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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, April 15, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 16

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Notes of News.

—Parnell is elected to Parliament from the city of Cork.

—Switzerland is to have an agricultural exhibition in 1881.

—Paris is now said to be the principal center of Nihilism.

—Manchester, N. H., manufactures 148¼ miles of cloth daily.

—The King of Siam proposes to visit this country the coming summer.

—Rear-Admiral Thatcher, of the U. S. navy, died April 5, aged 74 years.

—An Arctic expedition is to sail from Washington about the middle of May.

—The Peru-Chilian war is still in progress; a recent Peruvian victory is reported.

—The German government is endeavoring to prevent immigration to this country.

—China is to have a complete system of telegraphing, established by the government.

—The recent rise in the price of white paper has resulted in the failure of many journals.

—It is said there are not far from 60 newspapers in this country edited by colored men.

—It is said that there is in Congress a growing feeling in favor of a national bankrupt law.

—The French Minister of Finance says that the Cabinet unanimously approve the anti-Jesuit decrees.

—April 7, the centennial anniversary of Wm. Ellery Channing, the theologian and statesman, was celebrated in Chicago.

—A dispatch from London dated April 9, reports a strike of 1,800 pitmen in the South Hetton and Murton collieries, Durham.

—Five churches of the Ningpo Presbytery, China, are self-supporting, and three are doing missionary work for their countrymen.

—In Austria children from seven to fourteen years of age are not allowed to attend with their parents unrecognized places of public worship.

—The oldest house in New England stands in Newbury, Mass. It was built in 1642, and has been occupied by one family for eight generations.

—In consequence of the prevalence of the potato bug, Norway has prohibited the importation of potatoes from this country, the prohibition to continue to 1885.

—The clearing-house returns for the last three months, as compared with the corresponding period last year, show an increase of 55 per cent in the volume of business.

—All Europe is arming and watching and waiting. Scarcely a monarch is happy, or devoting his time and energies to the pursuits of peace and the happiness of his subjects.

—Before embarking for Zululand, to visit the spot where her son was killed, the ex-Empress Eugenia presented her very valuable crown to the church of Notre Dame of Victories, Paris.

—Roumania refuses to sign the commercial treaty between that country and the United States, because the United States, instead of sending it by the hands of a special envoy, drew up the treaty, and forwarded it by mail.

—The Maine Beet-sugar Company at Portland manufactured 900 tons of sugar and molasses last year, at an expense of $107,000. The selling price was $110,000, leaving $3,000 toward the $60,000 that the machinery cost.

—It is said that the English and American Bible Revision Committees have decided to print the revised Bible in paragraphs, according to the sense, rather than in chapters and verses, and the poetic parts in poetic measure.

—“The demon of Militarism,” is Mr. Gladstone’s phrase, which, to one at all familiar with the European war-system, needs no explanation. “Everywhere,” he says, “east and west, north and south, the demon of Militarism makes progress.”

—A dispatch from Copenhagen, Denmark, states that Baron Gedalia, the head of a banking house, late Consul-General to Portugal, etc., has been sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for the using, on bills and stocks, of stamps already canceled.

—The Secretary of War has transmitted to the Senate a report from General Sherman urging the importance of the construction of a fort near the junction of the Gunnison and Grand Rivers in Colorado. It is estimated that $100,000 will be required for that purpose.

—Wm. H. Vanderbilt is said to be next to the Rothschilds the richest man in the world. His income from government bonds is $3,450 per day; and this is only one of several sources of revenue. Mr. Vanderbilt’s property is estimated to be worth more than $130,000,000.

—The Governor-General of East Siberia has telegraphed to St. Petersburg that no regular Chinese troops have invaded Russian territory. The raiders were irregular Tartars, and will be sharply punished by the Chinese government. However, Russian troops have been ordered to the Chinese frontier.

—During the first week of March the steamers sailing from New York to English ports carried 1,221 head of cattle, 650 sheep, and 300 hogs, alive; also 2,408 quarters of beef, 850 carcasses of sheep, and 605 tons of fresh meat, several steamers reporting the dead meat carried only by weight. This is the largest shipment in one week for several months.

—About the middle of February, some fishermen on the western coast of Norway, not far from Bergen, discovered a smashed and dismantled railway carriage, with the words “Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway” painted on it. There was a portmanteau inside, containing clothing. It is supposed that this is one of the relics of the Tay-bridge disaster, separated from the other carriages, and floated out to sea by the tide.

—On the occasion of the celebration of his birthday, the Emperor William, in replying to the congratulations of his generals, said he believed he was able to assure them that they would probably have no more opportunity of putting in practice their military knowledge, all fear of war having apparently, for the present, been dispelled. The Inter-Ocean thinks this confidence was inspired by the belief that the German military establishment is so vast that none dare oppose it.

—The Imperial Constitution of Germany gives to Prussia 17—a little less than one-third—of the 58 votes distributed among the members of the Bundesrath; while her proportion of the imperial population is about five-eighths of the whole. It is thought that Prince Bismarck’s object in recently proffering his resignation of the Chancellorship was to call attention to this defect in the Constitution. The Emperor wishes him to remain in office, and help remove it.

—It appears that many of the columns used in the construction of the Tay bridge were defective. They were made of inferior material, and cracks and holes were patched up with cement. Not a few testify to the habitual recklessness of the drivers on the bridge; other travelers gave up the bridge on account of its oscillations, and took to the ferry. “Altogether, the evidence thus far taken,” says the Scientific American, “seems to indicate such ‘scamping’ in fitting up the bridge, and such recklessness in using it, as our British brethren have been accustomed to depict as exclusively and characteristically American.” From the above we infer that running Sunday trains was not the exclusive cause of the Tay-bridge disaster.

—On the 9th of April the Times estimates on the Parliamentary election were that the new House would stand as follows: Liberals, about 340; Home Rulers, 60 to 65; Conservatives, not more than 250. It is not decided who will be the new Premier, but it is said that Beaconsfield will advise the Queen to send for Gladstone. It is understood that the Liberal policy will be to withdraw British troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible. Hence the Liberal triumph creates great disappointment in India, where it is everywhere believed that the effect of a premature withdrawal of the troops will be to throw away all the objects attained with so much sacrifice of blood and treasure, to dishearten the British troops, puff the Afghans with the idea of their own invincibility, encourage sedition among the subjects of Great Britain, and give a serious shock to her prestige among the princes and people of India.