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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 21, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 39.

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ITEMS OF NEWS.

—Moody and Sankey have started from Chicago for San Francisco.

—The Irish constabulary have ordered 67,000 additional rounds of buckshot.

—Fourteen Jesuit professors were ejected the 16th from the college at Toulouse, France.

—Buenos Ayres has been declared by the Senate to be the capital of the Argentine republic.

—The Chicago Academy of Music was seriously damaged by fire last week. Loss, $40,000.

—Two arrests have been made in Ireland in connection with the murder of Lord Montmorris.

—A water famine is threatened in Virginia. Manufactories are being closed on account of the drought.

—Advices from Havana state that there were fourteen deaths from yellow fever in that place during the past week.

—Since our report last week, seven more victims of the Pittsburg railroad disaster have died, making thirty in all.

—On Monday last three collisions occurred on the elevated railroad in New York, all of which were caused by fog. One engineer was killed.

—As is customary among the Italian population of the United States, Sunday last, being the anniversary of the discovery of America, was celebrated in San Francisco with a procession and oration.

—Water burst into a Nova Scotia mine at Hillerton last week, killing four men and badly bruising two others. The accident was caused by working too near an old pit that had been abandoned fifteen years ago.

—A private telegram from Sydney, Australia, states that great political excitement prevails in Queensland. The mail contract has been suspended. The Ministry is denounced, and the opposition is strongly supported.

—Seven persons were killed and four wounded last Saturday, by the explosion of a corn cooker in a Chicago distillery. The cooker was eighteen feet high, six feet wide, and made of iron. Cause of explosion unknown.

—A terrific hailstorm visited Rion, France, and the neighborhood one day last week. For twenty minutes hailstones fell as large as hens' eggs, and some larger than men's fists. Branches of trees were cut off by them, birds killed, and nearly all the windows broken.

—A pastoral was read a few days since in the Catholic churches of Ottawa, Kansas, forbidding parents sending their children to the Model School, on pain of deprivation of the sacraments. The Model School is a Government institution, preliminary to the Normal School.

—The Kurds, a party of wild horsemen, have entered Persia, and are reported to have totally or partially destroyed seventeen villages. The Persian Government has ordered the dispatch of twelve battalions of infantry and 2000 cavalry with twelve guns, but they cannot reach the scene of action for ten days.

—At the recent Mormon Conference, John Taylor was elected first president of the church, a position left vacant by the death of Brigham Young. Taylor has been the head of the church, but only as president of the twelve apostles. George Q. Cannon is Taylor's first counselor. The English saints now control the church.

—There are burial grievances in other countries besides England. The Free Lutheran congregation at Hermannsburg has been forbidden to have singing or audible prayer at funerals held in the public cemetery. The matter is to be carried to the highest courts, and, if decided against them, they will establish another cemetery.

—On the 10th, the United States Emigration Commission had the first conference with the representatives of the Chinese Government, Pao Hsun and Lin Hung Tsao. These gentlemen, who are plenipotentiaries on the part of China, are said to be friendly to the object of the commission, and it is now believed that the business of the mission will be rapidly dispatched.

—Behm and Wagner in their sixth issue of the "Population of the Earth," which has just appeared, estimate the total population at 1,455,923,450. Two years ago the estimate was 1,430,000,000. Europe is assigned 315,929,000 inhabitants; Asia, 834,707,000; Africa, 205,679,000; Australia and Polynesia, 4,031,300; the Polar regions, 82,000; the United States, 48,000,000.

—The severest windstorm ever known in that section swept over Milwaukee, Sunday last. The wind was from the south, and blew between sixty and seventy miles an hour. Passenger and freight trains along the line of the Southern Minnesota railroad were reported blockaded by snow drifts from ten to twelve feet deep, and teams with provisions were dispatched to their relief at several points.

—The priests throughout Ireland have appealed to their congregations, deploring the continuance of outrages and also the condition of the tenantry. Numerous titled landlords are fleeing from their estates in fear of their lives. The Government has resolved to arrest the first agitator violating the laws. Archbishop McCabe of Dublin has written a pastoral letter, deploring the silence of those Irish leaders in whose presence threats of violence to landlords have been uttered.