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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 27, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 9.

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A late failure in England was for $600,000.
The yellow fever is violent and increasing in Rio Janeiro.
The Russians are at length evacuating Turkish territory.
Arizona comes to the front as the loosest divorce State of the Union.
A firm in Revel, Russia, has failed with liabilities of 1,000,000 rubles.
Two distinct shocks of earthquake at Petaluma, Cal., February 19.
A recent fire in Hong Kong burned 368 buildings. Loss about $1,000,000.
Turkey City, Clarion Co., Pa., was almost entirely destroyed by fire January 27.
The news from Capetown, South Africa, is still threatening to the British forces.
The business part of Lee, Mass., and the Episcopal church, were burned Feb. 3.
The Prussian Reichstag has refused to endorse the arbitrary actions of Bismarck.
The state of Nevada is the only one in the Union with no debts, and money in the treasury.
Heavy failure in Boston, of a real estate agent. Liabilities $1,266,931; no unincumbered assets.
Of 205 M. D.s graduated at the University of the City of New York, Feb. 18, a Chinaman stood second.
The steamer Wyckluffe from Philadelphia to St. Nazaire was lost at Loire, Feb. 19; the crew was saved.
The Chinese bill as amended by the Senate, passed the House Feb. 22, and went to the President.
Joseph Cook, in his lecture of Feb. 3, said there are two hundred Chinese students in American colleges.
Congress has passed a bill to admit females practicing before the Supreme Court of the United States.
The President of the French Republic receives a salary of $100,000 per annum, with $50,000 for household expenses.
Fruit was not injured in California by the cold weather as much as was feared. Both almond and peach trees are in blossom.
A correspondent of the Calistogian says Napa Valley is a poor place for those who expect to realize on life insurance policies!
The Nevada legislature passed an act, Feb. 18, making it a misdemeanor to paint advertising signs on fences or to deface scenery.
The Mersey Docks and Harbor Board have decided to build special sheds, to the cost of $175,000, to maintain a continuance of the American cattle-trade.
A railroad train was completely wrecked near Selma, Ala., Feb. 18, by falling through a rotten bridge. Four men were fatally injured, and ten or twelve seriously.
Up to Feb. 16 the Upper Columbia was reported closed with ice. A general thaw has filled the smaller streams. Baker City, Oregon, was reported flooded the 20th.
For the first time in the history of the nation, a colored man, Senator Bruce, occupied the chair in the Senate recently. He has won the respect of his fellow Senators.
Miles, the Mormon deceiver and polygamist, whose actions were before the courts last Fall, has been surrendered by his bondsmen, and is in the penitentiary at Salt Lake awaiting trial.
In Springfield, Mass., there is a proposition before the board of aldermen forbidding screens, blinds, curtains, or any other obstruction to a full view to the interior of saloons or bar-rooms. The liquor dealers are alarmed for the result.
The Central Colony of Fresno Co., is on the collapse. The proprietors have served notices to the colonists to vacate their premises for non-payment of installments; which they refuse to pay because water has not been furnished according to contract.
In Stockton, Feb. 22, a large crowd was gathered to witness the trial of a new pump; the engine refused to work, and the engineer screwed down the valve and put on more steam. Result; explosion, sixteen killed, and more than twenty-five wounded. Why are such ignorant, reckless men permitted to handle steam engines?
By a gas explosion in a tunnel on the South Pacific Railroad, 18 miles south of San Jose, Feb. 12, a white man and twelve Chinamen were fatally burned. Two others will probably recover. The tunnel is in 2,300 feet; a body of flame rushed out full 200 feet beyond the mouth, with such violence as to upset a 10-ton stationary engine 150 feet away; a blacksmith shop 600 distant was demolished, and still further away a lot of cars were thrown from the track and piled up in a heap.
The few white inhabitants of Sitka sent an urgent request to Victoria for a British steamer to come to their aid, as they were besieged by a large force of hostile Indians. Secretary Sherman telegraphed to Port Townsend, W. T., for the steamer Oliver Wolcott to proceed to Sitka as soon as possible. The newspaper strictures on the neglect of our government do not seem to be well founded. Word was sent to Victoria, because that was the nearest point to which they could send; the United States steamer was at Port Townsend, but a short distance from Victoria.