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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1879

Secular News.

By Editor

The yellow fever was declared epidemic by the Board of Health of Memphis, August 9.

"Bush fires" are doing great damage to crops and other property in the Province of Ontario.

A socialist funeral in Berlin was attended by 20,000 persons. Their strength cannot be concealed.

Nobody will be surprised to learn that formidable preparations are going on for a revolution in Mexico.

A fire in Oneida, N. Y., July 21, destroyed the gas house, important manufacturing works, and many dwellings.

Volcano, a village of 2,000 inhabitants, in Wood Co., W. Va., was almost entirely destroyed by fire, Aug. 4.

The revolution in Hayti seems to be suppressed for the present, but there are great fears of another outbreak.

The New York Sun, which strongly favored Tilden for President, is now putting forward Justice Field of California.

The force of the late storm in Boston may be judged somewhat from the fact that one firm sold 16,000 panes of glass at retail the day after.

News from Paris says, —Chatevois, near Strasburg, was half burned Aug. 6. Two thousand peasants are homeless. Loss, 1,000,000 marks.

Dissatisfaction is expressed with Sir Garnet Wolseley in the management of the Zulu war. Correspondents from Africa fear the war will be resumed.

For the first time since the settlement of Charleston, S. C., the thermometer went up to 104 in July last. Fifteen persons were sun-struck in one day.

The yellow fever was supposed to be of a mild type when it appeared in Memphis; but it was early, and it is making steady advances through the country.

A Texas correspondent of an Illinois paper gives a gloomy account of crop and grass prospects in Texas, and advises immigrants not to go there this year.

The New Orleans Democrat says the rice crop this year will be greatly reduced. Gangs of Chinese are working on some plantations, and their work is satisfactory.

The Florida legislature is to be called together to consider the charter for a ship canal across that State, which will greatly shorten the route from New York to New Orleans.

American fishermen in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ask for a Government vessel to visit those waters. They declare that the abuses are greater than before the award was paid.

A trial of Krupp's heavy guns has recently been made at Meppero, Germany, before the representatives of many nations. Heavy guns most interest the "many nations" in these days.

A turtle was recently caught in Florida with the following inscription: "Caught in 1700 by Hermanda Gomez, in the St. Sebastian." He was dated 179 years later and set adrift.

The crop prospects in Germany are as gloomy as in England. A letter from eastern Germany says: It looks as if America would be called upon to feed Germany as well as England and France next winter.

The Mark Lane Express says favorable weather is bringing out the crops somewhat after the recent disastrous storm, but grain is too far gone to hope for even a tolerable crop, either in England or Scotland.

We saw a newspaper estimate that 50,000 small farms in California will have mortgages foreclosed on them within a year. The farms in this State are largely under mortgage, and "land monopoly" will soon be a huge fact.

The Isthmus Canal is like to be settled by the State of Nicaragua, which has a canal nearly completed up the San Juan river, for light vessels, from the gulf to Lake Nicaragua. From the lake to the Pacific is only thirteen miles.

A most important State paper is being prepared in Washington. It is a protest to European nations against their permitting converts to Mormonism to emigrate to the United States. As polygamy has been declared a crime, all such converts are counted as criminals, or coming here with criminal intent, and therefore a dangerous class, whose immigration is not to be allowed.

Dispatch from Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, Aug. 8: "A fire broke out in the Latin quarter of this city, and the whole section is now burning. The fire threatens to assume terrible proportions. At this hour, 10 P. M., the fire is still raging. The fire was caused by an explosion. The Catholic, Servian, and Jewish districts and the commercial quarters have been destroyed. Thousands of buildings have been burned, including the Catholic and Servian churches. Twenty thousand persons are made homeless. The loss is enormous."