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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 8.

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-Gen. Grant arrived at Bombay the 13th.
-The heaviest snow storm of the season in Quebec was on Feb. 12.
-The labor troubles in England have not abated but rather increased.
-February 12 a gale swept away 400 feet of the breakwater at St. Johns, N. B.
-Senator Christiancy of Michigan has resigned on account of poor health.
-The largest brewery in America was burned at London, Ontario, Feb. 13.
-The lessee of Drury Lane Theatre, London, is bankrupt, to the sum of $200,000.
-The New York Tattersalls were burned Feb. 13, and sixty horses were burned, some valuable roadsters.
-The "Administration Building" of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Zenia, Ohio, was burned Feb. 16.
-In New Jersey there is found at the foot of steep hills the humane request, "Please uncheck your horses."
-Zachariah Chandler has been nominated by the Republicans of Michigan for Senator to succeed Christiancy.
-Another society, similar to the "Molly Maguires," has been organized in the mining districts of Pennsylvania.
-At Kansas City a landslide occurred in a cut being made for the Chicago and Alton Railroad. Six persons were killed and several others wounded.
-The Afghans have murdered their physicians because of the prevalence of the plague. By a singular co-incidence, the plague has greatly decreased in violence.
-The "conundrum" is a prevailing nuisance, but one has just turned up which is endurable. "To what society should a married man attach himself? To that of his wife and children."
-The eyes of the world are upon you wherever you go now-a-days. C. W. Angel, Pullman Secretary who stole $120,000, said he never suffered so much as he did on hearing his own name odiously mentioned while in Brazil.
-A letter from Tangier, Morocco, says the Governor of Fez has taken refuge in the sanctuary to escape the populace, who have risen against him. The Sultan has had a stroke of paralysis. Anarchy reigns throughout the Empire.
-An exchange records as remarkable that there was no "steal" in the building of the Michigan State House. Michigan sent a dishonest official to the penitentiary some years ago, and the practice of "defaulting" became unpopular.
-Mr. Tilden, before the committee on the cipher despatches, testified strongly that the Republicans bought the returning boards. It used to be a custom to testify to what one knew, not what they supposed or received on information.
-A Michigan farmer wrote to the Faculty at Yale College (or was it Cornell ?) : "What are your terms for a year? and does it cost anything extra if my son wants to learn to read and write as well as to row a boat?" We do not vouch for this, but it is good.
-The British troops in Africa have met with a terrible defeat. 7000 more were ordered from England, and they were to embark from Liverpool, but the strikers permit no labor there even for the government, and they must fit out at some other port.
-The building of the Rogers Locomotive Works used as a millwright shop and for storage of patterns and models of locomotives in all parts of the world, and filled with machinery costing about $125,000 was burned Feb. 13, at Paterson, N. J. The loss will be $210,000; including a flax mill, total loss $245,000.
-A committee of the legislature finds that the average depth of the Sacramento river from shore to shore at Sacramento City, in 1849 was 24 feet, but that by soundings made in 1877 the average depth was ascertained to be but 8 feet, showing a deposit in the period indicated of 16 feet. It was shown that the ebb and flow of the tide at Sacramento City twenty years ago was from two to three feet, but that now it is rarely fifteen inches, and that both the Sacramento and the Feather rivers had been gradually filling up with bars, which reduced the apparent hight of their banks.
-Among the current press reports is the following:-"A Washington correspondent writes that one of the strongest reasons assigned by Speaker Randall in the Democratic caucus last night for the passage of Thurman's resolutions to amend the revised statutes, which provides for the machinery for drawing jurors in United States Courts, was the following: He said unless some means could be devised to prevent the Radicals, who have control of the courts in the Southern States, from continuing prosecutions for election frauds, the Democratic majority in the next House of Representatives might entirely disappear before the meeting of the forty-sixth Congress. Figuring it as closely as he could, he found that the Democratic majority at most would be only four, and he reminded his political friends that two of those four-Hull of Florida and King of Louisiana-were already under indictment for participation in election frauds, and may be in the penitentiary before the first session of the next Congress."