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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · January 15, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 3

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Notes of News.

—PAPER bricks are now being made in Wisconsin.

—A SINGLE property in California is half the size of Rhode Island.

—THE silver product of Nevada has fallen off $36,000,000 in two years.

—THE editor of the Bible Examiner, Eld. Geo. Storrs, died Dec. 28, 1879.

—THERE are 18 mission churches in China that are wholly self-sustaining.

—A DISPATCH from Vienna states that 20 villages on the banks of the Vistula are inundated.

—THE Philadelphia mint coins on an average $200,000 worth of eagles and half eagles daily.

—THE British government proposes to aid the sufferers in Ireland by a system of public works.

—THERE are one-third more German newspapers published in the United States than in the old country.

—THE famine in the Afghan province of Seistan is so severe that people are selling their children for food.

—FAMINES seem to be the order of the day. In Bosnia, 8,000 people are reported to be on the verge of starvation.

—IT would seem that teachers are needed in West Virginia, where, out of a population of 442,014, there are 81,490 illiterates.

—A CONSIDERABLE battle has recently been fought near Gusinje, in which the Montenegrins defeated the Albanians.

—LAST year the world's product of raw sugar amounted to 5,800,000,000 pounds, more than double that produced 25 years ago.

—THE miners of the West Virginia coal-mining districts are on a strike, and have inaugurated a reign of terror throughout that section of country.

—THE intense excitement in Maine over the recent election frauds has not yet subsided. The Republicans are confident of the strength of their cause.

—THERE are now 8 high schools for both sexes in 8 cities near the Harpoot station of the American Mission Board in Eastern Turkey, and 16 girl schools in Asia Minor.

—THERE are in the Fiji Islands 841 chapels and 291 other places where preaching is held, with 58 missionaries engaged in preparing the way for others. The membership numbers 23,274 persons.

—THE cotton crop of this country is this year larger by half a million bales than ever before; the sugar crop, by 12,000,000 pounds; the wheat yield, by 20,000,000 bushels; and the corn crop by 100,000,000 bushels.

—THERE are 675 colored schools in Virginia, taught by 415 colored teachers; 35,768 colored children are enrolled in the schools, of which number 21,231 are in average daily attendance. The schools during the past year cost $511,902.53.

—FROM a compilation given in the Inter-Ocean of Jan. 8, it appears that the total of all the national debts in the world amounts to over twenty-five billions and five hundred millions of dollars. The exact figures given are $25,531,138,211.

—TO the Roman Catholic population of Canada (1,846,800) there are 25 bishops, 1,599 priests, 1,617 churches, 18 seminaries, 40 colleges, 85 academies, 247 convents, 92 religious communities, 43 asylums, 34 hospitals, and 3,644 elementary schools.

—THERE are in the United States 50 places of worship where services are conducted in the sign language, for the benefit of the 30,000 deaf mutes in the country. They owe this blessing to the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes, of which the Rev. Thomas Callaudet, of New York City, is the founder.

—IN Upper Silesia over 100,000 people are destitute. The government contemplates the construction of two branch railway lines in Silesia. It is hoped that lasting improvements will be effected by means of extensive draining works, and the promotion of local industries.

—AT the Conference at Basle of the Evangelical Alliance, Prof. Christlieb read an essay on the Opium Traffic, in which the complication of Christian England in this nefarious business was severely censured. It has been translated into many of the European languages, and also into Chinese by the Chinese ambassador at Berlin.

—A SAD state of things was recently developed in London similar to that which has long existed here. One of its institutions advertised for a secretary at a salary of £300, for which there were over 300 applicants, two being members of Parliament, 25 clergymen, and 73 retired military and naval officers.

—PARNELL, the Irish agitator, has reached New York. He appeals for money, not only to relieve present distresses in Ireland, but for political organizations. Donations for the relief of the sufferers will be welcome, but the English object to gifts for political purposes, considering them purely mischievous. Many English noblemen are reducing their rents.

—IT used to be said that white men could never take the place of the blacks in our Southern cotton fields. Experience has shown the assertion to have no foundation in fact. Mr. Manning, of Mississippi, says that the facts he has collected justify the opinion that three-fifths of the crop of 1879 was produced by free white labor.

—A LETTER from Madagascar states that complications are being fomented by Jesuits with a view to induce the eventual intervention of France and its assumption of a protectorate of the island. “We hope,” says Le Journal du Protestantisme Français, “that the government of the republic will not be tempted to renew in Madagascar the deplorable errors which formerly brought trouble upon Tahiti.”

—WHEN the Emperor William received the news of the attempt on the life of the Czar, he became, it is said, very serious, and after remaining silent for some minutes, he said in a tone at once melancholy and energetic: “If we do not change the direction of our policy, if we do not think seriously of giving sound instruction to youth, if we do not give the first place to religion, if we only pretend to govern by expedients from day to day, our thrones will be overturned, and society will become a prey to the most terrible events. We have no more time to lose, and it will be a great misfortune if all the governments do not come to an accord in this salutary work of repression.”