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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 19, 1880.

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 8

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Notes of News.

—Edison's new electric lamp has been patented.

—A steam flour-mill is to be started in Jerusalem.

—Bavaria contemplates a loan of 30,000,000 marks.

—The Russian church has 11,372 members in Alaska.

—The Jesuits have obtained permission to open a college at Cairo, Egypt.

—The Baptist missionaries in Japan have ordained their first native preacher.

—It cost $482,912.65 to light the streets of New York during the year just closed.

—The 814th anniversary of the foundation of Westminster Abbey was celebrated Jan. 4.

—Bismarck has decided to ask the pope for a statement of the grievances of the church in Germany.

—The Chicago Tribune says that real estate in that city has gone up all the way from 14 to 65 per cent.

—An unknown vessel and all hands on board were lost in Long Island Sound on the night of Feb. 3.

—Paris is to have an underground railroad a mile long. The cars are to be driven by compressed air.

—There is a rumor that a special alliance is about to be formed between England, Germany, and Austria.

—The Unitarian society at Kalamazoo, Mich., is giving “a series of social dancing parties.”—Christian Union.

—The physicians have decided that Gonzales, who lately attempted to assassinate the King of Spain, is insane.

—Jan. 31, a locomotive and passenger train crossed and recrossed the St. Lawrence at Montreal, on tracks laid on the ice.

—The Catholics of Cincinnati oppose the application for the sale of church property to pay the debts of Archbishop Purcell.

—A short time ago a three-story barrack near Constantinople suddenly collapsed, killing 200 soldiers and wounding 300.

—The average temperature in New York City during January was 37.3°, a mildness unparalleled in its meteorological record.

—The Theater Royal of Dublin burned Feb. 9. The loss is estimated at £200,000; 8 persons were killed and 13 were seriously injured.

—The assessed valuation of real estate in New York is, for the current year, $945,526,650, an increase of $28,393,470 over that of 1879.

—The unemployed laborers of Dublin recently held a meeting, and in their speeches they declared they were on the brink of starvation.

—Herr Lasker, the leader of the German National Liberals, intends to make the United States a long visit. His presence could be dispensed with.

—It has been decided to erect a monument to Prince Louis Napoleon in Westminster Abbey, notwithstanding the opposition of the English people.

—The American Seaman’s Friend Society keep between 6,000 and 7,000 seamen’s libraries on the water, the number of volumes being over 300,000.

—Spain has passed a bill abolishing slavery in Cuba. Only those over 55 years of age are emancipated immediately; others are to be freed in 8 years.

—The Governor of Massachusetts has ordered that Freeman, the Pocasset child-murderer, shall be confined in the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers.

—The late destructive fire in Tokio, Japan, completely swept away the mission established there by the Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions of the M. E. church.

—A parish priest of a large commune near Verviers, Belgium, states that since the struggle against the new school law began, the parish has lost half its communicants.

—Austria, notwithstanding the fair promises made by the Emperor to the deputation of the Evangelical Alliance, still maintains the bad pre-eminence of being the most intolerant country in Europe.

—The Independent is responsible for the statement that in North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Alabama, and Mississippi, 14 papers are published which are edited by colored men.

—On the Union Pacific Railroad, in the Sierra Mountains, the snow is from 40 to 50 feet deep. For miles the snow-sheds are covered and crushed. The recent storm was the severest known there for years.

—The wolves in the neighborhood of Temesvar, Hungary, commit fearful depredations. They devour all cattle not confined in some place of safety, and two persons, a priest and a shepherd, have been killed by them.

—More than $1,200,000 has been expended by the American Board on missions among the Indians, and the result is 50 churches with 4,000 members. The mission among the Dakotas returns 8 churches and 600 members.

—One of the most striking and significant testimonials to the development of American industry is contained in the statement recently made in the British Parliament, that America had beaten England in cotton cloths.

—The hair of Mohammed is inclosed in a case called the “Ansaree Shareef,” the possession of which carries with it a small pension. The right to the guardianship of this “sacred hair” has just been decided by trial in the courts of Madras.

—Upwards of 405,000 children, about one-fifteenth of the Catholic population of the country, are taught in Catholic schools. Of this number of pupils, 33,495 are in 83 churches in New York, and 23,085 in 153 schools in Newark. There are 140 Catholic schools in Cincinnati, with 25,406 pupils, but only 16 schools in Boston.

—Not long ago, more than 100 workmen of Paris appeared in a body at the police office of the Palace of Justice, and stated that, having neither work, food, nor shelter, they wished to be detained as vagabonds. The request was complied with. Most of these men were accompanied by wife and children. This destitution is attributed to the severity of the winter.

—The Socialist troubles are evidently regarded as no mere passing, casual disturbance in Germany. Cablegrams of Feb. 14 state that the bill for the extension of the law for the repression of Socialism provides for its continuance until 1886. There could scarcely be a more significant admission of the disorganizing forces vaguely styled Socialism, which menace the whole internal structure of Europe.

—Bishop McCloskey has decreed the establishment of parochial schools everywhere in the diocese of Kentucky. The order closes as follows: “Now, it is our will and command that where there is a Catholic school in a parish, the parents and guardians in such places send their children or wards to such Catholic school, and we hereby direct that the obligation be enforced under pain of refusal of absolution in the sacrament of penance.”

—Among all the cities of Italy suffering from famine and misery this winter, Rome bears the heaviest burden. The trade of the city has declined since the overthrow of the pope’s government, and the taxes are a hundred-fold what they were; they were almost nominal under the popes, as the whole world contributed to enrich the city. Large capitalists from Turin and Milan have monopolized what has been left of the trade once possessed by Roman merchants.

—France is contemplating internal improvements on a large scale; and it is an indication of her prosperous condition that she can entertain the idea of such elaborate and expensive schemes. The gigantic plan for the extension and union of railways and canals throughout the country, whereby something like 16,000 miles will be added to railways, and 900 to rivers and canals, will probably cost nine milliards of francs, or £360,000,000 sterling. It is estimated that it will require 12 years to complete the execution of this scheme.

—Mr. Atkinson, president of the Manufacturer’s Mutual Insurance Co., of Boston, recently read before the Boston Society of Arts, a paper upon the “Relation between the Architect and Underwriter,” on which occasion he stated the following important facts: “The fire tax imposed upon the people of the United States is the heaviest tax to which they are subjected. It is more than equal to the expense of the largest standing army of any European nation. It is as causeless and as useless as would be the existence of a standing army of an equal cost in the United States. The cost of fires during the past four years has been $327,000,000, and that of the last year was above the average. The actual sum paid out by insurance companies in four years was $170,000,000. The cost of sustaining insurance companies is $30,000,000, and of fire departments is $25,000,000.”