ITEMS OF NEWS by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 5, 1880

ITEMS OF NEWS.

By Editor

-London has 872 churches. -Beaconsfield is suffering with the gout. -Yellow fever has appeared in some parts of Brazil. -Disastrous floods have occurred in Calabria and Sicily. -A famine prevails in seventeen communes of Naples. -Further Chilean victories are reported from South America. -General Comacho has installed himself President of Bolivia. -Germany has recognized the independence of Roumania. -Infectious diseases are on a decided increase in St. Petersburg. -At Prescott, Arizona, snow has fallen to the depth of several feet. -Secretary Schurz has removed Indian Commissioner Hoyt from office. -Bismarck has recovered from his illness, and is again at his post. -The present winter in Prussia has been the most severe since 1812. -Freeman, the Pocassett murderer, has been sent to the insane asylum. -The English will again take the offensive in Afghanistan in March. -The Pope has sent 10,000 francs for the relief of the distress in Ireland. -The year 1879 will be remembered in England as a wet and almost sunless season. -The steamship California reports a fight between two Indian tribes at Wrangell -Chas. De Young, who shot Kalloch in San Francisco last fall, pleads not guilty. -The government cannon foundry at Berlin is working a large force of men on extra time. -The New York Tablet (Catholic organ) editorially endorses Sam Brannan's Sonora colonization scheme. -The steamer Bengoir foundered during a severe two days' storm in the Mediterranean and thirteen of the crew were lost. -An overland freight train which arrived in San Francisco last week brought an added burden in a heavy weight of snow. -Icicles the size of a man's body fringe the mouths of the mountain tunnels on the Central Pacific Railroad, and prove exceedingly dangerous to freight brakemen. -It is announced by a Berlin correspondent who has an inside view, that Germany's proposed increase of her standing army is for the following purpose: She will propose to France to join in severe repressive measures against Socialists, Communists and Nihilists, in which all of the principal European powers are to participate. If she does not comply, a formal demand will be made, and in the event of this failing, the combined forces of Germany and Austria will invade her borders. If she joins, and the various revolutionary societies are crushed out, a general European disarmament will take place. This sounds well, but it is exceedingly improbable in the face of Von Moltke's statement, that "The power of the Emperor cannot impress all nations with the conviction that even victorious war is a national misfortune," and his opinion that he should not live to see that day.