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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 4, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 41.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Joseph Cook is in London.

—Mexico is taking measures for the expulsion of the Jesuits.

—Fifteen thousand troops in Cuba are to be disbanded shortly.

—An international congress of electricians is appointed for Sept. 15, 1881, at Paris.

—The inhabitants of China are rioting among themselves, and at the same time, arming to fight Russia.

—The Czar of Russia is said to be suffering from physical and mental prostration, and his recovery is pronounced doubtful.

—The number of immigrants arriving in this country during the months of August and September was over one hundred thousand.

—Serious damage is reported in Italy by floods. Seventeen persons were killed the 28th, by their cottages being swept down.

—The new French consul, M. De Mean, arrived in San Francisco last Thursday. For the last three years he has filled the position of consul at Bombay.

—It is computed that in the last ten years there have been 2,352 labor strikes in Great Britain, the largest number being in 1872, when there were 365.

—News comes that the Ameer whom the English seated on the Afghan throne after a long struggle, has been murdered. Now the British will have their work to do over again. Is not this rather a costly class of friends for the British?

—Joseph Taylor, the father of the late Bayard Taylor, recently celebrated the eighty-fifth anniversary of his birthday in a quiet way at Kennet Square, Pennsylvania.

—A Chinese invasion is threatened from Cuba to Louisiana. There are 150,000 of them on the island, and 10,000 wish to come where they can get better wages.

—The recent Burial Act which gives Nonconformists the right to bury their own dead has gone into operation in England without any of the threats previously made being executed.

—Brigham T. Young, a grandson of the Prophet, wound up a drunken spree last Tuesday night, by taking a fatal dose of morphine. He left one wife and two children. He was thirty years old.

—The value of ordinary postage stamps issued by our government last year was $22,414,918, of postal cards $2,753,470, of stamped envelopes nearly $5,000,000, and of other stamps about $1,800,000.

—The working of miracles is beginning to be ascribed to the remains of the late Pius IX., before the resting-place of which, in the Vatican Basilica, persons may be found at all times in the attitude of prayer.

—A terrific storm visited the English coast last Friday. Fifty vessels were wrecked between Spurn Head and Harsea, and twelve were stranded near Winchelsea. Great loss of life is reported on various parts of the coast.

—Rev. Dr. Geikie, whose Life of Christ has made his name so widely known, is about to relinquish his ministerial charge in Paris, and will return to London. He was originally an independent minister at Islington. He went over a few years ago to the Anglican church.

—The Chicago Tribune estimated that during the great storm of the 16th on the lakes, over half a million dollars' worth of damage was done to vessels and cargoes. Ninety-three persons perished. Seventeen vessels were totally wrecked, and sixty-six considerably damaged.

—A dispatch from Chicago, dated Oct. 31, says: "Sitting Bull has delayed his surrender, awaiting the result of his negotiations for a trip in which he is to be placed on exhibition through the Eastern States. Five hundred of his braves to-day surrendered to General Miles."

—A special from St. Petersburg, Oct. 30, says that the most important Nihilist trials are approaching. They are those of the authors of the Moscow explosion, the designer of the dynamite mine, and the Nihilist Congressman from Lipetsk and Tamboff, who resolved on taking the Czar's life.

—One of the most complete watch and clock factories in the country was burned in Brooklyn, the 27th. By this fire 12,000 persons are thrown out of employment: half of these are young women and girls. The building covered fifty city lots, and the machinery had only been in operation about fourteen months.

—"We are asked why," says the French minister of Public Instruction, "in consolidating the Republic, we seek new struggles? Oh," said he, "what would you say to the man who, having recovered his house, left the key with his adversary? The key of the future of our Republic is the education of our youth."

—It is estimated by the American Exchange in London, that not less than $180,000,000 were spent by the 60,000 of our countrymen who went abroad this year. This would be $3,000 per person. Is it any wonder that "foreigners give their heartiest welcome to the American traveler and his long purse"?

—For the last ten years Mount Everest, in Nepaul, has been considered the highest mountain in the world, reaching the respectable height of 29,002 feet. Recently a peak has been discovered on the little-known island of Guinea, which has appropriately been called Mount Hercules. Its elevation has been fixed at 32,789 feet above the level of the sea.

—A London special says that the situation in Ireland is becoming more exciting hourly. Monday afternoon was the time appointed when Healy and Walsh, the Land-leaguers who were arrested for intimidating a farmer named Manning, were to be granted a preliminary hearing by the Magistrates. This meeting is only a prelude to the many State trials soon to be commenced.