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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 10.

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-More sufferers of the Stockton explosion are dying.
-A railroad is to be built from Jaffa to Jerusalem.
-An international exposition will be held in Mexico in 1880.
-A United States revenue cutter has sailed from Victoria for Sitka.
-The San Francisco school scandal is to be judicially investigated.
-The Afghanistans are making preparations to continue the war.
-There are great fears of a crisis in the affairs of the French Republic.
-The English steamer Silistria was wrecked at Salerno; eighteen drowned.
-A friendly spirit prevails at present between the Turks and Russians.
-Five County Court Judges are on trial in Virginia for refusing to allow colored jurors.
-The anti-Chinese cause is injured in the east by the threats of bloodshed if the bill is not signed.
-In Nelsonville, Ohio, Feb. 28. Mr. Lunsford and six children perished in the burning of his house.
-A party of Idaho settlers, Feb. 25, stole upon a camp of hostile Indians, numbering thirty-nine, and killed all but two.
-Japan, according to the geologists, has coal enough to be equal to the annual yield of Great Britain for a thousand years.
-Severe shocks of earthquake were felt Feb. 25, in Italy. At Sienna two churches were overthrown, and a number of people killed.
-A snow storm of unusual severity prevailed in British Columbia about the middle of February. The express made fourteen miles in twelve hours, the 17th.
-Dr. Johnson said the most troublesome vice is advice. President Hayes must find it so, for almost every district has told him his duty in regard to the anti-Chinese bill.
-The schooner David H. Tolck wrecked on the Jersey coast, Feb. 26. The heavy sea prevented aid reaching her in season. Under distressing circumstances the crew perished.
-Bismarck does not yield to the opposition of the Reichstag. He says, "It is my duty to stick to my convictions. That is how I mean to act, and if I do not obtain immediate success I shall try again; that is all."
-Last September a census was taken of the Japanese Islands. The total population of the empire was 34,338,404. Of these 1,036,771 dwell in Yeddo, or, as the inhabitants name it, Tokio, in 236,961 houses, being about 4.37 occupants for each house.
-Folsom St., San Francisco, has a haunted house. The seance commences every day as the clock strikes twelve, and continues until the last whistle has sounded. A Chronicle reporter "wasn't afraid," but did not remain to see the performance through.
-In Poughkeepsie, N. Y., they have successfully solved the tramp problem. Reducing it to simple terms it stands thus: 1st, a city stoneyard is provided. 2d, every tramp must work to pay for his food and lodging. Ergo, the tramps avoid Poughkeepsie.
-The Pacific States and Territories produced during 1878, including gold and silver, nearly $200,000,000 of merchandise that was sold abroad. Of this enormous amount one-half went to China, one-fourth to the Atlantic States, and the other one-fourth to Europe.—Carson Valley News.
-About fifty persons have been arrested in Illinois, some of them prominent citizens, for distillery frauds. Many advocate the liquor traffic because of the revenue it brings to the government. But, besides its cost in criminal courts, it defrauds the revenue more than all other interests combined.
-The female pugilists of San Francisco met according to the bills, but the mild persuasion of the captain of the police interfered with the amusement. If male brutes have a right to pummel each other to death, on what principle are females deprived of the pretty privilege, when they prove to be good for nothing else?
-Jury trials are great institutions. At Canterbury, England, a case was so plain that the plaintiff's lawyer refused to address the jury, and the judge considered it needless to sum up. After long consultation the jury reported that they were unable to bring in a verdict, as they could not agree. The judge was much surprised, and questioning them found they were unable to agree which was the plaintiff and which the defendant!
-LONDON, Feb. 26.—Tremendous storms continue in the south of France, where hundreds of people are thrown on public charity by the destruction or inundation of their houses. In Spain the tempest lasted four days, there was much damage and loss of life. Various villages and farms in Navarre and Asturias were destroyed. A bark, name unknown, was wrecked at Corunna and thirty persons were drowned. A heavy storm prevailed yesterday throughout Italy. Dispatches from Rome report that the sea inundated a large portion of Venice. In the Piazza San Marco the water was thirty inches deep. The coast from Genoa to Naples is strewn with wrecks. Parma, Piacenza, Milan and Florence were damaged by the storm.