Secular News | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 17, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 16.

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Secular News.

—Queen Victoria has gone to visit Italy.

—Thirty thousand miners are on a strike in Durham, England.

—All the German seaboard cities oppose Bismarck's policy.

—There are strong indications that a serious Indian war is impending.

—A patent has been issued for a land grant of 133,440 acres in San Diego county.

—The Democrats of New York city are divided over the candidates for Governor.

—Senator Hill, of Georgia, lately alluded to the Senate as the "Confederate Senate." A little premature.

—General Garibaldi has returned to Rome in a very feeble condition. It is thought he cannot long survive.

—Senator Grover has introduced a bill for the construction of a bridge over the Willamette at Portland, Oregon.

—Miragoane, a town in Hayti, was destroyed by fire March 16; 5,000 or 6,000 persons were rendered homeless.

—The Suez canal is feeling the effects of hard times. The number of ships passing through it has greatly decreased.

—Prof. Alfaraz in St. Petersburg, states that an autopsy of the bodies of four soldiers shows that the black plague is in that city.

—The Zulus surprised a convoy of 104 British troops, and only 15 men escaped. The Zulus are well armed, and well trained as soldiers.

A hotel keeper in Brodhead, Wis., has presented a bill to the village Board of $1000, for damages done to his house in refusing a license to sell liquor.

—A little girl six years of age, whose parents died in Memphis of yellow fever, arrived in San Francisco March 8, traveling the whole distance alone.

—The proposed exodus of negroes from the Southern States is assuming huge proportions. It is intended to settle them largely on lands in Western Texas.

—The people of California will not get much news until after the 7th of May, as the papers are filled with pros and cons about the New Constitution.

—The Jamestown, formerly the training ship on the Pacific coast, is ordered to Alaska to remain to protect the inhabitants and to make a survey of the coast.

—An emigrant train on the Central Pacific was ditched near Lovelock's Station, Nevada, March 7. I. T. Marcy, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was killed, and others injured.

—A school teacher in San Francisco says he got his certificate for spelling the word "Sheriff;" as neither of his examiners knew how to spell it, he passed safely!

—Seventeen thousand persons in Szeged in and its neighborhood are subsisting on charity. It has been raining for ten days. The supply of bread is becoming exhausted.

—Secretary Sherman says there is plenty of gold in the Treasury to be had for green backs, but nobody wants it. Where is the man who said resumption was not possible?

—The men who burned two men in Nebraska are on trial, and must be convicted, as one has turned States' evidence. A company of regulars has been sent by Gen. Crook to Hastings to prevent a rescue by their lawless comrades.

—Union College is vieing with Harvard in giving opportunities to lady students. A class of twenty-five have been studying geology, and the progress reported compares favorably with that of the regular class.

—The Japan Gazette states that the Government paper currency remains at a discount of 25 to 27 per cent. with no indication of a rise. All business, native and foreign, continues to suffer materially in consequence.

—A sunken vessel was discovered a third of a mile off Main-street wharf, San Francisco, April 8. It is supposed that it is a sloop or scow laden with brick, and was run down in the night. If so all on board were lost.

—The Khedive of Egypt has dismissed his Ministry, including the French and English representatives. As he is deeply indebted to those nations, and has nothing to pay, it is probable there will be a crisis in Egyptian affairs soon.

—Santa Rosa, Cal., had a rain-storm with thunder and lightning April 4. The thunder was heavy and lightning sharp and rapid. It lasted one hour. Ditto in Petaluma; lightning struck and shattered some fruit trees, says the Courier.

—President Angell says that one of the mathematicians of Michigan University, known all over the world, never went to school more than six weeks, and did his first mathematical work on a plow share with a piece of chalk while the oxen were resting at noon. But, do not get the idea that you can do it.