p. 44 | ITEMS OF NEWS by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 29, 1880

ITEMS OF NEWS.

By Editor

-Naples has been visited by a snow-storm. -A terrible famine prevails in Adrianople. -Minister Noyes wants to come home from France. -New York put $22,000,000 into new buildings in 1879. -The distress in Ireland is intensified by a severe frost. -Holland and Poland have suffered from inundations. -Garibaldi was married at Caprera on the 26th instant. -The Princess Louise has sailed from Liverpool for Halifax. -The German Bundesrath has voted for an increase in the army. -The Hudson River tunnel from New York to Jersey City is in progress. -Philadelphia's debt, less stocks, bonds and other assets, is $46,546,222. -The Cuban insurgents are becoming discouraged, and are surrendering. -The cable brings us the rumor that England will intervene between Chile and Peru. -Severe earthquake shocks are reported to have taken place in San Salvador, Central America. -The St. Petersburg Golos announces the concentration of a large Chinese force on the Kuldja frontier. -It is announced that the German government intends to levy a tax on advertisements in newspapers. -A general snow-fall visited California on the 20th. Snow fell in the streets of San Francisco and Oakland. -A party of sixty masked men lately lynched a negro in Winchester, Va., for seduction and miscegenation. -By the recent earthquake shocks in Cuba, the public buildings of San Cristobal are reported to be in ruins. -General Grant's visit to Cuba was co-incident with a severe earthquake. The Havanese were greatly terrified. -Congressman Money, of Mississippi, hopes that the exodus will continue until every negro has left the South. -The Montenegrins have withdrawn from Gusinje, and their campaign against the Albanians is at an end for the winter. -Lane Emmons, town treasurer of Everett, Mass., has disappeared co-incidentally with $23,000 of the people's money. -Heavy defalcations by its book-keeper has caused the suspension of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Bank of New York. -Lieut. Bonaparte Wyse gets $1,000,000 for transferring de Lesseps his canal franchise from the Colombian government. -By a snow-slide on the Sierras, Jan. 18th, a cattle train was thrown from the track, and three and a half car-loads of cattle killed. -General Lucius Fairchild, consul at Paris, has been appointed minister to Spain, vice James Russell Lowell, appointed to the Court of St. James. -French scientists and electricians are generally of the opinion that Edison has made an important advance in the matter of electric lighting. -The discovery of excavations in a number of houses in Odessa lead the police of that city to the belief that the Nihilists are undermining portions of the place. -A rumor comes from Philadelphia that personal friends of General Grant are authorized to withdraw his name from the list of possible Presidential candidates. -A telephone line is in successful operation between Omaha and St. Louis, a distance of 410 miles. Every note of a tune sung in St. Louis is plainly audible in Omaha. -Fifteen Texas "cow-boys," belonging to a party of several hundred, camped near Las Vegas, New Mexico, entered that town and killed the city marshal and two citizens, and wounded five others. -By the burning of the steamboat Charmer fifteen miles above the mouth of Red river, eight lives were lost. The boat and cargo of 2,100 bales of cotton, valued at $130,000, are a total loss. -Gladstone announces that from his seat in parliament he shall advocate a general European disarmament. General Grant and Bismarck are said to believe in the practicability of such a policy. -The shoe shop in the Kings County, New York, penitentiary was burned January 26th. The building cost $100,000. The Bay State Shoe and Leather Co. lost a stock of leather valued at $200,000; insured fully. -The appointment of James Russell Lowell as Minister to England is very favorably received by the English journals. One London journal makes the amusing error of crediting him with the authorship of "Thanatopsis." -The dead-lock in Maine still continues. As the Fusionist cause weakens they become desperate. The Republicans have called out State troops to protect the State-house, they claiming to have discovered Fusionist plots which justify them in this course.