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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 4

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Notes of News.

—BISMARCK'S health is improving.

—GOVERNOR VAN ZANDT has been appointed Minister to Russia.

—THE losses by the recent Boston fire are now estimated at about $1,000,000.

—DURING 1879 there were 739 fires in Philadelphia, causing a loss of $1,524,911.

—BUENOS AYRES is to have a Continental Exhibition, which will be opened in that city, Sept. 15, 1880.

—THE New York Times says: “We are menaced by a railroad despotism, and it is the duty of Congress to interfere.”

—DURING the year just closed, about 20 ocean steamers foundered at sea, and their fate has never been known.

—ACCORDING to the Missionary Review, the Greek church is making as rapid progress in Japan as the Protestant church.

—GAMBETTA (Republican) has been re-elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies, which re-assembled Jan. 13.

—OF the newspapers of Pennsylvania, 22 have declared in favor of Grant for the Presidency, 26 for Blaine, and 3 for Sherman.

—PARIS has had 32 days of frost this winter, during which the thermometer fell to 8° below zero. This is the coldest weather on record there.

—THE Emperor of Germany has devoted the fund of $80,000 raised at the time of his golden wedding, to the relief of the sufferers by famine in Silesia.

—A DISPATCH dated Jan. 11, says that since the 8th there has been incessant fighting between the Montenegrins and the Albanians. It is a local feud, however.

—THE British now have possession of Cabul; but there are rumors that another insurrection has arisen, and the Afghans propose to contest their right to the situation.

—THE Western Union Telegraph Company have prepared a bill providing that the same inviolability that attaches to mail matter, shall be extended to telegrams.

—MT. ETNA is again in eruption. Three new craters have appeared. Several villages are threatened with destruction, and there is great alarm among the inhabitants.

—THE silk mills of Patterson, N. J., employ 10,000 hands, besides from 2,000 to 3,000 employed in their own homes. The annual production of these mills reaches a total of $14,000,000.

—THE Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company, of Bridgeport, Ct., has at present on hand orders for 10,000 sewing machines in advance of the capabilities of their immense establishment.

—THE Samoan Islands have been entirely Christianized. Out of a population of 40,000, about 35,000 are connected with Christian churches. Of this number, 2,852 are Roman Catholics, however.

—THE city of Deadwood, D. T., is a good example of Western enterprise. Eight weeks after being destroyed by fire, it was completely rebuilt, with buildings of a superior character.

—THE distress in Ireland is very great. Many are on the brink of starvation. The magistrates of Cork are urging greater activity in “suppressing demonstrations partaking of the nature of bread riots.”

—AT Deadwood, D. T., and vicinity, a disease similar to diphtheria is causing from 4 to 6 deaths a day. Adults as well as children are the victims, and the cold weather is likely to increase the mortality.

—JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, in an article in the North American Review, says that from being the smallest denomination in the United States the Catholic church has in less than a century grown to be the largest denomination in the country.

—A FRENCH artist has invented a system of colorization by means of which photographs may be taken in several colors. The effect is said to be very pleasing, the gradations of light and shade being excellent. The process is simple and inexpensive.

—THE Tay bridge in Scotland, from which a passenger train was recently hurled into the water 80 feet below, was completed in May, 1878. It was two miles long, and was considered a triumph of engineering skill. The North British Railway Company have decided to take immediate steps to rebuild it.

—THE net revenue of the New York post-office during the past year was $1,028,664; of that at Boston, $656,634; at Philadelphia, $635,964; at Baltimore, $235,714; at Washington, $57,035; at Cincinnati, $293,731; at Chicago, $635,954; at St. Louis, $295,629.

—THE Gazette of Reno, Nevada, describes the soil in the bottom and around the margin of a lake recently discovered near that town, as “of a grayish color, quite tenacious, and with a hard smooth surface, over which a carriage rolls as smoothly and noiselessly as over a carpeted floor. When a ball made from the soil is thrown down, it will rebound like rubber.”

—A DISPATCH from Rome states that the pope has approved the appointment of Bishop Elder, of Natchez, to be the coadjutor of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, with right of succession, and to be administrator of the arch-diocese. It is trusted that his administrative ability will be sufficient to extricate the finances of the arch-diocese from their present embarrassed condition.

—THE Chinese in New York are more numerous than most people know. There are in the city over 300 laundries, 50 groceries, 20 tobacco stores, 10 drug stores, 6 restaurants, and a variety of other establishments, all owned and carried on by Chinamen. There are three schools in New York attended by the adults and their half-breed children. Under these circumstances, Mr. Brown's mission among the Chinese, near Five Points, becomes an object of interest to Christians.

—THE Island of St. Kitts, known as “the Mother of the Antilles,” has recently been laid waste by floods. In the center of the island is a rugged peak 4,000 feet high, known as Mount Misery. The streams from this elevation, swollen to torrents, converged in a gulch at the base, and rushed over the arable land, destroying an immense amount of property. Great distress prevails. It is supposed that 200 lives were lost.

—RUSSIA, with all her domestic troubles, is threatened with serious foreign disturbances. Her relations with Germany and England are very precarious, and it would seem that an open rupture might occur at any time. The Inter-Ocean of Jan. 12 gives the following sensible remarks from the République Française, Gambetta's organ, as “French opinion”: “Without troubling to see all events well at home, Russia has cast herself upon the path of conquests and chimeras. She has taken the wrong road. Instead of following the Utopian dream of striking Turkey at the risk of obtaining but a meager share of the spoil, how much wiser it would have been to have entered upon a transformation at home. Her best policy now is resolutely to take in hand those reforms which the vast majority demand and expect. We must always reckon with Russia; but as long as she remains in her present unhealthy state, she will be feeble, and play an unimportant part in the destinies of Europe. When the house is on fire, there is a decided originality in running out of doors and setting fire to the houses of others. Reasonable people at such times endeavor to extinguish their own conflagrations.” France knows how it is. She has had such fires to put out.