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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1879

Secular News.

Reports of Oct. 17 say that several frosts had occurred in the French wine districts.

Henry C. Cary, the well-known writer upon political economy, died in Philadelphia, Oct. 13.

New York City pays $30,000,000 a year for beer, which costs about $15,000,000. All a dead loss.

A Paris paper asserts that the Emperor and Crown Prince of Germany have seceded from the Masonic Order.

Geneva, Switzerland, has been visited this year by 1,400,000 strangers, of whom three-twentieths are Americans.

The elections in Ohio and Iowa resulted in large Republican majorities. A Republican Senator will succeed Thurman, of Ohio.

It is reported that a negro in Bridgeport, Conn., has gone insane over "pedestrianism." But why single out the poor negro for an example?

Dr. Lemoyne of Washington, Pa., the cremationist, died recently aged 81. He directed that he should be cremated in his own furnace.

Heavy frauds on the revenue by whisky men have been developed in North Carolina. Fraud and whisky are as inseparable as the Siamese twins.

In Vienna, Austria, Oct. 17, the snow was six inches in depth and still falling. At Gratz it was several feet deep. This is unprecedented at this time of year.

Toughened glass is now used for railroad ties in England. They cost per ton about the same as those of iron, but there are three times as many in a ton as of iron.

A very disastrous flood occurred in the Province of Murcia, Spain. It is believed that over 100 persons perished. Later reports say the floods continue: 119 bodies have been recovered, four villages are in ruins, and thousands of peasants are wholly destitute.

Four hundred kegs of powder exploded on a railroad train in Louisiana. The conductor and passengers, ten in number, were literally blown to pieces. The cars were demolished.

After a long strike and in a lawless spirit, all the Fall River spinners have resumed work who can get work. They report that "many members of the Union are suffering for food."

Heavy rains south of Rawlins, and the departure of the Indians, cause the withdrawal of troops from that point. They will be sent to the Indian country from the east through Colorado.

The greatest mathematical curiosity of the age turns up in Kentucky. He has no schooling, and cannot tell how he arrives at the solution of problems. Facts are stated which appear almost incredible.

Trouble has been brewing in Burmah for some time, and now the British Resident has been withdrawn. He has not been able to restrain the reckless course of the king and his followers, and it was deemed prudent for him to leave in time.

Another Indian war has broken out in New Mexico. The fighting has been severe, and many settlers and miners have been killed. The Utes in Colorada have scattered so that Gen. Merritt can find no body of them together. It is supposed they have retired to the various agencies.

Oct. 2d, a stand in the fair ground at Adrian, Mich., fell, and 15 lives were lost, and a large number wounded. The stand was spiked together, instead of being morticed and braced. Both the owner and builder have been arrested for manslaughter, and they will be convicted if justice is done.

The terrible railroad disaster at Jackson, Mich., has been quickly followed by lesser ones in various places,—two on the N. W. road, one of them near Baraboo, Wis., one on the Lake Shore road, near Glenville, Ohio; one near Belton, W. Va., and some others. More or less lives lost.

Four thousand Afghans made a desperate attack on the British camp at Ali-Kheil, Oct. 14, but were repulsed at the point of the bayonet, leaving on the field 40 killed and 200 wounded and two standards. The British pursued them two miles. The British loss was two killed and fourteen wounded. The latest intelligence is to the effect that the combined frontier tribes are retreating.

A conference, composed of delegates representing 140,000 coal miners, was held at Leeds, Oct. 15. A resolution was passed in favor of a National emigration scheme, to lessen competition amongst miners. The scheme consists of a system of small weekly subscriptions, the subscribers after a certain time to ballot for chances to emigrate. Those going to America will receive £6 and passage money; to Australia or New Zealand, £12 and passage money.

The Virginia City Chronicle records a most remarkable escape of a miner. A "cage" with six men was coming up a shaft, when one was thrown out at an irregular place, and though the speed was they landed on a timber at the side of the shaft, 14 by 16 inches. On this narrow footing, close to the wall, he stood till the men descended from the top, expecting to find him at the bottom, dashed to pieces. His dangerous resting place was in pitchy darkness, 600 feet from the bottom.