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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 20.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

-A strong coalition against the government has been formed in the congress of Spain.
-The London Times expresses its opinion that the fishery difficulties can be amicably and speedily settled.
-The keeper of Bird Rock Light, in New Brunswick, and his son, were frozen to death while fishing, says a report of May 22.
-A report from Rome says many Jesuits are preparing to come to America when the decrees against them are enforced.
-On the night of May 23, seventy buildings were burned in Edinburgh, Pa. More than one hundred families were left homeless.
-Five Mexican robbers are to be surrendered to the Texan authorities; the first satisfaction offered for all the outrages on the border.
-In Pittsburg, Pa., May 18, Blake and Lacy's planing mill, with four acres of material, 4,000,000 feet of lumber, were burned. Loss, over $200,000.
-"The powers" have prepared a demand on Turkey for reforms which will look toward the payment of interest on her loans. If carried into effect it will kill her outright.
-A very severe famine prevails in Hungary. The Austrian government has given orders to stop emigration which was increasing because of the famine, so they must stay and starve.
-Rev. Dr. Tyng, of New York, now in his 81st year, has retired from the pastorate on a pension of $5000 a year. Those for whom he has labored feel it a privilege to care for him, now that he can no longer care for them.
-The Christian Union, edited by Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, expresses its belief "that the judgment day has already arrived, that there is no resurrection of the body, and that the dead pass immediately from death to judgment.
-The House of Representatives voted $20,000 for the digging of two experimental wells in Colorado, east of the mountains, on lands of the Government. If they are successful, it is expected thereby to open up the agricultural resources of the country.
-The news from St. Petersburg confirms the report that the sentence of Chung How has decided Russia to recall her Charge d'Affaires from Peking, and place her subjects in China under the protection of the United States. The papers say "it looks like war."
-A thousand cotton spinners wrecked and set fire to a mill in Barcelona, May 22, but the police and military quenched the flames and arrested the leaders of the mob, when order was restored. The Prefect has issued a decree to dissolve every trade union in Catalonia.
-Immense fields of ice spread from the west coast of Newfoundland to Cape Canso, and a fleet of nearly a hundred sail are delayed from getting up North Bay. Two large Norwegian barks were lost near Rose Blanche, N. F., but the crews were saved. It is supposed that many more vessels will be lost, as the ice is very heavy.
-The German Ultramontanes are resolved to recommence war against Bismarck, and stir up the Catholic population against the Government. The first important meeting of the Catholics has been held at Dortmund, Westphalia, at which 20,000 persons were present, including many noblemen and influential leaders.
-Cardinal Jacobini has been instructed by the Curia to inform Prussia that the Pope disapproves of the permissive system in the bill amending the laws, and withdraws the concession made in a brief to the Archbishop of Cologne regarding the notification to be made to the Prussian Government of the appointment of priests, declaring it void
-A most terrific storm has occurred in Georgia. A report from Columbus of May 22, says: From Friday at 5 A. M. to Saturday at 5 A. M., 9.92 inches of rain fell, eight and a half inches falling in ten hours. All railroads are broken up and no trains arrived or departed to-day. The river rose fifteen feet in two hours. Great damage was done.
-A terrible railroad accident occurred on the narrow gauge, or Pacific Coast Railroad, on Sunday afternoon, May 23, about three miles from Santa Cruz. A train was rounding a sharp curve at high speed, when three flat cars, crowded with excursionists, jumped the track. Thirteen persons were killed, and several others soon died of injuries. Besides these about forty were injured, many of them seriously.
-Last week we reported the destruction of a village in Northumberland Co., Pa., by fire. Now we receive the following news from Coudersport, the county seat of Potter Co., Pa.: At 3 o'clock May 18, a fire broke out in the rear room of Shebbins Brothers' store, used for storing oil. The town was without water supply or fire apparatus, and nothing could be done to check the fire, which burned rapidly. By 5 o'clock every dwelling, store, and place of business in the town, except four, were laid in ashes.
-Africa is said to be larger than both North and South America, and its central regions, where missions are now being planted, to have twice the population of the United States. Lake Victoria Nyanza is reported to be larger than the whole State of New York; and the African trade, in ivory alone, to be worth more than $7,000,000 a year. Dr. Means, recently returned from his exploring "visit to the leading people" of the geographical and missionary societies of Europe, says the maps of Africa hanging in the rooms of the Church Missionary Society "led Messrs. Speke and Grant to go out as explorers." He also tells us of "a young Englishman of wealth, who having been hunting in Africa, becoming converted on his return to England, has now gone as a missionary at his own expense."
-Out of twelve Democratic candidates for the Cincinnati School Board at the recent election seven were Roman Catholics. And yet Romanism is the virulent, persistent and unscrupulous enemy of public schools. Both priests and laymen are exerting every energy to destroy the system! Priest Hunt, a Romanist in New York, only six weeks in the United States, had the effrontery in addressing his congregation to say: "Your public schools are the occasion of leading innumerable souls from the path of virtue." Thus foreigners who come to our country, which is the asylum for the oppressed of all lands, begin at once to reform our institutions!—S. F. Advocate.