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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 47.

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-A strong temperance movement has been inaugurated in Atlanta, Georgia.
-Polish residents celebrated the centenary of the death of Pulaski, Dec. 6, in New York.
-War has broken out in New Calabar, West Africa, between some powerful tribes of natives.
-A colored exodus is taking place from North Carolina. Strong efforts are being made in the State to hinder it.
-Since the first of Jannary, 28,758 German emigrants landed at Castle Gardens, against 21,506 the corresponding period last year.
-During the recent cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, a storm wave swept over Monkishal Island, drowning several hundred persons.
-December 3 the weather was reported very cold in Great Britain and on the Continent. Despatches from Rome and Madrid report a heavy snowfall.
A London writer says a man paid his gas bill for one month, and then shut up his house for the next month, but his gas bill was just the same at the end of the month
-The London Times, in its financial article, says: "United States Government bonds are hardly to be got here now, and their prices are a mere reflex on those of New York.
-A Berlin correspondent states that the last St. Petersburg newspapers received there contain no articles on the attempt on the Czar's life, as they had not received permission to publish them.
-The London Times, in its financial article, says: "The Industry Cotton Spinning Company, the owners of large mills at Oldham, have gone into liquidation in consequence of the depression of trade.
-Storms continue in Europe. In Spain grave apprehensions are felt of more floods, and much damage is reported further from Switzerland from snow storms. Snow storms in Hungary have also been heavy.
-The Lower House of the Austrian Reichstag rejected the motion for a reduction of the standing army, and adopted the first clause of the Government's bill fixing the strength of the army on a war footing at 800,000.
-Berlin despatches say the famine in Upper Silesia has become so serious that, in many villages, over one-third the population are starving. Famine distress is appearing in Saxony, among peasants and weavers.
-It is now rumored that Gen. Grant's visit to Mexico is in reference to some overtures on the part of the better class of Mexicans who are looking to annexation to the United States as a solution of their chronic difficulties.
-Northern California is having its floods. In Humbold t county nearly four inches of rain fell in eighteen hours, and all the streams were impassable; at Shasta the Sacramento rose 17 feet on the 5th, and the rain continued.
-A New York telegram of Dec. 5, says: "The Tribune, on Sunday, will make a new departure, and hereafter publish a Sunday edition. This will be the first appearance of the Tribune on Sunday since the fall of Napoleon, in 1870."
-Germany and Russia are again on loving terms, and the St. Petersburg Golos has been suppressed for a long account of its severe language on Germany. Outside parties seem to appreciate the great national farce of peace overtures.
-A St. Petersburg correspondent states that the Golos was suspended for its outspoken articles upon the widespread misery and poverty in the interior provinces, the university question, agricultural schools, and the dishonesty and barbarism of the Communal authorities.
-An attempt was made upon the life of the Czar, Dec. 2. First reports seemed doubtful, but they are confirmed. The Czar's train left a station half an hour behind a baggage train, but passed the latter, which was blown up at another station, being mistaken for that of the Czar. The train was wrecked, though few were injured. It has produced a great sensation in the capitals of Europe.
-The resolution prepared by the Ways and Means Committee, for the distribution of the President's Message, proposed to refer the portion on polygamy to the Committee on Territories, but the House amended it by referring this subject to the Judiciary Committee. This changed reference is in the line of preparation for the enactment of more stringent measures, which the Judiciary Committee is known to favor.
-American politics are getting mixed. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, writes: "In relation to Grant and the next President, I have said and now repeat that the South might go further and fare worse than to take him. I have said that I entertained for him personally very high regard and esteem. I have said and now repeat that I prefer him to Tilden for President. This is no change of opinion on my part. I am a Democrat of the strictest sect of the Jefferson School."
A despatch from Glasgow, Missouri, Dec. 6, says: "The Chicago, Alton and Denver passenger and express train, west-bound, due here at 5:10 this morning, jumped the track while running at a rapid rate, running a frightful wreck. The engine turned over completely, rolling down a five-foot embankment, and is badly damaged. The baggage car ran on the down track. The express was crushed against the engine, and five other cars were thrown off the track, none, however, being overturned. Three coaches, including the sleeper, kept the track. The express and baggage cars and the engine are almost totally demolished. The recovery of the engineer from injuries received is doubtful; not many others were injured.
-The ropemakers in two ropewalks in Brooklyn, N. Y., recently struck for higher wages. One of the proprietors in an interview said: "It is folly for men to expect higher wages; reduction is more to be thought of. In years past we used to supply the California market from the East. Now matters are being reversed, and unless there shall be a change of some sort, Pacific Coast manufacturers may very soon drive us out of the market and supplant us by means of cheaper labor. They now have all the improved machinery, the same as here, and, besides, employ Chinese for ninety cents a day. Our workmen do not seem to realize that we may be forced to close our factories through their demands for more wages, and that the ultimate result may be that they will have to seek employment elsewhere."