the city, worth half a million dollars.

—A State Prohibition Convention has been called at Jackson, Miss., for the purpose of getting the Legislature to pass prohibitory laws.

—Spain is quite jealous of France's hold in Africa, and it is reported that a war feeling is developing. Evidently the end is not yet.

—July 20, the north-bound stage was stopped by highwaymen, near San Louis Obispo, Cal., and the express box robbed of its contents.

—July 19, the town of Wallace, Menominee Co., Mich., consisting of a saw-mill and twenty-five buildings, was totally destroyed by fire.

—The State debt of Pennsylvania is $20,882,092; the aggregate of the county, township, city, borough, and school-district debts is $93,191,250.

—The propeller Winnepeg was burned to the water's edge at Duluth, Minn., July 19. Four persons are supposed to have perished in the flames.

—Dr. Cumming of London, the eminent preacher and writer on the prophecies, died July 6. He was a firm believer in the nearness of Christ's coming.

—In the last thirty-three years the debt of Europe has nearly trebled, while in the last fifteen years the United States debt has been reduced nearly one-half.

—A Justice of the Peace in Antonio, Col., has been hung by a vigilance committee for complicity with a band of robbers, and shielding them from punishment.

—The Catholic Colonization Society recently purchased 60,000 acres of land on the line of the Fort Smith and Little Rock railroad, for colonization purposes.

—Paris is suffering from the heat, and the supply of water is short. The city authorities have devoted 2,000,000 francs to the improvement of the water-works.

—The Colonial Governments of New Zealand, New South Wales, and Victoria have agreed to enter into a convention for the exchange of money orders with the United States.

—Two hundred and forty-one thousand immigrants have been landed at New York during the past six months. This is the largest number on record for the same length of time.

—Owing to scarcity of provisions, Sitting Bull has decided to be a good Indian until ammunition and provision become plenty. He surrendered July 20, but is reported as still very sullen and insolent.

—A Berlin dispatch says the Nihilists are holding a Congress in St. Petersburg under the very eyes of the Government, which, although fully warned of the fact, is unable to discover the place of meeting.

—There are standing in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin 81,650,000,000 feet of pine timber, and yet at the present rate of destruction it is calculated the supply will not last more than twelve years.

—There are about 40,000 brewers in Europe, who produce annually 2,244,000,000 gallons of beer. The largest consumption of beer is in Bavaria, where the annual average is seventy-one gallons for each individual.

—The army worm is ravaging the grain fields in Illinois. It is said that a field of forty acres of oats was destroyed in forty-eight hours. The loss in Will county alone, it is believed, will not be less than 1,000,000 bushels of grain.

—The President has undergone a surgical operation, which materially relieves his condition. The alarming symptoms were due to the formation of an abscess. A new opening has been made which allows a free discharge from the wound.

—A London dispatch says that a steamer has just arrived in the Thames from the Clyde, which was steered by an electric apparatus. The steering gear worked well, but the compasses were so affected by the electricity as to be useless.

—A notorious outlaw, known as “Billy the Kid,” was shot through the heart by a sheriff at Fort Sumner, N. M., July 18. He had killed fifteen or eighteen men. The citizens of many towns in New Mexico are raising a purse to reward the sheriff.

—Gen. Tom. Browne, of Indiana, of the Committee of Visitors of Annapolis, says that “when the Board unanimously voted the use of tobacco an injurious habit which ought not to be tolerated among cadets, every member of it had a cigar in his mouth.”

—Much of the German emigration is due to the desire of the men to escape military duty. According to official tables, no fewer than 11,454 young men liable to military duty left Germany in 1880; and it is probable that the number this year will reach 20,000.

—A dispatch from Louisville says the constructors of the Big Sandy Railroad are generally obstructed by an organization of outlaws calling themselves “Natives,” who tear up the track and shoot the workmen. The local authorities seem powerless to afford any remedy.

—A singular case of piracy has been discovered in Saigon, French Cochin China. A native vessel, driven ashore in a stress of weather, was searched for contraband opium, and concealed in the hold were about fifty female children, whom investigation proved to be intended for sale.

—We commend the action of Geo. Smith of Wisconsin, to all whose duty it is to repress crime. Two desperadoes are in the Eau Galle woods, a dense forest of pine and tamarack swamps, and the Governor has ordered out the Ludington Guards to assist a posse of 200 men who are now on their track.

—Prof. Kwong Ki Chin, of Hartford, Ct., has just completed what he calls “A Dictionary of English Phrases.” It is really a complete list of Americanisms, such as “to cut stick,” “to save one's bacon,” “to go to the dogs,” etc., with their definitions, for the benefit of his countrymen who are trying to master the intricacies of modern English.

—It is reported that there is quite a traffic in explosives between this country and England. Recently a barrel purporting to be cement from the steamer Malta was opened by the Custom officials, and six zinc boxes were found, containing clock-work infernal machines, prepared with dynamite. One machine was forwarded to Sir William Harcourt a few days afterward, and a barrel containing six more machines was found on board the Bavaria.