Secular News | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 13, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 43.

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Secular News.

—A new Turkish Cabinet has lately been formed.

—The phylloxera has made its appearance in Spain.

—There is fair prospect now that slavery will be abolished in Cuba.

—A snow storm visited Aberdeen, Scotland, before the harvest was completed.

—The revolutionists in Durango, Mexico, have been defeated and dispersed.

—House robbers in Kennett, Chester Co., Pa., rifled a safe, Nov. 5, obtaining $300,000.

—A train between Venable and Lyons, France, was delayed by a snow storm, Nov. 5.

—The English government is sending soldiers to Ireland, on account of tenant difficulties.

—The Empress Carlotta, the unfortunate widow of Maximillian, is recovering from her derangement.

—Heavy floods have occurred in the Island of Jamaica, and nearly one hundred persons have been drowned.

—The total loss by the floods in Spain is ascertained to be 3,500 houses and 120 mills. Loss of property estimated $12,000,000.

—A little colored boy, eight years of age, has been sentenced to three years in the penitentiary, in Memphis, Tenn., for stealing candy!

—Upper Silesia, Schwarzburg, and other parts of the Prussian Empire are threatened with famine, in consequence of a bad harvest.

—Sir Francis Hincks, one of the directors of the Consolidated Bank of Montreal, has been found guilty of signing false returns to the government.

In order to neutralize the stronghold of Belfort, on the French frontier, a fortified camp is to be constructed at New Breisach, near the left bank of the Rhine.

—The "oldest inhabitant" gives it up. A snow storm blockaded the railroads in New England, Nov. 3. Ice formed in all parts of Memphis the same date.

—A Chicago firm "failed" for about $1,000,000, which is taken as evidence that times are not so good yet, but the creditors claim crookedness in the transaction.

—In New York city there are wills on file in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, French, German, Russian, and many other languages, and recently one was filed in Chinese.

—Accounts have been received from St. Petersburg of the reappearance of the plague, which is not widespread, but is sufficiently serious to demand preventive measures.

—It is said that Prince Jerome Bonaparte has devised "a new departure" to raise his fortunes in France. He is coming up as a candidate for the presidency of the Republic.

—The past week has brought more than the usual number of horrors, such as a father murdering the whole family, and children murdering parents, and suicides are fearfully common.

—After settling the estate of Mark Hopkins of San Francisco, it was discovered that $5,000,000 in government bonds, and $300,000 in gold in the Treasury, had been overlooked; but the heirs did not miss that sum.

—The depreciation of wheat land in Napa county may be realized in the fact that an 80-acre field at Yountville, raised in 1860 2,800 bags of wheat. Now an average yield is 700 or 800, and it has run as low as 600.

—The recent elections in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and local elections in Illinois, were all triumphs to the Republicans. Maryland and Illinois Democratic, with talk of contesting the latter State for foul play.

—A Berlin paper accuses Russia of complicity in the latest troubles in Afghanistan. Papers found in Cabul, it says, disclosed the fact that Russian influence is active in Afghanistan against England, and some papers seriously compromise the Government at St. Petersburg.

—The Eastern States must not have the credit of all the hard weather, as the following shows:—"Elias Gibson informs the Downieville (Cal.) Messenger that he left Gibsonville on snowshoes, the snow being about 30 inches deep, or thereabouts. There has not been such a storm at this time of the year for the past ten years."

—A dispatch dated New York, Nov. 4, says: Sailing vessels which arrived this morning looked as if they had received a severe handling by the recent cyclone which swept the coast. Sails were in rags, and the vessels had generally a battered appearance. The oldest captains state that they never experienced a fiercer gale. The injury to shipping has been great.

—All accounts from Constantinople unite in testifying to the consternation prevailing in the Palace and at the Porte, at the steps taken by the British Ambassador. A St. Petersburg writer says that if the Sultan removes Mahmoud Medim Pasha, Minister of the Interior, and other Ministers, in consequence of the menacing position of the Beaconsfield Government, it would be a diplomatic defeat for Russia difficult to support. To prevent this, by sustaining the Sultan in his present choice of Ministers, as a counter demonstration in a military direction by Russia, might be considered necessary. Germany and Austria are also watching movements with anxiety. It is not probable that difficulty will arise at present, but the news is interesting as showing how easily a crisis may be brought on in Europe.