Secular News
6%Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1879
FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 13.
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- Speaker Randall was re-elected on the first ballot.
- The flood in Hungary has rendered 120,000 persons homeless. Of 10,000 houses in the destroyed city, 8,200 have fallen.
- The Palace Hotel sustained a loss of $5,000 by fire the evening of March 20. It originated in the drying room of the laundry.
- Fourteen banks in New Orleans temporarily suspended March 20. Over $1,000,000 were sent to their relief from New York.
- The N. Y. Sun thinks the danger from Indians in Alaska has been exaggerated by speculating merchants who wish to have soldiers sent there.
- The Farmer's Review of Chicago says, With scarcely an exception, every wholesale establishment in Chicago is doing a larger business than ever before.
- Pender, only eighteen years of age, was sentenced to prison for twenty years in New York, for grabbing a diamond ear-ring from a lady's ear in that city, by day light.
- An eminent English mechanic thinks that foreign competition would be impossible if the trades unions spent their money in educating their men instead of fighting their employers.
- In the present Congress the South is having a majority of the officers. A movement is on foot to remove the disabilities of Jeff Davis with a view to putting him in the U. S. Senate.
- Many avalanches have recently occurred in the Austrian Tyrol. At Bleiberg ten houses were crushed. Forty persons were killed, eighteen were severely injured and fifteen are missing.
- The New York Tribune, speaking of the condition of the South, and the danger of the re-appearance of yellow fever, says it will not cost any more to clean away the filth than it will to bury the dead.
- At Santa Ana, a small town in Los Angeles Co., Kearney was set upon and severely beaten, March 20. The same day Wellock was suspended as Vice President of the party by the State Central Committee.
- Report from Kingston, Jamaica, says, The British steamer Bolivia, plying between Liverpool and St. Thomas, came in collision with the Haytien Steamer Michael. The latter sank and sixty persons were drowned.
- A railroad president in the East, who is an iron manufacturer, says, "The iron business is improving; the mills are running and have plenty of orders." Times will improve if politicians will not meddle too much with the money question.
- The Grand Jury of Judge Rive's Court, in Lynchburg, Va., indicted the following named County Judges: Haythe of Campbell, Henry of Amherst, Simmons of Botetourt, Brown of Nelson, Wharton of Bedford, Griffin of Roanoke, Parrish of Buckingham, and Bowles of Pluvanna.
- A jury in Deadwood brought a verdict of not guilty in a murder case, where Judge Moody was so well convinced of both guilt and bribery, that he said to them: "I have practiced law for twenty-eight years and been interested in criminal cases of all kinds, but I never witnessed as disgraceful a spectacle as this. Were I to be tried upon a criminal charge I would prefer a jury of Piegan Indians to a body like yourselves."