Secular News | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 12, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 23.

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Secular News.

—By a strike of the shop tailors, in Cincinnati, 1000 men are thrown out of employment.

—The custom-house and store adjoining, in Trenton, Ont., have been damaged $30,000 by fire.

—A damaging frost is reported in Central Wisconsin to have occurred the night of June 6.

—Reports from 21 counties, give a favorable outlook for an abundant harvest throughout California.

—A heavy frost is reported in Vermont and New Hampshire June 7, doing much damage to crops.

—Official reports say that it is impossible to exaggerate the distress which the famine is causing in Cashmere.

—There is a lull in the eruption of Mt. Etna, but it is feared this is only temporary, as loud rumblings are heard.

—The number of lawsuits commenced in San Francisco for the month of May is four hundred and eighty-four.

—Minister White has arrived in Berlin; the German press welcome him as an appropriate successor to the late Bayard Taylor.

—During the space of forty-eight hours last week, the officers arrested as many as 56 persons in San Francisco, for drunkenness.

—England and France have decided to not directly interfere in matters in Egypt, but to hold the Khedive responsible for his doings.

—There has been an extensive strike of workmen in the timber trade at Sundswall, Sweden, by which 10,000 men were idle at last accounts.

—Owing to a rise in cotton, Druid duck mills, (Baltimore,) have stopped work, from 300 to 400 hands are thrown out of employment.

—William Lloyd Garrison, the great antislavery agitator died, May 25th, aged seventy-five; his remains were taken to Roxbury, Mass., for interment.

—Information received by the Indian Bureau reports that 800 lodges of Sitting Bull's Indians are south of the British line. No act of hostility is yet reported.

—The Mississippi planters have issued a circular to business men and benevolent societies of the North, begging them to desist from helping the negro exodus.

—The news from Hindostan indicates continued trouble. Robbers are in armed gangs, and make requisitions on the government. They threaten the life of the governor of Bombay.

—W. Matthews, LL. D., wrote a book entitled "How to Get On in the World." The book is popular, and Mr. Matthews is reported to have gone into bankruptcy. Theory vs. Practice.

—There are said to be seven thousand retail liquor dealers and eight thousand manufacturers of tobacco in the San Francisco district, who pay special taxes yearly to the amount of $215,000.

—The Isthmus Canal Congress in Paris, are discussing the various routes recommended. Much praise is given the American engineers for the clearness and impartiality of their statements.

—It is said that Germany has informed England and France that she leaves to them the political part of the Egyptian question, and desires only to defend the financial interests of German subjects.

—Destructive floods are now reported in Lombardy. Thousands of acres of vines and grain are ruined. At Malara below Mantua, the Po has formed a lake, and the inhabitants of flooded districts are encamped on embankments.

—It is stated that the Ultramontanes will refuse to vote the duties on tobacco, beer and spirits unless they receive tangible concessions in ecclesiastical matters. If Bismarck refuses these concessions the dissolution of the Reichstag is probable.

—In excavating for the foundations of the Union block, at the intersection of Market and California streets, S. F., the workmen, fifteen feet below the surface, came upon the remains of a wharf constructed twenty-five years ago. The timbers were in an excellent state of preservation.

—The annual report of the Directors of the Pacific Mail Company which met in New York last week, shows the earnings for the year ending April 30th to be $4,054,560 73, and the expenditures $3,652,745 66, leaving a net profit of $401,815 07. The liabilities of the company April 30th were $2,577,555 71, and the assets $1,026,977 20, leaving the amount of liabilities over assets $1,550,578 51. The decrease of liabilities for the year is stated at $498,375, 67.

—An Episcopalian clergyman of San Francisco has visited Arizona. In a lecture on that Territory he said:—"If I were in the Cabinet I should advise that the Governor turn the Territory over to the Indians and the coyotes. The former are fat and thrifty and the latter don't slink away, and haven't the sneaking side-long look they wear in other places. I think men and animals who have lived in a country like Arizona for a dozen generations and are still fat and vigorous ought to be left to enjoy it in peace."