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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 22

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Notes of News.

—Stuyvesant, N. Y., was recently destroyed by fire.

—It is said that there are 63,000 prisoners in the Russian prisons.

—The distance by railroad from New York to San Francisco is 3,320 miles.

—The Flower Mission of New York City distributed 150,000 bouquets last season.

—A resolution to adjourn on the 31st inst. has passed the House of Representatives.

—In one district of Persia there have been 600 deaths from famine since January.

—During the year ending April 30, 1880, 198,876 immigrants landed at New York.

—Over 1,000,000 brook trout have been placed in the streams of Wisconsin this year.

—The total amount of the donations for the relief of the distress in Ireland is $2,910,000.

—The English Salvation Army is in Philadelphia. Its present brigade numbers 700 persons.

—It is estimated that in the various countries of the world, over 6,000 different kinds of postage stamps have been issued.

—There is a rumor that a company of American capitalists have obtained a concession to construct a canal across the Isthmus.

—On the 20th of May, Parliament was formally opened, and listened to the reading of the Queen’s speech by the Lord High Chancellor.

—In Russia, the diphtheria has become a prevailing epidemic, and the government has devoted $300,000 to the establishment of hospitals.

—Of the persons who recently wrecked a train on the Andalusian Railway in Spain, 13 have been sentenced to death, and 13 to imprisonment for 20 years.

—A dispatch from London states that on the 15th, 25 persons were killed and about 60 injured by the explosion of a boiler in the Birchills Hall Iron Works.

—Seven of the 37 members of the class that has just graduated from the Union Theological Seminary of New York, are going as missionaries to foreign lands.

—The strikes in France are terminating. “It is generally believed,” says a late dispatch, “that they were provoked and organized by some secret political committee.”

—Mexico is threatened with another revolution. Troops are collecting at the old town of Senorita, about 150 miles from Yuma, on the line between Mexico and California.

—A young nobleman in the district of Putiloff, Russia, a Nihilist, was recently arrested. At the moment of his arrest he was shot by his father, who then immediately committed suicide.

—The Mormon Church has excommunicated six of Brigham Young’s daughters for causing the imprisonment of his executors, who had defrauded the “prophet’s” heirs out of $1,000,000.

—A bill has been introduced in the German Diet which so modifies the laws complained of by the Catholics that it is thought a reconciliation can now be effected between Germany and the Vatican.

—A dispatch from Constantinople states that 50 brigands have been killed near Salonica, others captured, and their prisoners secured. They were all armed with the best of modern weapons.

—It is stated as an evidence of the prosperity of the French Republic, that during the past year 2,600,000 Frenchmen have deposited in the savings-banks $153,800,000, an average of nearly $60 each.

—It is thought that Mr. Maynard, Minister to Turkey, will succeed Judge Key as Postmaster General. His name will probably be sent in for confirmation with that of Judge Key as District Judge in Tennessee.

—Goschen, British Ambassador to Constantinople, has visited France, going from there to Austria. As a result, it is believed that Turkey will shortly be summoned to give a categorical reply to the collective representatives of Europe.

—An English liquor-dealer advertises for ladies of high social position to canvass for his wines among their acquaintances. He tells them that they may thus realize from £100 to £300 per annum without interfering with their social position.

—The Will of the People, the organ of the Russian Nihilists, is written, printed, and circulated in the most secret manner, and in spite of the vigilance of the police. But it is found on the table of the Czar, and under the pillows of statesmen and generals.

—An artesian well is being bored in Boston, for the purpose of determining whether or not there is under the city an available supply of pure water. The depth of the well now exceeds 300 feet, and two small streams of excellent water have been found.

—The famine in North Hungary is increasing; 1,400 people have no food but grass, nettles, and mushrooms. Troops of emigrants are leaving the country; but the government has given the authorities orders to stop them, and some have been arrested by the police.

—On the 21st inst., news was received of the suspension of the Reading Railroad Company and its dependent corporations. The indebtedness of the railroad company, as stated by one of the directors, is between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000. The miners regard the suspension as temporary.

—The new National Museum at Washington will probably be ready for use next fall. It is a one-story structure covering about two acres of ground. It contains 17 large halls for government collections, and numerous small rooms for laboratories, offices, and the general work of scientific investigation and classification.

—There are in England 20,000 fox hounds, kept for sporting purposes. If to this item we add the expense of keeping hunting horses, huntsmen, and whippers-in, with grooms and stable boys, we have an annual outlay, which, if thus applied, would add greatly to the comfort, and increase the happiness, of the laboring class.

—In the investigation of the Madison Square Garden disaster, the jury brought in a verdict that the falling of the wall was due to the faulty construction of the building. They censured the Harlem Railroad Company for employing a civil engineer as an architect, and the Department of Buildings for negligence of duty in allowing the addition to be erected contrary to law and in a faulty manner.

—The M. E. General Conference has elected four new bishops; viz., Dr. E. O. Haven, President of the Syracuse University; Dr. Cyrus Foss, President of the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Ct.; Dr. J. F. Hurst, President of Drew Theological Seminary; and Dr. H. W. Warren, of Philadelphia. But the Conference decided not to elect a colored bishop, although the colored brethren urged their claims quite persistently.

—The action of the New British ministry in appointing a Roman Catholic peer, Lord Ripon, as Governor General of India, and another, Lord Kenmare, as Lord Chamberlain, called out a remonstrance from the British Reformation Society, through Lord O’Bannon. This action of the Ministry, together with Gladstone’s reply to Lord O’Bannon, defending the appointments, gives the Conservatives hope, as it is almost certain to awaken the prejudices of the Nonconformists, particularly those of Scotland.

—The new Lenox Library, in New York City, contains a magnificent copy of the Mazarin Bible, printed in Metz, by Gutenberg, in 1455. It is the first book printed from movable types, and yet, strange to say, it is one of the noblest monuments of the “art preservative of all arts,” in existence. There are only two copies of this Bible on this continent, the other being owned by the heirs of the late George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. The last copies sold at the Perkins sale, London, June 6, 1873, brought $17,000 for the one printed on vellum, and $13,550 for the one on paper.

—In view of the possibility of war between Russia and China, the following facts relative to the Chinese army and Navy will be of interest: The entire strength of the army, exclusive of officers, is, on paper, 826,000 men. The most of these troops are badly armed and seldom drilled. Barely 50,000 of them are armed with European weapons and drilled according to the principles of European tactics. Probably not more than half of this force could be actually brought into the field. The navy is also weak and inefficient. There is a rumor that the Chinese propose to re-organize their army and navy.