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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 7, 1877

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 3, No. 23.

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SECULAR NEWS.

—The potato bugs have re-appeared at Long Island.

—Grant is the only living ex-President of the United States.

—The population of Maine is 16,000 less than it was in 1870.

—Nevada city pays out $425 per day to Chinese employees.

—Seven hundred Bostonians have applied for licenses to sell liquor.

—The Niagara water power property has recently been sold for $71,000.

—An earthquake shock was felt in Paso Robles, on the morning of May 30.

—Sixty families have been rendered utterly destitute by the forest fires of New York.

—An Eastern paper states that a gang of female robbers were recently arrested in Paris.

—The Senate passed a bill appropriating $500,000 toward the completion of the new Capitol.

—The Postal Union will include, after July 1, Japan, Brazil, and the Portuguese colonies.

—The persons who attempted to rob Abraham Lincoln's tomb, will be tried at Springfield, Ill.

—The renegade Indians are causing great uneasiness and trouble in the vicinity of the Apache Pass.

—It is stated that some of Christopher Columbus' letters are still preserved at the bank of Genoa, Italy.

—The Turks are committing brutal outrages on the Island of Creta. The Christians are in a state of terror.

—The additional ports of Ichang, Wuhu, Wenchow and Pakhoi have been opened to foreign trade, by China.

—It is said that farmers are leaving north-western Iowa in great numbers, on account of the grasshopper scourge.

—The foreign trade of this country for March, was as follows: imports $47,544,954; domestic exports, $44,317,596; foreign exports, $816,030.

—Of 535 ships owned in the United States, New York owns 164; Boston, 144; Portland (Me.), 32; Bath, 75; Waldoboro, 30; and New Bedford, 30.

—Six hundred Chinamen have just arrived in the steamer Gaelic. It is stated that they are now coming to this port at the rate of 3000 per month, or 36,000 a year.

—A disastrous conflagration occurred at Montreal, on the morning of May 30. About sixty houses were destroyed rendering many families homeless. The loss is thought to be about $150,000.

—The Chico murderers were sentenced for murder in the second degree—Stainbrook, to twenty-seven years; and the two Slaughters, Conway and Roberts to twenty-five years each in the State Prison.

—The Missouri Senate has passed a bill offering $10,000 reward for the discovery of a sure cure for hog cholera. Such a handsome prize should certainly stimulate the faculties of scientific men, especially those who are practical farmers.

—Sophia, Queen of Holland, died June 3. She was the second daughter of King Willem I, of Wurtemburg. She was distinguished for her scholarly attainments.

—It is stated that the King of Abyssinia has accepted the conditions proposed by Gordon Pasha, and peace has been concluded between Egypt and Abyssinia.

—An Ohio farmer recently planted in good soil 500 kernels of corn that grew on one cob. From these 500 kernels nearly nine bushels of corn were produced, or about 900 ears from one.

—Extensive forest fires have been raging in the State of Michigan, along the shores of lakes Huron and Superior. A telegram from Marquette reports the village of Onata destroyed by fire.

—The Post says Wm. H. Vanderbilt offered to reduce the rent of one of his railroad eating houses from $6,000 per annum to $1,500, if the lessee would give up his bar. The offer was accepted.

—A piece of coral, measuring about twelve inches in height, six inches in diameter at the top, and two inches at the base, was recently taken off a submarine cable which had lain only four years in the sea.

—P. T. Barnum has offered the sum of $10,000 for the recovery of the lost child, Charley Ross. He pledges himself not to attempt to discover the identity of any persons who shall open negotiations with him, nor to take any measures to bring the abductors to punishment.

—The Southern Pacific Railroad Company have purchased from Senator Jones his road and franchises to the Santa Monica and Independence Railroad. The Central Pacific people have now control of the entire railroad business of the State, except the lines in Marin and Sonoma counties.

—Mrs. Larned, widow of the late Prof. Larned of Yale College, recently died. She has bequeathed $26,000 to Yale College, part of the income to be applied to the foundation of three scholarships, each of which may be held three years by a graduate of the college, and the rest to special departments.

—William Dodge, Statistician of the Department of Agriculture, reports, as the result of the investigation of the losses from diseases of swine during the past twelve months, the destruction of four million animals, a money loss of more than $20,000,000, a loss equivalent to one-third of the sum of exports of the pork product last year.

—Considerable damage is said to have been done by the late tidal wave of the Southern Pacific ocean. Six towns on the Peruvian coast were destroyed, and it is thought between six and eight hundred lives were lost. It also greatly damaged shipping and private enterprises. The sea in some places is stated to have risen over sixty feet.

—The Iron says that the Russians have been constructing a torpedo boat, which at a distance of six feet below the surface of the water is calculated to discharge from a submarine cannon a rifled torpedo-shell 12 feet long and 1 foot in diameter with such force against the object to which it is directed that it will go one mile in a straight line under water.

—Five confectioners in Boston have been indicted by the grand jury, and placed under $600 bonds for trial, for manufacturing candy with chromate of lead, a yellow pigment used for coloring purposes, and a dangerous poison. The arrests were made through the efforts of the Board of Health, which shows the benefit of such an institution in looking after the public welfare.

—The longest tunnel of America is to be constructed in connection with the Baltimore water works now in progress. The water is to be brought from the Gunpowder river, a distance of seven miles, the channel for which will be a tunnel, circular in shape, and twelve feet in diameter. Five miles of the distance are through solid rock, and the rest of the way will be bricked. The estimated cost is $3,000,000. About 1,500 men were employed, chiefly negroes, and the work will probably consume three years.

—Ex-President Grant arrived at Liverpool May 28. Adam Badeau, United States Consul-General at London, and Vice-Consul Fairchild, together with several prominent Americans went in a tender to meet the ship. The mayor of Liverpool, with a number of prominent citizens, received Grant at the landing stage on the return of the tender, as he disembarked from the Indiana. Many members of the Liverpool Common Council and a large crowd of citizens received the tender with cheers.