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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 11.

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Secular News.

—Oakland had a thunder shower March 7.

—Five persons perished in a fire in East St. Louis, March 9.

—Eighteen houses were burned in Silver City, Nev., March 4.

—A colliery explosion in England, March 5, killed nineteen persons.

—A band of 500 Greeks crossed into Thessaly and destroyed a village.

—The Turks are repeating their barbarities in the sections evacuated by the Russians.

—But little snow is reported on the Sierras, and the irrigators are troubled for their summer's work.

—March 7, ninety-two Chinamen landed at San Francisco, and one hundred and sixty departed for China.

—The plague is reported as stayed in Russia, but precautions are continued for fear of its reappearance.

Twenty-one persons were killed and nine houses destroyed in Magburg, Austria, by an avalanche, February 25.

—The night of March 6, was one of the windiest known on the Pacific coast for twenty years. At midnight it was a gale.

—The English troops repulsed the Zulus in South Africa, Feb. 13, burning one of their military stations. The Zulu loss was heavy.

—The New York World says, “Up to the hour of going to press there was no official announcement of the secession of California.”

—One canton in Switzerland was damaged to the amount of 4,000,000 francs by the late storm. In the Lausanne district 400,000 trees were destroyed.

—Greeley, Col., has a population of three thousand, sells no liquor, criminal courts are idle, and in two years spent only seven dollars of its poor fund.

—No tidings are received from fourteen fishing vessels which left Gloucester, Mass., for George's Banks before a recent storm. It is feared they are all lost.

—Superintendent Mann of San Francisco strongly objects to a reduction of expenses in the school department where it will affect the salaries of the rank and file of teachers.

—The settlers in San Joaquin Valley, especially in Tulare County, have bound themselves to resist by force if necessary the efforts of the Southern Pacific Railroad to eject them.

—The eastern papers note a marked improvement in business. Resumption has placed our currency on a sure basis, and times will soon be better it is confidently expected.

—Fighting continues in Afghanistan; the snow favors the hostile tribes and embarrasses the English. It is now feared that Russia has designs in that quarter, as Kauffman's command has been increased by 25,000 men.

—In the case of Mrs. Foltz, the lady lawyer of San Francisco, the Fourth District Court ordered a writ of mandate compelling the Hastings Law School of the State University to admit her, she having been rejected by the school.

—The English have suffered severe defeats in Afghanistan. Fort Langar was taken, and the English Governor was carried bound, a prisoner, to Cabul. It is an important position, and if held will offer a strong check to the further progress of the English. The defeat in Akosta Valley, where the English had established an administration, is described as crushing.

—California is having heavy rains, except in the valley of the San Joaquin. From Healdsburg, March 8, about thirteen inches of rain have fallen within this week, raising the Russian river higher than it has reached for a number of years, overflowing thousands of acres of already-seeded land, washing away the soil and carrying away bridges and fences in several places. The large Alexander bridge has started from its foundation, but may be saved. The storm has done more damage than at first supposed. It has washed the railroad track away, causing the necessity of transfer near here. From Shasta, March 8, it still continues raining in torrents, making a rainfall for the last four days of nearly 14 inches, and a total to date of 37 inches. If it continues, and the indications are that it will, the people of the lower country may look for another flood, as the Sacramento is higher than ever before known, and continues rising. There has been no railroad communication for three days. Flumes, ditches and mining apparatus all over the country have been swept away. Nearly the whole of Napa Valley has been undated. At Calistoga the bridge went off, and at Napa city much damage was done. In “Spanishtown,” the lower part of Napa City, several houses were carried away. Railroad and telegraph communication has been obstructed in many places.