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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, March 4, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 10

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Notes of News.

—Complete anarchy prevails in Abyssinia.

—It is said that Germany has 40,000 tramps.

—More earthquake shocks in Cuba are reported.

—German emigration to this country is reviving.

—The suffering in Galway county, Ireland, is very great.

—The Nihilists are threatening to burn the Russian capital.

—Australia has sent $25,000 to the Irish sufferers by famine.

—The New York University has just diplomated 104 young doctors.

—There is a rumor that a Persian army is about to march on Herat.

—The Democratic national convention will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, June 22.

—The army is to be employed to protect the Indians in their territorial rights.

—100,000 soldiers of the British army are members of some religious denomination.

—The Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary last year made a profit of $60,000 on convict labor.

—King John, of Abyssinia, has ordered that the lips of his subjects who smoke shall be cut off.

—Intelligence has been received that in Tripoli 1,500 houses have been destroyed by the flood.

—Of the 4,500 papers published in Germany, 5 were started in the 17th and 46 in the 18th century.

—The Mennonites of Russia, hitherto exempt from military service, will this year furnish a contingent force.

—There is a proposition to establish a mission in Alaska, under the auspices of the Methodist Missionary Board.

—The Emperor William says the “passage of the army bill is absolutely necessary to Germany’s defensive power.”

—Albert Grevy is a candidate for the life-senatorship made vacant by the death of the French statesman Cremieux.

—The Geographical Society of Rome has conferred a gold medal on Prof. Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arctic explorer.

—It is estimated that the adverse season last year cost the farmers of Great Britain from £100,000,000 to £150,000,000.

—In Ayet, near Foix, France, 60 houses have been burned. There is much suffering among those thus rendered homeless.

—The loss by a recent fire in New York is $850,000. Two firemen were precipitated into the flames by the falling of the roof.

—Otero Gonzales, the would-be assassin of the King of Spain, has been sentenced to death, notwithstanding the plea of insanity.

—Pennsylvania has produced 133,262,639 barrels of crude petroleum oil, valued at $340,709,672. This oil was discovered in 1859.

—The London Common Council refused to congratulate the Czar of Russia on his recent escape from assassination. The vote stood 42 to 75.

—Colonel Syngo and wife are now held by Greek brigands near Salonica. The English foreign office offer to pay a reasonable ransom for them.

—Who has not read of the flower girls of Paris? During the extremely cold weather of the present winter, several of these little girls froze to death.

—The Glasgow Tramway Company have decided to run their street-cars on Sunday. There was a sharp fight against this decision on the part of the churches.

—There is a rumor that the mind of Baron von Schell, Russian Privy Councillor, was so affected by the explosion in the palace that he has committed suicide.

—The State Normal School building at San Jose, Cal., was recently burned; loss more than $250,000. It is supposed that the fire was the work of an incendiary.

—Within 36 years the Protestant Episcopal Church in England has erected 2,581 new parishes, and within 30 years has expended $200,000,000 in church buildings.

—The total expenses and loss of resources sustained by France in the Franco-German war is, according to official estimate, 13,939,000,000 francs ($2,787,800,000).

—Four Chinamen were recently received into the Presbyterian church of Indianapolis; they were the first representatives of this nationality admitted into a church in Indiana.

—Statistics show that property to the value of $80,000,000 was destroyed by fire in this country during 1879. A large portion of this appalling destruction was caused by kerosene.

—The Boston Herald says: “They have a new ‘religious movement’ in Maine. At a Universalist sociable in Augusta, five young ladies were sold at auction, at prices varying from 30cts. to $2.”

—The tramp law of Connecticut, which went into effect last May, has, it is said, driven the tramps from that State, greatly lessening town expenses, and imparting security to the rural districts.

—During the past year the business done in the iron, steel, and coal industries was greater than ever before, and the cotton receipts were the greatest on record. In almost all directions there was expansion.

—The Christian Union quotes a private letter from Constantinople as saying: “We are having a tremendous winter for Turkey; we have had some furious snow-storms, and splendid sleighing, if there had only been sleighs.”

—It is said that Minneapolis, Minn., after its mills now in construction are completed, will make 16,000 barrels of flour per day. Some of the leading millers there have more orders direct from England, Scotland, and Ireland than they can fill.

—On the morning of Feb. 10, the City Hall of Albany, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Only the four marble walls remained standing. The extensive library in the county court room was destroyed. Six firemen were injured, some fatally, by the falling of the dome.

—A fight recently occurred at a religious meeting in a school-house near Seward, Neb. Eight persons were dangerously wounded, and one killed. It is reported that the quarrel originated in the expulsion of two children from the school-house some days before.

—During the year 1879, 4,909 miles of railroad were sold under foreclosure, whose bonds and debts amounted to $162,822,780, and whose capital was $80,466,038. This list is larger than that of any previous year, and nearly twice as large as the record of 1876 showed.

—The Committee on the Revision of the Form of Government and Book of Discipline of the Presbyterian Church will hold its fifth session in Chicago, commencing May 12. They expect to finish their work at that time, and to be able to report at the next meeting of the Assembly.

—An exchange says that the “French Freemasons have lately passed an authoritative order striking the name of God from their ritual. This looks more like the precise thing. Let that which is idolatrous and atheistic appear in its true color, and not deceive the people by a vain use of God’s holy name.”

—On the evening of Feb. 22, a public meeting was to be held in Association Hall, New York City, in behalf of Sunday, under the auspices of the New York Sabbath Committee. The Secretary of the Navy, R. W. Thompson; Gen. Gordon, U. S. Senator from Georgia; Prof. Hitchcock, and others, were expected to speak.

—A Commission of Supreme Control has been established in Russia, under the independent direction of General Louis Mellikoff. This is considered by Russian statesman as being nearly equivalent to the Czar’s abdicating the throne, and constituting General Mellikoff military dictator.

—A Herald dispatch from Dublin represents the distress in Ireland as growing more widespread every day. By means of the Marlborough and Mansion House funds, actual starvation is prevented; but those most competent to judge, think the worst crisis will come between the middle of May and the middle of July, when these funds will probably be exhausted.

—A dispatch dated St. Petersburg, Feb. 21, says: “The news from the interior of the empire is heart-rending. Famine and diphtheria are decimating the population. The provinces of Saratof and Kief, which annually export in ordinary times enormous quantities of grain, had scarcely any crop last year. The calamity is aggravated by want of fodder for the cattle, and the peasants are forced to sell them. In the Caucasus the famine is still greater; and the people are committing suicide and selling their children.” Since last November over 40,000 persons have died of diphtheria in the provinces of Charkoff and Poltava alone; and in the neighborhood of Walki whole villages have almost died out.