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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 36.

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NEWS ITEMS.

—Oroville, Cal., reports a $100,000 fire.

—Gold to the amount of $1,025,000 arrived in New York, from Europe, Sept. 28.

—Fifty hay-barges were burned on the Neva, Monday. The loss was £50,000.

—The Berlin police force recently seized 40,000 socialist prints and pamphlets.

—The business men of San Francisco report that trade is reviving, and the prospect is encouraging.

—In consequence of the failure of the fisheries, the inhabitants of Gaspe, Canada, are threatened with famine.

—Scarcity of food prevails in Phillips, Sherman, Decatur, Sheridan and Rawlins counties, Kansas, the wheat crop having failed.

—The experiment of running the Sampson Manufacturing Company's shoe shop at North Adams, Mass., with Chinese labor, has proved a failure.

—A report from Walla Walla says that coal has been discovered near Touchet River, while grading for the railroad, said to be fifteen feet thick. It makes good gas.

—A dispatch from Lahore says: By a land-slip at Naine Tai, Bengal, eleven British officers, fifteen soldiers and eleven other people were killed and four injured.

—By the explosion of fire-damp in a mine near Herme, Essen district, Prussia, September 28, eleven workmen were killed and the same number seriously wounded.

—Over twenty miles of the proposed railroad to Snake River from Walla Walla is already graded, and every effort is being made to push the work forward as fast as possible.

—A shock of earthquake was felt at Los Angeles, Sept. 26, at 5:30 p. m. It was of short duration, but was quite pronounced while it lasted. Buildings vibrated, and numbers of people ran into the streets.

—The Republique Francaise approves the fresh delay in the naval demonstration, but says that at its expiration the Powers must take energetic action. The same journal also says it would be dangerous for any of the Powers to act separately, and declares that Turkey's duplicity will strengthen European concert.

—A telegram from Smolensk says that 3000 workmen in a factory at Jargero, Poland, have struck against a reduction of wages, and have since committed grave excesses. The Governor, the Chief of the Gendarmerie, and the Public Prosecutor, have gone to the scene, and troops have been dispatched thither.

—The bees in France have attacked the sugar refineries. At the Say manufactory it is calculated that damage to the amount of 25,000 francs is done every year by the bees, who are so indefatigable in revenging themselves on the saccharine interests of mankind that they will empty a large jar full of syrup in less than two hours; and notwithstanding the capture or destruction of two or three bushels of bees a day, their ravages still continue.

—The Examiner and Chronicle announces the fact that Rev. E. P. Adams, of Dunkirk, N. Y., having renounced the doctrine of eternal punishment, "has been deposed from the Presbyterian ministry by the Buffalo Presbytery. The vote was thirty-one to seven." "The pulpit of the Dunkirk church was declared vacant. But there comes in the worst of it. Seven-eighths of the church support Mr. Adams, and another irresponsible, independent church will be the result."

—The murder of Lord Montmorris, in Ireland, has excited a feeling of alarm little short of a panic among all respectable classes. Party differences are for the time discarded in the presence of a common and immediate danger. It is said on all sides, with equal despondency and bitterness, that there is no longer any security for life and property, and nobody can feel safe who ventures to assert his rights or discharge the duties connected with possession, occupation or management of land, if his acts conflict with the interests or prejudices of those with whom he has to deal. The country is drifting into anarchy.

—Turkey, after long dallying with the Powers, turns defiant. A dispatch from Ragusa, Sept. 26, says: "The British Consul arrived with Admiral Seymour. Riza Pasha states that he has no order to surrender Dulcigno, and that an act of war against the Albanians will be regarded as an act of war against Turkey." The Tribune's London special says: "The naval demonstration hangs fire, and Europe anxiously watches every movement of the parties struggling over the cession of a wretched Adriatic village. But every one knows that it is not the intrinsic value of Dulcigno that has brought the power of United Europe to bear in the matter. What is now happening at Dulcigno is but a sample of what will take place on a larger scale on the frontiers of Greece, and what may involve the most sanguinary continental war since Waterloo, should the rebellious elements stirred up by the Turks to thwart the will of Europe finally break loose from the Sultan's feeble control and spread anarchy and massacre throughout his dissolving Empire. From Scutari to Bagdad there is not a tribe that is not ready to throw off its allegiance to the Padishah, and the revolt of almost anyone of them would cause a disturbance which would vibrate throughout every nation in Europe."