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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 24, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 28.

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—July 15, mercury rose to 102 in Detroit, Mich.

—Crop prospects in England are still more gloomy.

—Francis Murphy left California for the East, July 15.

—A statue of the French Prince Imperial is to be erected in Westminster Abbey.

—Ex-Governor Wm. Allen, of Ohio, died suddenly, at his home near Chillicothe.

—The latest reports say China is making extensive preparations for war with Russia.

—Terrific storms with hail reported July 14, in Wells River, Vt., and Woodville, N. H.

—The strike in Fall River, Mass., continues firm, neither party seeming willing to yield.

—Destructive storms were reported in various parts of the Province of Ontario, July 15.

—Grasshoppers are very destructive in some parts of Dakota, Minnesota, and Northwestern Iowa.

—Terrific storms are reported in France under date of July 18. The damage is said to be immense.

—The yellow fever, which was supposed to be suppressed, has broken out again in Memphis with greater violence.

—July 17 a severe storm occurred at Chattanooga, Tenn. Two buildings were struck by lightning, and several blown down.

—Failures in New York during the second quarter of 1879 were notably less than in any single quarter of the last five years.

—The contemplated increase of the Prussian army is in consequence of the increased military strength of France and Russia.

—A little boy in Contra Costa Co., Cal., carries a bullet in his brain lodged there from a revolver in the hands of a playmate.

—Good. The Secretary of the U. S. Senate has refused to pay Senator Sharon his salary on the ground that he has not earned it.

—There is very deep depression in the cotton producing districts in England. Spindles lying idle are counted by hundreds of thousands.

—The Rock Island and Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads are both to have double tracks between Chicago and Omaha.

—The Porte has rejected the proposal of the British Ambassador that England should act as intermediary with the Powers in the settlement of the Greek frontier question.

—The revolution in Hayti is most sanguinary. In a quarrel in the House of Representatives at Port-au-Prince the President and forty Representatives were shot. A fire was raging in the city at last accounts.

—The Turcomans opposing General Lazareff's expedition are armed with English rifles from the British reserve supplies in Afghanistan. The Gazette asks in what light the English Government regards this traffic.

—Governor Thayer, of Oregon, has appointed Judge Thompson special Attorney for the State to prosecute Ex-Governor, now Senator, Grover, and his associates under his administration, for defrauding the State, and particularly of its school fund.

—Henry S. Brush, of Detroit, Mich., a well-known architect, committed suicide July 15. Cause, ill health and depression of spirits. He was architect of the "Dime Tabernacle" of Battle Creek, one of the best, if not the very best constructed buildings of the kind in the country.

—New England has had its hurricane, which rose near Pittsfield, Mass., July 16, and traveled to Boston. Considerable injury was done in the country and in the towns, and several lives were lost by the upsetting of small vessels in Boston harbor. It was very heavy and destructive at Fitchburg.

—A severe storm visited Eastern Michigan, July 11, doing much damage at Pontiac, St. Clair, and Port Huron, also at Sarnia, in Canada. On the same day a storm visited Juniata county, Pa., likewise doing considerable damage. Destructive storms have been unusually frequent this season.

—In the first half of the current year California has exported to the Sandwich Islands nearly $1,000,000, with every probability of the total sum for the year reaching over $2,000,000, or between three and four times the business of last year, and ten times what it was before the late treaty was made.

—A strike was inaugurated at the Oakland Long Wharf, because only $1.50 per day was paid. But the strike was not of the hands, for there are thousands willing to work at that; others threatened violence and stopped the work. As a mob could not go out on the tracks, a few policemen restored peace, and work is resumed.

—In a late speech Secretary Sherman said, "It is a fact that in every month last year and the year before, and the year before that, there was more gold paid from the Treasury than has now been demanded from the 1st of January of this year to the present time for all purposes, and our notes, instead of being at 10 or 15 per cent below par, now that we have gold and silver to pay them on demand, are actually at premium. The Treasury Department in San Francisco wanted notes instead of gold, and we refused to give them greenbacks. In New York and Philadelphia no one wants gold."