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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 13, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 20

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Notes of News.

—The prospects for war between Russia and China are still threatening.

—All Jews of foreign birth have been ordered to leave St. Petersburg immediately.

—Ten Nihilists have recently been arrested in Russia, four of whom are women.

—Last year the native Baptists of Burmah raised $31,000 for the endowment of a college.

—Upwards of 7,000 ironworkers are on a strike in the north of England.

—Jersey City will be within six minutes of New York when the Hudson River Tunnel is completed.

—There is a lack of rain in Western and South-western Kansas, which may foreshadow short crops.

—On the 6th inst. a part of the roof of the St. Gothard tunnel fell, killing three workmen.

—The Belgian Minister of Justice refuses to harbor the Jesuits, if they are expelled from France.

—Germany is indignant over an attempt on the part of Prince Bismarck to oppress the free city of Hamburg.

—The disposition of unauthorized religious orders still occupies the attention of France.

—The prospects are that the tobacco-crop of Virginia will be exceedingly poor this year. There is no crop that could be better spared.

—At Holyoke, Mass., paper is made from wood. A poplar log is put in at one end of the machine, and comes out paper at the other.

—During the month of April, 46,148 immigrants landed at New York. This is the largest number of arrivals in any single month.

—France is just now troubled with strikes. More than 20,000 operatives in the silk and cotton factories are idle; in one town, 80 factories are closed.

—The Italian Chamber of Deputies has been dissolved. The elections will take place May 16, and the new Chamber will meet May 28.

—On a recent Sunday, Lord Cecil, a son of the late Marquis of Exeter, and brother of the present Marquis, conducted a religious service in New York City.

—Parnell’s scheme of land reform by forcing the landholders to sell, is, it is said, denounced, even in Ireland, as wild, and not to be accomplished without a revolution.

—The Turkish government will continue to employ the English officers now in its service, if they will consent to a reduction of 45 per cent in their salaries.

—Five Chinamen in New York City, all of whom are professing Christians, and who wish to claim the protection of our laws, have just taken out their first naturalization papers.

—Mr. Elliot Stock has issued a pocket English Testament, with copious notes, references, and introductions, three maps, and 24 illustrations, for one penny.

—An American engineer, in the employ of the Japanese government, has been making extensive purchases at Philadelphia of machinery and tools for public works in Japan.

—President Hayes and Secretary Evarts have received from the Japanese Minister to this country ten large boxes of Japanese forest trees, to beautify their homes in Ohio and Vermont.

—On the 22d of April, the descendants of Thomas Jefferson presented to the government the small mahogany writing-desk on which that statesman wrote the Declaration of Independence.

—The interoceanic project is by no means new. The archives at Madrid are said to contain details of a scheme put forward some 300 years ago, to join the Rio Grande and the Chagres rivers by means of a canal.

—The Mexican volcano of Colima is now in active eruption. The scene is full of splendor, the flames at night illuminating the darkness for miles around. The inhabitants of the villages and towns in the vicinity of the mountain are wild with terror.

—England is indignant over a difference of from £3,000,000 to £5,000,000 between the actual financial results in India, and the government’s report to Parliament. The cost of the Afghan war has been understated, and the resources of the Indian government overstated.

—A dispatch from Bradford, Pa., dated May 7, gives the details of a destructive fire which was still raging in the oil regions in that vicinity. Rew City, a village of a hundred houses, has been entirely destroyed, not one house remaining. The fires extend over an area of 12 miles.

—A dispatch from Constantinople says that the Levant Herald has been suspended for hinting that the government would do well to commence reforming before the English Cabinet recognizes the necessity of executing the “bag-and-baggage” policy.

—A few weeks ago, about 200 men, who were engaged in seal-hunting along the eastern shores of Newfoundland, were carried out to sea by the sudden breaking away of the ice. Many died, and the sufferings of some who escaped death were terrible. It is not unusual for seals to visit this locality.

—Five prominent citizens of Pennsylvania have been convicted of attempting by bribery to pass a bill through the Legislature, of which two of them were members. They were sentenced to imprisonment for one year, and to pay a fine of $1,000 each. They have been pardoned out of the penitentiary, but will be compelled to pay their fines, and are by law disqualified from holding office in future.

—Mr. Redpath, who was sent to Ireland by the editor of the New York Tribune, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, with instructions to “find the facts and report them,” says that there are 350,000 people in the west of Ireland who will die of starvation if the contributions for their support should fall off. Mr. R. says that he “grew sick, and wept like a child,” at the scenes of distress which he witnessed.

—An association called the “Toledo Sabbath Union” has been organized in Toledo, Ohio. The following are the objects of the association as embodied in their Constitution: 1. To secure the better observance of Sunday; 2. To ascertain the names of persons engaged in work on Sunday, and report them to the Union; 3. To examine the Sunday laws on the statute books of Ohio, and enforce them if need be; 4. To induce by persuasion, if possible, all railroads and places of business to cease work on Sunday; and, 5. To assist the International Union in inducing Congress and the State Legislature to pass more stringent Sunday laws.

—A dispatch from Constantinople to the London Times says: “According to trustworthy intelligence received from Cettinje, the Prince of Montenegro declares that he has no intention of fighting with the bands which have taken possession of the evacuated territories, and that if war unfortunately be necessary, it will be declared against the Turkish government, which is the real author of resistance to the execution of the convention. This accusation of complicity on the part of the Turkish authorities with the leaders of the Albanian agitation is fully confirmed by intelligence from Scutari. It is there an open secret that resistance to the advance of the Montenegrin troops was organized by Hodji Osman Pasha and Hodo Bey, both officers of the Turkish service, and in intimate relations with Izzet Pasha, Governor General of the Province.”