Secular News by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 26, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 25.

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Secular News

By Editor

—The floods on the Po and other streams are on the increase.

—The number of murders and high crimes recorded in the daily papers, is appalling.

—The St. John Collier Company, of Wakefield, England, has failed—liabilities $335,000.

—Heavy floods are reported in Poland. Seven bridges of one railroad were carried away.

—A bank embezzler in Wilmington, Del., was sentenced to five years imprisonment.

—At a riot in Chicago, Sunday, June 22, many shots were fired, and a large number of persons wounded.

—Prince Louis Napoleon has been killed by the Zulus in Africa. This pretty nearly ends the hopes of Bonapartists.

—The Colusa Sun estimates that that county will have a surplus of 4,000,000 of bushels of wheat to market this fall.

—The Chinese are ravaging Kuldja, and Russia has a large expedition on the way to meet them. War is expected.

—The schooner Florence P. Hall arrived in New York June 17, having lost her captain and two seamen by yellow fever.

—The Receiver's Office in Cherson, Southern Russia, was recently undermined and robbed of 1,500,000 rubles—about $1,000,000.

—United States Minister Christiancy reports that the guano and nitrate trade has been destroyed by the war between Chili and Peru.

—James Gordon Bennett is on his way from Liverpool to San Francisco to be present at the departure of the Jeannette—for the north pole.

—Continued shocks of earthquake, attributed to the action of Mount Etna, have done considerable damage in villages in Calabria, Italy.

—Things are in an unsettled state in the Turkish capital. A ministerial crisis seems impending, and the Sultan appears to fear the result.

—Judge Bellinger, in Portland, Oregon, has decided against employing Chinese on public streets. It will probably go to the Supreme Court.

—The passage of the silver bill by Congress, introduced by Booth of California, will cause most of the small money brokers to go out of business.

—Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin says the Syracuse Herald, is suffering from the effects of smoking twenty Havana cigars a day. Glad to hear it.

—The tunnel under Detroit river for the Canada Southern Railroad, fourteen miles below Detroit city, is to be completed within two years.

—Gen. Crook reports that unless the abuse of stealing the ponies of the Indians is stopped there will be trouble with the Sioux and other tribes.

—Lionel Nathan Rothschild, oldest son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, head of the present house, has lately died. His estate is valued at $25,000,000.

—A countryman has been prospecting the stock market to learn what is meant by "the puts and calls." He knows. They say they call for your money, and put it into their pockets.

—A Mr. Bennett has been sentenced in New York to thirteen months imprisonment and to pay a fine of $300, for sending obscene literature through the mails. And all good people rejoice.

—The Supervising Inspector has re-instated Capt. Carroll of the Great Republic, reversing the decisions of the Local Inspectors at Portland. He decides that the whole responsibility of the wreck rests on the pilot.

—The representatives of England and France have demanded the abdication of the Khedive of Egypt. He replied that he will abdicate when his creditors are paid. That would place his action far in the future.

—Debates in Congress read just as they did in 1860. Lamar, Dem., of Mississippi, and Conkling, Rep., of New York, called each other liars, &c., on the 19th inst. It is rarely that Conkling is aroused to passionate words.

—The Russian Nihilists are the most ultra Communists. In a recent publication they announce that "the institution of the family is to be destroyed, the right of property abolished, religion ignored, and even liberty disregarded as an empty question." These ideas are to be carried out by "a war of plunder, incendiarism, and assassination."

—A company has been incorporated in New York having for its object the laying of the telegraph wires in the city under ground. Copper wires are to be drawn through iron tubes, well insulated; as many as three hundred may be carried in one tube an inch and a quarter in diameter. It is thought possible to do away with poles and elevated wires in the whole city.

—The S. F. Post says: "When Francis Murphy talks about putting out all the distillery fires in the country, sensible men know it is the veriest claptrap. He does not mean it, for Murphy is no fool; but it seems to be a part of the temperance campaign to use exaggerated language." Mankind must be essentially different from what it is now to stop all the distilleries by "moral suasion."