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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 11, 1879

Secular News.

—Cuba is giving more trouble to Spain. —The yellow fever continues its ravages. —An elder brother of the Pope died recently. —Six persons were suffocated in a mine at Alta, Utah, Sept. 6. —A. B. Cornell is the Republican nominee for Governor of New York. —Texas makes the worst show for a corn crop, this year, of all the States. —The war has been renewed in Afghanistan. A serious out-break has occurred. —Gen. Grant is expected to arrive in San Francisco about the 21st of September. —It is formally announced that De Lesseps has abandoned his Panama canal scheme. —The prohibition party is now organized, more or less completely, in twenty-one States. —The wheat crop in Eastern Oregon and about Walla Walla is reported unusually good. —The President of the French Republic is said to be as sparing of his words as Gen. Grant. —Eighty English farmers sailed on the Helvetia (due in New York Sept. 8,) to settle in Texas. —Mrs. Sprague has taken her three daughters and abandoned her home. Sprague keeps the son. —A fire-damp explosion occurred in the coal mines at Buchamp, France, on the 2d, killing fifteen persons. —It is ascertained that the late famine in China resulted in the loss of nine and a half millions of lives. —A Chinaman wanted to vote the Workingmen's ticket in San Francisco. He was arrested for insanity! —A Chinese Professor has been installed in Harvard College. It is intended to teach the Chinese language in the interests of commerce. —The cable street railroad, a device of San Francisco to overcome the steep grade of Clay street, is now largely in use in that city on other roads. —Government work in Washington, calling for contracts in iron, receives no bids, or very few, as the iron manufacturers are too busy to attend to them. —On the night of Sept. 5, two brick buildings, three stories, fell down, in Omaha. One man and two children were killed, and many persons injured. —There were more storms Sept. 8, in the north, east, and west of Scotland, and large tracts of land were flooded, causing further damage to crops. —The province of Chekiang, China, with a population of 26,000,000, is threatened with famine by a failure of crops occasioned by unfavorable weather. —The official report on the fire at Irkutsk, Russia, which destroyed about two hundred houses, shows that sixty lives were lost, the greater number being children. —The suburbs of St. Petersburg are flooded by the waters of the Neva. The storm commenced Sept. 4, and was raging at last advices. Both the storm and hight of water are unprecedented. —Bismarck's salary as Prussian Minister and Chancellor of the empire is about $13,000, while Osman Pacha, for offices held in Constantinople, receives about $9,000 per month, and all household expenses paid. —The Earl of Fife, recently deceased, owned 252,000 acres of land, and received for rent $360,000 a year. His family was remarkable for always being connected with scandalous immoralities. Such is this world. —Gold is accumulating in the Treasury at New York to such extent that the gold-vault is proving insufficient to contain it. Resumption is indicated by the confidence shown in government notes and certificates. —The Amazon, the fastest steamer of the Pacific Mail Steam Navigation Company, was sold recently to the Chileans, and is being fitted up as a heavily armed transport. She will carry two 100-pounders and six 70-pounders.

—The movement in New York against the Oneida Community has caused them to abandon their peculiar immoralities. Hereafter the Community will be divided into two classes—the married and the single. Property will still be held in common.

—A terrible storm visited Louisiana Sept. 1. Forty-five coal boats were sunk at New Orleans. At Morgan City two steamboats were sunk. Many houses were blown down at different points. Beside the loss in this kind of property, the loss in cane and fruit is enormous.

—Dr. Talmage writes from Manchester, England: Let American commerce lift up its head at the prospective demand on this side the waters for American breadstuffs. It is lamentable, the misfortune of these English and Scottish farmers. The perpetual rains have desolated them.