News and Miscellany by Editor

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 11, 1875

News and Miscellany.

By Editor

“MEN’S hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” Luke 21:26.

FIRES.

JAN. 24, at Hartford, Ct.; loss $75,000. At Hunters’ Point, N. Y.; loss $70,000. Jan. 29, at Jersey City; loss $150,000. Jan. 31, at Stratford, Canada, destruction by fire of the principal business part of the town; loss $250,000. At Elmira, N. Y.; loss $40,000. Feb. 5, at Racine, Wis.; loss $60,000.

EARTHQUAKES.

Jan. 24, two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Marysville, Cal. Three distinct shocks were felt at Chico, and one quite strong shock at the same time at Sacramento, lasting at the latter place ten seconds. As earthquakes are usually accompanied with volcanic eruptions, so now, latest advices from the Sandwich Islands state that the crater of the Mauna Loa is again emitting flames and smoke, nightly illuminating the heavens.

GALES.

Jan. 26, the Pacific coast was visited with a gale of almost unprecedented violence, lasting eight hours. It is stated that at its greatest hight the wind attained a speed of 36 miles an hour. Several vessels were blown ashore at San Francisco. Many other vessels were torn from their moorings, and tossed about like playthings. The damage to shipping in this port aggregates many thousands of dollars. It is said to be the heaviest gale experienced here in fifteen years.

Chicago dispatches report the storm of Feb. 3, through the whole north-west the most terrible for years.

PERPLEXITIES.

In our own nation the Louisiana difficulty is still agitating Congress. The Senate’s committee on elections voted, Jan. 28, to recognize the Kellogg administration. There are rumors that the United States is about to recognize the insurgent government of Cuba which Spain has been unable to suppress in a three years’ trial. If this is done it will increase the difficulties between our own nation and Spain.

MODOC WAR.

According to a statement made by the Secretary of war the Modoc war of California cost the United States $411,000.

TURKEY.

A telegram from Vienna, Jan. 31, states that “the Hospador of Montenegro has withdrawn all demands on Turkey.” The Czar of Russia has sent a note to the prince of Montenegro, congratulating him upon the peaceable solution of the difficulty between his government and Turkey.

SPAIN.

In 1872, Spanish authorities admitted that they had put to death 43,500 Cuban rebels. During the war more than 80,000 men have been sent from Spain to Cuba to put down the rebellion; but the feat is not yet accomplished. So says the San Francisco Chronicle of Jan. 27.

ENGLAND.

LONDON, Jan. 31.—The coal miners’ lockout in South Wales has begun. One hundred and twenty thousand men are idle. Six thousand shipwrights at Newcastle-on-Tyne have struck.

CRIMES.

To glance at the records of appalling crimes one must certainly be reminded that we are coming upon times like Noah’s, when “the earth was filled with violence.” The N. Y. Times of Jan. 30, tells of a robbery a few days before in that city, amounting to nearly half a million. The express office at Utica was robbed Jan. 30, of over $40,000. The same day at Richmond, Staten Island, two safes were blown open and robbed of over $10,000.