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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 31, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 29.

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— Yellow fever has broken out at Tampico, Mexico.

— A heavy fire occurred in Salisbury, Md., July 24.

— The trial of 200 Nihilists by Court-martial will take place at Odessa in August.

— Three large flouring mills were burned in Oswego, N. Y., July 24; loss, $150,000.

— The negro exodus from the South does not abate. It is described as an epidemic.

— July 23 fifteen cases of yellow fever were reported at quarantine in New York harbor.

— The "sand lot" party in San Francisco have adopted the Irish World as their national organ.

— Russia proposes to establish and fortify on the Siberian coast a maritime station for the Pacific Ocean fleet.

— A young Creek Indian took the first Latin prize at the University at Wooster, Ohio, in a class of about sixty.

— A water spout in the Canton of Berne stopped trains, whirled masses of earth about, and injured the crops.

— It is said that Astor is negotiating with a design to establish a joint ocean and railroad line between North and South America.

— A battle was fought July 4 in Zululand, in which the Zulus sustained a crushing defeat, and the war is supposed to be ended.

— A Paris telegram says that Ex-Empress Eugenie will shortly acknowledge Prince Jerome as the representative of Imperialism.

— Emigrants are arriving in New York at the rate of 3000 weekly. Many are Germans and Russians, who strike out for the West.

— There have been several skirmishes with the Sioux Indians by General Miles and Lieutenant Clark, but a general war is not probable.

— California is adopting eastern customs. July 20 three inches of rain fell in Marysville in three hours. The streets were thoroughly cleansed.

— Gen. Donald McLeod, a veteran of the battle of Waterloo, died at his residence, in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 22d, being nearly 101 years of age.

— Pres. Eliot has boasted that a liberal policy has been adopted at Harvard; and the morals of the school are extremely low. Drunkenness is becoming very common.

— A Cheyenne despatch says the heaviest storm ever known in that region passed east of that city the night of the 24th. Fortunately it passed over a section but little settled.

— B. W. Reagan, the well known capitalist and mine owner of Oakland, and his wife, were thrown from a carriage on Thursday last, and were very seriously injured. Mr. R. has since died.

— An explosion of two of the boilers in the Central Pacific railroad car and machine shops occurred at Sacramento, July 20, killing the fireman and injuring several others; and also damaging the shops to a considerable amount.

— The yellow fever is becoming severe in Memphis—new cases being reported daily. As yet other cities have succeeded in keeping it out, but as the people are flocking away it will probably spread. St. Louis has asked for aid from the general government for the maintenance of the quarantine.

— The Nihilists threaten to burn the town of Baku, on the shore of the Caspian sea, unless the wealthy inhabitants contribute to the revolutionary funds. Gen. Gourko has issued an order that the premises on which presses for publishing anti-government or revolutionary pamphlets are found, will be closed by the authorities.

— The Boston Herald says: In a recent letter to an old friend General Grant says he shall go directly from San Francisco to Galena, Illinois, where he still has a house, and that he shall not take part in any demonstration calculated to make a part of the "boom." His plan is to quietly await the tour of events, and there is little doubt that if a loud call be made to summon him from his retirement he will accept it.

— A recent review of Burmese troops is thus described by an eye-witness: "The number of men drawn up on the parade ground was 5000, including infantry and cavalry, in addition to which there were eighty-one elephants. The infantry looked like so many monkeys; for size and soldierly bearing they were utterly contemptible. The cavalry were mounted on thin and puny ponies. The guns of the elephant battery were of no greater bore than the common English duck gun. The Burmese were immensely excited over their warlike display; but it would be difficult to imagine anything more ridiculous than such a sight to anyone with the slightest acquaintance with the armies of Europe."