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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 29, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 18

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Notes of News.

—There are more than 1,000 measures pending before Congress.

—A heavy shock of earthquake was recently felt in San Francisco.

—The Albanians and Montenegrins still maintain a war-like attitude.

—It is said that 20,000 Russian prisoners await transportation to Siberia.

—There is a report that spotted typhus fever has appeared in St. Petersburg.

—Russia is about to issue through the Rothschilds a new railway loan of $75,000,000.

—The Methodists in Bombay, India, have built and dedicated their first church building.

—In some sections of Georgia, the frost has done much damage to the fruit and vegetables.

—A forest fire swept nearly the whole of the northern portion of Brookhaven, L. I. The loss is estimated at $30,000.

—Count de Lesseps claims to have secured subscriptions covering about two-fifths of the probable cost of the Panama canal.

—In the late election in Great Britain, the liquor interest sustained the government under Beaconsfield’s administration, and lost.

—It is thought that the British training-ship “Atalanta” has been lost near the Azores Islands. There were 300 boys and 15 officers on board.

—A family consisting of a man and his wife and three children were burned to death in the recent forest fires in the swamps of North Carolina.

—Mr. Bergh has done the country a service by forbidding the introduction of the Spanish national pastime of bull-fighting into the city of New York.

—During the year 1879, more than 200,000 volumes of the Scriptures and religious and educational books and tracts, were introduced into Turkish homes.

—The 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Protestant religion into Friesland, a province of the United Netherlands, was celebrated on the 31st of March.

—The Methodists will observe the 30th of April as a day of fasting and prayer for the divine blessing on their General Conference, which meets the day following.

—The railroad bridge on the ice across the St. Lawrence River cost $15,000, and has been a financial success; 11 heavily loaded cars and an engine have at times crossed together.

—On the 4th of April the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts was for the first time opened on Sunday. Over 10,000 people availed themselves of this opportunity to visit its galleries.

—A Chinaman was recently baptized in Trinity Baptist church, New York. He is 24 years old, and a decorator of cars by trade. There are about 30 youthful Celestials in the Sunday-school.

—A strike of the yardmen of the Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad (the old Wabash line) has been terminated by a compromise. The men demanded an increase of $10 per month, but accepted an advance of $5.

—Charles de Young, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, was shot dead in his office on the evening of the 23d, by I. M. Kalloch, son of Mayor Kalloch of that city. De Young was under arrest for an attempt on the life of Mayor Kalloch.

—From Ontario we have news of the burning of the city of Hull; loss between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, with no insurance. Also of the destruction of a portion of the village of Bondhead; loss $50,000. Several lives were lost in the fire at Hull.

—The Chinese Tract Society, an unsectarian society organized a little over a year ago, feels the necessity of having its own printing establishment, and is bargaining for a cylinder press. This infant organization asks aid from the American Tract Society.

—The Jesuits, who have been ordered out of nearly every Catholic country in Europe, are now, since France has closed its doors to them, seeking to establish themselves in Egypt. It is said that they are bargaining for buildings and land at Cairo and Alexandria.

—The Alliance has constituted itself the champion of a new orthodoxy. One of its main points, as summed up by the Advance, is, “Truths not spiritually discerned, which are debatable, ‘which have to be proved by the Bible,’ are not to be required as articles of faith.”

—Wednesday, the 21st, while the Hahnemann Hospital fair was in progress at Madison Square Garden, New York, the front of the building facing on Madison Avenue gave way, falling outward. There were about 800 people in the building at the time of the accident. Several persons were killed, and others injured. The pecuniary loss is considerable.

—In a township in Illinois where the directors had ordered that 15 minutes each morning should be devoted to the reading of the Bible, a Roman Catholic father ordered his son not to refrain from his other studies during that time. The son was expelled from the school. The Supreme Court of the State, to which the case was appealed, sustained the teacher.

—A terrible forest fire in New Jersey has consumed 150 square miles of cedar and pine forest; the rapid spread of the flames caused much alarm, especially in the region of Cape May. In the vicinity of Petersburg, Va., forest fires were for a time uncontrollable. Here, and in other portions of the State, barns and stables, and in some cases houses and orchards, were destroyed. Extensive fires also raged in Dismal Swamp.

—The Liberal triumphs in Great Britain have culminated in the appointment of Gladstone to the Premiership. Crowds of people, wild with enthusiasm, met him at London and Windsor. The people of Windsor say that the ovation tendered him is the greatest ever remembered. Mr. Gladstone’s appointment is a full recognition of the significance of the Parliamentary elections, and denotes the abandonment of any effort to give an evasive, half-way acknowledgment of the reversal of policy demanded by the nation.

—Sunday, the 18th, a cyclone passed over nearly half of Missouri, causing terrible destruction. Marshfield, a village of 800 inhabitants, was almost entirely destroyed. The loss of property in the track of the cyclone is very great; and it is thought that the killed will number not much less than 100. Many are wounded, and large numbers are left destitute. The storm raged with great fury through the northern half of Arkansas and a considerable part of Eastern Kansas. It was the most deadly and devastating storm that has occurred in the West for years.

—On the 16th, 25 men were killed by an explosion in the Giant Powder Works, near Berkeley, Cal. The effects of the explosion of 5,000 pounds of giant powder were indescribable. The victims were blown to atoms, and hurled piecemeal into the bay and on the ground in the vicinity. In one place would be found a human foot, and in another a piece of a skull; an arm was found a quarter of a mile from the scene. No piece of the building much larger than a lath remains. Heavy timbers butted strongly together were splintered into shreds, and scattered over the ground for acres in extent, while at one point two miles from the scene of disaster the waters of the bay were covered with the debris. Large trees in the vicinity were twisted and thrown down like reeds before a fierce gale; houses a quarter of a mile distant were partially wrecked; and at Berkeley, three miles distant, the windows were broken, and bottles on the shelves were thrown down. The ground on which the building stood is torn up as though a hundred 10-inch shells fired from a Columbiad had struck it.