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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 33.

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-The price of silver is somewhat advancing.
-Two streams of lava were flowing from Vesuvius, Aug. 15.
-The United States offers to mediate between Chili and Peru.
-Many houses were demolished in Lurgan, Ireland, in a riot, Aug. 16.
-The national debt of Russia, bearing interest, is becoming enormous.
-Drought prevails in Cuba, and yellow fever cases increase in number in Havana.
-An accident on a railway in France resulted in fifteen killed and thirty-six wounded.
-Secretary Schurz left Washington, Aug. 18, on a trip of inspection to the Indian agencies.
-It is estimated that one-half the population of Cashmere has been killed by famine or emigrated.
-The welcome news comes that the Mrs. Sartoris who died in England is not Nellie Grant Sartoris.
-The death-rate in Memphis from yellow fever increases notwithstanding it is so largely deserted of inhabitants.
-G. H. Bussing & Co., bankers, Cincinnati, made an assignment; liabilities, $70,000. By robbery they lost $10,700.
-News from Portland, Oregon, Aug. 23, says that rains are putting the crops in jeopardy. Rust has already injured them.
-Specials from Galveston, Texas, report very heavy and destructive storms. The Rio Grande rose 16 feet in two days.
-To Aug. 20 there had been sixteen deaths from yellow fever in New York quarantine, against fourteen last year.
-Report from London of the burning of the sugar refinery of Martineau Sons estimates the loss at about a half million dollars.
-J. S. Flood and Dr. Stillman, who left San Francisco in 1878 to make a tour around the world, arrived in New York, Aug. 16.
-Speaking of the chances of war between Russia and China, a correspondent says the Chinese have 100,000 soldiers on the border.
-Another waterspout in Switzerland, Aug. 15, caused the river Versoir to overflow, by which buildings were destroyed and lives lost.
-Very heavy storms and floods in England and Wales, with much damage to crops and other property, again reported up to Aug. 18.
-An oil train of twenty-eight tanks was burned on the Sunbury and Wilkesbarre railroad, with the trestle work over Kipp's Run, Aug. 19.
-A cyclone struck Orange, Texas, Aug. 22, destroying much property, unroofing houses, etc. One steamer sank, and others were badly damaged.
-The Victoria, B. C., Colonist, says continuous heavy rains have greatly injured the wheat crops and ruined the hay, and a frost killed the potatoes.
-The eastern papers are severe on Mr. Wright, of the Congressional Committee, for his speeches in California. They say he is at home among the hoodlums.
-At a picnic at Mukwonago, Wis., six ounces of tartar emetic in a quantity of lemonade led to serious results. It is safer to make lemonade of lemons than of drugs.
-Two men were lynched in Trinidad, Col., the night of Aug. 22, for outrageous attacks on small girls. Both were imprisoned, and taken out and hanged by a body of 200 men.
-In a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio R. R., Aug. 17, in West Virginia, both engines were thrown over a bank, and a large number of cattle, hogs, and sheep were killed.
-R. B. Woodward, proprietor of "Woodward's Gardens," in San Francisco, died at his residence near Napa City, Aug. 22. His property is estimated at $2,000,000. He left it all behind.
-A heavy fire occurred at Carrollton, Mich., on the Saginaw river, Aug. 20. A saw mill and salt works, with several dwellings, 4000 barrels of salt, and other property were destroyed.
-The American Linen Company, Fall River, lose about $160,000 by the swindling third treasurer. He was an active member of the Baptist church, and formerly President of the Y. M. C. A.
-A "war" has been going on between the Italian coal burners near Eureka, Nevada, and the authorities. A despatch dated the 19th says five Italians were killed and six wounded by a Sheriff's posse.
-While the yellow fever is greatly increasing in Memphis, notwithstanding the numbers who have fled, crime is also increasing at so fearful a rate that special efforts are made for the security of the city.
-Grave apprehensions are aroused in Europe by the relations of Italy and Austria. The former power is massing large bodies of troops near the frontier, and the famous fortress of the Quadrilateral has a garrison far stronger than the exigencies of a peace footing require.
-A terrific storm swept along the Atlantic coast Aug. 18, extending from Cape Hatteras to Eastport, Maine. In many places the wind blew a hurricane. At Newport between twenty and thirty sail boats were sunk or badly damaged. At Cape May the velocity of the wind was sixty-four miles an hour. The damage was immense along the whole line of the coast.