p. 135 | Secular News by Editor

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

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 17.

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Secular News.

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—The war in Zululand is going on with unabated vigor.

—England refuses to extradite Nihilist refugees with Russia.

—The Freedman's Hospital at Augusta, Ga., was destroyed by fire on the 30th ult.

—Work on the Northern Pacific Railroad has been resumed, west of the Missouri river.

—Peru and Bolivia have concluded an alliance, and both have declared war against Chili.

—About one-third of Eureka, Nevada, was burned the night of the 18th. The wind was blowing a gale.

—Failures in New York city in March, 1878, amounted to $8,480,000. In March, 1879, to $211,754.

—The Great Western Railway Passenger station at Suspension Bridge, Canada side, was burned on the 2nd inst.

—Dr. George B. Woods, eminent as a physician and author, died in Philadelphia on the 30th ult., aged 81 years.

—A fire in St Louis the 4th inst. caused a loss of $400,000. One in Philadelphia, Sunday the 6th., loss $750,000.

—The Canada House of Commons are moving on the question of the Chinese, being petitioned by citizens of British Columbia.

—Conkling is said to have written a letter, abandoning all aspirations for the Presidency, and favoring the nomination of Grant.

—The man who impersonated the Saviour, in the Passion Play in San Francisco, has been arrested for violating a city ordinance.

—Nearly $200,000,000 were subscribed to the U. S. four per cent. bonds the 17th of April, by a single association of banks and banking firms.

—Ex-Governor Tilden is again reported in trouble with the Internal Revenue Bureau—a new difficulty, which will probably revive the old one.

—By a fire-damp explosion near Mons, Belgium, April 17., a coal pit shaft was closed, imprisoning 240 miners, about one-third of whom have been saved.

—J. P. Love and Frederick Fisher have been convicted of the murder and burning of Olive, in Nebraska, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for life.

—Two Indians brought from Alaska have been tried in Portland for murder. One was found guilty; the other acquitted. It was concerning these that the difficulty in Alaska arose.

—Josiah Bacon, of Boston, agent of the Boston Vulcanite Company, was murdered in his room in the Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco, April 13, by a dentist of whom he was trying to collect royalty.

—From North Texas is reported a heavy hailstorm, doing great damage to crops. At Lisbon, near Dallas, several houses were shattered, live stock killed, and a number of persons severely injured.

—A great storm occurred at Szegedin, Sunday, April 13, which destroyed sixty pile driving stands, and carried away and sunk rafts laden with materials and provisions. The rivers are rising again.

—Last week witnessed a cyclone in Collinsville, Ill., which did great damage; an earthquake at Norfolk, N. Y.; and a hailstorm in Pensacola, Florida. Hailstones fell as large as hen's eggs—a thing never known there before.

—A terrible tornado swept through the lower part of South Carolina the night of the 16th inst. In the village of Walterboro nearly one hundred dwellings and all the churches were swept away; fifteen persons were killed and many wounded. Casualties are reported from various points.

—The note clerk of the London and San Francisco Bank, who ran away charged with stealing $37,000, was sued in Hongkong by the bank's agent, and part of the money was recovered. He admits taking $24,000, and has returned to defend his character against the charge of taking the other $13,000!

—News from Morocco increases in horror. A letter from the U. S. Consul at Tangier, March 19 says: "All who can are now running away from this most unfortunate country, where famine, cholera, and typhus are more than decimating its population. At Tangiers alone we are having from thirty to forty cases of typhus per day; and at the city of Morocco the daily mortality by typhus is from 200 to 250 persons. The ordeal of death is complete. Parents eat their children. The moslems, being fatalists, ridicule the idea of mitigating it by sanitary regulations, which increases the horror, as the air is loaded with the effluvium of decaying bodies.