Secular News | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 6.

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Secular News.

—A terrible famine is reported in Upper Egypt.

—Lake Tahoe is being stocked with Michigan white fish.

—Jay Gould is meeting with heavy losses on Union Pacific stocks.

—All is not peace in Afghanistan. Gen. Roberts is harassed by Mongols.

—The Theatre Royal in London was burned January 2. Its cost was $750,000.

—Dr. Linderman, Director of the Mint in San Francisco, died in Washington Jan. 27.

—Clara S. Foltz was admitted to practice as an attorney in San Francisco on Jan. 28th.

—There is much talk of colonizing the Freedmen of the South. Probably talk only.

—A tornado blew down four houses and one church in Iuka, Miss., Jan. 30. Six lives were lost.

—The "cipher despatches" are now being investigated by the Potter committee of Congress.

—The strongest objection to cremation has come forward. It will obliterate all evidence of poisoning.

—A lamp chimney factory in Pittsburg has its furnaces heated with benzine, at a great saving in the cost.

—The first train after the recent snow blockade brought sixty tons of mail into Cleveland from the east.

—Dr. Jacob Bigelow of Boston, who died recently, was one of the celebrities of New England in his profession.

—A. L. Snowden, Postmaster of Philadelphia, is offered the position of Director of the Mint in San Francisco.

—Post Master General Key favors the bill now before Congress for the erection of a Post Office building in San Francisco.

—The news in regard to the black plague is not sufficiently definite for the formation of any well-grounded opinion as to the results.

—The Yolo Democrat is glad that Chinese New Year is over, and says "too muchee fire clacker." Just our opinion of the 4th of July.

—The papers are almost constantly speaking of "Rev. Joseph Cook," the Boston lecturer, but he writes that he is not an ordained minister.

—It proves that England was hasty, in glorifying Beaconsfield for acquiring Cyprus. It was only under a lease, and she has now offered £1,000,000 for its purchase.

—The British Government proposes to prohibit the importation of American cattle, for fear of disease spreading. Considerable excitement prevails among shippers.

—A Cheyenne chief at Fort Robinson endeavored to commit suicide January 31. The action of our Government in reference to these prisoners can hardly be commended.

—The training ship, Jamestown, so well known in and about San Francisco Bay, has been abolished by the Secretary of the Navy, at the request of the authorities of California.

—Senator Ben Hill, in opposing a bill for the payment of a Southern war claim, said,—Let the losses of the war go, and if the people desire to avoid such losses in the future they must avoid war.

—Detective Shorey made an unusually rich haul the morning of Jan. 28 at Oakland wharf. A young man arrived on the emigrant train with a splendid set of burglar's tools, and jewelery enough to stock a shop.

—A tornado struck the town of Lockport, Texas, on Sunday evening, Jan. 26, demolishing forty houses, including churches, the court-house, and Masonic Hall. One child was killed and several persons badly hurt.

—Mr. McKenzie, a temperance lecturer from the east, is working in San Francisco. Mr. Haskell, from New Hampshire, is working in Oakland. And now it is announced that Mr. Murphy is coming. Work enough for all.

—The trouble in France has culminated in the resignation of MacMahon, and the election of Jules Grévy to the Presidency for a term of seven years. It appears that the temper of the French people is quieting down to peaceful solutions of political crises.

—Women have been trying to gain notoriety and money in the east by walking long distances in a certain time. And now two women are "in training" in San Francisco for a prize fight! Where will this end? And this "women's rights"?

—A prominent southern politician says the South is opposed to National banks, and wants "a currency which has neither wings nor legs, and that will stay where it is issued." With a restoration of such currency it would be well to abolish the railroads and stop traveling.

—A woman has received $10,000 from the New York Elevated Railroad for an invention to deaden the sound. This problem had puzzled the heads of the greatest inventors. Of course the newspapers all notice that it is a woman that has invented a way to preserve silence!

—At the funeral of Bayard Taylor in Berlin, J. P. Thompson, D. D. closed his remarks thus: "Into the hands of the Great Master and Architect we reverently and lovingly commit this life and its work." Pity some eminent ministers would not follow the example of Paul who said—"When I became a man I put away childish things."