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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 15, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 20.

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—Strikes are reported on the Canada Pacific Railway.

—A defaulting bank cashier in Russia was sent to Siberia.

—Grasshoppers are reported on the Truckee meadows in Nevada.

—There is a strong movement on foot in England in favor of silver.

—Fires in Berks County, Pa., are destroying hundreds of acres of timber.

—A serious riot lately took place in Cork, Ireland, between rival factions.

—Ex-Judge Barnard of New York city died April 27. He was impeached in 1872.

—Francis Murphy has arrived in San Francisco and commenced temperance lectures.

—The greatest freshet ever known in New Brunswick occurred in the present month.

—Assistant Postmaster General Tyner is on his way to the Pacific coast on a tour of inspection.

—A heavy fire occurred in Chicago, May 10, of a lumber-yard and dry-house, with about a dozen cottages.

—Discussions in Congress continue to be characterized by bitterness of feelings—much as it was before the war.

—There is uneasiness in the Western States over the movements of the Railroad monopolies, Gould and Vanderbilt.

—Calcutta advices say that 80,000 pilgrims attended the Hurdwair Fair, and have carried the cholera in various directions.

—An affray took place at a double execution in Columbia County Ga., May 9. Twenty-five shots were fired, and several were wounded.

—The report of the cessation of the plague in the east seems to be premature. An outbreak of spotted typhus fever has occurred in Astrachan.

—The Parliament of British Columbia, sitting in Victoria, is moving for separation. Complaints have long been made of the neglect of the "mother country."

—The real estate sales in San Francisco in April were less in amount than in any other month since September 1872, when the "Goat Island excitement" was raging.

—The recent election in Indiana was a great victory for the Republicans. This is supposed to indicate the feeling in the North over the action of the present Congress.

—The friends of Cornell University are alarmed over its prospects. These were not flattering, and the absence of President White on a foreign mission is working against it.

—The N. Y. Herald, speaking of Alaska, says, "It is the judgment of all who have disinterestedly studied the subject, that law for white settlers is quite as needful as force to control the Indians."

—A Frenchman, M. Perroy, has invented an apparatus for distilling water at sea, for which he has received a prize of 3000 francs, by which sea water is turned out fresh, well aerated, inodorous water.

—Mrs. Sarah B. Hale who was editress of Godey's Lady's Book for fifty years past, died recently in Philadelphia. She had an editorial experience, in its length, shared by no other person in the country.

—A car load of dynamite exploded in Stratford, Canada, on the Grand Trunk railroad, May 5. Buildings were leveled to the ground; 150 cars were destroyed, the whole town was moved as if by a heavy earthquake.

—The St. Petersburg Golos says,—The first party of 300, out of 2000 prisoners arrested in Moscow during the winter, have started for Siberia. 9000 persons arrested in other towns will pass through Moscow during the summer.

—Twelve hundred socialists paraded the streets of Chicago on a recent Sunday, many of them armed. They announce their intention to inaugurate a strike on the fifth of July which will be general, throughout the whole country.

—The N. Y. Sun says the new Constitution of California is contrary to the United States Constitution and treaties, and says it "is a remarkable instrument, but it cannot knock the bottom out of the Constitution of the United States."

—The ten men who were shut in a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa., have been rescued after five days imprisonment. When reached they were cooking their breakfast, having killed a mule on which they had subsisted four days.

—Efforts are still being made in the South to retain the negroes. But in the convention of May 9 in Nashville, Ex-Congressman Rainey said "the negroes would no longer trust to the promises of Southern whites, which had always been broken."

—May 10, seats in the N. Y. mining Exchange sold for $250, and $300, which sold for $60 in January, and the highest price in April was $120. This rise was under the expectation that business would be driven from San Francisco to New York under the new constitution.

—St. Petersburg advices say the reports of the extraordinary measures to keep the peace are entirely false, as all is secure, and there is no abridgment of liberty. But, on the other side, it is asserted that favorable reports cannot be relied upon where imprisonment or death awaits him who tells the whole truth.