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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 3, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 1.

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-There are 221 lawyers in the House of Representatives of Congress.
-The farmers of Dakota get from 65 to 75 cents a bushel for wheat that brings $1.00 in Chicago.
-All the correspondence of the Government in regard to O'Donnell is to be laid before Congress.
-Silver deposits in sandstone is the latest mining sensation, near Lower Price, on the Rio Grande Railroad.
-A Tucson, A. T., dispatch says: "The rush to the Quijotoa mines is growing larger daily, people coming in from California, New Mexico, and Colorado."
-Chief Justice Graves of the Michigan Supreme Court has resigned, after serving a quarter of a century.
-The rain-storm of the 27th ult. was quite general throughout California, and especially cheering to farmers.
-Extensive rains are reported from the Ohio River region, and considerable damage to property by high water.
-By the suspension of the collieries in Cumberland County, Pa., 12,000 men have been thrown out of employment.
-The prohibitionists held a mass meeting in Boston, Dec. 27th, to consider the matter of constitutional prohibition.
-The Trades Congress of Toronto, Canada, has resolved against the importation of Chinese laborers into the Dominion.
-Spain is ready to pay over to the United States $460,000 for losses to American citizens during the Cuban insurrection.
-A railroad is being built from Iron City to the iron mines near Cedar City, Utah, by the funds of the Mormon Church.
-An Orange riot at Harbor Grace, Ireland, on the 26th ult., resulted in the wounding of eighteen persons, seven mortally.
-Mrs. Gunter, aged 80, her daughter and granddaughter, were all mysteriously murdered at Montrose, N. C., on the 23d ult.
-Dec. 24, the centennial of Washington's resignation from the army was celebrated in various places throughout the country.
-There is great indignation among English residents in Egypt because the graves of English soldiers have been desecrated at Helonan.
-The Ways and Means Committee of Congress talk of bringing the tariff question to the front; but a reduction of duty on sugar will be opposed.
-Congressman Cox declines to serve on the Naval Affairs Committee; he wanted the Foreign Relations position assigned to General Miller of California.
-The ninth steel corvette for the Chinese Government has been launched at Kiel, Germany. She carries ten Armstrong guns, besides torpedo-boats.
-The County Auditor at Cincinnati has discovered a million-dollars fraudulent increase in property valuation, which he says has been made since 1880.
-During the visit of the German Crown Prince to the pope, the latter several times referred to Church matters, but the Prince avoided all committal.
-A passenger train on the Louisville and Chicago Railroad went through a culvert near Salem, Ind., Dec. 24. Seven persons were killed, and about as many injured.
-A great fire occurred in St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 24. It originated in a broom factory, and the total loss is estimated at over $400,000. Two men were killed by falling walls.
-A street riot in the City of Mexico, last week, resulted from the refusal to receive nickel coin in the markets. The military was called out to quell the disturbance.
-A report comes from Salt Lake that a Mormon in southern Utah, wishing to take another wife, turned his daughter out of doors because he was not able to support both.
-A row between natives and Chinese occurred on the Pacific Mail Co.'s island at Panama, Dec. 24. Troops from the city quelled the disturbance before much damage was done.
-For the first time, it has been ventured recently to ship petroleum across the Atlantic by steamer in barrels; 10,000 barrels were thus contracted from New York for Austria, Dec. 26.
-A new law in Mexico grants a duty reduction of two per cent on all goods brought on Mexican vessels; and eight per cent on Asiatic goods brought to the Pacific Coast on regular lines.
-Mrs. General Rosecrans died in Washington on Christmas day. The General has a son a Catholic priest, and a daughter, known as Sister Kostka, at the Ursuline Convent, Santa Rosa, Cal.
-Another cousin of the late A. T. Stewart, the New York merchant prince, has turned up and sues for a share of the estate. The success of the last two claimants seems to be encouraging to relatives.
-On the return of Governor Murray to Salt Lake, last week, he assured the people that the present Congress would take prompt measures, and that the whole country is determined, to wipe out polygamy.
-In making improvements recently on Cole's Hill, near Plymouth, Mass., the graves of the pilgrims who came to America in the Mayflower were discovered. Tablets will be erected to mark the spot.
-An aged colored couple in Terra Haute, Ind., who have had twenty-five children, four of whom were killed in the war, decline a pension, saying that the Government has done enough for them in emancipating their race.
-Terrible wind and rain-storms, snow-slides, etc., are reported from the mountains in Colorado. Several persons are reported killed, frozen, and otherwise injured. In one instance a freight train of twenty-five cars was overturned.
-During last year 2,684 buildings, with a total frontage of 77,797 feet, were erected in Chicago, at a cost of $13,648,700. This record is said to surpass that of any other city in the country as regards the number of new structures, and to be second only to that of New York as regards their cost.
-A woman has been arrested in Leyden, Germany, charged with having murdered sixteen persons in the last few years. She first insured their lives, and after the death of each, collected the insurance. All the victims were her relatives, five being her own children. She made a full confession.
-A committee of colored men, appointed by the recent Louisville convention, have drawn up a memorial to Congress asking an appropriation to reimburse depositers in the Freedman's Bank. They deem the Government responsible for the safe-keeping of their savings in a method adopted by Congress.
-Judge Traux of the Superior Court of New York has refused to issue second naturalization papers to a Chinaman who had obtained already his first papers. He cites the Chinese Immigration Act of May, 1882, which declares that no State Court nor Court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship.
-A new political organization is "elbowing" its way to public recognition. Its objects are thus stated: "The election of President and Vice-President of the United States by a direct vote of the people, free postage, Government telegraph, tax on all incomes over $10,000, unlimited coinage of gold and silver, protection against monopolies, and other radical changes."
-The dispossession of the Indian inhabitants of Saboba village, San Jacinto Valley, San Diego County, Cal., of the property held by themselves and ancestors for more than a hundred years, is causing much adverse comment throughout the country. The rights of these Indians were respected by Spain, and afterwards by Mexico; and it remained for the United States to allow her citizens to rob them of their lands and improvements, without a dollar of remuneration.