Notes of News | AdventAI

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 18, 1879

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 54, No. 25

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Notes of News.

—Severe fighting in Afghanistan is reported.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes has just celebrated his 70th birthday.

—In the vicinity of Waupaca, Wis., wolves are becoming very troublesome.

—The famine among the Polish miners in Upper Silesia is beginning to produce typhus fever.

—There are 29 parochial Roman Catholic schools in Massachusetts, with a total of 15,439 pupils.

—The produce exports from New York to foreign ports amounted to $8,080,000 for the week ending Dec. 9.

—Nearly 200 arrests have been made at Moscow for supposed complicity in the attempt on the life of the Czar.

—The people of Memphis are taking sanitary precautions to guard against the return of yellow fever next year.

—During a recent cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, a storm-wave swept over Monkishkal Island, drowning several hundred persons.

—The Belgian Minister of Justice has forbidden churches, parsonages, or hospitals to be used for the new Catholic primary schools.

—At Orissa, in India, 400 Hindoos, many of whom are wealthy and of the highest caste, have renounced caste and become Christians.

—It is said that Cardinal McCloskey has asked and received permission of the pope to establish three new bishoprics in America, under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of New York.

—Bismarck has written a letter favoring a general disarmament of the powers, as the only remedy for the prevailing depression in finances and the miseries of the people in the various countries.

—A terrific storm in Randolph Co., Mo., on the evening of Dec. 9, caused considerable loss of property. Several persons were injured, and one man fatally.

—The petition of the Presbyterian General Assembly of the United States, representing about 5,000 churches, for the appointment of a national commission to make inquiry into the liquor traffic, has been presented in the Senate.

—The town of Red Rock, Pa., was entirely destroyed on the evening of Dec. 11, by fire from a petroleum well. Fire broke out in the well, and rivers of burning petroleum flowed through the streets.

—Six villages have been entirely ruined by the flood in Hungary; 10,000 people are destitute, hundreds are missing, and many seek safety in the woods only to be frozen to death. The waters have not subsided.

—The managers of the principal anthracite coal mines in Pennsylvania advanced the pay of the miners 10 per cent on the 1st of the month. This action was unexpected by the miners, and wholly voluntary on the part of the managers.

—The old Venetian art of painting upon mirrors has lately been revived in Rome by an English artist. Flowers, birds, and butterflies are thus painted; and the effect of the glass beneath, especially when thick and bevelled, is to make them appear as if suspended in the air.

—Ouray, the kindly disposed chief of the Ute Indians, has informed the Commission sent to investigate the causes of the recent massacre, that it was owing to Mormon influence; and that the Mormons have been trying to prolong hostilities by promising the savages arms and ammunition.

—On the 6th of December, a battle occurred between Montenegrin forces stationed at Velika and the Albanians, resulting in victory to the Montenegrins. The Inter-Ocean thinks this indicates that a renewal of war on the Eastern question may now be reckoned among the probabilities.

—The object of the Czar’s visit to Moscow at the time the recent attempt was made on his life, was to give notice of his determination to modify the government of his empire, so that the people, for the first time in its history, might be represented. It is feared that the attempt to assassinate him is a part of an organized plot to destroy all the sovereigns of Europe.

—The government has been perplexed to know what disposition to make of the Ute Indians engaged in the White River massacre, as they are not citizens, and hence cannot be tried in the civil courts. It has finally been decided to grant them a fair trial by a military commission outside of New Mexico and Colorado.

—Semi-occasionally it is announced over the telegraph wires that amicable relations have been established between Germany and the Vatican; but the ink that prints this announcement has hardly had time to dry before the rumor is contradicted, and we again read of attempts at reconciliation. The latest news indicates a hopeless estrangement.

—The winter in Switzerland has set in with almost unexampled fury. Within a few days there have been an earthquake, hurricanes, and snowstorms, unprecedented in violence. The railroads are blockaded with snow-drifts and fallen trees, and in Geneva, Berne, Neufchatel, Freibourg, and at other points, immense damage has been done to property and considerable loss of life is reported.

—The polygamous Mormons of Utah are greatly excited by the earnest words of President Hayes in his Message, in reference to their defiance of the law. John Taylor, Brigham Young’s successor as the head of the church, at a Mormon conference, publicly declared that they will not yield; and his appeal to the people was unanimously responded to by the congregation. We trust that our government will stand fast to the law and right.—Christian Weekly.

—An item has just been going the rounds of the press stating that King Mtesa, of Central Africa, had established Sunday observance in his realm. An exchange grew enthusiastic over this announcement, and suggested that this dusky prince might become the Constantine of Africa. Truly a brilliant destiny; but he may miss it. The latest news of him is: “King Mtesa, it is feared, is becoming hostile; and the position of the three missionaries to his court may be hazardous, as they are accused of treachery in advising an advance of the Egyptians toward his country.”