Secular News
3%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 21, 1879
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 32.
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- There is a famine in Siberia.
- The famine is sore in Jerusalem.
- The cholera prevails in Cabul, Asia.
- Trouble is brewing between Spain and Morocco.
- The yellow fever is raging with great violence at Tampico.
- The fire in Serajevo was not yet extinct, Aug. 13.
- The Colorado potato beetle has made its appearance in Ireland.
- The daughter of Gen. Grant, Nellie Sartoris, died in London, Aug. 15.
- Another storm, Aug. 13, damaged the crops in the midland counties of England.
- The Rocky Mountain grasshopper is working through Nevada towards California.
- For the first time rust has appeared on the Spring wheat in the Willamette Valley, Oregon.
- A quite severe earthquake occurred in Wieliczka, Austria. A row of houses split in several places.
- The yellow fever is rapidly increasing in violence, and spreading. The alarm is reaching northern ports.
- The iron business is brisk in all parts of the country. Business is assuming a healthy and prosperous look.
- Tremont Temple, Boston, was destroyed by fire, Aug. 14. Loss about $120,000. Several firemen were injured.
- Where farm laborers were much needed in New York, the tramps were numerous, lazy, and saucy. Gov. Robinson vetoed a tramp law.
- Much damage to crops in Lancashire and Cheshire has been caused by the overflow of the Mersey. The disaster involved some loss of life.
- The Mormon leaders are inciting the people to deeds of violence by the most treasonable utterances against the authority of the nation.
- An English steamer collided with the Spanish steamer Corona, off Finisterre, Aug. 10. The Spanish vessel sunk, and 14 lives were lost.
- A report from Calcutta of August 6th says there have been seventy-five cases of cholera among the Europeans at Candahar, sixty being fatal.
- There is an increasing coldness between Russia and Germany. The St. Petersburg papers are severe in their denunciations of Germany.
- A conference representing 200,000 miners has been held in Manchester, England. A resolution was passed favoring emigration to the United States.
- In San Francisco thirty-six patients were committed to the insane asylum in July; a larger number than in any other month in the history of the city.
- A disease akin to cholera is now ravaging some parts of Linn county, Iowa. Twenty persons died in a few days at Center Point, and as many more were prostrated.
- Two young ladies recently committed suicide in Chicago, commenting on which the Boston Journal says, it was an "appropriate end for lives so empty and profitless."
- The steamer Semiramide, from Boston to Liverpool, with a full load of corn and provisions, collided off Fastnet with the Corsica, and went down. She was an iron vessel; the crew was saved.
- A great scandal has sprung up between Senator Conkling and the family of Governor Sprague. Perhaps the truth is not yet known, but it will probably crush the political hopes of the Senator.
- A water spout passed through Bonnetouche, says a Toronto dispatch of Aug. 11, destroying eighty houses, and much other property. Many persons were injured, and three lives lost.
- Forrest, the English Consul at Tientsin, in China, the deaths from starvation and want reached the enormous total of about nine millions and a half.
- A party from Binghamton, N. Y., were out with two steam yachts on the St. Lawrence; from gross carelessness, one of them was sunk, many being drawn down with her. Five ladies were drowned.
- Secretary Evarts has procured, by our Consuls, labor statistics from abroad, from which it appears that American laborers get better wages than those in other countries, and money here has a greater producing value.
- Another destructive storm passed over central Wisconsin, the night of Aug. 11. Two pleasure steamers were wrecked on Lake Monona, at Madison. Both were filled with passengers, but they drifted ashore, and no lives were lost.
- On the morning of Aug. 15, lightning struck an iron tank at Parker, Pa., containing 18,000 barrels of oil, tearing it in pieces. The burning oil flowed down the hillside, by which another tank, oil wells, and five dwellings were destroyed.
- Quebec has been the scene of bloody riots. It amounted to a war of races—the French against the Irish. Nearly 3,000 men on each side were armed as well as they could arm. The night of the 15th the city was entirely in the hands of the mob.
- Since "no license" has prevailed in Norwich, Conn., arrests for drunkenness have fallen off in five months from 161 to 58, and commitments for crime from 127 to 37. But "temperance reformers" say it will not do—"you cannot make men good by law."
- Babbitt, of New York, the noted soap manufacturer, has been prosecuted by the government for defrauding the revenue. E. J. Baldwin, the capitalist of San Francisco, has been arrested for the same offense, charged against his distillery in Los Angeles county.
- A London Times Geneva dispatch reports that a waterspout recently occurred in the district of Brusio, in the canton of the Grisons, Switzerland. An immense volume of water rushed down the sides of Piz di Saint Remigio, bringing with it masses of rock and earth, and overflowed and flooded Brusio. No lives were lost, but many buildings were damaged and the crops were ruined.